Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
MISSOURI SCHOOL BOOKS.
The State School Textbook Com
mission and It's Work.
An Estimated Saving of 5000, 900 Annually
to the People of the State-The Com
missoners' Address to the Peo-
ple-The Prices of Books.

| supplying the school children of the
state with text books, but to whom was
| not given out. 1t is estimated that
about As per cent. will be saved on the
price of school books, and that this will
aggregate nearly $500. 600 annually to
the people of the state. The following
report of the commission was given for
| pu blicatiOn:
| JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, August %, 1891.
To the People Of Missouri:
| We, the members of the Missouri School
Text book commission, present to the peo-
pie of the state of Missouri the following
report as showing the results of our labors
upon the said commission.
Pursuant to the requirements of the law
| creating the commission we met on the Sth
| day of July, 1891, and proceeded to adver-
| tise for the lowest and best bids from all re-
| liable publishing houses in the United
States, at which any such houses would fur
nish any one or more of their standard
school books for use in the public schools
in this state for period of five years.
On August 8, 1891, the expiration of the
time allowed by said advertisement for Il l.
| ing bids, the commission convened at the
| Office of the president thereof, in the City of
Jefferson, and proceeded at once to open
| said bids and examine said books accom-
panyfng the anne, and selected from said
| bids and samples the following list of books
| to be contracted for:
NcGufey's Reading Charts, revised edi-
| ton.
New Franklin Readers, five-book SERIES
| Primer and First Reader combined, the first
| four books in boards and the fifth in full
cloth.
McGuffey's Electric Spelling Boob. revised
| edition.
Grammar-Hyde's Practical Lessons in
| the use of English, two book SERIES with
supplement.
Rays series of arithmetics, revised edi-
ton, New Primary, Elementary and prac
teal.
Geographies-Butler's Elementary and
Complete, Missouri edition bound in cloth.
History-Barres' Brief History of the
United States, standard edition, in cloth.
Civil Government, Townsend's Shorter
Course, with Missouri constitution and six
| teen pages of approved comment on Mis-
souri, state government and institutions.
Physiology, three book series, Good
Health of Children, and Les of the HUI
man Body, by o. NJ. Brands, and Steele's
Hygiene Physiology.
Penmanship, analytical system, seven
books.
In order to show the results of our labors
We herein give the prices at which the above
named school books will be furnished to the
pupils of the public schools of Missouri for
the next five years.
Charts, MANILA on roller, price 81: former
price, So. so.
New Franklin Primer and First Reader
price returning old First Reader). &c former
retail price of First Reader now in use, with
out Primer, 25c; new retail price of the New
Franklin First Reader and Primer combined,
II &C. a saving in price of IL i-5c. New
Franklin Second Reader, contract price, 1Sc;
exchange price, 10c; former retail price for
Second Reader now in use, 45c, new retail
price. 10 4-Jc, saving on the price of the
Second Reader of Is 1-5c. Third Reader,
contract price, 25c; exchange price, 15c;
fAr tail lrin of NOV in,
use, COO; retail price under contract, 2712c, a
saving on one book of 32l2c.
Fourth Reader-Contract price, 35c;
change price, 20c; former retail price of the
Fourth Reader now in use, zoe; saving
book, 30 2-5c.
Fifth Reader-COntract price ,45c; exchange
price, &c; former retail price of Fifth Read
er Soc; retail price under contract, 49l2c;
saving, 45l2c on book.
The New Franklin Readers will replace the
r2aders now in use in the schools.
The former retail price of the readers, as
per report on file with the commission, is for
the series of readers most generally used
s295 The retail price of the series of new
Franklin Readers for the series adopted is
s., 40 3-5, making the total saving 81. As 20
These readers are substantially bound and
printed on the best of paper in clear, bold
type, with excellent Illustrations and fine
selections from the best authors. Any pupil
having an old reader now in use may ex-
change it for the new reader adopted of the
same grade by paying the above exchange
Or
McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book, revised
edtion-contract price, lac; exchange price,
&c; former retail! prtce, 25c; retail price I'M
Ter contract. l523c; saving by contract. SO sc.
Grammar-Hyde's Practical Lessons in the
Use of English, Book l., contract price, zoe;
exchange price, loo; retail prices of CORE
spending grammars now in use, Coo The re-
tail price of the new book under contract is
SAVING each hook HVdp'S prac-
teal Lessons in English, Book IL, with sup
plement, SOC; exchange price, lie, retail
price of corresponding books now in Ese.
31c; retail price of book adopted, 5Sl2c; saw
ing each book, 51I2c; retail price of gram
series in general use, $50; retail price
of books adopted is 6)l2c, saving on the
series o9l2c.
Arithmetic-Ray's New Primary Arithme-
tic, contract price, 12c; exchange price, &C;
former retail price of same book now in use.
pc Retail price under contract ID I-5c, a
saving of IL 4-5c each book. Rays New
Elementary Arithmetic, contract price, 2sc;
exchange price, lac. Retail price of same
book now in use, before contracting, $50;
retail price under contract, 80 4-Jc, saving
"a I-5c on each book.
Rays New Practical Arithmetic, contract
price, 40c; exchange price, zoe. Retail price
of same book before contracting, zoe; retail
price under contract, 44c, saving Bic on each
book.
Summary on administrator retail
price of the series of arithmetics now in use
before contracting, $I55; retail price of
same books under contract, SSc, saving &c
This series of book is now in general use in
the schools of the state, and therefore does
not necessitate change, but we have con-
tracted for them at a saving of &c on the
series to the people of our state.
Geographi es-Butlers Elementary Geog-
raphy, contract price 44c; exchange price
2lc retail price of CORES ponding books now
in use, 75c retail price under contract Al 2-5c;
saving on Elementary Geography, 26 3-5c.
Buffers Complete Geography-Contract, As
2-5c; saving on Elementary Geography, 20
3-5c Buffers Complete Geography-Cou-
tract price, 96c; exchange price, ssc; retail
price of corresponding books, s1.75 retail
price under contract, S1.05 3-5c; saving in
price, SO Csc.
Summary on Geographies-Present retail
price of Biographies now most generally
used is $3.50; retail price under contract,
sI.54: saving on series of Biographies. CSC
Number of pages in a series of Biographies
now most generally used, 1856; number of
pages in Buffers Geography, 29l. Advan-
tage in number of pages in Buffers series
over the one most generally in use, ninety
five. Buffers series is securely bound in
CLOTH while the one in most general use is
bound in paper. Buffers series contains
sixteen pages devoted to the geography and
history of Missouri, while the one most gen
orally in use has but six pages devoted to
Missouri.
History-Barnes' Brief History; contract
price. soc: exchange price, 4Uc; former re-
tail price of the same book, SIPS; retail price
book. This book we find to be in general
in no schools ~ IN