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Show BO HI GETS I SCHOOL 001 ISSUE Highest Bid Is Accepted; Dr. Bascom Elected to Membership. Mem-bership. i Bids tor the purchase of the $325,000 bond issue recently authorized at a special election, were opene.) py the board of cdm-ation at a special aession Saturday noon. Srvrn bids were submitted. sub-mitted. That of N. W llal?e of ( hi- Icago vvas accepted. The board entered jinto a contract with this firm for the Sale of the bonds Most of the bids were conditional. but the premium offerer) by the successful suc-cessful bidder wan considerably better than the others. The premium' amounted amount-ed to $21 The bond issue ia to retire re-tire tim unredeemed portion of a bond issue of twenty vears ago tor the purchase pur-chase of new school sites ami buildings. build-ings. Tho board unanimously elected Dr. P. S. Bascom member of the board to succeed Mayor Samuel C. Park, rc Signed. The name of Hr. BasCOm wan presented bv Arnold (,. Qiauque, fellow fel-low member of Mayor Park from the Second ward. Ir Bascom is president, of the state board of health and for more than twenty ye;irs hap been the director of the medical department of St. Mark's hospil al. |