Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1912 — Telegraph and Telephone People Effect Consolidation. [ARTICLE]

Telegraph and Telephone People Effect Consolidation.

Characteristic of all monopolies that keep their negotiations strictly secret until the consolidation is effected, a close corporation was legalized in Rensseraer Saturday afternoon, when a representative of the Western Union Telegraph Co., of Muncie, and a representative of the Jasper County Telephone Co., of Rensselaer, much to the surprise of those associated with them in the two corporations, took out papers corporate and closed a deal that the Sherman anti-trust law will be unable to dissolve. Guy Loveless, of Muncie, and Miss Mollie McElfresh, of Rensselaer, were the parties to the corporation. County Clerk Perkins issued the papers and Elder D. T. Halstead put on the finishing touches. Miss McElfresh is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George McElfresh, of Barkley township, and has been employed at the Jasper County Telephone Co’s, central offee for four or five years. The groom holds a position with the Western Union Telegraph Co., at Muncie. Their amalgamation of interests in no manner binds the corporations by which they were .employed and there is no expectation of an increase of telephone and telegraph rates. Miss McElfresh was very popular with the “hello” girls at the telephone office and with all who were acquainted with her. She had confided with only a few friends the secret of, her approaching marriage and many of the young ladies employed with her did not know of it until after the ceremony was performed and her parents were not advised of it until the next day. Following the ceremony Saturday evening at the home of Elder Halstead, Mr. and Mrs. Loveless went to the home of her. grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William McElfresh, and told them of their marriage. They took the 11 o’clock train Saturday night for Lafayette for a short visit with the groom’s parents and went from there to Muncie, where a furnished .-home awaits them.