Kate is helping organize a company that hopes to bring telegraph lines intothis part of the woods for the first time but as Treasurer and Secretary itseems noth... » 

Kate is helping organize a company that hopes to bring telegraph lines intothis part of the woods for the first time but as Treasurer and Secretary itseems nothing is going as smoothly as it looked from the outset.For some of the other Directors just waiting for the equipment is trialenough. The Crooked Creek Telegraph Company really starts rolling once theequipment arrives instruments and batteries and everything else needed fortheir effort all packed up in boxes and arriving by night train. And now thereare poles to cut and trim paths for the wires to clear and then the settingof the insulators high up on the poles and the stringing of the wires . . .The trials and tribulations of the arrival of the Modern Age to a smallcommunity fill this entertaining novel by humorist Frank R. Stockton 18341902. «