| Show TELEPHONE IN WAYNE COUNTY additional wire added to cinet and new toll rate established joseph E eckersley kersley Ee of loa was aas in richfield last monday he had been to salina to confer with nith supervisor snell of the fish lake forest on a matter pert pertaining to the operation of the telephone line between ahna and wayne county points it seems that a misunderstanding had arisen between tie the ti e people of wane county and the government forest officers regarding the rights and privileges leges contained n ohp agreement as to the use of the telephone line extending to salina members of the committee who entered into the agreement with the government officials ciali as is to the construction of the line maintained that all who assisted in the procuring of the poles and the erection of the same were mere to be entitled to the free use of the line between all points reached by the line whenever he never the government was not using the line for its business the people of the county used the line when it was nas put in operation and up until a short time since but young people abused the privilege lege and would hold long ion conversations over the line on silly subjects and for no apparent reason except the novelty of the thing this condition brought about a state of affairs that the government have demanded that the terms of the arge ement be enforced and that the wayne county people beal be allowed lomed to talk to towns in the county only for this purpose and to provide against interruption from people in the the government ins his unlaced another wire on ahe he circuit for the wayne county service with switches so eo that communication can be had with esea esca V 1 pi r alisi 1 1 0 1 1 or thep cn ap i tiona a t 0 y I 1 rate alts A will ill 0 be chalked ef cf 35 33 1 cents per message of the committee who signed the agreement insist that no such arge ement was made and that the people of the county in were ere not to be restricted to the county towns but were to talk to any point reached by the system mr air Ecker Eek erslev siev visited salina to look into the matter and he was furnished a copy of the original agreement and he finds that the forest service men ate aie coi correct As a result all communications from wayne county to outside points will be paid for at toll lates |
