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Show TEXT B000KS BIDS TO BE OPENED With tho big task of selecting the now text books to be used in the Ogden Og-den public schools nearlng completion the board of education will meet in special session on Monday evening for tho purpose of opening the bids submitted by the dozen or more book publishing companies Tho contracts will not be awarded Monday evening, but must be awarded before May 1, giving the board one month in which to summarize the bids and select the best bidders. ThiD year will mark . the greatest chango ever made in the use of text books in the graded schools and High school of tho citv. In 1907 a partial readoption took place and the cost of the nev.' books purchased at that time was approximately $S,000. An estimate esti-mate of the cost to" furnish 5.000 school children with an almost complete list of new text books this vear is between be-tween $10,000 and $15,000. For the past eight years text books have been furnished to the students of tho graded grad-ed schools free of charge |