The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-04-19


cher and carried by votes OF Ohman,
Tracy. McKercher and Schy a'm-Foote
dissenting, il was ordered that Dr.John
0. Zellen be subpnnsd TO appear at
the next meeting OF the Board to give
evidence in regard to certain bills pre-
sented TO the board by himself and 9TH
ers. found nothing. however, N the
minutes Of succeeding meetings TO Ia
dicate that such hearing was ever held.
II it was the evidence might have shed
much light on the subject hid 1t been
entered on the minutes.
AT the meeting of March 9th, 1909
sealed proposals were received from:
TIL. Goodnow, Spur and Cow
ington townships onlv.......S 800 %
w. X. Stringham, entire co ilo w
K. s. auckland and j. 0. Eel
len. entire county ....k. .... lzoOlo
On motion of Foote supported by
Schwa,m the bid of DR.. Stringham was
accepted by votes of Foote, MckeTcher
and Schwalm Gilman and Tracy ais
senting and the chairman and clerk
were authorized to enter into contract
with DR.. Stringhau. for the sum Of
$3.50
For the next four years the boards
actions in awarding contagious disease
contracts made the advertising for
bids farce as in each and every in
stance contracts were made with other
than the lowest bidders. The record
of this action is as follows:
At the meeting of March 18th. 1907
the following bids were received IN res
ponse to the usual advertisement.
T. L. Goodnow. forASpurr and
Covington townships only s $50 90
r. S. auckland and j. o. Eel
len, for entire county ....... 400 90
w. X. Stringham and w. A.
ZeIen for Baraga, L'Anse &
Arvon townships. ........... $50 %
On motion of McKercher. supported
by Schwalm all the proposals were re-
jected by votes Of Been, Schwalm, Elf
man and McKercher. Then, on motion
of McKercher supported by Been, the
chairman (Foote) and clerk were in
structed to enter into contracts for one
year with T. l.. Goodnow for services,
medicine, etc, for Spur and Coving-
ton townships for $4,000, and with w.
r. Stringham and w. A. Zeilen Jointly
for $4,000 for Arvon, Baraga and
L'Anse townships. A total of Sl310. 90
as against the bid of DR.. j. o. Zellen
of $4,000 for the entire county. No
reason appears in the minutes to ex-
plain this remarkable action on the
part Of the board in disregarding the
lowest bidder and awarding contracts
at an additional expense to almost
Sl000.00 to the taxpayers Of the county.
AS on the vote to reject the proposals
Foote was the only member not concur
ring in this action.
At meeting held April End of the
following year four proposals were re-
ceived as follows:
T. L. Goodnow, all townships. $1,000 90
or for Spur and Gov tps.only. $50 90
X. S. auckland and l.. M. Pow
er, all townships including
villages ...... ........... oVO w
J. o. Zellen for Arvon, L'Anse
and Baraga townships. ...... 4i9 90
w. A. Zellen, for Arvon, L'Anse
and Baraga townships. ..... $50 90
On motion of McKercher supported
by Been the chairman and clerk were
to enter into contracts with
T. l.. Goodnow for Spur and Coving-
ton townships for $4,000. and j. o.
Zellen for Arvon, L'Anse and Baraga
townships Qncluding villages) for
S449. 90; a total of $4,000 as against
the bid of Drs. Buckland and Power
for $5O0.00 for ali townships including
villages. This arbitrary action was
carried by votes of Been, Gilman, Nc
Kercher> and Schwalm, Foote being the
only dissenting voter as in the previous
year.
At this meeting motion was made
by Been supported by Foote that DR..
John Zellen and Walfred A. v. Zellen
jointly be allowed 100000 in full set
Element of all their claims against Bar
aga county up to and including April
End, 1903. This motion was declared
carried by votes of Been, Foote and
Schwalm, Gilman and McKercher dis
senting.
This resolution however was rescind-
ed at the meeting of May 10th, 1908, on
motion of Hid supported by McKerch-
er, by vote of Hid, Gilman, McKerch-
er and Foote-Been alone dissenting.
This action had reference to the
claims for which Supervisor Wood
worth's committee, three years before,
reported S5OO0.0O as being ample COM
pensa.ion. In the face of said report
this board was willing to almost double
the amount of the settlement.
At the meeting of April 1st, 1909, in
response to advertisement, three pro-
posals were received as follows: