Show f TELEPHONE SYSTEM ADVOCATED Commercial Club Plans Central Energy System for Ephraim Proceeding on the theory th that t municipal mu mu- l ownership of the local telephone telephone tele tele- phone service would be a good business busi bust bustness ness ness investment a as well as a b boon on to the town and a a. big success ess from the standpoint of patronage the he Ephraim C Commercial club is making an effort to induce the city council to consider th the matter and if possible to take action at once The question of securing se se- securing curing a telephone service under municipal municipal mu mu- ownership has been ben a agitated by the he citizens of oY Ephraim for severa several years years but it was always put aside in f favor vor of other proposed ties In fact the cit city has been making mak mak- ing such strides along the line of pub public lie lic improvements that many of the members members' of the Commercial club have been timid when the subject of ofa ofa ofa a ne was broached However t this is shyness was suddenly sudden sudden- I ly Iy swept aside when it was announced ed at th the club meeting that a plan had bad been devised whereby it may be possible for forthe the the cit city to acquire possession pos possession pos pos- possession session of a a local telephone system without becoming further indebted Only the e general plan was discussed I at the meeting and the details are tob tobe to tobe b be worked out b by by the city officers Meanwhile the special ial committee co of the Commercial club is busy securing information on the cost of installing a telephone system of the latest type The system proposed by the club is isto isto isto to be one of the most mod modern rn dispensing dis with the old old fashioned crank arrangement of using the party four-party harmonic selection Which Is to say that that with the proposed system system system tem it will be possible to call any anyone one of four parties on a IL line without disturbing disturbing disturbing dis dis- t the e others This also implies that it will be a energy central system tem the tern the for the system bein being supplied from the central station According to the clubs club's plan it is proposed to reduce educe the telephone rental considerably below that which is now v being char charged ed and in that way it is hoped to secure as many subscribers at least as are now patronizing the Manti system which is understood to be approximately It is argued that the city is in a position to operate such a system most economically bec because use the city electrician could serve as trouble man the central station c could uld be bo installed in- in stalled in the Public Library building and the collections could be made by the same officer who makes the collections collections collections col col- col- col for electric light service The members of the t committee appointed appointed ap ap- pointed by the Commercial club are J. J H. H Jensen Hy B. B Madsen and David Madsen I |