Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1917-07-05
EDUCATION BOARD
ADOPTS New BOOKS
FREE SCHOOL Z EXT BOOKS ARE
sELEcTE0.-udlFoRMlTv AND
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DISPATCHES FBoM COLUMBIA
Doinss and Happenings That Mark the
Progress Of souH Carolina People,
Gathered Around the State Capital.

an executive session of several days
recently announced the school text.
book adoption. The textbooks for the
free public schools were selected for
the next five yearb. The executive
session was preceded by public hear
ing Of two days. s..wAen publishers and
authors wepe gwen Jan opportunity to
explain their works
The following books were displaced: !:
Wheeler's Primer; Wheeler's First
Reader; Heart of OAK Readers. books
8, and 5; Standard English Clas-
sizes, sixth and sevest sth grades; Mines
Arithmetics, books l, 2 and 3; Teller
and Browns Business Methods;
Whites Making of South Carolina;
Bottsford's Ancient History (not offer
ed by publishers); Myers Medieval
and Modern History; Montgomery s
English History; Buchler's English
Grammar; Brooks- Composition, book
1; Scribner's Classics; Bailey's Bot
any; Tarr's Physical Geography; HUI,
man Physiology; Gildersleeve-Lodge's
Latin Grammar; Augsburg's Drawing;
Berry's Writing; Pearson's Prose Com
position-Caesar, Cicero, Vergil;
Hunts Spelling, part 2 and Complete.
The following hew books were
adopted to take the place of the above:
Haliburtons Primer; Hills Readers, l,
2 and 3; Elson's, grades, to 8, in
elusive; Smiths Modern Arithmetic,
books / and 2; Van Tuyl's Essentials
of Business Arithmetic; Oliphant's
History of South Carolina; Vests An
cient World; Vests Modern World;
Kern and Mobiles First Year in Eng.
lish; Lewis and Hosic's Practical Eng
lish; Pease's General Science; Small
woods Practical Biology; Benefits
Latin Grammar; Benefits Mastery OF
Words-Arnold, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil,
and Composition, part one.
The following old-books were re.
adopted: Wheeler's Second Reader;
Stepping Stones Readers, books l, 2
and 8; Hills Readers, and 5; Whites
Beginners American History; Thomp-
sons United States History; Withers-
Kinard English, boo4s 1 and q; Wool
ey's Handbook of q Composition; setz-
ler's Advanced Synla1 Hunts Pro
gressive Spelling, ook 1; Payne's
Common Words; 1homas' Spelling
Blanks; Collar ant Daniels First
Latin Book; xHleasy - Applied
Arts Draw Ee-Caiaweii
Primer Of Hygiene yls1ehie- -Caldwelfs
Primer of Sanitation and Physiology:
Maury's Geography, books l and q;
Robinson's Commercial Geography;
Guggar's Agriculture; Wells Algebra,
books 1, 2 and combined; Wells Plane
Geometry; Wells Solid Geometery;
Wells Geometerey, combined; Wal.
lace's Civics, South Carolina, United
States and combined; Minis and
Payne's Southern Prose and Poetry;
Brooks Story of Cotton; Snyder's
Selections from the Old Testament;
Halls Half-hours in Southern History;
Simms' Yemassee; Wheeler's Diction-
aries (revised editions); Riverside
Series of Required Classics.
The following new books were ad-
ded to meet the requirements of the
course of study.
Fulton's Southern Life in Southern
Literature; Stevenson's Country Life
Reader; Webb's Bird Book; Hutchi-
sons The Child's Day ;Rosser's Uncle
Jim, The Fire Chief; Wright's Stories
of American Progress; Morris Home
Life in All Lands, three volumes; The
Lanier Book; Fof the Children's
Hour, books / and 3, first supplement
tary; The Child's World Readers, l
to 5. inclusive; Riverside Readers, 6
to s, inclusive; HaRburton's Readers,
1 to S, inclusive; Howe's Readers, 6
to 8, Inclusive; Howell's Primer and
Readers, l and 2; Art Literature
Readers, 3, and 5 The Little Folks
Number Books; Robbins and Prov
Work and Play in Language; Dali
gleish's Grammatical Analysis; Com
munity Civics, Mccarthy; Stephen
sons American History; Hunts Mod
ern Word Book; CAew's High School
speller; Field Lore for Young Farm
ers, Grimes; Elementary Principles Of
Agriculture, Ferguson and Lewis;
Agriculture, Benson and Belts; Farm
Spies, Conradi; Barton-Naipier, three
books on agriculture; Austin's Do
mestic Science, books l and 2; Text
Book of Cooking, Greer; Fuller's
Course in Consssgctiys Sewing;
Bench Work, Muncie Normal lnsti-
tute; Black and DaI Iis' Physics; Cooks