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If you will entrust en-trust us with your laundry, the quality qual-ity of work will hold you as a regular regu-lar patron. Troy Laundry Mt. Pleasant - - utah MT. PLEASANT Barber Shop. . C. BARTON, Prop. All Work Guaranteed. Once come, always stay. Hair Tonic Guaranteed to Cure Dandruff. Cream for Chapped Hands and Face. I taerjhe Place. Q MIDJET FLOUR MILL The only Flour Mill in the City. All Grades of Flour and Feed Stuffs. Use Flour Made at Home. L. E. BRADY, Miller. Fairview, Utah. Winter Courses At THE UTAH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Logan, Utah, From Nov. 18th to March 8tn. Open to all. Write for information. Advertissment. ARTHUR CHILDS Photographer Mt. Pleasant, - - - - Utah. J. E. Larsen 1 Watchmaker aud Je-weler Also Engraving. ALL WORK GUARANTIED. Office Opposite Post Office J. W. CHERRY ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Liraont Building. Mt. Pleasant, Utah. Tel. No. . GEORGE CHRISTENSEN, A ttorney-at-Law OFFlCE:-Second floor of the Enck- 3en block. , Notary Public in office. Telephone No. 79. Mt. Pleasant, - - - Utah. J. C Stocks, M. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Office: F. Ericksen's Residence Hours: 1 to 5 p. m. Phone No. 11 Mount Pleasant, - uian """pTwiNTERS PHYSICIAN .nd SURGEON. Uu Mount Pleasant DR. R. A. BURCH DENTIST Wasatch Building Mt.PIeasanUJJ WALL & TYGERSON Flpctrical Contractors. G. F. Bohne. Sanitary Utah Mt. Pleasant, An Open Letter to the Telehpone Using Public &5ffiAffBi zp" and Telegraph Comoanv. in the con- .very share they hold, and they the more nearly perfect in efficiency j siderati nave simply come into our company and sufficiency he utilities serving reVoM zes that its highest interest, because they believed it to be a sate the public are, the more prosperity. asapubM investment. comtorts and conveniences the pub- the closest and most friendly rela- There is, too, upon the part of the he wil enjoj . Uonsnin with the public generally, public, a belief that the company is We believe our story is an interest-and interest-and with its patrons in particular; Sargel.v engaged in politics, We in,- ing one, and we hope that everyone therefore, it is the purpose of The agine this teeling is caused by the wi, read it I Mountain States Telephone and Tele- fact that in the past, simply from NOTE. As an instance of the kind graph Company, through this an- che standpoint of self-preservation, of startling news which newspapers nouncement, to inaugurate what certain corporations were almost sometimes publish we want to call may be termed an advertising ed- compelledtobe in polities; but m attention to recent articles in the I ucational series of articles, both in these days, when the tendency is to newspapers headed, United bta es j newspapers and in the form of letters place all corporations and trust at- Gcverment Lad Upon Two Curl bte-to bte-to its customers. It is our hope that fairs into the hands of a central nographers to Tell heie They Got this campaign may mark a new era jody, such as the Interstate Com- Two Million Do liars to ;.rm the Lot-in Lot-in the relation of public utility cor- .nerce Commissions and local state poration Securities and Investment porai ions to the public they serve, commissions, etc.. to deal with the Company rhen the articles went . We want this education to work conduct of busineess such as ours, on to say that this Corporation be- ! both wavs-.that the public may oeing in politics, as believed by the cunues and Investment Company learn the truth about us. and that public, would be a foolish thing and was a scheme ot the Telephone Com- we may learn how the public regarc -ntireiy unnecessary. This is, there- pany to further it purpone of moil mo-il s and how we may fairly and ef tore, to state emphatically that we nopohzing telephone companies, etc. ficiently sorve the public in other ire not, either directly or indirect- ' The truth isthat our company has words, what is just and right to us ,y, in politics, in any way, shape or been met with a strong te -nn r in and to the people, and to convince manner, and shall not be. the State of Montana- web nigh the public that we will voluntarily We are going to attempt to give universal-that somelhn a should be remedy any wrongs we are doing, vou the entire story as to our rates, done to relieve the citizens ot that if pointed out to us We have be n t ld; when stating to state, of two telephone system. 1'ub- W"e shall show you our financial some of tue public that we proposed lie meetings have been held, and affairs franKly and freely. It so starting a campaign like this, that votes taken, that the telephones of I happens that our finaneing has been jur efforts would be futile; that our one or the other of the systems . of such a nature that it is easv for us subscribers would turn out to be snould be thrown out. Resolutions j to clearly show to you this side oi selfish and onlv look toward the end and letters have been submitted to j affairs What we mean by this is, of getting as cheap telephone rates us, and we have started out to see j that we have absolutely no water as possible. We do not belive this, what we could do to relieve the in our stock; we have no bonds, nor We believe that the great majority citizens of that state of this burden. I any preferred stock, and no mort- of the public are inclined to be fair, We found that the Independent g gage of any kind upon which to pay and that it is not so much the ques- interests operating there fixed charges. We have more in- tion of what our telephone rates are as) ope; ate J in bpokane, vested in our plant at its present re- as it is that when we make a stale- in the State of Washington and in j placement value than our issue ot ment regarding them and show our northern Idaho, and that the Inde-common Inde-common stock, and we have no other crue financing, that we shall be hon- pendent interest doing business in stock issued than the common stock, est, and that the public shall know Montana could not be bought or There