The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-07-12
TELEPHONE EMPLOYEES
ARE TOWN BOOSTERS
PIONEER COMPANY URGES TOWN
PRIDE On EVERY ONE OF ITS
MANY EMPLOYEES.

That each employee of the Pioneer
Telephone x Telegraph Company
shoui boost his home town or city is
the burden of an article appearing
in this months issue of the Company
magazine which is published by the
employees at the expense OF the Com
paDy. The article calls the attention
| of the employees 10 the aid they may
be in the uphu'lding of their home
community, and emphasizes the value
of rural telephone lines, which the
| Company assists farmers to build at
cost
The Telephone Company has a num-
ber of special agents who travel
through the state. encouraging farm
ers 10 erect their own telephone lines
and giving them every assistance in
the way of advice and by supplying
material at cost The rural lines are
handled by the Pioneer Company at
a very low switching cost per month.
This system of building up rural
lines is in keeping with the policy
OF the Company that everyone all
over the state should have telephone
Recommendations said Manager W.
H. Berry today. The low charge for
switching gives the farmer a line at
a ridiculously low price and enables
him to consider himself part Of the
l town to which his line runs. Every
employee of the Company will gladly
be of every assistance possible in
the building of such lines, which re
main the property of the farmers
themselves"
The article in the Pioneer Monthly
Bnlletn runs as follows:
Our oklahoma Booster spirit, fam-
ous the world over, probably finds
its best expression in our Commercial
Clubs. Every town in the state mas
such an institution and the leading
men of the locality are its most ear
nest members. And always the slo'
gan is that the association should
make every effort TO build mp the
business. to increase the prosperity
of the district in which it exists.
- With this purpose continually incit
t ing the members to fresh action,
0 system of advertising, OF boosting,
e has been developed. resulting in
t phenomenal growth and development
+ that astonishes even the boosters
] themselves.
e Prominent among the problems
d which confront these institutions is
4 the gathering of trade from the farm
+ ers in the country around the town
4 The clubs recognize that the larger
v the area of country that regards theil
:, home town as its center commercial
r w the greater will be its assets, th'
more rapid its development They
know that if the farmer decides ne
g is really part of that town he viii
n bring his crops there for shipment
V he will bank his money there; he vii
purchase mis- goods there; he vii
. work in a hundred ways for its wei
fare.
one town, for instance, both tC
. build ND the surrounding district anc
. also 10 attract the farmers to itsel
: As the center of that district, offen
prizes for the best livestock shippe'
from their yards within certain pc
riods. Another gives prizes for thu
best samples of crops. One adver
II tises a general trading day every Sc
IS often. while others situated in thu
> cotton region buy cotton seed, th'
Il very best. too. and 10y securing it il
II large quantities and therefore at
r low price, sell it in turn to the far
/ mer at the same rate that he ma,
get the seed at a low cost.
= The gain is mutual. Where th'
. town profits by the life given TO it b,
the trading of the farmers. the farm
er gains by the cooperation Of thu
townsman. The closer the union be
tween the two, the better the results
l The telephone has been found th'
/ best medium in cementing such
union With this in view many town
have encouraged the farmers in th'
surrounding country to build lines
| and as result several cOmmunite
now boast of perfect system o
| rural line telephones stretching owe
! the country for miles around and al
= centering in the local telephone eN
- change.
| In all such efforts this Compan
does everything in its power to be o
assistance.
The advantages to the farmer q
telephone service are too numerou
to be mentioned here. IT should b
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