The Construction News of Kansas du lieu suivant : Topeka, Kansas • 5

-apiwfliHbiwp- F- HILLSBORO COLLEGE BIDS FEB. 12 TWO BRIDGES FOR ANDERSON COUNTY. Dont say Miliwork- -Plans Out Soon For Two Re-inforced Concrete Srtuctures Totalling $28,000 In Cost. sav Eight Contractors to Date are Figuring General Contract for $100,000 Tabor College. Bids will close at 7 p.

Feb. 12, as advertised, for the construction of a college building for Tabor College, at Hillsboro, Kansas. The heating, plumbing and electrical work, whll be awarded at some later date. The plans as prepared, by Win. Mampe, of Kansas City, can be secured from P.

C. Hiebert or the architect at 559 Schiedly Building, Kansas City, Mo. County Engineer E. F. Miltner of Garnett, Kansas, will complete plans and specifications for two new concrete bridges to be "built in Anderson County some time this month.

Bids will be received in March. They will cost about $28,000 and about $10,000 worth of grading will, be CURTIS WOODWORK "Tie Permanent Tur nit me fcrVour 'Mine' This Trademark on your woodwork 4 is insurance against disappointment. CURTIS TOWLE PAINE CO. SOUTH HAVEN SCHOOL BIDS FEB. 18.

TO BUILD LARGE BRIDGE AT HAYS. Bids Will Be Opened March 3 For Ellis County, 7 Span Structure. Seven Bidders to Date on General Contract for $50,000 Job Seven Figuring Heating and Plumbing. Bids will close at 8 p. Eeb.

18, for the construction of a rural high school building for District No. 19, at South Haven, Kansas. The heating, ventilating, and plumbing systems will be awarded under one contract at the same time. P. F.

Wimer, is clerk of flie Board of Education, and S. S. Voigt of Wichita, is the architect. This job is attracting many bidders. Bids will be received by the county commissioners of Ellis County, until March .3 for the construction of a bridge consisting of seven 43-ft.

spans, for that county near Hays, Kansas. It will contain about 699 cubic yards of concrete and will have an 18-ft. roadway. Willard C. Holmes is county engineer.

Phone 554. Topeka, Kansas. VENTILATING PLUMBING HEATING ANNUAL MEETING OF ENGINEERS LAST WEEK. PATTERSON CO. PROMPT SERVICE 112 E.

7th St. Topeka, Kansas Dean Potter, of K. S. A. C.

New President of State Society of Engineers. Flood Protection Work at Whiting. Engineers Tuttle-Ayers-Wood ward Engineering of Kansas City, have completed surveys and typographical map for the flood protection work at Whiting, Kansas and drainage board Chs. E. Shrader, secretary, will probably take bids on the work in March.

Shortening and straightening of the stream is included in the work. THE MISSOURI VALLEY BRIDGE IRON COMPANY Designers, Manufacturers and Erectors, of Structural SteVi Buildings and Bridges. Beams, Angles, Channels, Plates, and Reinforcing Bars carried in stock, for immediate shipment. OFFICE, WAREHOUSE and SHOPS, LEAVENWORTH KANSAS. The Kansas Engineering Society held a very profitable two dayss session in Topeka last week.

About 100 engineers from all over the state heard interesting papers and enjoyed the visit in Topeka. Dean A. A. Potter, of K. S.

A. was elected president for the next year, H. A. Rowland, of McPherson, vice-president, and Lloyd Smith, Topeka, secretary and treasurer. R.

G. Jones Has Started Claflin Store. -v Parsons Job Uncertain. Walter G. Jones, of Claflin, has the foundation in for a $10,000 store building for the Evans-Mays Merc.

in that town, and has started the brick work. The building will be 25x140, of brick, concrete, foundation, oak floods, and will contain hollow tile, metal lath, metal ceiling and plate glass. Apparatus for hot air heat will be installed, but no plumbing. STRUCTURAL AND REINFORCING STEEL FOR EVERY PURPOSE CARRIED IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT. ST.

JOSEPH STRUCTURAL STEEL CO. ST. JOS.EPH. MO. Mr.

H. Straussburg has not yet decided just when he will rebuild his $150,000 office building at Parsons, which was destroyed by fire in December. ITe contemplates building a five-story, fire-proof structure. Two New Residences At Hutchinson. Mr.

C. W. Skelton at Hutchinson, Kansas, intends to build two $2,500 residences in that city this summer. They will be of fvame structure, with composition roof. No architect has been engaged, and work will not be started until the latter part of March or April.

It Is Now Rixie Ar.d Jenkins. Architects F. D. Rixie of Wichita, Kansas, and Mr. C.

B. Jenkins, Ponca City, Okla, are now associated in architecture, with an ollice at both Ponca City and Wichita. They will be glad to receive catalogs. WISEMANS PLANING MILL 101-105 Van Buren, Topeka, Kansas. Blueprint Work and Store Fronts a Specialty Reference: Any Architect or Contractor I ever did work for.

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