Normal Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1911 Page: 4 of 4
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C25--T W E L V E WEEK S--25C
TTWO WEEKS FREE TRIAL; OFFER LIMITED t
We will teach um Modern Shorthand in 8 to 12 \\ LEKS,, and “AetnaI
Business” Book-keeping ;md Banking in 3 to 4 months, and then • 011
get a good position. Office work is more pleasant and pays better
than clerking or teaching. Best teachers and best courses m rexas.
School owned bv San \ntonn> business men; the highest endorsement.
Good moral surroundings. Write for information. Address,
SAN ANTONIO BUSINESS COLLEGE
307 ALAMO PLAZA
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
The Only Place in Town That Sells
KODAKS AND
KODAK FILMS
Funk’s Drugstore
Portrait, Kodak and Penny
Pictures Every Day
McCown's Studio
312 North, Austin Street
Waller’s Racket Store
NEXT 10 POSTOFFICE
Tablets, Inks, Note Books, Post
Cards. 5 and 10c Specialties.
We sell so cheap it makes it ex-
pensive for you to buy else-
where. Come and see us.
GET YOUR
COLD DRINKS
From a Friend of the Nor-
mal Students
G. W. Hamilton
The Grocer N. Austin St.
The Place for Fresh Grocer-
ies, Gandies and Fruits
Great Sacrifice
SALE
In MILLINERY and Ready
to Wear Dresses. Take ad-
vantage of the Prices,
Mrs. H. Arenstein
Next-to Funk's Drug Store
TO ADVERTISERS
The Normal Star was a big fac-
tor in advertising this Summer
School which brings to your city
700 students with about $50,000.
Twenty-five hundred copies of
the Star were sent .out advertis-
ing the S. W. T. N. and San Mar-
cos all over the state. The Nor-
mal Star is a booster for this
school, and being a booster for
the school is a booster for San
Marcos. Therefore, gentlemen,
if for no other reason than this
alone, is it not plain to see that
it is a very business like proposi-
tion for you to advertise and so
support this paper?
But this feature is only a side
issue compared with the value of
our paper as an advertising med-
ium. Our circulation is not only
greater than that of the local
dailies, but of a decidedly better
quality from an advertising
stand-point. I say this after
much study and with no inten-
! tion of running down these pa-
pers. First, the seven or eight
hundred students, teachers, and
boarding-house keepers are alto-
gether a buying class. Second,
our students pay cash for what
they get. Third, they are tied to
no one store. They are free to be
influenced be your advertise-
ments. They will go where your
offers and treatment are most
satisfactory. Therefore, will not
advertising in such a paper be |
much more valuable than in one i
reaching a class fifty per cent of j
whom cannot be influenced by 1
advertising? Which do you think i
is the MOST BUSINESS LIKE PRO- j
POSITION?
We are not writing this to get
more advertising, but we simply
want no man, advertiser or not,
to think that an ad in this paper
is a mere gift. It is plainly a bus-
iness proposition that will bring
you trade directly and boost San
Marcos. Yours respectfully,
The Business Manager
STATE DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION
Austin, Texas, May 1, 1911
To Conductors and Faculty Mem-
bers of the Summer Normal
institutes:
Last summer 13,265 public
school teachers attended the
Summer Normal Institutes at a
cost of $435,000, and 6,250 of
those in attendance took the ex-
amination for teachers’ certifi-
cates, only 62 per cent of whom
made the required grades and
obtained certificates authorizing
them to contract to teach in the
public schools of Texas. By in-
telligent co-operation of the con-
ductors and faculty members
with the State Department of Ed
ucation, it is hoped and beheved
that a better record will be made
in the Summer Normal Institutes
of 1911.
The limitations as to the scope
of work in certain subjects of
the curriculum, the required
equipment of laboratories and li-
braries, and the higher qualifi-
cations demand, should result in
more efficient instruction.
The new certificate law, which
substitutes an easy and pedagog-
ical plan of building to certifi-
cates of higher grade for the ex-
tension of teachers’ certificates
without examination, will, if
properly utilized, contribute to a
still further improvement in the
work of the Summer Normal In-
stitutes. One of the serious
criticisms heretofore justly made
of the Summer Normal work is
that a student-teacher was per-
mitted to study entirely too ma-
ny subjects, the work of instruc-
tion and study thereby becoming
superficial and unsatisfactory,
and thus failing to contribute to
the increased scholarship and
skill of the student-teacher. It is
hereby earnestly recommended
that no student-teacher, except
TAYLOR’S DRUG STORE
The best in Drugs, Stationery and School Supplies. Nor-
mal students will receive my best attention. Come in,
and make our store your headquarters when down town.
Best Scenic Post Cards,
Bibles and other Books
See them at
Mrs. F. L. Smith’s
STUDENTS
Have your Clothes Cleaned and
Pressed at Carbon’s Tailor Shop.
303 North Austin Street.
‘The Students Friend’
First class work, t rompt service.
Work called for and delivered.
J. R. CARSON
Commercial Phone No. 42
Brunch office San Antonio Steam
Laundry. T. C. KNIGHT, Agt.
W. J. Barbee
North Side of Plaza
FINE CONFECTIONERIES
The best Ice Creams and Ice
Cold Drinks served in town.
Large line of Pennants.
Students headquarters. Your
trade appreciated. Commer-
cial phone 45. S. W. phone
99. Goods Delivered.
in case of necessity, be permit-
ted to study more than four sub-
jects or courses, and it is sug-
gested that in many cases it
would be well for the student-
teacher to take not more than
two or three courses. The work
in the Summer Normal Institutes
should be intensive and thorough
rather than extensive and super-
ficial, and the examination ques-
tions should doubtless be strong-
er tests of one’s preparation for
teaching.
Respectfully,
F- M. Bralley.
State Superintendent
Guaranteed silk hose for men
and women, black and white pair
50c and 75c. Adams cash store*
Pickles, olives, cakes, crackers
deviled ham, fresh, from B. Dail-
ey & Son.
The Social, Athletic and Fac-
ulty editors are yet to be elected.
Who shall they be?
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