Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1920 — MESSAGE WAS NOT EXPENSIVE [ARTICLE]

MESSAGE WAS NOT EXPENSIVE

Mention has been made in the Republican of the telephone mesaage received by Mrs. L. H. Hamilton Wednesday morning from* her son, Fred Hamilton, who was in Los Angeles, Calif, The regular toll for a telephone message from Rensselaer to Los Angeles is $14.15 for three minutes with an extra charge of $4.70 for each additional minute. This is for a person to person- service. The day rate for the same. phone for station to station service is $11.35 for the first three minutes and $3.75 for each additional minute. There is a special rate in effect from 8:30 p. m. to 12:00 midnight of $5.70 for the first three minutes with $1.90 for each minute overtime. But the cheapest rate is the service from midnight to 4:80 a. m. and this is the rate used by Fred Hamilton. This rate is from station to station, the charges being $2.95 for the first three minutes and 95 cents for each additional minute. Fred’s mother is sure that both got the worth of their money in again hearing one another’s voices. Fred had not heard his mother’s voice since February, 1918. At that time he spent but a fourteen days’ leave en route from London to Victoria, Canada. This short visit was after three years’ service as a Machine Gunner with the Canadians in Europe. Just received a car of cook stove coal, egg size—J. C. Gwin & Co., phone 6. • -yE ■ : |