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 I started working for Glengarry Telephone and John Joseph McCormick in 1943 and I worked off and on until the company was sold to Bell in 1966. When I wasn’t called out I didn’t get paid. The pay back then was 75cents an hour for a 12 hour day.
-To climb poles we had only a pair of climbers and a belt. I fell once when I was putting up a ten?pin cross?arm and the belt broke. Another time I was asked to climb up a pole and help bring down a man that had been electrocuted.
+To climb poles we had only a pair of climbers and a belt. I fell once when I was putting up a ten-pin cross-arm and the belt broke. Another time I was asked to climb up a pole and help bring down a man that had been electrocuted.
-To dig holes we had only a shovel, a long bar and a long?handled spoon. We had to go down five feet. Kenyon Township was “rock city”. No hole was easy in the winter when the ground was frozen solid.
+To dig holes we had only a shovel, a long bar and a long-handled spoon. We had to go down five feet. Kenyon Township was “rock city”. No hole was easy in the winter when the ground was frozen solid.
 To put up the poles we had to lift them on our backs. We would put the bottom of the pole into the hole and then lift. For the last part we would lift them with long pikepoles. Often there were only two men to put up a pole, and they weren’t fence posts.