Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1915 — SUPPLY CONTRACTS LET BY COMMISSIONERS [ARTICLE]

SUPPLY CONTRACTS LET BY COMMISSIONERS

Levy Bros, and Healey & Clark Are Given Jobs of Printing—Joint Bridge Was Accepted.

The special meeting of the county commissioners was held Monday under difficulties. Commissioner Marble decided when some seven inches of snow was on the ground that he would not come as the business was very light and he thought Commissioners Welch and Makeever could take lare of it without need of a third member. The plan had been to meet at 10 o’ololk in the morning at the scene of the new joint bridge over < the Iroquois river near the Jay. Lamson farm. Commissioner Welch was there all right and so were the commissioners from Newtan county an dwhen neither Commissioners Makeever or Marble put in an appearance Commissioner Welch began to inquire the trouble and learned that Mr. Makeever was sick and unahle to come and when Auditor Hammond learned of the situation he called Mr. Marble and got him down here, but this was well into the afternoon. County Surveyor Price and his assistant, E. D. Nesbitt, attended the meeting and inspected the bridge, pronouncing it all right and completed according to specilcations. The bridge has a span of 108 feet and cost $5,353. Newton county helps pay *or it. Another big bridge in course of cotor structicfn is the one at Baum’s crossing the Kankakee. It is being built at the joint expense of Lake and Jasper counties and costs about $6,800. About the only other business the commissioners had to do was to let the contracts for the printing supplies for he coming year. The contracts were let in classes, one, two, three and four. The first three classes were let to Levy Bros., of Indianapolis, who have hail the contract for the past two years. The class four contract was let to Healey & Clark, publishers of The Republican, whose bid was somewhat less than that of The Jasper County Democrat, which had the contract last year.