She lathers and slathers on the paint with a kind of unrestrained glee. The strike didn't idle many workers, just 60 lathers and plasterers' assistants. Grande illustrates a steamy love affair and lathers on flirtation. Lathers was an entrepreneur, school teacher, handyman and landlord. Georgine was elected president of the Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers in 1970. His parents were William Lathers and Sarah Elizabeth (Swift) Lathers. Lathers wrote his own editorials and social notes. Lathers grew up and spent his childhood in and around the Dearborn area. Lathers graduated from Dearborn High School in 1905 at age sixteen. Lathers handset the type himself for each of the newspapers he printed. Lathers held over one thousand books in his personal library at his home. Lathers was born 12 January 1889 near Detroit, Michigan, in Nankin Township. "Time" ranked Lathers as one of six outstanding weekly newspaper editors. Lathers was a member and the secretary for several years of the Mears Civic Association. Lathers founded "The Mears News" in 1914 at the age of twenty-five.