Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. FARMERS’ TELEPHONE CO. WINS The Farmers’ & Merchants’ Cooperative Telephone Co. of Boswell has been granted by a decision of the Public Service commission, handed down yesterday, the right to unrestricted use of all lines of the I. U. T. & T. Co., the Central Union Co., —all the Bell lines —-through its exchange at Freeland Park and outside the town of Boswell. The commission held that no public carrier can discriminate against any person or* any other carrier.—Benton County Republican.