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Ml winter service.
f' I All makes of auto-
I mobile batteries re
charged, repaired or
Wj replaced.
You can assure yourself
of a sure start every time
by equipping your car with
an "Bxl&e " Battery.
Excelsior Auto Co.
Exldo Battery Service
Station
11th and Mulberry Sts.
II Bigger
Better
more PoM r erful |
for 1917
Whether you represent a
large family or are looking for
a car for your individual use,
you'll find the model exactly
suited to your needs among the
eight body styles for 1917
and each model breathes with
the Luxury and Good Breeding
always found in Velic.
Veiie-Harrisburg Co.
Sixth and H. F.
llerr Sts. Willoughby
Bell Phone 271-J.
Kord.
0 CAR^
You won't get the last full
measure of satisfaction that
comes from driving a Ford
until you install a
Heinze-Springfield
Starting and Lighting System
Price, SBS, not installed
Front- Market
Motor Supply
Company
109 MARKET STREET
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5-Passenger Touring $695
3-Passenger Clover Leaf Road
ster $095
Ensminger Motor Co.
THIRD AND CUMBERLAND STS.
Bell Phone 3515
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the Standard of Value and Quality
Fairfield "Six-46" seven-passenger.
Fleetwood "Slx-38" five-passenger. '
E. L. COWDEN
R. J. CHURCH, Salcsmanager
108 Market Street
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AUTO STORAGE—
First class, fireproof garage,
open day and night. Rates
reasonable.
Auto Trans. Garage
p"*" 1,1 11 ■■ ■ i
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SHIRTS
SIDES & SIDES
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SATURDAY EVENING,
Case in One Type of
Chassis Only This Year
Among the popular makes of motor
cars that make their debut In a new
dress at the automobile shows Is the
1917 Case Forty. It will be especially
distinctive for the reason that in the
latest creation carrying the rampant
eagle trademark are Incorporated sev
eral changes that give added efllciency,
comfort, convenience and beauty.
The car Is listed at the same price
as last season's model. $1,190. In this
respect the 191" Case is especially note
worthy, for many automobile manufac
turers have Increased the price of their
product the advent of the new year.
During the coming Season the Case
Company will manufacture only one
type of chassis, retaining the four
cylinder motor, famous as the "Flexible
Four." For 1917 the Case will also
appear as a tourabout.
The changes over last year's tour
ing car are refinements rather than
radical alterations.
The motor has been further improved
for economy. The camshaft drive is by
helical gears of special material, which
makes for quietness and simplicity.
Last year's cellular radiator has been
replaced by one of the vertical tube
type of the company's own make. The
former starting and lighting equipment
Is now displaced by the Autollte sys
tem.
This change in the electric equipment
also results in a desirable change in
the location of the lighting and igni
tion switch, botli of which are now
placed on the steering column. The
starting button has been moved to the
floor, where the driver operates It with
his heel instead of by hand. 'A fea
ture of the electric system Is a safety
"cut-out," which automatically turns
oft the flow of current from battery
should the switch be left "on" while
motor is not running. This prevents
exhaustion of the storage battery. The
80-amjjere hour battery formerly used
has been displaced by a three-cell 90-
ampere hour Willard battery.
More graceful lines and greater com
fort have been attained by body
changes. The hood line between cowl
and radiator is now more nearly hori
zontal, thus adding much to the ap
pearance of the car. A slanting wind
shield adds materially to the sweep
ing curves of the car. in the tonneau
the pivotal auxiliary seats have been
replaced by folding seats of the disap
pearing type.
For the convenience of the driver the
hand brake lever has been shifted from
the left to the center. The fuel tank
filler spout has been moved toward
the right for convenience. Equipment
includes a one-man top, Stewart speed
ometer, and electric exploring lamp.
Five Houk wire wheels are furnished in
place of regular wood wheels, at a
slight extra charge.
Smith Farm Truck Has
Proved a Popular Seller
Tlie Smith Motor Truck Corporation
of Chicago, manufacturers of the
famous Smith Korm-a-Truck, declared
a dividend at the rate of two per
cent, on its preferred stock, payable
January 15, 1917, to all stockholders
of record as of December 31.
Preferred stock In the Smith Motor
Truck Corporation was issued In No
vember, 1916, and the action of the
board of directors in declaring this
first dividend only three months after
the stock was Issued, is the most con
vincing demonstration of the remark
able era of sales development Smith
Form-a-Truck has Just passed
through.
