The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-23
RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE
Following is the First
school, G., i'm the Contest
Conducted by the Piedmont Telephone


ting them in the barn. 1t is also Of
ten valuable to the farmer to know
ahead OF time of any anticipated
frost or drops in temperature. Wea.
their reports can be secured each day
by telephone. free for the asking.
man in the rural district drives
ten or twelve miles just to find out
the price of cotton where if he had
telephone he would not have anything
to do but call the cotton market in
the town or city. There is no use OF
man trying to get right price for
his produce unless he knows just
when and where to sell it.
Last year many bushels OF fall ap-
pies rotted because the owners did
not know that certain market in
the town had succeeded I'm getting ten
empty cars, and that the man at tho
market could only hold these cars for
one day AS the market man could
not get word to most OF the people
in time TO bring their apples, they
were lost What the people lost on
the apples would have paid for a
dozen telephones for each one of
them and if they do not get together
and lind way of keeping in touch
with each other the same thing NAV
happen this year.
Suppose girl in the country is
OF nj
to invite her friends without writing
invitations or going and inviting
them to come? The money the girl
spends for invitations she could pay
for a telephone for a month and she
, just has one evenings pleasure where
she could have a months pleasure
for the same amount of money in
vested in a telephone.
Suppose man living in the coun-
try becomes desperately i'll at late
hour of the night Some one has to
ride seven or eight miles after the
physician. Before the physician can
reach the home OF the man he is
dead This man has lost his life by
not getting a physician in time. Not
long ago a young robust man just
in the bloom of life was cutting wood
He accidently cut his foot and sew
cred blood vessel Before his bro
ther, who was with him, could get
a physician the boy had died from
the loss of blood Many other lives
have been lost In the same way. Now
If there had been a telephone in the
homes of these people ii would have
saved the lives of these two men
\ man in the country had to go 10
a lodge meeting in the city one night.
leaving his wife and child at home.
About twelve o'clock his wife dis
covered that robber was in the
house When she found the robber
he had all OF jewellery and silver
But what could she do? Nothing
because there was no neighbor near
or telephone in the house Now
In this case is not a telephone use
full? OF course il is. Many people
in the country would rather pay ten
uOlidiS iuOntn TOT teleDnOnc than
lose all their valuables in one night.
A lady in the country is going TO
have dinner. III she had no tsle.
phone she must drive around 10 her
neehbors putting in her time invit-
inc them. then she must make one or
two trips 10 town to get some ar
ticle for the dinner--in. all, spending
aboGt two days getting ready q be-
gin the preparation of the dinner!
With a telephone in the house she
might do ali this in fifteen minutes.
Is a womaus time and strngth
worth so little that she can afford
to spend eight or ten hours Going
a work that the telephone would en-
able her TO DO in fifteen minutes
People drive ten miles to town To
find out the price of cotton While
they are coming to town they could
pick several hundred pounds OF cot
ton. They have now lost whole
days work while IL they had n tele