THE REPUBLICAN

March 5, 1886

 

The Telephone

 

            A. J. Van Epps met T. D. Stone in Ogdensburg Tuesday and made a contract to furnish a large quantity of poles for the telephone line that is to put Waupaca on “speaking terms” with the rest of the world and part of Waupaca county.  A canvass has resulted in substantial encouragement from Northport, Royalton, Manawa and Ogdensburg, and Iola and Scandinavia have offered to subscribe enough for the line to be extended there.  Thus it is evident a large portion of our county, in addition to the cities of Waupaca and New London will have the telephone early in the season, with a prospect of other leading villages, Clintonville, Weyauwega, etc., connected by spurs later.