. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. JUST 15 YEARS AGO IndependentjTelephone Service was institiited—the result of a populardenaand for relief from unjust, high rates and limited service In 27 Towns and Cities throughout Eastern Pennsylvania local com-panies were organized and now constitute the splendid system of TheConsolidated Telephone Company serving 20,000 subscribers. Good service, courteous treatment, low rates and extensive LongDistance Connections have caused Consolidated Telephone popularity.
. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. JUST 15 YEARS AGO IndependentjTelephone Service was institiited—the result of a populardenaand for relief from unjust, high rates and limited service In 27 Towns and Cities throughout Eastern Pennsylvania local com-panies were organized and now constitute the splendid system of TheConsolidated Telephone Company serving 20,000 subscribers. Good service, courteous treatment, low rates and extensive LongDistance Connections have caused Consolidated Telephone popularity. CONSOLIDATED TELEPHONE COMPANY DISTRICT OFFICE-522 COURT ST., READING, PA. 193. CHARLES E. GEHRING of New York City, was boi-n 0<-tober 1. 1873. in Mid-dleburfi, Snyder Co. lie moved to Kutztown in 1874,where he re&ided with his parents. Mi, and Mrs. Con-rad Gehring. until 1890. Durin;i the early days inKutztown, in Mr, Gehrin^s boyhood days he was blvarious times a newsboy, carried bricks on the WilHam Kieber yard, carried water on the farm of ( spent several summers picking and sellingwild berries, and wound up his career in Kutztownas an apprentice in the office of the Kutztown Iatriot,\\here his father was then employed. Leaving Kutztown March 19, 1890, Mr. (Jehringbegan his career a printer in Philadelphia. Ayear later, whrn 18 years old, he was superintendentof a printing plant at Moorestown. N. J. Later hebecame a linotype operator nn the New York later he conceived the idea of establishing aschool to teach printers how to operate the carried out the idea successfully and profitably,and advanced from the sch
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