The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-09

from an automobile tour through In
diana Michigan, the Great Lakes re-
gion and other points in the north.
For $500 miles of the trip $4l.60 was
spent for gasoline and $l10 for lubri.
eating oil. No record was kept of the
accompanied by Mrs. l.. A. Treadwell
of Great Falls Montana, and Miss Leah
Fish, left Ardmore July 2 and returned
September g.
G. c. Pratt, Of Writ, is now driving
a light Buick 6, delivered this week by
X. A. Peterson.
+. d. Rook, of the Rook Motor com.
pany, local Studebaker representative,
left last night on a business trip to
Oklahoma City and will return tomor.
row
Better car mileage per gallon Of gaso
line is reported as follows from the
National Automobile Chamber Of Com
AAA'l w. N'llnAl'l Alllg EltdAtl llllltdEt
per gallon Of gasoline is now being
gotten from automobiles than few
years ago. The great majority of cars
are of low power ranging from fifteen
to thirty horsepower, with an average
of about twenty-five BY better design
and construction Of engines and car
buretors and better carburetor adjust
ment the fuel consumption per mile has
been reduced. In recent fuel economy
contests AN average Of more than forty
miles per gallon was obtained by all
contestants. and eightytwo miles by
one Of them"
Tom Cooper Of the Tom Cooper
garage. made a business trip 10 Okla
homa City this week
Perry Martin. of the Peterson Buick
agency made q trip TO Marietta Thurs
Gay night
G. W. Whit is now with the Whit.
church supply house. local distributors
for Republic truck and Chevrolet cars
Ray Peterson, local Buick dealer. and
Mrs Peterson left for Dallas Thursday
and viii return tomorrow.
y a. Jennings is driving a seven
passenger fourcylinder Studebaker, pur
chased OF the Rook Motor company.
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be as well equipped in this regard as
is now the case in the North.
"Out of the state systems such road,
as the Bankhead highway are perfect
! ly natural evolution and / have no hes
itation in predicting that this great
road will bring about an exchange OF
| road travellers among the several state,
and between the North and South thai
will be exceedingly beneficial to IN,
| nation as a whole Into this highway
will run tributary roads until the It'd,
Of travel will reach such heights. tha
! predict In the near future it will b,
| possible In daylight hours on any sec
tion TO find from numerous states roa,
travellers who are becoming better ac
Quainted with their own country"
Between Atlanta and Memphis ther
were goodly number Of bad road
land the task which confronted the de
signaling committee was no easy on,
! A report is expected shortly from thi
committee which was composed Of Pre-,
ideut W. w. Riegs of Clemson Couer,
Calhoun. ). c. Prof Hale Houston O
the South Carolina Highway Commh
sion and A. A. Camp of Wnder. Ga
|M. o. Eldredge represented the L.. 5
Office Of Public Roads and Rural Er
.Eineering ON the trip, Executive chau
man A. g. Batehelder was the spoke,
man of the American Automobile a,
ISOLATION and of course Secretary j. 4
Rounduee of the Bankhead Associatio
was the aCcolerating member OF IN
party IL was 90 be expected that ther
would be enthusiastic greeting given (
Jasper Ala, the present home of Ser
tor Rankhead ana also IN Suligent. th
, little village in which the noted goo
roads advocate was born. where o
, sunday morning even the Sunda
school was dismissed In order that a
could hear the good roads talks given /
the public square
. Upon arrival In Memphis, an Arkan
sas delegation was on. hand to urg
the claims OF route across that stat