Show TO OUR PATRONS we hope 1928 may prove the happiest and most prosperous year southeastern utah has ever known and that your share of all its good things may be full and complete we intend to make it the best year yet in cheerful and efficient telephone service and we shall be happy it that service makes business more profitable and living more pleasant we take considerable pride in our work during 1927 A modem cable plant was finished in moab which is a credit to the town while the new plant in blanding and improvements in monticello will give better service there also the lines between the several towns were greatly improved and we want during 1928 to continue this work until we have the best telephone plant and service our territory can support such improvements cost large sums of money but we are glad to spend it in building up the country especially as most of it is spent right at home we raise some of this money by sale of our stocks and bonds some of it comes from our operative revenue all of it is dependent on that revenue for our income must be large enough to make our securities a safe investment or we cannot sell them so your small monthly telephone bill is important to us because it Is the means which keeps us going and the total of all these small bills Is the basis on which we raise new money to keep on building the plant which southeastern utah needs our friends often feel that the bontly telephone bill Is so small it is unimportant but to us these small bills are the breath of life we must collect all these bills every month to keep our credit good and in asking you during 1928 for prompt payment of your telephone bill it is not your credit but our own that we are trying to improve if we seem insistent about such small amounts please remember that it is not a reflection on your standing but comes from the fact that we have no large accounts to turn to so it a considerable number of telephone bills small though they are remain unpaid we are out a large amount in order to remind you quickly and pleasantly we expect to make use of the telephone to help us both remember these small items so about the of the month we shall be calling your attention to your bill it it has not been paid please help us keep out of debt while we build our system MIDLAND TELEPHONE CO J W CORBIN manager |