Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02

The entire salesforce of associate
dealers and local representatives and
officers of the Miller Auto Company
met at the Dauphin Hotel Thursday
evening and enjoyed a turkey din
ner and had a general meeting of
good fellowship, which gives prom
Use of becoming an annual affair.
Covers were laid for about twenty
llVe and speeches were made by fac
tory representatives and officers OF
the organization.
Ihe Miller Auto Company was re-
Gently Incorporated and has branches
established at Mechanicsburg and
Lebanon. with others to be placed
shortly. Maxwell, Haynes, Oldsmo-
bile and the Graham truck unit are
distributed in this and adjoining
counties. The company some time
ago took over the entire Shaffer ga
rage in order to have proper service
facilities. Recently a battery depart
ment was installed and the agency
for Everready batteries assumed.
b. f. Barker, the manager, spoke
in forceful and enthusiastic man.
ner regarding the Maxwell organiza-
ton as the third largest producers
of motorcars, and quoted many ex-
amples of how the company had built
its great success by making prompt
adjustment of any possible Irregular
ity in mechanical production or
service. He also spoke of the pros
porous growth of the Miller Auto
Company from a little concern with
only desk room in this city to its
present commodious and complete
quarters and large selling organiza-
ton.
II. w. Miller, president of the
company, in a brief speech endorsed
the sentiments of Manager Barker
and welcomed the dealers to come
every year for a get-together meet
ing, which would be made still more
entertaining.
II. o. Doyle, who lectures at the
leading, ahows about the Maxwell
exhibition chassis, referred to the op-
timistic outlook for business and
quoted statistics to show the i'm
mense surplus of available gasoline
for war purposes and regular con-
sumption. so as to eliminate any pos
sibility of a shortage or prohibitive
cost.
C. NJ. Zimmerman. Oldsmobile rep
rcsentative in speaking of the Olds-
mobile. called attention to the fact
that a year ago his company was
twenty-first in production among
motorcar makers and this year at the
New York show it was listed as
sixth, this rapid development being
due to changing to a model which
conforms to the greatest popular de-
mand.
A. II. Snyder. service manager,
called attention to the various prob
lens that "a service department must
overcome to give satisfaction to the
dealer and owner and referred to the
increased facilities and the greater
stocks of mechanical parts which
have been put in for the convenience
of the associate dealers and owners
Of cars.
Anton Benson, automobile editor of
the Telegraph, spoke of advertising
as the Great Silent Salesman" which
works increasingly in cooperation
with the individual sales effort. and
that it should be judiciously used in
every city or hamlet by the dealer
to associate with the advertising
placed by the factory tnat builds a
prestige for its product.
Those present were II. o. Doyle,
Maxwell factory representative; c. NJ.
Zimmerman. Oldsmobile factory rep
resentative; William Bashore. Ship
pensburg; s. p. Diller and Son. Boil
ing Springs; Charles Yoder, Palmyra;
Carson Brightbill, Myerstown; Joseph
Walters. Hummelstown; Harvey Ba-
shore Hummelstown: c. Guy Myers,
Mechanicsburg; Harry Harkins. Leb-
anon; Walter Beaver, Frank Lewis,
Bert Smith and James Miller, of the
salesforce; II. w. Miller, president
of the Miller Auto Company; b. II.
Earker, vice-presdent and manager;
A. II. Snyder, manager of the service
department; w. p. Keister, office
manager and Anton Benson, of the
Harrisburg Telegraph.