An unprecedented demand for this
attachment which combines with any
Ford, Maxwell, Buick, Chevrolet or
Overland chassis to make u fully
guaranteed one ton truck, has created
entirely new sales records in the field
of motor truck transportation.
At a recent meeting of the district
managers a minimum production of
30,000 was set for 1917, with every
indication that this would be practi
cally doubled before the end of the
year.
The Smith' Motor Truck Corpora
tion has already achieved the distinc
tion of making more sales than any
other manufacturer of motor trucks
or motor truck attachments during
the past year, which is the first year
of its development. There is hardly
a city or town in the entire country in
which Smith Form-a-Truck is not rep
resented either by live aggressive
dealers or by enthusiastic users.
Chalmers Makes Record
Run of 79 Miles
A new record, for the run from
Buffalo to Rochester has just been
made by a Chalmers car. This run is
one over which many disputes have
occurred recently. The distance is
79.2 miles over rough roads. A Chal
mers Six-30 stock car covered the dis
tance in one hour and 23 minutes.
This time is 23iminutes faster than
the best previous time.
A. J. Stuart and A. E. Higgins,
members of the Mason B. Hatch Co.,
of Buffalo, dealers in Chalmers cars,
accomplished this feat recently and
hung up the new record, which it is
said, is one that will be heard to beat.
The car which they sent over this
course was one which had been driven
over 8,000 miles. It was fully equip
ped and in every sense of the word a
strictly stock car.
This recent performance is evidence
of what the Chalmers cars can do
when put to an actual test.
Advantages of Eight
Defined by Apperson
A definition of an eight-cylinder
motor by Edgar Apperson. prominent
motorcar manufacturer of Kokomo,
Indiana, is so simple that any novice
can get a clear understanding of this
type of power plant.
"The power of an eight-cylinder
motor may be likened to the flow of
Niagara," he says. "By this simile it
is meant to illustrate the fact that the
power of the Eight is continual.
"The Eight gives you four power
impulses for every revolution of the
flywheel, an impulse every quarter
turn. The overlapping is so complete
that the turning effort is practically
constant. The Eight is the ideal
power plant for there is no hesitation
between impulses."
We give the 19X7 look to those
1915 automobite parts, as we repair
and reflnish radiators, windshields,
and
We Repair
Auto Lamps
We reflnish, repolish and repair
all brass and art inetal work, In
cluding band instruments. Charges
most reasonable. All work guar
anteed.
Bell Phone 2833
llarrlsburg, Penna.
Thirty Million Dollars
Worth of Overland Material
Those big companies which foresaw
the possible shortage of materials due
to the astonishing demand for motor
cars, and fortified themselves against
that shortage are congratulating them
selves to-day on the fact that they
were not caught .totally unprepared to
cope with present market conditions.
The Willys-Overland Company, the
second largest automobile manufactur
ing organization In the world und the
greatest producer of medium %nd high
priced cars, was perhaps one of the
least affected of all by this upheaval
In the material market. While it is
true that all quantity producers of mo
torcars felt the sudden change, the To
ledo concern had taken the precaution
to protect itself In a measure against
Just such an emergency.
Long before prices sfarted to shoot
skyward, the Willys-Overland Company
had tucked away In Its storerooms and
subcellars huge Quantities of raw ma
terials. To-day it has more than |30,-
000,000 worth of parts on hand, fully
50 per cent, of which was bought at
before-war-prices.
This preparedness policy on the part
of the Toledo concern is responsible.
It Is said, to a large degree for the high
standard of quality which the factory
has been able to maintain in its 1917
production, without any extraofdlnary
advance in its selling prices.
And, although material such as steel
is hard to get at any price these days,
every carload that arrives at the Over
land plant is as rigidly Inspected as it
was when conditions were normal. In
order to protect Itself and Overland
and Willys-Knight owners, the com
pany employs a staff of expert chem
ists and metallurgists to test carefully
each batch of raw material delivered
for use at the factory.
These chemists know that a certain
proportion of carbon, together with cer
tain quantities of other elements, when
united 'with pure Iron produces a steel
that will stand certain strains. They
also know that if the proportion of
nickel, manganese, chromium or other
elements vary even as much as a frac
tion of ono per cent, the steel will be
either too weak or too brittle.
If the samples undergoing Inspection
come up to the required specifications
and pass successfully the tests of the
metallurgical and chemical laborator
ies, the cars from which the samples
were taken are accepted by the com
pany. If the samples come through
without an OIC the car or cars are re
jected on the spot.
