The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-09
THEY'RE EGWENOUT
State Contracts Awarded by
Board Of Control.
Topeka Merchants Fare Well
in Distribution.
A CONTEST on SUGAR.
Contract Goes to a Firm in
Lawrence.
Ottawa Company Gets Bulk of
Milling Contracts.

In the letting of Contracts by the
state board of charities for supplying
the state institutions with their neces-
saries during the next SIX months.
which was completed this morning,
the Topeka bidders got a large por-
ton of the dry goods. clothing, hard
ware, queensware, and stationery.
while the big end OF the grocery,
meat and flour contracts went out of
town.
Prices We're generally a. little lower
than six months ago. One of the
most interesting fights was on the fur
nishing of sugar. The Institutions es-
innate that they viii need $4,000
pounds of sugar during the next six
months Jett & Woods, of Wichita,
bid $6.11 per 100; ss-mns of Atchi-
son, bid $6.OS and s6-1s. but the con-
tract was given to Theo. Poehler, of
Lawrence, at s6. At this price the
state will pay out $3.50 for sugar the
next six months The sugar situation
! is very unsettled, and most of the gro
GERS were afraid to undertake to bid
on the item. Jett g. Woods secured
the brown sugar contract at $4.87. No
bids were received in pulveriZed sugar
| w. F. Weber, of Topeka, who rep
resents observation-disclosures of Topeka in
the bidding. secured the following
items: California breakfast food,
macaroni, prunes, pears, splums, dried
peaches, raisinss saI@ soda, Sapolio,
barber soap and Ivory soap. Otto
Kuehne, of Topeka, viii furnish the
molasses at % cents. chow chow at
81 and vanilla and lernoa- extracts at
$3.50 and 81.
Some of the important grocery
items, of which large quantities are
used, were let to the following par
ties:
Oatmeal. H D. Lee. saIina, at s2.5z
per barrel.
Baking powder. H D. Lee, salina,
/ Cheap; Theo. Poehler, Lawrence
! CPrice and ReyaL)
Beans, Dolan Mercantile company
Cheese. symns Grocery company
1 Atchison, 11ss cents per pound-
/ Chocolate, Symns Grocery company
Atchison, 235h cents per pound.
Coffee, H. D. Lee, Salina, at II u
cents and Lehmann-H -Higginson OF
/ Wichita, Il cents.
Canned corn, Dolan Mercantile Co.
Tea, H. D. Lee, salina, 21 cents.
Tobacco, H. D. Lee, Salina, "a
and S9A cents per pound.
The contract for furnishing shoes
was secured by Warren NJ. Crosby ol
/ Topeka. Mems shoes will be furnish
AaUt -
B. Cohn of Ottawa secured the slip
per contract at "a Z cents
Crosby Bros. of Topeka secured
more dry goods contracts than any
other one firm, but there was d ioL o.
hard competition for the business. The
following is list of the bidders wh6
secured one or more contracts; eros
by Bros, Topeka; w. J. Calhoun, For
Scott; NJ. B. Conn, Ottawa; Johnson
Tarirner Wichita; Warren M CROSBY
! Goods Co TODHkA
Topeka Cash Dry Goods Co.; A. u
Weaver, Lawrence; The Palace Clotn
ing COMPANY. Topeka; Western Wool
en- mills, Topeka; August clothing 20.
Topeka; H. D. Mercantlle Co, Sdliila
The Forest Park Milling company o.
Ottawa secured most of the flour con
tracts. It came into Topeka. ana pea
the Topeka s'raillerS' combine" prices
There was only one Topeka miller pld
ding Thomas Page, and ne secured
number of ont of town contracts For
est Park Milling company VIII supp!
flour at s175 per 100 to the Topeka an'
Osawatonlie asylums, Topeka zlli reLoIn {
school. school for the deaf ana duIlil
at Olathe; Thomas Page of Topeka bl'
81 80 and will supply the lo1loMlils l..-
schools: School for the bllnd, hailsa
CitV Feloit school and Atchison or
Dhsns' home. Hoke Bros of Parsons
hid 81 S5 and secured the Parsons asy
lun: and J. P. Baden of Winheld, go
the school for feeble minded youth a
Winfield. --,,,,.. IN,
ToneI1a Industrial school Will be FUR
1isbed lei1I1 by Charles Wolff Packing com
pany. but the Topeka firm did not ,I5ss &c
IN on any out of town contracts IN
beef trust divided up the rest Of tn
state institutions to suit themselves rs. YES
Cudahy got few small contracts, pu m
+ba hulk of the business IS DIVIDED pc
tween Armour, Swift and Schwartzchil
& Sultzberger. + !
rro-1a1-a ANS W A L. Thompson Sc
cured the most. coughlin and the To
pel7s sa,ns17o,+l Sr9ll E Ashby and the TopeH;
Cash divided up the queensware con
tracts. ,o+ .
NJ l. Zercher of Topeka got lot Q
pens for ali the institutions. The Hal
Stationery company will ,1l furnish dIall;,l, nou
ooIes ,,55 ,,,,12g ether minor items Tn
Topeka Cash and NJ. B. Cohn OF otta
wa each secured a few contracts