Show NOTICE TO subscribers OF THE IRON COUNTY TELEPHONE COMPANY during daring the past year the earnings odthe of the company have ave shrunk shrank very materially our labor expense has decreased wine some hot but our other ex honses benses have not the result is we have not earned a fair return on the investment to make matters worse we have not been able to collect what we have earned and the shoe is beginning to pinch th the board of directors b hns as reach ed the conclusion that it is bad has busi n ass sa to permit big bills to aiumu late to prevent the me creation u of such in the future and also to P pre vent existing inz bi bills from grow lag ing bigger the fol following lowing rule has been adopted NO subscribers ACCOUNT WILL BE pera PERMITTED TO RUN 0 VER OVER THREE 3 M MONTHS ONT HS WITHOUT A substantial PAY WENT MENT BEING MADE the companas Comp anys emp employees employed loye are am directed to enforce the rule the application of the rule is this any subscriber who on january 1 1922 was owing fort for two ty 0 2 manth him th service or more mans must make a sub payment during january otherwise on february he will wil I 1 be owing for three months and service must be discontinued A substantial pa payment ment in no case can be less jew than one I 1 mouth s auth ser I 1 ice and may be more d depending op d a ton on the nature atha service so rena oed in ed fur for the th bd B d feel tint th it the require ment cuts can bo be met by bi all that cute caie berul lesne ii is the cause of most dolin dehn quenches quen cies end and that it would not the be doing its duty autv to th the a stockholders and to the public it serves seres if it per milled butted a policy to continue th which has bee been a factor facto L if f not of the in inai cause in every case cae of mh m h ency chey it is hoped subscribers ft sill ill recognize this movement as an effort toward self preservation and p ampt ed by bi no feeling of antagonism and that not one cause for discontinuing service will exist on feb 1 1922 9 the iron county telephone co |