Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1919 — A GOOD REASON FOR NOT LIVING IN MONON [ARTICLE]

A GOOD REASON FOR NOT LIVING IN MONON

“Every time it thunders the light plant goes out of business.” So says the Monon News in its discourse on the inefficiency of its present lighting system. Accompanying the writeups is a three-column blank eut showing a night scene of the city in darkness. The News has the following to say: “Twenty-two hours without current from Saturday till” Monday night is our experience as a consumer of the Disability and the Powerless plant, with headquarters located anywhere but at Monon. The limit of poor service has reached during the past week and those using motors have been compelled to await vexatious delays on the lone lineman who lives at Francesville and spends most of its time in this locality as trouble tracer. Below is a birdseye view of Monon at night immediately following a clap of thunder when lamps and lanterns are the only relief.