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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
PASSENGER AUTOS
ARE ESSENTIALS
President of bort Company
Explains Everyday Util-
ity of Motor Vehicle
BY j. ID. DORT

The three commodities most es-
sential to the public welfare are
food, fuel and transportation.
One of the most important units
in the transportation system of
America is the passenger automo-
bile. 1t not only feeds and supple
ments the steam and electric rail-
ways, but reaches destinations that
it alone can reach.
1t has freed the farmer from iso-
lation. 1t has brought him miles
nearer his buying and selling
markets. The working hours that
are saved through the ground-cover-
ing ability of his car are many.
The passenger automobile enables
men employed in cities to live in the
suburbs, not only those of large
means but small storekeepers, clerks
and mechanics.
In the city thousands of sales
men, contractors and solicitors,
hundreds of physicians, scores of
real estate dealers and many other
groups rely upon the automobile to
accomplish economies identical with
those of the typewriter and the tele-
phone-economies that conserve
time.
The war has brought many new
duties to most of us. We freely and
gladly offer our services to the Gov
ernment-in selling bonds, doing
Red Cross and Y. NJ. c. A. work,
making speeches, consulting, plan
ming. We must manage to crowd
into our daily lives these additional
duties. and the automobile is help
ing us immeasurably to do 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
FORD SALES TO
BREAK RECORDS
Local Agent Looks Forward
10 Surprising 1878
Showing
BY Howard j. Williams
Manager williams Motor Co.

Since the inception of the auto
mobile industry, the third largest in
this country of tremendous enter
pTises, the American people COM
p,acently looked upon the motor car
only as a means for pleasure travel.
w thin the last few months, how
ever, awakened to a wholesome I'M
derstanding by :he rude shock that
the war has produced, we have come
to a definite realization of how vital
a part the automobile plays N cur
daily life. We know now beyond
all doubt, what an aid the motor
car is proving to be to those forces
that will win victory for us nn5 cur
Allies.
This new understanding of the
automobile puts the motor car in
duStry upon more stable basis.
Cars are purchased row as al ecu-
nomical necessity, as aids to trans
portation, to business genera'y, to
relieve congestion, to increase the
individuals sphere and thereby his
efficiency, and to quicken the pulse
OF American business and private
life.
Under new and stern demands,
those cars meeting the essential re-
quirements of economy and eficien-
cy are finding a ready and welcom-
ins market Discrimination In buy
ing is now a real factor. Witness the
condition of Ford business. Our
sales, to date, have outstrIpped last
years records, which, in their turn,
had far outrun previous records.
Business institutions, retail mer-
chants, the doctor, the lawyer and
the average citizen more and more
orc turning 10 the Ford. Efficiency
demands economy forces, the choice.
70 the Ford, above all, is the en-
bcdiment of efficiency in automobile
construction. That is why. barring
the unforeseen, we anticipate rer-
ord-smashing year, in both produc-
ton and sales, for Ford, "the Uni
versal car"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
(lHsz h'l|'3A|I'

At small cost we can mako
your brass beds, chandeliers
and silverware look like new.
We replate and refinish gold
and silverware, brass and
nickel fixtures of every de-
scription.
A phone call brings our rep
resentative to your door with
an estimate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
TODAY MOTORCAR
DEFENDS NATION
Sales Manager Philip, Dodge
Bros, Tells of Autos
Many Uses
BY ARTHUR 1. PHILIP

