| Show TELEPHONE CO IMPROVES SYSTEM 1 AT BOUNTIFUL UL More improvement in telephone service for the Bountiful sub sub- subscribers scribers The first firt fin t telephone se service serene e at I Bountiful came about 48 years t a ago o when hen th the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Co installed a toll station in m the tho Bountiful Coot Coo store at the time Fd rd Thomas our local choir pIoneer leader Was wasa a clerk in that institution This served the community for a year or two perhaps until the year 1889 when Richard Duer Duerden n one of our local merchants installed a telephone in his store on the the- th Wood Woods Cross depot street strett HIs Hi service was nas as over the tho Salt Lake Laka CIty switch board and cost coot 1000 per year Mr Ir Charles E Pearson was the th next person to hav have a private tele- tele telephone tele telephone phone phon distance he living Just a short dis- dis dis tance w west t from Mr Further improvement camp came in hi hithe the year Car 1903 when v an exchange was opened in the Clipper bUlk build building build building ing mg with twelve subscribers with George W Pearson as manager manag r This building housed th the telephone office for 26 years scars ears and a number of our local girls wall VI be remembered remembered for the f faithful and efficient service to the tho public In the year 1929 the Telephone company built the present build build- bUild bUild- bUildIng building building ing the the occupy and Ins installed as an Improved magnet witch switch boar which has given satisfactory ser ser- service ser service cr- cr vice up to the present and now nowa lat last t Wednesday evening this board board- boards board s ms replaced wIth v one ole of the lat lat- latest lat latest est st and aid most improved ed cd common battery boards board in the state te t To mall male the change and that the service v not be 1 d l early eal Jj l last st summer installers rs vent from home to home conN n ct- ct n condensers on each telephone telephone rep reparatory r tory for the cut 0 ose el A A ittle A-ittle ittle liter later s s 's s material arrived for for- he new switch board July l 10 vvo o We Western Electric installers assembling the rew loard ioard and nd have worked wor v v to make the chance nOe chin e possible by ept but hut they were success success- successful ulm ful ul ul in m completing the joba job i a few few- ws ahead of schedule and the ctt 0 over er was wis made mide on the e emen- emen ng en- en ng of September with smith Ith a num- num pr nura r of telephone nd aid We Western tern men amen present to complete the JobA job A As the service elot slowed crt do n In Inthe inthe inthe the es C evening ruing of the at t 0 q 15 n 1 m the on duty moved to o n the new board and cOMmenced handlin the th calls cills on n the new sva- sva s tern tem The old board was cut JOOS loose loosa 1 frn n the that had handled mIllions of nf calls cills from the cub subscribers subscribers ers as the te job was ted completed the theold theold old bo hoard board rd v m as carried from the and loaded on a waiting truck and ind hauled off to Salt La La Nev Ney telephones will he hp Ir tall ed as soon as possible the present ones and when com eom- completed com completed the conversion will cost cot the Telephone co eo 00 New tele- tele telephones tele telephones phones were installed Thursday lt at atthe the homes of Angus y and Dr B L Kesler The new bo board rd is 13 of black pal walnut al alnut nut i m avertable of cabinet art with smith Ith shunning shinning brass plugs ro roes roq q of jacks and tiny light ht globes that c call ll at atten- atten atten attention ten ten- tenon lion to the calling mine ne The test testing In ing apparatus on the face fice of the thC the board board and ind the tiny light gob globes that give the cord sl signal n l at the tho time the subscriber hangs hang'S up his er at the completion of hIs which gives com com- complete complete supervision ISlon of the war work Thus the turning of the crank to sl signal naJ the operator tor passes pases out or of the picture for the Bountiful sub sub- sub subscriber scriber and he now no has a telephone system as s metropolitan as any ny subscriber in m the State of Utah fl |
