Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-12-13
OUR BUSINESS COLLEGE.
A Worthy Institution That is rleeting
With Success.

From the Stevens Point Journal-June 16. 1894.
One OF the most worthy institutions
III this city is the Stevens Point Business
College, and we are sure every reader
of the JOURNAL will be pleased to hear
that it is meeting with the success it so
richly deserves. This school was
started in July, 1891, and since January
|, 1892, has been owned and managed
by Prof. w. +. Allen-a gentleman Who
not only commands the respects of all
who place themselves under his tutorape
but of all with whom he comes in
contact. The school is open to either
sex and the branches taught inclnde all
the essentials in the practical affairs of
business life. The Commercial Course
includes sue important branches as
double and single entry Bookkeeping.
practical, penmanship, practical gram
mar and correspondence, commercial
arithmetic and commercial law, the
latter of which embraces business forms
and documents. The shorthand course
includes shorthand and type-writipg.
Special branches are also taught for the
benefit of teachers in the common
schools who may desire instruction
during vacations and for those whose
early education has been neglected and
require instruction before commencing
the commercial or shorthand course,
Great pains is taken in penmanship,
and the progress some of the students
have made is remarkable. The school
is supplied with all the necessary
furniture, reference library, maps,
type-writers, etc. Pupils are admitted
at any time and each is given individual
instruction. This plan works admirably,
each pupil being advanced according to
his or her ability, and none are kept
back waiting for others, as is frequently
the case under the class system. Prof.
Allen does not guarantee positions to
those who graduate from the Stevens
Point Business College. The manager
of no school can honestly do that, but
the success his graduates have met with
IN securing positions and the satisfaction
they are giving their employees, is not
only highly complimentary to the
school, but shows the demand there is
have thoroughly fitted themselves in
school is open daily, Saturdays and
Sundays excepted, and also in the
evening from to 8 o'clock. In this
connection we desire to call the
especial attention of the young men of
Stevens Point to the evening sessions
There are large number of this class
who are obliged to work during the
day time, but who could spend their
evenings most proftably at this school,
a large number of our young men have
already taken advantage of this oppor-
tunity, bus there are many others who
should do SO. To many young men it is
the chance of lifetime, the only
opportunity they will ever have to i'm
prove their pcnmanship and acquire
knowledge of business affairs, and if
they miss it in their youth it will be
gone forever. Many students have
been graduated from this school who
are now holding desirable positions,
but we have space only to note the
following: E. w. Langenberg, who is
engaged in the retail business in this
city. Walter Griffin; who holds IL
lucrative position for the Wisconsin
Central railroad company in Minneapo-
lis, Mimi, A. J. Kuiawa of the First
National Bank of this CITY, Edwin
Neuman, book-keeper for w. Z. Langen-
berg. George Starks, proprietor of a
general merchandise store at Amherst
junction, Wis. Among those who took
up the shorthand course we note the
following: Thomas Griffin, stenographer
in Pfitfner d Rounds Lumber office.
Miss Virginia Vaughan, stenographer
for the Lake Shore Lumber Co.,
Tonlahawk Lake, Wis. Miss Caroline
kuntz, stenographer in the law office
of H. Wipperman, Grand Rapids, Wis.
Arthur Morrison, stenographer for the
John r. Davis Lumber Co., Phillips,
Wis. Miss Name Bischotf, who is
employed in Thos. Hyde's insurance
office in this city. Many others might
also be named