Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1909 — A Misstatement Corrected. [ARTICLE]

A Misstatement Corrected.

The editor of the- Jasper County Democrat has a hard time trying to make the farmers believe that I am for the Jasper County Telephone Co. and against the proposed Mutual System. When he gays I was closeted with the president of the Jasper County Telephone Co. after the meeting Saturday, he made a statement that is not true. The statement that the price on phones was, not reduced until Sunday is another of his many misrepresentations. You people who are signing for stock in the new company should ask the editor if you are sure of getting a phone. I understand the company, if organized, will only put in phones where it suits the directors. If this is *so you may pay your SSO arid get no phone. I am in favor of a mutual telephone company in and around Rensselaer, but not county wide. The county is too thinly settled in many of the out townships and no company can build these lines and not lose money. I have stated and do believe that if a mutual company is organized that the Jasper county lines should be purchased in preference to a fight if the lines can be bought at a reasonable price.

JOHN F. BRUNER.