The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-07-25
HOME TELEPHONE
co. ORGANIZES
$4,000 HAS BEEN SUBSCRIBED
Enthusiastic Meeting Held and Board
Organizes-WOrk VIII Begin
at Once.

Home Telephone company OF Hoot
| River has been Incorporated and tina
body is now prepared to set the pole
and string the wires which shall Civ,
to Hood River the finest telephon,
service of any city in the northwest o
| its size.
The stockholders of the new compa
ny me. in the Commercial club Ioom
last Thursday afternoon ani organic
ed under the provisions of the char
ter. Nearly all OF the stock was iep
resented at the meeting.
Hon. +. l.. Smith acted as chair
man of the meeting and Il. y. Blan
char acted as secretary. The chair
man then stated the object of the
meeting after which the secretary
read the articles Of interpretations
The charter provides for a capita
stock of $40, 600; all of which has beer
subscribed by the citizens of the city
and valley. The stock is divided into
400 shares at par value # 500 pei
share.
The meeting was then addressed by
W. j. BTownell, telephone engineer
of Portland and an expert in his line.
Mr.. Brownell stated that this was the
most enthusiastic gathering which he
had ever addressed. His exact words
we're: ''l must say that this look
enthusiastic. | have assisted in organ
izing II different companies, hoWev-
er, this one breats them all. With a
company of enthusiastic, INTEL gent
men as now sit before me, and which
composes this company, l can hip
any Bell telephone company in exist
ence." | have never seen oommun-
ity with better prospects than Hood
River and it is our intentions (if we
are awarded the contract) to give you
a fist class plant in every respect. In
fact it is our intentions to put in a
show plaut here. We have several
propositions on hand, and il we can
make good with you people these
deals will be favorably closed. You
can start with five second service
and after you have operated the plant
sufficient length of time you can cut
it to three second service If you so
desire.
We propose to install a "Tull Cen
tral' battery. This will enaEle the
farmer who lives in the most remot,
section to have just as good service as
the man who resides just across the
street. We find many advantages here
the poles are practically on the ground
and we can Eegin the work at once.
In view of the fact that. .there are sew
eral cars of telephone wire In Port
land at the present time which can be
had providing the matter is attended
to at once, will enable us to complete
the line system in about four months
but as you all know 1t is quite diff
cult to obtain construction material of
all kinds and this fact largely miti.
gates against the speedy construc.
tion of an enterprise OF this char
acter.
The long distance connections are
being rapidly pushed to completion.
The poles are purchased and tina con.
tracts are..all signed. for the completion
of the line from Portland to Walla
Walla and from Walla WalIa to Spo.
kane. The line from Portland to the
Sound cities as far north as Belling-
ham are practically ready for connec-
tion.
am confident that when you have
your plant that you will
be very much pleased with it. The
central board, such as we are figuring
on giving you will cost approximately
$1,000. This territory will justify the
hest and that is the only thing which
we desire to figure on"
At the cnoclusion OF Mr.. Brownell's
several questions OF interest
we're asked by the members of the
and were oheerfully and
satisfactorially answered by the
soeaker. After this informal discuss
ion the stockholders proceeded to
elect a board of five directors to serve
for the ensuing year which resulted
in the election of Il. L. Smith, Chas.
Hall, A. s. Blowers, q. X. Marshal
and Leslie Butler.
The by laws we're read by secretary
Blanc lar and upon motion we're rec
for approval by the board
of directors. l he first Monday In Janu-
ary of each year was fixed as the day
for holding the annual meeting OF the
company.
Upon adjournment the board of
directors met aud organized by elect.
ing the following officers: Il. l..
Smith, president; A. s. Blowers, vice
president; q. Ii. Vaughan, secretary
II. o. Blanchar, treasurer.
The citizens of the city and valley
are jubilant on account of the organi.
zation OF the new company. A hearty
support has heen pledged upon the
part of all phone users, and we have
every reason to believe that the Home
company will make good.
Every dollar of the stock has been sub.
scri bed by the BUSINESS men of the
city and the progressive farmers of
t he valley.