Some of the scales used in the Over
land laboratories measure accftrately
to one-thousandth of a gramm. The
slightest defect in physical structure
of a sample of steel can be detected
by microscopes that magnify many
thousands of diameters.
Driver's Ease a Feature ,
of the Cadillac Eight
"Much lias been said—and with full
justification—about the charms which
the Cadillac eight-cylinder engine has
contributed to motoring, but other note
worthy features of the car's operation
and control have commanded almost
equal attention," is the view expressed
by K. C. Howard, Cudllluc sales man
ager.
"There is much in the wonderful
smoothless of the motor, its quick pick
up and flexibility, nnd its remarkable
work on the hills. Owners have ex
perienced these qualities to their hearts'
content, and found them even more
than they had been led to expect. But
along with them, they have discovered
other good points which are important
in the operation of a motorcar any
where, and especially in touring.
"When a man drives from a hundred
to two hundred miles for a day's run,
he naturally will feel considerable
strain if constant effort is required to
steer the ear and keep it in the road.
The Cadillac Kight has become noted
for the ease with which it handles in
these two respects. A gentle influence
on the steer wheel guides the car, and
it holds the road with practically no
effort on the driver's part.
"Then the clutch releases easily, and
it engages with marked softness. The
brakes are manipulated scores of times
a day without muscle-strain, and with
out material exertion to get full effec
tiveness. Hardly more than a gentle
pressure of the foot puts the brakes
'on,' either lightly or firmly as circum
stances demand.
"Such things make a long drive a
pleasure, because they prevent most of
the strain and fatigue of long-dlßtance
driving. And such qualities are'not so
i common that they can be regarded
lightly by men who like touring, either
behind the steering wheel or in the
comfort of a tonneau seat."
Chandler Increases Wages
and Will Pay Bonuses
An increase of ten per cent, in
wages to all of its employes working
on an hourly wage basis and a very
liberal bonus in addition, has been an
nounced by tlie Chandler Motor Car
Company of Cleveland. The ten per
cent. wage Increase became effective
January 2. In addition to this the
company will pay on July 20, 1917 to
the men employed on an hourly wage
basis who are on the company's pay
roll July 1, 1917, a ten per cent, bonus
on the entire wages paid to them by
the company during the year July 1,
1916 to June 30, 1917. To employes
who have been with the Chandler
Company the full year this bonus
means about five weeks extra pay.
The Chandler Company's notice came
to its employes as a complete sur
prise.
The Chandler Company has had a
very prosperous year, and Its business
is generally considered to be one of
tl.e most firmly established in the
whole industry. This latest move on
the part of the management of the
company would seem to indicate a de
sire to put its employes on what
! amounts to a profit sharing basis, In
addition to a liberal wage scale.
Pittsburgh Wireless Men
Hear German Messages
Pittsburgh, Jan. 20. ' — Following
the installation of what is known as
the ultraudion recoiver, the wireless
operators at the Carnegie Technolog
ical Institute station talked direct
with the German stations at Nauen
and Eilvese yesterday. he distance
from Nauen to Pittsburgh is 8980
miles.
Diplomatic conversation heard was
in code. Then came important news
dispatches, censored by the German
officials, followed by the financial re
port and then mora code messages,
thought to be in connection with the
peace notes of President Wilson.
Gives Board Full Power
to Build $1,900,000 Bridge
Bethlehem, Pa., Jan. 20. The
board appointed by the public service
commission to take charge of the
funds and construct a hill-to-hill
bridge here met yesterday and organ
ized by electing Achlbald Johnson
chairman. W. D. B. Ainey, chairman
of the utility board, at the conference
they gave the board full power to
secure plans and erect the $1,900,000
structure.
The board as an initial step decided
to request the county to erect a tem
porary structure across the Lehigh
river,
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH!
Paige Well Fortified
With Material in Stock
So gret has been the demand for j
motorcars In thiH country during the 1
past two years that many of the lead- j
Ing manufacturers have been unable to j
supply the necessary number of cars. '
dealers and the motor-buying
public are familiar with this condition
of affairs.
The consumer has either had to
wait, in many vases several months,
for a delivery, or else has been forced
to buy a less desirable car. Conse
quently some dealers have suffered a :
loss In volume of business. This con- ;
dition of being: over-sold has been
brought about by several causes I
among them, exceptional country-wide
prosperity and the shortage In ma
chinery, parts, supplies and labor be
cauaa of diversions to munition mak
ing.
