Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-07-27
IN CUMBERLAND
The Mountain State Business College
will Establish Another School.
The Faculty and Quarters Of This School
are Becoming 0vertaxed.
The Cumberland School will be More
Convenient for Students
From Eastern West Virginia, Maryland
and Pennsylvania.

anu iFahsNe
The Mountain State Business COL
leee. one of West Virginias' fore
most educational insti tutions, IL
keeping right in line with things
progressive, as is evidenced by their
establishing another school in Gum
berland, Nd. The enrolment Of the
Mountain State Business College has
reached such number as TO make
this new institution absolutely neces-
sary to accommodate the many from
different pats of West Virginia and
adjoining states who are seek ng adj
mission. During the past year over
three hundred and fifty students have
received instruction from the Presl-
dent, Mr.. w. A. Sine, and his corp
Of assistants. The Cumberland
branch will be an advantage to the
many students who make their resi-
dence in the eastern part of West Vir-
ginia and Southern Pennsylvania, as
we'll as those who live in Maryland
and Virginia. The Mountain State
Business is not local affair by any
means in fact there are students en-
rolled from as far west as North Da-
kota and Iowa and as far east as the
coast states.
This institution was established in
1888 Their first quarters were on the
second floor over w. L. Boorman'
drug store with additional room in
the Rose Block on Market street.
The growth OF the school right from
the start has been really remarkable.
In very short time their first quar-
ters were outgrown and new quarters
secured in the Smith Building, which
they now occupy. Several thousand
feet of floor space is necessary to ac
commodate the different depart
ments of learning and the indications
are now that more room will be de-
manded possibly in some other build
ing now under course of construction
Bookkeeping, Stenography, Type
writing. Pennmanship. Banking and
General Business instruction consti-
tute the different departments.
Those who are acquainted with the
principals of instruction in this
school attribute the success of the
school and its many students to the
very practical mode of instruction
that is administered.
! For instance. the banking depart
ment is fitted up with all necessary
/ banking furniture and fixtures. The
/ business of the department is con-
Quoted by a regularly appointed
cashier, receiving and paying teller,
! bookkeeper and other necessary as
sistants, all of whom are regular stu
dents OF the school. Each and every
| tudent in turn becomes an officer in
the bank AS he or she advances i'll the
work of learning. The rules of the
Mountain State bank are just as
stringent and binding as they are i'll
any National Bank DONG business on
real financial basis. None of the
students are advanced until they have
thoroughly acquainted themselves
with the detail working of the depart
ment they have just finished.
In the Bookkeeping department the
work OF obstruction is conducted IN
vp> Aatn the same practical way.
a regular set of books is opened
and certain amount of business
conducted just as is the case in any
mercantile firm doing business upon
methodical business principals In
the Shorthand and Typewriting de-
partments particular attention is Civ
en-; to actual dictation and TRANSCRIPT
ing of notes on the typewritres. The
theory of Stenography is thoroughly
taught in the first place and then
comes the actual work
a diploma for efficiency III book
keeping. Stenograpthy and typewrit
ing from the Mountain State Business
| COLLEGE is passport to any business
Office and a recommendation tor ones
ability TO accept a RESPONSIBLE position
in any concern where the best ser
vices are required,
The very important work OF pen
nianship is given particular attention
by the instructors in the Mountain
State Business College. Modern bust
ness concerns demand good penmen,
and in tins instruction much good re-
suit is being Obtained
Hundreds Of Mountain State Bust
ness College student are holding re-
udmerotlve positions in thls city and
lin localities all over the country.
Their salaries range from $1,000 TO
5 10000 monthly. Those familiar with
the workings of the College have
read letters from the differentstudents
telling of the positions they have se-
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