Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT SOLD [ARTICLE]

ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT SOLD

At Goodland to Northern Indiana L tilities Co., Which Is Rapidly Invading This Territory. J. A. Wickersham of Goodland was a business visitor in Rensselaer Thursday. He informed us that the Goodland electric light plant, owned by the town, had been sold to the No. Ind. Utilities Co., who have bought the Kentland, Sheldon, Fowler and other plants in this section of the state and will generate the electricity at Monticello, where they own the water power plant on the Tippecanoe river. The object of this company is to furnish "juice” to all the towns in northwetsern Indiana and eastern Illinois, also to farmers along thejr lines, for light and power purposes, and no doubt for Purtelle's railroad—if not Purtelle’s, then some one else’s road, 1 for we are sure to have an electric road ere Long -and to this end all the p’ants in the towns in this section are being bougnt up as fast as they can buy them. No doubt a better and cheaper service will be furnished by the new company, which will invada Jasper county, at Remington, in all probability, and may perhaps try to , buy up the Rensselaer plant, which is under municipal ownership. A special meeting of the county commissioners was held in this county the latter part of June and the company given a permit to erect poles and wires through Carpenter township.