Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1911 — Petition Connell to Put Lights on Meter System. [ARTICLE]

Petition Connell to Put Lights on Meter System.

A petition was circulated and liberally signed in the business district Monday asking the city * council to place lights on a meter system and to establish a day circuit. It is helieved that electricity would be largely used for power and that a number of contemplated improvements would follow the change of the system to the meter basis. It is alßo thought that it would cure a number of the abuses so common at the present time. The petition suggests a plan by which each subscriber would pay for hie own meter and receive credit for it against his light bill. Practically every city and town in this section of the state that has an electric light plant has a day circuit and Rensselaer should have it too, if the people want it. The city council is understood to look favorably on the plan and there is practically no doubt but the petition will be favorably acted upon.