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Show TO IMPROVE TEL- 1 EPHONE SERVICE H Boston Man Here Inves- M tigating Needs. H BUILDING TO BE PUT UP H And Up-to-date Switchboard In- iH stalled. Provision for Next iH Fifteen Years. H O. I'. Scudder, of IIo-tou, icprcsent- H lug the American Telephone & Tele- H graph Co. or that city, has been in Lo- ,H gan the past few dajs taking stcp- jH pieparatorj to making great improve- IH mciits In the near future calculated to jH meet the demands or tho telephone iH business in tlie next fifteen years. - 1 The company 1eall7.es tho coming H gtowth of tho western country and IH will creel a building on their site, Just H west or Tiik Uici'imimcan office on H Center street, placing therein a new 1 switch boaid or the latest and most jl Improved pattern. The common bat- IH tciy s)stem will be installed, the kind H that Is in all the bigger olllcesover the H Mr. Scudder is a most pleasant H gentleman and seemed glad to talk H or the improvements to bo made 1 here. He says that he hardly under- H stands how it has been possible to do so well heie in the piesent cramped H (juai tors and he Is pleased to rccom- jH mend the enlaigcmeiit and better- H ment of facilities. He made a sj stem- alio canvas or the business men, oh- B tabling probable estimates of the iJ city's growth within the coming tlf- H teen jear, and the gentleman sajs H that the company desires to make im- H piovcments calculated to meet the IH growth of the city. It Is the desire to H build as huge building as could pos- IH slbly be needed and to do anything H necessary to better the sjstcm and provide for the fuliiic. Some kind or a stiucttnc will be elected in the spring and the new conditions inaug- H tirated as soon as possible. H |