Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1909 — Marshall Had No Boar to Make at Lafayette. [ARTICLE]

Marshall Had No Boar to Make at Lafayette.

Lafayette Democrat. Wallace Marshall couldn’t make his jasper county roar here for, although he was not the lowest bidder, his Lafayette Engineering company got the Contracts from the board of county commissioners on last Saturday afternoon for the following bridges: New bridge over Hog run southeast of Monitor, $1,850; superstructure of new Murphy bridge, mile northwest of Buck Creek, $690; new Hebron bridge to replace old one, $1,562; repairing Marshall bridge on Eliza Marshall road, $540; repairing Widmer bridge, near Number Ten, $824. The Paul, DeLong & Hoffman company got the contract for the substructure of the Murphy ford bridge, the price being S6OO. The National Bridge company submitted bids which in the aggregate were lower than the others, but the commissioners said they considered the style of bridges proposed by the company was too light for safety and durability, so it • a wasn’t necessary for Wallace to do any Jasper county stunt here. He got his’n. Daniel B. Luten, of Indianapolis, who builds the Luten reinforced concrete bridge, had a bid in for $4,400 —about S3OO lower than the Marshall bid and he asked that he be given an opportunity to explain his bridge to the board and its advantages over other bridges, but he was not given the hearing, although he says the promise was given him that he should be heard. Luten says he was not surprised at the action of the board—anybody with half an eye could see that Marshall’s company would land The will of Chester Dutton, who was, until his death in Concordia, Kans., July I', the oldest living graduate of Yale, is written on the reverse side of the diploma which Yale granted him in 1841. As Dutton explained to his lawyer when he drew the instrument, he desired his family to value the piece of parchment as he did. . Mrs v Andrew Ritter is „dead in Huntington from tetanus, resulting from running a splinter into her foot while walking in her yard. The accident took place ten days ago, but only home remedies were used until lockjaw began developing Saturday and Sunday. Her death romltffl Tfiej-