Show TELEPHONE COMBINE Independent Concerns Said to Be Forming Fifty- Fifty Million Company CHICAGO April 8 A S.-A A convention of ot the Interstate Telephone association will willbe willbe willbe be held at the Sherman house on April and The association Iscom is I com composed of the Ind independent pendent telephone exchanges In the States of Illinois Wisconsin WIsconsin Wisconsin Wis WIs- Michigan Indiana Kentucky Missouri I and Iowa It Jt is the expectation that before the meeting adjourns all the smaller telephone telephone tele tele- phone companies in the country will have been merged At Joust Jollet yesterday the Interstate company com corn pany placed on record e a deed of trust t for gt ni f o This amount t of securities c will willbe willbe be on hand at the meeting to be held to to- to morrow |