The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1914-03-04
Will INSTRUCT
AUTO0WNERS
Automobile Institute to Be Held in
Denson Some Time During This
Month or First Of April.
COMMERCIAL CLUB BEHIND MOVE
State Engineering Department to As.
sist in Lectures and Show Views
Auto Owners Should Come

Denison is to have an automobile
institute. This has been definitely as
sured. as the Commercial club has
made arrangements with the Engineer
ing Extension department of the Iowa
State college to conduct a three days
institute in Denison some time during
the latter part of this month or the
fore part OF April.
The course in Denison will be held
a the Germania opera house and we
are told that it will consist of two af-
ternoon lectures and three evening
lectures. Inasmuch as it will cost the
Commercial club $4,000 for the lee
lures, and the rent of the hall and 9TH
er incidental expenses extra, tickets
emitting the holder to all of the lee
lures will be sold for the nominal
sum OF so cents, and as there are to
be a course Of five lectures the price
for each lecture is only 10 cents.
Every automobile owner in Craw-
ford county and every prospective
purchaser should not fail to attend
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we'll worth hearing. Instructions in
the handling Of cars, proper care, oil
ing and method of repairing punct-
ures, ETC.. will be demonstrated, not
only by lectures, but by stereopticon
views.
The automobile institute is a new
educational project inaugurated in
Iowa and unique in the United States.
1t is based on the principle that dol
lar saved is dollar made, and that 1t
is just as important to an automobile
owner that his upkeep bill be reduced
to minimum as it is that he secures
the right car in the first place. The
automobile is by far the most compli-
Gated piece of machinery which has
come into general use, and it is used
chanic and by the man who has not
enough mechanical bent to repair the
baby's high chair. With the compar-
atively large amount of money invest
ed in his automobile, it is not enough
for man to know what clever to pull
to start the machinery, but he should
know how and why it works. and how
to take proper care of it. This is no
small job when it is considered that
the automobile is not only complex
piece of mechanism, but combines
power plant and an electric system all
in one machine. 1t is estimated that
| thousands of dollars are spent in Iowa
| yearly. due to trouble that could have
been avoided, had the owner known
how to care for his machine.
This institute is not all automobile
show, but an educational service of
direct dollars and cents value. Close
attention is paid to mechanical de-
tails, and the exhibit materials car
ried are not for display but to make
clear vital points in correct motor car
operation.
Lectures throughout the institute
will be given by Mr.. r. e. Davis, fos-
merly chief engineer for the Midland
Motor company. All lectures will be
illustrated with slides and charts, and
all meetincs will be thrown open to
discussion so that any owner or pros
pective owner, may obtain direct and
specific information of his make Of
car, as we'll as the information apply
ing to all makes of cars. Mr.. Davis
will also be available for individual
consultation on any puzzling points.