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PAGE SIX ,Numerous Municipalities Have Anticipated this - Company 1n the Matter of Higher Rates for Public Service Every community we serve is concerned in the Companigt’s' growth and in the efiicient performance of its 'duty, but we haéze Public Service Compan 1eached a fo1k 1n the mad not of 0m own making. As much as we might wish to leave our rate 112130- 01d undistuIbed this is impossible if the essentialsewice of the Company 1s to be done properly Ile‘o 4: achiev e this we muSt hax e the ad\ anee in 111tes we ask. where the authorities have taken' such whom The geogle recognize'its necessitz. as 1:30 per cent and that they have been accept“! unc<,>mplainingly tawa the approximate advance is 50 per cent. In Mendnta. .30 per cent advance has been made. Iii-El- gin there has been :1 sharp lipost in the east of water used in excess of 8000 ('ulu'e feet. In (‘hitiagu Heights. the advance in rates will ])l'()l)ll)l}.' he 50 pel' (Hit. The MHYOI‘ Of that Cit." 13‘ quoted as Safinfl even at that rate the cost to consumers will he less than in many ()thei' cities. Many nther likéfex- i amples might be Stlpplietl. 3 t ness of the increases: of about 30 per cent we are In a previous advertisement we told you why We were cmnpelled tn ask for these higher rates. The reasons can he summarized again here. We are selling ‘our product at the same rate as that prevailing in 1014. whereas the cost (if every- thing: that enters into its manufacture has mnunted sliyward. Some basic articles have advanced $100 per cent and are difficult to procure. The cost of opera- tion in 1920 will be $700,000 in excess of 1919 in which year they exceeded thecost of 1918 by $500,000. In Vlew of the fact that these advances, as sald, range as hzgh There'is no complaint by the residents in these various pla‘éies CONSPICUOUS EXAMPLE is‘supplied by the city of Jolkt Where water rates have been increased 150 per cent. In @t- of Northern Illinois 1 1m cumpldmmgh “e haw confidence that the just- c1311:1111:nuthmity to m1ke \\ ill like\\1<e be zu'kno“ ledged. Those of you who have lixed long in this town can wmomhm “hen the rate for electric light ww- 20 cents a kilmxatt hum. 3011 can Iecall also thafi gas was much more oxpensiw than no“. In all thattiime our policy has been to reduce rates. On three titra- sinus only have we deviated from this 1)) int-mining slightlyI rates for certain special service afi'wtinfihut to“ customeI s“ “one than 99 per cent of our cudpm- ers are paying for electric light half as much as itifiost a score of years ago. and a great deal less for gun, of w} W bl [he Summrrlmu “his“ the") and HM W939 2'0} lhr TRIM 1 loin with {huh and q lh' “Lid." l some M uur i a nil!) mm Sun 0“ the whuh- rig mth I Wr'w g'm “bt-lIvr" I St. John A W Motor Mowers All work New bottom t H»; .W Phone 402 I...“ guummoed all 51010 $2“ MM when- Sum Inmh- 1 .‘UlU‘Ud H! In vw 394 Central A HIS is \ ”U TA IIJ )RH GRINDHU Sharp WEST W'oar uu‘ Housm for ove most r1 Calumc absolui always superic A port: In the up-to-c In: Po‘ Next