Clinton News-Record, 1974-03-28, Page 25To Meter Rent
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Streetlights once worked, only till midnight .
In 1903 the Town Council
decided to look into taking over:
the Clinton Electric Light Com-
pany Plant and also into the
costs of installing a water
works system with pumps etc,
to be placed on the electric
plant property. A Committee
appointed of four members of
council to which were added 12
citizens was formed, The com-
mittee appointed a sub-
committee to, investigate those
municipalities which owned
their own electric light and
water works systems. Although
the reports coming back in-
dicated that this was a trend,
nothing was done in Clinton.
Meanwhile, the company
continued to expand and in
1904 they installed another
General Electric, 1040 volt, 125
cycle, 1000-16 candle power
lamp capacity to allow the
Company to take on more
customers.
A year later, Mr, Graham
sold the Clinton Electric Light
Company to Messers W.J.
Stevenson and W,J. Nediger for
a total price of $18000.
In July of 1905, it was finally
decided that the street lights
should remain on all through
the night, Previously to this,
service had gone through a
series of diversions. Originally
street lights were maintained'
only until midnight and then
for only 300 days a year, it
being assumed that the other
65 had enough moonlight to
negate any neccessity for all
night lighting.
In 1909, the Maitland River
Power Company of Goderich
made a proposal to supply Clin-
, ton with electric power. This
was brought to the people in -
the form of a by-law and was
decisively defeated, Never-the-
less, it pin-pointed certain
deficiencies existing in the Clin-
ton system. It provided the
town with an opportunity to in-
trod uce a by-law calling for cer-
tain definite improvements in
the service and also providing
the option of breaking its con-
tract at any time should the
Town wish to purchase this
plant for municipal ownership.
This by-law was passed sub-
stantially. •
The result was a greatly im-
proved street lighting system at
a cost of only $178 dollars
more. It also resulted in the arc
light system being completely
discontinued at this time. At
this point there were still 18 arc
lights in operation, so that the
incandescent system with 116
lights spread around the town
was much more satisfactory. •
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THE CLINTON ELECTRIC LIGHT.
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Received Payment
The above bill for electricity was sent to Jabez Rands' now deceased father on August 30,
1912 from the Clinton Electric Light Co. Three months electricity including meter rent was
$1.75,
fat Bankof Montreal
Canada's First Bank
In the old days, hydro employees had to eilmb poles and
risk death when working with high-power lines. Notice
the old truck and the lack of hardhats.
GOOD
LUCK
AND
CONGRATULATIONS
ON YOUR
60th
ANNIVERSARY
BALL & MUTCH LTD.
HOME FURNISHINGS
482.9S05
IN 1925 THE BANK OF
• MONTREAL TOOK OVER
AND CONTINUED THE
BANKING SERVICES BEGUN
BY THE MOLSON BANK IN 1872..-WE ARE
PROUD OF OUR HISTORY IN CLINTON AND WE
ARE HAPPY TO RECOGNIZE
THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY
OF HYDRO
IN CLINTON
CONGRATULATIONS
from
STAFF AND MANAGEMENT
Bank of Montreal
-Canada's First Bank MR. EARL RILDERLEY
FAANAOEFI '91(qqat