The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-11-15
TELEPHONE CONVENTION
To BE Held at Cynthlana November
II Maysville Telephone Com
pany To Send Repre-.
sentativeS

4, The Central Home Telephone and
Telegraph Company with their Gen.
eral Office at Louisville and who OPP
crate the Cynthiana Telephone Com
pany as well as other Home Tele-
phone Companies all over the state of
Kentucky, have selected Cynthiana as
the place to hold their next District
Meeting or Convention for Operators
and Managers for all Exchanges East
of Louisville and including Louisville
proper.
District Manager, Mr.. ]. ]. Veatch,
of Paris, has visited Cynthiana in the
capacity of advanced agent and Sc
cured the Elks Home for holding the
meeting and through the Commercial
Hotel, homes and stopping places will
be provided for the delegates when
they 60 to Cynthiana on November II
Mayor Swinford has agreed to de-
liver the welcome address, which will
be responded to by General Superin-
tendent Minor German, of Louisville
The meeting will be presided over by
District Manager j. ]. Veatch and Mr.
R. V. Bishop will act as toast master
at lunch, after the program has been
completed.
The Central Home Company has
been holding these meetings through
out their system for several years
and have found that much good has
been accomplished in promoting eff
ficiency among the operators and 9TH
er employees, and now since oul
country is at war, they say the meet.
ings are all the more necessary tc
keep the operating department sup.
piled with efficient operators and tC
provide means of making them eff
fcient with just as little delay as pos
sible.
June issue of Telephone Engineer
published in part as follows:
Telephone operators can render
valuable service to the government
in time of war by making rapid ant
thorough connections in their work
particularly when messages partail
to military AFFAIRS" said Sergean
Frank Burnside, U. s. A., to som,
twenty-five switchboard operators il
Omaha, Neb.
Sergeant Burnside gave the girl
an idea of daily army life, the treat
ment of the men and the genera
things that 60 to make up the ex
perience of a soldier. He related ;
number of personal experiences ant
complimented the Japanese, both mel
and women, as being the most pa
triotic people with whom we evel
came in contact.
"The meeting was arranged by Mrs
T. r. Rutledge, who is head of tn,
telephone operators contingent o
the general division of the Nationa
League for Womens' Service. 1t wa
the first of the contingent meeting
arranged for practical instruction o
women in different lines of work"
| Modern warfare is carried on an,
preparations made therefore, almOs
exclusively by means Of telephon
and telegraph lines and 1t should b
remembered by the public users o
the telephones that 1t is just as pa
triotic' to practice conservation Il
this line as any other, and useless t
say that all Government matter
come first, and that telephone com
GAMES are striving hard to cope wit
he situation with only a minimum
amount Of delay to the public.
The Maysville Telephone Compan
viii be represented at the Cynthian
meeting by Manager J. ]. Lynch
chief operator. Miss Mary Murph,
and toll operators, Miss Irene Macke
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