Island Telephone building- Exchange 1973 M.E. MacLauchlan coll. Apart from the three Stanhope subscribers mentioned above, telephone service did not reach us till 1916, when there were six families with phones, all on the same line. These were Colonel John R . Allan, Stephen Brown , J.J. Davies at the Cliff Hotel, Robert Shaw at Shaw's Hotel, the Princess Rospigliosi at Dalvay, and Webster's store in Covehead . To reach the operator at the switchboard, one had to push in the button and ring one long ring; at that time, the operator was in Charlottetown , and the hours of service were continuous on weekdays and 1:30 - 3 p.m. on Sundays and holidays; the charge was 15$ per call. By 1925, fourteen families had phones, all on the same line in the Covehead exchange; in 1930 the number of households with phones had increased to 87, with Miss Mae B. Hughes as operator. In 1933 Mrs. Jennie Hughes was the operator and there were 115 families with phones on the Stanhope , Brackley and Exchange; the hours of service were 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays, and 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Sundays and holidays. In September, 1957, the switchboard was moved from Mrs. Hughes ' home in West Covehead to the home of Horace and Edith Marshall in Stanhope . Edith Marshall was the agent and chief operator, and other operators included the following, at various times: Horace Marshall , Marion Marshall (for 15 years), Heather (Marshall) Cameron, Donna (Marshall) Bolger, Bobby Marshall , Audrey (Douglas) Mayhew, Linda (Douglas), Garnhum, Shirley Mclnnis , Conme Corrigan, Anita and Mary Bradley , Charlotte Youland , Doreen 121