The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1918, Page 7

FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1918. WOMAN “WAAGS” ~ LEARN RAPIDLY Muster Telegraph Codes and Prove Efficient, Operators, WORK EAR BATT FRONT —- Handle Messages for the Ordnance De- partment and Acquire New Vocabu- lary In Order to Do it—Make Few Mistakes in Handling Stores Which Comprise Something Like 23,000 Sep- arate Items. ae Neat The following, on the work Of Brit- ish women at the front, appeared in a recent issue of the London Daily.Teley graph from a correspondent “at the base in France :” Now every’signaller was'a very fme ; Waac, _ And a very fine Waac was she—e— "Happy, happy shall we be. ‘There's none so fair as can compare : With the W. A.A. C. | Where ts a considerable amount of, musical talent and an abounding sense of‘fun among’ the girls who are cheer-.|: fully fulfilling the tasks: they have taken up. This you judge whenever you attend one of their parties. The ines quoted are from some patter verses, on the plan-of “Old King Cole,” 1n which unit administrators, area con- troHers and captains of army signallers of. particular corps came in. for good- humored banter by name. The whole corps always speaks of its members as “Waacs,” and upiess a ‘standard: dic- tionary of the future gravely admits the: word and its: origin ‘to its columns there will be trouble for the’ students yet'to be of the war. : Signalers, it may. be said, are an important section of this new arm, and they are especially proud that they are allowed to wear the:blue and white armlet that, under the king's regulations, is distinctive of the:telegraphic. service, At one base, through which messages of'supreme importance are constantly passing, the women are pronounced to be:doing excellent work. All have had the full training of the. post office and are experts with the Wheatstone auto- matic system. But somé” specialized training hgs been nec rary, for cer- tain codesijhave been ac opted and ab- solute accufacy is essential when single letters or figures are invested with welghty ‘signtficance-and the smallest error mightishepeitthe gravest: results. Very. efficient, too, is the telephone service, employing, as at home, a num- ber of highly trained. young women. Scotland, it isay be said, has furnished a large proportion of the girls carrying. out these responsibilities. A New Vocabulary. © ‘This question of codes.and letters’ and figures constitutes a bigger diffi- culty than the outsider would imagine, When a staff officer escorted our party through @ great depot of the ordnance departmgpt it was quickly realized that thea women have to acquire what ts literaffy a new vocabulary to them. Now, no shop in the world contains the variety of items and parts and sections that this arm of the ‘service brings to- gether and issues. Its very magnitude In the earlier days, even, of the war led to the. adoption of a code of letters and figures. to. denote its division, at least, where thousands of requisitions ~ pour in daily. Thanks to this method It became possible to utilize the help of French women long before the possi- bility of securing feminine assistance from home loomed ‘into view. The in- telligent French girl might not possess 8 rudimentary acquaintance with our language, but she could ‘understand that all requisitions bearing 9 certain letter and figure were to be brought to- gether in the rack provided, and. thus ‘a first stage of sorting could be ef- fected. be ‘ x By special favor'a‘ glimpse was ao corded of the stupendous :labor by which the guns are kept at their tire- less work. If there isa subject on which the average girl clerk is less like- ly to be infornied than. upon another it is surely that’ which touches the technicalities and -working parts of modern artillery. Yet here are women whi, n'a very few weeks, hive learned: enough to know in which direction ‘to send “forward: requisitions concerning J ‘guns, or ‘trench. mortars, or’ the mightiest howitzers. It was not always thus, uod mistakes even now are made that recall ‘the favorite story here of; the young lady. who, when. a’ démand cathe down for.atmored:-hoxe, gayly:re- ferred it to.the authorities charged with the issue of clothing. But even in‘‘a departmemtt which stores some thing like 23,000 separate items” the mistakes have now come to be few and far between: bd ae Varieties of Work. " Eess-exacting at the outset is the work