Phone Girls

DAMERON, TURKINGTON, SPANGLER, HEATH, SCHLATTER, WOLFE, BOSHART, HESSER, NICHOLS, SODERGREN, LEDGER, SCARFF, TODD, VANWINKLE

Posted By: Cathy Joynt Labath (email)
Date: 5/7/2006 at 18:25:19

Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Saturday, June 9, 1923

PHONE GIRLS IN SESSION IN WASHINGTON, IA
"Sweet Voices of the Wire" at School of Instruction
By Alex Miller
Special to the Democrat

Washington, Ia., June 1 - The Telephone School of Instruction has gone away beyond expectations in attendance. At the initial meeting this morning 50 were present where they expected 25 or 30. They mostly came by automobile but the Muscatine, Burlington and Davenport people came on the trains. They are meeting at the Commercial club room upstairs for their meetings. Miss Barnes of Ames is in charge of the school and everybody is earnestly working for the betterment of the service. The enrollment the first day was as follows, and this includes managers and traffic chiefs, as well as operators. They are:

...Margaret Dameron, Winfield; Jennie Turkington, Belle Spangler, Winfield; Mrs. Nelia Heath, Winfield; Eva Heath, Winfield; Lena Schlatter, Wayland; Mae Wolfe, Wayland; Ethel Boshart, Wayland; Zilpha Hesser, Wayland; Cecil Nichols, Wayland; Eva Sodergren, Wayland; Marie Ledger, Mt. Pleasant; Grace Scarff, Mt. Pleasant; Mary Todd, Mt. Pleasant; Hattie Van Winkle, Mt. Pleasant.

The meeting continues thru today and tomorrow. On Friday Royal H. Holbrook of Ames gave an address on "Industrial Iowa."

[Only Henry Co. names were transcribed.]