Show TELEPHONE RATES ADVANCING A effic n called at tile the news sanctum the other day arnd made the statement that the telephone rates for residences hae advanced awen twenty ty five cents making the cost of a phone as against this rate applies only to new business according to our informant the old subscribers being charged at the rate of per month in all tile the disagreements over a franchise between betwee ii the city and the tole telephone company the bone ot of contention atou was a clause prescribing the maximum rates to be charged cha reed the city i insisting on its presence in III the franchise and the t ii e company declining t 0 accept the d 0 aument with that paragraph inserted and there is undoubtedly argument good argument tor for the stand taken by each but as citizens or of the community it is to our advantage to look out lor for our onn interests it has been stated time and again that if the city had granted the company a as they wanted it the rates all along the line would have advanced long ago and the people would ither cither have had to tai pay them or do without vit hout the phone this is only conjecture ot of course for the officials ot of the company have indicated what their policy would be but tills this much is a certain tact fact it if it is impossible to operate a telephone system lor for less than to 1075 per residence phone it would be a whole lot better to be ba paying that revenue to ourselves instead ot of to a t corporation whose interests in the community for the benefit of tho the community can never be what the interests of the community are to itself the present owners of the corporation may die or transfer their interests anil and the corporation itself might cease to be but the community will continue throughout the coming generations of time and that which the community acquires for its own now ot at any time will be the heritage of the generations erat ions unborn to bless them as well as bless us its who are living today we dont know how far the spiZe special ial committee appointed to investigate I 1 this matter has progressed in its research but we cannot help the feeling that a municipal telephone would be a boon to Drig brigham hain and nd the t time to install it I 1 is right now I 1 |