Looking Back

1 YEARS AGO

March 8, 1917

At a meeting of the stockholders of the People’s Telephone Company held last Thursday, it was voted to sell the stock of the company to H. H. Whaley. Accordingly, Mr. Whaley is now nearly the sole owner of the stock of the company, which was organized about six years ago and has been operating since.

Mr. Whaley does not intend to raise rates in order to put the company on a paying basis, but hopes to secure enough additional lines in the various directions tributary to Pine Bluffs to put the business on a paying basis.

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