The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-29
AMONG MOSCOW
AUTOMOBILE MEN


A. S. Frost of the Idaho Garage &
. Motor company, predicts the biggest
. sale of automobiles this season thai
. the west has seen in a number OF
. years-perhaps the biggest in the his
. tory of the automobile industry. Roads
. are getting in condition early, crop
. prospects are of the best and the un-
. certainty which prevailed during the
past few seasons because of the wal
is gone.
The Idaho Garage & Motor compa-
ny this week sold Chevrolet 1905 to
the Rev. Mr.. Schmidt of the Norwegian
Lutheran church in this city and to
c. V. Clark, a well-known farmer
south of the city.
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The road across the Moscow noun
tain is now passable for automobiles.
The first car made the trip across the
mountain Monday of this week, it is
reported and the. trip can now be
made without fear of encountering
any impossible pieces of road.
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Finds Buick in France.
That French owners are just as
proud of their Bucks as the owners
in this country is shown in an inter
esting letter from Sergeant Owen
Grills, with the American forces in
Blois, France.
I'm taking the liberty to write you,"
says Sergeant Grills, 81 feel as though
| were writing to some of my personal
friends. | have driven Bucks rang
d. i al 1n+
est out up to the time | left, and [
know that no one can do that without
feeling as | do.
and l want to tell you right now
that the little Gas is far ahead of any
thing within five hundred or thou
sand dollars of, the Buick price. l am
not writing you with months ex-
perience back of me, but with seven |
years work with every American make |
of automobile on the market. Since [
have been here I have had quite a lit
tie work with European makes.
But, the real reason for this let
ter was to tell you of happy lit
tie surprise today. / started down
town and as | passed the market |
heard an engine running with a cut
out open. l said to the corporal with
ME, Say, that sounds like a Buick
to me-
"On going around where it was,
there stood a little Model 25 and on
examination it proved to be 1912
model. To say l was surprised would
not express it at all.
$50 | played on the Klaxon until the
Frenchman who owned the Buick
showed up. After jabbering with him,
| found out that he had had the car
about two years and that repairs had
only cost him 20 francs or about 81
in real money. He said he wouldn't
sell the Buick for the original price.
'He expressed himself as being very
proud of his Bu-eeck. as he called it,
and said that he was going to get one
Of the SKIES as soon as possible
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The Washington state automobile +
taw has been so amended that cities t
can pass ordinances not in conflict s
with the state law and can make ar '
tests and collect fines for violations +
If the city ordinance. i
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Great Tractor Demonstration. t
Walla Walla's first annual tractor q
is going to be the most d
event. of the kind in the
american Northwest in 1919, and eve 5
y Indication points to a record at =
during the three days of the q
Exhibition, April %. "a and 25. AS u
n evidence of the widespread inter
st in the farm power demonstrations II
lore than 1000 factory representa- 5
ives will be on the ground to person Ia
lily present their products. Tractors tf
nd other equipment will give actual h;
ssts on a six-hundred acre wheat st
arm on the outskirts of Walla Walla.
transportation facilities will be such
lat the visitors may reach the scene tu
the daily demonstrations with an vi
1equate service all hours of the day. al
lready more than $50 different firms la
ave agreed to make displays with of
lie result that it will require not less ma
ian $50 large sized railway cars to tr
aul the exhibits to Walla Walla. tn
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The Idaho Garage & Motor company an
day made delivery of a 490 Chew Al
let touring car to Fred Strobel and alb
| Oldsmobile touring car to Iver be
3erg of Oberg Bros. A secondhand gl;
r was sold to F. G. Graves.
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The Moscow Auto Supply company CO,
s just received a carload of Repub-
/, trucks, ranging from one to one Ne
d One-half tons capacity. A 1920
,public tractor is also on exhibition Ne
the company's garage on South Ea
Tin street at
The Moscow Auto Supply company
is week sold an Oakland Six touring il
r to the Rev. j. Quincy Biggs, pas we
of the local Christian church. me
J. A. Tenwick of the Moscow Auto 4
pply company went to Spokane hos
ursday, returning this afternoon cor
III a new Oakland Six roadster, No
ich has been purchased by RalstOn eva
tterfield. cen