Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1911 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Notice is hereby given by the Common Council of the City of Rpnsselaer, Indiana, that it will meet in the council chamber in said city ou the IQth day of July A. D. 1911, for the purpose of receiving sealed bids for the construction of the improvement of Monnett Alley through Block 3 in the original plat of the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, said improvement extending from Van Rensselaer Street to Front Street. Said improvement to consist of a brick roadway with cement curb or cement roadway/ all in accordance with plans and specifications now on file in the office' of the clerk of said city. Bids r will be received by said council for the construction of said improvement for each of said kinds of roadway material and on the day named will designate the kind of improvement. The successful bidder will be required to enter into a contract with said city and give bond conditioned for the faithful performance of said work, including guaranty for five years. All bids must be accompanied by certified check in the sum of SIOO.OO, as evidence of good faith that successful bidder will enter into contract and give bond for the faithful performance of work as above provided. CHAS. MORLAN, City Clerk. D-June 28-July 5.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Notice is hereby given by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer, Indiana, that it will meet in the council chamber in said city on the 10th day of July A. D. 1911, for the purpose of receiving sealed bids for the construction of the improvement of Leopold Alley through Block 4 in the original plat of the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, said improvement extending l?rom Van Rensselaer Street to Front Street. Said improvement to consist of a briek roadway with cement curb or cement roadway, all in accordance with plans and specifications now on file in the office of the clerk of said city. Bids will be received by said council for the construction of said improvement for each of said kinds of roadway material and on the day namefl will designate the kind of improvement The successful bidder will be requirefl to enter into a contract with said city and give bond conditioned for the faithful performance of said work, Including guaranty for five years. • All bids must be accompanied by certifled check in the sum of SIOO.OO, as evidence of good faith that successful bidder will enter into contract and give bond for the faithful performance of work as above provided.’ CHAS. MORLAN, City Clerk. D-June 28-July 5.

Union township, Fulton county, went wet In an option election Thursday by a majority of 48. The total vote was wets 230 and drys 182. This territory went dry two years ago by a majority of 136. Indiana corporations, in common with corporations all over the country’, are bombarding congress with demands that the corporation tax law be so amended that each company may make returns at the close of its own fiscal year, instead of at the close of the calendar year, as prescribed in the statute. The Decatur County Bar association* has passed a resolution indorsing Thomas E. Davidson, of Greensburg, for president of the State Bar association, at the election to be held at the meeting at Winona July 11’ and 12. Mr. Davidson is now vice-presi-‘ dent of the organization, and his friends feel that he is entitled to the advancement.

Preparations for moving during the next three months about 500,000,000 passengers, more than 50 per cent of the number carried during the whole of last year, have been completed by the railroads of and tariff sheets on interstate rates have been filed with the interstate commerce commission in Washington. Charped, by implication, by ministers of other churches, a bank president snd other prominent persons with being the author of scurrilous anonymous letters, addressed to them, Rev. "Edmund A. Neville, rector of Grace Episcopal church at Muncie, Friday night faced his vestrymen in denial of the charges and the vestry gave him a vote of confidence. With Ensign J. S. Ingram, U. S. N., in charge of the naval instruction, the Culver summer school on Lake Maxinkuckee opened its tenth session Friday. Three hundred and twenty-five cpdets are in attendance. Sixty-five are members of the Black Horse Troop and the remainder are naval cadets, who will be mustered in as. the First Naval Battalion of Indiana this week. A Classified Adv. will rent it