Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-06-01
Show and Display for the Especial Edfca6n and En-
joyment of Motor Car Owners to Be Held
i'm Northeastern Vermont
JUNE 8 AND A TO BE GALA DAYS
INNEWPORT FOR VISITING THOUSANDS
of the Progress and of the Motor We
hicle in Our Own Midst Told by Man Who~Has
Watched the Achievements

Countys will place in New
port, Friday and Saturday, and A. The be-
chairman arrangements with committees make
the affair complete The committees follows:
Finance-F. D Burns, F. D. Flint, Richard Hurst
Advertsng-George Root, P w. Lawson, C. A. Clark.
Dealers A. Hunt Derby Line; C. Bryant, Troy; p c.
Blanchard, Newport
Space-Howard Pudvah, Ralph Hamblett Edd Flanders.
Arrangements-Delos Buck, E: c. Cass, John Prouty.
1000 automobiles owned in Orleans county and
annual registration fee the state Of from 900 to 3Ooo
These figures ought convince that there Orleans
county people enough with cars to
exhibited onNewport Great White Way the latest models i'll
More than half hundred different Makes models
and designs of motor driven vehicles expected to be
and entertainment will be provided for the people by great street
carnival and Saturday evening Anyone who has attended
of these events will not want to miss this
Saturday night Main will be cleared of all and
traffic bands will furnish music and free dancing street
wb enjoyed amid blazing lights decorations and confetti
The show opens o'clock each and continues until
whether the 1000
who own car or the 1000 hope
you will miss this It the climax of the
growth and development of the automobile business in Orleans
county
people realize the extent of the automobile business
the county today There are seven dealers IN automobiles IN
Orleans county many garages, ard
dealers and about 25 gasoline filling stations The bust
done by these people easily represents half million dollar
business each year.
When one stops to consider that is comparatively
business sprung during the past 20 years. remarkable
testimony development locally of wonderful industry
While automobiles owned in Orleans county early
until about IL that local agents
began the business
very will be remembered "oneungers There
was the one cylinder Buick Brush
cylinder with to the back seat from the
the early models owned in the county The Rambler
one of those early types.
cylinder which said could not
be practical because it had parts to it than the two
quietly than the cylinder and
early of this type the first to be owned
county In the early days Of the automobile they
brought only the finest weather and trip from Newport
Barton Lowell considered feat to be talked about
made IL Is miles the average roads in those days in an
though gong some and if did SO miles with
trouble of kind it the talk of the town.
early sold with without the top and windshield
No such thing been though Carrying
spare unknown Most horses somewhat frightened
many ordinary hills made with difficulty Many people
destined the because
frightened horses time the admtance of
grounds considered doubtful thing for the
agement Orleans County fair held within the
remembrance Of young man and woman 1t was
that automobile would be exhibition Many resident of
called back roads wondered whether automobile would
Some of these roads today have
automobile routes with hundreds of passing
day. scarcely horse drawn vehicle during the
"a hours.
So times changed than of years. Today
everyday hundred people From
pleasure vehicle the business pro-
position Today half and
while trucks and used exclusively
business To people today the automobile become
necessity Trips hundred miles in day
ao which delays the road the exception,
travel 25 to 35 hour and all life is
interviewer with this device.
the to the IL cylinder
within few No twocylnder
made The four SIX eight and IL cylinder nov
four still predomnatg Prices OF automobiles today are
price few for greatly inferior
dollars the price of small in the ear
days. Today buys of the better
cars although put $1,000 $4,000
he has the appetite and the price Such
unknown Orleans county today but the $500 to
predominaes Quantity production brought the down.
The influence the automobile roads can hardybe
realized bethe factor the demand
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