Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-06-27
TELEPHONE COMPANY MEETS

The adjourned meeting of the
Hurley Telephone Co. was held in
Hurley last Tuesday. Fred Darrow
read the report Of the auditing com
mittee showing the company in good
condition and all funds properly ac-
counted for. T.. A. Holland then
read the report of the by laws COM
mittec. The meeting proceeded to
take up the by laws by section. After
one or two had been adopted Editor
Hartsough got up and made speech
asserting that the company was tco
large and urging that it shoa'd be
divided. He thought that the Mar
ion and Dolton exchanges and the
adjacent rural lines should he let
out of the company. nr. Hotter fol-
lowed him with rem ,rks along the
same lice. They were opposed iy
John Downer and E. f. Berry. The
discussion brought out the fact that
the proposition fer a division had
been planned for in advance by q
few Marion people though the rest
OF The stockholders seemed taken by
surprise.
AS the advocates of division had
no definite proposition TO offer the
company resumed discussion Of the
by laws. al were adopted without
opposition til the section came lr5-
viding for annual meetings in Hur
Iey. Then DIR. lIofer made q fight
on that proposition wishing to amend
by making the company meet every
other year in Marion. BY aye and
nay vote Hofer was voted down
several times. lie then demanded a
roll call saying hat he had thirty
six proxies and was being voted
down by lnemE ers having only one
) vote. The chair ruled that 1T was
toe late 10 demand roll call. lie
. then got up and lett the meeting
and his friends followed him till the
whole meeting was broken up. After
general discussion for about five
minutes President Martin Christen-
sen calling the meeting to order
again and Hofer withdrew his re-
quest for a roll call and declared
that it would be waste Of time.
On motion the matter of meet.
!. ing place was again taken up and by
j a unanimous vote it was decided tc
meet alternately in Hurley and
4 Marion provided such change was
I! permissible under state law. The
n balance Of the meeting was quite
harmonious. The new bylaws wei
Y adopted without opposition. One
Y change was the reduction If The
e board of directors from seven tt
It five members.
The new board was then elected a
follows: T. e. Jackson, Fred Fly
4 ger, Julius G. Rasmussen, John L
), Waltner, A. e. Hofer. The boaro
i organized by electing Hofer presi
dent, Flyger vice president jackson
secretary and Waltner treasurer:
u new rule calling for a permanen
is auditing committee was adopted an
: the following committee was select
el ed, Fred Darrow, j. j. Waltner an
~ Frank Drummer.
On account Of the state law it bs
d came necessary for the company I
y. stop giving free phones to its mem
}. bers, consequently a scale of charge
" was adopted which charges are
a be paid by all whether share holder
" or not. The rates adopted are fc
to rural phones sl2 per year, buslne
phones So per month and hou
phones 81 per month. An estima
of the receipts and disbursement
=, showed that under the new syste
~ -. the income of the company would
- $699 per month and expenses So
- - per month. The company now b
SOS phone in operation. The NEE