Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1917 — A SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY [ARTICLE]

A SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY

WUI Be Established Here for Registered Men. Through the educational section of the State Council of Defense, the Rensselaer board of education has taken steps to organize a night school of telegraphy, open to all registered men in the county, the work to be given free of charge. Indiana has bee® asked to furnish 9©o telegraphers for the army and so far about 5M have enrolled in classes for receiving this instruction. Miss Spaulding, the local Western Union operator, has offered to teach this class and any registered man in the county who is interested in the signal corps of the army nnay take this opportunity of qualifying for that work. Classes will meet two or three evenings a week for two hours. As s<>pn as twenty have enrolled the war dejnartment will loan the telegraph instruments necessary for this work.

When a person is able to receive twenty words a minute he can qualify for the signal corps work. Here is an opportunity for service that should not be overlooked, and it is hoped that at least twenty will be interested. Monticello has recently opened a similar school and they have a good class started. Why can not Rensselaer do the same? It is planned to give the work in one of the school buildings, the first meeting being Monday evening, December 17, at 7:30, in room No. 3 of the high school building. All persons interested please apply to Miss Spaulding at tho Western Union office, or Superintendent C. R. Dean of the high school.