Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1916 — Advantages of the Telephone. [ARTICLE]

Advantages of the Telephone.

Evan B. Stotsenburg, attorney general, tells a story concerning the early days of the telephone in New Albany. A character of the town, who operated an office In rooms just above the livery stable, was Impressed with the benefits of the telephone qnd had one placed in his office. Meanwhile' the new-fangled instrument also went into the livery stable. Then, the town character sat down and waited for someone to take advantage of the new instrument. No one did. One day the telephone bell in the livery stable, however, rang with all its might. ‘Helio,” yelled the iivery srtihte proprietor. , “Hello, yourself,” answered the voice of tin town character, upstairs. “Just pass me the broom up through the front window’s, will you?” said the voice.—lndlanapollf ' News. ’ “

Seventy per cent of the world’s cork supply it said to be produced In Spain and Portugal.