It is too well known to call for extended mention.

Incorporation Notes.

The Defiance Telephone & Electric Light Co., Defiance, Iowa, has incorporated for $15,000.00. The incorporators are Frank McGuire and others.

The Greystone Telephone Co., of Nashville, Tenn., has incorporated for $500.00.

The Egyptian Mutual Telephone Company of Temple Hill, Ill., has incorporated for $2,500.00 William C. Holmes, H. M. Stokes and John Mann are the incorporators.

The Chester Telephone Co. of Chester, N. Y., has incorporated for $2,000.00. The incorporators are Fred L. Comkin, Jos. Durand & Son and Fred Vollmer & Son.

The Zenith Telephone Co. of Augusta, N. Y., has incorporated for $1,000,M. H. Simmons, president; E.

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F. Whittum, treasurer.

The Williamsville & Sherman Telephone Co. of Williamsville, Ill., has incorporated for $2,500.00. Charles M. Woods, Nathan Jussey and S. T. Jones. are the incorporators.

The Cushing Independent Telephone Co. of Cushing, Neb., was incorporated by O. H. Freeman, W. W. Kerlin, H. B. Pratt, G. W. McMillin and S. M. Sonderup, for $50,000.00.

The Cushing Telephone Co. of Holstein, Iowa, has incorporated for $9,000.00. H. H. Lund, A. Rickelton, M. F. Rowell, James Holcomb and W. F. Hutton are the incorporators.

The Cambridge Telephone Co. of Cambridge, Me., has incorporated for $10,000.00. Promoters are F. J. Hersey, J. B. La Bree, D. B. Whitney, W. H. Ring, J. H. Wilson, F. P. Ring, M. A. Randall and D. F. Clark.

The Mercy Mutual Telephone Co. of Ogden, Iowa, has incorporated for $20,000.00. John Olson, C. H. Williams, Simon Peterson and others are the incorporators.

The Mutual Telephone Co. of Waxahachie, Texas, has incorporated for

$50,000.00. The incorporators are John M. Harrison, P. M. Wheatley, W. A. Lewis, W. A. Culberton and J. B. Wiley.

The Oxford Valley Telephone Co. of Oxford, N. Y., has incorporated for $1,000.00. Ward B. Gofford, Geo. B. Fletcher and John J. Lillis are the incorporators.

The Brownsville Telephone Co. of Brownsville, Texas, capital stock $10,000.00. James B. Wells, Baldwin G. Steyman and Frank W. Kibbe are the incorporators.

The Scircleville Telephone Co. of Scircleville, Ind., has incorporated with a capital of $6,000.00.

The Artesia Telephone Co. of Santa Fe, N. M., has incorporated for $25,000.00. The incorporators are Harry W. Hamilton, S. P. Denning, James A. Cottingham and others.

The East Randolph Telephone Co. of East Randolph, N. Y., has incorporated for $10,000.00. Directors. are Rollin Dow, Nellie Dow and Isadore Dow.

The Stafford Telephone Co. of Stafford, N. Y., has incorporated for $3,000.00. Directors are Jay Lathrop, J. A. North and H. E. Ganiard.

The Wilmot Telephone Co. of Wilmot, Ind., has incorporated for $10,000.00. L. R. Gerrard, J. W. Scott, H. T. Kline, Geo. S. Bouse, G. F. Brenninger, M. L. Hussey and R. R. Scott are the incorporators.

The Home City Telephone Co., Home City, Kan., has incorporated for $2,100.

The Urbana Independent Telephone Co., Urbana, Ind., has incorporated for $10,000.00. Directors are Emanuel Stayer, Adam Cook, Geo. Pretarious, E. F. Baker and J. C. Schmalzried.

The Cayuga & Seneca Telephone Co. of Auburn, N. Y., has incorporated for $20,000.00. The incorporators are E. Clarence Alken, Drederick A. Mohr and Howard W. Eluhrer.

The Farm and Home Telephone Co. of Newport, Neb., has incorporated with a capital stock of $5,000.00. The incorporators are C. M. Thompson and G. E. Van Every.

