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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1923

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Mnncie, Delaware county and the Eight Congressional District. The only Democratic newspaper in Delaware County.

Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

Subscription Price, $2.00 a year in Advance Office 733 North Elm Street. Telephone 2540 GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1923

SENATOR FITCH’S TURN TO DUCK

The bill providing for a state rural police force, which was backed by the big corporations and opposed by organized labor and the common people generally, was killed in the state senate

Monday afternoon by an overwhelming vote.

Senator Fitch, republican, of Muncie, ran true to form. Following the example of his illustrious colleagues of the house of

BILL FAVORABLY REPORTED The first stage of the battle to be waged against the drug curse was reached last week when the House Foreign Affairs committee reported favorably on the Porter resolution which aims a death blow at the root of the evil which seemingly is growing stronger in America. Chairman Stephen G. Porter expects action in both Houses before congress expires March 4. Every effort will be made to get the measure through the senate. The bill provides that the president shall call on the governments in which the opium poppy and coca plant are grown to limit production to actual quantities required for medicinal and scientific purposes. He is to report in December the result of any such action. The drug menace has grown to such an extent that any step taken to cut down the number of addicts is welcomed. Should the Porter resolution pass successfully the report of results in December will be a matter of national interest. It will be an important step forward in the war waged against drugs.

the measure outside of Washington have been mobilizing their forces. Within twenty-four hours after the naming of the original sub-commit-tee one member received 300 telegrams favoring the bill/ and the Society for the Suppression of Vice, through John S. Sumner, has asked to be heard in opposition.

LENTEN SEASON

The Lenten observance which is now turning thoughts of a

representatives, 'who always retreat to the storm cellar when vast number of people over the world to the spirtual side of life, the big wind begins to blow. Senator Fitch was one of che four commemorates the 40-day fast of Jesus It bnngs sacrifices in

senators who Jre recorded ’as “absent or not voting.” , XlhcsfeoTofa^

The legislature will last but a little more than a week and a . ren 1 e 'T5„ ^j ltU „n

that will be far too short a time for the Delaware county de’e-

gation in the house and senate to make good. In every instance where it became necessary for our three republican members to come out and show where they belonged, they have been counted among those “absent or not voting.” It’s about time that the people here wake up and send men and women to the legislature who have the backbone, at least, oi a jackrabbit. Fitch, Trent and Pittenger were sent to the legislature to vote yes or no when bills of importance came up tor passage, not to hide their heads in the sand like the foolish ostrich, and think they are fooling anybody. This yellow trio of alleged statesmen have left a record of "owardice, indecision and lack of ability which should not be ‘orgotten soon by the misguided individuals whose votes put them

.vhere they are.

The indications are that Prosecutor Ogle, otherwise known .s “The Janitor,” is making a heroic effort to induce the grand ury to indict men who are opposed to the klan supergovernment, fbout the only thing Delaware county lacks, in order to make another Morehouse Parish, is a lake the size of La Fourche. 7e have the Skipworths and the black hoods and the sheriff, rosecutor and courts belong. The court house at Bastrop was re meeting place of the klan. The court house in Muncie is u kluxed from basement to steeple. Justice is dead in Delaware ounty, and will be until the federal government, through Judgq .nderson, steps in and ends the reign of disloyalty and anarchy '/hich have destroyed the peace of the community ^nd the ordery functioning of the law of the land.

A NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE The bond between the Harding administration and the Wail treet interests is plainly shown in the proposed settlement of the British debt of $5,000,000,000.00 which the British government • wes us. The United States government borrowed this money n Liberty bonds from the American people to loan it to England, t paid and is paying on an average of 414% interest to the people .rorn whom it was borrowed. i The Republican Congress appointed a commission to settle this Jebt matter and refused representation to Democrats upon it. The allowing persons constituted the commission; Secretary of State lughes, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Secretary of Commerce loover, Senator Smoot of Utah, and Representative Burton of )hio. What was the reason for party secrecy in deliberations ,.nd decisions affecting this important commission? After meeting with the British representatives, it- is proposed ow to extend the time of payment 62 years and it is further u’bposed that the raiA of interest be only 37% for the first 10 years, and 31/2% for the remaining 52 years. In other words, the United States government borrowed the noney from its own citizens at 41%% on an average and now gives •: to England for 3% and 31/2%. President Harding went before ’ongress and recommended this in a special message. This 114% ifference will have to be made up out of the pockets of the people yho must be taxed to pay it, and it amounts to $58,000,000.00 per /ear for the first 10 years, and $37,500,000.00 for the next 52 years. This is a plain statement of the facts. What would you think pf a business man who would borrow money at 41% % and loan it ;ut at 3% ? And yet you are asked to believe in the efficiency and competency of the present administration. There is a nigger in the woodpile somewhere and the whole ’.ruth about it is that the great interests in Wall Street who have foldings of British bonds and securities have been urging this ettlement so as to make it easier for the government in England 0 pay off its indebtedness and make it possible for these intersted parties to get theirs. They helped to make the Harding adninistration, they helped to finance the campaign fund and now, as Jsual, the people are paying the price. This is high finance for the big fellow—with your own money, f you think it can be pulled off by the little fellow, the ordinary, ecent individual whose only connection with the big crew is his nesome November vote, why, just drop into your local bank and .ry to borrow some money at 3% interest—and on 62 years time!

MR. HARDING’S SUBSIDY DEFEAT (New York World) A president of the United States, belonging to a party which ’ as a decisive majority in the senate, able to put pressure on lameuck senators, goes before congress in person to ask for a vote on he one outstandng measure of his administration. And the senate mshes the measure down to a place on the calendar where its _ hances of coming to a vote are practically nil. That is a concrete measure of Mr.Harding’s leadership two years after his election by the largest plurality ever given to an American President. Mr. Harding has every possible advantages ' /hich votes, majorities and patronage, could give him. He asked of the senate not that it should approve his Ship-Subsidy bill, but hat it should vote on it. He expressed his anxiety about it in the vtrongest language he could command. He placed the measure ihead even of the debt settlement with Britain. And in response o his pathetic plea that he should not be ignored, a Republican iame-duck senate ignored him. It is the perfect proof that Mr. Harding is not the leader of his party or even of his own faction within his party.

WASHINGTON BIRTHDAY Last week all over the country was special tribute to the life and memory of Abraham Lincoln in honor of his birthday. This week thoughts are directed towards the life of another great man and special honor given to the memory of George Washington, the nation’s first president. The life stories of both are repeated from year to year and lose nothing in repetition. Every school boy and girl knows Washington was the “Father of His Country” and there has never been lack of enthusiasm over the man who was ‘•‘first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” In the formal observance of the birthday of Washington it is well to reflect on the character of the man to whom American people owe a debt of gratitude. His services were given during those dark days of a nation’s birth. Putting aside what Washington would have done in some of the days of modern times it should be borne in mind he was assuredly for strong government the highest type of citizenship for a devotion to a single allegiance. He rebelled against tyranny and lead American colonists to a victorious independence. Washington was a patriot, true to his convictions, and his example will never serve to justify in anyway sedition or intrigue. He was a great and good mail and his memory is justly honored.

consecration. Special prayers and services are being held, all Lading to and preparing the mind for the glorious Eastertime, which brings with a renewed faith and hope and its lesson of life triumphant over death. The Lenten season is one of great solemnity. To give over a few weeks of the year to this renewed consecration is not the sacrifice it may seem to those who have not observed the season. Many people whose religious belief do not call for the observance of the Lenten season have done so by their own desire setting aside these few weeks for religious thought and service. It is good to know the observance of Lent

is growing from year to year.

