Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1908 — BIG SCHEME LICENSED [ARTICLE]

BIG SCHEME LICENSED

Company tc Oc Into tho Lighting and Heating Bu«in«t» on t Large Scale. BOTHERS INDIANA ITB FIELD ‘ ■■ ■’ Capita) It 94,000.000—Amltb Wh# Insured His Barn Gets Into Trouble—Stste Items Indianapolis, Aug. 11.—A great ptKM lie utilities corporation to supply tfsht, heat and powder to score or move oi cities and towps in northern Indiana and Ohio has been formed witb a capital stock of $4,500,000. Articles of incorporation have been filed at tbe office of tbe secretary of state. Tbe directors. most of whom are well known in tbe gas and electrical world, are aa follows: Franklin L. Babcock, Anthony N. Brady, Charles F. Dieterich, Frank S. Hastings, James P. Lee. Samuel T. Murdock, Henry C. Panl, Albert Tag and James N. Wallace. Al) tbe directors are New York city men except Murdock, who lives at Lafayette, and Paul, who llvda in Ft Wayne. Powers the Company Will Hove, Officers have not been elected, but It Is understood that Dieterich will be president and Murdock secretary and general manager. The Indiana Lighting company, as the big corporation will be known, is authorized to supply light heat and power to Ft Wayne. Bluffton, Montpelier, Anderson. Lafayette. West Lafayette, Logansport Peru. , Wabakh. Decatur. Geneva, Berne. Crawfordsvtlle. Lebanon. Thgfbtown and Frankfort in Indiana, and to Lima, Wapakoneta. Celina, 8t Mary’s, Greenville, Ft Recovery, North Mercer and Coldwater, in Ohio, and to Other villages and towns in proximity to tbe cities and towns named.

Scope of the Company, Light, beat and power may be supplied by means of artificial and natural gas, electricity, steam and bot water, and to that end the company Is authorized to manufacture, produce, procure, transport, distribute and sell Its products, also to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire natural gas territory, gas wells, gas works, power plants, etc. Company Home at Lafayette. The company was Incorporated under the Roemler public utilities law, enacted by the last general assembly. The capital stock is divided Into 45.000 shares of SIOO each and the home of the new company will be at Lafayette. It is explained that the new company Is a reorganization of a cor poration which took over the proper ties of the )Dleterlcb syndicate, wb'.cli were sold recently at receivers^sales