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i end April are the - months when eOur lowout rè -W. will b. glad of on opportuelty t. Show YOU k or, and to quote rates for the wholé. or any part of *ToI.phone LONgboach 6000-Ma*nagers office" and laymen representing every cnurch in' the Chicago area met last week at the Central Y,. M. C. A., to discuss plans for raising the. entire budget in a single day,* April 12, in accordance with the new, general plan of tfie 1Northern Baptist Convention.' This is the first time. in the history of the Northern Baptist Convention, that a concerted attempt hias been made. to raise the annual budget throughont the denoinination on one general da,%. Mr. Kraft said. 1The total membership of the ,Ba2,- tist churches within the ýChicago area -which. extends f rom Waukegan to Kankakee and La Grange, on the west.. is 30,500. A 50> per cent in- cre ase in the number'of members of, Baptist, churches cpntributing to the annual budget of the denomination is. ex~pected by. the comimittee.. A re-. cent study hias revealed the fact tbat on an average only 45 per cent of theý 30,500 Baptists in the Chicaga area are contributing to the regular work of their local churches. ."One million dollars of the pro-, posed budget will be used for the local church budgets of the City. Three hundred thousand dollars will go for the missionary work of the Northern Baptist Convention. *"In the groujp of one hundred Bap- t ist churches- in this ares there are* twenty-tbree churches using some fo r e i gn, language. Twenty-three churches are outside the City. The property value of these. church build- ings is $7,020,90,. not counting tl'e, value of Baptist schools -and other i- stitutions in the City. "The central committee plans anl award',of bannèers to,those churches, securin!g pledged from 100 per cent of their resident membership, -and in another group, from 75 per cent.' "A unique feature of this year's campaign is that business men of the congregations are i charge of the, organization in each local church." west circIe of the Côngregaiot'nai church. George E. Tarnow, 126 Fourth street, has been at thé Alexian hos- pital, Chicago, witha streptococcus throat infection. Althoughi he is very mnuch better the time of his returni to. his home is flot definite. d I \1 4,, 1 Utjpr-when appearance is just a 4J~rbit more important! Everyone gets. a tbrill.out of opening the box containing his new suit or coat or bat. Well, that's just the sort of thrill you get, on opening a box from the ERMINE CLEANERS. Not'new clothes, but so new in appear- ance, sa transformed, so radiantly dijjer-l entàthat you get the same effeet. ::Our modern pla nt and abolish every blemish, 1150 CentralI Avenue Mai O>Pce W77V/-AUKEGAN& ph..m Hi$hIe.Op expert workers exile every wria* Phone Wilmette 3710 or 704 SAVBS., iIGHW OOO, L to are in we have if perlod.. , et1 ýý