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'BEST COUNTY IN THE STATE.' What the Rural Telephone is About To Accomplish in Georgia. Practically every home M Hancock county, Georgia, will be equipped with a telephone when the plans of the Sparta, Ga., merchants are completed. The farmers are co-operating with their progressive city neighbors. in bringing about this improvement. It will be of inestimable value, both to the rural residents and to the mer fhants. The universal spread of the rural telephone 'has perhaps never shown a more striking result. It will be the best of 'phones, too, that this up-to-date community will have installed. The central exchange at Sparta is an adjunct of the South em Bell Telephone Co., which like all other Bell lines, isequippedwith.the latest improved appliances of the West ernEleotriceompany, the largest man ufacturers of telephones and telephone apparatus in the world. This com pany has already equipped many rural lines in the country surrounding Spar ta. The installation of a countv-wide service means the annihilation of all distances in Hancock. A farmer may have his home at the extreme end of the county, but he will be able to talk to is brother in Sparta with as little trouble as if the two lived on oppo site sides of the same road. Business men whose rural neighbors furnish them trade will have every customer praetic,ally at their finger-tips. It is diffieult to estimate just how much this improvement will mean, expressed in tems f money, to Hancock county. Ue Atlanta Constitution recently oommented editorially on the subject, under the heading "Getting into Com munication,'" as follows: "Hancock county thas taken a step in the dire;etion of progress which oth ers will do well to employ asa pat tern. "Instigated by the enterprsiing eit izens of Sparta, there has been set in motion a project which will soon put a telephone into practically every farm house in Hancook. "Realizing the importance, not only to the farmers, but to the business interests af Sparta, of such a system of communication, covering practical ly the entire county, Sparta business men raised a fund for the purpose of building rural telephone lines and bringirngbhem into communication with the city system. "Flrom this fund approximatey ~half of~ the expense of constracting the lines will be paid, the farmers pay ing the other half and cost of install ing their telephones. "It is therefore, purely a local en terprise, which has for its object in teneommunication .of the entire cou.n efy in general, and centralizing the county's business at the county seat, in particular. "Both the citizens of Sparta and the farmers of Hancock are making a good investment; the farming inter ests will do their trading at home; instead of going into the adjoining county. "But aside from that, the people of the whole county will ,be brought, socially and commercially, into closer harmony and unity. They will have at hand means of rapid communica tion, not only among themselves btt with the outside world. "The value of the rural telephone is not problematsic; it has been dem onstrated and its proven worth is vastly more than its small cost. "Haneoek County has gone about it in the right way. "It will result not only in material advantage to the individual eitizens af the county, but in a broadening of view and of sphere of activity which ae important community assets. " There should ,be no county in the State without its rural telephone ser vice. "It is not only an indication of progress. but it is a positive factor 4n continudd advancement and gowth.'' Spartans are already boasting that when the improvement is completed tey will have ''the best county in Georia" A fund of $500 has been raised to ad farmers in pure:hasing the neces 'erv equip)menlt for teleph~n e lines. to be built into the city and connect with the telephone exchiange there. The committee in charge of raising the nd met with every possible encour egeent, and . was declared at the time t:hat an additional .$500 could be easily raised if needed. Seldom has any movement been given such an enthusiast.ic reception. The farmers in the section around Sparta were in tnse in t.heir desire to secure tele phone service i the home and elimi nate tihe burden of isolationi. In less than a mo)nth aifter the fund was raised plants were made fo r the construction of several telephonl lnes, and almost one hundred tele phones were added to the system. In enimes came to t.he coeommittee from aill ectin of the county, and the move T miatter vis ken up by 114i1 1V early last. Mareh, 'when a number of enterprising eitzens realized that if the farmers' 1homes were conneeted with Sparta by telephone it would result in centralizing their interests in thai city and would insure busi ness that might otherwise go else where. It meant a great deal to the business men in the city and to the farmers. A mass meeting was called. and a. committee appointed to secure subscriptions to the fund. In the course of a few hours $500 was raised. JA second mass meeting was called, and the following action was report ed:, The committee, coirsisting of Mayor J. D. Bennett, W. H. Burwell, M. L. Duggan, George White, Robert Holmes and R. E. Wheeler. appo,inted to solicit subscriptions from the bus iness 'houses of Sparta, to be collect ed as needed, having reported that they had raised $500, it was ordered that said sum be paid out on approval of said committee to encourage and aid in the construction of farmers' telephone lines to be connected with the Central Exchange at Sparta. and leading along approved routes in the county at the rate of $10 per mile. 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NO GODOS SHl bonus of $10 per mile is 11n important item. A prominent eitizen in discuss ing the matter declared tha-t the ac :ion of the city marked an epoch in Georgia. and was one of the most progressive steps ever taken by a sont-hern city. "The telephone is as essential to the farmer as to the business man in the city." ihe said. "The lines in rural districts are a sign of progress and prosperity. The time when it was necessarv for the farmer to waste time driving to the city to attend to trifling matters.and when the farmer's wife was isolated from her neighbors and friends, is past. Modern science has made it possible for the farmer to have efficient telephone service in his home at such low cost that tihere is no reason why every progressive farmer should not have a telephone in his home." Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's sense of the ridiculous has always been a sav ing gra-ce, leading her to avoid grandi loquence. 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