The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-24
RURAL TELEPHONE.
AND ITS GOOD WORK
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ON and SO forth They hear Of and
read of the paved and macadamized
streets In the city, the brick and stone
schoolhouses the handsome churches
with services every Sunday instead of
once a month, electric and gas lights.
bathtubs with water at hand in the
houses, and the street cars that carry
| folks where they want to go in j;ffy,
and the telephone that enables them
| to find out things and tell things with
out having TO ride ten miles to do it,
and they naturally long for the city,
that places all of these things at their
disposal. The remedy 20 keep the
farmer boy and the farmer girl happy
and contented on the farm is to place
1.-THE of these blessings and comforts
within their reach.
Things Improving in Virginia.
Virginia has been doing 4 great deal,
more than some of her sister Southern
states, in the last few years TO supply
the remedy. We are growing in this
good old State in good roads enthu-
siasm. and while there is n world of
work yet to be done there are hun
dreds of miles of up-to-date highways
in the Old Dominion. and more are
coming along every day in the year.
There has been vast Improvement in
schoolhouses and schools, and the old
pneumonia producing den OF log
schoolhouse is now n rarity in the
State. No State has handsomcr ana
more comfortable country churches
than has Virginia. and there are hun
dreds of farm homes that are supplied
! with acetylene gas and are piped for
water from the hydraulic ram or the
overhead tank that is filled from the
we'll by the help OF a gasolcne engine.
( while the good roads. where they are
good. enable q good buggy horse or
an automobile 10 carry the young
farmer to see his best girl ten miles
away almost as quick as the street
cars can do the same for the city lover.
and these conveniences and comforts
are becoming more and more numerous
IN the rural regions every day.
Good Work OF the Telephone
But after all. there is perhaps moth
ing that has done more to add to the
JOY and the comfort of life in the back
woods than the country telephone The
country mother feels so comfortable
when She knows that if baby falls sick
or tumbles down and breaks it's nose
or collar bone. she can summon the
! FAMILY doctor In two minutes or less
the lonesome country lassie regards 1t
as JOY unspeakable-no. very speak
able--that she can take up n telephone
10 relieve ennui and gossip with n
iiieHu forty miles more or less away
or answer the call from particular
fellow down the road and make the
engagement for Sunday; the head OF
the house and the farm feels safer
and saves much time and not n little
money when he has the phone in tho
house, through and by which he can
Keep posted on the condition Of the
market and know when to carry his
products to town and just when to
Keep them away; and in "A hundred
ways the telephone is a greater con-
vcnience and more profitable invest
ment to the Virginia farmer than il is
to the city dwellcr or the town bust
ness man.
The telephone lines arc getting to be
very thick in Virginia, and there are
very few country roads that arc not
lined with the poles and webbed with
the talk wires
On james md Appomntto1 Rivers.
| have been. out in the country and
have made n study OF this twentieth
century innovation In tho rural dis
tricts. There arc various local COM
panies maintaining lines all over the
state. Perhaps tho largest OF these is
tho James River Valley Telephone Com
pany. There may be one or more some
where In the State that have moro poles
and wires and do moro business. but I
doubt 1t.
The James River Valley Company has
Headquarters at Cumberland, and its
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