General Sales Manager, Dodge Bros.
Two years ago, when a motion pic
ture film known as THE Motor Car
in Defense of the Nation made the
rounds of the. country, few persons
considered it probable that the pres
ent day would see the theme so COM
pietely realized in actual life. Even
the producers, in closing the picture
with the statement that a compact
organization of motor vehicles
would prove to be of inestimable
value in time of war" scarcely could
have anticipated a more graphic ap-
plication of the military suggestions
they had set forth.
To-day the motor car is in reality
the defender of the nation. Every
army camp purrs and thunders with
the sound of motors. Huge motor
trucks convey supplies from city to
camp. Motor trucks bear ammuni-
ton and men to the battle front
In Europe. Passenger cars-the
same on which the public once hung
the misnomer pleasure car'--rush
back and forth from barracks to
barracks and from camp to camp,
carrying the officers and men, who,
in days gone by, would have been
compelled to plod about on horses
Police patrols, fire apparatus and
ambulances are motorized. The en-
tire military life of the nation Is
pulsed by the throb of engines.
Motor Cars Saved Paris
1t was taxicabs, trucks and passen-
ger cars that saved Paris from the
Germans, and 1t was motorized
equipment that helped save Italy
, from destruction.
Government officials and Army
officers would throw up their hands
In dismay If called upon to answer
the query: How much time would
have been lost if you had been de-
! prived of your motor equipment for
| mobilization, training and fighting?"
The question is one which will not
reconcile itself with the requirements
! of modern warfare.
The preliminary to the great war,
which gave the automobile its first
real opportunity to demonstrate it's
value to the Army, was the Pershing
punitive expedition In Mexico. Here
| truck trains had their origin. Here
| 1t was that Dodge Brothers motor
car established itself so securely in
the Government service. 1t was
Pershing who first ordered this car
generally used is his operations on
! the border and throughout Mexico.
| BY the time the expedition was re-
called more than 800 Dodge Brothers
1 cars bore the placard u. S. A.
Oars Found Everywhere
When the war began the Govern
| ment naturally turned to Dodge
Brothers again. Immense orders be-
gan pouring in, and to-day every
Army camp in the country is dot
ted with the monograms DB.
Many of the cars are shipped di-
rect from the factory to General
Pershing in France. A train of
thirty trucks. which recently made a
test run from Detroit to the At
lantic coast, was loaded with parts
for Dodge Brothers motor cars. All
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
DICT0GRAPH FEATURE p.
OF BIG CADILLAC CARS

The popular idea is that the die
tograph is a mysterious instrument,
whose use is confined solely to the
detection of crime by recording for
detectives the conversations of
criminals.
But the Cadillac Motor Car Com
pany has found other and more
pleasant uses for the dictograph.
This little device, unobtrusive in ap-
pearance, is part of the equipment
of all Cadillac chauffered vehicles.
Through it, the owner or passenger
within the car communicates with
the chauffeur.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
Ray6eld Carburetor
Great Saver of Gas

Federick's Garage at Front and
Forster, is the service station for
the Rayfeld Carburetor. The Ray
field carburetor has been tried and
proved. A little motto recently at
tached to the Rayfield is Hoover
izing on Gasoline" which explains
it to perfection. 1t is claimed for
this carburetor that it is a great gas
oline saver.
Besides being a service station
general repairing of all kinds on all
automobiles is done. General stor-
age can be obtained. Ajax and Kel-
ly-Springfield Tires are sold. These
can be equipped to any car and the
service work of changing is all done
free of charge.
This garage is just back of the
Armory, with the entrance off of
Forster street. Satisfaction on all
work is guaranteed and trial is all
that is asked to convince any one
of the grade of work done.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

were for immediate shipment to
France.
Dodge Brothers service division
has not only adopted the Army's
elaborate and systematic method of
parts grouping and shipping, but has
introduced new features which add
greatly to its merit. by means of
which immediate repairs or replace
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

ments are made in the theater of
war. The same system has now
been introduced for all motor cars,
trucks and motorcycles in the
Army. and is pronounced by military
men as one OF the most useful of all
the new deficiency devices intro
duced to facilitate an early triumph
ovArseas
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
100000 MOTOR
CARS In NATION
Three Hundred Thousand of
These Are on Pennsyl-
vania Streets

Four and a half millions of au-
tomobiles, in round numbers, are in
use in the United States to-day. OF
these nearly 100000, or one-fif-
teenth of the total, are plying the
streets and roads of Pennsylvania,
which ranks fourth among the states
in the number of motor cars. A
years gain of nearly 100000 for
the nation is shown by statistics.
In the following group table of
the states is shown the number OF
automobiles registered January l.
July 1. 1916, as compared with the
number registered January 1-July I,
1917.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
Proved economy! Testing out four Packard
trucks, Cunningham Bros. buy % more. /

so that we have now placed our order for
twenty-five more Packards.
eve have had very little to do with
either your Service or Inspection Depart
ments. But both are able to take care
of any demand made upon them.'
Silent, chainless Packard trucks will
insure your business against traffic delays,
present and future. Seven right sizes-all
with four-speed transmission which saves
gasoline and tires and reduces upkeep ex-
pense. Call Packard Motor Car Company
of Philadelphia, lO1 Market Street, Har-
risburg. Ask the man rCho ooCnS one.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

