Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1902 — PAY FOR A FRANCHISE. [ARTICLE]

PAY FOR A FRANCHISE.

Dixon & Jessen, owners of the telephone exchanges at Brook and Morocco, have asked to have canceled their old franchise at Brook and a new one granted, which has been done. The new franchise is for a period of 10 years, and Messrs. Dixon & Jessen are to pay SSO per year for same until the exchange reaches 300 phones, after which an additional $25 is to be paid for each additional 100 ’phones or fraction thereof. The rate charged for phones is to be $lB per year for business houses and sl2 per year for residences, except that where a business man has a phone at his place of business and one at his residence, the rate for the two phones is to be only $24 per year. In addition to this very desirable rate, all patrons of the exchange are given free service to the patrons of their phones at Morocco, “ Foresman, and Mt. Ayr, or anywhere else that the lines may be extended in the future.