Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1909 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

for this season of the year. There is little or no water to delay farm work and thousands of acres more corn will be planted there than for several years. The days have been a trifle cool and the nights real cool all week, and it has not been good growing weather, but there has been no rain and the cool days have enabled the farmers to push their teams right through all day long without tiring them badly.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS. May 21, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harrington of Union township, a boy.

BIG DITCH CONTRACT LET IN WHITE.

Monticello Herald: Sixteen bidders competed here Tuesday for the job of constructing the Big Creek ditch. The letting was conducted at the clerk’s office in charge of—Supt. Paul Ward and Attorney Chas. Spencer. There was some genuine competition, and as a result the contract was let at about 25 per cent, less than the estimated cost of construction. The bids were all per cubic yard and ran as follows:

Cents per Bidders cubic yard. Boyles & Lezenby Co, Elkhart. 6.48 C. V. Oyen & Co .5.94% Winamac Bridge Co, Winamac 7.27 Woolman Construction C 0.... 6.9 Wolcott Dredging Co, Wolcoti. 5.65 Sternberg & Sons, South Bend 6.95 James L. Taylor, Royal Center 5.9 D. H. Yeoman, Rensselaer..,. 7.00 M. J. Hanawalt, Monticello.... 7.35 John McAndrews, Kankakee, 11l 6.5 Horton & Moseley, Lafayette.. 5.73 h. W. Marble, Wheatfield.... 7. F. P. Wade, Geneva, 1nd...... 6.12 John Hack & Son, main ditch 5.5 Same, laterals 10. John C. Vanatta, Brookston. . 6.15 Will Brown, Hebron, Ind 6.98 The contract was awarded to the Wolcott Dredging Co., whose bid of 5.65 cents per cubic yard was the lowest. ,

The engineer’s estimate shows the required excavation in cubic yards to be as follows: Main ditch... 557,367.7 Branch No. 1.. 22,370.9 Branch No. 2.. 69,773.9 Total 649,512.5 Total estimated cost... .148,232.21 Contract price @ 5.65 c. .136,697.45 Less than estimate. .$11,534.76

Notice:—We are paying 11 cents a pound for hens, and 25 cents a pound for spring chickens, weighing 2 pounds or better. B. 8. FENDIG.

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