-Four months of heavy hauling with
three-ton and five-ton Packards, have con-
vinced Cunningham Bros, Inc, that they
supply the cheapest and most dependable
transportation now to be had.
Taking long look ahead, therefore,
these big Philadelphia contractors have
provided against railroad congestion and
shortage of trucks and teams by ordering
twenty-five additional Packards for spring
hauling from their Merton plant.
"Our three-ton and five-ton trucks have
given entire satisfaction in every way"
says Mr.. Z. F. Cunningham. $50 much
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
Cleaning Leather Upholstery

Do not use gasoline in cleaning
leather upholstery. Plain water,
with a little ammonia, will remove
the dirt, and a brisk rubbing with
a clean wooden or flannel cloth will
do the rest. In still more careful
treatment, use a regular leather
dressing on all leather.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

OVERLAND HAS HUGE PRESS
One of the largest steel presses In
the world is used, for making side
rails for WHY'S Overland motor cara
1t stands 81 feet high. 20 feet wide
and is embedded in 10 feet OF SOLID
concrete. 1t weighs 325 tons and has
a pressure of 1000 tons.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

Gain, ............... l,Sb9,2zS
The national total of 4,291, ,684 for
July I, 1917, has been increased by
100000 new cars registered since
that date, 1t is estimated, bringing
the up-to-date figures close to 4,500,-
600 automobiles.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-13
RUMANIA STARVING.
Crop Failures Cause Misery-No Relief
for Germany There.

PARIS, July u, by The Associated
Press.-Rumania IS peasant population
is in a more precarious condition from
lack of food and clothing than at any
time since Rumania entered the war.
Reports from authoritative sources in
dicate that all crops this year are fail
ures.
The crop of corn, which in normal
times is the great national staple, prob
ably will yield less than one-twenty-
fifth of the usual annual yield. OF
wheat, maize and other cereals there is
only sufficient to feed one-tenth of the
population. What little food there was
has been requisitioned by the Germans
The bread ration has been reduced
further and amounts to less than halt
a pound daily.
The crops in Bessarabia are un
certain and are in almost as poor q
condition as in Rumania. Owing partly
to neglect and partly to lack of labor
seeds and rain, the greater part of those
countries, which once teemed with ag
ricultural products of every kind, il
now great barren waste.
If the Germans expect any food from
this waste territory, the reports con
clude, they can have only the slende
hope of better crops next year. For tn
present Germany win get only a mouth
full.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-13
Sporting Notes.

Edward Ainsmith, catcher of the Wash
ington American league club, and Joe
Judge, frst-baseman, have been ordered
to engage in useful occupations, or be
placed in class IA by their local draft
boards
Ty Cobb and Walter Johnson divi-
ed batting honors at Washington yester-
day in a game won by Washington, 5
to 4. Cobb's home run and double sent
in three runs and johnson accounted for
as many with triple and single. Matte
son, Texas league recruit relieved Shaw
in the fourth and pitched splendid ball
Ruth's terrific batting was the domi-
nant factor in Boston's 6-to-3 victory over
Chicago yesterday at Boston, in a heavy
thunderstorm. He doubled in the second
and scored later. His triple in the fourth
with Viewers wild throw gave Boston
another run. With Strunk on first il
the sixth Ruth tripled again and scored
on SCOTS single.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-13
AMERICAN LAUNCH SUNK.
Fired on by German Shore Batteries
Four of Crew Lost,

WASHINGTON, July 13.--An Ameri-
can naval launch, after aiding a French
destroyer in towing disabled American
seaplane to safety, was sunk by Ger
man shore batteries, losing four of her
crew. Two probably were drowned and
two were taken prisoners.
Assistant Surgeon Albert Mason
Stevens, naval reserves, of New York,
and Philip Goldman, quartermaster, of
New York, landed in front of the Ger
man batteries and were captured. Sea
man Charles Joe Tatulinski of Cleve-
land, and John Peter Vogt of New Or
leans are missing. Three others in the
boat swan for shore with life preserv-
ers and were picked up unhurt on allied
territory.
An official announcement of the in.
eident from the navy department yes.
terday did not give the date or name
the place where it occurred. 1t is as
sumed that the launch belonged to one
of the American warships on patrol duty
in the war zone.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-13
PERSONAL.

