Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-08-30
SUCH IS LIFE

AAl1AAAAaNA 0oAn ho1 f
the general scheme of banking
business quite a few notches ahead.
This bank will accept your
money, and will loan you some (if
you have gilt-edged security and
come across with the interest
charges), and will serve you in
other well-known banking way
But all banks do that.
This Cinci bank goes farther. 1t
now accommodates the ~vacationist,
the tourist, anybody with a trip
ahead.
The bank will plan the trip; Sc
iect the hotel; obtain the transpor-
tation.
IT will get your theatre tickets
for you, and will help you choose a
college for your son. About the
only thing the bank won't do for
you is to point out the few re-
naming wet spots in the city where
you are going to visit.
Gotter find 'em for yourself.
Fine idea for a bank. isn't 1t?
But doesn't go far enough.
Banks ought to be more enter
prising than that.
Ought to do something more for
customers.
Maybe the bank of the future
will enlarge its activities.
II will do your marketing for
you. And buy shoes for Willie If
mother is too busy to run down
town.
II you want the lawn moved. or
the snow shoveled call up the bank.
For quick work in dragging the
hivver out OF a ditch call the bank.
II you wake up in the night and
observe burglars working overtime
don't disturb the policeman; call
the bank.
II you want to enjoy the matinee
leave the baby al the bank until
you're ready to scamper back
home.
Should you become possessed of
a desire to lick the baseball UNI
pire. pass the job on to the bank.
Indeed, 1t is altogether likely that
the day is coming when banks will
be able to do anything for you ex-
cepting lend you a dollar without
considering the matter six weeks
and unwinding a mile of red tape.
When rum sold for sh cents per
tin cup, shoes. w pairs for
$3.50, and pumpkins n cent each
It was only back in 1889 when
our backwoods fathers, all seem
cried up in their homespun jeans,
hung around the grocery store
and drew out their W hooch by
the lineup.
Reflections from these pioneer
days are wildly photographed in
an old ledger, the property Of
George w. Landis, Toledoan,
which was formerly kept in the
grocery store of his grandfather.
For example . the account Of
Sam Whiteleather, 1888, is Curl
Gus. His chief purchases were
"plucks" of tobacco, side of dried
Israel Butter bought heavily Of
side beef at 10 pounds for 46
cents. He sold the storekeeper
SIS pumpkins at one cent each.
Henry Sam started off July 4
1888, by getting two tincups full
of brandy. Then he bought a
quantity of dress goods. evidently
for his wife.
Henry then had a lineup of
wine and finished it off by buying
a pipe of tobacco His next
snifter was one of cherry
bounce and he sent two drinks
Of whisky down afterwards to
keep them company.
1neu there 10 an entry lOT Two
more drinks of "skat,' but one
was for John Shoots, evidently a
crony. Sam was beginning to
feel good enough to treat.
But the tragedy was in the next
entry. 1t is for a bottle of lini-
ment. What happened to Sam?
Feverishly we thumb the ledger
for the account of John Shoots
for the same day. John, besides
several whisky entries. broke off
his drinking to buy a half pound
of raw beef. Why would a man
buy a half pound of raw beef on
the Fourth of July in the midst of
his cups?
So that's how Ohio's rugged
frontiersmen spent the Fourth!
The ledger reveals that the
price OF sugar was nine cents a
pound. This probably was a
scarce article in those days. Apple
butter was eight cents for a half
gallon. Several men are credited
with hauling wood for the store
keeper at So cents per day for
labor and team. One man is cred
tied with cutting five acres of corn
for $3.50.