The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1914-07-08
BOOKS ADOPTED
BY the State Text Book Com
mission for Common
Schools.

1llSSlOn IOr common
Schools.
1t will take many thousands of books
to supply the demand throughout the
State. The publishing houses are not
yet able to supply the demand and pu-
pills and parents are requested not to buy
any books yet but use old ones until ad-
vised that the books adopted are in stock
by the merchants. Due notice of this
will be given. State Supt. Hamlet has
announced that he will prepare bulle-
tin i'm mediately instructing school au-
thorities and patrons of the schools ex-
actly what they must do. Old books
heretofore in use in the common schools
may be exchanged for the new adoptions
at 80 per cent of the cost OF the new
books.
BOOKS BY GRADES.
7. j. Coates, State Supervisor of rural
schools has completed the arrangements
of the State adoption of text books for
the common schools for the course of
study by grades as follows:
First Glass, 1st Grade: Basal Books
Easy Road to Reading Primer, and Bald
win & Bender's First Reader, Modern
Elementary Arithmetic lin teacher
hands,. Suoplem ent al books-The Free
& Treadwell Primer and the Free &
Treadwell First Reader; Drawing Book
No. L; Braden's Number Reader; Woos-
ter Arithmetic, Book /; the Wooster In
dustrial Reading Chart.
Second Glass, and Grade: Basal Books
Baldwin & Bender's Second Reader;
Modern Elementary Arithmetic (i n
teachers hands,. Supplemental books
Free & Treadwells Second Reader;
Drawing Tablet No. 2; The Wooster Ar
lthmetic, Book
Third Glass, 3rd and 4th Grades: Basal
Books-Baldwin & Bender's Third Read
er for third grade, and Halburton &
Norvell's Fourth Reader for fourth
grade; Common School Spelling Book :;
Modern Elementary Arithmetic a d
Rays Intellectual Arithmetic; Copy
Books, Nos. l and 2. Supplemental
books-Free & Treadwell's Third Read
er for third grade and Fourth Reader for
fourth grade; Fairbanks Home Geogra-
ply; Arnold's Language Lessons with
pencil and pen; Drawing Tablets, Nos. 3
and 4; Wooster's Arithmetic, Book 2.
Fourth Glass. 5th and 9th grades:
Basal Books - Halliburton & Norvell S
Fifth Reader: Common School Spelling
Book; Modern Advanced Arithmetic
Rays Intellectual Arithmetic. The Mo
Their Tongue, Book /; Natural Primary
Geography; Evans First Lessons in A.
merican History; Gulick's Good Health
Copy Book, Nos and A; Kinkead's His
tory OF Kentucky. Supplemental-Free
& Treadwell's Fifth Reader: Gulick,
Emergencies; Drawing Tablets, Nos.
and g. Nolan's One Hundred Lessons in
Agriculture Boston School Kitchen Text
Book; Farm Life Reader, Book 4; The
School Song Book, students edition.
Fifth Glass, 7th and Sth Grades: Basa
Books-Modern Advanced Arithmetic
The Mother Tongue, Book 2; Natura
Complete Geography; Gulick's TIT
Body and Its Defenses; Dickens Ameri
can History for Grammar Schools; For
mans Essentials of Civil Government
Copy Books. Nos. and 6; Halliburton
Norvell's Fifth Reader. Supplemental
Free & Treadwelfs Fifth Reader; No
lan's One Hundred Lessons in Agricul
ture; Boston School Kitchen Text Book;
Farm Accounts by Smith and Thomas
Drawing Tablets, Nos. 2 and s; Farm
Life Reader, Book 4; The School Song
Book, students edition.
Basal books are those which all pupil
must purchase; supplemental books ar,
those which schools may adopt in add
ton to the basal books.
@. G. Burchard & Co S high schoo
music, Harris chemistry, Campbell
domestic science, and Warren's Agri
culture; Fraser-Squair's arithmetic, Pay
mes high school speller, Stlckel's Civil
Government, Halleck's psychology, Viii
liams & Craythorn's algebra, CONNER
cial arithmetic, bookkeeping, Lyons 4
Carnahan; agriculture, Riches physiol
ogy, industrial geography, Augsburg
drawing, Walkers Caesar, D'Ooges
Cicero, Benefits Virgil, Benefits lati
grammar, Cheney's English history
Wentworth & Smiths geometry, Went
worth's trigometry, zoology, Coulter
botany, Salisbury's physical geography
The subjects of biology and Englis
classics were left open for the loci
school authorities TO select.