The Butternut Valley Telephone Company and other local telephone companies

Rene Elliott wrote:

When my great grandparents moved into the red (Former Franz Thresher, now Utter) house on North Broad just outside village limits, and had a phone installed. They would later deed it to their oldest son, Lynn, in 1912, who in turn swopped it off with Threshers for the present John Lull farm up by the old reservoir.

Follow the link below to the Sept 11, 1907 Morris Chronicle for an article about changing situations with Butternut Valley telephone service.