The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-02-12
MUST PAY HIGHER PHONE
RATES
Public Service Commission Grants
Plea of Butler Telephone
Company.

/ Company.
At meeting OF the Missouri Pub
lie Service Commission, held at Jel-
icrson City on the Goth day OF jan
uary, 1920, Case No. 1900. Butler
Kich Hill Telephone Company. in
the matter of the suspension OF rates
and charges at Butler, Missouri; and
Case no. 2Il9, Butler-Rich Hill Tel
ephone Company, in the matter OF
suspension OF rates and charges at
Butler and Spruce. Missouri, the fol
lowing order was made:
1T appearing from said report thai
| the present rates and charges OF said
cutler Rich Hill Telephone Com
pany Tor its exchange al Butler, Mis-
souri,. are professionally low and un-
| Just, the order OF the Commission vi
March Is, 1913, Suspending the pro
posed schedule OF rates should be va
Gated and set aside, and the rates for
exchange of rural service be allowed
that supplemental order No. 5, eli
tered on December 5, 1913, postpon-
ing the effective date of the schedule
tor toll messages between Rich Hill
and other points. provided for i'll the
schedule, be vacated and the toll rate,
as provided for be allowed; that tn ,
rate sheets filed for exchange and
rural service by the telephone com
pany Tor its exchanges at Butler and
Spruce, known as Z. S. 6. No. FOR
Spruce, Missouri, and p. S. &. No. 3
for Butler, Missouri, be cancelled,
and the suspension as ordered by the
Commission i'll Case No. 2II0 on the
first day OF August. 1919, made per-
manent.
Nov, after due deliberation, it is
ordered:
"l.-That the schedule OF rates for
exchange and rural service as filed
by the telephone company under +.
S. e. No. : for Spruce, Missouri, and
+. S. c. no. -, for Butler, Missouri,
and which were suspended by the
Commission ON August l, 1919, under
Case No. 2II0, be cancelled and with
drawn.
"e.-That the =. 5. G.. Mo-, No. ,.
filed by the telephone company, Ell
fective April 1, 1913, containing rates
and charges for its service at Butler,
Mo-, as follows:
Business Direct Line, per month
$3.50.
Joint users OF service, per month
$I.oO.
Extension sets, per month, Sl.Oo.
Residence Direct Ling, per month
Sis.
Joint users Of service, per month,
SOC.
"Extensiun sets, per month, $l.Oo.
additional charges lur desk set,
business or residences, per month,
SI.OO.
Rural or Farm Line Service
Class y, per year, $500.
Class B.-per year, $500
F And providing for toll charges at
Butler. l<ich ill and Spruce, being
approved and that the rates aud
charges provided iur i'll said schedule
be permitted to become effective 4,
hereinafter provided.
"4.--That any and all increases OF
rates herein authorized or permitted
shall remain i'll effect for a period ot
thirteen months from and after the
effective date OF the schedule named
herein, at the end OF which period
such increase OF rates shall, without
further order, cease, and the rates OF
said company shall then be reduced
and restored by said company to the
rates now on file or charged by 1t.
Provided, that the Commission may
hereafter by further order continue
such increase of rates for another or
further period, or otherwise change
or modify the rates of said company.
"5-That the said company be re-
quired to keep a full and accurate ac-
count of the revenues and expenses OF
its exchanges and file full and conf
plete report with this Commission at
the expiration of one year after the
effective date OF the proposed sched-
ule, which report shall be i'll addition
to any other reports required by law;
and that the Commission fully retain
jurisdiction OF the parties and the
subject matter of this case to con-
tinue, change or modify the rates of
said company upon the expiration of
said period of thirteen months after
the effective date of said period or at
any other time, upon the evidence and
facts now before the Commission, to-
SCtuCl Win SuSI OtuCI CSiuCuCC %
the company or the interested party
may offer.
"6-That the telephone company
must attentively continue the efforts
to improve the details of the equip
ment and the service as rendered its
and the public.
THAT this order shall take Ell
feet on March l, 1920, and that the
secretary of the Commission shall
forthwith serve upon the parties here
to a certified copy OF this order. and
that the company shall on or before
the 10th day of February, 1920, notify |
the Commission in the matter pre-
scribed in Section IS of the Public
Service Commission law, whether TIE
terms of this order are accepted and
will be obeyed."
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