The Goderich Signal-Star, 1959-10-29, Page 13•
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.RAY BOLGER SIGNED
,FOR SHEAFFER SHOW
Dancing - comedian Ray Bolger
ip the latest addition to the
roster of stars who will appear
in "Give My Regards to Broad-
way" to be telecast Sunday.
evening, December 6, on the
OBC network under 'sponsorship
Of Sheaffer Pen Co. of Canada,
Ltd—
The lanky performer will
star with Jimmy Durante, lovely
songstress Jane Pawn, and
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one-hour musical variety show,
one segment of which will be
devoted 40 the hit tunes of
George M. Cohan.
A Sheaffer spokesman said
that the pen firm is still negoti-
ating for additional top -name
performers to round out the
cast and assure viewers "an •all-
star bill in the strictest sense
of the term.4
New Brunswick - horn Edgar
Randolph Parker legally adopt-
ed the name Painless so he
could practise dentistry under
ifrhful Eddie Hodges in the the name of Painless Parker.
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Purchase pf the Goderich Municipal Telephoneward •Grigg, John Watson, W. W. Haysom,
System in 1954 by Bell Telephone Company is Manager and J. A. Cowley,
pictured. Left to. right: R. E. Thompson, Ed -
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Women wore high -button' Post eard dejctig forest
shoes and bustles, men sportediseenes and carrying the wistftil
handlebar moustaches and theIsentiment "For Thee 1 Pine For
horseless carriage was in vogue
when telephone service was in-
trOduced in Goderich back in
1884. "
The Bell Telephone Company
of CamIcla was only four yea-rs
old and.the telephone itself had
been in existence only 40 -years
when a telephone line WAs built
between Goderich and Stratford.
The first telephone to serve
this conamunity' was a Blake
telephone set inFtalled on the
wall 'between "Ragged Dick and
the Street,Urchins". and "Little
Lord Fauntleroy". in the 1,allN1i-
lit duskiness of Jame,s Imrie's
Book and Stationery Store. Mr.
Imrie became the first Bell Tele-
phohe,ComPany Agent in.Gode-
rich. •
Located on the Square that is
the hub of Gederich's wagon
wheel -shaped downtown area,
Imrie's welcomed all passers-by.
On rainy days many a lady
bustled, in to protect her back
drapery and browse among the
Musty best sellers of the day.
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Thee 1 BalsamN, tempted young
men off their velocipedes and
parted .them fmna their pocket
money;
To these and other visitors
the telephone and primitive
switchboard became the centrc
of interest and by January 01
1885, 25 of the up-and-coming
business establishments and for-
ward -thinking citizens had tele-
phones and were listed in the
little directory 'Estieu by. The
Bell Telephone Company of
Canada.
"Froin,8 a.m. until 8 p.m. the
telephone "talked" between Cap-
tain Cox at the British Exchange
Hotel and the Huron Signal
Printing Office where Dan and
Tom McGillicuddy directed the
printers devils while the. Misses
McGillicuddy turned out another
tear jerking installment of the
continued story; between M. C.
Cameron, Liberal candidate for;
the riding of West •Huron an
the Great North Western Tele-
graph •Office, between F. Jor-
dan's drug store and Dr. Alex
Taylor. On Sundays from 2 to
4 p.m, on holidays from 10 a.m.
to 12 noon and from 2 to,4 p.m.
the switchboard responded to
the turn of .the telephone crank.
In 1885 the line between Lon-
don, St. Marys, Mitchell, Sea -
forth, Clinton and Goderich and:
the line from Stratford to Berl
lin and Guelph via New Ham -1
burg and Baden was, completed,
by December of -that year eight
additional, Goderich residents'
showed themselves willing to
try the new 'st‘rvice, among
them Charlie Nairn's Grocery;
and the old Albion'Hotel on the
Square.
Inspection Time
Charles Fleetfo.rd Sise, Vice -
President and Managing Direc-
tor of the Bell Company visited
the telephone offices . in the
Lake Huron arKi. Ceorgiab Bay
district in the s5mmer of 1886,
his covered wagonette and pair
aroused turiosity,v everywhere
he,Went and 'the query "Circus
Posters' or Patent Medicine"
met'him on all sides. • In Gode-
rich the old seafarer put his
horse in at Polley's Livery
Stable, inspected the telephone
office, strolled along beside the
lake and before turning in for
the night at the. old British Ex-
change Hotel made this'en-637 in
his vest podOt sized notebook:
June 11, 1886—Started at
9,25 a.m. for God. rich Gode-
rich . "British Exchangel.' .
'let Drummondof-•Bankl of
Montreal, Starke of- Salt Works,
Johnson the Reeve, and Hutch-
inson (sic) of Ogilvies. Walk-
ed' up to the lake and to bed.
