The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21
tract been given under competitive
Dlds.-Culbertson Searchlight.
DOLIN GETS PRINTING
AT SPECIAL SESSION

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At special session of the count,
Board last Wednesday the Count,
commissioners made tentativ
agreement toward the official count,
printing to Joseph F. Dolin, pub
Usher of the Pientywood Ponce,
Press. The motion was passed AMI
carried to name Dolin to succeed
himself, but was not approved al
this special meeting. The commits
sloners say there was no contract
signed at the time but Mr.. Dolir
said in his paper last week that he
mad been renamed County Printer
and it is understood from good au-
thority that a contract was signed
with Dolin On May 31st. The con-
tract was not of record on Wednes-
day.
The Standard learns that Com
missioner Frank Weinrich voted
against a resolution to enter into a
contract with Mr.. Dolin.
The circumstances surrounding
special meeting are confusing, to
say the least.
Strange as it may seem, the fact
remains however, that Joseph F. Do
lin was the only publisher in Sheri-
dan county that knew of the meet
ing, and accordingly, his was the
only bid. Other printers, and by the
way, there are about twenty-five of
them in the county, had been led to
believe that the contract would be
given out on June 4th, and with that
information at hand many of the
newspaper men had expected to be
present on that day to submit Legal
tenders for the big printing job.
Camoufage is new word to most
of US. 1t has come into usage since
the world war began, but how we
got along without it through all
these years is a mystery. It fits in
so nicely to describe situation
such as this, for kind Sir, the in
formation that the printing contract
matter would come, up on Tuesday,
June 4th, was camoufage; nothing
but camoufiage, spelled either with
a &C" or a "K".
Heretofore, there has been moth
ing irregular about the awarding of
the printing contract in this coun-
ty. 1t has been the custom to no
tify all the printers that the Job
would be given out on a certain date
and any one who expected to try for
the big plum should be on hand
with his figures and proof of quail
flcation. This custom was followed
when the county was first organic
ed, and two years ago when Mr.. Do !,
i'm first got the contract for his
Medicine Lake paper and there was
every reason to believe that it would
De the procedure this year. In fact,
he county commissioners them
selves, and several Of the county Of
icials said it would be. Mr.. Frank
). Reed, publisher of the Culbertson
searchlight; Mr.. c. S. Nelson, pub
Usher of the Plentywood Herald;
md Editor Taylor of the Producers
Jews were advised to that effect.
even on the day that the special
session was put over, so imagine the
olt the newspaper men of this coun-
y got Wednesday night when the
'ews was flashed over the wire that
J special session had been held and
hat an agreement had been reach
ID with Dolin.
Understand now, Mr.. Dolin was the
My printer who was permitted to
ubmit bid.
The newspapers of this county that
ave equipment. sufficient to handle
ne job were willing and anxious to
i'd, but when they were notified that
here would be nothing doing until
tuesday,, June 4th, they were shut
ut. Il
In these days of frightfully high
axes and heavy demands upon the
ocketbook because of the high cost !
t living it is DESTROYS to keep {,
own expenditure of public moneys,
ut it is especially so this year, be-
ause of the war, when the taxpay-
rs want to give their every spare
emit to the war activities, and with
MS in mind, the boys over the coun-
had agreed to cut the very heart
ut of their bids. They were going
, keep the prices down to rock !
ottom. Any good business man
ould see what that would have
leant if there had been competitive {
ldding. But there was not, and
hereby hangs a story. Newspaper
len of this county, as they have all
yer the land, have tried to do their /
art in helping to win the war. They
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