The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-06-27
TEXTBOOK CONTRACTS AWARDED
Work Of Adoption Completed by Edu-
cation BOard-Radical Changes
Are Made.

was radical change in the list. Su-
perintendent Swearingen protested
against what he terms too sweeping
and unnecessary changes, but he was
in minority.
The books adopted are these used in
five thousand free schools in the State,
but do not necessarily apply to the
graded school districts that have their
own adoptions.
For the past five years the State de-
pository, r. L. Bryan company, man
ayers, handled s50S,243 worth of
school books on the list in use during
the five years. The present list will
result in as many sales.
This afternoon Superintendent
Swearingen had the verdict read to
the assemh' ed agents Of the p:!ol!sh-
ers. The contracts as awarded and as
read follow:
Awards Announced.
Text books adopted by the State
beard of EDUCATION for lse in the free
public schools from September 1, 1911,
to June 80, 1917:
American Book company: Hunts
Progressive Course in Spelling, Book
/, Book II, complete; Mines Progress
sive Arithmetic, Book I, II, III;
Brooks's English Composite ion Book,
/; Maury*s New Elements, Maury's
Complete Biographies; Whites Begin
ner's History of the United States;
Pearson's Latin Prose Composition;
Gleason's "A Term of Ovid" Web
ster's Primary Common School, High
School and Academic dictionaries.
Atkinson Mentzer and Grover, sup
Elementary drawing, applied arts
drawing books.
D. B. Berry & Co.: Berry's Writing
System.
Educational Publishing Company:
Augsburg's Course in Drawing.
CHM & Co.; Supplementary Read
ers, the Hill Readers, Fourth and
Fifth; Montgomery's Leading Facts of
English History, Collar & Daniels
First Year Latin Supplementary Clas-
sic; Snyder's Selections from the Old
Testament.
D. G.. Heath & Co.: Woolley's Hand
Book of Composition, Thompson's
United States History, Wells's Alge-
bra for Secondary Schools, Part 1,
Part and complete; Wells's new
plane and solid geometry.
- Houghton, Miffin Company: Supple
mentary English Classics, to be select
ed; Supplementary Reading for sixth
grade and seventh grade, to be select
ed from Riverside Literature series.
B. F. Johnson Publishing Company:
Basal Graded Classics, third reader,
fourth reader, fifth reader; Payne's
Common Words Commonly Misspelled,
Supplementary Classic, the Yemassee,
Supplementary Reading; Halls Half
Hours in Southern History. ,.
". H.. Jones: Spelling blanks.
The Macmillan Company: Kinard &
.Wither's Grammar, Book I, Book II;
Duggar's Agriculture for Southern
schools, Bothford's Ancient History
for beginners, Tarr's New Physical
Geography.
Newson & Co: Buehler's Modern
English Grammar.
Rand McNally & Co: Supplementary,
$he Story of Cotton, Robinson's Com
mercial Geography, Teller & Browns
Business Methods.
Benjamin Fl. Sanford: Caesor's Gal
lie War, 1 to 5; Select Ora
tons of Cicero, O'Ooge; Virgips
Aeneaid, I to vi.
Chas. Scribner's Sons: Scribner's
supplementary English Classics, to be
selected; Supplementary Reading,
Minis & Paynje's Southern Prose and
Poetry.
Silver, Burdette & Co.: Supplement
tary, Stepping Stones to Literature,
first reader, second reader, third read
er; Whites, ''The Making of South
Carolina"
Parker P. Simmons: American His
tory Leaflets, Record of My Reading.
Southern Publishing Company; Civ
il Government of the United States,
Civil Governor Of South Carolina,
and the United States Civil Govern
ment of South Carolina.
W H. Wheeler & Co.: Primer, basal,
first reader, second reader.
UIorl6 pooly Co,,ononv. pr-inoor of