The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-04
CHM g. CO.'S WATERLOO.
SO STATE AGENTS THACkSTON
AND KENDRICk SAY: .a..-o
But Col. Harrell, State Agent for CHM
& Co., Says They are Well Pleased
With the ResuIt--End of the
School-Book Fight.

1--WE have heard from ninety coun-
ties" said Mr. j. w. Thackston, State
Agent for the American Book Com
pany yesterday, land every one of them
has adopted the State list with the eX-
ception of few counties in which
Lees histories were substituted for
Iiansell's.
1t has been a Waterloo for CHM d
Co. Where substitutions have been
made Others books than Ginn's have
been adopted"
An agent OF 3. F. johnson d Co,
Richmond, Va, publishers of Lees his
tories and Dr. CuTry's South, states
that he has positive information that
Lees histories have been adopted in
twenty-five counties in the State.
These histories are by a Southern
writer and are published in Richmond.
Capt w. b. Kendrick, State Agent
for the University Publishing Com
pany, wore a smile like a halo all day
yesterday, and as each telegram came
III, it added another ripple to the smile
H was happy. Talk about Waterloo"
he remarked, 'Ginn IL Co.'S defeat dis
counts that. | have not yet heard from
single county that has adopted their
books. The State List has been adopt
ed from the mountains to the sea. We
are satisfied with the result"
Col. Eugene @. Harrell, State Agent
for CHM d Co, gave out the following
statement last night:
Among the latest returns coming in
ii is seen that CHM d Co have gotten
their school books adopted by good
number of counties. including Wilson,
Cumberland, Moore, Macon and Robe
son. The publishers express satsfac-
ton at this success, considering this is
the first time they have ever offered
any books TO the public schools of the
State for adoption"
The school-book fight was liveliest
in Wake. Here at the capital the forces
were concentrated, and a hard fight
was made. For two days the county
commissioners have been in session,
sitting as the county Board of Educa-
ton. They have listened to all the
able arguments of agents and COUNSEL
and have witnessed the lively tits be-
tween the contestants. And they
have made their decision.
Yesterday afternoon they decided to
adopt the State list with the excep-
atph vi
by the University Publishing Com
pany,) for which Lees Histories (pub-
lished by the r. F. Johnson Coz, were
substituted. DIR. ]. L. NJ. Curry's
South was added to the list as an OPP
tional textbook. Miss Manly's histo-
ry of Southern Literature was also
added to the list.
In Burke county the Board went
back to Noah Webster, and placed the
old ''blue-back" speller on the list.
J. Frank Ray, one of the agents for
CHM and Co., was beaten in his own
county of Macon.
Capt. Kendrick claims that, while in
some cases Hausell's higher histories
have been knocked out by Lees the
smaller history of Hauselfs has been
adopted in every county in the State,
This ends the schoof-book compaign
for the year, in so far as it relates to
adoption for public schools. 1t has
been one of the warmest, and in some
instances bitterest, contests ever seen
in the State.
But after all the fight the children
of the State will for another year study
out of the same books they have been
thumbing and porting over in the days
gone bV.