The log cabin Democrat., 1907-07-18
MUCH WORK YET TO BE DONE Money Needed to Comply With
 Normal Bid.
Additional Subscriptions Must be Secured to Meet Conditions Agreed Upon
 by Conway and Board.

 we haven't got 1t. It has been To- cated at Conway upon the condi- ton that within sixty days certain stipulations which have been agreed upon by the committee rep senting Conway and the normal board. be met. In order to do this, large amount of additional subscriptions must be raised.
 Realizing this fact, meeting of the Board of Trade was held Tues day morning, which was attended by large body of business and professional men. After thorough ly discussing the matter, it was de cided to put the canvass for sub scriptions in the hands of an exec utive committee appointed for the purpose. The chairman appointed on this committee George w. Don aghey, w. w. Martin, $. Ander- son, Jo Frauenthai, s. C.. Smith, w. M. Harrell, A. E. Livingston, N. C. Martin, F. U. Halter, Ben l.. Griffin and Frank E. Robins.
 The committee met at once and began to lay plans for the canvass and will hold daily meetings until the work is accomplished. The following statement was prepared for publication by the committee: To the Citizens of Faulkner Coun-
 ty:
 The Board of Trade of Conway has succeeded in landing the state normal school in Conway, but this landing is only temporary one. It depends entirely upon whether or not we comply with the terms of our proposition.
 Fifty-one of our citizens met in convention at Little Rock to make the proposition for the location of this school in our county. After canvassing the situation we found that the subscription we had was too small to secure the school for our county. However, under the terms laid down by the normal board for the submission of propos- als we were allowed to deposit one thousand dollars with the board as a guarantee that we would deposit the whole amount of our bid for the school in some bank within sixty days after that time. If we did not comply with this require ment we were to lose the thousand dollars so deposited. We decided that we would bid more than the amount of our subscription, put up the thousand dollars as a guaran- tee and then secure the balance of the subscription necessary to maA the deficiency good ill the sixty days time that we had to make the deposit in the bank, provided that our bid should be the best bid for the school. It so happened that by the smallest margin our bid was the best one submitted. Ben ton, Russellville and Fort Smith are all now sorely ashamed of themselves because they did not bid more. All of them are now anxious to raise their bid and take the school, but we have captured the prize for at least sixty days if not for all time-no other town can interrupt us during this time.
 When the board of trustees de- cided to put the school here on our bid they went further in their requirements than even the bid specified. They required of us to provide an ample supply of water and a septic tank for sewerage dis posal and sewerage pipe-all for a large population at the building they required of us to lay out the grounds, to extend sidewalks, to connect electric lights and to com ply with various other details not mentioned in the bid, all of which we were forced to agree to because if we did not there were three oth- CT towns whose representatives were standing there anxious to accept all such conditions and then pay more than our bid in specific cash.
 So by summing up the situation we find ourselves in the following attitude:
 3 When we went to Little Rock to bid for the school we had sub- scription that was worth in cash about $40, ,ooo. In round numbers our bid for the school was i'll cash S54 1000, including the So acres oi land for the site. Before the board of trustees would accept our propo- sition they made us agree to do ad- ditional work and service that will make our bid run up to about six ty-fve thousand dollars in cash. Then it follows that in order to hold the school for Faulkner coun-