The Big Four Mining Company, Carbon Hill, $10,000. Harry Irwin. Ralph G. Martin, Ralph J. Reynolds, E. Bragmauer, D. A. Postelwaite. The Mansfield Construction Company, Mansfield, $50,000. Chas. L. Buchey, A. L. Stoodt, Wm. Isaley, T. J. Chamberlain, J. W. Rush, Ed. G. Lemon. The Zoar Electric Company, Zoar, $10,000. John Bimeler, Levi Bimeler, Peter Bimeler, August Burkhart. The Woodard Machine Company, Wooster, $150,000. L. A. Woodard, Charles G. Jones, Walter J. Maugey, E. C. Dix, John C. McClaran. The United Fruit and Vegetable Company, Cleveland, Ohio, $10,000. Loyis Kaufman, Sam Weingart, Jos. A. Becker, Sam Feldman, E. E. Gross. The Thomas Building & Investment Company, Cleveland, $10,000. F. F. Sanda, T. Sanda, L. C. Sanda, Marie A. Sanda, Bertha Sanda. The S. F. Shenk Company, Delphos, $30,000; dry goods. S. F. Shenk, S. A. Shenk, R. P. Shenk, A. J. Shenk. The Pilot Oil & Gas Company, Columbus, $10,000. J. W. McCord, W. S. Cook, N. D. Carter, E. T. O'Kane, J. E. Anderson. The Rierson Lumber & Coal Company, Cincinnati, $50,000. E. K. Bruce, Edgar Cummins, C. E. Thornell, H. F. Lucks, W. T. Askew. The Napoleon Auto-Manufacturing Company, Napoleon, $20,000. A. C. George, Francis P. Diemer, C. E. Donnelly, F. M. McGrew, O. A. Diemer. The Murray-Keil Realty Company, Toledo, $20,000. John J. Keil, Reuben E. Murray, Fred J. Folger, David Marlean, Fred C. Schmidt. The Hugh Morris Brass Company, Cincinnati, $25,000. Carl T. Foley, H. E. Zerfey, Eleanor S. Patterson, E. M. Schwein, Rose L. Brink. The Fourth Street Savings Association, Cincinnati, $1,000,000. W. S. Schmitt, P. L. Mitchell, G. B. Grossback, P. G. Cloud, James J. Grogan. The Francis Machinery Company, Toledo, $10,000. Jennie Samson, Howard M. Brock, Leria E. Nagle, Mark Winchester, Elmer Skidmore. The Commercial Oil & Gas Company, Toledo, $10,000. T. P. Fitzgerald, John Deck, J. J. Hogan, C. C. Crosby, W. H. Young, A. W. Herring. The B. W. Coal Company, Rush Run, $30,000. B. W. Lewis, H. F. Menkemeller, C. P. Hoffman, A. Teagarden, M. Ross. The Gallipolis Light & Power Company, Gallipolis, $25,000. John P. Phillips, N. P. Clyburn, G. A. Vaughters, John P. Phillips, Jr. The Coshocton Brick Company, Coshocton, $50,000. R. M. Love, J. D. Severns, B. F. Cotter, A. W. Holmes, Joseph Love. The Patot Shoe Company, Cleveland, $75,000. C. E. Patot, B. W. Jacobi, Jos. C. Hostetler, Newton D. Baker, Paul Patterson. The Scheff Realty Company, Cleveland, $10,000. I. J. Cardy, N. Rabonovitz, Mendel Sheff, Herman Madle, Herman A. Gerchonovitz. The Safety Auto-Light & Mfg. Co., Erlin, $10,000. John F. Karbler, Geo. F. Dorr, E. L. Braugh, I. G. Stout, C. H. Strohl, C. M. Baker. The Ruddock Bucket Company, Cleveland, $10,000. Wm. Ruddock, Wm. Rothenburg, E. E. Gibson, I. E. Cuentzler, P. Shulman. The Ohio Securities Company, Newark, $10,000. Geo. Hayden, Sr., J. William Hohl, James K. Dowey, J. R. Fitzgibbon, Fred C. Evans. The Metamora Telephone Company, $20,000. M. L. Gign, E. A. Seeley, Chas. Gestwite, Lillian M. Gignac, Carrie B. Seeley. The John Wildi Evaporated Milk Company, Columbus, $25,000. J. F. Montgomery, O. E. D. Barron, Geo. Cassell, J. L. Davis, Cecile Coway. The Grove House Company, Columbus Grove, $2,000. A. M. Haidelbaugh, George Smith, B. O. Barber, D. M. Allen, H. H. Day, E. J. Gladfelter, M. Logan, J. H. Laughlin, A. J. Losh. The Glenville Dairy Company, Cleveland, $10,000. E. S. Byers, C. D. Freibolin, C. S. Gardner, A. E. Gillard, Mae Gillard. The Freeport Foundry Company, Freeport, $10,000. L. W. Gilcher, B. W. Rowland, C. L. Harding, R. W. Gilcher, H. B. Gilcher. The Economy Motor Company, Tiffin, $25,000. Raymond W. Miller, John A. Madnocks, F. R. Miller, Carl Erhart, O. E. Schroth. The Clay Workers Equipment Company, Akron, $10,000. O. C. McCormick, James E. Mayer, S. K. Hine, J. W. Wright, William P. Canfield. The American Puncture Proof Tire Company, Cleveland, $10,000. John Piontkowski, S. Weiselewski, J. Joblonoski, M. Jrojecki. The Somerset Realty Company, Somerset, $10,000. Wm. Snider, James McElroy, U. W. Archer, Edward L. Stine, L. L. Dittoe, Jr. The Atwater-Ryan Construction Co., Cleveland, $5,000. W. R. Ryan, Nick D. Ryan, W. R. Ryan, Jr., Bertha B. K. Atwater, Frank O. Atwater. The Jenkinson Player Company, Cincinnati, $15,000. Edith Jenkinson, Saul Jenkinson, John C. Vetter, Marion Dubois, W. J. Kuertz. The Columbus Home Company, Columbus, $20,000. D. P. Cooke, Chas. P. Gray, P. S. Miller, E. R. Cooke, Maude B. Cooke. Cleveland Automatic Machine Company, Cleveland, $500. J. T. Scott, David L. Johnson, M. C. Byrnes, M. O. McAleeman, B. E. Robertson. The First Investment Company, Cleveland, $10,000. W. H. Thomas, V. B. Gray, Wm. Robertson, Quintin M. Gravatt, Herbert Rosenthal. The