Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1908 — Bloomington Buys Water Supply. [ARTICLE]

Bloomington Buys Water Supply.

Bloomington, Ind., Dec. 3. —During the present water famine in this city Bloomington merchants are importing distilled water, which finds a ready sale for drinking purposes at 20 cents a gallon. Alpha Hall, the dormitory of Indiana University, has contracted for its water supply, which is to come from wells near the Home artificial ice plant in the south part of the city. The university is paying >SO a day for its water supply. The college receives water in Standard Oil tanks from Gosport, and is also getting it from the Hottel Spring north of Bloomington.