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Robert H. (Bobby) 3axter of Pearlington owns a prized historical possession. It is a small directory of telephone subscribers put out for the winter-spring issue 1931-32 by the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. Inc.
Pencil printed on the front is the name J. H. Weston Office, and there is a listing of Logtown, Miss., Exchange of the Logtown Utility Company. Logtown listings numbered 72, a record high with thirteen listings in the XJES3UCSX Weston name, including the Lumber Company's office, of which ?_oy Baxter, Sr. vras sales manager, D. 3. Vest on, treasurer and Lamar Otis, auditor. J. E. Baker was shipping clerk and San Whitfield the timekeeper. Weston Sand and Gravel Company also had a listing at their pit, and the Westonia Shop was on a party line.
Stations of Mississippi Ref ores tr-r Commission connected to „	'
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the exchange of the Logtown Utility Company. H. V/. Givens	\f
served a forest ranger and Will Welsh was in charge of the
observation tower. Eleven phones carried the number 36 —
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all a part of the Reforestry Commission.
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T. Hoffmann-Olsen Lumber Company had phones in office, lumberyard and lumber camps. The J. L. Summers store had a
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listing, as did Eayford Murphy*s Pecan Farm, Pearson’s Service Stations of which G. H. Miller and Slliott Casanova were managers. Tftere was a listing for the Methodist church and	^
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Koch, famed for her entertainments and the daughter of pioneer b
parsonage and one for the Masonic Hall (^W). Miss Nettie