Show the supreme court of utah has sustained the decision of the district w court in the case of frank penna for selling liquor without a license in this city LADIES AID BAZAAR the members of the ladies aid society of the methodist episcopal church will hold their annual bazaar and aid food sale on wednesday december ber at the M E church you certainly will attend and lend this worthy society the support of your presence sence and good will an open 1 letter to the telephone rin using U 9 public bublic r denver colo november 30 1913 the mountain states telephone and telegraph company in the consideration of its future develop development meritt recognizes that its highest interests as a public utility lie in establishing the closest and most fri friendly eddly relationship with the public generally and with its patrons in particular t therefore ere forc it is the purpose of the mountain states telephone and telegraph company through this announcement to inaugurate what may be termed an advertising educational series of articles both in the newspapers and in the form of letters to its customers it is our hope that this campaign may mark a new era in the relation of public utility corporation to the pit public alic they serve we want this education to work both ways that the public may learn the truth about us and that demay we may learn leam how the public regard us and how we may fairly and efficiently serve the public in other words what is just and right to us and to the people and to convince the public that we will voluntarily remedy any wrongs we are ae doine it if pointed out to us we shall showyin show you our financial affairs frankly and freely it so happens that our financing has been of such a nature that it is easy for us to clearly show to you this side of our affairs what we mean by this is that we have absolutely no water in our stock stocky we have no bonds nor any preferred stock and no marta gage of any kind upon which to pay fixed charges we have more invested in our plant at its present replacement value than our issue of common stock and we have no other stock issued thin than the common stock there are no wheels within escor combar f ewt les companies to absorb profits we finance ours ourselves elvei aiom year to year fr by selling belling our cd chomon rAon stock to the people at not less les than par in the states in which we operate when we tell you the story of our financing we will prove to you that there never have been any fortunes large or small made out of the manipulation of our kursock stock sock in other words no high financing has evir been done in connection with the mountain states telephone and telegraph company or its predecessors the stock never has bag had any speculative value it has been and is now simply a safe investment there is a great misunderstanding upon the part of the pub public lieas as to this side of bur business persons with ul gerior motives striving for foe office and newspapers wishing to give startling news frequently publish stories of how rich certain officials of our company are right now this is being done in connection with the new revenue I 1 tax we suppose these stories grow out of the belief of certain of the public that the executive officials of our company own the entire plant it is absurd for these executive officials of our company are arc merely trustees of the property for the stockholders and none of them are rich men nor have they a very heavy holding of the stock it is true that certain reputed rich men have large liol holdings dings of the stock of our company some ome of them being an on our board of directors but not one of them has made any money whatsoever out of dealing I 1 in n our stock they have all paid dollar for dollar in cash at part par into the treasury of our company for tor for every share they hold and t they hey have simply come into our company because they believe it to be a safe investment there is too upon the part of the public a belief that the company is largely engaged in politics we imagine this feeling is caused by the fact that in the past simply from the standpoint of self preservation certain corporations po rations were almost compelled to be in politics but in these days when the tendency is to place all corporations and trust affairs into the hands of a central body such ashe as he interstate commerce commission and local state earn corn missions etc to deal with the condl conduct act of businesses such as ours being in politics as believed by the public would b be a foolish thing and entirely i sary this is there therefore forel to state emphatically that we are not either directly or indirectly in politics in any way shape or manner and shall not be we are going to attempt to give you the entire story as to our rates we have been told when stating to some of the public that we proposed starting a campaign like this that our efforts would be futile that our subscribers would turn out to be selfish and only look towards the end of getting as cheap telephone hotte rates as possible we do not believe thia we believe that the great majority of the public are inclined to be fair and that it is not so much the question of what our rates are as it is that when we make a statement regarding them and show our oar true financing that we shall be honest and that the public shall know that we are arc honest that when we make a sta statement temen as to our profits and earnings showing J just A where th the dollar that out our pays us goes the public may know that we are not trying to deceive them or keep anything back that should be shown when we honestly do this and our positions seems to be just and tight right we believe that the fairness of the public will sustain us we are going to set forth the inherent t di difficulties of giving universal telephone hohe service these articles and letters are no not t to be special pleading or adroit use of words but a clear businesslike business like setting forth of facts we hope before we get through both ourselves and the public will understand each other better there is at least no harm to be done in trying to accomplish this desired result it is our aim to educate please and satisfy the public and to be educated ourselves it seems to us that every corporation has the right of self defense the same as an individual the public has las the same right listen to our defense and we will listen to yours no problem has ever been harder for us thin than just how we were going to let the public know truly about us but we be lieve that ro BO problem was ever more impat important tant to both if we really can make you feel that you we a partner in in our busi business nets we shall have accomplished much A large part of the problem will be solved if we can only bring the public through education to a full understanding that there is a mutual de den dence between the public service corporations and the public and that public pros crity depends largely upon the mountain states telephone and telegraph company the man that done himself proud and provide himself with one ol of our superb parlor stoves Is the man that I 1 s congratulating himself today to day when cold weather has arrived on his forethought if you been wise enough to replace your old and worn out heater one of our handsome om efficient and economical heating stoves will make you happy auvle hardware fiaui piaui imal bing U the he utilities that bring them in contact with each other and that the more nearly perfect in and sufficiency the utilities serving the public are the more prosperity comforts and conveniences the public will enjoy we believe our story is an interesting one and we hope that everyone will read it note As an instance of the kind of startling news which newspapers sometimes publish we want to call attention to recent articles in the news papers headed united states government calls upon two girl stenographers to tell where two million dollars to form the corporation securities and investment company then the articles went on to say that this corporation securities and investment company was a scheme of the telephone company to further its purpose of monopolizing opol izing telephone companies etc the truth is that out our company his has been met with a strong feeling in the state of montana well nigh universal ni versal that something should be done to relieve the citizens ol of that state of tw 3 telephone systems public meetings have been held and votes taken that the telephones of one or the other of the systems should be thrown out resolutions and letters have been submitted 7 to us and we have started out oui to see what we could do to relieve the citizens a of that state of that burden we found that the independent interests operating there also operated in spokane in the state of washington t and in northern idaho and that the independent interests doing business in montana could not be bought or sold so as to alone cover the property properly in montana but that the purchase must include their property io in the th statis staler of idaho and washington the moun jf wn tain states telephone and telegraph company does dais not operate in either of these sections and therefore Is not responsible pon sible for telephone conditions there nor do we wish to operate there but we felt we must meet the situation in montana and so in order to be in a position to either buy or sell from or at to the independent interests in smon afon tana there was wag formed this corporation securities and investment Compan yas 1 a corporate company to enter into oe be with the independent inter ests in montana which now in progress and if possible to buy these Independent interests in fontona northern idaho and washington and then in the end if that purpose was accomplished complis hed the corporation securities and investments company should sell to the mountain states telephone and telegraph company the portion of the independent plants located in montana and sell to others the portion of these independent plants existing in northern idaho and washington we explain this so the public may know that in the above foreword where we say there is no company within a company for wheels within wheels we are speaking absolutely truly and also that this corporation securities and investment corpany Con pany P which was so freely advertised by the artic articles lesin in the newspapers referred to is absolutely a legitimate and proper company compan yand and organized for the specific purpose stated slated dont foro alto et that M A T T H E W S V LH E carries the best oi of every tb 1 jg in dry goods groceries notion we only make a small profit and extend liberal lib L eral treatment Ireat ment to all 00 |