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x Automobiles and Accessories x imnTfiP tdiipW iimcq InMlvnMP ITO. BUI lMHn flF miTHIORllF S RIT flF FXPFR1FNP.F fi " . I Sgg TO SOLVE PROBLEM WILL PRODUCE A STALL ACCIDENTS DECREASING COST FOJfJT DOtlARS fpb- , ill i ftJi 11 - 1 Congested Railroad Traffic Will Find Relief in the Motor Truck Let One Part Fail to Work and the Whole Thing Fails "Within the very near future, prob ably during 1918, a system of motor truck lines will connect the most im portant transportation centers of the country, with fleets of trucks running on regular schedules and making con nection at important intersecting points with branch lines extending out into tributary territory," prophe- ies G. A. Kissel, president of the Kissel .Motor Car Company. "While everyone knows that the transportation problem is one of the most serious of the many for which this country must find the solution, everybody does not realize the import ant part which the motor truck will play in solving it. j - "Viewed in one way, the utilizaztion of the motor truck has increased with remarkable rapidity; and yet, when you look at it from another viewpoint it is surprising how slow business has been to take full advantage of the enormous saving of time and labor which the motor truck makes possible. '"The motor truck may fairlx, be said to have supplanted the team for hauling and delivery purposes. But we do not yet realize the extent to which it is going to relieve the raily roads in handling a large tonnage 'of small and troublesome freight, and to improve transportation service throughout the country. ' "Some beginnings have been made and the results have proved most suc cessful. Motor trucks are now run ning on regular schedule between some adjacent cities. In England they have carried the system much fur ther and 'goods trains' trucks, with a string of trailers, traverse many parts of the country. "In this development, as in so many others, the war has taught us more than we would otherwise have learned in many years. Where would the 'French and British armies be with out their enormous fleets of motor trucks and 'lorries? What the motor truck is doing today behind the lines in France, it cai do for us in .this country." . The salary of the President of Switzerland amounts to $,200 a year, with an additional $3,000 for expenses. MR. FORD OWNER Look at these Tire prices 30x3 Ford Tires for Front Wheels Guaranteed 3,500 Miles List Our Price Price Firestone plain $14.00 $ 9.60 Firestone non-skid . . 15.00 10.25 Pulman plain 13.65 9.00 Globe plain 13.65 9.00 United Sates plain . . 13.80 9,10 National plain 14.90 10.00 National non-skid 16.00 10.85 130x3 1-2 Ford Tires for Rear Wheels Guaranteed 3,500 Miles. Price Our List Price .$18.00 $12.75 . 18.35 12.75 . 18.35 12.50 . 18.30 12.75 . 18.30 12.50 . 21.35 13.40 .26.75 13.40 foodrich non-skid ulman non-skid . Congress non-skid McGrow non-skid Fisk non-skid . . . "National non-skid Norwalk non-skid All orders accompanied by check or money order. We prepay ex press charges. Goods shipped sub ject to examination. Service Tire Company 519 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Va. Sitting in the lobby of one of New York's large hotels during the New York show, B. G. Koether, manager of the Hyatt Roller Bearing Com pany, Detroit, made an interesting analogy of the dry batteries we used for ignition' "back in the long ago," as he put it, "when , we wound thena up by hand, started the .engine on the battery, then kicked it over to" the magneto. "Usually, the battery consisted of a flock of dry cells all hooked up. to gether. And sometimes just some times we'd wind and wind and wind, and crank and crank and crank, but nary a kick would we get.. "Back in the early days I did that very thing one afternoon. I hooked all the batteries that I could find in together, and I cranked and cranked, but that old engine was as dead as a nail in coffin. "And then a regular automobilist came along. He looked over the en gine and cranked it; he asked to see the batteries and I assured him that they were all right. But he wasn't satisfied. He looked at them and ex amined the connections. Then he dis connected, them, and tested them one by one, with a little ammeter. Each, in turn, was all right up until the ninth and last It was dead. He tossed it into the roadside, made a new connection, turned over the en gine, and off she went. 