"I have to make a stop at the telegraph office before we leave town."
Someone called the telegraph office to ask if the message had been sent.
We made for the telegraph office, but it was already closed.
It was just as if that one man had been waiting in the telegraph office for me to appear.
First thing the next day, right after breakfast, he went into town and looked for the telegraph office.
On April 22, the city's 100-year-old telegraph office closed down for the first time in its history.
In 1864 a telegraph office was opened at the Cape.
"What in thunder are you going back to the telegraph office for?"
A telegraph office opened in 1874 following the completion of the line.
The telegraph office was built and began operations in January 1855.