Populace Hostile To French In Ruhr

Fight Operation of Mines in Occupied Area

NOTICE TO TAX-PAYERS

TESTS FOR SILAGE CROPS In the last two years it is stated scientists of the United States Department of Agriculture have tested more than 500 different materials, including about every green crop and weed in an investigation as to whether they would do for silage crops. Among other crops tested was a small plot of tobacco which was stored in an experimental silo and afterwards fed to dairy cows and it was found the milk was not flavored in the least. Other materials tested .included smartweed, pigweed, tomato and potato vines, plants, clover, alfalfa, cockle burs, sunflowers, ragweed, soy beans, sweet clover, sorghum, velvet beans, kaffir corn, suclan grass, feterita, etc. The experiments have been extraordinary and will be continued for years to come. Already some interesting information as to the value of wayside has been secured, some of which heretofore have been considered without value. Naturally tobacco has too high a market value to think of its use as silage, but it is interesting to know it could be put to this use. Some very valuable facts and figures are expected to be obtained from these tests and the manner of feeding may at some future time be greatly changed as a result.

SHIRTS WITH HIGH TARIFF TRIMMINGS Men’s shirts will be worn next summer and autumn with a considerable trimming of high tariff. That is not a fashion note; it is a disagreeable economic fact, wdiich has just been announced by the makers of percales, silks and other fabrics used by shirtmakers. Increases of from $2.00 to $3.00 a dozen are to be made in the wholesale prices of percale shirts and those of other cotton textiles. Advances in the prices of silk shirts will range from $3.00 to $6.00 a dozen wholesale! The retail cost of a percale shift will be from 50 cents to a dollar higher than it is now. The retail price of silk shirts will be from 75 cents to $1.50 a piece more than now.

The Fordney-McCumber^ Profiteers’ T?/* - "' is adding 4000.00 a year to tne cost of living. This money goes into the pockets of those who helped finance the Republican campaign in 1920. When 1924 centos around the men and women of this country will have had an object lesson of Republican promises which have been broken and which will not be forgotten. We are getting back to normalcy “day by dav in every way”. The last report of R. G. Dun & Co. for January 1923 shows that there were 2126 failures during January 1923, the largest number recorded since April 1922.

ACTtON ON BIRTH CONTROL URGED

Letters Deluge Senate and House for Change in Com&tock Law

Washington, D. C., Feb. 22—Members of the Judiciary Committees of the Senate and House are being deluged with letters from all parts of the country urging favorable action on the Cummins-Kissell bill proposed by the Voluntary Parenthood League for the purpose of removing from the old Anthony Comstock law of 1873 the prohibition against circulation of contraceptive information, commonly known as the Birth Con-

trol bill.

Contrary to general expectations, organized opposition expected to this bill, which has been years getting into Congress, has not developed, according to its sponsors, whereas, the movement for its adoption is steadily growing. Senator Albert B. Cummins (Republican, Iowa) and Representative John Kissell (Republican, New York), who introduced the bill, have received but one adverse letter each up to the present time.

Protest by Sumner

The protest to Senator Cummins came from John S. Sumner, successor to Anthony Comstock as head of the New York Society for Suppres-

sion of Vice.

Although the birth control advo-

cates have finally succeeded in . getting the bill before Congress, there is a demonstration of official timidity therein dealing with this vexatious social issue in which multitudes of

people are deeply interested. Members of both houses realize

that the practice of birth control has been growing in his country among

untary Parenthood League, with headquarters at 19 West Forty-fourth Street, New York. charge of energetic and zealous adm ‘aoijyo uo^huiqsu^ B S 1 3-iaMJ, vocates. There is a campaign paper, called the “Birth Control Herald*” which is described as the official organ of the league. There is a motto: “Nothing prevents us from stating the truth; the truth with a smile on

our lips.”

Paper Prints Pictures

For many months the propagand-

ists found Congress hard to move. They could not find a member to introduce the bill they had prepared. Somewhat naively, they carried on the first page of their “Birth Control Herald” blank spaces, with an explanation that the members of the Senate House who proved they were “statesmen” by introducing the bill would have their pictures shown in the reserved space. No member of either branch seemed anxious to

prove he was a “statesman.” At last Senator Cummins and Rep-

resentative Kissell consented to introduce the bill, and Jan. 10 it was offered simultaneously in both houses. Two days later the “Birth Control Herald” appeared with the announcement that Senator Cummins had “redeemed the honor of the Senate” after a three year struggle of the league to find a Senator willing to do so, and that Mr. Kissell had “risen to the occasion” offered him. Both Senator Summins and Representative Kissell were duly honored in the matter of first page

pictures.

