who had violated the game law entered his plea over the telephone and was fined $26 by the justice, who was at the other end of the line.

The Co-operative Telephone Company of Detroit has established direct long-distance connections with Toledo, having over 9,000 Independent telephones and other exchanges in Ohio and Indiana, with over 400,000 subscribers and low rates.

Within the next few weeks the Home Telephone Company of Logansport, Indiana, will have a through toll line between that city and South Bend, a distance of sixty-four miles.

According to figures given out a few days ago the Cuyahoga Telephone Company of Cleveland has added 3,500 subscribers since the new switchboard was cut in last March.

Baldwin County Telephone Company, Fairhope, Ala. Capital stock, $6,000. Incorporators: Aaron Moog and others.

Caldwell-Marietta Telephone Company, Caldwell, Ohio. Capital stock, $25,000. Incorporators: A. L. Gracey, W. H. H. Jett, C. B. Barry, John Kaiser, R. O. Wooster.

Antelope Valley Telephone Company, Oshkosh, Neb. Capital stock, $800. Incorporators: William J. McIntosh, John Pile, William W. Fought and Moses Weatherby.

Stafford and Marietta Telephone Company, Stafford, Ohio. Capital stock, $10,000. Incorporators: Geo. W. Robinson, H. E. Robinson, A. H.

Hughes, F. W. Murrey, Ernest H. Robinson.

Star Telephone Company, Jefferson, Iowa. President, B. Curtis; treasurer, J. D. Neil.

New Lyme Telephone Company, New Lyme, Ohio. Capital stock, $600. N. A. Smith and others are interested.

Georgetown & Campfield Telephone Company, Georgstown, S. C. Încorporators: M. W. Pratt and O. B. Skin

ner.

Vinnie Telephone Company, Vinnie, Ky. Capital stock, $1,000. Incorporators: John Hill, B. H. McGahan, G. M. McKinley.

Winneshiek Co-operative Telephone Company, Decorah, Iowa. Capital stock, $18,000. Incorporators: L. L. Iverson and others.

Lester Telephone Company, Windsor, N. Y. Capital stock, $2,000. Incorporators: Wilbur Brink, Levi Cresson, J. E. Kent, Windsor.

Citizens' Telephone Company, Akron, N. Y. Capital stock, $10,000. Incorporators: James S. Stearns, Richard H. Dell, I. D. Eckerson, Akron, N. Y.

Independent Telephone Securities Company, Utica, N. Y. Capital stock, $800,000. Incorporators: Thos. W. Finucane, F. W. Zoller, George R. Fuller.

Southside Rural Telephone Company, Bedford, Va. Capital stock, $10,000. President, A. J. Gillespie; vice-president, Dr. S. H. Price; general manager, H. Pollard.

Siloam Springs Telephone Company, Siloam Springs, Ark. Capital stock, $50,000. President, R. J. Alfrey; secretary and treasurer, M. T. Stahl; directors, Tom Williams and W. T. Stahl.

Leonardsville Telephone Company, Leonardsville, N. Y. Capital stock, $1,000. Directors: Eli S. Brand, Irving A. Crandall, Almeron M. Coon, M. Elmer Ellsworth, A. P. Brown, La

verne A. Baldwin, Isaac T. Webb, all of Leonardsville.

Farmers' Exchange Telephone Company, Bluffs, Ill. Čapital stock, $10,000. Incorporators: Henry Knoepple, G. W. Vangundy, Henry Finnigsmeier.

Bearden Telephone Company, Bearden, Ark. Capital stock, $2,000. President, William M. Gatling; secretary, Jeff Gatling; treasurer, William Gatling, Jr.

Center Townsite Rural Telephone Company, Hennessey, Okla. Capital stock, $1,000. Incorporators: William Beaman, Ben Thorue, H. Hemphill,, R. Renolds, Hennessey; Frank Hassler, Dover.

PERSONAL NOTES.

L. M. Pelton has sold the Hartwell, Ga., telephone exchange of F. P. Lin

der.

C. H. Widener has sold to Chester Smith the telephone exchange and franchise at Blue Mound, Kansas.

Silas Lake, manager of the Lewis County (Ill.) Telephone Company, has taken up his residence at La Grange.

Frank Crippen has been appointed manager of the Mutual Telephone Company's exchange at Alpena, Mich.

G. W. Colton has been appointed manager for the United Telephone and Telegraph Company at Lewisburg, Pa.

Alex Williams has been appointed general manager of the Minnesota Central Telephone Company at Willmar, Minn.

T. A. Jack has been placed in charge of the Minnesota Central Telephone Company's exchange at Park Rapids, Minn.

J. W. Johnston, representing the Vought-Berger Company of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, in the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas, was in Chicago, November 26,

on his way to St. Louis, where he spent part of his vacation.

W. N. Curtis of Milton, Iowa, has been engaged by the Hyde County (S. D.) Telephone Company to install its new exchange.

J. Sebastian, an official of the Rock Island Railroad, is endeavoring to have a telephone factory moved to Des Moines, Ia.

