Maybe I am being extra dense today, but the signage seems to violate grammatical parallelism at the very least. And what's with the full stops after each word?

[The use of periods in signs was a common practice of the time. There are numerous examples here on Shorpy. -tterrace]

The telephone wires and their poles are so neat and orderly. That probably changed for the worse when they got electric power a few years later, at least if the photos of American towns in the 1900s are any guide.

I count 13 crossbars on the telephone pole at the right side of the building. One or two more may be out of viewing. Most that I remember seeing in Shorpy pics.