But the triumph of the Voluntary

what are called the upper classes Parenthood League in getting Conparticularly. They know that books, ! gress to think about a matter that magazine articles and studies (havelj thousands of people in every State appeared ip the last few^ years deal- are thinking about was soon followed

ing with this subject. Recently the, agitation for birth control among th? poor people led by Mrs. Margaret Sanger has carried the subject .into the field of popular discussion. '

Propagandists at Work

by new troubles. The Kissell bill was sent to the House Judiciary Committee, and there it remained. No sign of activity by the committee, no disposition on the part of the committee to do other than to dodge the birth

About the time the subject was control advocates, is apparent to passing from the parlors of the high- | those watching the proceedings. And brows to the living rooms of the in the Senate the treatment of the

plain people, a force of propagandists started work on Congress in deadly earnest for the purpose of striking down the Federal laws restricting dissemination ^of information by Mrs. Sanger, and others. This developed the-formation: of the Vol-

Cummins bill has been little more

courageous.

Deluged with Telegrams While the jockeying to get the Senate committee started has been going on advocates and opponents of

London, Feb. 22—All of the widely varying antagonisms between the French troops of occupation and the German population of the Ruhr district are expected to center during the coming week upon the arrival of the delegation of Polish miners, ] sent by the French through Danzig to take the places of the German miners who have refused to recognize the French authority. This, taken with tho determination of Gen Degoutte to disarm the German police in return for the wounding of two French officers at Gelsenkirchen, has added vastly to the danger of the situation confronting the occupying forces. Populace Hostile From one end of the Rhineland to the other, the population is making every effort to fight the operation of the mines by the French. Lights are being turned off from hotels where the French stay, waiters and cooks decline to serve them with meals and every possible form of opposition is presented. It is believed that the coming area , marked by the prevailing attitude of the resident population, will precipitate further difficulty. In the psy- ' chology of the miner, the last word ! in provocation is to take his job. : When the Poles left home for the J Ruhr they were attacked while en route to the seaport on the Baltic I whence they sailed. By ordinary processes, they ought tc arrive in the occupied regions about the first of the week. A Serious Study Heretofore, the German police have worked consistently to keep back the street mobs and to prevent clashes. With the disarming of this element, there is nothing save the front of the mob opposed to the bayonets of the French troops, and these street crowds, angered by the coming of the Polish contingent, offer a very' serious study for the political and military authorities. French sources indicate that new and strong punitive measures are to be used to halt the determined opposition of the population to the industrial exploitation of the valley by the collecting invaders. So far, the occupation has brought little return to Paris—far less coal than the Germans formerly gave freely.

Appropriations ot $336,347,000 Made For Army

Conferees Agree on Chief Items of Bill, Including Money for Harbors

Washington, Feb. 22 — Appropriations of $336,347,000 for the war department for the next fiscal year are provided under an agreement on the annual army bill reached by the senate and house conferees. The amount is about $4,000,000 less than provided by the senate and $3,000,000 more than granted by the house. Only a few differences between the house and senate had remained for adjustment and the conferees' action practically completed the measure, which is the last of the unfinished appropriation bills of the session. The compromise was accepted by the senate tonight and now is to be presented to the house. Under it, provisions designed to prohibit retirement pay to Major General Harbord, retired, would be modified to permit General Harbord, who is now the head of a radio corporation, to deceive retirement pay, but would prohibit retired army officers from accepting employment with concerns whose principal business is sales to the government. No substantial changes were made in the provision for an army of 125,000 men and 12,000 officers. The conferees also left unchanged the rivers and harbors funds of $56,589,000. Appropriations for river and harbor surveys were fixed at $456,850, a senate addition of $50,000 being eliminated.

