Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-09
NIGHT SCHOOL TO
OPEN AGAIN SOON
EVENING SESSIONS WILL BE RE
SUMED AT HIGH SCHOOL IN
A SHORT TIME.

| The evening classes at the high
school, will be resumed next Monday
January H., after a vacation since De
cember II of last year. The usua
courses of sewing, cooking, typewritine
shorthand, bookkeeping, business Eng
lish, commercial law, mechanical draw
ing and English for foreigners will be
taught. Special emphasis is placed up
on the latter course. Any foreigner
who Is deficient in English may by
taking this course obtain wider
knowledge of the language of the coun
try and by so doing prepare himself
| for advancement in other branches and
work. ~
Many of the foreigners who in the
past have taken this course, have been
those who worked in the day and had
neither the time nor money to attend
day school, Most of the foreign born
residents who cannot speak the com
mon language, left their own country
to come to America to make better
living, and are handicapped here by
their lack of English.
The class in mechanical drawing has
always been we'll attended and many
designs and plans have been made by
the men and boys which are really
striking in the degree. of perfection
with which they are made. Some of
these drawings were on exhibition
windows and many complimentary ex-
pressions were heard.
Among the most popular courses are
sewing and cooking, and many women
and girls are enrolled in this class and
it perhaps would not hurt many men
to also gain slight knowledge into
the mysteries of the bias cut and the
French fried.
The commercial course comprising
typewriting, bookkeeping, business
English, short hand and commercial
law, is one that is great help to many
of the younger people in obtaining po-
sitions in Offices as stenographer book
keeper or general Office help.
While there are perhaps not as many
enrolled this year in the night school
as there were the first year. those that
have enrolled, are there because they
have a desire for knowledge and are
willing to put in their time at night in
of the subjects which are offered at the
e5peIMouY IeulInJ u!e5 OIL ,! 5u!lleS
night school is in many cases to In
crease the efficiency of the individual
student and the spending of the short
time at the school each week is a small
sacrifice to pay for the increased value
to the employer and consequently the
greater earning capacity of the person.
Efficiency in commercial lines is be-
coming a necessity as the old slipshod
methods of doing business have long
passed and the person with the most
knowledge of his profession or voca-
ton is best fitted to continue in the
struggle for the survival Of the f1ttest.
The subjects offered are all practical
ones for business and working people
No one is too old to enter these
classes and there is some class that
will do almost everyone some good.
There gro three sessions weekly
meeting on Monday, Wednesday and
Friday evenings. Three classes are
conducted In the session, each of forty
duration. The first class be-
gins at 1870, the second at $40 and
the third ut $50 and dismissing at
$780, Tho first session of the new Sc
mester will be on Monday night, jan
uary II at 1880.