Darlington Telephone Company - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

The old home of the late Mr., and Mrs. V.E. Crary property on Main treet which is now owned by the Darlington Telephone Company is undergoing extensive improvements and will soon house the telephone exchange. The exchange will be moved as soon as the new quarters are completed.

Source: Indianapolis News Mon 30 Jan 1899 p 6

To the editor of the Indianapolis News. The citizens of Darlington are very much interested in the rapid development of the independent telephone business. The recent granting of a franchise to put in a plant at Chicago as well as the apparent irresistible march of the movement in the East fills us with gratification. The telephone means more to the farmer than it does to the resident of the large city and my judgment is that it will have its greatest development in the next 10 year sin the rural districts. During the existence of Bell patents it was impossible for any farmer to have a telephone in his house; now there are between 5 and 6,000 telephones in the houses of farmers in this state. In this immediate neighborhood and the adjoining sections of Fountain County nearly every fourth farmer has a telephone and the demand for services is constantly increasing. We are very much interested in the progress of the New Telephone Company of Indianapolis and are looking forward to the days when we can talk with Indianapolis. We can have our ear to the cattle and other markets of the country. TM Campbell.  Secretary, Darlington Telephone Company, Darlington, Ind Jan 27, 1899.

Source: Lafayette Journal and Courier 4 Aug 1941 Mon p 9

Darlington Aug 4 – The Darlington Telephone Company now located over the Farmers and Merchants State Bank will move soon to the new location in the large residence property on Franklin & Main Street. The entire house has been modernized for the company and a new switchboard is being installed.

Source: Lafayette Journal-Courier Mon 10 Dec 1934 p 14

Crawfordsville, Dec 10 – A jury in Montgomery Circuit Court Saturday awarded $1,200 to Otto Lough of Darlington in his $10,000 damage suit against the Darlington Telephone Company for the death of his son, Marion Lough in 1933. The jury was given the case shortly before noon Saturday and returned its verdict at 7:30 p.m.  Young Lough, riding on top of a truck loaded with baled hay, was struck by a telephone wire stretched across the road.