The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-02-25
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
FOR SOLDIERS TO
OPEN THIS EVENING
[ oval Local Plant Owners Offer to
Teach Men Who Are to Go to
Front Various Occupations.

This evening. in the High school
buiIdin" more than one hundred and
iifry registered mon Of this city and
vicinity will start their work as stu.
dents in III" Federal vocational school
al Wh"rlinG.' II is expected there VIII
b. many more enroll for The training
which will benefit them in their Seri-
ice in Uncle Sans army. aS Their" are
5u0 available and fl for the training.
The courses OF instruction in this
school will b. tn" best available and
will be under ihr personal direction
Of experts in their several lines. FL
nal arrangements have been completed
and The finishing touches To I'll" en-
rolmrnl and assignment al" all that
are needed before the actual training
* started.
Tn" school. which H. said 10 be The
model school uf ihr State by Captain
breckenridge Jones. head of the draft
machinery uG III" State. will b" main
lain;d rs long rs til" emergency exists.
which may b. !or oni! Il month and
may he for years.
Various Divisions.
The main d"par, mrnE and offices u;
The school will be Al HE High school
building under iii" direction Of pr. {.
l.. Citizens. superintendent Of me city
schools. In The manual training de-
partmcn1 pf IN" High school building
W. G.. Carpenter III" instructor in This
department., will BIZ in charge. Here
carpentry and rabin"r making will
>, Taught. This class will also meet
at III" Wheeling Planning < Lumber
Company building. in South Wheeling.
The chauffeur class VIII b. trained
Il, The Stat" fair grounds. which has
BEEN offered the school through the
courtesy nf the S,ai" Fair Association.
II. K. Markell. of the Packard driving
srhool. viii he in clarSc here. All
new cars will b. used in This class.
with the r%r"pinu Of one. which has
been offered by the Whifak"r-tilc$srcr
Company.
Tn" class for rncin" repalrmcn VIII
BE- nj HE t.n2in"rriHg an'. Equipment
company with y. q. kisrf. TIL" CAD
lilac Car rumpdu! place vii! also De
used by his department.
l.. H. stump. 81 III" American Manu-.
featuring rHWpany OH Nineteenth
street will be- in char:" Di III" cop
prr<mirh and sheet metal department..
Tn" work nf me rlaS- ri 'h!s KIND
will b. at that place.
~ III" Saturn Maritime CtmDany on
Ei-hlrcnlh street will b" held ne
ella :S"s in Welding. Ernest W. krausc
Of Warwond will hr in charge u: j.
class. The rrrStulirr company VIII
be rrp7'r>cn;"d by Mr. Mcdonnell or
Huntington. and will work in coop
Grafton with Mr.. krausr.
Tn" class in electric repairing work
will meet in the physics room q IN"
high school under III" supervision OF
John l.ukcn> oi thr l,ukrn> Eicciriral
company This class will no doubt
be Il large one and will h" given y
slrnrtion$ in generators and magn".o
work.
There will b" -rvrral oth"! classes
and trainers hul they Will b" an
nhWnCri later and th"r" will b. now
classes all along as need appears Tor
the training al some special class.
Th" training in all rIa.s"$ VIII b"
practical. AMI a. soon - each man
advances far enough ~, viii b" $"n'
10 Sunr factory ami "ivcu EMPLOY
m"nt Ia suit his class. II Is III ms
way thar all Will b.: given actual H"Ek
and ~ tn" sam" lime expert IRA -h.h%.
"f:yinricnrr Is the b"si teacher. Is
the old saying ana all will hr gwen
the thorough p"arricai experience.