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Show oo H HEARD OVER I TELEPHONE. I Why Party Lines Are So M Popular in the Country M Oklahoma City, Okla., Dec. 13. H That the popularity of tho rural tel- H ephono is largely due to tho party H lino system by which tbe farmers are H enabled to overhear their neighbors' H talks is Indicated in the statement H here of T. M. Kirby, manager of a H large rural telephone system, at a H session of tho state corporation com- jH mission. H "I wish you people would file a H complaint so that we could fine each. H subscriber ot a rural telephone who H takes down his receiver for tho pur- H pose of overhearing tho conversation H of his neighbor," said Commissioner H A. P. Watson to Kirby. "I believe that 'H if the people of the country could not H listen when thev choose, more than H half tho telephones would be order- H ed out," said Kirby. H |