Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-03-14
A Nashville Institution May
Open a School in Cuba
Soon.
Prof. Draughon Leaves Next We'd
nesday For Cuba With That
Object in View.

ter of J. w. Settle, of Kennedy, KY,
and he and his wife have many
friends in Christian county who are
glad to know of Prof. Draughon S
success in the school work.
PROF. J. f. Draughon will leave
Wednesday next, accompanied by
Mrs. Draughon, for visit to Cuba
with the view of opening school
in that country some time in the
near future. While on this trip.
he will also visit Savannah, Ga, and
Charleston, S. c., to arrange toopen
a business college in the one or the
other of these places during the
next ninety days.
Prof. Draughon has ust re-
| turned from a visit to his business
colleges located at Galveston and
TeXarkana, Texas, and reports
that more students have entered
his different colleges during the
past sixty days than ever before
entered in the same length of time,
over 1000 students having been en-
rolled at his three colleges during
the past year.
PROF. Draughon 5 success in the
business college work has been
phenomenal. In addition to the
success of his college work, he pub
| fishes four text books on book-keep-
ing, of which he is author, and two
| text books on shorthand and two
on penmanship, of which his teach
ers are authors. The extent of the
sale of these books, especially the
one on bookkeeping, is remarkable;
it averages from S. to SO per day.
The most encouraging feature of it
is that about so per cent. of the or
ders received for his books on book
keeping come from practical book
keepers and business men general
ly-persons who are the most COM
petent judges of up-to-datemethods.
The immense sale of these books
to practical book-keepers and bust
ness men keeps Prof. Draughon in
constant communication with them.
This fact explains to some extent
his great success in securing posi-
tions for his students. His CORES
pondence at his Nashville Office is
very heavy, requiring nine type
writer's in his private Office.
PROF. Draughon informs us that
on account of the great demand for
his books and of the many persons
who desire to attend his colleges in
order to get advantage of his supe'
rior course of instruction, he has de.
cidedto open business colleges in
almost every State IN the Union. He
now has several large cities in the
North selected, in which he will
open schools during the next two
years. His general course of book.
keeping IS copyrighted and cannot
be taught i'll other business colleges
without his consent, but numbers
of teachers connected with the com
mercial departments of literary
schools and teachers of private
schools are by special arrange
ments using his books-a man thai
furnishes good feeders for his
schools.
About advertising, Prof. Drau
ghon has this to say: Il owe much
of my success to advertising, and
am of the opinion that no enterprise
especially one that has to depend
on the public for patronage, will
flourish unless it is we'll advertised
In other words, it always pays tC
advertise an article of merit, unless
it is an articleof peculiar nature
Some say that they advertise but
very little through the newspapers
as their customers are living ad
vertisements. 1t has been my OBJ
servation that the returns in sucl
cases do not come soon enough, ant
that the expenses while waiting 70
results far exceeds the profits.
is needless to further comment o.
the final result
; Miss Lucy FAM, daughter of
: wealthy retired business man {