Baldwin Mills Telephone Company01
Waupaca Republican
Call Card
01. Arthur Axtell 1 1 2-s
02. A.C. Looker 1 1 3-s
03. Charley Rasmussen 2-s
04. E.T. Mather 1 1 1-s
05. Ward Bliss 2 1 1-s
06. L. Dunbar 3-s
07. O. Durrant 3 1 1-s
08. R.C. Bliss 2 1 2-s
09. A.W. Warren 1 1 2-s 1-1
10. T. Looker 2 1
11. Erwin Frihart 1 1 1-s 1 1
12. Henry Frihart 1-s 1 1
13. Creamery 3-s 1 1
14. M. Sheldon 2-s 2 1
15. Otto Rock 2 1 1-s 1 1
16. F. House 1 1 1-s 1 1 1-s
17. Chris. Seelig 1-s 1 1 1-s 1 1
18. J.T. Faulks 3 1
19. Parsonage 1-s 3 1
20. General Call 6-s
Ring Off 1-s
Officers 1907-8
Henry Frihart President
E.T. Mather Vice President
Taylor Looker Secretary
A.C. Looker Treasurer
Directors – Otto Rock, Charley Rasmussen, M. Sheldon
Baldwin’s Mills Telephone Co.
BY-LAWS
ARTICLE NO. I
No person shall be allowed the use of a telephone for more than five minutes at any one time.
Any person or persons using the telephone who shall refuse to cease talking at the expiration of five minutes when requested to do so by any member wishing to use the line, shall be fined the sum of one dollar for each and every offense.
ARTICLE II
Common conversation shall not be permitted when the used of the line is required for the transmission of business messages, and it shall be the duty of all members to see that the provisions of this article are rigidly enforced.
ARTICLE III
No member shall allow the use of his telephone free of charge to any person not a stockholder, except it be a member of his family, his partner in business, his employee or a member of another line, who has free exchange with this line, and then only to a stockholder. Any member who shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall be charged with the full amount of the message so permitted.
ARTICLE IV
Any member of any other company having free exchange with this line who shall request to be switched on to this line for the purpose of sending a message for some other person, not a member of this or some interchanging line, in his own name, shall be charged with the full amount of the message, and on his refusal to pay the same he shall be denied the further use of the line.
ARTICLE V
Any person (except those having free use of the line as provided for in the foregoing articles of these by-laws) shall pay the sum of ten cents for each and every message to any part of the line, and the additional amount of ten cents or more when the person to whom the message is sent has to be sent for.
ARTICLE VI
No person shall be added to the present number of stockholders without a two-thirds vote of all the members of the company.
ARTICLE VII
No abusive, profane or obscene language shall be permitted to pass over the line. Any person so offending shall be fined the sum of one dollar and shall be deprived the further use of the line until the fine is paid.
ARTICLE VIII
No person shall be allowed to take down a receiver for the purpose of listening to a message passing over the line. Any person persisting in so doing shall be fined one dollar for the first offense, and for the second offense that his phone be disconnected for the period of ten days.