Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1919 — MT. AYR WORKING HARD FOR ELECTRICAL PROJECT [ARTICLE]

MT. AYR WORKING HARD FOR ELECTRICAL PROJECT

Mt, Ayr Tribune: —At the mass meeting. Monday night to consider the matter of electricity for our town, a fine representation of citizens was out and a very fine and enthusiastic feeling prevailed. After talking the subject over, thereby gaining all the light poyssible, the meeting was organized and a chairman and secretary elected in the persons of W. R. Lee and Lloyd Hopkins. An invitation having been extended our town, by the City of Rensselaer to be present on March 10th at that city’s council meeting to go into the electric problem, it was decided that a committee be appointed to make a complete and thorough canvass of the town and report the complexion at another meeting which was set for tyonday evening, March 3rd. The matter of electricity members of the delegation to represent us before the Rensselaer city council two weeks hence was delayed until the next meeting, at which time the investigating committee will furnish th’ delegation with the results of their canvass. A rising vote was takdn to determine who in the meeting ■-••••■5 for and against the proposition. And when the call for the affirmative ■'••me every one present scrambled to their feet so quickly that it was niseis to call for the negatives/ In the general conversation' Which preceded the organizing, it was learned, from those who had conversed with members of the Rensselaer council that'Rensselaer could hardly be depended on to extend the line, inasmuch as they would be required to gain permission from the Public Utilities Commission, which would be objected to by some of the citizens of Rensselaer. —They indicated their willingness to sell us the current, the price of which, of course, would be regulated by the utilities board, and so long as the cost of construction does not represent a sum beyond our ability it would of a certainty be the better planfor we would construct it for service and satisfaction while an outsider would naturally consider also the profits it would declare. Several plans were advanced by which this could be carried through, but as it was yet too early to consider this phase of the matter, only suggestions were made. The meeting adjourned with a fine feeling prevailing.