Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1910 — Remington to Have Electric Light System. [ARTICLE]

Remington to Have Electric Light System.

Remington Press. At the regular town board meeting last Friday night an ordinance was passed and a contract awarded Lyle M. Barnes, of Monticello, to install an electric light plant here. The streets are to be lighted with 70 incandescent street lights of 60 candle power which will cost the town about $1,600 a year, with an all-night service. This is a reasonable price compared with our neighboring towns. The contract Mr. Barnes has accepted gives him until Sept. Ist to have the plant installed and in operation. He is looking for a location and hopes to have the plant in operation by AUgust Ist, as the Fountain Park board would like to have the grounds lighted during the assembly, if terms can be agreed upon. Mr. Barnes has -operated a plant in Monticello for several years and comes here highly recommended. With the present water works system and a good electric lighting system we will have a town our citizens can well be proud of.

The following persons have contributed toward the soldiers’ monument the sums opposite their names: W. R. Brown, $2, Mrs. W. R. Brown $2, John W Ullery sl, Nancy J. Davisson sl, H. C. Hoshaw 50 cents. Special moving pictures at the Princess Monday and Tuesday night, showing scenes in the Larkin factories. Buffalo. These are the greatest industrial pictures ever shown, showing the factory in operation. EH Arnold and daughters Katherine and Marie, nephew Chester, and nieces Clara and Florence Arnold, went to North Manchester this morning to attend a big Dunkard church meeting. They will also visit John Arnold at Wabash before returning home. 'The thermometer last night went below the freezing point and this morning there was a thin layer of ice over exposed vessels of water. The comet had nothing to do with it, however. Two years ago we had snow on the second day of June and twenty-one years ago it snowed all the afternoon of Decoration Day. The Longcliff hospital at Logansport has again become too small. A couple of years ago its capacity was increased to 1,000, but now the institution is crowded and there are fifty-two patients waiting to be received. It is thought probable that another building for patients will be necessary in the near future. The recent increase 1H capacity was made by installing more beds and making use of all the available room. The men’s departis full, the capacity limit being that. number of men patients. While there are at present few vacancies in the women’s department, it is only temporary, as the number waiting is in excess of the vacancies.