Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-11
Have YOU GOT A .PR0A{2
Every Farmer Ought to Have One as
Money Saver.
BY T. R. Gohde.

TNHE small cost of telephone is
made up many times every year
by its saving qualities.
1t is saver of time "horse flesh,
and money, making trips to the village
practically unnecessary. It will sell
cattle, hogs. grain and other products.
A knowledge of the latest quotations
may save the cost of the telephone in
one transaction.
It will hire help. 1t will bring you
the latest news from the village. And
in case of a break down of your bind
Ter or other machinery 1t will order re-
pairs; If your berries or other fruit is
|ripe it affords you the opportunity of
selling them before they are picked;
1t makes neighborhood concerts pos
sible during the long winter evenings.
1t enables the wives and daughters
to visit each other without the trou-
blesome necessity of dressing and driv-
| ing long distances over bad roads with
| the teams that are needed in the fields.
| The telephone has come into the
lives of our people to stay, and must
tbe considered as necessity for all
and not as luxury for the rich only.
| While the residents of the towns and
cities have need for and do use it ex-
tensively. to no class of people does
the telephone bring SO many advan-
tages as it does to the families Of
farmers the stockman and the dairy
man of the country.
Have you children living on farms
of their own, with whom you would
like to be in talking distance? Do
you or your wife or any of your chill
Il
hours, which would be filled with
keenest pleasure instead If, your ac-
lquaintances for miles around could
lbe called in for conversation and in
Iterchange Of thoughts and news?
/ In times of illness is it not bless
ing to be able to communicate in
stantly with your physician?
The telephone is time saver as
well as an annihilator Of distance. II
telephones cost more than carriages
they would be cheap comparatively
because the telephone renders quicker
and more efficient service than the
carriage.
On the other hand it is fact that
no other household necessity is. lower
in price than telephone service, an6
when 1t is more generally understood
at what small expense it is possible
to install a most complete and efficien
system, every farm, every village and
every ranch will be supplied with
!, perfect telephone service.
Then will life on the farm be trul,
: ideal and the farmers wife will hav,
as much companionship as though
: she lived in a town or village ant
much more than If she lived in {
crowded city, where she probabl!
? would not know even her next doc
neighbor.
: There are many residents of rura
= districts who are informed as to thu
s comp arative Responsiveness. of tele
Q phone service and who would gladl.
. avail themselves of it If they were no
possessed of the belief that the con
struction and installation of tele
phone line or system is complicated
: process requiring a marked degree o
Z skill and technical education.
In this belief they are entirely ,mis
taken, because the operation Of
: telephone system depends upon a YER
> few general principles. which are $
g easily learned that anyone of averag
= intelligence can readily grasp them.
= The skill and technical education re
= quired is in building the instrument
In the factory the most profound sci
: entific learning is needed to produc
a telephone which will be strong an
of few complications yet Instant
and perfectly responsive to thos
great silent forces of nature whic
make not only telephony but life itse
possible.