rWKNTY'SIXTH YEAIt. NOKTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 5, 1910. NO 56 TO THE TELEPHONE PUBLIC There has been some contention by a few in regard to our mode of collecting phone rentals, and we feel that an explanation on our part will clear the mat ter up. The more we can hold down expenses the cheaper we can furnish you telephone service and by our mode of collections the subscriber gets the advantage of the discount in place of us paying this money to a collector for doing this part of the work. We are furnishing you herewith a record of the rates as furnished us by Clark Perkins, Secretary of the State Railway Commission, on July 28th. In all of these towns there are two telephone systems; all business houses are com- pelled to have both phones in order to reach all their patrons, while the residence users only have communication with the people on the one system. Our discount is not a penalty, but a discount from the regular rate filed and approved by the Nebraska Commission; though the supreme court of Washington, composed of Judges Morris, Rudkin, Chadwick and Gose, has recently held that a telephone company has the right to impose a penalty for default and delinquent payment. We are giving, in the quotations following, the rate of the systems having the greatest number of subscribers in the towns mentioned: GRAND ISLAND. Individual Business $3,50 Individual Residence'.' . . .$2.50 Two Party Business 3.00 Four Parity Business. 2.25 Two Party Residence 2.00 Four Party Residence 1.50 NORFOLK Individual Business 3.00 . Individual Residence 1.50 Two Party Business 2.50 Two Party Residence 1.50 HASTINGS Individual Business 3.50 Two Party Business 3.00 Individual Residence 2.00 Two Party Residence 1.50 FREMONT Individual Business 3.50 Two Party Business 3.00 Individual Residence 2.00 Two Party Residence 1.50 Individual Individual Individual Individual Individual Individual Individual Individual COLUMBUS business $3.00 Two . party business $2.75 residence : 2.00 Two party residence.;...... 1.50 Towns in Colorado JULESBURG business 3.00 Two party business 2.50 residence. 2.00 Two party residence....... 1.50 STERLING business 3.50 Two party business . 3.00 residence , . . .2.50 Two party residence 3.00 FT. MORGAN business . . . . 3.50 Two party business. . ... . . 3.00 residence 2.50 Two party residence 2.00 Compare these rates and towns with the rates you are paying and you will be convinced that in all cases our rates are much cheaper, from 50c to $1.00 per month. Why we are able, to do this is by our business methods and you enjoying the cheaper rates, while our service is superior, as people generally from these towns will tell you. t . C- Wetire doing all in our power to build up the system. What are you doing? Do you realize that the larger list of .sutcrlbcrjhejarger service you get. You can now talk to 800 in town atid-over 200 in country v while formerly you could talk to 300 in town and country altogether. You also have the advantage of toll connections over our lines in all 'towns between North Platte and Julesburg, from Julesburg to all points in Colorado, including Denver, and points in New Mexico, also Wyoming. The North Platte Telephone Company is as much a home institution as we have been able to make it. We have encouraged local cap ital during the past year and at the present time the the controlling interest in stock is held by residents of North Platte. We still have a limited amount of stock to sell which we will be pleased to have home people take. This is not a get rich quick scheme but a good sound investment. Our books are kept under the in struction of the State Railway C6mmission and are open to the investigation of stockholders at any time. Give us your order for a phone now so it may be included in the new directory soon to be issued. Respectfully yours, - NORTH PLATTE TELEPHONE COMPANY, EBBN D. WARNER, Manager TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS General Manager Mohlcr passed through on his private car on train No. 6 Wednesday morning. Tho Cross Country Club of the Y. M. C. A. will hold a ice cream social this evening on the of Mrs. Langford lawn on Dewey street. There will be an ice cream social at the Platte Valley School house on Fri day evening, August 12th, to which the public is invited. E. T, Casey leaves next week on a trip to Portland and other points in the northwest and thence to Southern Cali fornia.' Should he strike a country to his liking he may decide to locate. Will Hawlev. who recently purchased the Mrs. Cody property on west Third street for $1,600, will make a number of repairs thereto, including a bath room, preparatory to occupying it. George Huntington came down Wed nesday from his ranch in McPhorson county to visit relatives and friends for a few days. George says crops irv his section look better than they do in tho valley. Ed VanDerhoof received a letter a fnwdavsairofrom Grant's Pass, Ore., tttatinur his father. J. W. VanDerhoof, had fallen from aload of lumber and fractured tho collar bono and the pel vis bone. E. F. Secbcrger rSelkod a telegram Wednesday annourvSnSTtho arrival of a ivi nt tho homo o'flMrFhnd Mrs. Leo Tobln.in Denver. w.'e will probably not feel satisfied urjtiTne'goes to. Den ver and sets UiitJ granu'daUgnUir. Supt. H. J. Roth, of Cheyenne, tran sacted business with local railroad offi cals Wednesday. Dispatcher Leinbaugh, who has lately been transferred to the local office, has rented the Burke house on West Fifth street. Mrs. Leinbaugh arrived Tues day night. E. A. Boyd has resigned his position as clerk in tho post office and is suc ceeded by Oscar Robinson. Carrier Clyde Fristo will take the route former ly delivered by Robinson and Substitute Carl McGrew will succeed Fristo in tho First Ward. Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Meyermoved yes terday to their fine new house on tho road leading to the south river bridge. As. they have more or less finishing work to do, they will not formally bo 'at- home" until about September 1st. Geo. S. Bnskins who was called to Alliance a few weeks ago on account of tho serioua illness of Mr. MacCray has returned homo. Mr. MacCray's many friends here will bo pained to know that little hope is entertained for his recovery. On account of failure to receive re turns from tho stato board of equaliza tion, the county board has not yet been ablo to make tho tax levy for the cur rent year. As soon as they make . this, levy they will audit and allow claims on file against the county. Tho board has adjourned until August 10th. Ceorgo Adamson, a former North Platte resident, had the exporienco of a collision at sea recently while on a voyugc from San Francisco to Port land. Tho vessel on which ho was a nassenirer hnd nuito a hole Btovo in it. but the boat and passengers managed tb retfth Bhoro in sufety. Robert Grace, who is working in Cheyenne, spent yesterday in town. A. E. Grantham, of Lexington, presi dent of the North Platte Telephone Co., transacted business in town yesterday. Miss Mario Anthony nnd brother James of Omaha, returned to their homo Wednesday after a brief visit with friends in town. Mrs. C. A. Johnson loft Wednesday night for a visit with her parents at Clarks, Nebr., expecting to be absent a month or more. Ella DeRenter has filed her petition in the district court praying for divorce from her husband Julius DeRenter on tho grounds of cruelly and desertion. Tho couple were married in this city in 1008, and the husband is now in France, his native land. Mrs. DeRenter asks that her maiden namoof Ella A. Hume be restored to her. A copy of tho Kankakee (III.) Repub lican received at this oillco thia week announces the death, at that plncu on July 25th of Vivian Votaw, the eight year old daughter of Mrs. Borthu Vo taw, formerly of this city. Death was due to heart trouble superinduced by an attack of scarlet fever. Friends in this city will regret to learn of tho death of this bright and lovable child. Iva Mischke, agetLone year and four months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al bert Mischko, of the Banks' Addition, died Tuesday night. Death was duo to summer complaint nnnl followed after a brief illness. Funeral services were held from tho family residonco Wed nesday afternoon conducted by Rev. Johnson, of the Christian church, and interment mutlo in tllo North Platte cemetery. PERSONAL MENTION. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ryan are visiting friends in Grand Island. Carl Abrahason visited friends in town Tuesday evening. Mrs. J. C. Den went to Arapahoo Saturday for a brief visit. Louis Tobin returned Wednesday from a brief visit in Denver. Mrs. Thos. Duke has returned from visit with relatives in Iowa. Asst. Secy. Cass, of the Y.M. C. A., is off duty for a month's vacation. Miss Jessio Cu8hing, of Omaha, is visiting relatives and friends in town. Miss Marie Schatz returned Friday ovening from n visit with her sister in Denver. Miss Evelyn Sandall went to Omaha yesterday morning for a visit with hor sister. Father Sullivan, of Elm Creek, epont yesterday in town as the guest of Rev. S. F. Carroll. Mrs. Martin Mischke left Wednesday for a month's visit with relatives ot Long Island, Kas. Rev. and Mrs. George F. Williams left yesterday for a brief visit with frienda in Lexington. Mrs. J. R. McWilliams and daughter re turned Wednesday from a thrco woks visit with relatives in Wisconsin. Jus. Anthony, of Omaha, has been spending several days past in town aa the guest of his uncle Jas. Nelson. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Empio, who hovo mado their homo in this city for some time past, went to Kearney Tues day, Mr. Employ heaUquarteVs Irihrlnu UeetochungeU tb thift place. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Boyd were called to Cozad Tuesday night by the death of Mrs. Boyd's brother. Mrs. Tom Golden and Mrs. J, Mc Grew left yesterday for a month's visit with relatives in Indiana. E. O. Halverstedt went to Gothen burg yesterday morning where ho will transact business for a couplo of days. MIbs Grace-Owens returned to her home in Gothenburg yesterday after a two weeks visit with friends in town. Richard Hoagland, of Minataro, spent several days in town this week as tho guestof his brother, J. S. Hoag land. Miss Fern Stamp loft Wcdnesdny night for Omaha to spend several weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wein gand. Mies Susio Hoagland, of Lincoln, spent Bevoral days in town thia week as the guest of her brother, J. S. Hoagland. Judge Grimes will return today from Broken Bow, where he went Tuesday to deliver an address boforo an old Bottlers' reunion. Carl Shaoffor has been in Omaha this weok attending tbo clay court tennis tournament, in which bo catered aa a contestant. Mr. and Mrs. Jaa. McEvoy loft Wed nesday' morning for a visit with friends at Oohkosh and other points on tho North river branch. Mrs. Earl Davis left last night for Choyenne to spend somo tirno with her husband who makes his headquarters at that place sinco assuming the duties of, hta ovw QUBiUuh as Might hwpcC- tor. Julius Pizor returned last night from Colfax Springs, Iowa, where he has been spending ten days. Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Twincm and child ren returned this week from a visit with relatives ntGlidden, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rny who went to Oregon about a year ago to make their homo have returned to this city, and will again locate here. Goo. A. McMichael, of Billings, Mont., stopped over in town tho early part of tho week while enrouto to Omaha to attend the tennis tournament. Mrs. Wright arrived from the west Wednesday and will spend somo time in town with her daughters Mesdames M. II., Douglas and Robert Armstrong. Japs Go on Strike. About thirty Japs employed at tho Union Pacific ico houses went out on a ntriko Tuesday because two of their countrymen had been discharged. Ten of the Japs remained at work and be- cauBO they did, they were badly beaten in their homes Tuesday night by the strikers. Yesterday forty men to take tho places of tho strikers were shipped in. Th re are about sixty men em ployed at the ice houses, nearly all of whom uro foreigners. For Sale Cheap. Tho hay on section 9-11-34. six miles north of Wallace. Address W. R. Harding, North Platto, Neb. Strayed or Stoics From tho Frank Fncka farm southeast of town about tho middlo of May, ono white faced cow with calf, and ono two year old red steer branded with fish on left side. Anyono know ing of Afeir whA)rtrtiUort pfcUtfo nbUfy uio auovo. V