Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1899 — Neigborhood Telephones. [ARTICLE]

Neigborhood Telephones.

The time is undoubtedly coming very rapidly when the isolation of the farmer will become mitigated, owing to “neighborhood telephone lines', by means of which they can communicate with edch other without reference to the condition of the roads or press of work. A local paper of an inland city in New York state describes an interesting line where the subscribers constructed the line, furnishing the tools and doing the work themselves, the expense of wire, instrument?, etc., was equally divided among them, and the cost was only sl4 per share. The line, of course, ia free to subscribers, but others can make use of it by the payment of $ small fee. At present there are ten subscribers to the line.