Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1919 — MEYER HEADS SHOE DEALERS [ARTICLE]

MEYER HEADS SHOE DEALERS

, DANVILLE MAN CHOSEN FOR FOURTH TIME AT SPRINGFIELD MEETING. Frank P. Meyer, of Danville, 111., ibut formerly of Rensselaer, was re-elected president of the Illinois Shoe Retailers’ association for the fourth time at the annual meeting of the association in Springfield on July 29. It was decided to hold the next convention in Chicago. In aiddition to (being president of the state association Mr. Meyer is also a member of the executive committee of the National Shfoe Dealers’ association. The shoe dealers completed their sessions Wednesday noon and the afternoon was spent in a picndfe in one of the Springfield parks. Mr. Meyer, who is a member of the firm of Cavanaugh & Meyer, presided at the several sessions of the association in Springfield, and in his opening speech before the convention stated that shoe prices the coming winter would be much higher than at present, predicting that the (better grades of men’s shoes would cost from $lO to sls and that ladies shoes woufld retail from sls to S2O for the (better grades. He told his audience that there was no combine, hut that prices were brought (about hy the great demand and the scarcity of leather. Following the ending of the European war and the consequent employment of a large number of people at higher wages than they had ever known (before, the demand for shoes, wh&dh many had gone without during the period of the war, had turned thousands of shops manufactured in America to the European markets. Mr. Meyer predicted that it would be some time before their would be cheap shoes in America.