Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1878 — Jasper County Normal Institute. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Normal Institute.

Teachers and other interested parties are notified that a Normal Institute will be opened iu the Rensselaer public school building, July 29, 1878, and closing with the annual county institute, August 30, under the instruction and management of Prof. G. W. Allen, principal of the Rensselaer schools, A Beery, a graduate of the Central Indiana Normal School aud County Superintendent J. H. Snoddy. Assurance has already been received of an attendance of over a hundred p«pils, aud it is confidently expected that this will be more than realized. Other competent instructors will be secured if needed. Instruction will be given in all the common school branches—zoology, mental philosophy applied to educational methods, and the theory and practice of teaching. Arrangements will be made for board at reasonable rates, and facilities for those desiring to board themselves, at a greatly reduced outlay, will also be presented. Large sums of money are annually paid by the citizens of Jasper county for the education of her teachers and pupils in other localities, where the facilities are no better than those offered by the Jasper county Normal. Let this money be kept at home, and let this effort tending toward the establishment of a permanent institution for the education of our teachers and the culture of our youth, be properly sustained by all parties truly interested in the educational progress of our county.