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Show TV Hsreld-Joure- Pioneer Progress Centennls! Edition d Ugh! You Fix Utah Census Figures Show 'Em Up, Doc Increase Marked Ads Feature Logan Front-Pag- e "Journal", Issue Of Sept. 1892 of one of the eai liest patent newspapers of the ptesent re eals the day Herald-Journlies and times of Logan and Cache valley dunng the year I j electric light wire underground doei not improve the appearance of e city, take a look at the above photo, which shows a Logan city block of years ago. best-know- 'ARE YOU THERE?' History Of Local Telephones Historical record of The Mountain State Telephone and Telegraph Company Indicates that the first private line telephone service In Cache valley was Installed In Logan in 1881 between the offices of George W. Thatcner and the railroad office. At that time the little known telephone proved to be quite an attraction as well as a time saver for the railroad company which had connected up its office with that of Mr. Thatcher. This private line was the forerunner for the lnsallatlon of the exchange, which was "cut-lnt- o service on February 1, 1883, with approximately 27 subscribers. First Three In Utah At the time of the opening of the Logan exchange only three other telephone exchanges were In existence In Utah, with the beginnings of service in Ogden on September 8, 1880; Salt Lake City, April 26, 1881; and Park City In September of 1881. Active In the then new telephone business was Mr. A. J. Pattison who with a Mr. J. N. Keller had first Introduced the telephone In Ogden and opened the exchange In that city. It was Mr. Pattison who engineered the opening of the Logan exchange. At the time the Logan Temple n had just been completed. Mr. purchased the poles used in the scaffolding in the erection of the temple and hired Mr. Frank Rudd to set the poles and do the other word necessary for the new telephone lines. first Phone Office The first office was opened in a rented room over James T. Hammonds Book Store on Main Street with Mrs. A. Edwards as first telephone oxrator. Subsequently the exchange was moved to the Riter Brothers Drug Store with Mr. B. F. Riter as agent In charge Mr. Riter continued as agent and manager of the Logan exchange until 1905 when the company erected Its own building and completely rebuilt the plant of the exchange and installed a new switchboard. Fulfilling Mr. Pattisons promises, a long distance line was built from Ogden to Logan In the wihter of 1886-8- 7 via Brigham and Wellsville canyon route. The first line was never very satisfactory and it was rebuilt in 1889 and again in 1896. The records of the Logan office state that in 1886 the longest satisfactory long Pat-tivo- distance line ran to Wellsville. In 1887 when this long distance line was first opened, Mr. Riter, then agent for the telephone company, was the first to talk with Ogden. The chief operator at the time was Mrs. Euphemia King (later the wife of John P. Mrs. King was the second operator in the Logan exchange. An Inventory of the plant and equipment taken In 18S6 shows that Logan had besides the switchboard, three residence telephones, and 14 business phones, served by 14 circuits and 22 miles of wire and 14 miles of telephone poles. In 1891 a long distance line was built from Logan to Hyrum and also a line was run north to the Franklin Franklin. In line was extended to Preston, Idaho. In 1898 the line to Preston, Idaho, was extended on to Idaho Falls. Idaho. On September 24, 1900, the long distance line from Logan to Montpelier was opened for service. Gets With these developments, Logan had become a long distance center and In August, 1901, a long distance switchboard was installed on which terminated 20 Car-don- ). lf2 Usn Ixmg-Divtan- lines distance telephone feeding into the Logan office. In 1902, a second long distance line was built from Logan to Pocatello, Idaho, and in 4905 and 1906, additional circuits were built between- Logan and Ogden, the line built in 1906 being extended on to Salt Lake City. By 1903, the exchange had grown to 171 subscribers, in 1904 it served 277. and in 1905 when the new office was opened at 22 East Center, it was serving 363 telephones besides the long distance lines. In 1911, the exchange was serving 1,187 subscribers. lfmg The Population Or Else! story illustrating the stern character of some of the Indians in the pioneer day of (ache alley was told a number of years ago by Naul Hale, who claimed to have been an eye witness to the events. He are indebted to M. K. Hotey for the story.) Thoje was a gioup of Indians