The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-05-01
Exomnles of Rea, Thrift.

.Our people should be taught TO be
more thrifty and saving. and this to
"a large extent would solve the Ques-
ton of Increased cost OF living. -.
Governor Brewer. of Mississippi.
Miss Anna Barrett. fourteen, who
lives near Grand Forks. recently won
the North Dakota pork-producinS
contest by making profit OF 81 se.2Z
on single litter of pigs. She attained
the championship in competition with
several hundred boys and girls
throughout the state. She put the
money into the bank and will reipYest
1T as opportunity offers. Her motto is
not Pigs Is pigs" but Pigs are mon
ey."
From eighteen cents to half nils.
lion dollars is how Edward ulseth $
capital has grown in a few years He
is a Norwegian who arrived in Caiu-
met. Mich, with eighteen cents in his
pocket. HE applied for job at a
grocery store and found the grocer
about to throw away a tub of spoiled
butter. Ulseth asked for and was
given the rancid butter. which ne
proceeded to sweeten by mixing II
with milk. having invested his capital
y! of eighteen cents in that commodity
Then he turned salesman and sold all
him going until he got work at MS
regular trade as a carpenter He saved
his money and became contractor
Now he has thousands invested in real
estate, railroad bonds and copper
stocks.
The garden season * at hand again.
so that there is special interest in the
story or Worcester. Mass, youth
VINO AZ twenty years of age has 10 his
credit $4,000 made from his vegetable
garden in half an acre of land in the
rear of his fathers house
He started in at thirteen years OF
age and was not very strong or
healthy at first. But his efforts were.
rewarded A; the age OF seventeen
he borrowed 500 from trust COM
pany and built greenhouse. The next
year ii was necessary 10 add fifteen
feet 10 his ffty-foot greenhouse be
cause shipping fine vegetables to
Boston was SO profitable.
Now this youth has. II is said. ST.
500 in the bank and a greenhouse and
stock which are estimated at $500
more. Many young men at twenty~are
wondering what they can do TO earn
a good living. Here is one who began
badly handica pped, but Who has his
business. health and working capital
well established.
There is a man in one of the New
Jersey suburbs OF New York City who
has built there an average of twenty
houses a year for the past eightyears.
This builder started out as a wheel
wright and carpenter in Syracuse. y.
y. handicapped by the fact that his
book laruin was very limited But
he was a superior workman. and il
was not long before his skill and in
dustry We're rewarded. He was made
a foreman in the shop where he
worked. Then he studied nights and
with the aid of his good wife prepared
himself for something better. He
became especially adept at figuring
interest and he made up his mind that
il was better TO receive interest than
TO pay it.
When he had saved a little capital
and had learned about all there was
10 know about house building. ne
looked around TO see where houses
were post needed. He thought this
was Bergen county, New Jersey. SO he
began there He seemed % know
fntuitively what homc-see.-srs wanted
and he built so vel and al such a fair
price that he had good luck from the
hrst Part of ta- profit from each
house he built went into his bank &C
count and later iajo good permanent
investments Vow he is <ell-to-do.
respected citizen. borough ofhcsT
and director IN the local building
and loan association. His En- g5sh, IS
not perfect yet. 5ut hrs John Han
cock oa the back of a check is I'M
questioned by aay banker within a
radius of good many niles