Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1915 — Drove Stake Through Cable; Crippled Telephones. [ARTICLE]

Drove Stake Through Cable; Crippled Telephones.

About 150 telephones in the east part of town were put out of service for a time Wednesday as a result of driving a stake through a cable in the rear Of the telephone office. Sam Stevens, who has the contract for the new brick Street, caused a stake to ae driven into the ground and it pierced the conduit for the telephone cable and severed about 150 pairs of wires. While the telephones were out of commission a gasoline stove at the lome of Chas. W. Platt, caused some trouble and an effort was made to turn in an alarm but the Platt phone was one of those that was out of commission and central could not he reached. The fire was smothered oUt.