camped on the Blacksmith Fork liver in the west Piovidence fields. The old Indian chief was the father of twin papooses and they were seriously ill witn diphtheiia. The chief sent to Salt Lake Valley, near Brigham City, for a medicine man to come and heal the babies. Upon his hrnval, the medicine man was told by the chief that he would be well rewarded if he cured the babies but that if he failed to cuie them, he would be killed. The medicine man set to work frantically. He was fighting for his own life as well as that of the sick babies. Using hot rocks, he made a puddle of warm mud and immersed the papooses in it up to their necks, chanting all the while to rebuke the disease. The papooses were too far gone to be cured. They died. Still chanting, the medicine man started across the river and headed for the lower fields of Providence and Millville. He looked cricket of neither to the right nor left. He grasshopper up lts wm8S when they didnt turn to look back. The old chief followed with his dutlmed New Yuik City and is four days iate A repoit of the thteatemng of Gov. Flower's life "infernal by an chionicled. 18 )2 "A box was sent Flower by The copy was pieserved by Albut he being absent, it was bert Johnson of Wellsville. The mail, not touched for a couple of days. front p8ge flag calls the paper When the was taken off simply "The Journal, and the the box it wrapper was suih a queer date is S.pt. 21, 1892 that it was deemed best Adveitising dots the fiont page, lutn it over to the police The as it did in those early country after soaking the box in sheets, and s' ill does today in inspector water for two hours, raised the some English newspapers lid and discovered wllhin a cigar The front page carries a bold,, flled Wllh Rlant po'vdfr and Royal Baking Powder" ad (guar- - ox. c so arrankcd that if the ,esj anteed absolutely pure) in the box had been opened same posittAi that the top baneiicumstanees ner story on the frsmt page of oidianry have exploded." appears. todays Herald-JournThe editorial page outlines the Stones of a local nature menJournal's candidates for pre'1ent tion democrat. and republican of the United States and the reaprimaries in the county and nom- sons why. Grover Cleveland and inees for the terntonal convenA. E. Stevenson are listed as the tion, aie noted along with early Journals choices wood-cuand t election news for the year from engravings of each displayed. New York City. Noble The most entriguli g story Is editor In Warrum, Jr., is listed as the masthead Warrum later became one of the states n journalists, and until recently was chief editorial writer for the Salt Lake Tribune. News of B. Y, College, elections and other information fill the balance of the eight-pag- e daily edition. A copy IF YOU THINK putting telephone and . . . (the following I.ixe every other state in the Utah's census nation, figuiesj showed a marked Increase in p'pulat'on between the yeats 1240 anil 1950. Eut even moie interesting are, some of the population characterise s from the 1950 census released by Roy V. Peel, director of the Bureau of Census, Department of Commerce. Young and Old Although the total population of the state increased by 138,53.. or by 25 5 percent, duung the decade, the gain was most marked among young vchiidien and elderly persons. In 1950 there were more males than females in the state but i he ratio was a mite less than the pieeeeding time. There was also a marked increase in the population. Of the 25.3 percent ineiease during the decade between 1940 and 1950, the number of childten under five years of age increased by 34,538, or 58 8 percent, and the number of persons 65 years and over increased by some 40 4 ' non-whi- percent. In Utah every age group increased between the two census gun. He didnt shoot until the medicine man reached a spot just beyond the present highway. Then he raised his rifle and fired. The medicine man fell dead, shot in fhe back. taking" but none showed smh a sbaip climb as in these two age groups. t as Tor this ration business. There were 101 9 males for every 100 females last veer, us contrasted with a figute of 102 6 in 1940. The population he Bv Hive state jumped by 7 some pel cur" in contrast to an met ease of only 24.7 percent ifi the white population, figures. Urban population was listed a? just under three times that of ns, popu'ous of 4h rural, non-fstate. But combined rural faun and population ftguiti showed better than a third of he of th state live m inhaoilants areas with or filitical subdive inns of less tnan 2,500 inhab-tanThe tabulations show 449,853 