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Show EXTENDING LIGHTING SERVICE sThe Merchants' Light & Power company has contracted with the Falkenau Electric company of Illinois, for the installation of Its commercial and residence trunk lines for lighting purposes, and the work of construction construc-tion has begun. Not until next Mon- n 1 i rr-im-m-T- n lay, however, -will a full force of men T 1)0 at work. " H It Is stated by the superintendent I 5f the company-, P. M. Parry, that 1 much of the material Is on hand and that the balance will be roady when I tho work is far enough advanced I to need the material that has not yet I been shipped from the east, Mr. Parry states that ho anticipates that I pretty much all of the outside work I will be completed bv the first of the I vcar and that In the early spring the I systom will be completed and then 1 business and resldenco districts will have th0 opportunity of using light 1 furnished by the new company. 1 Tho managers of the company say I that there will be four trunk lines I strung across the city from north to I the south and that they will run 1 through the center of the blocks, no 1 lines to 1m? placed on the strcots and B that oven at Intersections of streets H there will not be many poles or wires. from the "fact that the trunk lines are I to bo heavy enough to carry the load 1 needed In the lighting of both the fl business and residence districts In tho e Immediate lclnlty. i Machinery for tho high tension transformers Is being unloaded today D and there will rje no delay In prosecut- j lng tho work of construction. |