The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-12-12
Christmas Clubs Of Kenosha
Banks Pay Out Over
100000 to People
of the City.
PATRIOTIC CALLS CUT TOTAL
Many Of the Kenosha Savers Have In
vested Money in Government Bonds
and Thrift Stamps But Still Amount
Paid by the Clubs is Large.

PIE developed ana nurJured by the
/" Christmas Clubs of the three banks
lin the city, Kenosha has great purse
!of 100000 to spend for Christmas
presents this year and today the last
one Of the checks are being sent to
the members of these Christmas
Cubs at the First National Mer-
chants and Savings and Citizen 5
Banks.
While the 100000 is not as large
an amount as was turned out for tLo
Santa Cluase purse year ago at this
time it is wonderful showing for
the city considering the fact that mani
field demands have been made during
the past twelve months on the savings
|of the people. The people have an
swered Loyalty the call of the govern
ment to loan them their money in the
shape of buying bonds and stamps
and yet there were lot of them who
found the chance to continue the re-
gular savings which they had inau-
Igurated in other years.
The Christmas Clubs this year are
going to brighten up lot of corners
in Kenosha and the benefits of the
thrifty saving plan will be felt in
thousands Of homes.
The Christmas Saving Club has
come to be one of the real institutions
of the financial life of Kenosha. 1t
has come to be a great fellowship Of
savers. There have been no bars
placed on the membership of these
clubs and by the aid of them people
have saved pennies, dimes and dol
lars and they have multiplied into more
pennies, many dimes and many dol
lars. The amounts paid to the mem
bers 0 fthe clubs this week ranged
from twelve dollars to hundreds of dol
lars.
Much of this money is to be released
for the Christmas trade in Kenosha and
the merchants of the city expect a
considerable boom in the Christmas
trade as a result of the distribution.
Many people kept up their payments
in the "Christmas Clubs0 with a de-
finite idea in view and the money that
has been paid into the banks from
week to week and month to month has
provided the fund for the purchase Of
the Christmas piano, the Christmas
talking machine, or possibly a whole
new wardrobe for the children. Many
"a boy is going to have his first bicycle
|at Christmas on account of che fact
that he belonged to one of these clubs
and many a girl is going to have her
hearts desire" in the way of some
pretty trinket or some useful article
because she was willing to save nickel
"a week.
Kenosha has come to be the real
center of the Christmas Club activity.
The people have learned the value, of
saving a little money every week and
it is certain that during the coming
year the amount of money saved
through the Christmas Club medium
will be double the amount that has
been saved during the past year. Some
people have found this an easy way
provide money for investment in Lib
erty Loan Bonds and with the pay
ment of the club checks during the
week these people have made the final
payments on their Liberty Loan Bonds.
Others have invested their savings
in War Stamps with the knowledge
that the money will continue to draw
Interest. Others have taken from these
checks a nest egg for their starting
fund in the new club now being or.
ganized.
All three of the banks Of the city
maintain the Christmas Clubs and all
of them offer attractive systems by
which the pennies may be made to
grow into dollars with the minimum
of self denial to the people who be-
long to the clubs. More than three
thousand people were members Of the
clubs which have just "paid GU"
and it is expected that the number
will be doubled
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