Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1881 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

J'atfwv bounty JfotmalQ SIXTH SESSION OF THE JASPER COUNTY NORMAL will open at the Public School building, in Roneselaer, on Tuxsdat, July 12th, vESx 1881. It will continno Nix Wee*». and during the la«t week the Annual Teacher's Connty Institute will be held. WORKThe work Will be particularly suited to the need* of teachers and those preparing to teach; but will also be adapted to meet the requirements of the advanced pupils of our Common Schools. Horeallwill have an opportunity of entering new fields of Investigation or of giving the studies they have pursued a searching review. We hold out our hands and welcome to our school all—both students from our own county and those from other connties—who may wish to attend a summer Normal, assuring them that no effort will be spared to make the work thorough, practical and full of life and enthusiasm, CLASSES. Classes, both beginning and advanced, will be formedin all the Common School Branches, thus enabling any person to take either review or advanced work in each. Classes will also be formed in Geometry, Botany, Geology, Algebra, Physical Geography. Natural History, Literature, Mental Philosophy, Ac., if a sufficient number of students request’it. THEORY AND PRACTICE. Theory and Practice of Teaching, one of the most perplexing, and one of the most important subjects with which teachers have to deal, will receive special attention. The Training Claes will again be placed in charge of the Superintendent. who is best acquainted with the general needs of the teachers. A ■ Model Class, composed of children from the town, will beonaof the essential I features of the work in this subject, and every doubtful or abstruse theory will I be tested in this class. This work will be practical and not purely tbuombtical. ' Intelligent, practical work is the supreme need of our Common Schools. We i have too much theory and too little practice. In the Training Class the every day difficulties with which the teacher meets will be brought up and discussed, and the constant aim will be to enable him to avoid error and “hold fast to that 1 which is good.” READING AND ELOCUTION Prof. Allen, whose work of last year speaks for itself, wHI have charge of the classes in Reading and Elocution. PENMANSHIPThis branch will bo thoroughly and practically taught. A graduate in Plain and Ornamental Penmanship will have charge of the class and good work will be done. 411 the other branches will be placed in charge of competent instructors. BOARD. Good Board can be secured, at reasonable rates, ranging from $2 00 to $3 50 per week according to accommodations. Rooms for self-boarding can be secured at very reasonable rates. For further information upon this subjeatcall on or address W. DeM. Hooper, at the Nowels House, Rensselaer, Ind. REFERENCE LIBRARY. Arrangements have been made by which students are psrmittsd to have free access to the Iroquois Library for reference or study. This Library contains a choice selection of over 300 volumes of History, Biography, Science, Travel, &c. LECTURESAND DRILLS. Debating Sections will be organized for Drill in Extemporaneous Speaking and Parliamentary usages; also one or two evening Lectures will be given each week es the course. TUITION. Tuitien -or the Term, ------ 15 OOPer Week, --------- I °° Payable in Advance. A SPLENDID OFFERFeeling it to be of vital importance to the success and progress of the school and of the students individually, thatevery scholar should be present on the first day of the term and remain during the whole session, we will as an inducement present to each student who pays tuition in advance and attends the full session, six months subscription to the Indiana School Journal, the Official Educational Organ of the State. RxEChff A.FLICS. 1. We would advise students to bring with them for study and reference as many different books touching upon their studies as they can procure, as “in the multitude of counsel there is wisdom.” 2. We would call attention to our offer of fl months subscription to the Indiana School Journal, and remind teachers that the County Superintendent for the purpose of encouraging professional reading makes an allowance of 2J4 percent, on General Average for taking an Educational Journal. 3. In this Normal we propose to do more work and attain better results than at auy previous session, and teachers who expect to work in the Common Schools of the county during the coming year cannot afford to lose the advau tages which it offers. D. B. NOWELd, 1 . G, W. ALLEN, Hla naobhs. W. DeM. HOOPER, 1

Married.—At the M. E. Parsonage, in Rensselaer, June 19, by the Rev. A. W. Wood, Mr. Iliff French and Miss Flora Thayer, both of Kentland, Ind. Also, at the M. E. Parsonage, June 20, the Rev. A. W. Wood officiating, William B. Spry to Minnie L. De Wolf. Themes for pulpit discourse in the Presbyterian church next Sabbath: Morning, “The Beautiful as a Factor in the Elevation and Salvation of Man.” Evening, “Quack Doctors.” In order to raise money to put up a new business house, I will sell, for the next thirty days, goods at prime cost. Call soon for big bargains. A. Leopold. FOB SALE: 800 bushels of Corn, in bulk or by the load. One mile east of Rensselaer, on the Ritchey farm. Wilmot H. Ritchey.

REMOVAL The public is hereby informed that I have removed to the large and commodious store room formerly occupied by J. I. Purcupile & Co., where I will be pleased to meet my old customers. MY NEW ROOM furnishes me with advantages not possessed by my former location. I am receiving a large stock of goods consisting of the best qualities of GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, OIiASSWABI, Table & CUTLERY, WOODEN ! AND WILLOW-WARE. &c., &c., &c., which I will sell LOWER THAN ANY HOUSE IN JASPER COUNTY. IjOTTIS kekn. I Rensselaer, Ind., May 6,1881. i