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georgetown and the bell depression years time for teleoho anxious e business tony seynucks dream was finding oil gas supply thv first issue of the official magazine of the bell telephone company of canada the blue bell appeared in november 1821 in the march 1922 nuro bcr appeared a brief notice concerning the georgetown tel epfacne srtatf pr one member o it- georgetown miss dorelta may bell chief operator since june 1st 1921 was re placed by miss florence ncl lie saunders miss saunders entered the company febru cry 1920 at hamilton on march 19 she was transfer red to kitchener as an opef ator jdn 1st 1921 she was appointed senior operator march 1st 1921 appointed supervisor and january 16th 1922 transferred to george town as chief operator we wish mis saunders every success m her new position in the july 1922 issue of the blue bell appeared ano i ther announcement indicating an important change in the set up of the georgetown telephone office georgetown miss florence n saunders chief operator transferred to kitchener as supervisor on account of georgetown being changed to branch commercial office since this appeared in pub lic print its veracitv cannot be denied at this date but there is repeated evidence that miss saunders was not long away from georgetown during this year january 1922 s directory listed h m black as manager guelph for the last time and miss mae ross local represen tative at georgetown august 1962 s georgetown directory na tnd h w snelhng as manag er succeeding h m black and miss f n saunders as lo cal lepresenlative for george town ajid her tenure of office continued for several months as will he seen by the end of 1922 there were h9 telephones in georgetown branch manager h the february 1023 geor getiwn directory miss t n sawders was again listed as the town s local rcpresenta tic with mr snelhng the braich manager one time this title was used apparently in tie november 1923 directory imisi c r wwtmees name appiars as the local repreaen tati by the close of 1923 ther were 574 telephones in geoetown in the may 1924 dirwtory mr s j totten dis trict manager of brampton is give as having jurisdiction ov er tie georgetown office with miss whitmee still the local repaisentativc by the end of 1924 there were 505 telephones in georgetown irudentally a 1924 engineer ing hventory showed 6 sections of sandard magneto switch boari in the georgetown date of placing unknown mry 1925 s directory shows s j totten as the district ma nage with a miss c r whit mce reporting to local representative the president of anthony gaa and oil kaaplorauona lid anthony sejrnuok passed away in georgetown district hospt tal on sunday november 26th waa a wallknown figure who nurtured peraiatent hopes of abundant gas and oil deposits in this district he had drilled at various neighbourhood loco tions and had been planning a new project near hiluburgh pictures and news stories of mr seynuck strikes have ap peared at various times in the herald the board of directors will carry on the company which was formed under his leader- riiip in 1954 mr and mm seynuck opera ted an ice cream and candy irtore at one time and fanned mrs seynuck survives him at their home 101 mill l east acton mr seynuck was born in the ukraine january 22nd 1692 son of the late mr and mrs dunitro seynuck he came to canada in 1913 and has irved tn acton since 1919 he married in 1922 surviving as well as hn wife the former mary woank are a niece mrs al zeravlev geor getown grandnephew john zer avlev georgetown and cousin william seynuck acton the funeral service was held at the burnley shoemaker fun eral home on wednesday nov the georgetown hirald thursday dec 21t 1947 page 13 ember 29th conducted by the rev gordon turner interment was in tairview cemetery pallbearers were walter pope bill human julian zajac mike nakonecxny fycd kril and w nykifortyn christmas village torrlnton connecticut recti for lis children in dtcmbtr a chrlihnts vil las where santa and his elves work on toys hur roundad by shelves loadod with gifts santa chats with the youngsters and provides each on with a gift his sleigh and reindeer art likewise an attraction and include rudolph the rad noted reindeer tha nativity scan with th holy family is llfthtad by a star of bethlehem punts flowers say make your selection early for christmas delivery fresh from our greenhouse we wire flowers anywhere rosedale floral 32 auekt sireet 8772952 how should a man give coty to a woman jjuiis one of a series k first inks chinese and egyptians con- coted the first known inks about 2500 bc georgetown bell telephone staff in 1937 constance wriitmee manager margaret kentner and ruth wcnally installed along with a ew type of battery cabinet all of which gives greater efficiency in service the decoration scheme is one of cream and brown a good sized rest room is provided or operators and a night bed is being nstallcd for the night operator w m rcid plant chief for this dis trict was in town yesterday