The cashbooks (volumes 1-3) contain the type of financial accounts usually found in this kind of record. The ledger (volume 4) gives such information as the cost of pole lines, wire lines,, and telephones, the maintenance costs of the lines capital stock, and annual earnings (from subscribers, toll charges, and the like).
The three subscribers' ledgers (volumes 5-7) are a chronological listing of the accounts held by the Telephone Company. For each year, the volumes show the name of the subscriber (arranged alphabetically), the subscribers' addresses, the date the telephone was installed (and/or removed), the rate owed per month, the quarterly rate, and any additional toll and line charges.
The single envelope attached to the inside of the front cover of volume 5 (placed there only for convenience) contains miscellaneous records, 1911-undated, found scattered throughout all the volumes of the collection. These records were divided into two groups. First are the papers of the company including rough drafts of directors' correspondence to the company's president, and penciled copies of the meetings of the directors for the periods, April 3-December 26, 1914. Also included are several undated notes of the minutes of directors and stockholders meetings and resolutions offered at these meetings. The second small group of miscellaneous records consists of papers including memoranda from the Railroad Commission of Wisconsin concerning rate applications and the filing of reports, and scattered correspondence from line subscribers to Secretary-Treasurer Lewis Shoemaker.