Harry A. Pike returned last night from
Burlington, where he had been two
months.
John Knight of Worcester is expected
tonight to spend Sunday with his cousin,
Mrs. c. f. Mann.
Mrs. Idella Spaulding of North Spring
field is guest of Mr.. and Mrs. G.. W.
Brooks of South Main street.
Miss Ruby Thurber, clerk in J. F.
Mann's drygoods store, will have two
weeks vacation, beginning tonight.
Stillman Pike returned yesterday to
his home in Bridgeport, Conn, after
visit of two weeks in town with rela-
tives.
Miss Gladys and Miss Doris Porter
went today to Gardner, Mass, to visit
their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Larkin,
several weeks.
Mrs. William Simonds of Woodlawn
Me-, who was a guest of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles r. Simonds, has gone to Clare
mont, n. H., TO visit.
Miss Mabel Sheldon of Red Wing,
Mimi, Is here to spend several weeks in
the home of her cousin, Mrs. Fred S.
Knight of Western avenue.
Harry A. Moore of Ludlow, Mass, will
arrive tonight at 6 o'clock with the body
of his father, John NJ Moore The burial
will take place tomorrow in Williams
vile.
Miss Inez Stowell is here from Wash
ington, ID. c., to spend a vacation at her
home on Canal street. She visited on
her way with relatives in Bridgeport
Conn.
Mrs. c. A. Mitchell has received news
of the safe arrival of Corp. c.. A. Mitchell
in France. Corporal Mitchell left Brat
tleboro June l for Camp Dix, Wrights.
town, N. j.
Robert Angler, who is in training al
the Harvard radio school in Cambridge
Mass, is expected today to visit his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Angler, ovel
the weekend
Herman Brooks. who recently went t,
Camp Devens, Aver, Mass, has writer
friends here that he is now in the 44tl
company, 18th training battalion, 15ls
depot brigade.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin French went yes
terday to his home in Weston He vii
: 60 Monday to Springfield, Mass, for spe
e cial mechanical training. Mrs. Frenc
: will remain in Weston with his parent
during the summer.
Harry Currier came last night fror
: Jamaica Plain, Mass, called here by til
: accident to his father, A. j. Currie
q whose right hand was mutilated while a
!, his work for the s. A. Smith Mfg G.
yesterday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. R. Vaughan, Mrs. A,
gusta Vinton and Miss Anna Johnso
left yesterday for York Beach, Nh
k where Mrs. Vaughan and Miss Johnse
a will remain for two weeks outing. NJ
! Vaughan and Mrs. Vinton will return
" day or SO. They made the trip
automobile.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-13
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Ina Mcdonald has returned from
Newfane, where she spent few days
with her aunt.
Mr. and Mrs. A. w. Rockwell viii leave
Monday for York Beach, Me-, to spend a
two-weeks' outing.
Miss Dorothy Graham has taken po-
sltlon for the summer in the office of the
Holstein- Friesian Register company.
George Croll, who is engaged in ship
building in Portsmouth, n. H., will spend
Sunday with his family on Pine street
Mrs. Anna Proctor will return to work
Monday in j. Z. Mann's store, after a
weeks vacation spent at her home in
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Herrick, who re-
Gently came here from Boston, spent
yesterday in Putney with her sister, Mrs.
Vernon Williams, and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Williams and
two children of Londonderry came last
night to visit over Sunday with Mrs.
Williams's mother, Mrs Lillia Pike.
George Hodgkins will go Monday to
] Springfield, Mass, where he will be en-
ployed in tobacco store. Mr.. Hodgkins
was employed many years by Leonard &
Roess.
Miss Rena Dodge. stenographer for the
Estey Organ company, who has been
spending vacation of two weeks at her
home in Lunenburg, will resume her
work Monday.
Miss Ruth johnson, cashier in Hough-
ton & Simonds's store, will have vaca-
ton of two weeks from her work. begin
ming tonight. She will go tomorrow
morning to Boston.
r. j. Eldridge went this morning te
Amesbury, Mass, to spend the weekend
lgoing from there to Boston. He will re
turn to Amesbury after his son, who ha,
been visiting there with his grandmoth
er, and they will return to Brattlebort
Wednesday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-13
DRUG CONSPIRACY CHARGED.
Effort to stifie Competition Made
Against National Association.