giving the plant the final look miss c r wtiifanctisted georgetown s telephone office since early 1926 as branch ma nager was still m ithsrge of georgetown s telephone office which by the end of 1929 re ported 716 telephones in town incadentallj september 1929 s blue bell carried an attractive photograph of miss c r whit nell sic manager george town which scarcely agrees with repeated directory listings of miss c r whitmee by the end of 1930 there were 725 telephones in geor getown th depression the new york stock market him as of october 1929 ushered the period we refer to as the by the end of 1925 there were ttlfl telephones in georgetown the corresponding total for 1926 wasb47 according to an engineering mencrandum in 1927 our rec ord shows 7 sections of stand ard magneto switchboard for georgetown by the close of 1927 there were 664 telephones in town in 1928 the old georgetown switchboards were replaced with two sections of local 105b and one section of toll 105 b magneto switchboard a great improvement on the older type earing the operators consider able manual manipulation of the shutters by the end of 1928 there were 703 telephones in georgetown intereitms writeup in laic september 1928 an interesting little write up ap peared in an unknown news paper publicizing georgetown s new equipment it read georgetown changes in local bell offi arc complete georgetown sept 29 the rcent changes made in the lo cal offices of the bell tele phoacompay at a cost be- ten 14 000 and 15 000 are now complete with the result that georgetown has the best cices within a very larg ra dius a new 105b magneto switchboard has been installed the si ps that fall to show lines in use automatically returning to pla e a new feature the ca bles are earned on a laout track instead of being placed in the basement as formerly af fording easv access for addit ions and repair and icsemng the dancer from mice and rata depression which affected pri ctically very individual and household in the continent some extent during the earl 1930s many businesses had to close or work shortstaffed peo ple doubled up or closed their homes to live in rooms many forced to economize drastically had to clear their budgets of all but vital necessities and ord crcd their telephones taken out indefinitely bees ise every dollar wai needed for shelter and food the bell telephone company of canada wai seriously affected by the drop in the number of telephones since every takeout represented a loss of revenue recalling that 1930s george town total of telephones wu 725 a record figure irt is easy to note the effect of the dep cession in a small way as it affected jic town s telephone business georgetown s totals remains steadier than in many centres but there wa iceablc decline over the years ueverthelse wmch was not r covered for a decide the population of george town was 2288 in 1031 by the close of the year there were 704 telepjionea in town the cor responding total for 1932 was 658 and for 1933 626 july 1934 s georgetown dtrec tory listed 3 a gorrte jr dis trict manager weston as well as miss c ft wlltmee branch manager a further declme in number of georgetown teleph ones is to be noted by the end of 1934 only 611 now w p hams was ltacd as iis trict manager weston in july 1935 s georgetown directory ha ving jurisdiction oer the ocal officr of which miss c r whit 1935 trtle however was again local representative rather than branch manager by the end of 1936 there were 640 tel ep hones in georgetown and in crease ol 25 over the corrcspon ding total of 1935 615 july 1938 s georgetown dir listed j e hane man ager brampton as having sup- ervisionnjf the georgetown of fice witm miss whitmee still local representative by the close ot 1933 there were 678 tel epbonea in georgetown and 700 by december 3t the georgetown herald of september 13th 1939 announ ced that the bell telephone company of canada is now car rying out the reconstruction and extension of its rural tel ephone lines in the vicinity of georgetown according to j f hayne manager for the com pany in this district overhead cable will be erected in cer tain sections of the rural area to permit the removal of open wire lines the rural pole line will b reconditioned uivolv ing the replacement of 430 no tes and the resetting and re inforcement of many others additional circuits will be pro vided in order to reduce the number of subscribers per rural party line this work wil be completed about the end of ov ember j top old racord i with 700 telephones in geor j getown by the end of 1939 it j seemed likely that the previous record that ot 1930s 725 tel ephones would soon be over taken and this happened b the end of 1940 when 735 teleph ones were reported in george town may 1940 s directory showed two supervisory chang e wo misener manager brampton had replaced mr hayne and miss m chave had replaced miss whitmee as local representative continued next week concrete gravel building sand road gravel fill 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