Denver labor bulletin., 1917-06-16
Printing Trades
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

Beginning this week the per cent
assessment levied by D. T. U. No. 40
at the last meeting becomes opera
tive. 1t is to be collected weekly by
chapel chairmen, and should it be
found unnecessary to use this fund, it
will be returned to members paying
same, after the book and job and news
paper scales have been successfully
negotiated.
There came to The Bulletin office
this week letter from the most aris-
tocratic hobo woman printer in the
1. T. U. jurisdiction. Needless to say
it was from Katherine Williamson,
who wrote primarily to request that
her address on The Bulletin mailing
Los Angeles. This is a longer jump
than Kate generally makes all at once,
but as usual she landed in good shape
and is now reading proof in the Los
Angeles Examiner office. She request
ed that several back numbers of The
Bulletin be forwarded in order that she
might catch up with labor doings in
her old home town, being fairly en-
titled to these as she is paid-in-ad-
vance subscriber. Kate sends her best
wishes and kind regards to all her old
Denver friends.
]. E. Davis, field agent for the Bap-
tist Foreign Mission board, who covers
the field in Mexico, visited The Bulle-
tin office this week to see our model
10 linotype in operation, being accom-
panied by NJ. H. Ropkey, sales agent
for the Mergenthaler company. Mr..
| Davis expects to install a machine
either in Ell Paso or Mexico City, to
be used in the publication of a sixteen
page weekly paper issued by the Mis-
sion Board for circulation in Mexico.
/ CnTna of thaSn dave Tho P,,11afip
fishers are going to send bill for
whole lot of money to the Mergen-
thaler company as commissions on
machines sold since the model 10 was
installed in this office. 1t is doing
such excellent and satisfactory work
that publishers in the market for a
machine come here to see demonstra-
tions by our expert linotypist, E. A.
Petsch.
C. B. Sprenger, who has been absent
from Denver for about four years do
ing service in Pacific coast towns,
working occasionally when not fighting
fieas. returned to Denver this week and
has his work slip up on the Post.
Mrs. Leo Cuthbertson, wife of the
vice president of No. 40, underwent a
surgical operation in a local hospital
this week. Latest reports are that she
is doing nicely.
Now comes William A. Collins, 9TH
erwise known as "Bill", copy chopper
on the Post, who AYERS and declares
that he has the best war garden" in
Denver. Feeling just a bit jealous
over the achievements of Billy Nelson,
whose rural farm work was told of in
last weeks issue of The Bulletin,
Collins has asked to be recorded as
having planted 500 feet of corn, 100
feet of beans, so feet of tomatoes, 27s
yards of peas and three rods of pota-
toes, measured longitudinally of
course. Those who have visited Col
Inns garden on the south side say that
it promises well, providing Bill doesn't
acquire the "Chat1ie-horse" before lay
ing-by time arrives.
Here's another bunch of Denver
printers who are going to get rich
quick. They have formed the Arap-
ahoe Petroleum company with capi-
tai stock of $4,000, or 10000 shares
on forty acres of oil land near Chelsea,
Oklahoma, where well is soon to be
sunk. Officers Of the company are the
.. following well known opulent members
of No. 40: w. H. Neighbor, presi-
dent; John E. Collett, vice president;
James A. Connor, secretary, and A.
L. Goodale, treasurer.
James E. Gustafson of Boulder
Typographical Union was one-day
visitor in Denver this week.
o. Allan Saunders, son of d. p.
Saunders of the Brush Republican,
was in Denver few days ago on his
way to enter West Point military
academy. Young Saunders has just
graduated from Colorado college, and
"Red" is naturally very proud of his
offspring. "Red" gave Sixteenth street
attractions the once over before going
home.
w. C. Schuman of the ad room, and
Frank Scoggins of the Times chapel,
and Fred johnson of the Express, went
fishing on the North Platte last Sun
day, making the trip in an automobile.
They report fair catch of trout.
Sam De Long of the Times chapel
reports poor success on his fishing ex-
pedition up Platte canon last Sunday.
Gene Jordan of the News served as
a volunteer registrar on selective con-
scription day. He is now the proud
possessor of an honor button presented
by the United States government.
President F. L. Pferdesteller is busy
as a buZZing bee these warm evenings
enticing vegetables to grow in a vacant
plot of ground adjacent to his resi-
dence. Perseverance, patience, pull
and push promise to put this program
over to reduce the II. c. l..
Ed. Burke, one of the Times chapel
patriots and lover of Erin's green sod,
has subscribed for three $50 Liberty
Loan bonds, one each for himself, wife
and daughter. No "Hoch the Kaiser"
for Eddie.
The International Typographical
! Union by its eyecutiye officers has