The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-03-02
PRINTER MEN WILL ELECT.
Lincoln Typographical Union Will Slect Off
GERS Next Sunday.

Lincoln Typographical Union No 2O9 will
meet in regular session next Sunday afternoon,
at which time it will select officers for the
suing six months Officers elected three
months ago, but as it was done in violation OF
the revised constitution the officers-elect
declared ineligible and new election ordered.
The campaign for president is overshadowing
everything else, and friends Of the opposing
candidates are making huge hustle. F. c.
Greenley the present presiding officer, Frank
NJ. Coffey and H. W. Smith are the candidates.
There no particular contests for the other
offices of the union. The election for interna-
tonal officers will not take place until May,
and then there will be some warm dongs.
All members having tickets for the ball un-
accounted for requested to make settle
ment next Sunday afternoon. The editor will
undertake to attend to this matter 1t may be
stated here that the ball was not financial sue
cess for reasons that need not be publicly men,
toned But despite the herculean efforts of
few the ball will entail particular loss upon
the union. Socially it was the most successful
ball ever given II. w. Smith and Gus Rade-
bach are entitled to the blue ribbons for having
sold the largest number of tickets There
twenty-seven printers present which is frac-
tion more than double the attendance of print
ers at the union s annual function
The following notes from the Day Side" of
the Journal News shop were contributed by
gentleman and a scholar-and we VIII there
were more like him in the other chapels Of the
city:
Miss Ethel Thorngate, former proof reader
the News, departed for Omaha Tuesday
evening, where she has accepted position i'll
the Western Newspaper Union proof room,
When Miss Thorngate stopped to bid farewell
to her former associates in the news room she
was presented by the members of the chapel
with fountain pen and box of stationery,
and many were the wishes Of success in her
field Of labor.
Machinist Ira G. Stephens spent Sunday in
Omaha. He states that. conditions in that place
are looking good, and that No. 100 is presenting
as solid a front now as the day the trouble
started
Abraham Compton is now wrestling with
Merg on the News. Abe expects to be able to
turn 'er round by the Fourth of July.
a majority Of the dayside force resides in
northeast -Printerville-and the
marks of industry in that section many
Gardening and poultry raising will be carried
on very extensively this summer, and each
evening the husbandmen nay be seen prancing
impatiently around the back lot. longing for
the balmy days of spring that they may get
busy with the hoe. Such joyous anticipation!
The Journals big contract for printing the
supreme court report is making work qnite
lively on the book side
''l5ill'' Norton is doing stunts in the News
adroom these days
It was new devil in the News composing
room who, while working among the turtles,
asked the foreman where he wanted this frog
put.
That George Locker believes in starting at
the bottom and growing up with the business is
attested by hand made poultry . house
in his back yard in PIinterville. The structure
built on the point system, and OF nonparell Gil
mensions. and not many nonparells at that.