The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-04-19
FwI TELEPHONE HABIT
ideally All the Farmers Are
subscribers.

:, Telephone Lines In Iowa SAID
pra' u,,,er Railway Lines In the
W. e.,tes-NOveI Uses to which
'''s ,,ment Is Put In the State.
pc cases 1t Is Used Instead of
harm Clocks
,oods the nation in rural tele-
owe .ocordjng to a dispatch from
0D'' C,+v It has 33 per cent of all
T. -oI telephone lines in the United
and % per cent of the mileage
/ w. "a used by rural telephones. There
VIZ sro miles Of rural telephone lines
H,o than there are of railway lines
w. United States. There is a tele-
.ao instrument for every ten persons
.+o+, or one for every two fami-
and other interesting facts
p'' rocantIy been gathered by the
oafctals. There are 21,577 sepa-
w. roraI lines in operation, using
ooc niles Of wire and 266,968 in
s ~onts There are whole counties
a , one may talk from the county
q - practically the entire farming
,,a+ion Iowa farm telephones are
L cheap. and the telephone habit
becoming stronger,
o,rp amusing stories of the new
n which the, telephone is put In
j .or,ofng sections Of Iowa are told
.bo Anril Worlds Work by Fl. r.
Isnot. A few of them follow:
kparIy every day some one invepts
Sdlsc6,ers i new use for it. One day
crI At central received this mes
!. Hello. Say, central, l have put
j roceiyer Of the phone in the Pabys
H. and if she wakes up and cries
Il me up at No, H."
\ must have been an unusually abb
.F+minded woman who sent In the
Sssage. "Ob, central! Ring me up III
hoon minutes so that l won't forget
'take the bread out of the oven"
h some one finds it necessary to take
hight train the operator at the eX-
.onga will receive some such mes
IT, as this. Central, ring me up a
an hour before the 2:17 train in
Il moraing. See if it's late before you
II me, please
s7o into the exchange during rush
sriod"-say, at 9 O'Clock in the morn
g-and YOU will see the telephone
Il stand up push her chair into Il
srner and throw" the plugs with
4 cb connections are made as fast as
n arms can fly for an hour at a
Fetch. All she will have time TO say
YOU will be- Every woman In town
ordering things for dinner"
There are about thirty subscribers
BE- are called regularly every morning
the telephone instead of by an alarm
sbck. The central girl is supposed
know the time Of all railway trains,
ld if train happens to be late how
Aany minutes behind time. She is of
n asked the time of day, because
7me one has let the clock run down.
Shen there is an alarm of fire Cen
gal' is supposed to know where it is.
BE exchange is Just across the street
Gom the frehouse, and fire alarms are
lten telephoned fn-to the saving of
Rluable time.
Toward the end of q long, cold drive
raw day I was met at the gate by
Farmer friend with the words, "Come
|ght in. The wife has some hot coffee
Hady for YOU We knew you were
pming Miss Rankin seen you go by.
hd she just tplephmcd to us"
sometimes the rUral telephone has
Fen used to stop travellers less willing
be stopped. There are sections
|here chicken stealing has become a
st art because the rural telephones
lake it possible t. block every avenue
escape as soon as the crime is dis
PVered. Many industrious chicken
Pleyes and some bold offenders have
Fen caught red branded" through tele-
pone messages which have prompted
Rrmers 70 meet tine malefactors with
potguns son the highway.
Inc first two seedless auEles receiv-
from Colorado were sold in