Middle West Refining Company, Columbus, $50,000. R. E. Westfall, Smith W. Bennett, James Judge, N. Bales, H. Shetler. The Slavia Real Estate Company, Akron, $10,000. Jos. F. Soursky, Joseph Kosa, Paul Dudock, Gregory Lontchar, Jakob Koma. Queen City Watch Case Manufacturing Company, Cincinnati, $25,000. B. B. Donnelly, Fred G. Gruen, George J. Gruen, Sam'l Van Pelt. The Ohio Computing Measure & Sales Company, Greenville, $5000. Constantin Wurlitzer, Mollie Kerlin, Leo E. Kerlin. The Marion Die, Tool & Machine Company, Marion, $15,000. Edwin Harrold, Orval T. Roof, R. C. Blayney, Homer E. Johnson. The Akron Garbage Collection Company, $20,000. Clyde F. Beery, Harry W. Hillman, Claire App, Arch A. Duncan, Lula R. Barnes. The Lakeville Equity Exchange Company, Lakeville, $10,000. Jacob Miller, T. D. Glasgo, J. A. Sharr, R. W. Metcalf, J. F. Kapp, H. E. Miller. The Greenspring Co-operative Company, Greenspring, $15,000. E. D. Young. U. C. Meyer, G. A. Earl, M. D. Rule, T. H. Kinney. The Brobst & Markling Company, Canton, $50,000; wholesale and retail liquor. Chas. A. Brobst, Edw. W. Markling, A. G. Maurer, Harry Sage, Chas. A. Schazman. W. The Grossman-Butnik Drug Company, Cleveland, $5000. Isador Grossman, Claude W. Shimmon, B. I. Roof, N. H. Thorp, H. B. Howells. The Waynesfield Drain Tile Company, Waynesfield, $40,000. John W. Allen, B. L. Shults, Elsie P. Shultz, Gilbert W. Bailey, Flo Bailey. The Brahant Film Company, Cleveland, $35,000. Helen M. O'Boyle, W. H. Millikan, H. Hill, Wm. G. Radcliffe, Mary M. Gleason. The American Monument Company, $15,000, Cleveland. James Broggini, E. E. Rich, C. L. Broggini, Joseph J. Olsey, James L. Broggini, Jr., Charles Tesar. The Senario Supply Company, Cleveland, $10,000. William H. Millikan, Mary M. Gleason, H. Hill, H. H. B. Holland, Helen M. O'Boyle. Increases. The Telling-Belle Vernon Company, Cleveland; $100,000 to $2,500,000. The Republic Structural Iron Works Company; $10,000 to $825,000. The Roseville Building & Loan Company, Roseville; $200,000 to $400,000. The Rentschler Company, Deshler; $10,000 to $16,000. The Willapa Company, Cincinnati; $30,000 to $60,000. The Korn-Konkling Company, Cincinnati; $10,000 to $25,000. The Leonard Agency Company, Canton, $30,000 to $100,000. The Atlas Savings & Loan Company, Cleveland, $250,000 to 500,000. The Paisely Steamship Company, Mentor, $100,000 to $260,000. The I. J. Cooper Rubber Company, Cincinnati, $100,000 to $225.000. The Avondale Realty Company, Springfield, $10,000 to $25,000. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION No. 778-In the Matter of the Joint Application of The Citizens Telephone Company of Coshocton, Ohio, and The Coshocton County Telephone Company for Consent and Authority to Enter Into a Contract Providing for Purchase and Sale of Property and Interchange of Service. Prayer Granted. (Dated March 29, 1916.) The Citizens Telephone Company and The Coshocton County Telephone Company, corporations duly organized under the laws of the state of Delaware and authorized to do business in Ohio, and under the laws of Ohio, respectively, with their principal places of business at Coshocton and Warsaw, Ohio, respectively, having, on the fourth day of March, 1916, filed their joint application asking consent to and approval of the making, by applicants, of a contract providing (1) for the sale and conveyance by said The Citizens Telephone Company to said The Coshocton County Telephone Company of certain toll lines, (2) the sale and conveyance by said The Coshocton County Telephone Company to said The Citizens Telephone Company of its Plainfield exchange and plant attached thereto, and (3) the retention of the existing connection between applicant's respective plants and systems and the continued exchange of service thereby, and the commission, upon the filing of said application, having deemed the assignment of the same for hearing to be unnecessary, the same came on this day for final consideration and it appearing that the service furnished the public will be improved thereby and that the public will be furnished adequate service for a reasonable and just rate, rental, toll or charge therefor, the commission is satisfied that its consent and authority should be granted for the sale and conveyance of said property and the retention of said physical connection and the continuation of an interchange of service by applicants. It is, therefore, ORDERED, That said The Citizens Telephone Company be, and it hereby is authorized to sell and convey to said The Coshocton County Telephone Company its toll lines designated and known as Coshocton to Warsaw-Nellie-Mohawk-Walhonding to County Line; Walhonding to New Castle-East Union-West Carlisle-CooperdaleWest