W. E. Stephenson is now associated with H. E. Cobb, 1501 Monadnock Block, Chicago, in the selling of wire, insulators, batteries, etc.

George H. Gould, formerly editor of THE TELEPHONE MAGAZINE, is now with the Retailers' Journal at 36 La Salle street, Chicago.

A. J. Cox made a trip east in December to visit the factories of the various firms he represents in Delaware, New Jersey and Connecticut.

J. M. Duryee, manager of the Independent Telephone Syndicate, Chicago, made a flying trip to New York, early this month, in the interest of that

concern.

Henry Schwab, secretary of the Monarch Electric and Wire Company, Chicago, was recently married to Miss Bertha Benedict at Kinsley's in the above city.

Frederic Greer, general manager of the Harvard Electric Company, Chicago, made a business trip to Detroit, Cleveland and Toledo the latter part of November.

W. E. E. Herron, formerly manager of the Norstrom Telephone Lockout Company, is now conducting a telephone supply concern at 6614 State street, Chicago.

A. D. Gillespie, who has been making Monarch wire and supplies popular throughout Indiana and Ohio, returned to Chicago to spend the holidays.

Secretary A. M. Buchanan of the American Conduit Company, after having been stationed at the company's

Chicago office for some time, left recently for Los Angeles, Cal., where he expects to remain until spring.

Dr. C. C. Cady and Otto F. Unz of Harris, Ia., have formed a partnership for the erection of a rural telephone line to connect with the Harris exchange.

F. L. Van Almen has been appointed manager for the Fox River Valley Telephone Company at Appleton, Wis., vice F. S. Green, who resigned to go to Los Angeles.

Frederick A. Wegner, one of the well known writers on Independent telephone subjects, is now general manager of the Springwell Telephone Company, at Delray, Michigan.

Robert Means has purchased the Saybrook (Ill.) telephone exchange for his son, Howard, who took possession November 1. The new firm will be called H. R. Means & Co.

Eugene F. Edmunds has been appointed manager of the Marshall (Mich.) Telephone Company, which is now a part of the Citizens' Telephone Company of Grand Rapids.

J. F. Butterfield, who has had his hands full of telephone construction the past season, ran in from Grand Island, Nebraska, to eat Thanksgiving turkey with his family at Chicago.

T. A. Montgomery, superintendent of the Roebling Construction Company of Chicago, is superintending the fire proofing of the Sioux City (Iowa) Telephone Company's new exchange building.

A. B. Kratz, formerly Cleveland representative of the Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company, has accepted a position as traveling salesman with the North Electric Company of Cleveland.

O. M. Frykman of Minneapolis was in Chicago recently endeavoring to interest capital in a new four-party selective telephone. The instruments are now in use and Mr. Frykman will proceed to manufacture this telephone

unless he disposes of the right to manufacture same.

G. M. Gest, the expert subway contractor of New York and Cincinnati, has been awarded by the jurors at the St. Louis Fair the highest award for conduit construction.

R. O. Brush of Middleport, N. Y., has been appointed manager for the Home Telephone Company's system at Batavia, N. Y., succeeding J. C. Burton, who takes charge of the system at Dunkirk.

H. L. Reber, general manager of the Louis, visited the Citizens' Telephone Kinloch Telephone Company of St. Company of Grand Rapids, Mich., recently to inspect the automatic system in operation there.

R. R. Genze is now in charge of the pole department for Francis Beidler & Company, Chicago, M. B. Cross, who formerly held the position, having left to engage in the lumber business in South Carolina.

Manager William Buchholtz of the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company at Mankato, Minn., has been promoted to a position in the Twin Cities. He is succeeded by Fern W. Eaton of Benson, Minn.

F. H. Wheeler of the Wheeler Electrical Construction Company, Chicago, has been very busy for some time on the new telephone system at Oxford, Nebraska. He can be addressed there in care of the Burlington hotel.

H. A. Nuttall, for the past fourteen years an efficient member of the Bell Telephone Company's operating department, has gone on the road for the American Electric Telephone Company of Chicago, with Indiana and Kentucky as his territory.

Dr. W. A. Tichenor of the Porter Battery Company, 195 South Canal street, Chicago, has returned from a sojourn in the south, greatly improved in health. The Porter Battery Company is preparing to push its famous batteries more extensively in the telephone field the coming year.

pressed to register the call before the operator answers. In other words, every outgoing call is registered and the ones not successfully terminated are credited. The manner of giving this credit is by the operator pressing the same button on the switchboard as she uses on the Stroud coin controlled telephone. The pressing of the button when a meterphone is being used instead of refunding a coin sets the meter so that when the subscriber again tries to make a call he gets one

presence felt in any undertaking to which they pledge themselves. Those who judge future actions and developments by past performances can have but little doubt as to the position the Controller Company will occupy in the future of the telephone business. Mr. Lewis is prominent in advertising circles, and there are few who have not read The Woman's Magazine and, therefore, few who do not know something of the power behind one of the greatest channels of