Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1910 — DEPOSITS AT GARY. [ARTICLE]

DEPOSITS AT GARY.

Banks of Industrial City Show Great Growth in Last Eight Months.

The resources of the seven banks of Gary have been increased one-third during the last eight months, up to September 1. The assets of the banks of Gary, the new industrial city, now aggregate $2,000,000. Last January the deposits In Gary banks aggregated $963,486.50. September 1, the 'total of deposits had leaped to $1,825,611.12. In the ordinary growth of oltles, the showing made by Gary means a quarter or half a century of expansion and effort. It has been only a little more than 36 months since the first Gary bank was opened. Half a century has been crowded into three years The year will show resources increased a full fifty per cent over 1909. This is a part of American possibility under protection and confidence in enterprise. Gary is the city which a Democratic governor threatened to “push into the lake.” Gary is the city whose activity and growth have given Democrats generally so much concern. Gary is home for thousands of voters against whom Democrats in 1909 aimed a bill which proposed disfranchisement and partisan discrimination. Flag On the Stamps. Favorable comment has been caused by the suggestion of S. B. Beshore, a veteran of the civil war, living at Marion, Ind., that the Stars and Stripes be used on the U. S. postage stamps in future. Mr. Beshore believes the stamps should express the national idea, which cannot be carried abroad by the features of any statesman unless it be in the cases of Washington and Lincoln. The men who have fought beneath the flag are taking lively interest in Mr. Beshore’s suggestion. It is announced that a similar plan will be carried out in England, where King George has declared in favor of a symbol of nationalism for use on the stamps.

Frank Tilley, though wounded by a footpad, oootlnues campaign for congress in Fifth district.