Ne'business here for line to
Kincardine . 4700 inhabitants.
Built around a central Circle
or 1?ark4vith radiating streets.
Main buginess Salt Works and
Ogilvies Mills, some fishiipg
and local trade.
In,1887.,,,Goderich's telephone
office became the Charge of part-
ners Fraser, Porter and McKay
who took ,over ,Mr. Imrie's book -
and stationery business., The
title agent was changed to local
manager in 1888, and after 1896
George Porter Parried on alone
under that
By 1899 three operators were,
required to tend the, switch -
beard which now 1,,ave continu-
ous service. Lonci distance'tele-
phones which gave better trans -
omission to distant points were
available.'for use at the tele-
phone office. •The Goderich-Bay-
field line, was built that year
and by the end of the year
Goderich had 95 tolephone sub-
scribers.
• ,100th Phone.
In 1900 the 100th telephone
was:installed here, Despite this
happy milr.!stone the telephone
business was not without its
troubles. In 1902 The Goderich
Organ Comparv, source of the
exchange's power supply, burn-
ed down. Each year the tele -
'phone poles on Inc "flats" were
carried away hy the floods and
a way had to be found to carry
the poles across the river, a
dangerous and expensive under-.
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ned the telephone operator S
harness in 1902 and 'Miss Nona
Craig betaine a Nilo" gird in
1904; at night the switchboard's
operator was a knickerbocker -
clad schrooliboy who struggled
with his long division between
calls. ,
The GoderielyKintail line was
built in 1907r The year 1913
Was a busy one fob telephone
construttion trews in Goderich,
...
were placed underground and
the 300th telephone was install-
ed.
Mr. A. H. MeLachlin was ent
to the 'telephone office as acting
local manager- to help ailing
George Porter. In 1916 Mr. Ray-
mond J. Ross Riimball was ap-
pointed local manager.
In 1920 Mr. Rumball • was
transferred to London and was
replaced by Mr: J. J, Griffin,
later 1VIr. Rumball worked in
Windsor and in Montreal where
he became Bell's division plant
superintendent and, later, gen-
eral plant placement supervisor.
He retired in April, 1951, after
45 years with the Bell and mov-
ed to his "5111 home town, Clin-
ton. Mr. Rum:bill died in 1952.
• During the —darkest days of
the Depression most of Gode-
rieh's telephone subscribers
kipt their telenhones and the
revealing statistics speak well,
for local morale when ceinpared
with corresponding figures for!
many another centre pn the con-
tinent.
53rd Anniversary
The 53rd anniversary of Bell
service in Goderich was marked
in June, 1937t by the conversion ctuALIT. • SERVICE • RELIABILITY
Jf the Goderich exchange from
magneto to,common battery. In,
Enjoy the perfect comfort found in the warmest homes in
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Goderich. Buildings arose like The Goderich Signal -Star, Thursday, Qt. 2490, 1959
magic at the Port .Albert-4Alr- of the Square which were over -
port site and the Ear Company
commenced work 'on two pew
trunk,lines,, from, Goderich to
Londo, to hanale the increase
in long distance - calls. New
underground • cable lines were
laid to Sky Harbour and .to
Port Albert.
The 1,000th telephone was in-
rowded.
In 1954 the. God‘94c11...1Yluni-
cipal Telephone. System was pur-
chased by the Bell Company.
At the time of purchase, 135 of
the Goderich System's Stibserib-
ers were being sery,ed through
the Bell Goderieh exchange and
235 through the Bell Clin•ton
and hOtnesaes ofl. eVerY.811.014."
of the wagon wheel. .After Nov*
ember 1. new dial 1.40440
will .proppgate the voleo of
Goderich and' forge the link in
the elaain Of communicatiOn
from telephone to telephone,'
from nation to nation.
It is not a touch of frost that
stalled -here in 1943. exchange under a "service, sta- causes trees to turn color in
In Mid -January, 1952, the Bell 'tion agreement." thekFall. As winter approaches
Company's office in Goderich During the past 75 years the the trees stop replenishing the
moved to the new one -storey telephone has moved out -1f -the chloryphyl that keeps leaves
building on .West ,street two or lamplight into the limelight in green, and the reds and yellows
three blocks away from the old Goderich. Froin Imrie's Book always present 'n the leaves
headquarters on the north side Store on the hut into honies 'then predominath.
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:he ,presence of Company offic-
ials, members of the town coun-
cil and Board of Trade, John S.
Platt, a subscriber of .the Bell
from 1886, pulled the plug from
the new switchboard toinaugur-
:Ite the systOn. The ' No. 12'
EDWARD COAL CO
board was the first of its kind! ,
to be installed in Ontario. I PHONE JA 4-7281 GODERICH
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BPIl Telephone 'Company, war
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