The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-07-23
REMARKABLE GROWTH.
Newberry County a Net Work of Tel
ephone Wires, Putting Her Peo-
pie in Close Touch.

decade have contributed most to the
Improvement of conditions in the I'll
raj and farme"s' lines. In The lie.
fore. to the prog :ess Of the whole
South, are the building Of better
roads, rural free mail delivery, and
the telephone.
The telephone long since became an
almost absolute necessity in the towns
and cities, and it is fast becoming a
necessity in the rural districts.
Newberry county today has a net
work Of telephone lines. There is
hardly a section Of the county that IS
not in telephone communication with
the city Of Newberry and with every
other section Of the county. Pros
peritv has an exchange which has ex-
perienced a remarkable growth with
in the past year. Connected with this
Exchange by a trunk line is the Po-
maria exchange, and a number Of ru-
raj and farmbrs' lines. In The Her.
aid and News some time age -tentlon
was called to the remarkable increase
in the number Of telephones connect
ed with the Little Mountain exchange.
There are today more than one hun
dred stations on the Little Mountain
Zines. with the central at Little Noun
tain. and the Little Mountain central
Thas trunk line which connects it
with the central at Chaplin, with a
large number of phones. Little Noun
tain, Of course, has connection with
the Newberry exchange.
It is gratifying to note this increase
in the number Of telephone lines in
the county. It is a sign Of healthy
growth and Of remarkable progress
along material lines and intellectual
lines. as we'll. The telephone is not
only great asset in business, but it IS
an educator. as we'll It keeps people
in touch with one another. 1t puts a
country home in constant touch with
the city. It keeps the city in constant
touch with the country, its backbone,
as it were. And not only that, but
! the telephone in the rural districts is
one of the most complete projections
which could be devised. A home with
a telephone, however isolated in the
days gone by. is no longer isolated.
Danger from sickness or from any
other cause no longer has the same
terror. Relief may be summoned IN
stantly.
A representative Of The Herald and
News asked Manager J. E. Robinson,
Jr., Of the Newberry exchange Of the
Southern Bell, for the figures showing
the number Of phones in the county
! in touch with the Newbewy exchange.
and also for some facts in regard to
the increase in the number Of phones
during the past year. The increase
under the management OF Manager
Robinson has been phenomenal. This
remarkable increase has been brought
about from a number Of causes. In
the first place, the Southern Bell fur
nishes a service which is uneXcelled
BY any common carrier Of its kind in
the world. In addition to this, the
vice-p president and general manager Of
the company, Mr.. J. Epps Brown, OF
Atlanta, is native Of Newberry,
having been born and reared here, and
!. !.Newberry county feels somewhat as
if the Southern Bell were Newber-
ry enterprise. And, in addition to
this, the local manager, Mr.. J. E.
Robinson, Jr., is a telephone man
who knows how to do things, and who
does them.
The Newberry Exchange.
The following figures show the num-
Der of phones connected directly with
the Newberry exchange:
-, CllS "SO1
Rura1 - :. .. ..1V6
, Farmers line basis :. =. >. :. 50
Dead Fall Farmers exchange :. IL
Coleman exchange .. .. .. .. %
454
The distinction between rural
phones and phones on the farmers
line basis, in the above tabulation, is
that the Southern Bell furnishes the
phones on the lines denominated as
rural, while on the farmers line basis
the phones are furnished by the stock
holders of the line, or the subscrib-
ers.
The Dead Fall line is Of the latest
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