West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-02-07
rliE TEXT BOOKS
Adopted by the Preston County School
Book Board.

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last Friday evening. The meeting
was called to order by Hon. III. A.
Hartley, of Masontown, the Presi-
dent of the Board, who explained
the object of the meeting and the
importance of the work to be done
The session that night was a public
one and held in the Courtroom. A
number OF the prominent citizens of
the town were present to hear the
speeches and propositions ,of the
different representatives of the big
publishing houses in regard to their
books. The agents present and the
firms represented were as follows:
Stuart ii. Bowman, of Clarks.
burg, and ]. ID. Swaney, of Penn
sylvania, representing CHM & Co.,
of New York City.
Andrew Jackson Wilkinson. of
Grafton, and Frank Wilson, of Gin
cinnati, representing the American
Book Company, of Cincinnati.
w. III. Mahaffie, of Chicago, rep
resenting Rand, Mentally & Co., of
that city.
Andrew Jackson Bethel, of Me
chanicsburg, Pa, representing the
J. b. Lippincott Company, of Phila-
delphia.
Prof. Alex Wade and Clyde Barb,
OF Morgantown, representing the ID.
{. Heath & Co., of Boston.
Charles |. zirkle, of Philippi, rep
resenting the Butler, Sheldon Com
pany, of Philadelphia.
Howard l.. Swisher, of Morgan.
town, representing the Acme Pub
fishing Company of that place.
After these gentlemen had all
been heard and had submitted writ
ten propositions and prices and
samples of their books, the Board
adjourned till $3.50 Saturday morn
ing, when the matter of the adop-
tons was taken up. This session
was held in the jury room over the
Circuit Clerks office, and the case
on trial was considered very care
fully by the jury. 1t was thought
at first that there might be hung
jury and some division of opinion
on some of the books, but the
Board talked the matter over and
discussed the various books thor
oughly. Compared notes and views,
all in the utmost harmony and good
humor and "give and take" manner,
until the members finally got to-
gcther and voted unanimously on
every adoption, except one. All
the Board was present but William
Laughridge, of Fellowsville, who
was laid up with rheumatism and
unable to attend.
There were some changes in the
books, because the Board is pro-
gressive one and tried to do the
very best thing possible, taking into
consideration the different matters
to be considered Some of the
books already in use were re adopted.
and where changes were made a
very low exchange price was agreed
upon with the Company furnishing
the new books. The readers, arith-
metics, spoilers, algebras, geometry,
Physical geography and State geog-
raphy, were not under consideration
this time, as the contract for these
books does not expire for over a
year yet.
But for the other books used in
the common schools, a new con-
tract was made for five years from
July I, 1901, and the following were
the adoptions by the Board:
Hyde's Language Lessons. Part
for Primary Grades. The Mother
Tongue, Books I and for Inter
mediate and Advanced Grades. The
last two books are a change, and
the whole makes a splendid Ian
guage course.
Peterman's Civil Government.
This is change from Dole's Amer
lean Citizen.
Myers General History and Mont
gomery's U. S. History, Books,
re-adopted.
Physiology, Cutters intermediate
and Comprehensive, 2 Books. re-
adopted, and the Primary Book
dropped as unnecessary.
Webster's Dictionary adopted, a
change from Worcester's.
Meservey's Bookkeeping and
Blanks, re-adopted.
Lippincott's Mental Arithmetic
adopted, a change from Brooks.
Frye's Biographies adopted in
place of MitchelPs, which we're con
sidered out Of date by the Board.
Fast and Maxwel's State History
adopted in place Of Lewis.
The Rand & Mentally Maps and