Elks Club - Wood County Telephone
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- Created Date
- 1934
- Description
This image is from Volume 1 of 100 years of pictorial & descriptive history of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, while the quoted description is from Volume 2. "A few feet from the Wood Block is the home of the Wood County Telephone Company. The Wood County Telephone Co. is the outgrowth of a popular movement of local citizens, who were formerly subscribers and users of the telephones owned by the Wisconsin Telephone Co. The first exchange consisted of 80 telephones and Chas. Slocum was the local manager with Lavina Rablin as the operator. This was located in the drug store building next to the "Witter House" of today. This was the original store built by Dr. G. F. Witter which has been discussed previously. The exchange grew and took is some of the nearby town until the telephone users in Grand Rapids and Centralia incorporated the Wood County Telephone Co. May 13, 1895. The original subscribers were: J. A. Gaynor, E. P Arpin, H. H. Voss, S. A. Spafford, E. T. Harmon, Geo T. Williams, F.
- Creator
Taylor, T. A. (Theodore Asa)
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- McMillan Memorial Library
- Subjects
- Fraternal lodges
Telephone companies
Wisconsin Rapids (Wis.) -- History
Wood County (Wis.) -- History - Type
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- Photographs
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- No Copyright - In the United States:The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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- Taylor, T. A. (Theodore Asa). Elks Club - Wood County Telephone. 1934. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/8331. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Taylor, T. A. (Theodore Asa), (1934) Elks Club - Wood County Telephone. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/8331
- MLA citation style
- Taylor, T. A. (Theodore Asa). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/8331>.