the issuance of SI 5,000 bonds for the building a court house of which it was remarked by said petitions was not necessary for reason that said board is in favor of said bond issue. It favored said election asked for in the said petition so the election was called for the 29th of June. 1909, and carried by a substantial majority. The commissioners districts and the precincts of the new county were then as follows :

District 1 : Havnes. Gilchrist,

teilley Hi

and

Storm Weir-

Lake. Eastwood Lisco.

District 2: Canif Court House Rock.

District 3: Good Streak, Redington.

Bids on the new court hi ceived on October 4th as follows: Winters & Short. Atwood. Kansas, $21,750; Pruden & Breckenhauer, Norfolk, Nebraska, S2L-

Clarke, Union, King.

were re-

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970; A. C. Thomas, Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, $22,793 ; C. R. Inman, Crawford, Nebraska, $24,150; S. C. Beck, Alliance, Nebraska, $26,809.

Whereupon the contract was awarded to Winter & Short. The heating- and plumbing contract was awarded to the Sterling Heating and Plumbing Company for $2,100. The Lincoln Land Company aided in getting the site of the court house located for Bridgeport, and to donate a choice of two blocks of land, one being a block 300 feet square abutting River and Nemaha streets, lying 420 feet north of block three of the original town of Bridgeport, and the other being a block of the same dimensions abutting on River and Cheyenne streets, 420 feet north