Evening star., 1917-10-28
BY Webster.

dlenCe ana a IFeSn impetus NdS rlNcii
to the sale of bonds in the office. Chief
Clerk Alverson will announce the to-
tai amount subscribed by the employees
OF the Office the first of the week after
Il complete tabulation of returns has
been made.
Henry NJ. Brown. Jesse 3. Martin and
Eugene F. Jackson are among. those in
the engineers section who are on
leave of absence.
William A. Jenkins of the office OF the
foreman of presswork. who was called
to Fredericksburg, Va. on account of
the serious Illness of his father, has
returned to the city with the inforlna-
! ton that his father is improving.
+. c. Roberts. formerly an empioye OF
the office and former president OF Co
luinbia Typographical Union. has gone to
Porto Rico as an agent for the American
Federation of Labor.
John Lenlan of the caster room was
absent from duty the past week on ac-
| count of the illness and death Of his
daughter-in-law. Mrs Margaret N. Le-
man. which occurred last Tuesday.
Mrs Annie f. Niedfeldt, Mrs Harriet \:
Thompson Mrs Priscilla c. Woodruff
and George W. Butler of the sanitary
section are enjoying their annual vaca-
ton.
ton has been absent from duty during
the week on account of illness.
William II. Davis. eompositor. is re-
cent transfer from the night document
The linotype section claims the honor OF
having more men in the National Army
than any division in the Office, those re-
cruted from the section being as follows:
Edward NJ. Nevis. George A. Monaghan.
Frank P. Platz, Isadore Feldman. Jacob
Il. Genres. jr. Samuel Shapiro. Stanley
A Shaner, Elmer \. May. Herbert s
Rand. II. r. Morgan Robert A Williams,
Homer A Mohr. Elwood S. Moorehead.
James r Johnson and Frederick A Hurt
William D. Thomas. Mrs; Louise X
Roche and Miss Helen Wilkes OF the
Yresswork division have been on the sick
report for the past week,
Percy Anderson OF the inonotype key
board section is serving on the jury iii
Fairfax county. Va
James I. Jones, compositoI' in the docu-
nlent ,hand) section, has been confined TO
his home on account Of illness.
Among those on the watch force who
were absent from duty on account Of i'll
ness the past week We're Thomas w. Man
chester. Hiram W. Stoddard and Leslie
Sirbaush.
Miss Julia NJ Burke of the monotype
keyboard section, who presented a scrap
/! book containing history and personal
items relating to Columbia Typographical
Union to the Union Printers Home at
Colorado Springs Col. has received many
letters from the members expressing APP
probation for the gift. The work of COM
pilation covered a period of three years.
Charles H Schultz. pressman. has been
repo:ted as quite i'll at his home.
Charles Bush of the monotype keyboard
section has announced his candidacy for
the Office of delegate to represent Colum-
bia Typographical Union at the next In
, ternational Union convention.
AT the Ia ast meeting of Printing Press
mems Union. No. /. the treasurer was
Instructed to purchase $1,000 worth OF
the second liberty loan from the gen
eral fund OF the union. After an ex-
citing election the following officers
were chosen for the year: Daniel l.
Leane, president; {. II. sculte. vice
secretary: Thomas Franklin. recording
secretary: c. H. Evans. treasurer, and
n c. Sprague. B. E. Bair and c. Z.
Thorne. executive board. The orGani
zation has taken in 40 new members
in the last three months.
Appointments. separations and trans
fers in the government printing office
for week ending Wednesday are an
nounced as follows:
Appointments-Herb F. James. H.
notype operator. so cents per hour. re-
instated: George S. Davis, laborer. $626
per annum. reinstated; George Shuhard.
emergency skilled laborer % cents per
hour: Miss Minnie E. Howard, emergen-
cy pressfeeder, % cents per hour: Miss
Mabel Welsheirer. Drohational clerk. 5000
per annun; Michael 2. McDermott and
Thomas w. McHush. probational electro
type fiuishers. so cents per hour: Miss
Beatrice NJ Stern and Mrs. Rebecca 5.
Muse. probational skilled laborers ,fe-
malel, IS cents per hour: Edwin F. Price. |
Frederic &. f-ntlei .folln J. Cannon. Ar
thur l.. Haverty. George G.. McBerry.
Archie j. Rose. Philip A. Deakins, pro-
bational bookbiaders, 30 cents per hour:
Geo. c. Stearns jr.: +. w. Ennis. Alex
ar1Ger S. Oswald. Spencer F. Claypool
proha tional pressmen, 80 cents per hour;
Philip L. Sardo and c. William F. Dech-
termann. probationa1 compositors. so
cents per hour.
Separations-HerhertD D. Foster. unSiill-
ed laborer; Miss Celeste S Smith, ma
chine operator. resigned: Miss Anna Il.
Mix. pressfeeder resigned: Mrs. Matte
l.. Boswell. emergency pressfeeder: TIM
othy H. Tomlin. linotype operator, re-
signed: Israel NJ Millmeister. probat tional
pressman. resigned: Frank Turano, pro-
bational bookbinder resigned: Arthur j.
Thomas, temporary messenger boy. re-
signed: Margaret Frazier. Cora G. VIM
ters. Mary E. knorleine. skilled laborers
female). resigned: James Williams.
O'Donald T. Armstrong. Ulysses G.. Bell, |
nnskilled laborers, resigned: Frank \. |
Boyd. John f. Goetz. George +. Williams,
Elsie s. Hoffman. H. Irving Heard. Har-
T. Costello. H. Glenn Wolstenholne, Le-
Transfers. etc.-Walter A. Thornton.
John W. Meyer. James J. Reagan, John
W. Ahearn. emergency TO probational
bookbinders, so cents per hour: Lottie |
Jones. Irene Beverly. temporary to pro-
bational skilled laborers, ., cents per
hour: John L. Mattngly. skilled laborer. |
25 cents per hour. to caster helper, 35
cents per hour; John S. Greene. book
binder, so cents per hour to machine op-
orator. IS cents per hour: David T. Lloyd,
temporary to probational compositor. so