People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — Goodland’s Telephone. Exchange. [ARTICLE]

Goodland’s Telephone. Exchange.

Rensselaer will soon have phone connection with a large number of adjoining towns. The following from the Herald tells the story for Goodland. “Goodland will soon have a telephone exchange and connections with all the neigoboring towns and the Long Distance Telephone Co. The scheme is being engineered by C. A. Perkins and A. E. Hartley, of this place, and parties in Kentland, Remington and Brook. This is something we need and as Goodland is the natural center of Newton and adjoining counties this will make it an important transfer station. This service can be had for about $2 per month, and no business house can afford to be without it. The material has been purchased and will arrive shortly and the work, rushed through. The system will be ready before cold weather sets in.”