The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-11-08
SIGNAL SERVICE H.
SCHOOL FOR MEN
GOING TO From
Expert Training Offered Missouri
Slope Registrars by Bismarck
Institution .
ONLY At CANDIDATES TO
BE ACCEPTED FOR WORK
Ranks Rapidly Filling and Appi-
cants Urged to Make Arrange
ments, at Early Date

A school of instruction in telegra-
ply and telephone, conducted by ex-
norts for the benefit of men OF draft
age who desire to qualify for service
in the United States signal corps, Will
open in Bismarck on December l. Stu
dents will be accepted from any point
in the Bismarck division, comprising
Burleigh, Mclean, Sheridan, Emmonss,
Mcintosh, Logan, Morton, Mercer, On
yer. Sioux and Grant counties with
cut any fee of any kind. The course
will continue five months and is de-
signed to give the graduate thor
ough grasp of telegraph and tele-
phone operation and make him ellgl.
Bile for one of the most attractive ana
interesting branches of the army ser
yice-a branch which paws from 700
the month for private OF the nrst
class to SS1 the month for master sig
nal electrician.
The conduct Of these schools 's IN
charge of the North Dakota council
Of defense. The state has been dis
tricted, and a chairman placed at the
head of each district and OF each
county. C. l.. Young is chairman TOR
the Bismarck district, and he has
issued a call for Al men, the quota as
signed to this territory. These men
must be of draft age and meet the
physical requirements for regular
army service. The fact that they are
students at the signal service school
does not exempt them from respond
ing to the draft when they are call
ed. hut it does give them the priv
lege of applying for admission to the
signal corps when their time to re-
port comes.
Chairman Young has named as his
local executive committee r.. II. L.
Vesperman, manager of the Western
Union; w. A. Mcdonald, agent for
the Northern Pacific; l.. K. Thomp'
son, agent for the 500 line; A. w.
Mellen, chief dispatcher for the 500
lire: HI. Johnson and c. w. Pribber.
now, of the North Dakota Independent
Telephone Co., Judge w. l.. Nuessle;
George N. Remission, secretary OF the
Bismarck Commercial club; ]. Maur
ice Martin, superintendent OF Bis
narck schools; Cornelius F. Bolt,
principal of the Bismarck High
school, DR.. G. NJ. Langum of the Bis
marck Business college, and DR.. G. e.
Stackhouse, who will serve as medl
cal examiner.
County chairmen are Judge Sam
uel l.. Nuchols of Mandan for Nor
ton; C. Christensen of Fort Yates fol
Sioux; Col. l. N Steen of Carson fo1
Grant; w. T. Thurston of Center for
Oliver; ]. C. Schleppergrell of Hazen
for Mercer; T. M. Casey of Garrison
for Mclean; II. A. Armstrong OF Haz,
elton for Emmons; Franz Schubec OF
Ashley for Mcintosh and George M.
McKenna of Napoleon for Logan.
Candidates for admission to the
signal service school are urged to
consult their county chairmen at the
earliest possible moment. The en-
rollment is limited, and already a
large number of applications have
been received. Not only is the sig
nal service one of the most thrill
ing branches of the great war game,
and one of the best paid, but it offers
enlisted men an opportunity to be.
come masters of telegraphy and tele.
phony, in whose commercial fields
there always is an unsupplied demand
for truly capable men.
E. H. l.. Vesperman will be chair,
man of the school, whose instructors
will. include L. X. Thompson, w. A.
Mcdonald, A. w. Mellen and c. w
Pribbernow, all of whom have had
many years of successful experience
in dispatching and telegraph and tel
ephone work. These men serve with
out reward, having promptly rendered
the government their assistance when
the necessity for establishing train
ing school was announced.
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