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A night bell could be turned on if the operator left the switchboard for a short time. Most calls came in the early morning or early evening. Private lines were few in number and were in businesses and doctors’ homes.
Sometimes telegrams were received for individuals having no phones. The operator would have to locate where the person lived, and then arrange for the message to be delivered. The telegraph company would provide payment for the delivery, anywhere from 25 cents to a dollar.
Jo and Amelia DeWees moved to Brown County and settled east of Gnaw Bone in 1947 and found phone service was not available in their area. When they were unable to interest the Bell Telephone Company office in Columbus to provide service, and a committee of several neighbors joining them still brought no action, Joe obtained some army field telephones and wire. He proceeded to string the wire through trees and vegetation from the DeWees residence to Fort Joseph Koons, an interior decorator business a quarter mile away. A third hook-up was at the Albert Kemp house on the next hill west. When Joe died on January 15, 2012 at the Brown County Health and Living Community, he was over a hundred years old. What an amazing leap from his self-made three-way wiring to the mobile smart phones in pockets of those attending his funeral.
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be granted a patent in the United States for a device that clearly replicated the human voice. Others further developed this device, making it the historically first instrument that made it possible for people to talk directly with each other across large distances. If Joe DeWees and Bell run into each other at the Pearly Gates, what would their reaction be looking down on the wire-less phone towers dotting the American countryside today?•
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