Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 240, Decatur, Adams County, 10 October 1925 — Page 6

171 IT PTDTP DMI7DPV is what keeps ILLiEiVIIxIC IL IN LKLx I industry moving Decatur is fortunate in having many progressive ind busy industries. These manufacturing plants iepend a great deal on the electric current furnished them by the City Light and Power Plant. To keep the wheels of industry running, to keep employment at its peak and to make living conditions better the City Light and Power Plant must furnish an adequate supply of current at all times. Electric Power Used In Manufacturing Earnings Pay For Plant Improvements If our plant could not furnish the electric current necessary to Improvements made at the city plant, paid out of the earnings, keep our industries moving, men and women would be thrown out have made it possible for Decatui to build up and equip a healthy of employment and our splendid institutions would have to look and eri ' lcient l"' v ? r and water plant ' Earnin J s i» recent years elsewhere for locations. You and everv one who is interested in hav f bwn spent 1,1 enlarging and equipmg the city plant with m modern machinery. If production in terms of horse power was the welfare of the city and believe in its possibilities want the City reduced at the city plant, it would affect the operations of those Light and Power plant to keep forging ahead, to make it possible industries depending on us for power. It would curtail employfor our industries to enlarge and to increase production. ment and eventually we would be at a standstill » INSTITUTIONS GIVE EMPLOYMENT TO MANY Decatur is proud of its hustling industries—Among the many splendid industries which give employment to hundreds of people in this city and who depend largely on the operation of their business through the electric power furnished them by the City Light and Power plant are General Electric Co. Krick-Tyndall Co. Zimmerman-Carper Co. Decatur Democrat Co. Holland-St. Louis Sugar Co. Indiana Board and Filler Co. Mutschler Packing Co. Decatur Cooperage Co. Decatur Casting Co. Decatur Foundry, F. & Mach. Co. Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc. Acker Cement Works Gerber Ladder Co. A. J. Smith Co. Waring Glove Co. - The Schafer Co. Erie R. R. Adams County Lumber Co. Confer Ice Cream Co. ~ Burk Elevator Co. Giving Decatur a “Great White Way” We are also furnishing current for the 240 ornamental light posts throughout the city and from the earnings of the plant two-thirds of the expense in erecting them has been paid, \ 7 ' K making it possible for property owners to have these improvements along their streets and adding much to the beauty and attractiveness of our city. ( 'I < A CITY 0F stockholders * ~ 1 Tlie City Light an(l Power Plant isa municipal mstituK II 111 tion roperated in the interest of the citizens of Decatur. V II // // /// Those connected with its management are at your serv- \ vs Hili/ l'i HI /'/ '• ice at any call. Through your cooperation help keep’ \ AVdl A XiL'l 1 / */?// this city a busy, thriving place—a center of “land of 1 \ S A ! I \\\\ ‘h / plenty.” WiW\ f v ff////// * City Light & \rower uaftz Plant I

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1925.