Kansas Construction News du lieu suivant : Topeka, Kansas • 1

Yol. 9 No. 31. TOPEKA, KANSAS, AUGUST 5, 1922. Subscription Kates $3 per Year.

MAPLE HILL SCHOOL UTICA SCHOOL MARION PAVING BIDS AUGUST 8 PRAIRIE VIEW SCHOOL LET TO MORRIS CASSON BIDS AUG. 15 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. $30,000 Building Designated by Architect W. E.

Glover of Topeka. $30,000 School Awarded This Week to Fairbury Contractors. The Prairie View school building job was laid aside for Busboom Brothers, of Fairbury, Nebraska, this week. Their bid of $20,000 won it. The heating and plumbing went to Garrett Plb.

Htg. of Norton, at $3800. Glen J. Pearcy, of Mankato? is- the architect. The building will be of brick construction.

The wiring went to Pigue Phillipsburg, of Phillipsburg, at $551.75. 1 1 r1 1 LOWELL SCHOOL BIDS AUG. 17. Morris Casson, Topeka contractors, walked away with the contract to build a $30,000 school building at Maple Hill. Their bid was $25, 682 The other three low bids, within the running, were: Sargent Trus, of Topeka $26,501, Geo.

Gurtler, Topeka, $26,280 and Mont Green, Manhattan $27,890. The heating and plumbing went to Bass Linton of Topeka at $5490 and the wiring to the Machinist Electric Co. of Topeka at $660. This ik to be a two story structure of brick and stone construction. Sealed bids will be received by Miss Eldena Williamson, City Clerk of the City of Marion, Kansas, at her office until 4:00 p.

m. on Tuesday, the 8th day of August, 1922, for the construction of paving in the City of Marion, Kansas, involving the following approximate quantities: 16,988 sq. yds. brick and asphalt pavement. 7,500 cu.

yds. earthwork excavation. 11,185 lin. ft. curb and gutter.

A certified check in the sum of $5,000.00 must accompany each bid. The Mayor and Commissioners reserve the right to reject any or all bids. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of the City Clerk or at the office of the Consulting Engineer, F. E. Devlin, Sedgwick Building, Wichita, Kansas.

Contractors desiring plans and speciflea-tons for their individual use may secure same from the Consulting Engineer, upon payment of $10.00 to cover cost of printing and mailing. J. C. McINTOSH, Mayor. Attest: Eldena Williamson, City Clerk.

F. E. Devlin, Consulting Engineer, Sedgwick Wichita, Kan. NOTICE TO CONTKACTOKS. SWANSON BROS.

GET NEWTON JOB. Sealed proposals will be received at Utica, Kansas, until two oclock p. m. Central time, Tuesday, August 15, 1922, for labor and materials necessary for the erection and completion of a school building, according to the plans and specifications prepared by Mann Gerow, archi-. tects; 722' Rorabaugh-Wiley Hutchinson, Kansas.

Plans aiflk specifications may be seen at the office of the architects, at the office of the school board, at the office of H. A. Noble, 411 Reliance Kansas City, at the office of Construction News, Topeka, Kansas; at the office of Chamber of Commerce, St. Joseph, Missouri. Contractors desiring to bid on this work may obtain plans from the architects by making a deposit of $10.00 which deposit will be re-' vturned upon the prompt return of plans and specifications and the submission of a bona fide bid for at least a part of the work.

Separate bids will be received for the General Contract, Heating Plumbing, and Electric Wiring and bids shall be accompanied by the usual certified check as designated by architects. The contractors to whom contracts are awarded will be required to furnish both performance and statutory bonds each for the full amount of the contract. The owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids. A. J.

CHAPMAN, Clerk School Board, Utiea, Kansas. Topeka Firm to Build New Santa Fe Office Building. The general contract for the construction of a two story office building 80x160, for the Santa Fe at Newton was awarded this week to Swanson Bros, of Topeka, who have done a great deal of work for the Santa Fe over its system. It will be of brick and stone construction. John Yonkers, of Topeka, architectural office, prepared the' plans.

JUST STARTED HERINGTON STORE. PALCO SCHOOL SUBS AWARDED. Sealed bids will be received by J. F. Newkirk, Clerk School District No.

3, Lowell, Cherokee County, Kansas, until 2:30 p. m. August 17 th, 1922, for the erection and completion of a public school building, according to the plans and specifications prepared by C. A. Henderson, Architect.

Plans may be seen at the home of J. F. Newkirk, one mile south of Lowell, Kansas, or at the office of the architect at Coffeyville, Kansas. The Heating and Ventilating contract will be awarded in separate contract at same time. Parties desiring to take plans out of office, will be required to make deposit of $15.00 which will be returned when the plans have been returned in good condition.

A certified check for five (5) per cent of the amount of bid, made payable to J. F. Newkirk, must accompany each proposal, to be surrendered as damages if successful bidder should fail to enter into contract and file satisfactory Surety Bonds according to the laws of the State of Kansas, within fifteen days from date of award. The School Board reserves the right to reject any and all F. NEWKIRK, Cleric School District No.

3, Cherokee County, Kansas. CHAPMAN TO HAVE GOMMUN-, ITY HALL. Contractor Alfred Lindgren of Sa-lina, started work Wednesday on the business building for Frank Grass at Herington, Kansas. He has awarded the millwork to the Titus Millwork Co. of Salina and the stone and brick to the Lumbermens Supply Co.

of Topeka. AN ERROR IN REPORT OF ZOLA MEMORIAL. In our issue of July 29th we erroneously reported the bid of the Hub-bard Electric Co. at Beloit on the wiring for the Iola Memorial Hall job $2,080. It should have been.

Hopper Daugherty of Marysville who started work July 15 on the grade and high school for Palco Iansas have awarded the following sub-contracts: millwork to the American Sash Door Co. K. crushed stone to Ziegler Dalton Const. Co. of Junction City; cement and lumber to Home Lumber of Palco, cut- stone to Alex King Cut Stone K.

brick to Reliance Brick K. steel to Western Foundry Iron Wichita, reinforcing to Concrete Engineering K. Mo. Art Anderson of Topeka, is the foreman- H. B.

Winter of Manhattan Preparing Plans. A $20,000 Township Community building will be erected at Chapman, Kansas. Architect H. B. Winter of Manhattan is preparing the tdans and specifications.

No date has been set for the letting..