Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1913 — REMINGTON HARD HIT WITH SLEET [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON HARD HIT WITH SLEET

Telephone Exchange in That Place Practically Put Out of Business —Cables Ordered. - The Remington telephone system was much worse hit this time than the Rensselaer plant The sleet seems to have been worse there and it is reported that only 25 phones on the Remington exchange were in working order, out of a total of almost 500. Wires and poles are down all over the town and out in the country. The damage will run into thousands of dolars. C. W. Holmes, of the Western Electric Co M w'as in Rensselaer this Thursday morning and reported that he had sold about SI,OOO worth of cable to the Remington company. Dr. Emil Besser and C. W. Brand own the Remington plant. Other companies have bfeen hard hit and the Central Union Telephone Co. has sustained a great loss. Between Reynolds and Monticello 50 per cent of the poles are said to be broken off.