Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of tha Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Hapi>enings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many LocalitiesWOLCOTT TELEPHONE PETITION IS HEARD Monticello, Aug. 27. —A hearing in the matter of the petition of J. C. Dixon of Wolcott and W ( W. Washburn of Goodland for the sale and purchase of the Wolcott telephone exchange, plant and system was held in the court room yesterday morning by the public service commission of Indiana. Mr. Washburn of the Goodland telephone company became the owner of the Wolcott telephone property, and the purchase was approved by the commission.