Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1916 — FRANK MEYER ELECTED HEAD OF ASSOCIATION [ARTICLE]

FRANK MEYER ELECTED HEAD OF ASSOCIATION

Former Rensselaer Boy Elected Head of Illinois Retail Shoe Dealers. Frank Meyer, formerly of Rensselaer, and now a member of the shoo firm of Cavanaugh & Meyer, of Danville, 111., was elected president of the Illinois Shoe Dealers' association at the semi-annual convention held in Chicago Thursday. Mr. Meyer had been prominently mentioned as the successor to R. W. Rianney, the retiring president, ever since the meeting held last March, and hiS choice was unanimous. Mr. Meyer became a member of the association six months ago, and become one of the most popular “live wires” at the first meeting he attended. He was one of the principal speakers at the closing banquet of the association!, and furnished the after dinner “frolic.” Mr. Meyer has been a member of the first of Cavanaugh & Meyer for the past 11 years, and is one of the live business men of Danville. He probably wdR organize a branch of the association in Danville.