Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1901 — Independent Telephone Meeting. [ARTICLE]

Independent Telephone Meeting.

The independent telephone managers of Jasper, P«.rter and Lake counties, held a meeting at Hebron on Wednesday of last week, for the purpose of discussing the best methods of improving the service and fighting the Bell company. A. Halleck, of this county, was one of those present. The owners of the indepen dent lines agreed at the meeting to support each other .in their fight against the Bell company. Mr. Ross, of Porter county, and Halleck, of Jasper, have decided to establish an exchange at Hebron, it they can secure a franchise, in opposition to the Porter County Telephone Company, the owners of the Hebron company.