Creston Review
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2013-10-04
issued: 1929-11-15
description: All the News of the Creston District
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note: .^wwnefai Libmsr &vl3fi ^ Vol XXI. CRESTON, FBID^Y, NOVEMBER 15, 1929 No. 37 Telephone System Being Rebuilt When Work Completed Former Plant Will be Unrecognizable ���������New Switchboard is Newest Design Now Obtainable. family, and are at present occupying one of the Dick Smith's houses. Mr. Argyle comes from Winnipeg, Man., and expects to reside here permanently. While helping with the unloading of a dragline from a barge at the ferry OR Saturday last Everard Constable sustained injuries to his hip and leg that have him under the doctor's care. A crew of about a dozen men, under the supervision of Roy Harris of Cranbrook, are at work rebuilding and re- equipping the lines of the Kootenay Telephone Company, which company at midsummer purchased the local telephone system from Creston Power light & Telephone Company, which company had erected it about twenty years ago. Just at present work is being devoted entirely to the lines within the village. The new pole line is being anehored down and put in permanent shape and a start has been made at putting all the village wires into cables. In ddition to .this the-former Beg. Watson residence on Victoria Avenue, which the new company rocently purchased, is being fitted up for a new central, and in which construction is under way on a new switchboard of the latest design. In the 1H inch cable coming out of central are 200 pairs of wires. 100 of these are carried through to the Bank of Commerce corner from which' point 50 purs run east to serve that section of the village. Another 25 pf these are carried accross the track to serve the lower side of Creston, and 25 pairs are held for new installations. 60 pairs are carried up Victoria Avenue and of these 25 -serve places on the west j side of -the -village and the other 25 j take care of residences in the territory adjacent to Holy Crass .Church* yjfeavi ������*������t of the totelc^20aanother W^^e^ffct-aii pansion in this part ofi the village.* The new system is metallic th…
note: Print Run: 1909-1983 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Creston (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0175427
language: English
lat: 49.0975
long: -116.5130560
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Creston, B.C. : Creston Printing and Publishing Co.
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