Alva Review-Courier -

PRAIRIE GROVE, Ark. (AP) — Collecting quarters from the phone booth in front of the Colonial Motel got to be more trouble than it was worth.

Every six months, the pay phone would yield about $2.

So David Parks decided to make local calls free, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (http://bit.ly/2ghvVvf ) reported.

"It's not worth really going to get the money, so why not let them call for free?" said Parks, who is president of Prairie Grove Telephone Co., known locally as PGTelco.

Parks said it's a public service.

Besides the phone booth, PGTelco has eight pay-phone kiosks that also are now free for lo...