The producers news., 1923-05-25
TWO DAYS SPENT SETTING THE STAGE
After Refusing Lundeen Motion Award Contract to Pro-
ducers News, Plentywood Herald Redstone Review
lbsen Moves Contract Be Warded DoIin

County Commissioners Tyler and
Ibsen after spending three days of
time, and putting the county to about
fifty dollars of expense, at the tale
end of the special meeting called to
convene Wednesday, May 23rd, to
consider the letting of the printing
contract, after going thru the motors
to determine which was the lowest bid
der, in order to camoufage their de-
termined purpose to give the contract
to the Pioneer Press, about noon Fri
day awarded the contract to the high
est bidder, namely Joe Dolin. and In
mediately signed the contract which
had been prepared week or two ago.
Wednesday afternoon about four
o'clock, the bids were opened-four
having presented bids: tho Producers
News, The Pioneer Press, The Plenty
wood Herald and The Pedstone Re-
view, accompanied bv the required
certified check in the sum of $500.
Upon the opening of the bids and
the announcement of the bidders, Com.
Lundeen, moved that the bid of the
Pioneer Press be rejected entirely and
be not even considered because of the
1 trouble
had with Dolin and because of the
numerous purjured and false claims
which he had presented to the county
and because of the numerous recover
les that had been made AGAINST him
on these false and perjured claims in
the courts.
The motion fo1od fo~ lock Of q SER
ond and the bod proceeded to check
up the bids, ceiling in Carl Peterson
to help Mr.. Quiz. The careful check
ing of the bids disclosed the fact that
DoIin bid was clluck full Of its usual
fraud and jokers and that on the
printing actually 70 he ordered that
! the Producers Nev-e Wos the lowest
l and best bid, that tho neXt lowest and
best bid was the Plentvwood Herald,
and the third lowest ara hest bid was
that of the Redstone Reviov-. Com.
TYLER Immediately annou0 cod that aS
far as he was concerned that his p'ind
was made up and he was nTcnared to
make award, but Honest" lens Ib-
sen was somewhat ratified an1 waited
more time to consider, so the meeting
adjourned until Thursday morning.
The Board met again the following
i morning and took up the contTact 9nd
: the matter was discussed all the fore
0 noon and all the afternoon, sOmetLloe
the argument getting pretty hot, II
which it was absolutely demonstrated
that Dolin's bid was the highest pre-
) sented. Com. Ibsen got red in the face
and look distressed when at moor
IS Thursday, Com. LUndeen moved tC
y award the contract to the Producers
News, rennarlking that there was M
: use spending any more time as the
e majority of the board had made w
le their minds what they were going t.
n do before the meeting convened
T, There was no second, then Lundeel
n moved that the contract be given t.
le the Plentywood Herald; there was n,
rs second to the motion; Lundeen thel
moved that the contract be awarded
2 to the Redstone Review; there was n
N second; Lundeen then said, we hav
e, wasted enough time on this matter,
n move we adjourn. there was no secOn'
al to this motion. So all of these mo
tions were lost for want of a second
i'll Com. Lundeen then went back to Out
Or look to keep a business engagement
and the remaining members of tn
board threshed the matter over unit
ra six when they adjourned until
~ o'clock Friday morning, when the
IN met and after passing a few claims
ad Com. Ibsen moved that the cOntraC
Ill be awarded to Dolin aThl the Pionee
ne Press and Com. Tyler seconded tn
ne motion Com. Lundeen then moved q
a substitute motion that as Dolin ha
Iu by payment of money for seed graf
ce to county which he had gotten frOl
ay the county by fraud and that he wa
ne not a fit character for the county
II enter into contract with, that th
e contract be awarded to the Producer
All News. The motion was not seconde
ne and upon vote on Ibsen's motion,
i'll carried: Ibsen and Tyler voting ay
and Lundeen voting no. The speci;
session then adjourned until Monda.
er June 4th, when the regular meetin
nd will occur.
of Before adjournment, Com. Tylt
n called up Paul Babcock, Dolin's lav
N yer and told him to bRing down Il
a contract which he did and the SAN
r was signed after it had been slightl
RI amended.
ty Com. Tyler and Ibsen spent consi'
cradle time in Mr.. Babcock's ofiC
Thursday evening after the adjourn
'es ment Of the Board talking the matte
over.