Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1901 — Improvement at the Telephone Central. [ARTICLE]

Improvement at the Telephone Central.

J. J. Montgomery, General Superintendent of the Jasper County Telephone Co., has been working his invention apparatus lately, and a number of changes in the company’s central office are the result. A separate table has been installed for the exclusive toll line business, and this is in charge of Miss Ritchie. The corps of regular operators has been increased and from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. there are two "hello” girls on the switch board. By this change both the local and long distance is materially bettered. If persons desiring to talk over toll lines would now asked for the toll line operator when they ring central the connection desired would be furnished without the delay heretofore experienced. A new copper metalio current has just been constructed to Remington, making two lines in regular use between that place and Rensselaer.