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If you are opposed to leasing
the City Owned Gas Mains
to the Columbia Gas Sup
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If you favor the Hamilton
Furnace Co.
Building a $3,000,000 modern coke plant
Employing 400 men continuously for ten years
Spending $800,000 each year in wag$s
Furnishing you cheap gas for ten years
Producing clean gas to cook with
Supplying plenty of gas in coldest weather
If you want to Patronize a
Home Industry
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special election will be held in Hamilton on February 2nd,
two weeks from next Tuesday.
This will he the referendum election called by the signed petition of more than five thousand voters of Hamilton.
This election is called so that the citizens of Hamilton may vote on the ordinance passed by five members of Council last
October. This ordinance contracts with the Columbia Gas Supply Co. (owned by the Union Gas & Electric Co.) to supply the citizens
of Hamilton with natural gas for ten years and also leases the city owned gas mains to the Columbia Gas Supply Co. for ten years.
This ordinance, passed by five councilmen, is directly opposed to the contract between the City of Hamilton and the Hamil
ton Furnace Co. which was approved by the vote of more than nine thousand voters of Hamilton on November 3rd. The contract
with the Hamilton Furnace Co. assures the city a full supply of coke oven gas for ten years at very reasonable prices and the city
would continue to operate and control the city-owned gas mains. The Hamilton Furnace Co. has put up a bond of $500,000.00 to
secure a faithful performance of this contract on its part.'
This special election gives over nine thousand voters of Hamilton the opportunity to decide whether their wishes will be set
aside by five members of Council
This election gives the voters of Hamilton the opportunity to decide whether five councilmen can lease their city-owned
mains to a public utility trust for ten years.
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GAS REFERENDUM BALLOT sE
Shall Ordinance No. 241H
"Contracting with Columbia
Gas Supply Company, an
Ohio Corporation, for the
supplying of Natural Gas to
the City of Hamilton and its
inhabitants," be approved?
YES.
Shall Ordinance No. 2418
"Contracting with Columbia
Gas Supply Company, a a
Ohio Corporation, for the
supplying of Natural Gas to
the City of Hamilton and its
inhabitants," be approved
NO.
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