The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11
FOOD and RAIMENT.
Board of Control Buys 100000 Worth
for State Institutions.

Groceries and dry goods sufficient
to supply the nine state charitable in
situations until July 1, 1918, are being
purchased today by the state board of
| control. There are 4S bidders for
the dry goods contracts and an equal
number for the grocery business
About 100000 will be spent by the
state to provide groceries and dry
goods for these institutions during the
next six months.
With perhaps one exception there
are but little changes in the prices
quoted to the state today and those
quoted by the bidders six months ago.
The one big exception is in the price
of sugar. Six months ago, the state
paid $5.42 a hundred pounds for
sugar. Today she bought the same
grade of sugar for $4.S6 a hundred
calls for supply of 141,000 pounds
of sugar to be delivered to the various
state institutions in the next six
months the Sc cents a hundred
On the other hand the price of cot
ton and wooden goods has advanced
since the July letting, but the increase
in those prices is hardly as large as
in decrease gained in the price of
sugar. But those are only two of
several hundred items which will go to
the store houses of the state institu-
tions. In fact it would require al
most the entire stock of a fairly large
wholesale house to supply these
wants.
Some of the Big Items.
For instance it will require 1850
mates of the various institutions for
six months. OF this amount $3.50
pounds is in chewing tobacco and 900
pounds in smoking tobacco.
Then there is the little item of tea.
The state will today buy 1910 pounds
of Japan tea to supply its wants until
next July. This morning a contract
for coffee was let. That contract calls
for $4,000 pounds to be delivered on
order at 2212 cents a pound.
The various institutions will this
winter use 2,205 dozen cans of peas.
They will also require 10000 pounds of
raisins and 25,70O pounds of rice to
say nothing of a little order of $1,000
pounds of evaporated apples. or 81 400
pounds Of navy beans and 1920 pounds
of Lima beans. Cream cheese, in the
amount of 10000 pounds and at Is
cents per pound, was purchased today
by the board of control. There is also
an item of 5000 pounds of crackers
at a contract price of AZ cents per
pound.
Will Eat Figs, Too.
One of the items among the several
hundred things to be purchased by
the board of control, is f1gs-real, fresh
ones, too. The program calls for the |
purchase of 5000 pounds of figs for the /
inmates of the various institutions !
The contract for this item will be let |
this afternoon.
Among the items on the dry goods |
and clothing list, is a contract for so +
dozen pairs of overalls, so dozen pairs
of pants, $500 yards of hickory shirt +
ing, $50 pairs of womens shoes at a ;
contract price of $1.42 a pair; and $50 ,
pairs of mems shoes at $1.75 a pair, |
and 3,125 yards of Bingham.
Then there are a number of small |
items. For instance, in the next six !
months the state will use al gross of |
hairpins 925 dozen spools of thread, !
81 900 needles, buttons to the num-
Der Of Az gross and SO dozen tooth |
brushes. That is not nearly all the i
items on the list. But when you fig 1
IRE on the back of an envelope to de- L
termine where the taxes go, don't II
overlook this semi-annual letting byl
the state board of control 1t means
from 1000 to 100000 a year for the
little things and the real necessities
of life