are no wheels within wheels, that we are honest. That when we sold, so as to alone cover the prop-nor prop-nor companies within companies, to make a statement as to our profits erty in Montana, but that the pur-absorb pur-absorb profits. We finance our- and earnings, showing just where chase must include their property selves from year to year by selling the dollar that our subscriber pays in the staUs of Idaho and Washing- I our common stock to the people, ai us goes, the public may know that ton. The Mountain btates iele-not iele-not less than par, in the states in we are not trying to deceive them phone and Telegraph Company does which we operate. or keep anything back that should not operate in either of these see- When we tell you the storv of our be shown. When we honestly do tions, and, therefore, is not respon- ; financing, we will prove to you that this and our position seems to be sible for telephone conditions there, i there never have been any fortunes, just and right, we believe that the nor does it wish to operate there, large or small, made out of the fairness of the public will sustain us. but we felt we must meet the situa-manipulation situa-manipulation of our stock in other We are goine: to set forth the in- tion in Montana, and so, in order to words, no high financing has ever herent difficult -s of giving universal be in a position to either buy or sell, Kl been done in connection with The telephone service. These articles from or to, the Independent interests W Mountain States Telephone and Teie- and letters are not to be a piece of m Montana, there was formed this graph Company, or its predecessors, special pleading or adroit use ot Corporation Securities and Invest- The stock never has had any specu- WOrds, but a clea- business like set- ment Company, as a corporate com- lative value; it has been, and is now ting forth of fads. We hope, be- panv, to enter into negotiations with g simply a safe investment. fore we get through, both our- the Independent interests in Mont- There is a great misunderstanding selves and the public will under- ana, which negotiations are now in upon the part of the public as to stand each other better. There is progress and if possible, to buy this side of our business. Persons at least no harm to be done in trying these Independent interests in Mont-with Mont-with ulterior motives, striving for to accomplish this desii ed result. ana, northern Idaho and Washing- ; , office, and newspapers wishing to Itisouraim to educate,, please ton, and then in the end, it that give startling news (see note below) and satisfy the public and to be ed- purpose was accomplished, the Cor-frequently Cor-frequently publish stories of how ucated ourselves. It seems to us poration Securities and Investment j rich certain officials of our company that every defense, the same as an Company should sell to the Moun- . are. Right now, this being done in individual. The public has the tain States felej hone and le.egraph ; connection with the new revenue same right. Listen to our defense Company the portion of the inde- tax We suppose these stories grow and we will lislen to yours. No pendent plants located in Montana, out of the belief of certain of the problem has ever been harder for and sell to others the portion ot public that the executive officials of us than just how we w'ere going to these Independent plants exisiting our company own the entire pUnt. let the public know truly about us in northern Idaho and Washington. It is absurd, for these executive of- but we believe that no problem was We explain this so the public may ficials of our company are merely ever more important to both. If we know that in the above toreword, i trustees of the property, for the really can make you feel that vou where we say there is no company stockholders, and none of them are are a partner in our business, we within a company, or wheels within rich men, nor have they a very heavy shan have accomplished much. A wheels we are speaking absolutely holding of the stock. It is true that aro-e part of the problem will be truly, and also that this Corporation g certain reputed rich men have large solved, if we only bring the public, Securities and Investment Company, R I holdings of the stock of our company through education, to a full under- which was so freely advertised by I - I some of them being on our Board of standing that there is a mutual de- the articles in the newspapers re- I i Directors but not one of them has pendence between the public service ferred to, is absolutely a legitimate f 9 made any money whatsoever out of corporation and the public, and that and proper company and organized j I dealing in our stock. They have all public prosperity depends largely for the specific purposes stated. I I The Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company. j 'Accuracy .jSfe&raS v ' (and. J3t Penetration -fr cjPjjP' 'High Power" jdL Repeating fM (Rif le No.425 'f J0 (List Price $20.00 W A llb - iWABig Game Rifle that ffKtakes -Good''- - jXSurc Firc No Balks No Jams '.L.-r "border freyour Dtaicr.' KScnd forUandsnmcly Illustrated h ' J. Stevehsfrms & Tool Co., . Chicopee Falls. Mass:, A Mt. Pleasant Druggist MA-es A Statemen' We always advise people who have stomach or bowel trouble to see a Sr. But to those who do not wish Ho this we will say: try the mix- urtf simple buckthorn ba, glvcer Ine etc , known as Adeler-i-ka. in s limnle new remedy is so powerrull IrS at its QUICK action. U. . Johnston, Druggist.-Adv. ' v " v fix , . t 6 a , """" i : fit His to Exactly -1 "When father ws-s sick aVuit six r years ag.) he read an adve; tisn.er t s of Chamberlain's Tabids in the II papers that fit his cate exact y." 1 writes Miss Margaret Campbell of e , Ft. Smith, Ark. "He purchase! a r- box of them and he ha; not b.-en r- sick since. My si.-ter bad stomach 1. troub'e and was also benr-fiied by them." For Side by All Dealers. SX Fit Ju with Glasses? Why ;CI5of course! Don't want your dzM. moncyif lcan,t;;lt ; . -f -r:- Dr. E. G. Mills. ( - Optometrist. iXtsJ&i JltPlcasant, Utah |