Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1920 — TO HAVE ITS OWN LIGHT PLANT [ARTICLE]

TO HAVE ITS OWN LIGHT PLANT

Mt. Ayr Held Election Last Week on the Proposition. At the electric light election Wednesday the project carried by 13 votes, 24 voting for it and 11 against it It was not generally thought that there were any really against the advancement, and the 11 negatives came as a surprise to she interested ones who had been counting noses. Their position might have been the result of their dislike of the plan the town board has taken of installing our own plant, some favoring securing the current from some larger plant, presumably Rensselaer. This course, however, has been so uncertain, and to all appearances so far away in the hazy future, that to most people it looked decidedly as if we must do it ourselves if we ever would have results electrically. ' •Several whom the wrifW had talked to and who expressed themselves as for it, tailed to vote at all for some reason or other. The bonds are now being advertised, and it looks rosy for an electric current for Mt. Ayr soon. —Mt. Ayr Tribune.