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Decem~r 14. i928 "I I FINDS BANKING PLAIN . __ F_ir_st_ · P_ . r_e_si_de_n_t_____.~ . BUSINESS--CAPITAL "B" Vice-President Dan G. StDea Starta aa Meaaengei"; "Solei" on His WilmeHe When Dan G. Stiles set out to "make" his career he chose banking. It was necessary, of course, to start at t.Ve bottom, so he went to the Corn Exchange bank in Chicago and got himself a job as messenger. With the landing of the job he adopted the slogan : "Once a banker, always a banker," and he has adhered to it so tenaciously that he advance,!~ step by step in the business with the result that todav he is vice-president and cashier o( the First National Bank of Wilmette. The quiet spoken and apparently never ruffled young man-Stiles is onlv in the middle thirties-will tell you that banking is a business which is BUSINESS He says there isn't anything colorful about it. If there is, he tiasn't discovered it. - Mr. Stiles was born in Chicago, in the Edgewater district and there obtained his early schooling. Later he took a post--graduate course at Culver academy. . ·Geta Real Start ia Iowa Dan G.... _ he likes the Dan better than his christened Daniel-didn't stick to his first job very long. He was with the Corn Exchange bank a little over a year when he packed up and hopped out to Iowa. In Des Moines he took another b~~k job as messenger and it was here that advancement began. Successively he became bookkeeper and teller-all within a period of five years. When America became e~broiled in the World war, Dan enlisted at Camp Dodge. He became an instructor in Officers Training Camps, not only at Camp Dodge but at Fort Snelli~g !n Minnesota and at Camp Lewts m Washington. He enlisted in 1917 and on Jan. 1 of 1919 was given his discharge from the service. He was at Camp Lewis · when the Armistice was signed, and after leaving the army ret urned to Des Moines. His stay in the Iowa capital was of only six months duration, after which he came back to Chicago. The urge to live in a suburb was strong and he selected Wilmette. He became vice-president of the Wilmette State bank in 1920. His connection with this bank continued for seven (Continued on page 70) · Tlx wrought iron gates which add so much to tlx artistic atmosplxre of tlx new First National Bank were hand forged by the The man who was a big figure in the organization of the First National Bank was the late F. ]. Baker. The bank was started at the corner of Main street and Central avenue. ·stepping upstairs via the new iron stairway in the First National bank building one finds that the offices which CRAFTSMEN IN ·wROUGHT IRON AND BRONZE are occ~pied by physicians and otherDooRs--GRILLEs-RAILINGS-LIGHTING FIXTURES professional men don't look the same as in the days of the old Village TheFURNITURE-OBJECTS OF ART ater. The reconstruction work on the 6-t6 N. Michigan Avtnut, Chicago Telephones: Supuior 6357·58 building did not effect these offic.e3, but the bank officials, nevertheless, saw the necessity for improving them in ~~~~------------------------~ order that the offices would be in keeping with the bank's quarters. There are eight offices and all have been decorated to a brightness not before posse.ssed. The tenants of these offices are Dr. Ralph N. Evans, Dr. C. E. Geisse, Dr. Charles H. Eldred, Dr. H. E. Barackman, Madame Rouf. Modiste, and the Wilshore Bond and Mortgage company. Johnson..Meier Company Professional Offices Get a Thorough Renovation The Ornam.ental Iron and Bronze Work /or the FIRST NATIONAL BANK of · Wilmette Among the other features of the bank is space in which are coupon cutting booths. These booths are located directly to the north of the big safety deposit vault. Was Furnished By the SUWVAN-KORBER CO. 2910-2916 Carroll Ave., Chicago Ph. Kedzie 3001-6484 PAUL J. McNAMEE directors of the extends his congratulations to the officers and HIGH GRADE ORNAMENTAL IRON AND BRONZE ENTRANCES - FENCES - GRILLES WINDOW GUARDS FEATURING BULLET PROOF SCREENS FOR BANKS FIRST NATIONAL BANK on ·the completion of their new building; which is indeed a real credit to the community.