What Might Have Been Expected
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    What Might Have Been Expected
                                            
                            By Frank R. Stockton
                            
                                20 Oct, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Kate is helping organize a company that hopes to bring telegraph lines into this part of the woods for the first time; but as Treasurer and Secretary, it seems nothing is going as smoothly as it looked from the outset.
For some of the other Direct
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                                                Kate is helping organize a company that hopes to bring telegraph lines into this part of the woods for the first time; but as Treasurer and Secretary, it seems nothing is going as smoothly as it looked from the outset.
For some of the other Directors, just waiting for the equipment is trial enough. The Crooked Creek Telegraph Company really starts rolling once the equipment arrives -- instruments and batteries, and everything else needed for their effort, all packed up in boxes and arriving by night train. And now there are poles to cut and trim, paths for the wires to clear -- and then the setting of the insulators high up on the poles -- and the stringing of the wires . . . Less