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Show BANK MOXEV AT WORK.' The Muskogee Times-Democrat narrates a sad story anent a certain Mrs. Murphy, who went to her fruit jar bank one day and found that someone had taken her savings of many years, amounting to $800. The money in the fruit jar was idle out of circulation. It was rendering no service to anyone. Yet there are hundreds of persons in every community who are handling handl-ing money in the same foolish, unproductive un-productive way. Whatever is said about banks, money placed in them is more safe and a basis of credit. Bank deposits add to the credit of the individual, the bank and the community, com-munity, in resources and stability. Always a certainpercentage of deposits de-posits are loaned out to carry on industries, in-dustries, business enterprises and to employ labor. On top of this banks are reaching out to help the farmer enlarge his herds, improve his equipment equip-ment and increase production. |