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Show COOK ID CRIIGH II HCEFDH PLACE Expected That Commission Will Today Elect Purchasing Purchas-ing Agent for City. it is expected that tho city commissioners' commis-sioners' will today select a successor to War rou C. Bogue, city purchasing agent, who resigned in order to accept th intcrmountaiii agency for an Ohio tire apparatus com pan v. While a number of' applications for the pjaco have boon received by the commifsionerSj the choice is said 'to lio between David D. Cook, present secretary sec-retary to Mayor Samuel C. Park, and John Q, Critchlow, who was an unsuccessful unsuc-cessful candidate for tho citv rocorder-ship. rocorder-ship. to' which Karl A. Bcheid, a wealthy business man, was chosen after receiving the rccommnndatiou of Commissioner Com-missioner Floury W. Lawrence, his uncle. un-cle. Mayor Park and Commissioner li. P. Morris aro said to favor Cook for tho purchasing agency, while Commissioner W. 11. Shearman is oxpected to voto with Commissioner Lawrence, who is thought to have decided upon Critchlow. Critch-low. The purchasing agcut as well as the city recorder arc in tho general division of city departments under tho supervision of" Mr. Lawrence. Critchlow is known to bo a closo personal friend of George N. Lawrence, who is said to have influenced his fathor in Critchlow 's behalf. Commissioner Hober M. Wells, it is said, has not yet expressed n prefer-eucc prefer-eucc for purchasiug agent, and it is believed his will be the deciding vote. |