Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1917 — Farmers’ Telephones. [ARTICLE]

Farmers’ Telephones.

A telephone is not an expense. It is a means of reducing expenses. It is a time saver, a social help and an economy that no household should be without. It has no substitute on the farm. It is to the farmer-even more than what it is to the merchant It keeps him in touch with the markets, the physician, his neighbors and the city, says an exchange. “ When he buys a telephone he wants the best for it is the cheapest in the end. "Good equipment and good service” should be his motto. And It is if he be wise. If your telephone service is poor, make a kick to those in authority. If there is something wrong with. the equipment see that It is righted. There Is no excuse for « ' poor telephone service.