IR
March 13, 1879 - Mr. E.
T. Gilliland, the electrician for Port & Co., of Cincinnati,
came to town, Tuesday morning, for the purpose of exhibiting
Bell’s Electric Telephone to our citizens.
He placed instruments in the Parrill House and Post Office,
and then stretched a wire from one to the other.
The distance is 990 feet.
The wire runs from the top of Enterprise Block, thence to
Center Block, thence to the railroad depot, and down to the Parrill
House office…….
IR
Mar. 27, 1879 - In our item about telephones, we speak of only six
in town. There are two
others: at the City
Clerk’s office and Western Union telegraph office.
These two are Edison’s patent; the others are Bells. (Note
from smk: the post
office had one)
IR
Mar. 27, 1879 - Won’t there be lots of fun, love and matrimony
when we have telephones all over town, and when a man sends a few
words home to his wife, all the town will receive the precious news!
IR
Mar. 27, 1879 - Dr. W. F. Wilson came down to the post office,
Tuesday morning, and, by using the Ironton-Hecla telephone,
ascertained, in a few minutes, the condition of Palmer, the man
injured by the mule team, Monday.
IR
Nov. 20, 1879 - [do
not have beginning]
..proceed to complete these lines.
When this is done, a person in Ironton can hold conversation
with persons at any of these furnaces.
The line from Ironton to Mt. Vernon will belong to H.
Campbell & Sons, and from Mt. Vernon to Buckhorn and Dr.
Gray’s to the Doctor. Either
the latter or Campbell, McGugin & Co. will extend the line to
Olive. The wire may be
extended to Washington, where there is already a telephonic
connection with Monroe. At
this rate, one can talk to everybody anywhere by simply staying at
home.
IR
May 27, 1880 - Telephone Exchange. - The Ironton branch of the
Telephone Exchange in getting a fair way for business.
The office opened over the Second National Bank, and Miss
Fannie Mather is in charge of it.
The Exchange is ready now for customers, and some are coming
in every day.....
IR
Mar. 16?, 1899 - A mortgage on the Central Union Telephone
properties for $6,000,000 has been filed at the Recorder’s office.
IR
July 20, 1899 - Work has begun on the building on E. Bixby’s lot
designed for the Central Telephone Exchange.
It will face Third street, and will be two stories high.
The telephone company have a five years lease on the first
floor.
IR
Jan. 23, 1896 - The Telephone Co., in seeking to extend their
business, proposes to put in 24 residence phones on trial for three
months without charge. The
following parties will get them:
George Cricher, Emil Arnold, Henry Pancake, W. F. Parker, W.
G. Ward (do
not have end)
IST
Mar. 2, 1930 - Ironton Home Telephone Company Passed Out of
Existence Last Week. - Local System Now Part of Ohio Bell. - The
Ironton Home Telephone Company today passed out of existence, as its
physical property officially became a part of the system of The Ohio
Bell Telephone Company. Forty-eight
Ironton Telephone workers who served more than 3000 telephones now
are included in the personnel of the Bell System....The 48 Ironton
telephone workers include 3 in the Business Office in the Hotel
Marting, 11 in the Plant Department which has its headquarters at
3rd & Park Avenue, and 34 in the Traffic Dept., also at 3rd
& Park Ave...L. J. Gehrling, 613 Vernon Street, is Commercial
Manager; H. Hall, 2026 South Sixth Street, is Plant Chief, and Agnes
Martin, 519 Railroad street, is Chief Operator... “From now on all
correspondence should be addressed to and checks made payable to the
Ohio Bell Telephone Co. at their business office which is located in
the Marting Hotel Building, Ironton...” said Mr. Gehrling.