'That dead one,' he said, 'put the kibosh on the whole bunch.' "If the car is going to hit on all cylinders .every little part has got to do its work. The generator has got to carburate, and the timing gears have got to do their little part. The, bearings have got to roll as Hyatt Quiet always do ' (I couldn't -help that, fellows, honestly, I couldn't) and the differential has got to dif ferentiate. Let one part fail to do its work and the whole shebang is 1 MULLINS. v . Mullins, S. C, March 23. Mrs. Ed. N. Jones and Miss Elsie Jones, spent Tuesday of this week at Sumter. Mrs. H. S. Smith and Mrs. J. S Corley visited Mrs. W. W. Owens, at Columbia this week. Mrs. G, T. Thayer, and Miss Mar garet Thayer, of Charleston, W. Va., are the guests of Mr. ami Mrs. R. H. Hubbard. Mr. and 'Mrs. S. E. Smith are spending tile week-end in Kingatree, visiting Mrs. Smith's sister, Mrs. Mouzon. Mrs. E. E. Smith and daughters, Margaret and Elizabeth, returned to their home in Wilmington after a pleasant visit with relatives. Mrs. H. J. McCutcheon has return ed home from Columbia, where she tas been with her husband who has been sick. Mrs. Ben Elliott and two children, Evelyn and Francis, of Marion, spent the week-end here with Mr. and Mra H. B. Harrington. Results of Careful Investiga tion by New York Health Department j As the result of a careful study of the police department records of au tomobile accidents in New York City, the department of health finds that the number pf deaths caused by au tomobiles in that city has decreased from 8.22 per 1,000 cars in 1902 to only 1.28- per 1,000 in 1916. "If the -jatio of deaths from auto mobile accidents to automobiles oper ated that prevailed in 1908 had pre vailed in 1913, over 1,600 persons would have been killed," says Dr. S. W. Winne, assistant registrar of the department of health, "and if we as sume that the ratio of deaths to acci dents remains fairly constant, about 30,000 persons would have been in jured instead of 7.5Q0. "While there still remains an im portant element of carelessness and even .recklessness upon the part of operators, the most important factor is the congestion of city streets by pedestrians and vehicular traffic. It would therefore seem that our great est efforts must be directed toward the correction and relief of this congestion." fr m WADESBORO. Cyrus Relates a Little Tale of Woe About Tire Troubles, BE AHEAD OF TIMS Have Your Motor Cap Revarnished NOW -before the finish is so badly destroyed ao to require an entire new finish down to the wood I agree to use Valentinefs Vanadium Varnishes on the job - the best and highest priced made , Send us the car to- day V ; J. E. LEWIS & SON Corner Fourth and Princes Phone 898-J Vladivostok, which is reported to have been seized by the Japanese, is the chief town of East Siberia and has been the most' important seat of Russian influence in the Far East. The chief value of the place lies in Its excellent harbor. The town is situated on the slopes of a high ridge, forming a tapering peninsula, which projects into an irregular land-locked bay. The entrance is commanded by Russia Island, where there is an im portant fort, and-on the crests of the land-locked . harbor, stretching for miles to the eastward, there are other chains of defensive positions. While German music is one of the great .art possessions of humanity, it is a remarkable fact that not one of the great German composers was a Prussian. Bach was a Thuringian, Handel a Saxon, Gluck and Mozart Bavarians, Haydn an Austrian citizen, and probably a Croat, Weber and Schubert Austrians, and Schumann and Wagner Saxons. Richard Strauss was a Bavarian, Mendelssohn a 'Jew, and Brahms a native of Hamburg. Beethoven was born in Bonn and was of Fleming descent. . Wadesboro, March 23. The Senior B. Y. P. U. will conduct the services at the Baptist church Sunday even ing. A service flag will be presented to the church. Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Ballard, of An sonville, have moved here, and will make their home. Mrs. L. E. McCollum has returned frdm a visit with Mrs. C. A. Bruner, at Monroe. J Miss Mary Kennedy Little has re turned from Charlotte where she has been visiting Miss Minnie Little. Miss Gretchyn Taylor, of Greens boro, spent last week wlOi Mrs.i K M. Hardison. ' Miss Flora Brasington, of Char lotte, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Brasington. Mrs. B. F. Johnson and son, Rob ert, Of Richmond, Va., spent the veek with Mrs. Frank Huntley, and Mrs. B. F. Johnson, Jr. Mrs. B. W. Ingram, has had as her guest. Mrs. F. K. Blythe, of Hunt ersville. Miss Margie and Julia Burns spent a few days in Charlotte this week. Mrs. Sam Houston and Misses Snap Leak, and Augusta Little were visit ors in Charlotte this week. Miss Elizabeth Home has returned to Atlanta, Ga., after a pleasant visit with her mother. Dr and Mrs. C. L. Smith, of RaK eigh, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Catherine, to Mr. Joseph Hammond Hardison, of this place, the wedding to take place in the summer. Dr. and Mrs. H. F. Ray announce the marriage 1 of their daughter, Mar vin Francis ,to Mr. Malvern Palmer Harris, on the 11th of March, at Wadesboro. The bride is a gifted mu sician,' being a graduate of the South ern Conservatory of Music in Dur ham. Mrsi Rosalind Jarrell, of Kings Business college, Charlotte, spent the week-end with her parnets. Mrs. W. C. Via entertained the Tuesday Afternoon Club this week. Mrs. Elizabeth Sloan is visiting her . son, Mr. F. A. Sloan, at Albe marle. Mrs. John W. Odom has returned from a pleasant visit with her pa rents, Mr. and, Mrs. Monroe Drye, at Stanfield. The oldest and most famous univer sity in Sweden is Upsala, founded in 1477. Old Cyrus was telling the story.., A new tragedy, the editor thought, as he listened with rapt interest, says The Atlanta Georgian. Cyrus' breath came in jerks and his snorts must have been audible for a block. His excitement waxed warm as he relat ed the details of the chase that re suited in a $40 garage bill. Equal to the grimmest piracy of the old days was this episode in Cyrus' life. Up hill and down dale he had been chased mile after mile. And he in a "slightly used flivvur." For all that she was good for 40 on high any time you cared to step on the throttle. And step on her he did, Cyrus declared. Yet it seemed that any moment they could have snatch ed the lead from him and well, there was the fly in the ointment they didn't. . It happened one morning when Cy rus was placidly bringing milk to the creamery. On Old Church curve he saw a fleet of super-cars coming to ward him, and he heard them, too, for they thundered a resonant ex hausta thunder that might have been exemplifying the wrath of the gods for some misdeed Cyrus had done. None was supreme. Each seemed capable of the speed of the other. They appeared Xo be coming at a breakneck rate. As they hove nearer they bore a weird resemblance to gypsy wagons minus the horses. This appearance was accentuated by canvas strips of some character on the sides adding to the top just the curve required. Nearer and nearer they came, Cyrus said mud-ibespattered, snorting en gines of death possibly; ponderous tanks, manned with valorous Tommy Atkinses. His imagination ran wild. It could not be that they were bent upon vengeance of some kind upon Cyrus, whose only vice was whittling and swiping an occasional prune from grocer Jenkins' barrel. But on they came. "Why wait until they are upon me " was Cyrus last fleeting thought. Action was the next vital and only thing. He stepped on the throttle till she touched the bottom. And the chase was on. Twice his head hit the top with an impact that stunned him. But he was racing with what might mean death if he did not win, so win he must. Hills, valleys, ruts, chickens, cows all were no impediment. Speed, speed and yet more speed. Oh, that some god-fairy might alight in his path, and whisk him from the clutches of these relentless vultures. If they did not kill, they might kid nap him body and soul and flivver Mayhap that was precisely what they were bent upon they looked like gyp sies, he reminded himself again. On ward, onward. But that closed the next to the last chapter of the chase. For next thing Cyrus knew he