Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-08-04
OAKLAND SOLD IN DEBORAH.
WOldum Motor Car Co. Has Agency
for Another Well known Car

DdrlO heStd may De the world s
champion in persuading an automo-
bile to go fast, but he has nothing
on F. c. Squires, a st. Louis, Mo,
wholesaler when it comes to max
ing one go far.
When Squires starts out for a To-
cal spin in the boulevards and parks,
he slams the garage door, sinks him
self well down into the driving seat
and like as not pulls up in Bos-
ton, Mass, or at some water-compell-
ed stop somewhere along the Pacific
coast. And that his ocean-force5
stop will be within or outside the
confines of the United States is moth
ing better than ffty-fifty PROPOSE
Ition.
With the arrival of the touring
season each year Squires thoughts
lightly turn not to butchers, gro
GERS and wagon coolers or other
refrigerating devices in which he
deals, but to long distance flights
over hill and dale like a bird aloft
flying true to the wind. Squires is
the automobile Badaeker of America
There is said to be not a well.aravel-
ed road in the country but has felt
the press of his cars tread.
Out of scores of cross-country trips
Squires has accumulated mass of
remarkable statistics relating to
the performance of his car.
He approximates his engine has
turned over more than three million
times.
The power he has developed
would, If available for use at one
time, operate the entire street car
system of ST. Louis for one hour
The miles he has covered would
have cost him in railway fare ami
incidentials close to $4,000. and this
approximation pats no value on
time he would have lost between
trains.
Business negotiations he has con-
cluded he has conservatively APP
proXimated at a value to himself of
$25, 200.
The pleasure he has had he puts
down as having worth one life time.
He has his own insurance company
value Of his life, but the dollar sum
is omitted from the table.
In addition Squires no doubt has
broken all economy records on some
of his long-distance trips.
1t cost him sos for tire and all
upkeep expense, as an example, on a
recent trip of some 5000 miles from
st. Louis to the Atlantic seaboard
and back. Driving an Oakland four
cylinder touring car, driven by the
Oakland high speed motor, Squires
gave the Oakland Company at Pom
tiac, Michigan, complete table OF
stops made on the entire trip. He
allowed himself a day and a night
to make the distance from st. Louis
to Indianapolis, where he saw the
cars with high speed motors, of the
type used as stock equipment in the
Oakland he was driving, outlast all
competing engine equipment and
take all the money positions in the
Speedway 500-mile contest.
On another jaunt he made the
trip from Albany, n. Y. to Niagara
Falls--a distance of 80 miles-be-
tween sunrise and sunset, with two
stops OF forty-five minutes each for
food.
AS further illustrating the effici-
ency and smoothness of his Oakland
high speed motor, Squires made one
trip from st. Louis to Boston and
return, with four passengers, in
twenty-one days with total expense
for upkeep under 81. No time was
lost at all for repairs, the adjust
ments needed being made by Oak
land dealers along the way at night.
Squires did no night driving at all
on this twenty-onelday trip.
His letter to the Oakland company
asserted that his Oakland, a four
cylinder model 81, is working better
than it did the day it was delivered
to him. This well known car is sold
in DEBORAH by the Woldum Motor
Car Co. and can be seen at their