The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-19
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Chicago News: OF the families whose
telephones are on that north side cir
cult OF six nearly every member of five
one day last week rang, ground and
hammered on their transmitters until
they were red In the face, dark about
the brows and poor company.
Mrs. No. 1 planned an impromptu lit
tie dinner for a niece who had come I'M
expectedly on a visit and proved to be
very attractive. She thought her dew
ious way through the various arrange
ments and the supplies which would be
needed and when she went to the
phone to order OF her grocer-well, she
had to rush down there because she
could not make the telephone work.
Mrs. No. 3 tried to call the doctor
couldn't-sent her little bog and he for
got what he had been sent for. The
baby had a very bad attack Of collie, too.
THAT telephone!" Mrs. No, 3 said and
words failed her after she had jerked
the cr%ank-handle for fifteen minutes
without success.
"There Is something the matter with
u telephone. 1t is too provoking! We
pay to have that thing In u house, but
when we really want to use It It's al
ways out OF orderl" was Mrs. No. 2's
greeting to her husband In the front
hallway, where she had announced in
a despairing whisper that Mrs, Rollins
and the two Miss Rollins had come I'M
expectedly for a visit and found her in
the midst OF house-cleaning,
"Oh, It Is dreadful And Just because
that wretched telephone was out OF Or
der and Mrs. Rollins had not been able
to announce her coming over the wire"
Miss No. 4 was not invited to John
De Brutton's theater party; they did
not have the steak for dinner until there
Dan went fruitlessly away owe TO the
west side to see a-well, a boxing
match-that was not pulled of; all be-
cause that telephone persistently refus-
ed to work. Mr.. No. 5 was hurt in a
runaway and because the house tele-
phone was ailing his family learned Of
the catastrophe from the men who
brought the wreck OF the buggy home
and wanted to know what Mrs. No. 8
had heard from the hospital!
Dusk settled down on five very I'M
happy, unquiet homes that night and
the five messages which were sent to
the manager OF the telephone exchange
almost burned holes in the messengers
pockets.
Mrs. No. Q, however, rang UP during
the evening and the sound OF the bell
made the other FIVE families Jump. II
was so unexpected. They counted those
machines silenced. Five ears at the five
receivers soon hard this pass between
the chief operator and Mrs, No. 6;
"Hello!" gravelg.
"Hellol what Is III" suavely from
Mrs. No. @.
"The other subscribers on your circuit
| are firing shrnpnei and canister Mt me
because their instruments have not
worked Yours seems to be all right
hasn't YOUR receiver been hanging by
the cord7 I can't explain In any other
way
Eyes, ] believe II has" sweetly,
Didn't YOU know that that cut of all
the others IN that circultY"
~ didn't think OF that; did ~"
"Of course II did. why didn't you
hang up your receiver"
There was q chug and n whlrring
sound In the mannger's ear, for Mrs,
No. 0 was saying with spirit: "rhe Inn
pudent tllngl Az though ] had to tell
himl I didn't want Mrs zlbbens Ia
call me. as she had threatened, TO nsk
mo to that stupid, dreadful little din
ncr Of hers, 10 I lot che receiver dam
| glol The ideal Hc says the Others on
the circuit were put out about III"
nut, Of course, n little thing like that
didn't matter,