The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04
ALL HAVE STAMPS
Every Bank in City Can Now
Sell Thrift Coupons.
Postmaster Rigby Bought First
One Sold Here.
MAIL CARRIERS statesmen
They viii Help Push war
Fund Sucker Sale.
Elliott and Rigby To Put Plan
Before Children.
CARRIERS statesmen

AL banks in the city are fully sup
piled with war-savings and thrht
Stamps soday, according to statement
this morning by Chas. S. Elliott, secre-
tarv of the Capitol Building and Loan
association. Monday the banks We're
unable to supply their customers WIN
stamps on account of delay IN lhtlI
arrival The postoffice reports the
sale of a good many on Monday ana
a very noticeable demand is eVldeIb
everywhere today.
Distribution of the stamps will be
pushed thru the postmasters, rural
carriers and city letter carriers IN eV-
cry district subject to the Topeka post
office. ALI country postoffices are
now supplied with a sufficient guam
tity of the certificates and stamps 10
meet the demand from the rural dis
tricts. The rural carriers also carry
a supply of stamps along with them
so that farmers may purchase them
at their very doors. Hereafter II your
mail is late don't cuSs the carrier but
remember that he is conducting the
business OF helping TO finance the war,
and then dig down in your pockets and
drag out the stray quarters and dol
lars and buy a consignment of war
savings and thrift stamps.
Rigby Bought First Stamp.
The first stamp of the war-savings
variety sold in Topeka is now safely
O. Rigby in return for his investment
of SAP. f. E. Sherman, of 1858
West street, has set an example which
should enlighten many other fond
fathers and uncles. and cousins and
aunts. He bought the first war-sav-
ings stamp from the Capitol Building
& Loan association and pasted it on
a certificate made out in favor of little
b. Miss Vina May Halbert, BORN in Octo-
Der.
rTbo r,,1es e,o1-ar0ipos the 11se and re-
demption of war saving certificates
are carefully explained in a bulletin
from the treasury department that
was received this morning. The bull
tin says:
United States war-savings GER
tificate, series of 1918, will be an
obligation of the United States when,
and only when, one or more United
States war-savings stamps, series of
1918, shall be affixed thereto. Each
of such certificates will have spaces
for twenty such stamps, and each of
such stamps thereto affixed Will have
a maturity value of IS on January l,
1928 which will accordingly give each
such certificate, he bearing its full
complement of such stamps, a ma
turity value of 500 on said date. No
certificate will be issued unless at the
same time one or more war-savings
stamps shall be purchased and affixed
thereto but no additional charge will
name of the owner of each certificate
must be written upon such certificate
at the time of the issue thereof
Get Money in 1928.
Owners Of war-savings certificates
will be entitled to receive, on January
1, 1928, at the treasury department in
Washington, or at a money-order post
office, upon surrender of such certifi-
Gates. and upon compliance with all
other provisions thereof. IS in respect
of each war-savings stamp, series of
1918, then affixed thereto, but no
postoffice shall be required to make
any such payment until ten days after
receiving written demand therefor
Any owner of a war-savings certi-
ficate. at his option, will be entitled
to receive at any time after January 2,
1918. and prior to January 1, 1928, at
a money-order postoffice, upon sur
render of his certificate and upon com
pliance with all other provisions there
of, in respect of each war-savings
stamp, series of 1918, then affixed to
such certificate, the amount of the
face of the stamp or stamps affixed
plus 1 cent per month for each stamp,
but no postoffice shall make any such
payment until ten days after receiving
written demand therefor.
Plan for Children.
Concerning the sale of thrift stamps
in the schools, both Postmaster Rigby