OPEN WARFARE Joe Wegg's machinery and dynamos arrived promptly and the electric plant was speedily installed at the old mill.

So energetically had the young man supervised his work that poles and wires were all in place as far up the road as Thompson's Crossing and a branch line run to the Wegg Farm, by the time the first test was made.
All Millville celebrated that first night when its streets shone resplendent under the glare of electric lights.

There was a public bonfire near the mill, speeches were made, and afterward Mr.Merrick served a free supper to the villagers, in the hall over Sam Cotting's General Store, where the girls assisted in waiting upon the guests, and everybody was happy and as hilarious as the fumes of good coffee could make them.
More speeches were made in the hall, and one of these was by Peggy McNutt, who had painted his wooden foot blue with red stripes in honor of the occasion.

He said, according to the report afterward printed in the Tribune: "Feller Citizens! This 'ere town's bloomin' like a new mown rose.

I'll bet anybody anything there ain't another town in Ameriky what's gone ahead like we hev in the past few months that's jest past.