Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1920 — PHONE RATE HEARING IS ON [ARTICLE]

PHONE RATE HEARING IS ON

Utility Commission to Take Up Toll Distance Question Tuesday. The public service camttnission began a general hearing Tuesday on tihe telephone long distance rates in Indiana. The full commission likely will 'hear the evidence. Both independent and the Bell companies are interested. Present rates went intg effect by order of the federal telephone administration and were to have expired Dec. 1, when z the properties went -back to their owners. The Indiana commission, however, permitted the rates to stand pending an investigation.