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Show DRUG COMPANY INSTALLS NOVEL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Something' novel In tho way of telephone tele-phone service has been Installed In tho .Schramm-.Johnson drug stores at Salt Lake. All fiyc stores owned by the company, com-pany, . although widoly distributed .about tho business district of the city,' get their telephone- calls through one numher and havo the same telephone facilities as if all establishments wore under tho same roof. Tho Bell Telephone company has just Installed a private switchboard for the drug eompuny In one of Its stores, and all calls for Schranim-Johnson are passed directly to the operator at tills switch-board. switch-board. All the stores aro connected directly di-rectly wltli the prlvato switchboard, and may bo reached Instantly through It. Tt Is thus possible to take orders for nn. of the stores and deliver them with tho least possible loss of tlmo or tp reach any person connected with the company .without having- to "chase him all over town by telephone." For illustration, a call for 3Wr. Schramm or Mr. Johnson would be passed to cither of tho mm namod through the private exchange and a single call would be sufficient to roach him. no matter In which of tho stores he chanced to be. The same practice applies ap-plies in the case of orders for goods or prescriptions. Two telephones aro at the prescription case In eacli etoro, and prescriptions pre-scriptions are delivered directly to the prescription clerks. The new arrangement arrange-ment Is proving a great convenience for patrons of' the stores as well as for the company's employees. |