The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-07-11
BRANNER INSTITUTE
FOR YOUNG LADIES.

TENDER 5, 1877, as will be learned
from the card which appears in the
GAZETTE Of to-day. This school
has been q decided success from its
foundation. Located as it is, at
Messy Creek, Jefferson county,
Tennessee, in one Of the richest and
most beautiful valleys in East Ten
nessee. surrounded on all sides by
refined. heightened Christian fami-
lies. and possessing an able, ex-
perienced Faculty, Branner Institute
presents inducements to parents to
send their daughters there, second
to no institution in the country.
The last session closed with the APP
plause OF the entire community.
Those who had daughters in the In
stitute were more than pleased with
the progress they had made on the
road to substantial and solid educa-
ton, while the ornamental branches.
such as music, drawing. etc., were
in nowise overlooked or neglected.
A gentleman writing to US, from
Messy Creek, a few days after the
close Of the last session, says: sour
school has been a grand success
Our closing exercises were compli-
mentary both to faculty and pupils.
The patrons and friends OF the
school were more than pleased. The
reading. Rotations and essays as
well as the instrumental music and
singing were said to be unequaled
by anything OF the kind ever before
in East Tennessee" The Faculty
is composed Of seven experienced.
competent teachers. whose entire
services will be given to the girls
who may be entrusted to their keep
ing. We know enough about those
people to be able to say, confidently,
that in sending your daughter to
Branner Institute, at Messy Creek,
you will be placing her in safe
hands, where not only her intellect
ual faculties will be carefully train
ed and developed, but where the
heart and the moral senses will be
carefully guarded and elevated. 1t
gives US pleasure to be able to
thoroughly endorse this school as
one in every way worthy to be pat
ronized by the people OF East Ten
nessee and indeed the country at
large.
Just in this connection. we will
say. it is the duty Of our people, to
patronize home institutions IL they
are as good and as efficient as those
in other States. And it will not be
denied, by any well-informed per-
son, that some Of our East Tennas-
see Female Schools are equal. if not
superior, to those in North Carolina,
Virginia or the North. It is our
duty, as far as possible, to educate
our sons and daughters at home. and
thus keep what little money we have
among our own people. 1t is not
our intention to say one word
against any female school anywhere,
but we do say-and we wish 10 say
it impressively too-that we have
right here IN our own mountain
country institutions for the educa-
ton of girls and young ladies which
are good enough for the daughters
of any man or woman in East Ten
nessee-schools where they can be
taught anything desirable for an &C
complished, polished lady to know
and it is here, at home, among our
own people, that all our daughters
should be educated.
We would be glad if some one
would find out exactly how many
girls are sent from East Tennessee,
every year, into other States, and
even off to the North, to be educat.
ed. And then, we would be glad il
some one wonld figure up the cost to
our immediate country Of this for
eign education. The figures and the
numbers would doubtless astonish
the country. 1t should be remem-
bered. too. that this money thus
sent away from home is clear loss.
Not q dollar Of il ever comes back.
If these people who send their
daughters to other States to attend
school got bstter or cheaper ar
ticle OF education. for their money,
than can be furnished by our Home
Institutions, then, indeed. they
would be right in patronizing those
schools and neglecting the ones in
their own country. But this 10 not
the case. Our schools are as good
as any. Our teachers are as well
qualified, as faithful and as efficient
as the teachers OF any schools any
where, and hence it is the duty of
our people to keep their daughters
at home and educate them here.
We congratulate the founders of