upon which they are entering at the clothing. stores, where it is esti mated that four women will take the place of-every three men. formerly en- gaged there. It is a department of fabulous figures ; indeed, the bare men- tion in tons of the first supplies of winter equioment brought over is al most staggering: Greatcoats, water proofs, wari underwear, boots and ac cessories fill stacks that would seem inexhaustible. Even buttons and the ribbons that belong to the more gen- erally bestowed medals make up.a suf: ficiently impressive total, while there are armlets, indicative of specialized \Wetk—the white, green and red of the Shop in The Tribune Before You Shop in the Store. POPOCPCOO SOPOT ODIO EDEL OOOEOOOOODOOS- ' ° oO SAN, MR. MURDOCK | RAVE A Lite COMPLAINT TO SEE Tose Tracks! Now.1"i. show Nou, (WHAT HE DID To offensive gas service is one of them— that call for a whole series of wide shelves to contain them, Kitchen equipment, every sort of brush that enters Into domestic use, enamel ware and hardware, electrical ‘plant, lamps, stoves, baskets, heavy crockery, ate but a few of the things here ranged which it is intended to place in women’s charge. easy a matter.to issue them, for there Is a regulation system of catalogue en- try, and the exact meanings of vouch- ers referring to, say, “sponge—bath,” or “bath—sponge,” are not always ob- vious until the peculiarities of defini- tion have been mastered. Again, the women were to ba seen in an enormous depot concerned with the repair of all sorts of motor vehi- cles, alts floor-space suggests atres as the ‘unit of measurement, and in hap- pler’ times it: was a vast jute factory. Every known pattern of motor engine is’used by the army, and it follows, therefore, that the spare parts and the details employed involve a classifying and a sorting out .of extraordinary complexity.. But the system has been well devised and the mechantc engaged on a London General Omnibus com- pany’s chassis will not find his work hindered by being given the various items as used in the Wolseley make, Only a Beginning. It is not desirable at this juncture to quote the figures that would indicate the extent to which women have re- placed men, releasing them to go to the actual front. What may be said, however, is that this:advance guard of “Waacs” is but a small company be- side those for whom provision is being made in the near future. Repeatedly were camps shown that are coming to completion in which there will be ac- commodation for 350 to 500. women, and occupied at present. by a- bare tenth of those numbers. There {s ene, amid men's base camps, where cooks and waitresses ace most urgently wanted. STRANGE CRAFT DEAD WHALE An Adventurous Fisherman Secured a Prize. Farmers along the bay shore near Broadkiln Beach, near Milton, Del., were prepared to protect their homes with their lives when a long, low, mys 'téerious’ craft made its appearance up the bay. ~ In the early morning light it could be plainly seen coming in to- ward the shore above Cedar Beach. Then it stopped, and finally Charlie Reed, an adventuresome fisherman, started out’ to it and found it to be a dedd’ whale, a prize of the first mag- nitude. It. stranded-near.the Frank Waples farm at Slaughter Neck, and was viewed by hundreds, who came from all parts of Lower Delaware in auto- mobiles and: wagons.td see it. In-the morning Reed, with a small launch, landed it at the Lewes fisheries and will have it made into oil. /It is estimated tHat at the present hundred dollars from it. The whale was 57 feet long,.and. is supposed have-been shot in mid-ocean. we Meet After Many: Years. T. R. Trotter,:city clerk of Pomona, Cal., and his sister, Mrs. F. L. Jess- cott of Philadelphia, met recently’ af- ter 42 years’ separation. Trotter left his sister in Cork, Ireland, to become a sailor and within a few years lost track of her. He has been city clerk in, Pomona for twenty years. A month ago Mrs. Jesscott picked. up a Los Angeles newspaper and read a story containing the name of Her brother. Sbe {mmediately ‘communicated with re i Optimistic Thought. Remembrance is the only. para out of which we cannot be driven, GS OF THE DUFRS WAAT 1S. Me. DUFF?! It swill not ‘be, perhaps, :as; price of oil Reed will realize several ! GINSENG MARKET IN CHINA Depression in Business Reported Past Year, Sale of the Root Being Much Below Normal. The market for ginseng in. Hong- kong and the China field generally jas