Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-17
A Business Education Teaches
One to Think and Act in a
Meth0dical Manner
OF VALUE TO THE FARMER
Bookkeeping Course Very Practical
The Use of the Adding Machine and
Other Up-to-D Date Office Appliances
is Taught-Two Hundred Ninety
Different Students Enrolled During
Past Year.
Past Year.

Practical education Is growing more
and more in favor. Our great state
universities are putting in business
courses. The manual training course
in many Of our high schools is an
evidence Of this desire to teach that
which will give the boy and girl the
earning bread. The business college
also meets this demand. 1t not only
teaches young people how to earn for
themselves, as assistants in the busi-
ness controlled by others, but the bus
mess college training makes 1t easier
for them to put into practice prac-
teal methods in conducting a business
of their own.
A knowledge of bookkeeping, for in
stance, is valuable asset to any far
mer. He may not find it necessary to
of books, but thru the study Of book
keeping he learns to systematic and
to think Systematically, and therefore
to transact his business in the same
manner. In the bookkeeping depart-
ment the students are instructed in
dividually in the same practical bus
mess methods, systems, and plans that
are in use in the largest and most
successful business houses in the
United States.
The Central iowa Business College
has earned a very enviable reputation
for it's success in training young men
and women for business. Hundreds of
former students are now holding re-
sponsible positions with large insti-
buttons as a result Of this training.
Practically all Of the college graduates
have gone into good positions, and
those who have businesses of their own
are loud in their praise of the benefits
to be derived from a course in this
school.
Boys on the farm who have good
common school education will find it an
excellent place to learn business meth
DDS, how to keep accounts, etc, and
essary every year because Of the pro-
gress that is being made on the farm.
The winter months spent in the BUSH
ness college will give training that will
pay dividends for all the years to come.
Not only are business subjects taught,
but classes in English, commercial law,
letter writing, penmanship. arithmetic.
spelling, shorthand and typewriting.
are conducted by corps OF instructors
who are experts and selected for abil-
ity in their particular line.
The midwinter. term starts the first
Monday in January, and every young
man and young woman not in high
school or the university should plan
to attend the Central Iowa Business
College. Those who have finished the
high school and college courses will
also find it profitable to take a course
here The yearly salaries paid compe-
tent stenographers and boolSkeepers are
larger than those paid teachers.
In locating it's students the school
has been so successful that practically
every graduate turned out under the
present management has secured en-
ployment at once at good wages; in
fact, the demand has been greater than
the supply most of the time. Visitors
to the school are welcome and postal
card to w. H. Gilbert, president, Mar
shalltown, Ia, will bring you a cata-
log and all desired information.