65 37r of the people living in urban territory, 138,387 And male-fema- non-whi- 61-- nun-far- m is counC2.VH in rural try; rnd 80,620 (11720 in actual ruta1 larm districts. non-far- Gradually Older median ages figures In t.iesj disti lets are also Interesting. The median for the state is no v 95 1 years, 1.3 above the 1940 ace aunting. The youngest median group reside in the rural farm lands (22 8 years) with the next youngest group just a fraction off (22 9) and the median age for the urban population is nearly four yeais older (26 2). various Easi' of establishing s residential during the past election was this: The break-down- THE - OSTEOPATHIC CLINIC MAINTAINED BY DR. AND MRS. FRED STRICKLIN, PROVES TO BE A DEFINITE CACHE VALLEY ASSET Steady Growh Growth and expansion of telephone service in Logan from 1911 until 1945 at the end of World War II had been steady and consistent with the growth of the Since 1945, The community. Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company has carried forward a continuing expansion program by building an extension to its building; Installing additional switchboards, wire and cable to meet the growth of the city. In Cache Valley, the exchanges of Logan, Hyrum, Lewiston, Richmond and Smithfield serve well over 8500 telephones. i The Telephone Its On Celebrates 75th Birthday THE MODERN OSTEOPATHIC CLINIC BUILDING, 674 NORTH MAIN The latest improved equipment has been installed and available including treating rooms for THERAPY MANIPULATIVE IMPROVED DIATHERMY DIET KITCHEN March evening in 1876, a young man was working in the attic of a house in Boston a MINOR SURGERY PHYSIO THERAPY COLONIC IRRIGATIONS to perfect a devict he felt would transform tha whole pattern of mans living. On that night. 75 years ago, Alexander Graham Bells dream became a reality when the first intelligible scnfence ever to be transmitted by telephone was uttered by Bell, and heard by his assistant in another room. Osteopathic Clinic was opened to the public of Logan and Valley, March 8, 1951, and in the short time it has been in operation has been exceptionally well received by tha residents of this sect'on of Utah. It has provn to be, without doubt, one of tha most valuable acquisitions to The Stricklin Cache Just four years later the telephone came to Utah. The first exchange was opened at Ogden in September, 1880, and additional exchanges were opened in April of the following year at Salt Lake City and in September at Park City. Exchanges were in service at Logan and Provo in 1883. - In very real sense, the telephone industry and Utah have grown up together. Today, 190, 000 telephones ace aiding the growth of the Beehive state. Logan's professional structura made in recent years, and fills a definite need. Dr. Fred Stricklin was graduated in 1942 from the original Osteopathic college established in the nation, Kirksville College qf Osteopathy and Surgery, located at Kirksville, Missouri. Following graduation he entered private practice in New Mexico. Shortly after establishing his practice in New Mexico he was called to the U. S. Navy medical corps At the cessation of service with the navy, Dr. Fred Stricklin became with the Laughlin Hospital, Kirksville, Missouri, as resident physician. Here he took an advanced course in and obstetrics. Mrs. Stricklin is a graduate from Kirksville Teachers College and is receptionist and general assistant at the Clinic in Logan. During World War II Mrs. Stricklin served with the Missouri Baptist Hospital and was identified at the head of several Red Cross uints. OFFICE HOURS I "Mr. Bell, 1 kV 9 daily. These calls are made not only frpm homes and offices but from automobiles, railroad cars, ships at sea and planes overhead. Telephones operated by independent companies increase the total in America to 43 million. Today, your telephone can be connected with practically every foreign land. Noon p. rri. to 4 p. m. 674 North Main iUj", e and social life. Today it is doing its full part in helping coordinate rearmament H mobilization EVENINGS I N- The Mountain States Telephone $ Telegraph Co. BY APPOINTMENT TELEPHONE 1834 t- of industry for national security. The first cross country call came in 1915 and the ocean was spanned by telephone in 1927. 12 ; j ears of progress hav e seen the telephone become a v ital part of the nation's business Seventy-fiv- a. m. to heard every word you said distinctly! 1 Today more than 35 mUion Bell telephone carry an average of 140 million conversation le UR. FRED STRICKLIN MRS, STIir.CkLlN STRICKLIN OSTEOPATHIC CLINIC LOGAN, UTAH I |
