Denver labor bulletin., 1917-03-17
Printing Trades
TYPoGRAPHICAL.

may be necessary 1Or the union TO
impose this duty upon President
Pferdestellar and Secretary Birdsall.
Those who aspire to delegateship hon.
ors want to travel farther away from
home than Colorado Springs. Besides,
each one of the 500 members expects
to be there for two or more days dur
ing the convention, so why be put out
of the running for a trip to a far
away city where the home folks can
not keep tab?
Ralph Coleman, son of Dave Cole
man, was married last week in Nyack-
on-the- Hudson, New York. Father
and son are both well known in Dem
yer. having made this their home sew
eral years ago. Dave IS now living
in Los Angeles.
Abe Plunkett and Harry Wander
Perel are now open for engagements
every Monday. This is pay day on
the Post, a fact that should be kept
well in mind. These two young chew
alters have been switched TO Thurs
day. nights and given Monday off, in
order to afford greater opportunity
for spending their money in hurry.
Secretary Frank C. Birdsall is wres-
ting with another perpleMng problem.
Also he threatens to become an ex-
ploiter. A few weeks ago he in
structed his land overseer to dig a
well on his ranch near Hudson, in
Weld county. After going down thir-
ty-seven and a half feet, some sort of
a liquid began to flow. This week a
small tank labeled water" was
shipped to Birdsall and he is endea-
voring TO have it analyzed by chem
| ist of recorded authority. Pending
such report. the secretary is building
air-casties, hoping that II will be pro-
nounced oil or a water containing pc
culiar curative properties. In either
event, he expects large returns. AL
ready the upset price on this piece of
land has been boosted from 81 500 to
$4,000 Soon as the war closes, Bird
sail will tour Europe.
Katherine Williamsor former well
known member of No. 80 and for the
past few years residing % New York,
is visiting her daughter IN Minneapo-
lis.
Bart Sweeney, now Of the Post
chapel. wears an Irish glow spread all
over his physiognomy. The occasion
for this was the visit uf Dr. Stork to
new girl baby.
Indications are that the amendment
re-establishing the priority law sub
u =
ion No. 1893 has carried by large ma
iority. Denver voted I76 TO 76 in
favor of the proposition. Other large
unions heard from so far give SINH
lar proportionate result A few of
the returns are: Spokane, Ill for, 3
against: Seattle. 1s9 10 5s; Chicago,
/ sos to 539: Cincinnati, 269 to 5S;
Syracuse, 1l5 to 7e.
Sherman c. Roe of the Kistler chap
el is in Mercy hospital, where he
underwent an operation this week for
a trouble that has been seriously
affecting his feet, He is reported 20
be doing nicely and will soon return
to work.
Harold Eighmy died Thursday at
St. Joseph's hospital. following an
operation performed two weeks pre-
vious. He recently vacated the Union
Printers Home to come here for the
operation. Eighmy was member OF
No 10. Funeral services will be held
Sunday afternoon.
A letter received this week from
Homer Dunn of the Mergenthaler hno-
type branch in Chicago gives some
interesting data concerning former
Denver printers now with that COM
pany. Ed. Bessette has been promoted
to city salesman for Chicago; Bob
Mclean is covering Wisconsin with
HEADQUARTERS in Milwaukee; Charles
Deacon is handling The Kansas City
business and covering the northern
part of Missouri.
Mrs. Charles Matthews stopped off
in Denver this week en- route to her
home in Salida from Omaha, where
her husband, a membgr of D. T. U. No
40, was buried last week. Mrs
Matthews and her ilughter will con-
tinue the confectionery business con-
Quoted by her late hu band in Salida.
Harris Harvey, popular young
married February to Miss Mary
McCue of Villa Park The ceremony
was performed at he home of the
groom's mother, 1858 Lincoln street
William ]. Chamb rlain. proprietor
of the Chamberlain Nrinting company
at 1882 Eighteenth street, died Mon
day night, following stroke of par
alysis few days before. He was
born in Cincinnati a 1868 and had
been resident of Nrnver for twenty
years. Deceased Wa secretary of the
employing printers cup Of the Den
yer Civic and Comm rcial association
Frank V. Taylor, cretary of Lead
vile Typographical nion and limo
typist on the Herald Democrat, spent
this week in Denver visiting relatives
and friends.
Harold Berbower. pprentice in the
Western Newspaper nion office chap
el, left this week f Chicago, where
he expects to make s home. Harold
is son of Robert Be hower, in charge
of The Bulletin ma ing department
and member of Mail rs Union No. S.
After conferences oxtending over n
period of ten week the newspaper
scale committee of Is Angeles Typo