The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-12-16
Board of Education Will Sell
Songsters at Cost.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
Superintendent Mcconnell at last
nights meeting of the school board
preached new method of providing
the students with a text book. The
Recommendation applied only to music
books and was adopted by the board,
almost without hesitation. Those pres
ent We're Mrs. Smith and Messrs. Currier,
Keysor, Fletcher and Hughes. The sys-
tenn does indeed seem to be an excellent
scheme by which a pupil may either buy
himself book to keep or merely rent
the book. The music books are to be
bought by the board and sold to the stu
dents at the even price of sixty cents
per copy. This will be just about what
the books will cost the board. Any stu
dent, not wishing to retain the book
after the close of the second school year
may sell it back to the board at ten
cents less than the amount paid for
the same. This is based on the condi-
ton, of course, that the book has been
well kept, showing only ordinary wear
with careful handling If the book
shows the effects of abuse or careless
ness, it will not be returnable at any
price. When the book goes out for the
second year, it will 60 out at the same
price as it was purchased at the year be-
fore, and so on, deducting ten cents
from the book for each years use. When
by the continuation of this plan
book is sold to pupil for twenty cents,
it is to become his property, and is not
returnable at any price.
The choice of the books lie between
The Abridged Academy Song Book pub
lished by CHM & Co. and The Beacon
Song Series No. 2, published by Silver,
Burdett & Co. The board voted to al
low the matter of choosing between these
two textbooks, recommended by the
superintendent, to rest with the school
committee with full power to act.
In accordance with the recommended
ton of the superintendent, the board de-
cided to discard the old Atwood arith-
metic and substitute for it the Walsh.
The Atwood now in use is being pub
lished by d. C. Heath & Co. 1t is now
retained in but few of the better schools
of the state and is being superseded by
the company itself to degree with the
better book, the Walsh. The superin-
tendent has taken the matter up with
the company and has received liberal
terms for exchange. The change will be
a financial gain rather than a loss to the
buyers of the books.
The Walsh books are three in number
and each good for two years, beginning
with the third grade. Their aggregate
cost is $l.15. The first Atwood of the
series in use is for the Third grade, the
second for the Fourth and Fifth and the
third for the Sixth, Seventh and
Eighth. The aggregate cost is $l.2O.
The change will be made at the begin
ming of the next semester, about Jan. 10,
1905, in the B. Third, A Third and B.
Fourth The B. Third children come in
without books and must buy new. The
Atwood costs twenty-five cents and is
good for one year. The Walsh costs
thirty cents and is good for two years.
in exchange, the new Walsh may be had
for ten cents. The A Third children will
have an Atwood bought at the begin
ming of the year for twenty-five cents
and useless at the end of this year.
These they may turn in as above and by
paying the difference of ten cents, get
new Walsh good for year and a half.
B. Fourth pupils will have on hand a
complete Atwood, and if the present
system had continued, would have to lay
it aside and buy a new one for thirty
cents. They may turn in their Third
grade Atwood and by paying ten cents
difference, get new Walsh good for
one year. The old book given in eX
change cost twenty five cents year ago
and the new one is worth thirty cents.
On Sept. l of next year, the exchange
will be continued through the A Fourth,
B Fifth, A Fifth and B Sixth. At that
time the A Fourth pupils will have the
books obtained this year. b Fifth pu-
pills will have an Atwood which cost
thirty cents and has been in use a
year. By paying an exchange they will
receive new Walsh worth forty cents
and good for two years. Exchange on
above fifteen cents. The A Fifth pupils
will have on hand the same book as
above good for one-half year. They
will exchange on the same terms the new
book being good for year and half.
The Sixth pupils will have on hand
complete Atwood which cost thirty cents
two years before and can by paying an
exchange of fifteen cents get Walsh
good for one year. AT the same point
the Atwood for three years to follow
costs sixty-five cents. The last book
of the Walsh for the remaining two
years of the course costs forty five cents.
The company agrees to accept in eX-