The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-06-28

SWEEPING CHANGE WAS MADE
YESTERDAY.
Largest Proportion OF Business Goes
Go American Book Company
Contract For Six Years.

records by a five-days' secret session
and the final announcement yesterday
OF the most sweeping changes OF text
books In the history Of the State. The
American Book company of New
York received a far greater proper
tion OF the business than any other
concern bidding. The vote on the
adoption OF the various books has not
been made public.
There were 36 companies bidding
and 10 have received contracts. The
six-year period OF the contract Is vari-
ously estimated at from 100000 to
s1.ooO.ooo. "Thompsons History of
the United States was adopted with
out any serious opposition on the part
OF the governor. although ne had
given out some weeks ago an inter-
view against this book on the grounds
OF Its not properly presenting the
facts OF Shern...p's responsibility of
the burning OF Columbia. 1t is stated
that j. e. Swearingen. State superin-
tendent OF education. was overruled
mt almost every point In the voting
and that he made frequent. vigorous
protests against unnecessary changes
and against some OF the books ad-
opted.
Following Is the list OF books ad-
opted:
American Book Company.
Hunts Progressive Course in
Spelling. book l.. book H.. and COM
plete.
Mines Progressive Arithmetic,
book l.. book H.. and book III.
Brooks English Composition, book
Maury's New Elements, Maury's
Complete Biographies.
whites Beginners History OF the
United States.
Pearson's Latin Prose Composition.
Gleason's A Term OF Ovid.
webster's Primary. Common School,
High school and Academic Diction-
srsss
Atkinson, sicntzeF & Grover.
upplgnmenary fDr4:saE Applied
Arts pAwins Books. Wv
m. ~. Berry q Go.
Berry's Writing system.
Educational Publishing Company.
Augsburs's Course In Drawing.
CHM & Co.
Supplementary Readers. The Hill
Readers. Fourth and Fifth.
Montgomery's Leading Facts Of
English History.
Collar and Danielis First Year
Latin.
Supplementary Classic. snyders
Selections from the Old Testament.
ID. G. Heath and Co.
woolleys Hand Book OF Compost
ton.
Thompson's United States History.
Wells Algebra for Secondary
Schools. part l.. part H.. AID COM
plete.
Vets New Plane and Solid Geom-
etry.
IIoughton. Minip Company.
Supplementary English Classic. to
be selected.
Supplementary reading for the
sixth and seventh grades. to be Sc
lected from Riverside Literature Sc
ries.
II. T.. johnson Publishing Company
Basal, Graded Classics. Third
Reader. Fourth Reader. Fifth Reader
Payne's Common Words Commonly
Mi.spelled.
Supplementary Classic. The Yemas-
see.
Supplementary Reading. Halls
Hah-Hours I'm Southern History.
W. III. Jones.
Spelling Blanks.
Macmillan Company.
Kinard and Wither's Grammar.
book l.. book II.
Duggar's Agriculture for Southern
Schools. Bothford's Ancient History
for Beginners. Tarr's New Physical
Geography.
Ncwson aud Co.
Behler's Modern English Grammar
Rand, McNally and Co.
supplementary: The story OF Cot
ton. Robinson's Commercial Geog-
raphy. Teller and Browns Business
Methods.
BcnI. N. SanbOrn and Go.
Caesars GalliC Wsr. 1.-V. Johnston
and Sanford; Select Orations Of Gle
ero, D'OOge; Virgirs Aenlcd, I.-VI..