Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1915 — Noble Ball Managing Telephone Company at Guide Rock, Neb. [ARTICLE]

Noble Ball Managing Telephone Company at Guide Rock, Neb.

Noble Ball, of Guide Rock, Neb., and Jesse Ball, of Mitchell, S. Dak., who were called back to their old home by the death of their father, Cyrus A. Ball were Rensselaer visitors today and will start for Noble’s home Wednesday morning. Noble is the manager of the telephone company at Guide Rock, a town of about 1,000 people. The telephone «i*ates there are $1 for residences and $1.50 for business telephones. Guide Rock is 11 miles from Red Cloud, the county seat, and to telephone subscribers a rate of 5 cents is made for tolls between the two towns. To non-subscribers the rate is 15 cents. Guide Rock is only 18 miles from Superior, Neb., the city where “Jakey” Hopkins has lived for a number of years. The rate to Superior is 15 cents. There are two other towns 17 miles north and the rate is 15 cents and one town 30 miles to the northwest where the rate is 20 cents. The Republican has always believed and believes now that the rate between Remington should be only 20 cents. Noble is prospering and this is another sample of the bianner in which Rensselaer young men have made good. His many friends will be pleased'to learn of his success.