The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-26

potts, but that the government was
paying 4 per cent, he said another
bank would pay him per cent, and
wanted his money back. He got it
with the admoniition that if he got
the 4 per cent both he and the
banker would be slackers. The pea
nut vendor came back the next day
with the $50 and $500 more and
bought baby bonds for the whole
amount. There were several stories
of this kind, and assurances from
many bankers present that they
are going to put their best efforts
into the work Of helping the gov
ernment.
The question was further explain
ed when the question box was
reached. One question was: what
shall be done with the tightwad
with a big roll who will not come
across" and George NJ. Barnes
said he would like to answer for
the government and say: He
should be shot"
Harry f. Bagby of Tulsa, former
. secretary of the Oklahoma Bankers
Association, said he believed that
if the bankers went back home with
the feeling and enthusiasm prevail
ing at the meeting, that they could
get behind the tighwad with enough
fire to smoke him out.
The remarkable showing made by
the boys and girls clubs of the
state in increasing production OF
crops was one of the most interest
! ing features of the meeting. John
f. 'Swayne, of the A. & M. College,
representative of the boys and girls
club work, showed what had been
the highest production of several
crops by members of the boys and
girls clubs, the average for clubs
and the average for the state. OF
corn, the highest production per
acre by a member of the club was
| Il bushels; average for clubs, 33.5
and for the state, S.5 bushels; OF
peanuts, the highest production was
1855, the club average 43Z and the
state, 81 b"shel. The largest pro-
duction of peauts was mule by Miss
Minnie Coon of Durant, who won
the scholarship offered by the bank
crs of Group Five. Last year she
earned, in farm profits $8l2.58 and
The scholarship valued at $l60 1t
was necessary to use her earnings
for the support of her family, her
tther being an invalid, so Ira C.
Bryant made a motion that Crop
Five adopt this girl, or, in other
words, see that she be supplied with
funds to complete her education
The motion prevailed. Then a mo-
ton was made and carried that the
bankers offer two scholarships, on~
for a girl and one for a boy. The
secretary announced that out of the
l82 banks in the district, nineteer
had failed to pay the dollar draft
made on them for the scholarship
last year. Leland Scroggin, assist
ant cashier of the Kansas Nationa
Bank of Wichita, Kansas, was d
visitor, and said he would like fol
Kansas to get in on this game,
and instructed the secretary to draw
on the Kansas National for $40. A
representative of the Tulsa clearing
house said it would offer prize OF
$50 in war savings certificates tc
the winner of the scholarship. 9th
ers signiied a willingness to aid ir
the work. Mrs. Daisy Frazier, dis
trict demonstrator, and Mrs. Minnie
B. Church, county home demonstra-
tor, each made short addresses or
the work of the boys and girls
clubs.
One of the finest addresses Of
the meeting was that of M. r. Stur-
tevant, vice-preSident of the Centra
National Bank of St. Louis, who
spoke for the American Red Cross
He is an excellent speaker, and
told of the work of this wonderful
organization and made all earnest