THE REPUBLICAN

Friday, January 5, 1886

 

Telephones!  Electric Light!  Well, isn’t Waupaca really getting quite metropolitan.  Now send along some manufactures and railroads.

 

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LIGHT!

 

THE COUNCIL GRANTS IT.

And Electric Lights Will Soon Shine in Waupaca

The Company to be Formed at Once

 

            Dr. Rosenkrans, of Milwaukee, labored with our people last week and convinced them that even if the electric light system did cost a little more than kerosene it was a great deal cheaper when light was taken into consideration.  He thinks Waupaca would have a beautiful light as the Dynamos can be run by water power which will be always sure and steady.

            The company recently formed in Stevens Point got every thing in readiness and started their light on Wednesday night of this week.

            On Tuesday evening at the city council the subject came up and an ordinance to grant the franchise was before the board, but they adjourned until Thursday evening in order to have more light on the subject, it being thought by some that a charter extending 15 years too long and three persons as preliminary incorporators too short - on numbers.  On Thursday evening the ordinance granting the franchise to an electric light company was amended and named, T. L. Jeffers, M. B. Curran, Chas. Churchill, H. M. Lea, Ole O. Hole, H. Nordvi, E. Coolidge, M. R. Baldwin and A. G. Nelson, a committee of nine to form a stock company, and the time made, ten years for the exclusive privilege of the plant established.  A list of names from many of our home businessmen was presented to the board by Paul Browne showing that the sense of the people was to organize a company among Waupa-cains.  The REPUBLICAN will explain more of the merits of the proposed plant later, and will publish the ordinance for the benefit of our city readers.