This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Liggett, Farwell Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4215 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. December 8, 1904. "THE MARTYRED CENTRAL GIRL".-- Next to the primary teacher, that public servant which in our judgment is most entitled to sympathy and kind treatment is the "hello girl" in the local exchange. She sits (it is always "she"--no man will take the job) at the crossroads, so to speak, of all the stew and fret, the rush and the worry of the entire community. In the use of the telephone as in everything else people go in crowds. As if actuated by some mysterious power of teleopathy every one wants to use the telephone at exactly the same moment. From local, rural and long distance patrons, a storm of yells, rings and hellos come pouring into the ear of "central" with the din of hail on a tin roof and with the rush and roar with which the water is said to have gone over Ladore. To this babel of tongues she must always return a pleasant answer. The Chinese puzzle of the switch board must always be solved correctly and everybody's demands in! stantly complied with or (blank) is to pay. No wonder she sometimes makes mistakes. The marvel is that she ever gets anything right.--Sioux Rapids Republican Press. N.B.: My mother, Erma Leona Liggett (1897 - 1968), was the Sidney central from 1915 until 1917 when she married my father, Clyde Farwell. She remembered her experienced as being filled with "rude men and demanding women", her own relatives being the worst. That said, the only reason she resigned, though, was her approaching marriage!--W.F.