The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-19
Items, General and PERSONAL
Of Interest TO q. p q. Workers

W. 3. Jameson, representative from the
Eighth Iowa district. was born In Iowa
November 9. 1873. When nine years of age
he began setting type in his fathers ONCE,
having to use special platform to reach
the case. At eleven he could reach the
case without the platform, and felt he
had reached mans estate when he finally
succeeded I'm pulling the old Washington
hand press. and soon became competent
to work off the entire edition of 1000.
In 1892 at Traver. Iowa, in the office of
the Star-Clipper, which he thinks is the
greatest country paper IN the world, Mr..
Jameson set four 24-inch galleys Of loaded
minion in ten hours. which he thinks is
close to the worlds record, and says he
never worked with printer who could set
as much He has challenged Sergeant-at-
arms Casson. Clerk OF the House Nc
Dowell. and Victor Murdoch, all old
printers. 10 a type-setting contest. which
is slated TO be pulled of next winter.
At seventeen years of age, Mr.. Jane
son Joined Chicago union. and for four
years. at different times, was a tramp
printer, working in all the big cities ana
several of the small towns between Chi
| cago and Anaconda, Mont. AT nineteen.
he borrowed the money and bought the
Pioneer, a weekly paper at Ida Grove,
Iowa He was made chairman of the
Democratic county committee, and car
| ried the COUNTY for his party, the first
victory in many years. He kept the
paper a year and half and made it pay.
/ but the wanderlust was TOO strong, and
he sold out and again took 10 the road
COL hue
Junction, Iowa, ran it successfully for
two years and a half, and then turned it
over TO his father.
! Eight years ago he went 10 his present
| home, in Shenandoah, Iowa, and Bought
/ the World, a semi-weekly. and has been its
editor ever since, and expects TO continue
it. Four years ago he was elected to the
State senate. Two years ago he beat the
Hon. Pete Hepburn for Congress, being
the only Democrat ever elected from that
district, and the only Democrat ever
| elected to either place and hold both at
the same time.
Air. jameson thinks If there were more
printers and fewer lawyers in Congress
the country would be the gamer. He
says he is the only country editor in
the world to have specially built cash
register in his Office, from which he gets
way, and considers it the best invest
ment he ever made, and advises other
country editors to get one. He is very
fond of talking shop with the printer
boys and girls, and hopes always to have
a country office He thinks every printer
should belong to the union: that the
Typographical Union is the best in the
world, and believes that many of its prin-
ciples should be applied to the govern
ment of States, especially the initiative
and referendum.
Miss Pearl Martin who has repre-
scented st. Joe, No, several times in 1.
T. L. conventions, is a delegate-elect to
the Minneapolis convention, and Biz
mingham. Ala. will also have a lady
delegate, Miss Olena McNatt
Edgar J. Heaton and Lemuel E Miller
are applicants for I. T. U. pensions from
Columbia Union.
The I. T. q. pension fund now aggre-
gates close to 100000
Win Mattocks, of the proofroom who
was a member of the Rough Riders, was
one Of those who went over TO New
York TO welcome the colonel
! William Howlin, imposer on specifca-
tons. was married on Wednesday last,
, in Baltimore, to Miss Maggie McAuliffe,
and after a visit to Atlantic City, they
will reside in the handsome new home
Billy has purchased in Kentucky avenue.
A couple of printers were on the carpet
recently because the quantity of work
they produced was not sufficient. and