The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-06-10
STATE AUDITORS AWARD VAR
loUS CONTRACTS FOR
SUPPLIES.
DRYS PREPARE FOR FIGHT
Governor Is Not Pleased With Atti-
tude Of Cities That Do Not Wish
to Comply With Provisions
Of Covert Law.
10y eurd M. Hayes.l

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cial meeting Thursday relative to the
lighting contract for the state capitol
during the next two years. The Michi-
gan Power company has underbid the
municipal lighting plant of Lansing
and according to Secretary Matthews
of the board of auditors, the bid of
the Michigan Power company is about
half as high as the bid submitted by
the company two years ago.
In 1913 the board of auditors award
ed the contract for electricity to the
municipal plant of Lansing and took
the heating contract away from the
power company. However, last year
the power company submitted bid
| for heating that was satisfactory and
during the past winter the boilers in
the state house have not been oper-
ated.
When the city was awarded the con-
tract for electricity two years ago
special machinery was installed for
the operation of the capitol elevators
and if the bid of the Michigan Power
company is accepted, Secretary Mat
thews says it will be necessary to tear
out the machinery. The auditors
praise the city service, claiming it
has been very satisfactory during the
past two years. 1t is believed that
some action will be taken on the light
! ing bids at the next meeting of the
| board.
The board of auditors divided the
contracts for paper TO be used in the
state departments between Beecher
| Peck & Lewis of Detroit, Dudley Pa
per company of Lansing, lhling Broth
ers Everard company of Kalamazoo,
and the Union Paper & Irvine COM
pany of Detroit.
The contracts for stationery supplies
were divided between lhling Brothers
Everard company Of Kalamazoo, Allen
Printing company of Lansing, North
rup Robertson & Carrier company of
Lansing, Remington Typewriter COM
pany of Detroit and the Dudley Paper
company of Lansing.
The lithographing contract was
awarded to Dickinson Brothers OF
Grand Rapids and the enclosing con-
tract went to Ihling Brothers Eyerard
company of Kalamazoo.
With plans already under way for
the statewide prohibition fight TO be
staged in Michigan next year, the
Michigan Anti-Saloon League is out
lining its campaign for local option in
a number of counties next spring and
il is the ambition of the league Off
Gals to have at least two-thirds of
the state in dry" territory when the
prohibition proposition is submitted
to vote at the general election in
November, 1916.
At the present time 43 of the SO
counties in the state have adopted To-
cal option. AT the April election the
upper peninsula. where the liquor in
terests have been strongly intrenched,
yielded to some extent before the at
tacks of the prohibition adherents and
Alger and Iron counties swung into
the dry" column. Next year the
anti-saloon league forces will stage
another battle beyond the straits and
the counties of Mackinac, Luce. Bar
aga, Schoolcraft, Delta and Menomi-
ness will be invaded
Petitions have already been circu-
lated by the "drys" for the submission
of local option in Jackson, Mackinac,
Luce and Baraga counties. Other
wet" counties to be tackled by the
"drys" next year according to Superin-
tendent Grant Hudson of the Michigan
Anti-Saloon League are Glare, Wash
tenaw, Lake, Manistee, Arenac, Iosco,
and Ogemaw. There is a possibility
that an attempt will be made to sub
NIT the question in several other coun-
ties.
Elated by their victories in the local
option elections last spring the anti
saloon league forces are confident that
the April election next year will forti-
fly them to a great extent for the state
wide campaign in the fall.
Superintendent Hudson feels ex-
tremely confident that the statewide
prohibition campaign will result in
victory for the dry" forces. He con-
ceds Wayne, Kent and Bay counties
to the liquor forces, but asserts that
the remaining so counties will return
sufficient majorities to eliminate the
saloons and breweries.
William r. Oates, of Laurium, will
continue as state game, fish and for
estry warden for another year at
least. At meeting of the public do
main commission today, Oates was re-
appointed for a period of one year.
His salary will remain at $4,000.
John Baird of Saginaw, former
state senator and member OF the re-
publican state central committee was
appointed chief deputy warden.
Baird's salary will be $500 per year
Chief Clerk Charles Hoyt of Grand
Haven, who is regarded as one of the
most valuable men In the department
will remain in his present position