Bedford-Tunnel Hill; Cooperdale to Dresden; Coshocton to Keene; Coshocton to Bloomfield, and Warsaw to Spring Mountain, as more fully described in a proposed form of contract attached to the application herein as "Exhibit B," which said "Exhibit B" hereby is made a part of this order by reference; and said The Coshocton County Telephone Company hereby is authorized to purchase and acquire said property. It is further ORDERED, That said The Coshocton County Telephone Company be, and it hereby is authorized to sell and convey to said The Citizens Telephone Company, its Plainfield exchange and plant attached thereto, as fully set out in said "Exhibit B" hereinbefore referred to; and said The Citizens Telephone Company hereby is authorized to purchase and acquire said property. It is further ORDERED, That said The Citizens Telephone Company and said The Coshocton County Telephone Company be, and they hereby are authorized to retain the physical connection between their respective plants and systems and to continue to interchange service as provided by law. It is further ORDERED, That applicants forthwith file with this commission schedules providing for their respective withdrawal from and inauguration of service in the territory now served by means of said property and that the authority herein granted may be exercised from and after the date of such filing of said schedules. It is further ORDERED, That nothing herein shall be construed to be the consent to or approval, by this commission, of any increase in rates or diminution of service. It is further ORDERED, That nothing herein shall be considered as a finding by the commission of the value of the property herein authorized to be purchased and sold, as an acquiescence in the values placed upon said property by said companies, nor as an approval of the considerations stipulated; nor shall anything herein be construed as an approval by the commission of the rates now charged for service by said companies, nor as a finding by the commission that said rates are reasonable and not excessive and not discriminatory, or that the service of said companies is adequate, efficient or sufficient. No. 730-In the Matter of the Application of the Oakwood Water and Light Company for Authority to Issue $12,000.00 Six Per Cent. Bonds, Due November 1, 1940. Prayer Granted. (Dated March 29, 1916.) This day, after full hearing, due notice of the time and place of which was given to all parties in interest, this matter came on for final consideration upon the application, filed January thirteenth, 1916, of The Oakwood Water and Light Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Ohio and engaged in supplying water to consumers in the village of Oakwood, Montgomery county, Ohio, asking consent and authority to issue its first mortgage bonds, dated November first, 1915, due November first, 1940, and bearing interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, of the principal sum of twelve thousand dollars, the proceeds to be used to pay and discharge indebtedness of the sum of $7,500.00 incurred in the construction of additions and betterments to its plant, to purchase certain supplies and construct further additions and extensions to its plant of the estimated cost of $1,000.00 and to pay the sum of $3,500.00 on account of the purchase of certain pipes, mains and service connections which have been constructed by private interests within the territory wherein applicant operates, the total value of which is $19,000.00, and it appearing to the commission that the issue of said bonds is reasonably required for the construction, completion, extension and improvement of applicant's facilities and the maintenance and improvement of its service, to pay its indebtedness incurred thereby and for the acquisition of property to be used and useful for the prosecution of its corporate purposes, it is satisfied that its consent and authority should be granted for the issue of said bonds. It is, therefore, ORDERED, That said The Oakwood Water and Light Company be, and it hereby is authorized to issue its first mortgage bonds, dated November first, 1915, due November first, 1940, bearing interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, of the total principal sum of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000.00), and that said bonds. be sold for the highest price obtainable but not for less than the par value thereof. It is further ORDERED, That the proceeds arising from the sale of said bonds be used for the following purposes and no others, to-wit: (a) The payment and discharge of applicant's indebtedness incurred in the construction of additions, extensions and improvements, as fully set out in a de |