Farm Bloc Leaders To Force Action

Three Measures Presented, Designed Help Agriculturists

Washington, Feb. 22—Farm bloc leaders in the house undertook to force the issue on agricultural credits legislation. They obtained sufficient signatures to call for a conference of the Republican membership but withheld its presentation on the promise,, they said, that the banking committee would report out a composite bill within a day or two. The house agricultural committee reported out three measures designed to aid the farmers. One—the Sinclair bill—would authorize an appropriation of $100,000,000 to organize a government corporation to buy and sell agricultural products in domestic markets, and carrying authority for the issue of $500,000,000 in bonds. A second—the Christopherson bill —would create the “American stabilizing commission” with authority

to borrow $500,000,000 from the Fed-

eral Reserve bank, for the purpose 1 __ . , ^

j 1 Notice of the issuance of City of Muncie

of buying the surplus of wheat and I Cemetery Bonds, of the City of Muncie, in the corn, and thereby guaranteeing sta- | sum cf Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars, bility to the market.. Tax-payers of the City of Muncie, DelaThp third fmpn<?nrp rpnnrfpd was 1 ware Count y> Indiana, and all others whom ,, T -Hi Q , M, S r. , re P°« ec! was it may or m j ght concern are hereby notified the Little bill, which would create that on the 19th day of February 1923, the a $30,000,000 revolving fund to be Common Council of the City of Muncie, used by the secretary of agriculture L'toto an < ? r( !' nance for and on , b f‘ i -i i n 11 i T* • y half of said city and that the same was duly to buy, store and sell wheat in such 1 sif?ned by the Mayor of said city, and by quantities as to guarantee a stable said ordinance it was determined that it was market. A minimum price of $1.50 necessary to issue bonds of the city of Muncie, j Indiana, in the sum of Fifteen Thousand would be paid the producer. ($15,000.00) Dollars, to provide funds for the

purpose of completing and equipping the office building in Beech-Grove Cemetery, and for the purpose of widening the drives, and avenues and making certain other improvements in said cemetery, said sum derived from said bond sale to be turned over to the Board of Trustees of Beech-Grove Cemetery for the

above purposes.

For said purpose bonds of the City of Muncie, Indiana, will be issued in the sum of Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars, thirty , (30) in number; of the denomination of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars each, said bends to be payable as follows:— Bonds numbered 820, 821, 822, April 1, 1928,

$1500.00.

Bonds numbered 823, 824, 825, April 1, 1929,

$1500.00.

Bonds numbered 826, 827, 828, April 1, 1930,

$1500.00.

Bonds numbered 829, 830, 831, April 1, 1931,

$1500.00.

Bonds numbered 832, 833, 834, April 1, 1932,

$1500.00.

Bonds numbered 835, 836, 837, April 1, 1933,

$1500.00.

Bonds numbered 838, 839, ■840, April 1, 1934, $i5oc.oo. Bonds numbered 841, 842, 843, April 1, 1935, $1500.00. ,f\ r r y Bonds numbered 844, 845, $46,'.Al>ril 1, T936, $1500.00. w 'i/iv ;; ' Bends numbered 847, 84$* 849,'-April 1, 1937,

$1500.00.

The Board of Trustees of said cemetery agree to establish a sinking fund for the purpose • of paying said bond.;, but that said ordinance provides ; for the U3 r ukl tax levy by the Sinking Fund Conim'issibners for the purpose of paying said bonds and interest

when due.

Unless objection is made by the tax-payers of the city of Muncie.* Indiana, in the manner provided by law, said City of Muncie, as such municipal c ; orj)o/ation by and through its proper logoi bffecre knd pursuant to said determination of said cifif through its Mayor anil Common Council/by and through the pasr-a.se of said ordinance, will ..proceed, to issue and sell said bonds in' said amouhts for the- purposes above set’ forth/ 1 ’ ' V The Common Council of. said city of Muneio, Indiana, has directed and caused this notice to be signed by the Mayor and attested by the OUrk of said city, this 19th day of February

1923.

