The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-07-06
How 10 Raise Dollars.

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hogs, poultry, wheat, corn, Cain
and the Divil, but the majority
of people do not, apparently,
spent much thought in learning
how to raise Dollars. Dollars is
a crop that most people admire,
desire, and perspire for, and yet
a crop that many people fail in
raising.
1t would be impossible to raise
a crop Of wheat If the seed were
wasted; or if planted, was not
cultivated. Almost everybody
boys and girls, as we'll as men
and women, have the seed (cents,
nickles and dimes) to raise a
great crop of Dollars, but they
waste the seed, instead of plant
ing it, cultivating it. and watch
ing it grow.
Before you spend that cent,
nickel, or dime, take a good look
at it. Think how much labor and
time you would have to expend
to replace it. Think how long
you may have to wait before you
have an opportunity to earn an
other. Before you let it slip out
of your fingers, think whether
you could not do just as well
without the thing for which you
are going to spend it. Ifyou are
spending it for something to
merely crafty your appetite for
something to satisfy the cravings
of a vicious habit-take a drink
Of cold water, and keep your
money.
1t is the needless expenditures
the buying of things that have
no value within themselves-that
keep many people poor.
Just now our banks are doing
much to encourage a habit of
thrift especially among children
and youths. To any one apply
ing, they will furnish a neat
Home Savings Bank" int o
which your pennies, nickels and
dimes may be placed, and when
you have a dollar, it may be plac-
ed to your accountin the bank,
and the bank will pay you COM
pound interest it.
Just as sure as acorns will
grow into giant oaks, cents will
grow into dollars if they are
planted in good soil and cultivat-
ed correctly. A little money put
in a Savings Bank is not talent
hidden in a napkin. 1t is earn
ing all the time, like heart beats,
its work goes on while you sleep,
and even Sundays the capital is
growing large and nobody COM
plains of broken laws. If you
put only two dollars a week by,
you will be a hundred dollars
ahead in less than a year.
| cent a day in 5 years will be SlS.25
10 cents a day in 5 years will be 1872 90
so cents day in 3 years will be 9i2 so
sl.OO day in 8 years Will be l,S25,OO
The above does not take into
account the accumulations of in
terest that will be added to it.
Almost anybody can lay aside
a dime a day. Place a dime in
the bank every day (you do not
need to go to the bank every day.
and in 6 months you will have to
YOUR credit. S18.25. in one wear
$36. n; in 5 years, $195. 20; and
10 years, $42l.S5. Keep this up
for 20 years, and you will have a
bank account of almost 81, 1000
When you have done this, fig
ure it all over again, assuming
that every time you get $1O0 you
are going to buy a good bond or
stock which will pay 5 or 6 per
cent and that will have a chance
of increasing in value during
your lifetime.
Business is growing so fast in
this country that there are q
thousand absolutely solid con-
Germs whose stock by the natur-
al expansion of their business
will double in your active life
time. Don't fool away your nick
els and dimes