The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1891-08-26

Elementary geography 26 3 ) cents,
Buffers Complete geography. con
tract price 96 cents, exchange price
As cents, retail price Of correspond
ing books Sl.75, retail price under
contract S105 3-5. saving in price
90 . cents. Summary on geogra-
pines: Present retail price of geog
phies now most generally used is
Is 81 81, retail price under contract
81 54, saving on series of geogra-
phles 96 cents; number of pages in
series of biographies most gen
orally used 1876, number Of pages in
Buffers geography 291, advantage
III number OF pages in Buffers Sc
ries over the one most generally in
use 80. Buffers series is securely
bound in cloth, while the one i'll
most general use is bound in paper.
Butler S series contains sixteen pages
devoted to the geography and his,
tory of Missouri. while the one in
general use has but six pages devot-
ed to Missouri.
History-Barne's Brief history.
contract price so cents, exchange
price 40 cents. Former retail price
Of the same book 81 %; retail price
under contract SIS cents, saving 81
cents on each book. This book we
find to be in general use in the school
of the state.
Civil ACKNOWLEDGMENT s
Shorter course, contract price So
exchange % cents. Former price
at retail on same book, now in gen
eral use in our public schools, S5
cents; retail price under contract 63
1 5 cents, saving 81 Is cents. This
book contracted for is great i'm
provement over the old edition in
that it contains copy of the consti-
tion of Missouri and sixteen pages
devoted to a discussion of the state
government of Missouri.
EXCHANGE ON EXCELLENT TERMS.
Physiology-Brand's Good Health
for children, contract price Is cents
exchange price 8 cents; Brands Les
sons on the Human Body, contract
price 35 cents, exchange price Is
cents; Steele's Hygienic Physiology
contract price so cents, exchange
price 40 cents; former retail price Of
last book, S1.25; retail price under
contract, IS cents, saving 81 cents
on each book.
The commission have seen fit to
change from difficult two book
series in physiology to an easier,
more attractive and better graded
three book series, to the end that
this important branch may be more
fully studied i'll our public schools.
But while we have secured an addi
tional book by this change we have
lessened the price of the series as
follows: Former retail price of the
two book series, $1.S5, retail price
under contract for the three book
series, $1.47 3-5; saving on series,
81 25 cents.
Copybooks-Analytica System
of Penmanship, Elementary edition.
contract 1-3 cents a book. Ana
lytica', advancsd,5 5 SIP cents book
Former retail price 10 cents book
The retail price of all these books
will be printed or stamped by the
publisher on the first page Of the
cover
The exchange of books in the
hands of the Missouri text book
dealer for the new books contracted
for is as follows: Readers, even ex-
change book for book ofcorrespond-
ing grade; spoilers, arithmetics,
srammars, histories, civil govern
ments and physiologies, exchange at
wholesale prices book for book of cor
responing grade for all books on the
shelves of dealers now in use in the
public schools of Missouri and in
merchantable condition; copybooks
publishers will take up stock on
hand at cost, paying therefor in
books at contract price.
For information concerning the
date at which local dealers can be
supplied with the books adopted
dealers should write to the publish
ers, while school officers and patrons
should write to their respective local
dealers.
The books adopted may be intro
duced any time after the contract is
entered into and must be exclusively
used after September l, 1892.
We have carefully and laboriously
examined the books presented to us
in connection with the bids and ar.
, gulDents and have selected and con
tracted for the above named books
T with but one object in view-tle
best interests of the people Of Mis-.
; souri,.
l. E. WoLFE,
President Of Commission
: Z Il. MORTON.