Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-12-25

6Frs.n fssh humble atR4tnde ut ! be3xar
~fNaskjiia f1 Hsf'fof aAkistnnte ~ enable
5ssD ing big monsy
ii 10 in TIDE big trust mag
xsssfeN. and, ia the hHRunge ut the famous
NAnaerbfft. II ~intiinating that "tae public
~ damned.n That he il on the biutt, and
hopes 10 buikNYx@ the people of the city Of
Miibank. Is &sk6riy evident, but he will
nna is eailiSg e,i srf b Inapq ~ ed Ri S1a d paCI
loose FROM his local exchange entirely aud
organizing an. independent system OF
franchise from the city, lie Will nave TO
connect any local exchange with his long
distance line, but as by far the largest
portion of the business is purely local, he
will be q big loser by his buiI-headeduess.
AS stated last week, there has been
sgross deception attempted upon the
tnafthey are on Is APanaser zeitIo@'s
MttlesW0me they are red-lteaded over IL,
while the renters take the position that IL
the private wneT are frozen 0ut, there is
no telling how soon rates will be adwan need
or how often. A very curious thing in
xsen NE ~trsepIsone ofiIee was moved into
fhe new building, and the private phone
owper& were notified that they must
y &1tnGF sell their instruments TO the feie-
phone trust or be cut OF. that the MEM
befx Of the city connciI and the city attor-
Ney were not also cat off. People are ask
4hg whether this action was in the nature
III q attempted bride to inilltence the city
council to keep hands Otf. White the teie-
phone trust II demanding two dollars a
month from renters, IL Is known that the
local manager has made an offer TO at
least one business IMAM TO putin an fustrtI-
xnent and only charge hEni one dollar a
may have made q similar offer Is not
known. This looks as though the truAt Is
endenyoIinE e break the stake, and from
sliding scale OF prices charged to the
various phone users.
After the telephone war broke out IL was
talked around thai Manager zeitlow was
coming from Aberdeen 70 try to patch
matters up, but IL IL now said that stace
the local newspapers last week both ven-
tilated the deal he Is up ON his ear and
refuses to make any compromise. Does
Manager Zeitiow sscoose that when the
nant over q matter such as this, that the
local papers gre going to say nothing
about itg He uiight as well understand
right now tintthc local newspapers fully
reflect the sentiment Of the people of Mil
bank Upon this question. OF course THIS
j. a mere prefer for attempting to whip
1t wont work for this reason: In the
FIRST place the people OF Milbnnk refuse to
be whipped IN and next, there is 9 we'll
xene Of Milbank who have the q Nsh money
ia their jeans TO put In nm eleSfrSc light
niafst. aud they have offered to allow the
the use oftheir poles to string wires for an
independent telephone system. This In
turn has brought about On offer irons the
users OF phones TO let the electric light
company also put la q telephone systen.
and as the people of Milbank are now
highly wrought up. over the matter, IL
looks VAS though Manager Zeitlow will
soon have a lot Of old wires and rented
phones on his hands.
Inasnnuch as most Of the business
houses are shut out from telephone SER
vice, the private renters who live off the
bheiness streets say that at the end of the
month they will throw out their fnstru-
nee "a thhssnnt FOR the reason Thar thew can.
not communicate with the store.
"a few individuals who were at first shut
dictation of trust. bcranse their bust.
mess aes=s=rdrf tiae use or q phone, but
they stand ready to unsse with the others
When the t~elephohe line reached Mil
bank originally, w. n. Thomas CON
ceeived the idea OF establishing a local
He proceeded for q little while when Man.
agef Zeitlow 'mergeds him at one gulp,
and now Mr.. Thomas ia only a hired man
In the deal. Then the new trust agnat
Thought he would also swallow up the
private phone owners, but they refuse to
be swallowed and are kicking like bay
steers and propose having an iudepen-
dent local exchange OF their own.
Let h merry war 20 on, and like Mac
dun We will exciaiill: And damned be
he who first cries Hold, enoughr'-Mil-
bank Review
Brothef Voiknner Is certainly showing
the people Of MiIbank the necessity OF
putting In a phone system Of their town
Here in Webster we have excellent service
and the long distance connects with all
local phones. The only proper service Is
the local SYSTEM
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