I started working for a Co. in 1977 and one of the older men who lived on a farm a few miles out of town, told me once that he had just gotten electric service a couple of years before.
Another farmer who worked there told me that while he was a child that his family didn't have a well for water... they carried their water from a spring. This would have probably have been 60-70 years ago as he is still living and I see him and his wife from time to time.
