Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-22
STATE OF MAINE.
Public Utilities Commission


Application Of Moosehead Telephone
and Telegraph Company ct ais. for or
der authorizing the purchase and sale Of
property. rights and franchises of GER
tam public utilities. and for authority to
issue securities.
u. 80
Joint petition of Moosehead Telephone
and Telegraph Company, Northern Maine
Telephone and Telegraph Company, New
England Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany. under Section 3S, Chapter 129, Pub
nc Laws OF 1913, asking for an order au-
thorizing the Moosehead Telephone and
IeIegraph Company, corporation Or
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
it for the conduct of its telephone and
telegraph tel. h.,I business in the towns Of Alb
Dover. Elliotsville. Foxcroft, Guiiford.
Greenville, Milo, Monson. Orneville,
parkman, Sangerville. Sebec, Shirley and
Willimantic.. in the County of Piscata-
quis, in said State; together with the
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
Company and said Brownville Telephone
company, LaGrange & Medford Tele-
phone Company. and Milo Telephone
Company; excepting, however, from the
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-arms and toll circuits thereon,
OF the Dover-Bangor toll line standing in
the towns of Dover, Sebec and Atkinson,
ana 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
is located within said towns and used for
the maintenance and operation of said
toll lines and circuits, and authorizing
The said Northern Maine Telephone and
Telegraph Company, New England TeIe-
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 50 OF said Chapter 129 for the
Moosehead Telephone and Telegraph
Company to issue its capital stock to the
amount of one hundred and seventy
thousand six hundred Cs17O,6o0) 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-fifth day Of
May. 4. ID. 1915. at ten O'Clock in tho
forenoon, and that the petitioners give
notice thereof by causing a 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 22d, 1915 and May 2ith,
1915.
Given under the hand and seal of the
Public Utilities Commission, at Augusta,
this twentieth day of May, A. D. 1915.
BENJAMIN +. CLEAVES,
q. 81 WIN. e. SHELTON,
CHAS. w. MULLEN,
Public Utilities Commission of Maine.
A true copy,
Attest: GEO. F. GIDDINGs. Clerk.
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