Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
Notice Of Election,

To the resident freeholders of the
City OF Lewistown, whose names ap-
pear on the city or county tax roll
preceding such election:
Notice is hereby given, that an
election will be held in the CITY Of
Lewistown on the Bird day of April.
1905, from eight o'clock a. m. to six
o'clock y. m. of said day for the pur-
pose of submitting t. the resident
freeholders of the City of Lewistown,
whose names appear on the city or
county tax roll preceding such cleo
ton, the application of the Lewis
tOwn-Billings Mutual Telephone COM
pany for the right, privilege and fran
chise of locating, constructing, main
tanning and operating a long distance
telephone and telephone exchange
through the streets, avenues and al
leys of the said City of Lewistown
for the period of time from the pass
age of an ordinance by the city coun-
ell and extending to the sixth day of
May, 1921, which said application Is
as follows:
To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of Lewistown, Montana
Whereas, the undersigned, Lewis
town-Billings Mutual Telephone COM
pany, has been created and organized
for the purpose of establishing, owning
and conducting telephone line be-
tween the City of Lewistown, in Fer
gus county, Montana, and the City of
Billings, in the County of Yellow
stone, Montana, with branch lines to
other points in the State of Montana,
and for the purpose of establishing
and conducting telephone exchange
in the said City of Lewistown; and,
Whereas, the said telephone line
when established will be the means
Of affordng direct telephone commun-
ication between the City of Lewis
town and the said City of Billings,
and to various points Iii the counties
OF Yellowstone and Fergus to be
reached by branch lines from said
main line and also affording and CIV
ing the people of Lewistown the use
OF competing telephone exchange
and affording direct communication
over the said line to various points
not now reached by any telephone
system now conducted in the said
city.
Now, the said Lewistown-Billings
Mutual Telephone company and the
undersigned, constituting a majority
of it's board of directors, hereby make
application for a franchise permitting
it to erect and establish it's telephone
lines through the streets and alleys
of the said City of Lewistown and in
building, establishing and conducting
its telephone exchange in said city
and that you order that an election
be held on the day of the holding of
the next ensuing city election in said
city of this application therefor to the
resident freeholders as shall appear
on the city or county tax roll imme-
diately preceding such election and
that due notice be given thereof as re-
quired by an Act of the Legislative
Assembly of Montana relating to the
granting of franchises by cities and
towns and providing a submission OF
the question of granting any franchise
to the resident freeholders whose
whose names shall appear on the city
or county tax roll preceding such cleo
ton, approved March S, 1903.
Dated this Goth day of February,
1905.
LEWISTOWN BILLINGS MUTUAL
TEL. co.
BY DAVID HILGER, President.
Attest: E. o. BUSENBURG, Sec'y.
DAVID HILGER,
E. o. BUSENBURG,
GEORGE NJ. STONE,
GEORGE ]. BACH,
A Majority Of It's Board of Directors.
That the places for holding such
election in said city will be as fol-
lows:
In the First ward, at the court
house; in the Second ward, at Gull
ver's hall; in the Third ward, at the
council chamber at the city hall.
Dated this Sth day of March. 1905.
II. H. BOGGS,
City Clerk.