Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1878 — Jasper County Normal Institute. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Normal Institute.

Teachers and other interested persons are notified that a Normal Institute will be convened in the Rensselaer public school buildJuly 29, JIB7B, under the instruction and management of Prof. O. W. Allen, principal of the Rensselaer school. Prof. A. Berry, a graduate of the IndiantS Central Normal School, County Strperintendent J. If. Snoddy.and other competant instructors, if needed. Assurance has already been received of an attendance of over one hundred pupils, and it is confidenily expected that this will be more than realized. Instruction will be given in all the cCmmon school branches, zoology, mental philosophy applied to educational methods, and tho theory and practice of teaching. Arrangements will lie made for board at reasonable rates, and facilities for those who desire to board themselves St ft greatly rendeed rate will also be presented, Large sums of money are annually paid bycitizens of Jasper county for the education of pupils and teachers in other localities where the facilities are no better than thoeeoffered by the Jasper County Normal. Let this money be kept at horns; and let thi» effort looking toward the permanent establishment of an institution for the education of offr tepchers and the culture of our youth be properly sustained by all parties truly insterested in the educational progress ot our county.