Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1911 — Western Cities Are to Have Pennies [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Western Cities Are to Have Pennies

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah.—After years of turning up noses at cheap people of the east who would need such a small coin aa a penny in doing their dally business, there has been developed a real call In the west for these same coins. It Is largely due to the feeling of the housewives that much money could be saved In their buying at the shops and tn other ways if they had the small pieces of money. A movement has been put under way for the banks to Import the coins, and some of the shops are already advertising wares for sums that change Into pennies. When an inquiry was recently made Into this subject by persons interested ft was found that less than 20,000 pennies were in Salt Lake City. Many es them were held by the banks, whidh said they had difficulty in disposing of them. As In other dries In the west, the nickel had been , the small cota.

and the easy spenders had treated even that somewhat contemptuously. The newspapers sell for five cents a copy. Children have been brought up to thb idea of asking for a nickel for candy and spending IL Now the cost of living is coming home even to the free-spending west, and housewives have founffthat it is not only well to loqk after the nickels, but the pennies, too. It is pointed out that under the present system If s purchase comes to an odd amount the for the Shopkeeper.