WASHINGTON, July 13.-Conspiracy
with the purpose and effect of sitting
competition in the wholesale drug trade
was charged by the federal trade COM
mission in complaint against the Ma
tional Wholesale Druggists association,
the Title Guaranty Trust company of
New York, the organization s treasurer,
and numerous individuals Interchangeable
officers.
Verbal and written notices are alleged
to have been given to manufacturers
that certain customers or prospective
customers were not entitled to recogni-
tion as legitimate jobbers, according
to the associations definition. Other
means said to have been used were
the appointment of committees to con-
fer with manufacturers or owners for
the purpose of influencing them to adopt
sales methods in harmony with the pol
icies of the National Wholesale Drug
gists' association; written and verbal
notices by the secretary of the assoeia-
ton to manufacturers that competitors
not members of the association were
selling below the net price named by
manufacturers for resale; the compila-
ton and distribution among manu-
facturers and wholesalers of lists Of
Legitimate jobbers, and influence
on various local associations of drug
iobbers and wholesalers to adopt poll
cies in harmony with the policies of
the national association.
Charles f. Bedwell, Omaha, Neb., is
president of the association; Clarence E
| Hope of Boston is one of the vice pres
| l.. L IL Ill l..
secretary. The board of control, alsC
named in the complaint, includes B. A
Jackson of Providence, r. |.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-13
ADJUSTMENTS.
Attractions at the Movies.

Today the Empire presents Zoe Rae
and Harry Carter in the Circus of
Life, fve-act drama, also Ben Wilson
in The Mystery Ship, in two acts. On
Monday William Fox will present June
Caprice in The Heart of Romance, a
five-act drama, and the Ford Educa-
tional.
The Seal of Silence with Earle Will
liams and Grace Darmond, and Hun
CRY Lions in Hospital are the attrac-
lions at the Princess theatre today. On
Monday Clara Kimball Young in The
Reason Why, by Elinor Glyn, author
of Three Weeks, will be shown.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-13
NOTICE
To Savings Depositors

In accordance with Section d, No. 1853 of the
Laws of the State of Vermont, approved January
u. 1911. all Savings Banks and Trust Companies in
said State required to verify their pass books
during the month of July, 1918. This law being
wholly in the interest of depositors. they
quested to promptly bring, send in their books
for verificaton. Books sent by mail will be prompt
1y returned.
Vermont Savings Bank. Brattleboro, VT
Brattleboro Savings Bank, Brattleboro VT.
Brattleboro Trust Company, Brattleboro, VT
Bellows Falls Savings Institution Bellows Falls,V
Bellows Falls Trust Company, Bellows Falls, VT
Wilmington Savings Bank Wilmington, VT
Windham County Savings Bank, Newfane, VT.
Jamaica Savings Bank, Jamaica, VT.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-13
Get New Kidneys


The kidneys are the most overworked
organs of the human body, and when
they fail in their work of filtering out
and throwing off the poisons developed
in the system, things begin to happen.
One Of the first warnings is pain or
stiffness in the lower part of the back
highly colored urine; loss of appetite; in
digestion; irritation, or even stone in the
bladder. These symptoms indicate con.
dition that may lead to that dreaded and
fatal malady, Bright's disease. for which
there is said to be no cure.
You can almost certainly find immedi
ate relief in GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil
Capsules. For more than 200 years this
| famous preparation has been an unfailing
| remedy Cor all kidney, bladder and urina
ry troubles Get it at any drug store. am
| if it does not give you almost immediat,
relief. your money will be refunded b,
sure you get the GOLD MEDAL brand
None other genuine. In boxes. three sizes
] ADV.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-13
Advertised Letters.

Men-Rev. w. S. Bishop, F. T. Brad
ish, w. G.. Buslind, Professor Harring-
ton (2), Harry R. Hill (2), Alphonse
Lacroix, John Lutzenburg, James Nc
Nicely, S. X. Phillips, w. B. Sharrot.
Women-Mrs. w. w. Blodgett, Ada
Button, Mrs. Marion Colburn,, Mrs. Der.
tina E. Gilbert, Miss Charlotte M. Hig.
gins, Miss Geraldine Jeffers, Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl johnson, Mrs. Rose Osborn
Mrs. Lila B. White (2), Mrs. J. NJ
White.