THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BROUGHT CHANGES During the next 20 years many exciting events happened which added to the well being of the community. Some time before 1915, a canning firm contracted with various farmers to raise peas for commercial purposes. A pea vinery was in¬stalled near the Cottonwood Creek bridge. After several years it was replaced with more up-to-date machinery. This business not only brought in a little extra money to the farmer, but it also supplied several jobs for young men who worked at the vinery, stacking vines. This last venture didn't last too long and the machinery was eventually removed. Melvin Jaques built an automobile repair shop on the 'cement apron'. This business only functioned for a short time, then closed down. In 1916 'Ma Bell' came to town. Until then the only telephone available was at Fingal Bohman's store in Peterson, which was a traveling distance of from three to five miles each way, depending on where you lived. The first telephone in Mountain Green was at the Ford ranch, available to anyone needing to call. Later a toll phone was installed at Ralph Warner's home with a sign tacked to a pole announcing that it was available. This was a toll phone. The Warner family remembered that many times, in the dead of night, their slumber would be rudely shattered by someone pounding on the door, wanting to make an emergency call. . . . AND THEN THERE WERE THE ROADS! The old country road, badly rutted and full of chuck holes, was a menace to anyone attempting to negotiate them. In about 1916 the Morgan County Commission CULTIVATING THE LAND CALLING CENTRAL Travis Jason Lund tries out old- time telephone 22