Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1917 — F. P. Myer Puts Idiotic Bill to Rout. [ARTICLE]

F. P. Myer Puts Idiotic Bill to Rout.

F. P. (Dutch) Myer, of Danville, 111., president of the Illinois. Retailers Shoe Association, with his aides has put to rout the idiotic Kirby bill, which was recently passed by the Illinois house. The biU provided for the regulation of the height of the heels on women’s shoes and if passed would have prohibited the sale of shoes by dealers with heels over a certain height. Illinois shoe dealers became alarmed with the passage of the biU by the house, previous to which time little attention had been paid to the measure and Myers was appealed to, to make a sign. against the noisure and file a protest against its passage with the senate. The protest had the desired effect for when the bill came up before the senate Tuesday it was voted down with scarcely a dissenting vote and was treated as a joke by the members of the senate. The following named merchandise we are now selling for less than wholesale prices: Mens and boys clothing, muslin and knit underwear, rugs, shoes, women's and children s dresses, all kinds of hosiery, dress goods, ginghams, percales, calicoes, etc. —The G. E. Murray Co.