Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1897 — The Lights are Ours. [ARTICLE]

The Lights are Ours.

The city of Rensselaer is now in receipt of the revenue and emoluments of the electric light plant. The sum of SSOO has been paid the General Electric Co. by Mayor McCoy; while Horace E. Horton of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company has paid to the same, $6,000. The legal title of the plant has therefore passed to the Bridge &Iron Company. The management and actual control will be in the city, and the legal title as soon as the money advanced by Horton is repaid As yet no documents have been put on record, and the formal change in managemant has not been made, but it will be in aday or two. The city will collect the light rentals for all of the present month, however.