Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1919 — WHEATFIELD NEAR LIGHTLESS [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD NEAR LIGHTLESS

Owner of Plant About to Quit— Too Little “Juice” Used. The town of Wheatfield is almost up against it on the electric light proposition. A privately owned plant has been operated there for the past two or three years by S. W. Hamtilton, ’’who has .furnished a to II p. m. current only, and it is said to have been a losing proposition for Mr. Hamilton almost from ‘he start, there not being enough current used to pay him for operating his plant. Rather than go in the hole any deeper Hamilton has decided to qdlt and the Wheatflelders will soon be in the same position that Moses was when the light went out unless something is done p. d. q. Therefore a largely attended meeting was held a few evenings age and a committee appointed to join with similar committees from Demotte, Tefft, San Pierre and Kouts to go to Laporte yesterday and see L they could not make arrangements to secure a 24-'hour current from that city for all these towns. Wheat?, "id is about nine miles froimi San Pierre, and the question of the expense in building the line is the most important probably in the negotiations.