Show BIDS FOR SUPPLYING STATE SCHOOL BOOKS representatives of the school book publishing houses will have but a few days more within which to present their bids for supplying the school children of the state with books A meeting of the mate board of education consisting of the state sli superintendent perin ten dent of public instruction superintendent of the state normal and the county superintendents of schools of the valous va lous ious counties began yesterday at salt lake city for the purpose of op opening ceiri bids for tae supplying of text books the contracts will run for five years the amount involved will be something like at present there are about seventy thousand children in the public school of the state last year the cos cost of supplying text books was something like forty eight cents for each child it is roser asserted ted that the children under the new system can get their books for the year at less than one dollar |