CITY OF MUNCIE, By JOHN C. QUICK, Mayor. Attest; MAYNEL W. DAUBY. • City Clerk. , V/eb. 23, March 2, 1923. •i* CITY ADVERTISEMENTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

W. J. Burns, chief of Bureau of investigation, denounces allegations against him in Chicago Communist trial as “frameup” and “smoke

screen.”

War Department auditing all war claims, whether already settled or not; $14,000,000 saved already; cases involving $40,000,000 sent to Depart-

ment of Justice.

Senator Me Cormick’s proposed child labor constitutional amendment apparently blocked from passag’e by this session, due to unnecessary delaying by udiciary Sub-Committee.

CITY ADVERTISEMENT Department of Public Works OFFICE OF THE BOARD 212 Wysor Block,

Muncie, Ind.,

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that the assessment rolls, with the names of the owners and description of property subject to be assessed, with the amounts Of prima facie assessments, have been made and are now on file and can be seen at the office of the Board, for the following improvements, to-wit;— D. R. No. 942—For the vacation of fiirst alley east of Talley Avenue from Charles

Street to Gcdmr.n Avenue.

D. R. No. 941—For the vacation of alley on east side of Emerson Court from Eighth

Street to a point 325 feet north.

And notice is hereby given that on the 13th day of March 1923 the Board will, at its office receive and hear remonstrances against the amounts assessed against their property respectively on said roll and will determine the question as to whether such lots or tracts of land have been or will he benefitted by 'said improvement in the amounts named on said roll, or in a greater or less sum than that named on said roll or in any sum, at which time and place all owners of such real estate may attend, in person or

by 1 representative, and be heard.

BOARD OF

MARY’

Feb. 23, March 2. 1923.

cinu nearu.

IF PUBLIC WORKS E. ANDERSON, Clerk.

NOTICE TO PUBLIC AND CONTRACTORS

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Park Commissioners' of the City of Muncie, Indiana, did on the 11th day cf February 1923, adopt and place on file specifications for a Comfort Station to be erected at McCulloch Park, Muncie Indiana, together with instructions to bidders, form of proposal, non-collu-sion affidavit and contract to be entered into with - the successful bidder, and did on the said date order that said notice be given to the public, and contractors, that sealed pio posals for the building of said Comfort Station in accordance with ths plans and specifications so adopted and on file with Cuno Kibele. Johnson Block, Muncie Indiana, will’ be received by said Board of Park Commissioners when called for during the meeting of said Board to be held at Room 205 Wysor B 02k Muncie Indiana, on the 10th day of March

1923, at the hour of 7:30 P. M.

Each bidder shall file with his bid r.n affidavit that he has not directly or indirectly ent red into any combination, collusion, undertaking or agreement with anv other bidder or bidders, to maintain the price of any contract or work or to prevent any other bidder or bidders from bidding on such contract, or to induce any bidder or bidders to re-

frain from bidding on such eontrac

said bid is made without reference or regard to any ether bid or bids, and without agreement, understanding or combination either dhectly or indirectly with any other person or persons, with reference to such bid in any

way-or manner whatever.

The , Board of Park Commissioners reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

ROBT. B. BRADBURY.

Feb. 23 & Mch. 2. Secretary.

OFFICE OF THE BOARD 212 Wysor Block, Muncie, Ind.. VOTICE OF IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS In the matter of Certain Proposed Public Improvements in the City of Muncie, State of

Indiana.

