The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1908-01-09
COUNTY PRINTING
Stearns County Impoverished
the Neat Sum of $500
THE HERALD HELPED
Offer Of Seven County Papers
Rejected by Commissioners
In Favor of The Times

The county commissioners met at
St. Cloud Tuesday morning for their
annual gathering. Bids for the county
printing for 1908 were submitted by
the st. Cloud Times and by the st.
Cloud Journal-Press. The commits
sioners opened these bids and on
motion of Commissioners Kowal-
kowski, their consideration was de-
ferred until Thursday morning.
The Journal-Press offered to print
the proceedings of the commissioner,
the board of audit, and other legal
printing for 37L cents per folio for
the first insertion and for Tx cents
per folio for the second insertion; and
the financial statement at the same
rates. Their bids on the delinquent
tax list was 9 cents per description.
The Journal-Press also agreed to pub
lish the whole in the Daily and Week
ly Journal Press. the Sank Centre
Herald. the Melrose Beacon, the
Albany Tribune, the Paynesville
Press, the Cold Spring Record and
the Richmond Standard, without extra
expense to the county.
The Times, which is now the official
paper of the county, offered to do the
work at full legal rates, namely, rs
cents for first insertion and IS cents
for seconG insertion, 70, all legal
printing except the delinquent tax
list. The Times bid on that was Is cents
per description. The Times also
agreed to publish the same in Der
Nordstern in addition to the Daily
and Weekly Times:
The combined circulation of the
papers named in the bid of the
Journal-Press, in Stearns county,
exceeds that Of the papers included
in the bid of the Times, while the
figures in the Jeurnal-Press bid
would save the taxpayers OF the county
in the neighborhood of 81, 500 year.
The Sank Centre Herald, On Tues
day, sent in sealed bid for the print
ing of stationery for the county
officers for 1908. The Herald offered
to do this work at lower rate than
is now being done by Der Nordstern,
and to give as good quality of work,
all printed stationery to be laid down
f. 0. b. at the court house, st. Cloud.
The printing question came up
again at o'clock Thursday morning.
The commissioners called for new
bids and the Times submitted bid
Offering to dc the work for the same
price as was named in toe Journal
Press bid. On motion of Commits
sioner J. H. Garfield OF Sank Centre
the Times bid was accepted. 1t was
made the official paper Of the county
for the year 1908, the vote on Com
missioner Canfield's motion being
unanimous. Up to the time of going
to press The Herald has no informa-
ton as what action, if any, was taken
on its bid for job printing.
The result OF the proceedings is
that the taxpayers of the county have
been saved at least $500 On the
official printing for the year. At the
same time the official printing of the
county will not reach nearly as many
readers as it would had the bid OF the
Journal-Press been accepted. Com
ment is unnecessary.
The commissioners fixed salaries OF
county officers at the old figures with
one change, namely, the deputy
treasurer will receive ST. $50 instead of
81, 200 a year as heretofore. The
county attorney will get S2,0e0 and
the superintendent OF schools ST. 500.
The county auditor is allowed $4,000
for clerk hire. An appropriation OF
$500 was made for the county at
torney's contingent fund; also one oil