Show The Old iThe The New v At Kaysville laysville By nr ANGUS s SMEDLEY l Iana Manager er Kaysville Utah was first served sen-ed through the medium of the in the year ear 1884 1 when a toll statIOn was installed In n tile the Ka Kaysville Go- Go operative Co-operative Mercantile store The s station stion tion wa wad was connected to the toll line that gave Salt iSalt Lake City and Ogden City their first oral communication communication cation This and on one one- telephone served this locality for a a number of years when a residence telephone was in- in installed installed in installed stalled in the residence of Mr John JohnR JohnR JohnR R R Barnes This residence telephone was also connecter connected to the toll line The Tho value of the telephone began to grow as an ass assistance st nce to business hen when in the year rear 1903 forty a contract t to tp have an exchange e opened 1 at Ka Kaysville On April lJ 1903 the Kaysville lle City Council granted the Rocky Rock Mountain l Bell Telephone Company Compa y a franchise to Lo ci ct poles and string string wire through the thc streets of the city and by the I end of July found a number of the well occupied with poles and we WC e The local paper per DaviS Da vis County I Cl CI oner emer commenting commenting on same said i I Ithe t the he e tall straight poles and wire gives tb p town quite a f metropolitan ap- ap apI appearance ap appearance I I Quarters fori for forth forThe The exchange were I secured on the second nd floor of the Sheffield Block end Ind Earl Watrous had charge of the switch switch- board and mainframe mainframe George Pear Pear- Pearson Pearson son Peal I son was helpin helping with the opening opening of the exchange and became the first local manager I IThe The first we week k of Au August the Misses Taylor Tylor and Frances I Barnes were given a weeks week's training in Salt Lake qt City so o o that when the local exchange E opened pend Monday londay morn morn- morning morning morning ing August 10 someone would be trained to make the connection forthe fo for forthe the curious subscribers who would be asking for f t connection over the neW method of talking to their friends for the first time The exchange opened with twenty twenty- twenty four four scribers and served mostly in in a asocial asocial social way for a time rather than for business but gradually its value as asa isa a business apparent and others were connected up up so that on November 1 1905 the number had reached according to the issue issue of the two-leaf two fo folder ler directory of that date a copy of which we hold in our office as an early relic One of the unique uses made of or the telephone at this tins time appeals appeal's in the local paper the Davis County Clipper under date of December 25 1903 in which the following following ving appears in the The Clipper is considering th the feasibility of gathering some of the latest news of the County over the telephone It is the intention to call the people on afline a line at once by giving giving giving ing ten rings rings When hen all have taken down the receivers receivers the news gather gather- gatherers gatherers ers will to proceed proceed to ask any sickness death marria marriage e moves visitors here from irom outside the state etc ete A pause will me made b between tween the question This will enable us to talk to all on the line in the same same time that it will require to talk to one This will be bedone bedone bedone done at night b between tween 9 and 10 o'clock the lines are arc least busy and and when we can have double time ten minutes for the price of five minutes during the day Although the Telephone Company builds several years ahead of the community it serves yet the time arrives ives when the community reaches a point when the present quarters of the company cannot be expanded to meet the demands of the community community ity Hy and the company tha n must bigg bigger t quarters quarter This is is the condition 1 that th t has been arrived ived at After serving the public here for more than 22 22 years from ro 1 the first exchange So during the past summer more com com- commodIOus commodious commodious quarters quarters- have been provided and a new three position sWitchboard ordered two local positions and one toll position F 1 Ili 1 The new building has square feet of floor space four compartments a as follows Lobby with toll booth i in front operating room and operators operate s rest room and Wire Chiefs room roomi or or supplies in the rear The rg g is well heated with the very lat lati it t Waterbury fur fur- furnace furnace nace The move to th i new quarters was made on the nigh of November 21 1925 under th the the direction of Dr M MF F Dorough S Salt lt Lake Plant Chief end Mr F F H Salt Lake Local Traffic Chief assisted a by a crew of switchboard me men and cable men from from Salt Lake City As the retiring public ceased call calling call call- calling ing mg on the nigh of November 21 and the early riser arose on the morning of Novembers November 22 to assume his daily rounds neither teas s aware that new era in the telephone lone world had taken place while they the slept the retiring one having his last connection through the old quarter where he had been served for over 22 years and the early riser was met through connection tit at atthe the he new nev quarters quarter which are far in advance of His present resent need an and will serve him perhaps a longer period of I time than did the old quarters Quarters |