The herald., 1896-08-04
POMONA
A War Among the Local Painters - Boy
Burglars

POMONA, Aug. 3.-There is war
among the local painters over the award
ing of the contract to paint the Central
High school building.
backyard & Sharp, bidders on the
work, claim to be the aggrieved parties,
and their story is that S. S. Beck, to
whom the contract was awarded at $20S,
using Los Angeles paint, has gone to
work, acting under instructions from
the board of education, with eastern
paint at the figure named by them
($211.5O), when he was awarded the con-
tract at $20S and was to use Los Angeles
paint.
The clause referring to the accept
ance Of the bid. in the minutes of the
meeting of the board of education, held
July 2s, reads as follows:
Bids for painting the north eight
room building, in accordance with sepc-
ifications, were opened and read, as fol-
lows:
III. w. Freyermouth s247, Ben Pala-
mountain 1928, backyard & Sharp $211. so,
S. S. Beck, Los Angeles paint, $20S;
Mound City paint, s212; Phoenix paint,
1925; pure prepared paint, 1925.
IS. S. Beck being the lowest bidder,
awarded to him, in accordance with
specifications and bid submitted, under
direction of building committee
Secretary Adams says the board puts
the same construction upon it, which is
that the board has the right, with the
consent of the contractor and his sure
ties, to make whatever changes deemed
necessary, and possessing the knowl-
edge that they did, that eastern paint
would give better satisfaction than the
cheaper grade proposed they came to the
conclusion, after Mr.. Beck's bid had
hnn n al fn t1,AI ~
price between the two paints, and SO
instructed Mr.. Beck. Mr.. Adams also
stated that it was very doubtful wheth-
er backyard & Sharp's bid would have
been accepted under any consideration,
for, when questioned in regard to their
ability to furnish any make of paint de-
sired by the board, backyard & Sharp
were unable to say whether or not they
could furnish the brands demanded.
Sharp has been on the warpath today
and threatened to serve an injunction on
the painters at work on the building.
but finally cooled down somewhat and
contented himself with serving verbal
notice to Beck to stop work. and de-
clares it his intention TO go before the
meeting of the board tomorrow evening
and demand that he be awarded the con-
tract for painting the school building in
question.
Two mischievous little fellows. aged
5 and Z years old. who live with their
widowed mother on West Holt avenue,
broke into the residence of DR. HURT
during the family's absence from home
few days ago, and played havoc general
ly with whatever household effects they
could lay their hands upon.
The boys cooked themselves a meal of
corn and tomatoes, going out into the
garden to get the corn, and pulling up a
whole row for their limited needs; then
they made an excursion up into the gar
ret and rummaged through all the old
trunks that they were able to find, leav-
ing their contents strewn all over the
floor. Not content with this, they Sc
cured box of matches and ATTEMPTED
to set fire to the laths exposed to view
by broken place in the wall, where a
piece of clustering had fallen off Miss
Bertha HURT surprised the boys by her
entrance ei into the house before they had
time to run away so the precocious pair
ma themselves under the bed, where
Miss HURT finally found them. Con-
stable Slanker. when informed Of the
boys depredations, administered a Sc
we're % lecture, and it is to be hoped
that 1t Will have the desired effect 1t is
SAID that their mother is very worthy
woman. but lacks time and opportunity
to keep the boys at home, as she goes out
to wash
Mrs, r. N. Hildreth and daughters.
Bess. Wilma and Elaine. and Mrs. T. B.
Wailace, Il. L. wallace and Grace Wal
lace form jolly party who will leave
overland by wagon tomorrow for Long
Beach, where they will remain for the
next month.
Miss Ida Shut. manager of the West
ern Union office here. and Mrs. Chas.
Ludlow go to Santa Monica tomorrow
for a months stay
Prof. j. G. Cross. author of eclectic
shorthand, having just completed very
SUCCESSFUL course of lessons at the Long
beacn Chautauqua. is now organizing
class at Pomona. His system is he;no
introduced into the schools of the Unit,
ed states more rapidly than any other
ana is claimed to be the shortest system
In use.