Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1919 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

TELEPHONE NOTICE " We feel it of the utmost importance to explain to all telephone patrons conditions as they exist in the telephone held in Rensselaer and vicinity.. Every one' knows the existing conditions, which no one in (particular is to blame for; but the conditions are here and must be met. All patrons also know that prices in every business and profession in town and country have increased except' the telephone company. The butcher, groceryman, shoe man, millinery, furnh ture, dry goods, hardware, cpnfectionery, banks, garages, hotels and restaurants, picture shows, bakers, dairymen, implement dealers goods and have increased from 50 to 200%. They add it on to their prices and charge you for the service and goods. Telephone companies are not allowed this privilege, and suffer the loss. x Again, the physician and surgeon, lawyer, real estate and insurance man, the dentist, optician—services and goods have Increased to the highest point, for which t£ey charge you. But no change in the telephone rates._ The farmer with his $22 hogs, $lB cattle, 50 to 75 cent butter and eggs, hay, corn and every product of the farm, with the land values soaring to (points beyond comparison. But the country telephone rates a re the same as when wheat

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