was flat on his back in the middle of the road, and his head pained as it had not done since the night he sat up till the outlandish hour of 11 courtin' the Widow Smith. They picked him up these tyrants. They consoled him instead of stole him. They were amazed not crazed. Who were they if they were not Tommy Atkinses or gypsies? Cyrus' senses restored, he now ' saw these four monsters lined up and quaint eyedly observed the men who drove them. Courage came to him as he did. He had Teen disillusioned. Again he had allowed his imagination to run rampant. This time at a cost of $40 for repairs on his car. Next time there ain't going to be no next time. So said Cyrus. , For Cyrus now knows what tire analysis cars are. He said he didn't know before that the manufacturer knew anything about what a tire would do after it left the factory. He didn't know there was such a thing as test cars, whose sole duty it was si V This Is The Season of The Year When An HER JQBHSNl BICYCLE Will not only give you the most PLEASURE but will be most USEFUL. Ride one yourself and buy one for the "kid. It Cuts Delivery Expenses in Half We sell them for cash or on Easy Payments and they're IVER JOHNSONS Best Made. 8 WEE N CITY Fji CO. 209 Market Street Phone 862 1L to ascertain the vitality and endur ance of the tires. He didn't know that each car of the fleet that he saw averaged 320 miles every 24 hours. That a systematic record was made of each tire and if any weakness de veloped in the tires it is reported to the laboratory. t So he learned about tires a lot that he never knew before. But the whole experience was one. on him, and val uable, too, Cyrus said even if it did cost him $40 for one round and a sore head. "There is the consarned bunch now," he burst? out, with new enthu siasm, and sure enough there they went up Main street four big Pierce Arrows, mud from radiator to tail light. But grim and determined and bearing the scar of many a battle against roads of every description and the elements. And our roads were contributing to the test of these tires. Indeed, there they were the tire analysis cars of the Miller Rubber Company, of Akron, Ohio. Each bore a banner indicating that it was "Geared to the Road" on Miller uni form mileage tires. They were bound for Atlanta, the point from which they would next make their tests. For these tests to be strictly fair they must be made under average road conditions. So the Miller, Rubber Company all winter has kept this fleet running constantly over the cold, hard, irregular roads of the North. Now they are to be tested under dia metrically different conditions. Gyrus watched them out of sight He took from his vest pocket a tiny stub of a pencil and marked some thing in a mutilated memorandum book. "What's that you're doing, Cy?" "Charging up $40 to experience." And he seemed satisfied to do it Among the things to be put on the credit side of the war is a diminution in the tendency to lose the reason, Among the men in the armies, al though there are cases of "shell shock" and the like, which induce strange mental conditions, yet on the whole the tendency to lunacy is re duced to- a minimum. Soldiering tends to make a man punctual, prudent, per severing and self-reliant and all these qualities are in direct opposition to a tendency to insanity Li Put your mbney in 2 in 1 Tires and get more mileage FAIR 2 in 1 901 N. Fourth Phone 738 ARE WHAT WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF Tires and Inner Tubes We have practically every standard make in stock and they go at reduced prices. A FEW USED FORDS FOR SALE CS.Buriiett Tire Station 1 0 No. Third St. PHone 67 11 ( x Buy the kid a CROWN A- BICYCLE Nothing in the world would give him more pleasure and real healthy enjoyment than a Bicycle and Mr. Business Man It will help you conserve your time and energy. RIDE A BIKE A BICYCLE Vill solve your de livery problems. You. can cover more territory and do it quick er, thus giving better ser vice to patrons. H : ; " We sell them for CASH Or on the installment plan We have a full line of S UNDRIES WILMINGTON CYCLE CO. , Phone 520 215 Market Street j - ' ' 1 " - -- l' ''n .' -. . . -v !v ,i pi 'i
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