deliverer remembered by North Tryon residents. Mrs. Tierney made her rounds each morning with her horse and sleigh, or horse and wagon, putting mail in the boxes at the end of the lanes. Mail deliverers after Mrs. Tierney were: Mary Dawson Webster, Samson Walsh, Rita and Emmett Noonan, John McMurrer, Wyman Waddell, Rowan and Mac Sherry, and in 1992, Debbie Walsh.

Mail now comes by truck from Summerside to Albany where it is sorted and delivered five days a week by car to rural mail boxes. Comer residents have their mail delivered to a steel postal box that was placed outside the store in 1980. The past year saw the installation of Guardian andjournal Pioneer boxes beside the mail boxes of subscribers. Albert McAllister delivers the Guardian before 6 a.m., six days a week, while the Journal Pioneer is delivered in the afternoon.

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Telephones arrived in Prince Edward Island in the 18805; however, it was thirty years before they took the fancy of a North Tryon resident. The first hook up in our community was completed in 1910 by Charles Ives between his house and Ives’ Grist Mill. A single uncovered wire was strung from Charles’ house, supported by buildings and poles, to his mill. The wire was held in place by an insulator and grounded by an earth grounding system. This system was noisy and was eventually replaced by a two wire system using lead covered cable.

Lord and Sons General Store in Albany and William Irving’s resi- dence in Cape Traverse both had public telephones or toll stations in 1905. A small wall mounted switchboard or connecting box was located in the home of Mrs. Charles McInnis in Albany with 25 phones in service in 1906. The Albany office was relocated in 1921 to the home of Lemuel Dawson where his daughter, Margaret, was the chief operator, and her sister, Christie, was the assistant. The Augustine Cove and Tryon Mutual Telephone Company was formed about the same time with 21 subscribers and was connected to the Island system at Crapaud.4

The earliest telephone directory available for the Albany Exchange, August, 1922, lists the following six North Tryon residents with phones:

Boulter, Earle H. Rl-I Chisholm, H.M., Store R1-3 Dairying Co., E. Gamble Mgr. R1-2 Dawson, Arthur R1-12 Dawson, W.E. Rl-ll Mayhew, Frank, Store R1-11

Miss Christie S. Dawson was agent and hours of service were week days 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sundays and Statutory Holidays 1:30 to 3 p.m.. The public pay station was at the Albany telephone office. Five lines extended from the Albany office; R1 to North Tryon, R2 to Cape

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