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WILMETTE LIFE T is a far ..flung Merry Christmas we impart ., to =6=-=--=-= those who light the . Yuletide candles in Deere Park r~·~j or draw the logs across _ their Bannock.. . burn .':·,· fields to feed the greedy he~rth.. C. ·.· . ~- ·= . stone -· J "' to those who watch the twtnkle · '_· of a thousand motor lights in Lincoln Park, or on the Parkways, from the warmth of their homes in 1448 Lake Shore Drive - .·- · "'the Lock..Ler, and 1120 Lake Shore Drive .--.-#,..c~-- to the hundreds of oWners whose buildings are in our care, and to the thousands of families ·they house .. to those who celebrate this, their first Christmas .. or their second, or their third, in homes they ·bought through us, and to those for whom: we sold them .. to look to us for safe those .great institutions who investments . and others who buy our bonds . with confidence unshaken -- to those who come to· us for ~. loans and leave with satisfacti6n 0 · "' to those whom we ' . : :- insure, wherever they may be .. and to - · - ' those who w·ill shortly come to know .. Y · tis as these . others not least, to every mem.. . have .. and last .. \:'4 .. but _ . her of olir or ~~-·::!:? ganization, past and present, who during three score years and twelve h~s made this the institution that it is .. . ~-'· ~ ..... 0 · .. I ,. i > ~{{trry ·QIQristmas Bi\l \D & \VARNER