Conestoga Telegraph and Telephone Company

Die Conestoga Telegraph and Telephone Company hot sei Schterdt grickt um 1902 rum in Morgantown, Pennsilfaani. Es waar en Foohn Kumpanie. Der Kumpanie ihre erscht Naame waar die Farmers and Business Men's Telephone Company. Die erschde Officials waare der Henry Hertzler (erscht Kumpanie-Bresident), der Samuel Deichley (Secretary), der H. B. Best (Treasurer). Die Directors waare der Levi Beiler, der A. K. Stoltzfus, der Stephen H. Mast, der Samuel Petersheim, der Samuel Glick unn der Mast Stoltzfus. Nooch Mast & Simpson (1942, p. 306):

...the farmers' wives became so intensely absorbed with this new novelty, who soon learned how their Pennsylvania German dialect could be flung across wires which extended over broad acres of fertile soil and along fenced pasture plots.