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A sacred concert by the choir, and the Sacrament Of. the Lord'a .Supper will be the features of the Year's E nd Candle-Light 'Vesper service at the Wilmette Parish Meth- ôdist church Sunday afternoon, De- cember, 31, at 4 o'clock. This church as joning with the 45,000. other methodist churches over the country in. a special New Year's Bve :observance which is a part of the Advance Program for the new Methodist churcb. Th's Year's End Vesper service is %also a part of the .Program of Anniversary, and Ad- vance of the, Local Church. This is the first concert presented by the choir during titis Conference year. The choir -is under the lead- ership of Dean -F. *McSloyr, director ndMrs. Sarah M. Eilert, organist, and will be assisted in this concert bY Miss Eleanor Burpee of Wil- maette, guest seloit The Program The program foilows: Orgari: "Largo" (New World Symphony).............. Dvorak "At .Evening' .............. Buck Four Chorales from -jesu, Prl.kess Treasure_.............ach Jesu, Priceless Teasure In Thine Arm I Reat Me Hence with Earthly Treasure, Hence, Al ?ears and Sadness 'Js.Joy of Man's Desiring-...Bach The Choir Contralto Solo: "The Living God" .... ...... . .....O'Hara, Itay Photo A signal honor, has. been& con- ferred upon Mns. Bernice Van der Vries of Wnnetka <above),, rePr -tatv t te Illinois eg- ilat une ITem the Seventh Senai- torial district. At a meeting, at Springfield Wednesday of ast weelc, firs. Van der Vries, wqs macde chairman 'of the Inter- governrnental Cooperation Com- mission ef Illirnois. Thirty-four states have such co M- missions and Mrs. Van der Vries is not only the sole woman chairman of a state group, but is the only woman mpember o! any such state commis- sion. Sucb subjects as trade barriers .Mr. O'Connell emrnphaslzes tliat reaching the sales total of $100,00ü will have, no effect whatever upon bis ýown status. It will fot .Increase his, salary or make any change -ini bis position as postmaster. What it will do, -he points out, is to make it possible for hlm «to emfploy two addj- tional mail carriers aùcd_ one clerk,. and to prornote one o! bis presefit staff toa fç!reiianship. It will so place the Wilmette post office ia hlgher bracket i the flrst class div- ision, and probably add -an addi!- tional -daily mail dispatch by havig another mail train make the Wil- mette stop. It is suggested that the people of Wilmette cani bring, about these higbly desirable improvemnents in service by anticipatirig their stamp needs for the future and making purchases during the remalning days of!thiwèek. AMter Saturday it will be too late to help. Winnetha n to Head 1 Spanish W'ar Veterana Isidor Laing of 800 Lloyd place,t Hubbard Woods, has been elected to the office o! commander etEvans share accountg. A preliminary report of 1989cg.- erations was presented by LIoy Hoilister. This report, wlth Decem- ber r esults estlmated, uhowed both volume o! busiess and earnjngu i excess of theé193 budget eXpeeta.. tions, The increase ln savigs dur- ing. 1939, exceeded the total cumula-, tive savigs o! ail previous yýears. Assets Ovet $MO0gf The First Federal of Wilmette, Mr. Hollister sald, will finish the. current year wlth assets in exces O!. $9MOO0W. DUrfltI is» yeàithe association has repaid -nstitu tonal borrowigs of $65,000 to the Federal Home Loan Bank System and bas begun the Permanent retfrement of U. S. Government funds. A report submitted by President llarry R Jobnston, coverig the operations o! the First Federal o! Wlmette year- by-year since organization in 1934 shows the .annual growith o! the as- sociation.- The figures are: "In the MeLlow Glow o! candles . ..................MbueUer "Prayer for the New Year".Schultz -Cali to Remnembrance" ...... Frrant The Choir Organ: -Postlude in ' ........... Gade Masons Io Hold Installation Pro gram Jan. 4 to~~~V1J Bguaol---'~t~stallation cerenionies--will -b. to ufflo N..,to attend, an Itr utdb atDprmn state Conference on Liquor Control de by W.A.st epeateni called by the New York Commission mari F .A ieeatr on Integoverimental Cooperation re!reshments will be served. and the Couneil of State Govern- ments. Mrs. Van der Vries bas been NEW RES]IDENT8 mnade co-chairman o! tbat meeting, Mr. and Mrs. Charles le. C and on Friday nigbt of next week Jr., formerly of Hlnman avenue, wlll speak at a dinner meeting o! the anston, are now occupying the conférence. home whkbh they have purchas( 1307 Richmond lane, Wilinettî Infant Welfare Ceter the Connecticut Village. 1939 8M.768.90 482,076.360,»O<>797,211.39 The First Federal o! Wllmette conducts a mortgage bankig buui- 'rey, ness by whlch the home-flnancing é. Ev- activities of the local area are be-- Snew coming more and more self-contain- ;ed at ed. Local home leftdig activities e, in are flnanced by local savigs ac- George Quinlan, 211 Gref 1' nue, is home for the bol: the Cranbrook school at Rfilîs nesar D)etroit, Mich. IL b- --. uqu w li t i z lu i.D 5ves l ind Mis, Wilmette center as much miate: ea! ave- as its members can make uP ys fromn garments to help the many nei ~omfleld familles i the neighborhood of Alice Wood station iChcagg., T eIephone Your Clasifiq WILMITTE 4300 WINNEITKA 2000 Ihall. At tins meeting launched a memberuit iwill contiue through drive ,rch