The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-13
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STATE DEPARTMENT.

Inc Rogers renee company, oil
Ohio; capital stock, $4,000.
The Vernon Masonic Hall associa-
ton; capital stock, $4,000. Incorpo-
rators: d. w. Strain, j. A. While, S.
w. Lomax, w. l.. Sage, K. F. Jones,
James r. Talbert an, L. C. Heare.
The Haines Medina Valley Railroad
company; capital stock, $4,000.
The object is to construct and oper-
ate q road from Castroville 20 a point
on the Galveston, Harrisburg and San
Antonio railroad near Lacoste, a dis
lance of seven miles. IncopOrators {:
Charles Haines, Elmer T. Haines and
Ida Haines, of New York; Joseph
Courant, Joseph earle, 7. NJ. Paschal,
Ed de Montel, John B. Weinette, Jo-
seph w. Lamon, Anton Beez, Charles
Heiligman, James Paul, Joseph
Kempf, August Kempf, Jacob Fritz,
Frank Tondre, st. Valentine Haas,
Peter Fisher, Henry Fuas and Joseph
Keller, of Castroville.
CONTROLLERS DEPARTMENT.
Wise county redeemed $4,000 worth
of bonds yesterday.
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
The following has been issued by
the superintendent OF education: at
would give me pleasure to meet and
talk with all of the ten thousand
teachers of the state, to visit your
schools, and to give AMI receive
SUCH suggestions as l might about the
school work, but the time required
and the vast area of the state, as well
as the urgent duties of my official po-
sition, render this impossible. Hence
| take this method of reaching you to
make several suggestions about the
work which seem to me important.
|. | wish to urge every teacher to
unite in the county institute work.
Teachers who have never known the
advantages of a good institute can
hardly realize its Importance. The
county Judge or superintendent is re-
quired by law to organize and hold
county Institutes, and although
teachers are not legally bound to at
tend, they are morally bound to do so
whenever it is at all practicable
County judges are advised by me not
to renew the certificates OF teachers
who refuse to attend the Institutes.
II. 1t is time to begin to arrange
for summer normal Institutes. The
rules for the issuance of certificates
by summer normal institutes thi;
year will be based on the following
announcement:
|. One summer normal institute fOl
white teachers and one summer nor.
nal institute for cOlored teachers Will
be recognized in each senatorial dis,
trict.
.. Applications for recognition must
be filed at Austin on or before June |
3. Applications for recognition must
be signed by at least twenty teachers
and approved by the county superin
tendent OF judge of one or more OF the
counties composing the district.
4. The application must guarantee
at least one hundred dollars for the
payment of the institute conductor.
5. A conductor may be nominated
in the application, but the state super
intendcnt reserves The right OF ap
pointing the conductor.
6. Summer normal institutes mus
continue at least twenty working days
and end on Tuesday, July %.
7. Three grades of certificates vii
be issued, first, second and third
These certificates are valid Throughout
the state for two years.
| MI t;onc will no hold N,
the conductor on the subjects required
for county certificates, and civil gov
eminent, and the papers will be for
warded by the conductor to the stat,
department of education, where they
will be graded by Il special board o
examiners selected by the state super
intendent for the purpose.
9. Blank forms for applications vii
be sent, on request, from the depart
ment Uf education.
If You can not have summer nor
nal institute you should at least have
good county summer school 10
teachers. Several counties have KEEP
up schools of this kind for some years
and the effect in arousing the people
and creating professional enthusiasm
among the teachers has been admira
BILE. These schools generally continue
for two weeks, and are followed b!
county examinations.
III. Teachers who have not graded
their schools should begin to do so
Country schools cannot be graded II
the same way that city schools mus
be graded, but they should be graded
as good county schools are generally
graded. Time, tact, courage and some
professional knowledge are neccssar,
to success, but the result will ampl,
repay Won. Grading saves time ani
secures the progress OF the children
It makes the children more regula
and will stimulate the people to length
en- the school term by local taxation I"
private subscription. Teachers are re
luircd 10y law to keep a record OF thu
( >,uG.rs OF pupils, and the new form i
I FURNISHED 10y this department will ena
,'r vou to do this, and VIII helpyouiI
4raling your school. 1t will be sen
,n application.
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