A recent announcement made by the
Talge-Detroit Motor Car Company will
.be of interest to those who have suf-
Ifered from this congested condition or
I who have been fearful lest 1917 will
llnd the output still below the demand. !
The Palgo factory now has on hand
12,600,000 worth of stock for the lm
| mediate manufacture of Its cars and
I within ten days deliveries of additional
(stock and material of all kinds will
| Increase this total to about $1,000,000
In value.
This announcement reflects the
strong position tlie Paige has secured
In the matter of production and deliv
ery and should be welcome news to
Paige dealers and those who contem
plate buying Paige cars. It is also a
significant reflection on the foresight
of Paige executives, their knowledge
of the market and their ability to get
what they need when they need It.
Thus fortified the Paige officials be
lieve that in 1917 the Paige factory Is
going to make the contest between
production and demand a neck and neck
race.
Big Field For Commercial
Cars Says Studebaker Man
The theory that the market for com
mercial cars is restricted pretty much
to large cities is disproved in figures
compiled by the Studebaker Corporation
and announced through Henry T. My
ers, sales manager of the commercial
car division.
"Commercial car sales in towns from
5,000 to 50,000 Inhabitants are con
siderably greater In proportion to the
population than In the larger cities,"
says Mr. Myers. "We can name in
stances even where Studebaker com
mercial car sales in certain small
towns have been in excess of pleasure
car sales during the past four months.
"There are several Studebaker com
mercial car dealers who in the past
three months have sold between ten and
twenty-five commercial cars in towns
of not over 35,000 population. One deal
er who lives in a town of a population
of some 35,000 people has sold as many
commercial cars to merchants, livery
men and farmers as the total sales of
each of three large branches.
"Selling commercial cars is not a mat
ter of location or population. It is
wholly a matter of getting out and go
ing after commercial car business along
well defined and systematic lines."
Of the 10,000 half-ton and piie-ton
models to be produced during 1916 by
the Studebaker Corporation, a large
proportion have been spoken for by
distributors in towns of a size that
were not considered seriously as a
market for commercial cars two years
ago.
STUDEIIAKHH XOTES
The biggest single day's shipment of
Studebaker cars In the history of the
Studebaker Corporation was made on
April 19, the output being 490 automo
biles, representing a value of approxi
mately a half million dollars.
When A. H. Davis, Studebaker distri
butor in Cleveland, inaugurated a plan
of presenting each woman driver of a
Studebaker car In Cleveland with an
Easter plant, the total number of plants
distributed was six. That was three
years ago. This year, in pursuance of
the same policy, Mr. Davis distributed
close to 200 plants at Easter. This
unique plan gives an interesting insight
Into the tendency of women to drive
automobiles In over increasing num
bers.
Tremendous Demand For
Motorcars This Year
Fathers residing in Kokomo, Indiana,
who entertain presidential or equally
lofty aspirations for their little Toms,
Dicks and Harrys, long since gave up
the "observe the busy bee, my son"
bromide and substituted "watch the
Haynes factory double itself over
night."
Although the Haynes has been build
ing cars anil selling them since back
in the nineties and has always had a
good-sized factory, some 32 months ago
it produced the Haynes "Light Six,"
whereby a high-powered, light-weight,
economical-to-operate car of striking
ly graceful lines nosed its way to the
footlights from amidst the chorus of
other high-grade cars. It became a
headliner Immediately with the result
that Haynes strides have been of the
seven-league boot variety ever since.
100 Haynes Cam a Day
Despite 24-hour a day factory sched
ules, despite multiplication after multi
plication of factory buildings, despite
a steady influx of new workers, the
three and one-half years and more
since the advent of the "Light Six"
have denied the Haynes people even a
breathing spell. "One car sells two
more" is the way they put it, and Judg
ing from the ever-Increasing demand it
must be true.
The present 350,000 square feet of
floor space will soon be increased to
nearly 1,000,000 square feet. It is plan
ned. The 1917 output will be three times
that of 1916, and 1916 far over-shadow
ed the year preceding—loo cars a day
is tlie capacity goal for 1917.
Kaiser Replies to King of
Wartemburg on Endorsement
Amsterdam, via London, Jan. 20.
