The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-12

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Fred DeLand. of Pittsburg, Pa, Whose
Paper on Rural Telephone Serv-
ice Was Read Last Night
s'In sudden illness or painful acct
dents the physician, the nurse and
helpful friends are within speaking
distance; and in lingering illness tele-
phone service may enable the physi-
clan to diagnose changes in the in
valid's condition in time to avert
much suffering or serious relapse.
Telephone service insures a sense
horsethief is unknown and the tramp
with his petty thieying and his dan
gerous barn destroying pipe has be-
come minus quantity in communi
ties where the telephone affords rapid
lntercommunicaton between farm
houses Indeed the Technology of the
hobo's profession is now said to in
GUIDES words or phrases that indicate
localities to be stunned because of
the ntercommunfcating facilities af-
forded by the local telephone service,
while other sections are to be favored
not only because the residents prefer
the isolation and loneliness indicative
of an absence of up to date methods,
but because there is far better chance
of escaping with the stolen goods.
Telephone service makes possible
cations, thus affording ample time in
which the farmer may take the steps
necessary to dispose of or protect the
crops, or to house the live stock, or to
move all perishable property out of
the probable path of a flood.
Telephone service affords constant
communication with the local and the
metropolitan market and quick ao-
ers whenever the market has an up
ward tendency. 1t saves the loss in
cident to long hauls when the market
is falling rapidly, and has materially
modified the necessity of the middle
man.
For the telephone brings buyer
and seller face to face, irrespective of
intervening distance, and the trader
truthfully tells the market price.
knowing that the seller has only to
knock at the telephone door of the
competing merchant in the adjoining
store to learn the facts.
Ordinary distances are of small
moment in sections where the tele-
phone is freely used. For telephone
service enables the afarme to live in
more desirable, more productive sec
ton, even though it be more distant
from the town where he markets the
products of garden and farm.
las 1T enables the farmers wife to
order the groceries that are delivered
through the courtesy of some farmer
passing the house, so it permits the
grocer to tell the farmer or fruit
liver on the morrow. or the number
of eggs to send in by the first team
passing cityward.
"A telephone In the house has en-
abled the farmers children quaran-
tined by illness to recite their daily
lessons to the school teacher and thus
maintain their standing in their re-
specttve classes, though debarred from
the school room; it has softened the
dreariness of the invalid's life by en-
abling chatty visits to be made while
propped up with pillows.
Telephone service enables morning
gossiping to be INDUCED in before the
dishes are washed; afternoon visits to
be paid without the necessity of dress
ing up, or of driving on a dusty road
in the hot glare of the summers sun
or insthe biting winds of a wintry day;
evening visits to be returned while re-
Ginning in ones own comfortable
rocking chair.
Telephone service increases the
earning value of many farms, through
helping to lessen the cost of operating
and maintaining the farm property.
For the Intelligent use of telephone
service costing only $40 or $40 or even
| dispense with the services of an extra
man, and thus to effect net saving
of from $500 to $500 a year"
List of Delegates.
The following is a list of the mem
bership of the board of agriculture
as it stands at present:
Allen County Agricultural society
Delegate. T. ]. Anderson, lola; alter
nate, A B. Null, lola
Barton County Fair association
Delegate, Ira D. Brougher, Great
Bend; alternate, J. w. Clarke. Great
Bend
Brown county-Hiawatha Fair as
northumberland. E. Harrington,
7Fi Butler County Fair association
Delegate, W. F. Benson, Ell Dorado;
alternate, ]. w. Robson, Ell Dorado.
Chautauqua county-Hewins Park
and Fair Observation-Disclosures w
NJ. Jones, Cedarva1e.
Clay County Fair association-Del-
egate, L. s. Chandler, Clay Center;
alternate, J. d. Schooley, Clay Center
Clay CONGRATULATED Agricul-
tural society-Delegate Joseph Babb,
Wakefield; alternate, J. C. Weaver,
Wakefield.
Coffey County Agricultural Fair as
Delegate, Henry Jackson.
Burlington; alternate, NJ. NJ. Kiger,
cowiey county-Eastern Cowley
Fair ssociation-Delegate E. E..
Reed, Burden.
Cowley County Agricultural and
Stock Show northumberland w
J. Wilson, Winfield.
Elk County Agricultural Fair asso-
ciation---Delegate. F. p Hatfield, Gre
no1a; alternate, J. F. Deal Grenola-
Finney County Agricultural society
delegate. A. H. Warner, Garden
City; alternate, w. NJ. Kinnison, Gar
den city.
Fort CountyA gricultural association
Delegate, J. L. Finley, Dodge City
Franklin County Agricultural society
Delegate, r. G. Brown. Hacket; alter
nate, E. s. Kirkpatr1ck, Wellsville-
Grant County Agricultural associa-
tion-De1egate, c. D. Hickolz, Ulysses:
alternate, H. ". Maxwell. Ulysses.
/ Greenwood County Fair association
| Delegate, J. w. Robbins, Eureka; al
ternate, c. H. Wefser, Eureka.
! ation-Delegate. Henry Krider. Azath-