Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1917 — Ask Rate Increase. [ARTICLE]

Ask Rate Increase.

Indianapolis. May dXSeveral public 'utilities have asked the publie service j commission to allow an increase' in • rates as long as they are required to pay the present high prices for coal. Representatives of the Marion Heat : and Light company, stating the posj- ' tiqn of utilities of the state. -aid that I when rates were lived heretofore by the commission the price of Coal was one-half or one-third of the present -price. They are willing to resume the present rates when the coal problem has been solved.