Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1914 — New Owners of Telephone Plant Contemplate Improvements. [ARTICLE]

New Owners of Telephone Plant Contemplate Improvements.

W. L. Bott and wife, the former one of the new owners of the Jasper County Telephone Co., came down from Star City the middle of the week looking after a suitable residence property with the object of either renting or purchasing same, and taking up their residence here. The new owners of the plant' are also looking for a new location for their central office, either to buy a lot and put up a building, or get a long time lease on convenient quarters. Numerous improvements in the plant are contemplated, including the taking of all wires and cables off Washington and other business streets, adding more cables and running them down the alleys instead of along the streets.

; Democrats Elect New County ChairI man. l Fourteen of the twenty members I of the Democratic Central Committee | of Jasper county, met in Rensselaer i Wednesday afternoon on call of the j chairman, and W. I. Hoover, county J chairman, who wfs nominated by the county convention for county i treasurer, tendered his resignation as chgirman, which was accepted, and Felix Erwin, of Fair Oaks, was elected chairman in his stead. Mr. Hoover could not act as chairman an<J be a candidate for office also. The committee also filled out the county 1 ticket for members of the county council as follows: First district, Emory Garriott, of Union tp.; Second district, John P. Ryan, of Gillam tp.; Third district, James H. Carr, of Newton tp.; Fourth district, Charles W. Harner, of Remington; At Large, Joseph Nagel, of Marion tp., George Besse, of Remington, and Frank Shroer, of Union tp.