According to German newspapers, the
emperor, replying to a telegram from
the king of Wurttemburg endorsing
the emperor's address to the nation
following the entente's reply to Presi
dent Wilson's note, telegraphed: "You
have strongly expressed, in the name
of your brave Swabians. the feeling of
Indignation and determination which,
in these days of the unmasking of the
enemy's plans of destruction, are the
entire nation's. Accept my heartiest
thanks for your fresh expression of
loyalty. Hold on with blood and treas
ure until the arrogance of our enemies
Is shattered by the unshakable will to
victory of the fatherland and its loyal
allies."
CEMKNT COMPANY ADDS
*<1,000.000 TO CAPITA!)
Allentown, Pa., Jan. 20. An in
crease In capitalization of from
$12,000,000 to J18.000.000 was au
thorized at the annual meeting of the
Lehigh Portland Cement Company,
when the following directors wero re
elected: Colonel Harry* C. Trexler,
president; Colonel E. M., Young and
George K. Mosser, of Allentown; John
D. Ormrod, of Emaus, and A. Y.
Gowen, fIX Chicago,
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Seven Passenger I
*1285 tfAipUP
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The New Willys-Knight
You will concede the luxuriousness and beauty
of this car without argument.
Its practical advantages* finally determine its
purchase.
The motor has no equal—no near approach in
any similar car selling for so moderate a price
or for hundreds of dollars more.
It is a Willys-Knight sleeve-valve motor, —
12000 produced last year and giving the most
remarkable satisfaction.
Everyone knows that nothing has ever seriously
challenged the noiselessness of this type of *
motor.
It has the softest "purr" combined with the
greatest power for its size.
Its velvet smoothness puts all other motors of
like power to shame.
It loves carbon and hates the repair shop.
It will serve you years longer—thousands of
miles farther —than any other type of motor.
And it is the only motor known that does its
best work in its old age, after putting all
rivals to rout in its youth.
The Willys-Knights are value pre-eminent be
cause they share proportionately in the econ
omies of our vast production of a complete
line of cars.
See us now about your new Willys-Knight and
avoid the possibility of delayed dfelivtery dur
ing the spring rush.
The Overland-Harrisburg Co.
212 N. Second St.
OPEN EVENINGS BOTH PHONES
The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, O.
"Mad* In U. S. A."
WILLYS-KNIGHT
The New
Willys-Knlgnt Eight W. *.
Seven Passenger Uillys-Knlftht l our Limousine $1950
£1950 WlUye-Knlgbt Four Sedan . . sl9*o
f.O.b. Toledo t.o.b. Toledo
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Yesterday Was the
Birthday Anniversary of—
FELIX M. DAVIS
He is superintendent of transporta
tion for the Harrisburg Railways Com
pany. To-day he reached the half cen
tury mark. For twenty-eight years he
has been a Traction Company employe,
having started with the Kast Harris
burp; Railway Company. He is cele
brating to-day. To-night he will give
a thfcoter party to a number of friends
at the Crpheum.
PILES CURED AT HOMETBY
NEW ABSORPTION METHOD
If you suffer from bleeding. Itching
blind or protruding Files, send me your
addr** B ! and 1 wlll ttt H you how to cut#
yourself at home by the new absorp
tion treatment: ,nii will also send some
of tMs home trea ment free fcr trial
with references from your own locality
If requested. Immediate relief and
permanent cure assured. Send no
rnomy, but tell others of this offer.
Write to-day to Mrs. M. Summers. Ho*
I P. Nets* P*me, Ind.
JANUARY 20, 1917.
ALLIED MINISTERS SATISFIED
London, Jan. 20. Ministers at
Athens of the entente powers are
thoroughly satisfied with present atti
tude of the Greek government In car
rying out the entente demands, ac
cording to telegrams received to
day "by the British government from
Athens. The release of Venezellst ad
herents who had been Imprisoned al
ready has begun and a considerable
Republic
Motor
will be
exhibited at
Pennsylvania
Farm Product Association
Show
3 ] , * J
s < | ;
- |; held in
I i| Emerson Brantingham Building
JANUARY 22-26
PEN-MAR AUTO CO.
; | M. K. Tliomns, Mgr.
number of tlieni have reached theii
homes. Moreover, the dispatches say,
the movement of Greek troops from
Thessaly in pursuance of the demands
of the entente allies is proceeding
rapidly. It is stated here that if th
attitude of the Greek government re
mains satisfactory as it. is at present a
speedy return of normal relations be
tween Greece and tlio entente poweri
is certain.