Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-12-07
Winchester Phone Service Dis
continued.

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Cumberland Valley Telephone Com
pany. commonly known as the "Win-
chester line') OF Baltimore, TO the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company Of West Virginia, and the re-
sultant discrimination of the Win
chester service after midnight of De-
cember 3lst, is given BY the Winches-
ter management in a statement TO sub
scribers and patrons in Martinsburg
and elsewhere in the State, copies of
which were received Tuesday morn
ing
The notice, giving the details of the
arrangements and the provisions for
changing the telephones in the homes
of subscribers, follow:
''You are hereby respectfully no,
tilted that the telephone service now
being furnished to you by the under
signed, associated companies, will be
permanently discontinued at II o'clock.
midnight, on the 3lst day of December,
1922.
1.-The reason for terminating the said
service is that, the owner company,
Cumberland Valley Telephone Com
pany, of Baltimore City, has sold all
of its physical property and plant lex
cepting central Offices and sub-station
equipment) located in the State of
West Virginia, to the Chesapeake and
potomac Telephone Company of West
Virginia, and the property sold will be
either taken down or consolidated with
the property of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company of West
Virginia, in effecting a single telephone
service for the convenience and &C
commodaton of the public.
"On or before January lst, 1923.
the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company of West Virginia, will
substitute its service to any of our sub
scribers in Martinsburg and elsewhere
in the State of West Virginia, as may
apply therefor free from any installa-
tion charge, such service to be furnish
ed at the standard rates of said COM
pany.
"In all cases where such substitu-
ton of service is made, prior to Jam
uary LIST, 1928, and written notice of
same filed at our Martinsburg Office,
your quarterly billing for service for
the months of October, November and
December, 1922, will be adjusted, for
the unused portion of said quarter, and
collected accordingly, or provided said
quarter billing has been prepaid, a re-
fund for the unused portion Of said
quarter, will be made.
"The Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company Of West Virginia will,
upon the consolidation of the telephone
service hereinabove referred to, ex-
tend to all of its subscribers and pa
irons within the central Office districts
of Martinsburg and Shepherdstown,
West Virginia, toll line facilities and
toll service, which will enable the said
subscribers and patrons to commune
cate with the subscribers and patrons
of the Cumberland Valley Telephone
System in the State of PENNSYLVANIA
and its connecting companies, also
with the subscribers of the American
Union Telephone Company of Virginia,
Inc, doing business at Winchester, Va,
and its connecting companies, the
telephone traffic between the compa-
MES to be interchanged at the boun-
dairy line between the States of Vir-
ginia and West Virginia, respectfully.
"ln terminating our telephone ser
vice in the city Of Martinsburg and
elsewhere in the State of West Viz
ginia, we desire to thank all of our
subscribers and patrons for the very
cordial relations which have existed
for many years"
Signed,
Cumberland Valley Telephone Com
pany, Of Baltimore City
United American Telephone Company,
Of West Virginia.
Cumberland Valley Telephone Com
pany Of Pennsylvania.
THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT.
Christmas fOr tho