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pitching horseshoes every monday wednesday and friday in the telegram daily plus weekend per horn delivery of ths tabgram pwm coatact the th carrtersahsmait oa your street write tha telegram bay and melissa stfc toronto 1 or telephone empira 86011 for the best coal and service in town enjoy better value and service and greater heating comfort call w h kentner son blue coal wednesday ewnlnf sit 23 1s53 page oeoejqetown hbkald first telephone exchange in j h jackson store lell central office man dave pringle balances up the car riers on the carrier bay in the georgetown dial exchange this is the terminating point at th exchange for long distance circuits it makes t possible to superimpose up to 12 separate circuits on one wire so that up to a dozen conversations can be carried simultaneously on a single wire the bell telephone company has been represented in georgetown through the yeani by people who have been popular residents of the community and active in its affairs the first bell representative here and the one who held office longest was j h jackson who operated a book and stationery store on alain street when he was appointed by the telephone company in 1884 at that time the first georgetown ex change was opened in his store besides looking after telephone affairs mr jackson continued to broaden his other business interests and by 1901 was carrying a line of house furnishings in addition to bis other goods six years later the firm became known as jacksons department store just before the turn of the century mr jackson s telephone title was changed to local manager after 32 years as the bell com pany s representative in george town mr jackson was succeeded in 1916 by h w sneuing miss g glassey succeeded mr smelling when she was appointed local rep resentative in march 1918 up to that time 100 had been the telephone number for both the bell office and the department store but the number was left with the store and the telephone representatives number became 170 which has re mained unchanged up until the in troduction of dial service after one years sorvice miss glassey was succeeded as local rep resentative by miss mae ross miss doretta may bell was georgetown s chief operator in 192122 and she was succeeded by miss florence nel- thirteen subscribers when telephones came in 1884 georgetown was among the first communities to have telephone ser icc an exchange was opened here in 1884 only 10 years after alexander graham boll first told his father of his theory of telephony and only six years after the first exchange in the british empire was opened at hamilton georgetown ribidents took to the kit phone rapidly and the use of the instrument has increased stead ily through the years as the com munily mas grown and developed the original exchange located in a book and stationery store owned ii i kflwjo uouv trtrtt afifi ot u6 for your cooperation in georgetown during the changeover to dial telephone service please remember always make sure of the nurrfber by first looking it ur in your new sup plementary directory use all possible care in dialing follow carefully the instructions on the front page of your new supplementary directory keep your personal dir ectovy of telephone num bers up to date iin wi tin kind of ti upborn scric ou with i is our job sou v mi it to bi i uit md depend ihtc and to kctp on l it nil better you uini to dt il witb pk is int friendly people who lake t re tl interest m our pmhlcms md who arc w itbng to give you i little extra attention and thai s ihc kinel of sen ice wc wint you to hac makes your telephone mean more to you makes our jobrflean more to us i w o m1senee mnaer the bell telephone company or canadx flowers for all occasions potted plants bedding stock buhu arti8tics designs we wire floweij rosedale floral 14 mvrdock st tr 72952 lie saunders miss saunders was later transferred to kitchener where she served as a supervisor for a short time then returned here as local representative miss c r whlunee was appoin ted the bells local representative here in 1923 beginning a tenure of office that was to last 17 years miss whitmee s title was changed to branch manager in 1926 in 1940 miss mabel cnave suc ceeded miss whitmee miss chave waa succeeded as local representa tive in 1948 by miss 1 thompson but continued to serve as george- towns chief operator valley view cabins 2vfe miles north of htwstvllle on no 11 highway where georgetown meets phone huntsvllle 802 w 3 pete and marlon hunter j are your hosts men women old at 40 50 60 get pep feel years younger full of vim don t blame exhausted woravt nnflomi feeling oa your nt tbtnumnds amued t what a tittle pcptunit up with ottra tonio kbleti will do contain tonic banks itbif at often needed after 40 by bodies weak old became lacking iron a 78yearold doo- tor wnteji i tookt myaclf fieculti fine introductory or eftacquainted aixo only 60 stop feeling ok start to feel peppy tad ttjungra today at all dnifcgiita by j h jackson and located on main street wis serving 13 tele phone subscribers by the end of 1884 the subscriber as listed in the first telephone directory for this arta published january 1885 were uink of hamlton main st barber join k paper mills barber john k residence main st beaumont s batton mnfr glen williams tvteman dr w church st qood- willie g c barrister main st grand trunk ry station jackson j h bookseller stationer main st king r w and co foundry nor them st north western r y station roe dr w j residence main st williams b woollen mills glen williams williams joseph flour st saw mills glen williams new customers subscribed for service each year and there were 20 telephones here in 1887 and 27 in 1894 with so few subscribers it was not necessary to assign numbers in the early years but this step was taken in 1899 when there were 49 instru ments in use here eight years later when the num ber of telephone users had increas ed to 111 the company began prov iding service on a 24hour basis in stead of only during business hours as had been the practice until then the numbers of telephone users increased rapidly after that time passing the 200 mark in 1910 and jumping to 485 by 1919 by 1939 when the second world war began there were 700 telephones in use here then because all available telephone equipment was needed for defence purposes only essential orders could be filled and the num ber in service grew slowly however as soon as the war en ded the bell company began work ing towards the stage where it could atuin supply service on demand and by the end of 1947 there were 1165 telephones here the demand for service has con tinued in recent vears and in keep ing with its practice of providing the most suitable type of equipment to serve each area the telephone company prcparexl plans for the op ening of the new dial exchange which when it goes into use will serve all those georgetown people now wanting service and will be nptble of expansion to take care future needs for 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