The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-21

Mr.. Dougherty has a class of boys
and girls In Shorthand which brings
out about Is of them early Saturday
mornings, the lesson beginning at
o'clock. You should see how inter-
ested these boys and girls are, and
how readily they learn Shorthand.
Mr.. Harry Tyrell, who is student
at the Kansas State Agricultural col
lege, Manhattan, is working during
his spare time at stenOgraphic work
in the office of the secretary of the
Riley County Board of Health. He
has also been helping some students
to learn Dougherty's Shorthand, and
expects to have a good sized class
next term.
Mr.. Dougherty has received an or
der for a Shorthand Manual from p.
Kiang, Of the Tar King Dispensary,
Ishang, China. Mr.. Kiang learned of
Doughertys Shorthand through some
of the students of that system in the
Anglo Chinese School at 1poh, Fed
Grated Malay States.
Miss Edith Disney is doing steno-
graphic work for the Young Mems
Christian Association of Kansas City.
Miss Winnifred Bowen. principal of
the commercial department of the Os-
borne high school, called at Dough-
erty's during the State Teachers As
ISOLATION. She is having great success
teaching DOughertys Shorthand and
Typewriting.
H. E. Halleck has resigned his po-
sitiOn as stenographer with the Santa
Fe statiOner to accept a similar posi-
ton with the Rock Island in the office
of the Master Mechanic at Horton.
All Doughertyites are glad to hear
of the success of other folks from the
school. and so they will be pleased
with this item, although the name is
not given. A young lady who spent
1our months at Dougherty's some time
ago took position with the Los An
geles Times. one of the largest news
paper offices of the Pacific coast. at
salary of $14 week to begin WITH
which was in a short time raised to
$75 a month, the limit of salary that
Office pays to women. We are sorry
she is SO modest about the use Of her
name in connection with this item.
"Dougherty's Shorthand is still of
inestimable help to me-" writes Rev.
r. Burton Sheppard. Mr.. Sheppard
learned 1t some years ago and used it
throughout his college course as sec
rotary to the president. He learned it
from Prof. Frank Ream. then a col
lege student, now pastor of the First
Methodist church at Westfield, N. J.
Mr.. Jay Smith of Point Richmond.
California. writes Interestingly to Mr.
DOugherty about his work He has
been for the last four and one-half
+ years city stenographer for Richmond,
the principal part of his duties being
reporting court proceedings. He is an
enthusiastic writer of Doughertys
4 Shorthand.
The girls of the Success Club gave
the program last Wednesday evening,
and they made a hit. The boys will
give the next program, on Wednesday
evening of next week. Everybody is
welcome to these meetings, which are
held on the second and fourth
Wednesday evenings of each month.
Mrs. Essie Wills West of Needles
California, who has been using and
reaching Dougherty's Shorthand 70,
s several years. having learned it in the
Paola High School, writes Mr.. Dough.
erty: ''Since my marriage a few
months az I have not been teaching
( hut recently a young man came and
81 asked me to prepare him for a posi-
ton and am doing SO. feel that il
he makes good 1t will be a feather il
my cap and naturally another mari
Il for Mr.. Dougherty and his Shorthand
3 since he will be holding a position
I which requires q great deal Of speed
ss and accuracy. One of my pupils i.
holding position which pays one
hundred dollars q month"
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