Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1903 — The Frankfort Mayor Has Sand. [ARTICLE]

The Frankfort Mayor Has Sand.

Frankfort has had an interesting experienoe with the traotion company which is building from that place to Indianapolis. When the company got its franchise it was expressly agreed that the company was to erect no wooden poles within the city limits, bot they were to be iron. However when the time oame for patting ap the poles the oempany began placing in wooden ones. Mayor Clark ordered the workmen to stop, bat the work woald no more than be suspended until it would be oommenoed again Thendthe mayor oalled the man in charge of the work into bis offioe and gave him a good talking, and told him if he persisted in patting down any more wooden poles he would be heavily fined. Then the traction oompany got cate and one morning last week pat a foroe cf men to woik at two o’olook and when the Frankfort people got tip they found one of their main streets deoorated with wooden poles. Mayor Clark said nothing. He just waited till he got good and ready, and then he began work. He didn’t go to work at two o’clock in the morning either. It was Tuesday afternoon, and taking the street commissioner with him he ont down every pole the oompany had put in. Figuring it up the foxy interurban people can perhaps see now how it would have been the cheapest to put in iron poles at first, as their franchise oalled for.