Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-24
STATE OF MAINE.
Public Utilities Commission.

OtHI1ISS A<oh1Ht86lobs
Application of Moosehead Telephone
and Telegraph Company ct ais. for or
der authorizing the purchase and sale OF
property, rights and franchises of GER
tain public utilities. and for authority to
issue securities.
u. 30
Joint petition of Moosehead Telephone
'ano Telegraph Company, Northern Maine
Telephone and Telegraph Company. New
england Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany and Moosehead Telephone Com
pany. under Section IS, Chapter 129, Pub
lie Laws of 1914, asking for an order au-
tnorizing the Moosehead Telephone and
Telegraph Company, corporation or
canned under the general law Of Maine.
to purchase all the property. rights and
franchises. except bills receivable and
cash on hand, of the Northern Maine
Telephone and Telegraph Company. and
and to PURCHASE from the New England
Telephone and Telegraph Company the
plant. property, rights and franchises,
except cash on hand and accounts re-
phone and Telegraph Company owned by
II for the conduct of its telephone and
telegraph business in the towns of Alb
BOT. Atkinson. Blanchard. Brownyille.
Greenville, Milo, Monsoon, Orneville,
Parkman. sangerville, Sebec. Shirley and
W!lllmanuc. in the County of Piscata-
gus. in said State; together with the
plant ana property now leased by it to
the Brownville Telephone Company, the
LAGRANGE & Medford Telephone Com
pany, and the Milo Telephone Company
all doing business in said State-wher-
ever the same may be located; subject,
however, to the terms and provisions OF
the leases now in existence between said
New England Telephone and Telegraph
Company and said Brownville Telephone
Company, LAGRANGE & Medford Tele-
phone Company, and Milo Telephone
Company; excepting, however, from the
aforesaid property the toll line, with
fixtures and circuits thereon. of said New
England Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany located in said Town of Dover, and
extending from the central office OF said
company in the village of Dover to the
Dover-Garland town line; also the poles,
with croSs-arrns and toll circuits thereon,
OF the DoVer-Bangor toll line standing in
the towns Of Dover, Sebec and Atkinson.
and extending from said central office in
the village of Dover to the Atkinson
Charleston town line; and also excepting
as aforesaid, such coils, testboards and
associated apparatus and equipment as
the maintenance and operation of said
toll lines and circuits, and authorizing
the said Northern Maine Telephone and
telegraph COMPANY, New England Tele--
phone and Telegraph Company and
Moosehead Telephone Company to sell
said property, rights and franchises to
said Moosehead Telephone and Telegraph
Company, all in the manner and for the
considerations therein set forth; and
further asking for authority under Sec
ton So of said Chapter 12s for the
Moosehead Telephone and Telegraph
Company to issue its capital stock to the
amount of one hundred and seventy
thousand: six hundred @l7o,6oo) dollars,
at par, for the purchase of said prop
erty, rights and franchises.
ORDERED
That public hearing be given on said
petition at the offices of this Commission,
at Augusta, on the twenty-ffth day of
May, A. D. 1915, at ten o'clock in the
forenoon, and that the petitioners give
notice thereof by causing copy of this
order, attested by the Clerk of this Com
mission, to be published in the kennebec
Daily journal, newspaper published at
| Augusta, on May I'D, 1915 and May 9th,
| 1915.
Given under the hand and seal of the
| Public Utilities Commission, at Augusta,
| this twentieth day of May, A. D. 1915.
| BENJAMIN F. CLEAVES,
| q. So VIM B. SHELTON,
| CHAS. W. MULLEN,
! Public Utilities Commission of Maine
| A true copy,
Attest; GEO. F. GIDDINGs, Clerk
! o.