Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Star, October 4, 1919, p. 1. TOWN TALK News and Views of the Community UTILITY PROBLEMS COMING. Several stone mills are reported to be closed, owing to the inability to get sufficient power for operation from the Southern Indiana Power Company's plant at Williams, near Bedford. The power station at Williams has long been inadequate to supply sufficient power and light for the towns in its lines-Bedford, Bloomington, Ellettsville, Stinesville, and smaller towns. The plant is designed as a water power plant, and the scarcity of water in White river at that point keeps the plant frequently below a point of efficiency. The local heating plant will be abandoned in a year, and we will also be up against it in that respect. Bloomington will have serious problems to face in the matter of public utilities within the next few years. Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.