Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-26
BUREAU OF ENGRAVING
AND PRINTING.

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Yost d. Harbaugh, foreman of section
three of the printing division, has just
returned from two-week trip through
Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Miss Myrtle Agnes Johnson, section
nine, power presses. will spend the next
two weeks with her parents in Hughes
Vile. Charles county, Md.
Miss Helen Shorter, section two,
power presses, will leave this week
for visit with relatives and friends
in Norfolk, Va. and Leonardtown, Nd.
She will be gone fifteen days.
Miss Mae Veihmyer of the wetting
Thursday. Part of her time was spent
in Atlantic City. and during the last
week of her vacation she took in the
carnival held at Coney Island.
Miss Margaret Cross will leave the
wetting division tomorrow for vaca-
ton of two weeks.
Miss Catherine Carr of the same divi-
sion will be away from the bureau for
one week. commencing tomorrow.
Annual leave for twelve days has been
tomorrow. She is employed in the
stamp perforating division.
Commencing tomorrow Miss Nora
Fitzgerald will take six days annual
vacation.
George L. Dant of the engraving divi-
sion is enjoying two weeks of his an
nual leave at Atlantic City.
Samuel Abbott, also of the engraving
division, has returned from delight
ful trip to the Pacific coast. He was
away for about three months.
Mrs. Jessie E. Gall of the stamp gum
ming division has been granted three
weeks leave of absence, which she will
spend visiting relatives in Phillippi,
w. Va.
Leave of absence for one week has
been granted Eugene W. Shook of the
stamp cumming division, beginning yes
terday
John B. Murray, chief of the wetting
division. is at Atlantic City and is re-
ported to be in much better health.
A delegation from Walden, N, Y,
the bureau last Monday. A delegation
from the New York fire department
were aslo shown through the building
during the week.
Nine of the young woman employees of
the bureau were detailed to the guide
force recently in order to provide eff
Gent Service for the crowds of sight
seers who are expected to visit the
money-making plant during the G. A.
r. encampment.
Foreman of Stables DIR. James E.
Chamberlain left the bureau last Mon
day for visit to his father, who was
i'll at his home in Massachusetts,. Later
in the week word was received at the
bureau that his father had succumbed
to the illness.
Mrs. Mary Edmonston and Miss Fanny
Connor will leave the wetting division
tomorrow for one weeks vacation.
James H. futile, also of the wetting
division, will be absent from the bu-
reau for two weeks, beginning tomor-
row.
Miss B. Condor has returned to the
stamp perforating division after a
months illness.
leave of absence was granted Giles Eu-
banks. jr. He is employed in the stamp
perforating division.
J. F. Mulhare of the engraving d.
vision has returned to the bureau after
being absent on leave for three weeks,
which time he spent at Atlantic City.
Miss Nellie D. Reed of the assign
ment and reviews division is back at
her desk following a three-week stay
with her sister in Colorado.
force in the division of assignment and
reviews. left the office recently for a
vacation of two weeks.
Ernest II. Fulton, machinist in charge
of the wetting division. will take a
week off, beginning tomorrow, for the
purpose of attending the International
Association of Machinists convention,
which will be held in this city during
the week.
Suffering from recent injury. Joseph
B. Falkner of the wetting division is
still confined to his home.
p. ]. Ryan, editor of the Plate Pripter,
and also member of the executive
committee of the Plate Printers Union,
Local No. ,, has been elected by the
Maryland State and District of Column
bia Federation of Labor to represent it
at the convention of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor. to be held in San
Francisco in November.
John j. Deviny. president of the local
on the United States civil service re-
tirement question at the convention of
the Maryland State and District of Co
lumbia Federation of Labor, held in this
city last week. He was also toast
master at the banquet given by that
body.
]. Hruska of the engineering and ma
chine division. has returned to the bu-
reau after taking one week of his an
nual leave.
position in the wetting division last
Thursday to prepare for her marriage,
which will take place October 10. The
wedding ceremony will be performed in
this city, after which the bride and
groom will leave for Hoboken NJ j.,
where they will make their home.
Miss Margaret T. Loefer of the sur
face division was on leave for the past
week.
DR.. Alfred G. Geist of the surface di-
vision is spending ten days of his leave
in an automobile trip through Mary
land and Pennsylvania, stopping at
Allentown for a few days, and will
later visit in New York state.
Mrs. Bessie L. Reed of the surface
division has been granted two weeks
leave.
Miss Alice Lehman of the surface di-
vision has been absent for the past two
weeks on account of sickness in the
family.
DIR. George r. Rock of the surface di-
vision, for the past week was the guest
of William Neumeyer on his private
yacht, cruising on the Atlantic coast.
Scott r. Dampier of the examining
division, who has been ill for several
weeks, is now convalescing.
Peter S. Butcher of the examining di-
vision. who is i'll in Providence Hos
pital, is improving.
Miss Irene w. Franklin of the eX-
aiming division. has returned from her
vacation, spent in Culpeper, Va.
The veterans of the civil war en-
ployed in the examining division who
have been granted leave of absence dur
ing the G. A. r. encampment are Jo-
seph Parks. Alexander H. Bukey and
Samuel Brown.
Miss Ida Calbouns clerk in the eX-