The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-06-29
AGAINST
TOLL CHARGE
JOINT COMMITTEE WILL CONFER
Citizens from Upper Valley, 0dell and City
Discuss Matter Local Merchants to
Attend Bonneville Picnic.

The action of the Home Telephone
Co. in inaugurating toll charge.of 10
cents for all messages between the
Upper and Lower Hood River Valleys
has been met with strong protest
from the Upper Valley Progressive
Association. the Odell DEVELOPMENT
League and the Merchants Associa-
tion, of this city. At special meet
ing called by the former organization
last week, ]. X. Putnam,W. 5. Gribble
and G. M. Uptegrove were appointed
as committee to meet with similar
committees from the 0dell and Hood
River associations and devise some
means of eonferring with the manage
ment of the Telephone Company in an
endeavor to get it to rescind its action.
The matter came before the Hood
| River Merchants Association at its
regular monthly meeting Tuesday
night at which, in addition to the
above committee of Upper Valley citi-
zens, the 0dell committee, composed
of l.. d. Boyed, E. T. Folts and Guy
+. Smith, and a number of other Odell
citizens were present.
Addressing the meeting, Mr.. Gribble
stated that the people of the Upper
Valley would have to bear the brunt of
the telephone company's special rate
charge. Especially will it wori a
great hardship on the merchants of the
upper district, he continued. ''In my
own place of business, if the rate is
enforced, it will add from so to SIS
per month to my expenses. In the
course of his talk Mr.. Gribble gave
some of the early history of the
eounty's telephone systems. A tele-
phone to the Mt. Hood region becom-
ing a necessity, the people of the dis
trict made an attempt to get the Bell
Telephone Co. to install a system.
However, although promises were
made, the company delayed action, and
finally taking the matter in their own
hands, they installed an Independent
line to this city. Later the Home
Telephone Co. formed for the purpose
of maintaining telephone service for
the people of the. Valley. In order to
avoid competing line the Mt. Hood
people sold to the new company.
| Members of the 0dell Development
League, who addressed the meeting,
eApreSseu s a lea, = non. saa. IA tne eoilpaiiy
l'SM nSS;.; loui0 ~ feSes1ay s 1i ~ eiaiHe al,
a,;no auu,;ao'iI, a. zee - , nor Tne opper FaiieS
sS sei VIZ Vnav ~ "oSiu n.y. pe l1hs UNI,
1ne pnIae Ip aseIs ~ % enas heignpoInooa gpn;I'a
Enoch Brayford, of the Merchants
Association, stated that the matter
should be carried before the State
iariaU T h;lI has tLa noar wn af ,ara, VIZ .ra,
,,tii;t;as conon,;ss;op thro,rhe,,t tba
State % O" 0 "oN' 'l'
Tha roen,hars of oil tho orooniza+;ons
saen, to avidenca the eentimant that
| tbesteIenbona comnanv should receive
a rassoaabla nrof;t from ;ts service
bnt there ia a feeling that tha NOR.
chants If the Citv of Hood River and
tha snbscrihers If the Inner Val,av
on whom, +he additional feea will foiI
are ,,r;nstIv d;scr;n;nated aaa;nst IN
the nation of n McDonald . commit. !.
fee from the Merchants' Rssoc;at;on
comnosed of n McDonald Franz nav,
enndrt and I w par;go was anno;nted
to confer iointlv with the telsnhone
comnanv,s manaoement and maEa an
endaavor 70 get Is IL the hooks Of the
comnanv showed that fo MAKO q
reasonable nrofit II Is recessarv to re.
ceive an ad5itionaj revenue IN distrib.
uta the aeeeoement ago;nst oil tbo
users of Of tbe svstem The members Of of
ali tbe orcanizations feel that when
the matter ;s mt IN to the telephona
comnanv in sucb I;oht that Il will
cbanga ito presant action The toIl
rate of 10 cents was originally tc have
heen inaourated On lime TX Tne com.
nanv hnwaver latar defarrad The Ievv
IF tbe as"essmsnt III Iulv ''0 y