Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1914 — Utilities Board Member Heads Phone Rate Petition. [ARTICLE]

Utilities Board Member Heads Phone Rate Petition.

Logansport, Ind., Feb. 16—Charles J. Murphy, of the state utilities commission, conducted a hearing here today on the petition of the Home Telephone Company for permission to increase its rates in this city. The present rates of S3O individual business telephones and sls for individual residence telephones and the company asks permission to increase the rates to $36 for business and $24 for individual house telephones. Manager Walter J. Uhl presented the matter tor the company and several citizens testified as to the character of wrevice given by the company. At the conclusion of the hearing Commissioner Murphy ordered an invoice of physical property of the company and when this is done another hearing will be bad at which it is expected a decision will be rendered.