Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1911 — Bids Opened tor Building New High School Assembly. [ARTICLE]

Bids Opened tor Building New High School Assembly.

The Rensselaer school boa rd today. Saturday, opened ths bids for the building of the new high school assembly. There were only four bids on file and Hiram Day was the only local bidder and his bid was the lowest. The bids were as follows: Hiram Day . $11,698 L. M. Mpore & Son, Danville.. 14,080 F. L. Ktauel, Danville 14,356 Wm. Tietz & Son, Chgo. Hgts. 15,100 J. F. McCoy, the architect, was over’ from Dahville. The contract was not awarded; and the board is not decided whether it will ask Mr. Day to enter into.a contract or readvertise for new bids. The bids were some higher than had been expected and higher than the architect had figured the building to cost! It was expected to keep within $41,000.