Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1914 — Telephone Rates Raised in Country About Monticello. [ARTICLE]

Telephone Rates Raised in Country About Monticello.

The Monticello Telephone Company has raised its rates to country subscribers to $1.25 a month and the result is related as follows by The Monticello Herald: “It Is reported that about 185 rural patrons of the Monticello Telephone Company have signed up the new contracts and appear to be satisfied, while about 140 have agreed to let their phones go out rather than sign up. Their motto is, We want what we pay for, aiyl don’t want to pay for it till we get it’. At the same time the eutting of 140 phones will mean inconvenience and loss to many besides those who order their phones out”