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NOTICE TO TELEPHONE 8UB-i SCR1BER8.i In view of the fact that the expense of operating the local telephone 'exchange has increased greatly with the extra cost of labor, cable work and material during the last several years, and that with the increased number of subscribers the corresponding percentage of profit has been decreased on the above account The Imprdve-' ment company will on the first day. of ‘January, 1910, put into effect the following telephone rates:| Single party business lines, $2;75; two party business lines, $2.50; single party residence lines, $1.75; two party or more residence lines, $1.50. Free farm connections to remain as at present. This is a raise of only twenty-five cents per telephone for private lines, against Minot’s raise of $1.00 per telephone the first of the year.Subscribers to local exchange paid $2.50 for business telephones and $1.50 for residence telephones when there were less than two hundred telephones in the city, and these without any long distance, or free farm connections, and with midnight service.Since then the exchange has almost trebled in size, long distance and farm connections obtained, in all giving regular subcsribers much more for their money without corresponding compensation to the exchange.It is a situation well known in the telephone field that to provide for a exchange of six hundred subscribers costs a great deal more than six times what it would to accommodate one hundred subscribers, and unless rates are adjusted to meet conditions, it is more unprofitable too in proportion to operate a large exchange than a smaller one.This is a condition somewhat different from most business but nevertheless true.If tbere are any suocribers who do not wish to retain their telephones at the revised rate, kindly notify the Improvement company, in due season and telephone will be removed.Devils Lake Impvt. Co.DR. J. C. ARNEBERCSpecialist In diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, has returned after a year and a half of special study and practice In the ROYAL HOSPITAL of Vienna, AuBtria, and In private, clinics of Berlin. Germany,OFFICE: GRAND FORKS, N. D.PURE A8 THE LILYIs the guarantee we make regarding Dakota flour. There ia absolutely nothing in It but the clean, selected kernels of the best wheat grown. It oosts more to m«JceTHAN ANY OTHER FLOUR, yet we sell it at the same price ae who hare tried It eay they wouldn't ordinary flour In order that every one may afford the beet Better order a musk and eee bow good It Ja/ Others be without it for any money.j£f : Made at HomeFarmers Mill Elev. Ass’n
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Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Devils Lake, North Dakota, US
Fri, Dec 17, 1909
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