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Show FRANCHISE WILL BE GRANTED TO TELEPHONE CO. It was decided at a special meeting meet-ing of the City Council hold at t lie City Hall last Tuesday evening, to grant a franchise to the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. to operate within the City of Mount Pleasant for a period of fifteen years. The long existing controversy between be-tween the Home Telephone Company and the Mountain States people having hav-ing been satisfactorily settled gave the City officials a license to act in granting a franchise to the other people. For many months the people of Mount Pleasant wanted an independent indepen-dent telephone system and the City officials were in favor of granting the home people the privilege of building and maintaining a telephone system in the city. Upon learning this fact the Mountain States people made consessions with the home company and promised the city that they would give the people any kind of service that the city desired if they would only let them operate. And all things being agreed upon by the Mountain States people the city will probably make out a franchise next Saturday evening and give to the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Tel-egraph Company to operate for a period of fifteen years. |