Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1920 — FRANK MEYER IS PRESIDENT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRANK MEYER IS PRESIDENT

DANVILLE MAN CHOSEN HEAD OF SHOE DEALERS’ ASSOCIATION—CUP. Despite a severe attack of stomach trouble which forced him to remain in his room at the Congress hotel during most of the time the convention was in session, and prevented him rfrom displaying the “pep” which nas made him a national figure in the retail shoe business, and won for him the title of

“the human dynamo from Illinois, ( at the last convention of the National Shoe Retailers’ Association of which he is secretary-treasurer, Frank P. Meyer, of Danville, was | again chosen president of the Illinois Retail Shoe Dealers’ association at the annual convention, held in Chicago last week. It is the time he has been chosen head of the association, and as a token of the esteem in which he is held by the members and in appreciation of the services he has rendered, he was ( presented with a beautiful loving cup. The Danville man announced, at the beginning of the convention, that he could no longer spare the । time to act as head of the association, and requested the members to elect another, but when the election ' was held, he was chosen by acclaI mation. 4 , I The convention# Mr. Meyer states, was the largest ever held by the Illinois association. Several hundred retail dealers from adjoining states attended some of the sessions, and were guests at the ban-

went on record as opposed to the luxury tax on shoes, and adopted a resolution which will be sent to congress at its next session, urging the immediate repeal of that part of the special tax measure. The tax is 10 per cent on all shoes selling for more than 110. ■ One of the features of the convention was the style show, held in the gold room of the Congress hotel. There were fifty live models wearing shoes that harmonized with the color of their gowns. The shoes ; shown .in the style show represented the styles that will be worn this coming fall and winter.