Show We Have Enjoyed Local Convenience For Thirty Years With the passin passing of November 2 B Bountiful will have been served thirty y years ars with a modern con con- convenience convenience convenience that was never enjoyed by former generations beyond the dayS of Dr Alexander Graham Bells Bell's invention of the telephone T is modern means of communication cation has revolutionized the lines of mankind beyond all aU powers of ur conception Before Before the days of electric com coin communication communication h s and events occurred weeks months and even years ars before it b became general in- in information in information formation but today happenings we enjoy al- al almost almost al almost most instantly the happenings of events thousands of miles away al- al almost almost al almost most as soon as we happenings s or 01 verts iverts in our own community Nov It was on the mornin morning of Nov 2 1903 that local telephone service was service Was first enjoyed by our town Only Onh twelve installations had been made at that time but it was soon realized what a convenience had come to us and soon numerous orders wel e taken for new con connections until toda toda- toda we have sene service ice ico extended to the remotest points of our exchange limits It will be hard to realize the sAving savine of time and money mone also the convenience that we now enjoy over the lives of those who lived l yond that period Since its inception the telephone has entered into o our r social lives until today hardly an event is plan plan- planned planned planned ned without the telephone playing a big bi part palt in the event It will phone you to give you ou the last details or call me when you find out In case of fire it only takes a afew afew afew few seconds to have the fire de- de de department on its way which reflects a better insurance rate to our com corn community community If an accident happens help can be summoned immediately to suffering or perhaps save aye a life and it would be difficult to estimate the miles of travel that it saved aved each day if we were com corn compelled polled lIed to make the the trip by auto or other ither wise were we suddenly de- de de M rived of this convenient means of L communication This service would v be greatly to our community if we could reach each home individually instead of havin having to annoy sub sub- subscribers sub subscribers scribers to call can their neighbors in In these thirty years year of tlc tale tale- phone trie-phone phone service more moro than fifty young o m ladies have served at the board makin making connections which has brou brought ht Joy to many and also sorrow orrow and disappointment per per- perhaps per perhaps haps to others Many in the corn com com will remember many of these youn young ladies individually for forout Out ut standing service rendered in ses Much 1 improvement has been made in rendering service as we have it today over oyer thirty years ago The following item is copied from the Clipper dated December r 25 1903 Quote The liThe Clipper is con considering con con- considering the feasibility of gather gather- gathering ather- ather jag ing in some of the latest news of the county over the telephone It is the intention to call the people on aline a aline aline line at once by givin giving ten rings when rings when all have hwe taken down the receivers the news gatherer will proceed to ask any sickness deaths marriages moved away visitors here from out side the state etc A pause will be made between the questions to Rive give ive any anyone one on the line time to answer be- be before before be before fore going oin on to the next question This will enable us tolk io to 0 talk lk to all allIn allon allon on In the line in the same time that it will require to talk to one This will be done at night between 9 nd 10 o'clock when the lines are least busy and when we can have double time Ten minutes for the mc pric l of five minutes in the day lay The latest news items of today is is supplied by new agents a in the local fields who phone in the lat latest let lat est et st news flashes lashes at the last mo moment mo- mo moment ment without annoying any anyone one who would not care to be bothered Lon Long Lone distance at thi this time tima ex- ex extended ex extended tended only a ft few hundred miLes while if the melanges were to be delivered further it was to relay them from point to point which was a great ent handicap over service of today when we can tele- tele telephone tele telephone phone from our own home to practically any foreign n country in inthe inthe the world with the same ease that we make mak a 0 local call It isn't unlikely that space be- be between be between tween our earth and the planets will be annihilated in the next thirty years as it has been the last thirty years between our own country and the th foreign nations of ur globe Iobe |