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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Development of the business section of West Medford. (search)
her had quite an experience with varied tenants, and built a brick oven in the acute end of the cellar next the railroad. A baker, Max Fischer, came into the second store for a time, while Macy had the one over the oven. It was to this that George Delano ran the first telephone wire from his coal office in Medford up the riverbank and offered the town the use of it for fire and police calls, but found nothing doing—no use for any such plaything. One day, when the Usher block took fire from locomotive sparks, Macy called Delano loudly, who repeated across the street to the bird-cage (police station), Fire in the Usher block! and got no notice taken of it. By-and-by Cunningham's bus-driver got downtown inquiring for the fire department. Artemas Poole had bought a dwelling (the first built in 1870 on the Smith estate), and moving into it had a one-story structure built close beside the railroad. It had his shop in the rear end and a little store in front, with an array of gaily c