Bakersfield, Vermont, USA
1905 - GETS NEW TELEPHONE LINE. Franklin County Company Will Developed Bakersfield Territory.

The Franklin County Telephone Co. has purchased the telephone line from W. O. Start, of Bakersfield, which Mr. Start, as special licensee of the New England Telephone Co., held for a five-year contract, and will at once proceed to develop the territory. The Franklin County company will establish an up-to-date exchange at East Fairfield with night service and will handle Bakersfield business through that exchange, running farmers' lines from that exchange through the towns of Bakersfield and East Fairfield.

It is expected that at least seventy-five new subscribers will be obtained in addition to the fifteen already using the line. Already thirty-six new subscribers have been secured in the town of Bakersfield and it is confidently expected that at least as many more will be secured in East Fairfield.

St Albans Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
July 27, 1905

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