The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-21
HELLO CENTRALg
Bv Joshua Long

Hello, folks! It's been some time
since We have called up to report, but
we haven't forgotten about you-nei-
Their have we forgotten that we need
that TELEPHONE SYSTEM just
can't, because the need is so great for
means of quick communication be-
tween the various departments of this
big ranch that the subject, like Ban
quo's ghost, will not be put down.
While we were busy with something
else 1--WE have never been able to set
tie the question of what is the most inn
portant thing to be done on this ranch
that is, and keep it settled), the diff
ferent seasons of the year have started
an argument over the question of when
phone is most needed. Spring says
that when the farmers are busy putting
in their crops they should not have to
be running errands, when phone
would do the work. We were just
about to decide that that settled the ar
gument, when Summer demanded to be
heard: She says that it is too danger
Gus to be running errands when the
sun is beating down at its fiercest, and
therefore phone is the thing, and is
more needed now than in the cool
Springtime. This caused us to hesitate
and call upon Fall to present his case.
we all know Fall-quiet, modest, and
ever busy repairing sidewalks, fences,
helping to harvest the crops and en-
joying the outdoor life on the ranch
so much that the idea of going in doors
| if only to use the phone to save time,
did not appeal to him with sufficient
force to make any special claims; how
ever, the need of a phone at harvest
time should be so apparent to all that
further argument would seem super
fIuous. This should have ended the
argument; but Winter coolly took the
floor and, in icy tones, commended that
the work of the ranch must go on in
foul weather as we'll as in fair, and that
these cold facts should convince even
the ice-man that phones are more ne
cessary in the bleak and stormy days
of Winter than at any other season
but, in order to clinch the argument, he
would bet ten dollars that he is right
and put the money up with your I'm
Gle Josh-and. by heck-so far as we
are concerned, that DOES settle the
matter until some Summer, Spring (or)
Fall raises Winters ante.
And say, fellows! We have had an
other message from Mars about this
Phone System. No, no, Mr.. Marconi.
! it is not from the planet Mars-just
u. B. Mars, of New Mexico-oh, ex-
cuse us, Comrade Mars, we meant to
say, of NewlIano; for you must under
stand that Comrade Mars has now been
resident of this burg for some three
or four days, during which time he has
been busy guy looking us over" and.
as result of his inspection, is satisfied
with everything that he has seen. He
lis not satisfied, however, with the thing
Ihe did not see-that is, the Llano Tel
|ephone System-so he just planks down
another five spot and asks permission
to sit in the game long enough to tell
you fellows out there that this Llano
colony is a vastly greater Institution
than he had supposed and that, in max
ling the rounds of the various depart
ments, he was convinced that one of
the crying needs of the ranch is To-
cal telephone system by which the var
ious departments may be brought into
closer communication with one anoth-
er.
So far as we know, the only autheh-
tic message that, so far. has been re-
ceived from Mars is: Get busy on this
Llano Telephone System