The Eureka Telephone Co. of Indianapolis, Ind., has increased capital stock from $50,000.00 to $100,000.00.

The Tuscola Telephone Company,

Tuscola, Ill., increased capital stock from $5,000.00 to $10,000.00.

The Windsor & Okaw Mutual Telephone Co. of Shelbyville, Ill., has incorporated for $900.00.

The Merchants' & Farmers' Telephone Co. of Shakopee, Ill., has incorporated for $10,000.00. The incorporators are H. P. Marx, C. T. Buchanan, H. W. Reiter and H. M. Reis.

The Chatham Farmers' Mutual Telephone Co., Chatham, Ohio, has incorporated for $100,000.00. A. B. Horst, John Yoder, Jr., W. H. Ripley, D. A. Clapp and A. R. Clapp are the incorporators.

The Southwestern Oklahoma Telephone Company of Frederick, Okla., has incorporated for $5,000.00. The incorporators are C. A. Smith, John O. West, B. F. Flowers, A. Kahle and L. H. McConnell of Elmer, Okla.

The Farmers' & Citizens' Telephone Co. of Frankton, Ind., has incorporated for $10,000. The directors are Geo. F. Quick, Thomas Bromley, Jr., and Ernest H. Phillips.

The Hornby Telephone Association of Corning, N. Y., has incorporated for $2,000.00.

The Lake Valley Co-Operative Local Telephone Co. has incorporated for $10,000.

The Farmers' Mutual Telephone Co. of Shellsburg, Ia., has incorporated for $10,000.00. J. D. Hagen, president; J. S. Bosler, secretary.

The Louis Bellair Telephone Co. of Bellair, Ill., has incorporated for $5,000.00.

The Taylorville Home Telephone & Telegraph Co. of Taylorville, Ill., has incorporated for $75,000. Their object is to operate a system of telegraph and telephone. The incorporators are H. W. Carter, Geo. E. Waldo and C. M. Smith.

The Grant & Audubon Township Mutual Telephone Co. has incorporated for $3,000.00.

The Pike County Telephone Co., Pittsfield, Ill., has increased capital stock from $50,000.00 to $75,000.00.

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The Harrison Telephone Co. Washington county, Ind., has incorporated for $500.00, with twenty stockholders.

The Wren Telephone Co. of Van

Wert county, Ohio, has incorporated for $10,000.00. The incorporators are J. L. Moses, L. M. Hassman, F. M. Litchtenleiger, O. L. Herman, B. O. Jones and E. L. Sheets.

The Afton Mutual Telephone Co. of Afton, Iowa, has increased its capital stock from $10,000.00 to $25,000.00.

The Idaville Co-Operative Telephone Co. of Idaville, Ind., has incorporated for $9,000.00. The directors are J. B. Wright, J. H. Mourer, T. J. Melvin, T. B. Ginn, William Pearson, A. L. Read and John Reiff.

Telephone Sets Type.

M. Malcotti, an Italian engineer, resident of Brussels, has invented an instrument which he calls a telecriptograph and which will reproduce in print all conversations held over the telephone. He has already secured patents in several European countries and in the United States, where he intends to install his service with the aid of some telephone company. Experiments given in public have demonstrated the wonderful achievement of the young inventor, who claims that his instruments will work without extra wires and apparatus over any ordinary telephone line

Competition for Bell at Toronto.

The board of control of the Toronto (Canada) city council has approved of a draft agreement upon which offers for a competitive telephone service in the city are to be asked. The draft provides that the company whose tender is accepted must deposit with the city $100,000, of which $25,000 will be held after the installation of the system; 2,000 telephones are to be installed within 21 months ofter the contract is signed; the franchise will run for seven years and will be renewable for five year periods thereafter, the city to have the right to appropriate. The wires to be laid underground except in such places as are approved by the city engineer.

The St. Louis, St. Charles and Western Electric Railway has contracted for the equipment of its cars with telephones that can be used when trains are in motion.