Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1912 — Contract for School Heating Plant Let to Local Firm. [ARTICLE]

Contract for School Heating Plant Let to Local Firm.

The contract for the heating plant for the new school building was let Saturday to Cleve Eger for $5,178. Two other blds, were filed. The LanePike Co., of Lafayette, bid $5,330, and John Myer, of. Chicago Heights, made a bid of $5,178. The contract calls for a steam heating and ventilating system. Radiators will be dispensed with except in the hallways, the heat being forced from the basement to the study rooms by means of ventilating fans.. The city plant will furnish the* steam.

Sunday was a big day for the citi-zen-soldiers in eamp at Ft Benjamin Harrison and all the boys are going around with a smile on their’faces and their hands in their pockets. Shortly after 1 o’clock in the afternoon th guardsmen were mustered for pay and now the jingle of a thousand “jitneys” can be heard all over the camp. Quite a relief for the boys to reach down in their trouser pockets and find something there besides a collar button.