The Harvester World: Volume 9, number 5, May 1918

              Twine Tattle from McCormick

By  S,.W.   DOBERER

AL. OWEN, superintendent of the McCormick • twine mills, is following along the lines of educat¬ ing the foreign born, as originally suggested by the State Council of Defense, and which has now been taken up by the public school system.
The school was started several months ago, and is being conducted by Miss Frances K. Wetmore, under the supervision of Wm. M. Roberts, assistant superin¬ tendent of schools. The classes are held on Mondays and Wednesdays during noon hour, aud have an average attendance of about thirty. The scholars appear to appreciate the efforts to help them, and much interest is shown.
This is only one of the many McCormick twine mill constructive ideas, which include the furnishing of working shoes at a much lower price than they could be purchased elsewhere. These shoes are for both males and females, and are made for comfort  and safety.
The girls in the mill are being equipped with regula¬ tion factory bloomers. The idea was promulgated about three weeks ago, and a few trial pairs purchased. The new mode was readily accepted, and the entire force of girls will be equipped in the near future.
Milwaukee Works

From the New Magazine of the Harvester Works Club
FORMER club members of the sheet metal depart¬ ment are making arrangements now for a real dupli¬ cate to the picnic parties they had last summer. The committee — A. Baeuinle, Peter Schmidt, and Otto Foerster — will look for a suitable place.
Our membership committee is certainly on the job. At the last regular meeting we initiated 189 new appli¬ cants and we near some of tlie club members are work¬
ing very hard to help the committee increase our mem¬ bership to the highest possible point.    Good work.
A donation from each employe desiring to contribute is given once every month, or every pay day, to the foreman, and these funds are used to provide a box of smokes for every soldier from Milwaukee works.
Milwaukee works, where the famous Titan tractor is made, is famous too for good workmen with long years of active and faithful service to their record. Good ma¬ chines, you will find, must be preceeded by good men. Take Moritz Kaebisch. He has been an employe at Mil¬ waukee works for 17 years. "He takes care of our kin¬ dling wood deliveries," writes Roman F. Weber, and has other duties. He is a faithful employe who always performs his work in a very satisfactory manner."
At the Milwaukee Harvester Works Club

AT. VAN SCOY,   head  of  the  collection department at Milwaukee, who was recently elected president of the Milwaukee Association of Commerce, being an honorary member of the Harvester works club, was presented with a gavel,  appropriately  engraved.
Mrs, W. H. Beck Entertains

ON MONDAY evening, March Uth, 1918, Mrs. W. H. Beck entertained the ladies of the Osborne works office in honor of her husband, W. H. Beck, the retiring superintendent.
Another evidence of the strength and greatness of the Titan 10-20 is turnished by our correspondent at Milwaukee works, Mr. Weber. Art Thiemann, Carl Anderson, Joe Heder; Robert Zeiger, August Nolte, John Pasbrig, and Wm. Kuether,. the Titan 10-20 Bowling Team at Milwaukee, have bowled 63 games and won 40, a percentage of (>Z%; average"847.I4; and won $50 in prizes.