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Your Banik and the Comunit ISINSTITUTION was founded upon, the idea that the Commfun.ity needed a bank. The citizens f elt, -_a need for a saf e and convenient place to keep fuünds, a means for transferring c red it from oà 1ne part of the country to another, a means of bringing together those ivho had monley to' ban and those who w'anted to bOrrow.Ad0oth ank hCh we now know as the State Bank and Trust Company ivas founded in 1874. As our life lias become more complex, the. public lias become more dependent on the serv ices which the banks f urnish-the neecl of this, North Shore for efficient banks lias becoe ucli greater. Operating :with consci*entio'us. regard, for the safety of funds' entrusted to,, it, the yState, Bank> and Trust CompanY is rendering a definite and necessary service to the North Shore as it . has been doing f or the past '58 years. Evwatoe-llinois