The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-15
RAISE TELEPHONE RATES j?
COMPANY ASKS CITY COUNCIL
TO GRANT PERMISSION.
Ordinance to Allow an Increase of
So Year Per Phone Goes Over
Until Next Meeting,

Ordinance to Allow an Increase of
So Year Per Phone Goes Over
Until Next Meeting.
AT the regular session of the city
council Tuesday afternoon DR.. w. B.
Cheatham, president of the Dawson
Telephone Co., appeared before that
body in the interest of an ordinance
the purpose of which is to amend the
company's franchise so as to permit
an increase in the charge for phones
OF SO cents each per month, or Sc a
year.
Tho Proposed Ordinance.
The proposed ordinance, which
was read and under the rules goes
over to the next meeting of the coun-
Gil for action, is as follows:
AN Ordinance to amend an Ordi-
nance passed by the Mayor and Coun-
Gil of Dawson authorizing the Daw-
son Telephone Co. to operate a tele-
phone system in the City of Dawson,
use the streets, etc., and for other
purposes.
BE it ordained by the City Coun-
Gil of Dawson, by the Mayor and
Council of Dawson, and by the City
of Dawson, that the ordinance passed
by the City of Dawson October, 1908,
by it's proper authorities, be amend
ed by adding the following to para
graph 8 of said ordinance in line
six before the word residence the
word duplex and in the 7th line
before the word business the word
duplex
also after the word phones in
the 7th line the following: The
rates charged for special line me-
tallic phones for residence shall be
not more than two dollars per phone,
and for business not more than three
dollars per phone, until there shall
be installed as many as five hundred
phones, when the rates shall be for
local telephone service not greater
than those charged in other towns
and cities having such number of
phones. So that said section when
amended shall read as follows:
Section 3. Said company shall
at all times be subject to the ordi-
nances now in existence, such as may
hereafter be passed, and to such rules
and regulations touching telephone
companies, their rates and affairs as
may hereafter be ordained, which are
just and reasonable. The said COM
pany further agrees and binds itself
by this ordinance that the rates
charged shall be $3.50 for duplex
residence phones and $3.50 per
month for duplex business phones.
The rates charged for special
line metallic phones for residences
shall be not more than two dollars
per phone, and for business not more
than three dollars per phone until
there shall be installed as MANY as
five hundred phones, when the rates
shall be for local telephone service
not greater than those charged in
other towns and cities having such
number of phones. These rates an
ply only to wall phones.
The said company further agrees
that in consideration of the privi-
leges herein granted it will furnish
free phone service to the city of
Dawson for its several departments "
Has Improved Its Plant.
The franchise of the Dawson Tele-
phone Co. was granted on October
., 1913, and one of it's provisions is
that not more than $3.50 per month
for residence phones and $3.50 per
month for business phones shall be
charged
The company has spent considera-
bic money installing a new and mod
ern system, and claim it has not been
able to pay the stockholders any divi-
dends.
THE DOVER BRIDGE.