Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-23
Printing Trades
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

| on the fOet, ls spending q two weeks
acation at CRANKY, in the heart of the
Rockies, on the Moffat road. According
to Webb Burrows, an associate in the
proof room, Nelson is delving into the
prehistoric ruins of that region and has
excavated the remains of what is sup
posed to have been the first proofreader.
Identification was made, according to
Burrows, by well defined marks upon
the head of the fossil, great knobs pro-
truding on the fore and aft parts of the
skull, indicating great pressure from the
nerve and brain centers within. Nelson
will bring the bones, which are said to
be in a fine state of preservation, to
Denver in a few days, and they will
be installed for public view in the Colo
rado museum. Much concern is felt il
local newspaper proofreading circles over
this find. John +. Collett, Jim Burns,
A. NJ. Warner, Sam Green, L. R Fire
baugh, MaBelle Jordan and their re-
spective copy holders will probably be
privileged to view this geological pheno-
menon before the general public is per-
mitted to gaze upon a relic that is no
doubt destined to arouse much interest
in printerdom. .
"Windy" Ed Davidson of the Post
chapel, father of Lieutenant Davidson
of the United States army. has taken
a new grip on his title. He has just
returned from a two weeks vacation in
| Wyoming. where be went to hunt wild
animals in the hills between Cheyenne
and Laramie. Before leaving Denver,
Windy" purchased a new high power
army rifle, as he declared it was his
purpose to shoot mountain lions, large
numbers of which are reported to be
roaming about in that section. Pene-
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the ranch house, Ed soon scented and
sighted what he felt sure was ferocious
beast, and took good aim with his h. p. T.
When the smoke had cleared away he
advanced thirty-seven yards and found
that he had killed the ranchman's pet
house cat. Later in the day Ed was
/ invited to leave the ranch for fear he
might mistake yearling calves for buff
falo.
Here's another true story: Abe Plum
/ lcett. also of the Post chapel is confined
/ to his home nursing a wide area of sore
/ spots. About n year ago Abe was mar
ried, and made a chum of his father-in-
law. A few days ago they went duck
I hunting together, and failing TO find
any fowl, began to exhaust ammunition
shooting at signs on the roadway fences.
/ Somehow Abe got behind one of these
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and received a full charge of bird shot
I from his father laws gun, after they
had passed thru n half-inch plank. Doc
tors later extracted forty-seven shot
/ from Abe's anatomy, and he will recover.
Ed S. Close has returned to Denver
from Pueblo, after operating a machine
at the Franklin Press in the latter city
for several weeks.
E. W. Stewart of Colorado Springs
! Typographical Union No. So, linotypist
on the Gazette. sent n club Of twenty
| five new subscribers to The Bulletin this
week. This is showing the right sort of
appreciation for state labor paper.
Harry Wander Perel is spending n
happy vacation back in the family home
town of Grand Rapids, Mich. Daily post
cards to friends tell of his visiting all
the high spots en- route, including the
lake front, Chicago, and walkersville,
Ont
NJ. II. Ropkey. representative of the
Merganthaler Linotype company, this
week sold model 10 to be installed in
the printing department of the State
Deaf and Blind school at Colorado
Springs.
Elmer F. McCelland, linotypist on the
Post, has gone to his brothers ranch,
near Greeley, to superintend the pick
ing of an immense apple crop, which oc-
cupation will consume six weeks or two
months time. During his absence Jack
Oliver is operating the machine.
I. T. U. Representative Frank ]. Pull
yer returned Wednesday from a trip to
Santa Fe and Albuquerque, N. NJ, where
he assisted the local unions in some
wage matters, and left Friday for SCOTS.
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union is negotiating wage scale.
Sam Stigal of the st. Louis Post
Dispatch composing room, at one time on
the Rocky Mountain News, passed thru
Denver Thursday on his way to inspect
his landed interests in Idaho. He said
there are but two printers now in Den
yer who worked with him on the News
in the old days, Charles S. Semper and
BILLY" Collins
Frank McNulty OF the Post chapel win
leave Monday for two weeks final
fishing joust along the Platte Canon. He
says the big ones always wait until the
last Of the season to be caught.
Since Fl. L MacAfahon of the Post
nd room acquired a new automobile, he
finds It necessary to make frequent trips
to the mountains, regardless of the high
price of gasoline.
The recent I. T. u. convention in Bal
timore adopted a suggestion made by
Angelo Nocc, pioneer member of No.
40, presented in a resolution by Dele
gates Pulver and Jones, giving cogniz-
ancc to Columbus day, in honor of the
discoverer of America.
Having exhausted every other means
in an attempt to have the decision OF
New York Typographical Union No. o,
which declared that in reality the Press
absorbed the Sun, and that the Sun and