The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-13
CONTRACTS LET.
School Board Holds its July
Meeting.
New Boiler for Pleasant Grove Building
New Cement Walks and
Curling, etc.


son were present at the meeting of the
school board Thursday night.
Two bids were received for laying a
cement walk eight feet wide in front
of the Union school building, together
with approaches to the building and
to the curb line; also for laying a
cement walk on Bryan street side of
the Pleasant Grove property, six feet
wide, and for a cement curbing for
the Pleasant street side of the Pleasant
Grove property. Fowler q Pay bid
1884 for the walk at the Union school
and 1888 for a combined curb and
gutter there For the Pleasant Grove
walk, this firm bid Sal. so, and for the
combined curb and gutter on Byron
street side it bid $63, and for a COM
bined curb and gutter on the Pleasant
street side $146.
johnson & Asplund bid nine cents
per square foot for soft cement walk
at both buildings, and eight cents for
blocks. For combined curb and gutter
they bid SO cents per running foot,
and for curbing without gutter As
cents per running foot.
The bids were referred to the COM
mittee on property and expense with
power to award the contract to the
lowest bidder when this is ascertained.
The bids are about the same. 1t was
voted to lay solid walk at the Pleas
ant Grove building and a block walk
at the Union building.
The following bids were received
for furnishing $50 tons of soft COAL
third vein, to be delivered as needed at
the Union, high school and Pleasant
Grove buildings during the coming
school year:
Mankato Coal, Coke and Cedar Co
Spring valley, Marquette and General
Wilmington third vein Illinois lump,
So So, mine run of the same varieties
So %, all f. O. b. in Mankato,
StandardLumber Co-Screened Illinois
coal and third vein COAL delivered, So. 30.
w. w. Cargill Co., third vein Will
mington Illinois, on track, So. 30, de-
livered So. 90; Hooking, on track,
81 70, delivered So.
The contract was awarded to the
Standard Lumber Co.
Bids were opened for boiler for the
heating plant in the Pleasant Grove
building, to be fourteen feet long and
"a inches in diameter, as follows:
E. c.. Wickersham-$771, or 1918 if
placed in basement of new part He
offers $50 for the old boiler.
Mankato Steam Boiler Works 1915
in old part of building. 1t offers $50
for the old boiler.
Mankato Manufacturing Co.-$67O
in old part, $3.50 in new part of
building 1t offers $50 for the old
boiler
On motion of Capt. Keysor, the
contract was awarded to the Mankato
Steam Boiler Works. The work is to
be done by Sept. 1st.
The board took up the matter of re-
pairs to the various buildings, and
Capt. Keysor stated that the estimate
expense of all Of them was so, As.
A motion by Mr.. Fletcher was car
ried, to advertise for bids for calci-
mining, painting and reslating black
boards He also moved that the
committee on property and expense
see that the balance of the repairs re-
commended are made, and this was
carried
The bills were taken up and allowed.
The following judges of election
were appointed for the school election,
July 21st:
First precinct-H. F. Shaw, Fl. II.
Hillesheim Ernest Brown.
Second precinct-W. d. Thompkins,
Geo. NJ Phillips Mrs. L. J. Slower.
Third precinct-A M. Smith, W. j.
Osborn, J. F. Crowell.
Fourth precinct-A.. G. Barney, A.
NJ. Morrison, w. H. Glenn.
The board adjourned.