Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-06
IOWA PLUMBERS TO MEET
Big Program With Many Speakers For
Jan II, is and IS in Cedar Rapids
Big Building Boom Predicted in Iowa.

Special to Times Republican.
Cedar Rapids, Jan. 6.-The thirty
| first annual convention of the Iowa
Master Plumbers Association is to be
| held in Cedar Rapids, Jan. IL, Is and
TO- The Cedar Rapids Sanitary Club
having the convention in hand, has
arranged for big three day program.
Over thousand master plumbers and
their families VIII be in attendance as
members AMI non members are invi!-
ed.
a great building boom Is predicted
by the plumbers and plans are under
way in many cities of the state for the
erection of big office buildings and
public improvements. This means the
merchant plumber is called upon to
change his business from a war-basis
to a peace pr osperity- basis. Perhaps
the plumbing and heating business suf-
fered more than any other the past
year, because Of building restrictions,
lack Of labor ANA scarcity of materials.
So the main purpose Of this convention
is to bring the progressive merchant
plumbers of Iowa together to discuss
and analyze the problem of caring for
the business ahead of US,
Every speaker en- the program is L
man OF ability and big business, and a
man who knows his subject because he
is an expert in his particular line.
Topics dealing with every phase of the
every day business problems, such as
accounting, advertising and salesman
ship are to be ably handled.
l.. Mcnamara. of st. Louis, Mo,
president of the National Association
of Master Plumbers, ,W:ll address the
assembly on The Future Prosperity.
Mi Mcnamara is a man of force and
has the honor of being the second
man in the history of the association
to hold the presidents office two terms.
He was elected a member of the board
of directors Of the building industries
branch of the Chamber of Commerce
( of the United States 1T the meeting
! held in Atlantic City, N. J.
Curtis NJ. Johnson, Rush City, Mimi,
business man and we'll known in sew
eral states for his better business
| methods talks will address the con
vention at the afternoon session We'd
nesday, Jan. 10.
w. c. Brownell, of Jacksonville, Ill,
president of the Illinois Master Plum
bers' Association, will speak Thurs
day OH the Progress Of Plumbing ana
Heating Business
E. ID, Greedy, secretary of the Le
Februre Ledger Company, OF Gear
Rapids, will have as his subject Book :
keeping
w. c. McCarten, of Marshalltown'
president of the association, and edl-
tor of the magazine, The Mastei
Plumber" is well known in the plumo-
ing and heating industry, and his ao-
dress is looked forward to with muci'
interest. His subject is on the fro-
gross Made in 1918 and Work Ahead
in 1919 o,,,
The Cedar Rapids Sanitary Cluo
having the convention in hand has ap-
nointed the following committees
Chairmen, John Nyere, president
John w Messner vice PRESIDENT VIZ
liam c.. Miller, secretary and treasut
or. executive committee, John Nyere'
John w. Messner William Z. M@ller
f.. l., Dieman and E. l.. t1eids' re-
cention committee, Robert 'Meister, W.
n TAYLOR, George w. Carpenter, L.
Sn,id. J. Zvacek and A. j. Lou1ek' en-
tertainment committee, S. S. Popefha'
T, Hayelka, E. L. Fields, Joe Swacka'
T W. Darah and G. b. Rummel; lnVl-
tation committee, ]. Nycre, b. kuolas'
E, l.. Dieman and William Z. Mllief'