The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1915-06-04
Will They Turn Il
Down?
TRUTH CRUSHED TO EARTH

tors OF tie Farmers Mutual Tele.
phone Company, Of oregon, and upon
a demand made by the general public,
the directors Of TIE HOME TELE
PHONE Company male PROPOSE.
tiJn for tbs cJnsJ,GdatiJi OF the two
computes and Published 1t In the
April 3Oth issu. VI TUE llpLT COUNTY
SLNriNEL. II seems that we were
not understood Just right and that
our intentions and suggestions were
not taken as they were intended.
We believe that II Is the concensus
Of opinion OF the telephone using
public that all service should be rem.
dered by and over one telephone sys.
TEN and for this purpose and that
end In view, We have been using our
efforts to help bring about q consoli.
dalton Of the two companies.
We cannot see the use or good
judgment In our people going down
In their pockets and digging up the
cash to pay the expenses Of keeping
up two central offices In our town OF
Oregon. Is the public beneiittedr
Is the farmer beneiittedY Is the pro.
fessionai man beneiittedy Is the
business man beneiitted' You will
have to say No. No. to all this. Well
then. Who l. B.netittedy" l. I,
right to make IT. necessary for our
ministers to pay for Keeping two tele.
phone.y our doctors. merchants and
professional men four phones each 3D.
tao IN th,ir piac. VI business and
two In their homer l. not our pres
ent system working a hardship on
these people. and Tor what or whose
beneiltY II Is true We have two In.
corpOrat.d telephone companies, each
holding a charter from the state Of
Missouri giving them permission to
do business There may have been
good reasons for both these compa
MES Dring IN existence but, Is there
good. Just aud sufficient reason for
running this way all through the ~.
ture years. We say No, WHY NOT
CONSDLlDATEr
Why not cut out tie expense Of
keeping up On. cenirair Why not
give everybody tile use VI both sys.
TENS for tie same or less than the,
are nUa paying Tor oner
WIZ l. " ihat ". Wish TO talk '
mainly AMI more than any one els.r
II l. our Holt county n.ighbors and
friends. We viii give you connrc
lions WITH over nineteen hundred
Home telephones In our county. cat
Farmer Mutual friends have about
eighteen hundred phones IN III. couh'
IS. We think that This big llOi
county family Of over thirty seven
hundred telephones should all ~
under On. system,
What do We have a telephone fOi'
To transact business ami 10 visit oul
friends. We claim and believe thai
any unr lawn. telephone shuuld
have tie right to talk business an,
to visit day or night at any time thai
he or size may wish aud about any
thing they wish In absolute privacy
10 long A. no vulgar Or profane lanp
uage II used. You may 30 into al,
Western Union Telegraph ol,ice II
the World and you viii lind In thei
tariil book that they maintain AZ
onice AZ and service 10 oregon, Mo
and that 1t i connected from Forest
Ciiy by telephone. This business on
company has had In change for III,
past eighteen years to the satisfac
lion Of the Western Union Company
We have received urgent kilograms
even death messages for subscriber
OF the Oregon Farmers Mutual Tele
phone and have called them NJ
through the Oregon Mutual Tele
phone Company's operators, and ate
the party to whom the message Is to
requesting us TO give them theiI
messages, have been cut OH the thirt
time In trying to deliver such urgent
and important messagesy This hai
occurred many times, and Is . result
the party to whom the message wa
addressed, has either had to come Il
town for It or pay for Its delivery b!
team or automobile or otherwise
Taking everything Into consideration
Is II any wonder that the Oregon
Farmer Mutual Directors and III,
general telephone using public are re-
luesting and demanding that TIN
Home Company submit q proposition
whereby we might consolidate9 Fol
your benefit, we will say that at the
present time and for the past Il
years, financially, our company has
been success. We have more tele
phones paying us rentals now than q,
any time before; however, to accom-
plish this end, we are willing to sci
our stock at q reasonable price TO In,
To vmav Mutual Comnanv 0P wa "a Al