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I decided to write this before time erases words like handset, Princess phone, landline, hand crank, party line and phone booth. Everyone is addicted to their current device. It is permanently glued to every teenager’s palm.
Phones have been part of our culture in Meeker since 1900. Once Meeker had its first dynamo electric plant, the stage was set for telephone service.
A telephone line between Rifle and Meeker was already…