Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1918 — BURLESON WILL OVERSEE PHONE CHARGES, CHANGES [ARTICLE]

BURLESON WILL OVERSEE PHONE CHARGES, CHANGES

Washington, Aug. 29.—Under orders issued today all changes in telephone rates must be submitted to Postmaster Burleson for approval, before becoming effective, and the companies are required to make a charge for installing new telephones ,or changing the locations of, the oila A statement by the postmaster general says the new changes are necessary to conserving labor and material and to eliminate a cost which now. is, borne by the permanent user of the telephone. , Installation charges where the rate is $2 a month or less will be Jo. Where the rate is more than s2but not exceeding $4 a month, it will be $lO, and where the rate is more than $4 a month, sls. The moving charge to the subscriber, the statement says, will be the actual cost of labor and material necessary for making the change.

Mrs. Ed Reeves and Miss Dorothy Crawford of Chicago went to Lafayette today. Mrs. W. S. Ware came from Rantoul, Di., Thursday to visit Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lutz.