The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
Commission Awards Five
 Year Contract. TASK NEARLY ENDED
Doubtful if City Schools Will
 be Exempted.
Will Meet Again Tuesday to Consider Supplemental Books-Complete Harmony Existed Between
 the Two Commissions.

The State Text Book Commission yes terday adopted books and awarded the contract for suppying them to the public schools of Alabama for five years under the new act and Governor Jelks author ized the statement that under the award patrons of the schools had secured a re- duction of at least 50 per cent in prices formerly paid for books.
 The contract for supplying books was parceled out among a number Of pup fishers, the Commission being guided sole ly by merit of the books, and without re- gard to the general bidding.
 The Commission, which consists of Gov ernor Jelks, Hon. I. W. Hill. Prof. c. c. Thach, Dr. J. W. Abercrombie and Dr. F. w. Peterson, adjourned until next Tuesday at 12 o'clock when 1t will take up the matter of adopting supplemental books.
 The Books Adopted.
 The books adopted by the Commission, their publishers and the prices at which they are to be sold are as follows. the first price being for cloth binding and the second price being for board binding. agriculture for Beginners, by Burkett' Stevens Hill. Ginn & Co.,, 60 cents. Algebra, Milnes Elements, American Book Company. 64 cents. 4b cents.
 Milne's High School, American Book Company. 90 cents 80 cents.
 Arithmetic. Cook & Cropsey. Silver. Burdette & Co, sS cents. 25 cents.
 New Elementary. Cook & Cropsey. sil- yer, Burdette & Co.,. new advanced, 46 cents. 40 cents. Van Ambergh's First Days in Numbers. Silver, Burdstte & Co.,. z6 cents.
 Mental Arithmetic, Wentworth, Ginn Botany. Burgen's Elementary. Ginn & Co, $1
 Civil Government of Alabama. McCor- vey. Eldridge & Co.,, 50 cents.
 Civil Government of United States Pe- terman, American Book Company. 50 Drawing, Augsburg's Educational Pub fishing Co.
 Teachers' Aids, 1. 2 and S. each 75 cents. 50 cents.
 Pads. each 15 cents.
 Books. l to 12. each 10 cents.
 English. Modern Lessons, Buehler & Hotchkiss,. Newson & Co.,, S5 cents, 30 
 Grammar. Buehler. 50 cents, 45 cents. Composition and Rhetoric, Lockwood & Emerson, Ginn & Co., 90 cents Geography, Maury's Elementary Uni yersity Publishing Co.,, 40 cents. 40 cents. Maury's Manual, University Puohshlhs Co., ss cents, SS cents.
 Physical, Daviss, Ginn & Co., N. Geometry, Wentworth's, Plane, Ginn x Co.,, 60 cents. Wentworths. Plane and Solid, Ginn & Co. $1 History. United States. Hanselrs School. University Publishing Company 70 cents
 Hansell.s Higher, University Publishing Company. 70 cents.
 History, Alabama. Brown, University Publishing Co.,, 90 cents.
 Supplementary Histories of Alabama: Miller. SO cents.
 Beverly, $1
 A Short History of England, Conan & Kendall. Macmillan & Co, 30 cents. General History, Myers. Ginn & Co.,. S135.
 Orthography, Branson's Common School, B. F. Johnson Co.,, IS cents.
 First Book-ReSd's Word Lessons, May nard, Merrill & Co.,, p cents.
 Physics. Cages Introduction to Physi- cal Science, Ginn G Co.,, 30 cents.
 Physiology, Overton's Intermediate, American Book Company. 4s cents. 70 cents; Overton's Advanced, T2 cents, 65 cents.
 Vocal Music, Natural System, American Book Company, Primer, N cents, 9 cents. First Reader, 27 cents, 2S cents. Second Reader. S2 cents. 30 cents. Third Reader, 32 cents. 30 cents. Fourth Reader. 32 cents, 30 cents. Fifth Reader. 45 cents, % cents. Advanced Reader, 90 cents, 80 cents. Natural System Short Course, two books, 32 and 36 cents.
 Writing. Normal Review, Vertical and Intermediate Slant, Silver, Burdette & Go, 5 cents.
 Reading, Baldwin, American Book Company:
 First, 23 cents, IS cents.
 Second, 32 cents. 25 cents.
 Third. 36 cents. 30 cents.
 Fourth 36 cents, 30 cents.
 Fifth. 36 cents, 30 cents.
 Fourth and Fifth, combined. A cents, % cents.
 Sixth and Seventh. combined. 5s cents. 45 cents.
 Primer, Holton's. Rand. McNally. by Southern School Book Publishing Com pany, 19 cents.
 Book Men Disappointed. There were many disappointed book men in Montgomery after the announcement of the award. Some forty or fifty repre- sentatlves of book publishers have been in Montgomery at intervals since the passage of the text book act, and they have zealously cared for the interests which they represented.
 Major Patton, President of the Untver- sity Publishing Company of New York, who has been here some time, said that while his company did not fare as well as he hoped, he was. on the whole. well satisfied with the action of the Commis- sion.
 The publishers whose books were adopt
 will be required to make a bond for
 faithful execution of their part of the
 tract.
 ne prices of books named by the Com
 sion are the prices at which they are
 )e sold to patrons of the school. The
 at of the depository or middleman was