Sentence:  Service running through Barnumville and to Bennington County towns east of the mountains was in the <WSD>hands</WSD> of the `` Gleason Telephone Company '' in 1925 , but major supervision of telephone lines in Manchester was with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company , which eventually gained all control . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child