Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1914 — North Vernon Telephone Plant is Not City Owned. [ARTICLE]

North Vernon Telephone Plant is Not City Owned.

The Republican was not correct about the North Vernon telephone "plant being municipally owned. Evidently a misunderstanding of a question which we had asked was misunderstood bv the person who received our letter. The reply stated that the plant was municipally owned. It referred, however, to the electric light and water plant, which are owned by the city of North Vernon, but about which no question was asked. A letter which O. P. Wright received in reply to an inquiry about the telephone business in North Vernon, stated that the rates were $2 per month for business phones and $1 per month for residence phones, the same rates which are supposed to prevail in Rensselaer and do except for the fact that the users of the automaphones pay 50 cents additional each month for “better service”