Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1911 — METERS HAVE ARRIVED; INSTALLATION TO START. [ARTICLE]

METERS HAVE ARRIVED; INSTALLATION TO START.

Business Circuit Will Be First in Establishing New System for Electricity in Rensselaer. City Light and Water Superintendent Chamberlin will begin Monday to install about one hundred meters in the business circuit of Rensselaer. The meters have arrived and will be placed as rapidly as possible, thereby conforming to a desire expressed by a number of citizens in a petition presented to the council several •months ago. It is expected that the meter system will lead to the establishing of a day current. This will probably be followed by the adoption of electric power to replace a number of gasoline engines now in use. After the business circuit is supplied with meters, they will be placed in the residence section also, and then every person will pay for just vjhat electricity he uses.