depressed, and dealers look’ for lit- ‘#fle revival in the trade until well to- ward Chinese New Year. Usually there is 9 quickening in the trade as cool weather comes on, but so far the past. year, and In spite of the high ex- change value of silver which ought to stimulate the trade, the sale of the root has been jmuch below normal, says. Consul General George \y An- derson, Hongkong. Arrivals have been below-;normal and the demand has not kept pace with the supply. An auc- tion of a lot of American root on con- signment recently brought fair prices. Two days later a similar lot of as good than half the price brought by the first lot, and private sales made later were on a‘still lower level. Uncertain po- litical eonditions in the interior of China: are given as the chief reason for the -present slump in demand, but uncertain financial conditions due to the export of silver and copper coin: age from the provinces as well as the existence of piracy and other disorders in some districts have also had ma- terial influence. Seles have been Irregular and the market may improve at any time. The root on hand of course will get the benefit of the improvement, while that held in the United States will probably arrive too late to secure full returns. The ginseng business and all similar lines of trade in China are in an un- certain state and little reliance can be placed upon thé cojtinuance of any: conditions. } EVERETT: TRUE HE' HERE'S AN INJURED MAN r™ Do: YOU KNOW WHO HE Us MISTER 2” Per A\s Ne ig TO ME t Uke AN ' AMERICAN! if not better root sold for little more’ THAT Bic WHITE RoosTeR OF NovRS |] MUST HAVE: BEEN O IN. MY GARDEN AND Put ITON THE B NOW Just Look LAN oS tebeiey Masts * + mod ia th OW, Nov Mus¥ BE MISTAKEN, MR. DUFF “THAT WASN*r MY ROOSTER! NOTICE TO‘THE PUBLIC, Owing to the high cost of.all sup- plies and repairs used in connection with the auto livery; business and the cash paymént for: same now bding de- manded by’ the dealers from~whom). such supplies are purchased, we, the undersigned“firms engaged. in the auto livery business {in the city of Bis- marck, are compelled to placeour inesses upon a strctly cash basis: Notice is. therefore given thatjor and after June’ :1,,1913, all. services rendered ‘by the. undersigned’ wi required to be paid ‘tor at ‘the: such seryices are porformed. Regretting the necessity for, this change atid thanking the pai for their patinage in the pd main, Les HA E90 S. FP. LAMBERT, Lo. SMITA. 5—16 to 31. A OG NOTICE. Notice is’Hereby given that ‘orders have bee nissted to immediately im- pound and=@ispatch all dogs found at large in the,city of Bismarck on,and after May 1 without the proper li- cense tag. Tags may be procured from City apesestor Morris, City Aud- itor Cecil I’. Burton, Custodian Cleve- land or Police Magistrate Bleckreid, at the city hall. Signed: C. MARTINESON, A Chief of Police. 5 18 tt ime Two cases of infantile paralysis have. been reported. to this: office. Therefore, to assist in controlling the situation, it is recomménded that in the presence of any unusual signs of illness among children parents should at once consult their family physi- cian. ‘4 DR. F, B. STRAUSS, City Health Officer. ° 5-18 bo 28. Tribune Want Ads Bring Results. By Conde OES ns a NO, & DON'T KNOW WHO H' ts, BUT, I THINK HE'S A GERMAN UR A TURKS MAYGE So, BuT He DION'T TALK LUKE one} BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE - FE. YOUNG REAL ESTATE CO. Why don't you start getting that home now? You have always felt that you wanted a home, so has your wife; but. you thought. you never haa enough money. We can give you your chofce of hundreds of splendid lots in almost any part of the city on tho most ‘reasonable of terms. We either own or control these lots and you are perfectly safe as you. are dealing with people who have never foreclosed a contract, Office open every evening. Fire insurance in reliable. companies, __F. E. YOUNG REAL ESTATE CO. ; 3 Telephone No. 78R Office: In First. National BankBidg. h J. H. HOLIHAN Real Estate Bargains FOR SALE—Hight lots on 8th’ street. $950. $300 cash. Best buy in the city. ew bungalow. ¥OR SALE—Modern house. clo. in. "Fake automubile as part pavivent J. H. HOLIBAN “cucas Block. + .