Notice is hereby given by the Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana, fiiat it is desired and deemed necessary to nake the following described public improvements for the City of Muncie, Indiana, as authorized by tha following numbered improvement resolutions, adopted'by said Board, on the 20th day of February 1923, to-wit: I. It. No. 951-1923, for re-surfacing of East Adams Street from the east line of Walnut Street to the west line of Mulberry Street. I. R. No. 952-192?, for combined cement curb and gutter on both sides of Seymour Street from Vine Street to Brady street. All work done in making of said described public improvements shall bs in accordance with the terms and conditions of the improvement resolution, as numbered, adopted by ’.he Board of Public V/orks on the above named date, and the drawings, plans, profiles md specifications which are on file and 'may ic seen in tbs office of said Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana. The Board of Public Works has fixed the 13th day of March 1923 as a date upon vhicb remanstrtmepa may he filed ?r heard 5y. .p.srscns . interested , in, or :affected .by: said I'-cerihed m’Klic improvements, and on said date at _7j30 o’clock P. M., said Board of uoJic Works will meet at its office in said City for the purpose of hearing and considring any remonstrances which may have been ’’iled, or which may have been presented; said Board fixes said date as a date for the modification, confirmation, recinding, or postponement of action on said remonstrances ; and m said date will hear all persons interested or

.vhese property is affected by said proposed mprovements, and will decide whether the

NOTICE TO PUBLIC AND CONTRACTORS benefits that will accrue to the property

abutting and adjacent to the proposed im-

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Park' Commissioners of the City of Muncie, Indiana, did on the lith day of February 1923, adopt And placemen file specifications for a Wefi House to >6 erected at Heekin Park, Mbneie Indiana, together with instructions .to bidders, form of proposal, non-collu-sion affidavit and - Contract to be entered into WI . t J h successful bidder, arid did on the said date order ■ that said notice be given to the public and contractors, that sealed pro ppeals'■ for the. building of said Well House ill accSrdance with the plans and specifications so adopted . and op file with Cuno Kibele. Jbhnsqn' Block, Munbie Indiana, will be received by said Board of Park Commissioners when called for during the meeting of said Board to/beheld at Room 205 Wysor B oek Muncie Indiana, on the 10th day of March

1923, at the hour of 7 :30 P. M.

Eaqh bidder shall file with his bid an affidavit that he has not directly or indirectly entered into-any combination, collusion, -undertaking or agreement with any bidder or bidders.- to maintain the price of any contract or work or to prevent any other bidder or bidders frbm bidding on such contract, or to induce, any other bidder or bidders to retiain from bidding on such contract, and that said bid is made without reference or regard to anyC ether bid ‘or bids, and without agreement, understanding or combination either directly or indirectly with any other person or persons, with reference to such bid in any

wav or. manner whatever.

The Beard of Park Commissioners reserves the right to .reject any and all bids.

ROBT. B. BRADBURY,

Fel, 23 & Mch. 2. Secretary.

4,°% e 13 herel) y given that the Board of Parik Commissioners of the City of Muncie, Indiana, did on the 11th day of February 1923, and Pl ace °n file specifications for a Well ' HouSe ‘ to be erected at McCulloch Park, Muncie Indiana, together with instructions to bidderss form of proposal, non-collu-sion affidavit and contract to be entered into with the successful bidder, and did on the said date order that said notice be given to the public and contractors, that sealed proposals for the building of said Well House in accordance with the plans and specifications so adopted and on file with Cuno Kibele, Johnson Block, Muncie Indiana, will be received by said Board of Park Commissioners when called for during the meeting of said Board to be held at Room 205 Wysor B’ock, Muncie Indiana, on the 10th day of March 1923, at the hour of 7:30 P. M. Each bidder shall file with his bid an affidavit that he has not directly or indirectly entered into ■ any combination, collusion, undertaking or . agreement . with any bidder or bidders, to maintain the price of any contract or work or to prevent any other bidder or bidders from bidding on such contract, or to induce any other bidder or bidders to retrain from bidding on such contract, and that said bid is made without reference or regard to any other bid or bids, and without agreement, understanding or combination either directly or indirectly with any other person or persons, with reference to such bid in any way . or manner whatever. » The Board of Park Commissioners reserves the right to reject' any and all bids. v 1 t ROBT. B. BRADBURY, Secretary. Feb/-23 & Mch. 2.

erovement and to the said City will be equal to or exceed the estimated cost of the proposed improvements, as estimated by the City Civil

Engineer,

BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS By MARY E. ANDERSON, Clerk. Feb. 23, March 2, 1923.

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