Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 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 in the Rensselaer public school building, July 29, 1878, and closing with the annual eounty 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 and County Superintendent J. H. Snoddyo, Assurance has already been received-of an attendance of over a hundred pupils, and it is confidently expected that this will bo 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 suras 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 kre no better than those offered by the Jasper county Normal. Let'this njoney 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. Ij you consult many of our leading physicians, they will advise you tq.use “Lawson’s Curative” for Rheumatism or Neuralgia, in preference to any - thing else. They have witnessed its effects. It is equally as effective for Diptheria or Sore Throat It has saved many a one from prostrated suffering. W. J. Imes, Agent, Rensselaer