The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-03-09
The "fielIo" People Banquet.

Home Telephone Company held
their first annual reunion and
banquet at the Rempel House
pariors Monday night. The &C.
casion was one for sincere con-
graduation and enthusiasm, in
view of the goodly growth and
prosperity of the company IN the
last few years. A magnificent
supper, served at 10 o'clock, was
partaken Of by more than forty
guests. The menu was as follows:
first course, nuts; second, raw
oysters; third, mushroom creamed
soup; fourth, baked fish with
sauce. pineapple salad, olives and
radishes; fifth, stewed chicken,
mashed potatoes, lettuce salad,
cranberry sauce, bread and butter
and coffee; desert, ice cream, cake
and strawberries.
Mr.. F. M. Mckay, of the Jour
nal Gazette, was toast-master of
the evening, and introduced the
speakers with the easy grace and
nonchalant fuency usual with
him. Colonel Seth Weldy made
few comprehensive remarks on
the subject of "Progress," in
which he portrayed the marvellous
advances of science that have
been made in the last century,
with special reference to the
strides in the science of electricity
as applied to the telephone. He
was followed by Mr.. F. L. Van
Gorder, local manager of the COM
pany. Mr.. Van Gorder devoted
his time to plea for justice and
decency in the matter of the in
discriminate use of telephones by
non-subscribers. He inveighed
. against the practice, especially
, common on the country lines, of
assuming that private telephone
, is the Legitimate servant of all the
population within a mile of it.
His words contained some pungeL
, truths, which cannot be brought
home too soon to the public mind.
DR.. G. l.. Jones, manager of the
r Athens exchange, spoke in glow
! ing terms of the growth and in
| huence of the telephone In Athens
, and Meigs Counties. He stated
that the farmers of Meigs County,
| without any outside assistance,
/ had instituted in the last few
, years series of twenty-five pri-
vate exchanges, and by judicious
arrangements are getting service
for the normal sum of fifteen cents
per month. DR.. Jones did not,
, however, vouch for the excellence
r of the service. w. H. Fielder
n johann, one of the founders of the
present home company, told of the
: time when, two years ago, he and
two or three of his associates
e bought the plant at Logan; how
they came here and found abou,
one hundred and fifty phones in,
stalled, and, of that number, bu,
= twenty-five in actual service; anC
l. of the renoyating and building NJ
d process by means of which the
e company now has FIVE huddred anC
= twenty-five subscribers to thu
d local exchange, with good pros
J. pect of making the number si1
70 hundred before the snow fall
again. Judge Wright was calle(
on to speak ON "The Hello Girl
Here's to Herr" and he certainl,
ie &c did justice to his subject. Th
~ Judge advocates decency ant
le kindness in all classes of people
IL He made particularly plain hi
D. opini IN of those who consider i
y no affroDt to good breeding t
u bully and insult a telephone girl
g and his own high opinion of tn
~ important service they render tn
- public, and of the girls them
'o selves. After a short general dis
~ cussion, Toast-master Mckay fel
he constrained to call for a motion t
20 adjourn, and the party broke u
VI in excellent'spirits.
/" The banquet was preceded
NC earlier in the evening, by the thir
'ai annual stockholders meeting {
'o the company's Offices in the Jane
W Building. Out of 420 shares {
50 stock sold, 394 shares were repr
ne sented. 1t was one of the mo-
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