The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-03-26
OUR CAR
By o. Jay.


((Ontlnued from Last week.
The next day was Sunday. Sat
urday night we spent looking over
road map and we certainly enjoyed
the trip ton the map, and got back at
midnight, having decided that we
would ge up early the next day and
everything. We reached Evanston
take trip to Milwaukee. So we
started out about sunrise. This was
TO be regular outing with lunch and
just as the inhabitants were turning
over on the other side for the extra
Sunday morning nap, but as we
4fumpa-fumped" along the otherwise
quiet streets people came to the win
dows. We thought it would be safer
to take another route back, as some
of the expressions were terrible. Just
outside of this town l noticed the car
was running lame on the hind tire,
and when my wife asked me the trou-
BILE, / said, "A blowout" And she
said it was nice party we were hav
ing all right. II was the tire that
Jack had told me / could run on for
six months. He may have meant
without air, but he forgot to men,
ton this fact. We hobbled along
for a mile till we reached a garage.
Here we got casing for $500. The
dealer said we had better take an ex-
ira inner tube along as we might
need one. He was right, for we had
gone but another mile when there
was \ loud report and the other hind
tire was fiat. l pulled it out and
there were more patches than what
was left of the original tire. And
Jack had put new inner tubes in all
castings. Before we reached Kenosha
we found he had forgotten to do so,
for each and everyone was nothing
but patches. When we left this town
it was noon, and my wife suggested
that we stop near a wood and have
our lunch. We boiled the eggs in
the radiator and Matched out chick
on the cooler. By the time we had
finished our meal, noticed the ground
was all wet, and taking another look
found that tie carburetor was leak
ing. / walked to the nearest garage
and got the man to come, out to look
at the thing, which he did, and no
thing more, for $500 Then / called
up Jack on the long distance, which
cost me SIPS and he told me the
trouble was probably with the float
valve and the needle valve After
trying to remember part of his in
structions, / walked back and after
fooling around an hour got it started.
At Racine nv wife get seasick. /
bought her a lemon and after putting
one in the radiator, we decided to,
turn back, for it was three o'clock
and we haAr't decided on being away
a week. | tried to get the car start
ed but the only way / could make il
go was backwards In this manner
we rode back to Kenosha Here a
policeman put a blanket over the
lamps while we turned the car and
after that it would run forward all
right thinking il was going the other
way. We took a different rcuta
home and got lost. | stopped a far
mer and asked which Of the two roads
that lay before us / should take.
well, it don't make much difference.
for which ever one you take, you'll
wish you'd taken the other one." So
we took the worst one. There was a
hill to climb. We made it all right
with borrowed horse which cost us
$500. We arrived within five miles
of Chicago, when the car stopped.
No amount of coaxing would move it.
So we called up a garage and the man
came out and said his price for haul
ing us home would be $1,000. We
had to get home, so paid him. We
had enjoyed a very nice day which
had cost us around $500 but we then
and there said that we could not af-
ford it; the car was too fast for our
income. so we sold it to a man who
said his wife pestered the life out of
him to buy a car, and he wanted to
cure her. told him this car would
cure any desire anybody ever could
scrape up for owning one. ] got
$4,000 for the thing which figures up
to about $500 that it cost us to be in
the position TO say. "our car"
THE END.