The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-08-16
TYPOS TURN
BILL POSTERS
TOUR SNoHOMISH COUNTY
WITHOUT BEING ARRESTED
AND SCATTER LABOR DAY
BILLS BROADCAST.

There was no meeting of the Labor
Day committee last Sunday There's a
rcason-two of them! One was the
Label League picnic at Silver Lake The
other was the jaunt of the bill posting
bunch through the county.
| 1t isn't often that common labor
skates get chance to Joy ride" on the
county roads much less own an automo-
| bile. Be it known, however. that
f. w. F. Schoennauer of Snohomi-h. a
member of the local typographical union
owns one. Through the coaXing and
cajolery of several of his brother typos
he consented to take cargo of printers
1 for an outing on condition that they
would post Labor Day bills on every
stump, barn and bridge they came to
along the road.
So it came to pass that on Sunday
morning higgins, McNeeley, Willi,ton.
Marsh and Schoennauer might have been
! 'p9Ni'Ou iiS lIS pdCN OH lHe CuHnIDuN
with self satisfied smiles on their classic
cOuntenances, while the auto, with young
| Mr.. McCreedy of Snohomish ut the
wheel, ate up the dirt roads. Past Lake
Stevens, through Hartford and Lochsoy
to Granite Falls they sped while the
chickens flew squaking for the roadside
fence. One sedate old horse grazing lust
inside the fence, gave one look at the
bunch and started for the other side of
a tenac lot at a thirty clip, The
bunch swore old Dobbin got glimpse of
NIcNeeley trying to smile.
Marsh was stuck the night before for
the bill posting job, but shamelessly per
sisted in an attempt to boss the job
from the rear seat, and little moral
suasion was necessary to get him out
and at work. Every time it came the
turn of Williston and Higgins to post
bill they insisted on taking the lunch
out with them, which explains the fail
ure to cover more territory in the days
run.
Granite Falls was reached at noon and
the falls shortly after, where the lunch
was disposed of. After a short siesta
the bunch clambered down to the falls.
The scene in the narrow gorge where the
water tumbles over and under the great
granite boulders is indescribably beauti
full higgins clambered out on rock
and started to recite 'IIOw the water
came down at Ledore." but quit suddenly
when he saw the gang reaching for stray
pieces of rock. 1t was at this point on
the trip that Grant McNeeley pulled the
most treacherous stunt of all his crime
filled career Ask him about it.
Then back through Hartford and Ma
chias to Snohomish where the bunch dis
embarked at Brother Schoennaeur's
residence and We're welcomed by Mrs.
Schoennauer and her family. Mr.. Sheen
nauer has a residence which is more than
a mere place to eat and sleep-but a
HOME-a typical German home. Think
of house essentially modern, surround
ed by big trees laden with fruit, yer
table Jungle of radiant flowers, spacious
lawn and vegetable garden. Picture a
bunch of common printers being turned
loose in Paradise like that and to-
crown it ALL filled up with ice cream
home made mind you. 1t was with re
luctance the boys piled in again after
partaking of the hospitality of Mr.. and
Mrs. Schoennauer.
Then off for Silver Lake where the
Label League was picnieing and finally
home after a days pleasure that will be
long remembered. And there are SOME
Labor Day posters scattered around
Snohomish county, too, don't forget that.