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Electricity Arrives at Con. 8 1938
to 1939:
Over a period of 18 months, the Con. 8 Community worked to obtain an
average of two subscribers per mile that would allow the installation
of electric power through the government program then called the REA.
The pages of the Student Review Newspaper eloquently record the
community efforts and reactions as electric lighting grew
from a dream to a reality. The clippings were collected by the
owner of this page and through Don Ellis, current District One Trustee
for South West Rural Electric (SWRE), they were transmitted to
Mike Searcy, then Manager for Member Relations for SWRE who edited them beautifully
onto a page of the SWRE homesite. Click here to go directly to
that page . There are other pages on the site dealing with the
history of rural electrification come back here or use the back button, or
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