¢ + + Phone 745 SSS » HELP WANTED—MALE WANT len on state high road work. Good wages, steady _Work, Pat Kelly, Dickinson, N. D. Wi BOY t Hoskin: WANT. Man ai it cash” and bookkeeper at on same experience. ed. Should have German preferr: First National Bank,” Taylor, Phe: We: WANTED— Young 5-22-iwk. A —A good reliable man want- ed: for general store. Must have first class references. Will pay good wages to a good man. Send references in first letter. B. 1. iSmestad, Selfridge, N. D._5-18-21-24. men or married jcouples for work as attendants at } state hospital for insane. Wages from $30 to $40 a month with board, ‘oom and laundry: Address W. M. Hotchkiss, Jamestown, N. D. 5.15 1.wk HELP WAN’ TED—FEMALE WANTED—waltress at once. Apply Homan’s Cafe and Restaurant. Bis- marck, N. D. 5 23 2t WANTED AT ONCE—Housekeeper on farm. "No objections to one child. Call or write next week. W. H. Stark, Goodrich, 'N._! 5-23-3 WANTED — Experienced competent stenographer and bookkeeper to take charge of office at, Miles City, Mon’. Apply Lahr Motor Sales Co., Bis- marck, N. D. At. WANTED—Blderly lady to care for baby either in her home or mine. Mother employed. Address Mrs. H. Wilkins, Pioneer Bldg., ‘Mandan, N. Dak. 5 21 3t WANTED—Girl for general house- work. Apply 16 Avenue A west or Phone 169R. 5 16 tf WANTED—Three bright capable wo- men to travel. $25.00 to $50.00 per week. Weekly advance for: travel- ing. expenses: Goodrich Drug €o., Dept. 631, Omaha, Nebr. 5-5-12-19-26. WANTED—Girl to help-with house- work and care for child. Phone 4591. 5-16-1wk, 459 WANTHD—cirl or woman for gen- eral housework. Phone nee if ——SSSSSSSSS HOUSES WANTED Al ‘0 rent small, modern house. Phone 264. 3-13-tf ee ee SSS LOST AND FOUND FOUND—A gold pin at Orpheum The- ater. Apply at Orpheum Theater. 5 23 3 OST—Two notes made out from First National Bank, Belfield, Find- er please return to Tribune office. 5-18-tf. =r WORK WANTED __ RESPONSIBLE girl, business college student, wishes to work in exchange for board and room, Phone ee WORK WANTED—By day or hour, by colored girl."Phone_754X. 5-20-2t. Gint_ WANTS PLACE TO WORK FOR ‘BOARD—Telephone_ 188 mo. oor NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION. (Special District—Annual Election.) - ‘Notice is hereby given, that on on the first Tuesday in June, being June 4, A. D. 1918, an annual eledtion will be held at Will School in the special school district of No. 1, county of Burleigh, state of North Dakota, for the purpose of electing the following members of the board of education: One member to serve for a term of three years, for the city of Bismarck. The polls will be opened at 9 o'clock a. m., and cjosed at 4 o'clock p. m. of that’day. Dated at Bismarck, this 20th day of May, A.:D- 1918. 4 - By order of:the board of education. RICHARD PENWARDE! lerk. B21 22 23 24 27 28 29.30; 6-12.34 eda C. WILLIAMS & CO. Real Estate Snaps FOR SALE OR TRADE—One good section of land six miles: southwest of Shields in Grant county, N. D This section is 75 per cent tillable and will trade for city income. Have several houses foi sule, trade giteat Will take good ex\ tm on che C. WILLIAMS & CO. Office Blemarck Bank Bidg. Tel, No. 497, ° Blemarck, N. D. FOR, SALE—Choice 160 acres, rich soil; lies well; $18 an acre. EXTRA FINE 640 acres with running water; 90 per cent good plow land, Great bargain. Price too low to ad- _Vvertise. 4 LARGE LIST of lots and houses for sale in all parts of Bismarck, HARVEY HARRIS & CO. J. P. Jackson, Manager POSITIONS WANTED FOR SALE OR RENT— HOUSES AND FLATS R. RENT—Four room. house. 413 13th street. City water. “Nice gar- den. * Phone 590K. 5 23 1 wk ‘\T—House of 3 rooms, water and lights. Rent $10. Inquire at 307 So. Seventh street. 5 23 3t rOnm KUNT—By June 1, @ five room cottage partly modern and ‘recently repovated. Apply’ 1,200 Broadway. 5.22 tt VOR RENT—Six rooms and bath in duplex all modern. , 907 Sixth street. See Western Sales,Co.v Owners. 5 tt FOR RENT—42 Thayer St. has six six rooms with bath in first class condition, Apply to A. Van Horn. FOR RENT—Three room flat in mod- ern house. Harvey Harris & Co. 5.10 tt "UR KNT—7-room modern house. Inquire Harvey Harris & Co. 4 22 tt FOR RDNT—Five room house; close in; corner lot; $19.00. F. E. Young Real Estate Co. 5-3-tf WOR RENT—Five room house partly modern. 400 Eleventh St. Phone Tak, 4-24-tf FOR NENT—Seven room house, all modern. Hot water heating. 710 Ave D. 42 tt MISCELLANEOUS Flour City tractor, 1,250. Also 1916 5- ser Oldsmobile, Al condition ps $700 cash Ruble, Dr ' bankable paper. coll, N. D. FOR SALE—Practically new Maj range. Call at 313 4th St, 627X. 4 J. Ryan, 510 % 4th St. Bismarck, N. D, Phone 659K. 5-23-tf. ROOMS FOR RI FOR RENT—Newly__fui droom very reasonable. Phone 419 or call at_113 Thayer. 