The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-11-01

An Immense Number ~ Books
Turned Out BY the Indiana
Company.


Turned Out BY the Indiana
Company.
IndisnspoIis eensIsei.
Al the meeting Of The Indiana school,
book company Thuraday night Nr. Haw.|
kins. secretary and general manager, sub
mitted the follow Ing statement:
"The first reQuisition Of school boOks
waa made on the Indiana school. book
company Aug. I. Since that time the
Of public inssruction has
made 1908 requisiiions on us, calling for
99. H36 frat readers. s6. 754 second readers,
So PAS third readers. 81. .5O4 fourth read.
ere, 66979 fifth readers. lO6.467 elemen-
tary arithmeiIcs, l27, ,542 complete arith-
metics, 96.5l2 elementary Biographies.
92.549 complete geographies, making u
total numbe OF b00ke ordered up To-
date. $40 390. II will be SEEN that the
arithmeiics take tho lead. There have
heeu 937 OO0 Of this series called for.
This company began chipping out hooks
10 the county superintendents Aug. 22.
We hsve since supplied 892 townshIps.
2l3 lowDs and flfsy.eight cities. The
v hole number Of hooks shipped mp 10
this time is 727239, making S3O79O
pounds OF freight or 465 tons.
L ~Our books are now being used In g.
Il2O school rooms. The new books are
giving quite general satisfaction, % 33l
towns, iownships and cities have made
their second, or additional orders for
books, calling for 72 955 moro books for
their schools, having cold ont those or
Idered on their frst rtquisition.
| 1T u apparent that In few instances
books have been ordered BY school Of
acers for no honess purpose. merely
making their regulations, thinking that
by taking this 6rst step they would there
,bv relieve themselves from liability -
\ ofIicers and then sfterWsrd make NO e.
fort 10 have the books introduced into
thcir schools There ere only few such
cases. A verv large majority OF tns
lschool authorities throughout the state
have taken hold Of their work with grea'
'Iearnestness, doing everything poseto's
Ito carry out the provisions Of no law
,Iboth In letter and In spirit. In . lsrg'
humber 0f cases that have been reported
Ito us, the books could not be got In tim
Ifor The opening Of the schools In al o
1.-The school corporations Of . county
1.-THE officers In these places have borrow
lad email supplies Of their meigh0orin'
,trustees whose regulations have bee
iInlled. and paying back The loan whe
n|eholS books came.
. ~Tho oxlraoedinasY 6emsnd Tor soc
~|1mnonoo onooe1oloo - or books, neede
S|nn c&oro1~ o)ooe ooP oootrAct Wae COZ
S|rnmrr no1o Il Qn1oe impossible &
1|~ ~ VI lho 6O1ko - rapidly
IT,. -.~' y. <>.-. - - 1In1 fehoenndinR n
|ohessby GeltIog eAc oooeoD oS ~
1|pvioos ond esving NE puseoooo - ~
II|0he book (osuDevly uoo6.
n ~Allop " hav~ gOe through VIII -
.IRvet esoss rush (oe hooks we o0pe @ 3
lthe orders lse enough N odveaoe -
!. Iso ejvN ua time 90 nll I'll requlolttooo
1.-The entire sstisfacslon - ~ coooosoeo
4 = rns.eA 1ss - Pssss~
!. s.1ls.spsIls Hsws.
The very interesting ststement els
III vhere IN this paper Of the Indiana schc
d book company It, accomplishments %
llliis purposes, should be read BY evel
a lcitisen. There are l.40O towns. tow
! ,lships and cities In the State. The con
!, psny hes had 1900 different orders o.
Z. many repetitions. Over 64O,OO0 bool
,eI have been supplied and the work go
sr|ou. The future Of the company u 70 !
" vest S25 1000 In Indianapolis In esta
ltllishiur : publiahing house. The inte
asI view With the Hon. William Heilusn,
member Of the company, %
III forth the whole project we'll. Amos
Il other things be says, what everyone 3
= r-Ilieves. that the opposition was mercena'
aland could have been silenced q ahv tin
,lbv the use Of money. A corrupt
Id scheme than that By which the book %
!. nopoly undertook 70 kill this enort
,e| ehc pcople % get out Of its clutches, ~
' rsver undertaken anywhere. The pe
< nle should thoroughly understand wh
,ela vile and demoraIlximg agency e0s
III blow here. The way in which 9
elnev books ere taken means that they
Iuudesstand t. This is : thing %
|touchea almost everv household smos
|2.oDU,OOO people, and the wicked mschi
IesIons that have not yet ceased 20 thro
|thoee people back 70 the plundertng
B. The school-book ring, hsve made {
themselves only . rcbuke that may can
|, IejmIIas scoundrelism 20 psuse The p
Iple oe lndlana ere tO b congratulate
|Thers has been no triumph more disein
and bsne6cisi than this which hee shs
tered the ring thst hss preyed upt
|everv household In the state and secure
Ishe help Oe o(lcials and high innueuc
10 retain IL place.
National silver COnvcnetOns
's Th,s convention WiIl convene q :
|. Ixoula on the Goth Of November, 6ove
4 nor Hovey he's appointed the foIlowil
!" delegates from this State:
!, John n. Lockwood and Charles
= Psrke, Nj. Vernon Charles viele: hu
|: Ell Bsmeat. James a. hcNee'y: ssmes
. p. GjIIett, EvansvilIs; Riley Mckee
I Thomas 4. Nelson. Terre Hsute; Tne
:. dore p. Haughey. A. r. Koop. Jonn
4 PrenssI, Edward =. Porter. Indianapolis
4 ]. B. Bond. WIN. Fleming. Fort wayn'