The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-06-25
Draughon's Business College
a Success from the Start
Over Thirty Stu
dents the First
Week.
a WORTHY ENTERPRISE.
A Winning Card for Texarkana, as
1t Advertlses Our City All Over
the Union, and Brings Us
Money Too.

Prof. ]. F. Draughon, who in 1889
opened I business college in Texar-
kama, known as Draughon's Practi-
cal Business College, but after two
years of phenominal success, moved
his school to Nashville, Tenn, has
again opened a business college
here, which will in every particular
give the same advantages as is Civ
en- at his Nashville school.
1t became necessary for him to
open a school in the West, in order
to accommodate the large number
of pupils who desired to attend his
Nashville institution, but we're un-
able to do so on account of the dis
tance from their homes, railroad
fare, ETC.; furthermore, Prof.
Draughon already had about all the
students in his Nashville school
(some 600 during the past year, he
could conveniently look after. He
selected Texarkana as the location
tor this western school, for several
reasons-on account of its railroad
facilities, the strong inducements
and interest manifested by the peo-
pie, in getting him here, etc. Our
Board of Trade and many of our
best and most enterprising citizens
earnestly solicited him to locate
here, and a warm welcome has been
extended him.
Everybody in this section knows
Prof. Draughon, and knows that he
is one of the most energetic and
successful business men, in his line
of business. When he left us in
1892, to return to his native state
to locate IN Nashville, he had at
that time in Texarkana, one of the
best patronized business colleges in
the South, and every one who knew
of his success here thought it was a
bad idea for him to move away, and
was sorry to see him leave. No
business man ever left us who stood
higher in the estimation of the
people, both socially and from a
business standpoint, than did Prof
Draughon. He gave as his reason
for leaving then, that he found it
necessary to go further East, in or
der to be more centrally located for
his publications pertaining to book
keeping, and to secure attendance
from other sections of the country;
and in this calculation he was not
mistaken, as the roster of his school
will show.
1t is meet for us to say here that
Prof. Draughon's graduates are to
be found in banks, wholesale houses
and large corporations throughout
the entire country; for instance we
NAV mention the fact that almost
every lumber company along the
Cotton Belt for 200 miles, and there
are dozens of them, have some Of
his graduates in their Offices, We
simply mention this as sample Of
the success of his graduates.
When it became known that Prof
Draughon would open another
school here, it was the general talk
Of our people. We, with hundreds
Of others, are glad to welcome his
college back, as a permanency 1t
has enrolled during the past week
more than thirty students, which
is almost as large number as are
to be found in the old established
business colleges. Prof Draughon
himself thinks that the school open
ed exceedingly well, considering the
dull, hot season, aud the fact that
he had less than thirty days in
which to advertise it properly. BY
the way, he is a strong believer in
the efficacy Of printers ink, to
which fact is largely due his great
success, Doubtless his TeXarkana
school will, after this year, enroll
almost as large number as his
Nashville school We certainly
hope So
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