523 3t ¥OR RENT—Three rooms tor light- housekeeping. Good garden spot. Also some furniture if wished. Cheap to the righ party. Call at 1014 Broadway or Phone 6341. 5 20 24 pacpereneeaces Sel ie memetereneb we. FOR RENT-—A nice large all modern front room at 419 7th street. Phone 485R. 5.16 tt OK RENT—Furnished front room, in modern house. 820 5th St. 5-16-1wk. ~FOR RENT—Rooms in-strictly mod- light housekeeping or otherwise as desired, Also cottage of five rooms and bath with garage; close in. Phone 404K or call 801 4th St. or inguire of Geo. W. Little, Second hand store. 5-13-tf. FOR RENT—Nice large furnished room in a new modern house one block from P. O. 213 Second or Phone 634X. 5 30.1 wk FOR RENT—Rooms in strictly mod- ern house. Good location. Close in Phone 592X Slltt FOR RENT—Rooms over the First Guaranty Bank, Inquire of E, V. , Lahr, First Guaranty Bank. ¢ 55 tt FOR RENT—Modern housekeeping rooms, furnished - or unfurnished. Phone 773. 51 th FOR RED Furnished and unfur- nished rooms. Business College. Phone 183. 430 1 mo EXPURIENCED STHPNOGRAPHER pie ar ISANING AND REPAIRING and bookkeeper wishes position.| * sa itar: a ssi and * Exempt from draft. Phone 621L. fibhe set : oD. Wetel ration. shop. 5 18 1 wk Phone 492. Jos. Smola. 31 wk FOR SALE CHEAP—One gray reed baby carriage, sanitary couch, new s, library table, mahogany e, dresser, gas stove, gas ” autoniatic direless cooker, enamel- G. 'W. Cochrane, 602 2nd.__5-23-1w. FOR SALE—Rear springs rear wheels, mud chains ,back rods, various parts for Ford car. All in good condition. Phone 645R. J. ‘H. Reamer, 110 Mair street. 5 22 tt CADIES AND MBN'S ‘HATS cleaned and’ rebldcked, expért work send by mail. ' Eagle Hat’ Cleaning Works, io) 313 Broadway. Phone 58. Bismarak Dy 2a: _ NLD. 5.22 1 mo FOR SALE—Dry stove wood for-sale. RC. Forsythe. Phone 818. 5-22-lwk. SEED CORN FOR SALE: rth Da- kota grown white dent, Western Sales Co., Bismarck, 'N. . D. 5 22 tf NORTHERN PRODUCE CO. of Bis- marck, N. D., wants your. cream and pay highest . market ,price always. Write for tags. 5 17-tf FE SALE—Two, bran new poo tables, wall case, cigar case, Terms: Part cash and ‘balance monthly pay- ments, Write No. 514 Tribune. ‘5-20 tt FOR. SALE—160 acres unimproyed Mand near Driscoll. $10.00 pet ales for cash, Ove Peterson, 6561 Gen Sty, So,, Seattle, Wash. ! isi ‘Ashes hauled and, gardens plowed, Phone 534Y. 5 21 mo, FOR SALE—Sanitary Bakery, and Cafe. Will join army. Write Sani- tary Bakery and Cafe; Bismarck, .N. Dak. 429 te FOR RENT—Two nice modern house- keeping rooms. Call 454X or 514 Hannatin, 3 26 tt FOR RENT—Close in furnished rooms. Also rooms for light housekeeping. 411 5th street. Phone 273. 3 29 tt FOR RENT—Mcdern furnished rooms, 827 6th st. 3-16 tf BIDS WANTED. Sealed bids will be received by the board of county commissioners of Burleigh county, ‘North Dakota up to 2 o'clock on June 11.°1918, for the re- laying of the side walk and putting in a retaining wall. around the court house block in accordance with plans and specifications of the county sur- veyor. All bids must be sealed ana addressed to the county auditor at Bismarck, and each bid must\be ac- companied by a certified check for 5 per cent of the amount bid. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids by order of the board of county commissioners. T. E. FLAHERTY, County Auditor. 5—17, 24 31. FOR RENT—Storage or repair room. ° Phone 299K. 419 tt FOR SALE—Brand new Studebaker at a very reasonable price. See R. M. Halladay. Phone 139. _ 4 6 tt FOR SALE CHEAP—1917 Studebaker six, 7-passenger. Run ebdout. 4,000 miles. For quick sale $875,,Phone 141. 3 22 tt NOTICE TAXI-CAB DRIVERS Taxicab licenses for the -enguing year are now due’ and must ‘be pro- cured without delay to avoid prose- cution and the infliction of heavy pen- alties prescribed by city ordinances. The city ordinance provide that everyone in Bismarck driving a cab or car or other vehicles for hire must be licensed and that a registration license tag shall be prominéntly dis- played ‘upon such vehicle. On and after this date the driver of any ve- hicle of ‘any description subject to hire which does not display a city license tag for the current fiscal year will be subject to arrest. C. MARTINESON, Chief’ of Police 5-18 to 28. ? i LAWYER Tribune Block - Bismarck, N. D. Phone 752 ToT gs. Ay ) As e AN 4