Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1909 — WILL ORGANIZE IN A FEW DAYS. [ARTICLE]

WILL ORGANIZE IN A FEW DAYS.

Subscriptions to Stock In Proposed Mutual ’Phone Co., Coming In Briskly. The organization of a mutual telephone company in Jasper county along the lines proposed and worked for by The Democrat will likely be made next week. There are perhaps 25 to 30 stock subscription blanks now out over the county to which | names are being secured by farmers lin those neighborhoods, for shares of stock, and while we do not know’ the exact number of names secured on all of these blanks, we do know that on one, 8 shares were secured ten ■days ago in less than two hours time, and that, too, at the little town of Kniman. They have likely more than doubled the number there since then. The blank at The Democrat office has nearly 50 names to it, and quite a number of the subscribers said they would take more than one share if it were necesary or there were plenty to be had; they wanted everyone to have an opportunity to subscribe, but they were not afraid of it and ■ would really like more than one ; share. One of this number is a ' prominent stockholder in the Brook Mutual,, who resides and owns land in this county. He also confirmed everything we have said in The Demorat regarding the success of the Brook company, of which he is a director. The Democrat has no financial interest in the establishing Of a mutual company here, except that we expect it will make quite a saving to us in phone rates in news-gathering, and we w’ill take one or two shares of stock and pay for it the same as any one else- In pushing the organization some one had to take the lead, and we have necessarilly had to be quite prominent in the movement. When the organization is perfected we are ready and anxious to step down and out and let some one else take the lead. The Democrat will do everything it can to help the cause along thereafter, of course, and thqt, too, without pay. We want to see the cause succeed and a good set of officers chosen by the stockholders, and in order to make it a success the organization should be formed outside and entirely independent of the move for a •’mutual” (?) that J. F. Bruner—who of late has been so closely conferring with the old company—is trying to form. The old company, it seems, does not want to recede from its position of $1.50 per month for county phones, so a deal has been hatched up by which Bruner is alleged to have got control of its country lines and is now offering service at the old price of $1 per month. However, if this move of The Democrat for a mutual should fail, it is very probable the old company would again j come into possession of these country I lines and $1.50 be demanded. Bear in mind, that the move of The Democrat and the stock subscrip, j tion blanks circulated through its es- : forts has nothing whatever to do with the so-called rthtual meeting advertised to be held at the court house today, the call for which is i this time signed “Committee,” of j which J. F. Bruner is the sole and ■ whole thing. The move is intended Ito divide the mutual sentiment, and should have no encouragement whatever. Some fine bacon—special 17c a pound at the Home Grocery. Subscribe for The Democrat.