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Show BYERS BACK FROM TRIP 10 101 Reports Growing1 Tendency to Keep, On With "Business "Busi-ness as Usual." After a very successful week's motor trip through middle and southern Idaho, covering 9S1 miles in a Mercer four-passenger sport model. Bernard G. Byers, local Mercer distributor, returned last Monday in the best of moods, having been very successful in adding four excellent concerns to' his list of sub -dealers. According Ac-cording to Ryers. the towns of Pocatello, Blacki'oot and Idaho Falls now have Mercer Mer-cer agents of the real "live wire" type, who have each placed orders for a carload of Mercers for rush delivery, and Malad is said to have a Jordan agent who sees a big future in his territory for' a car of the Jordan type and has ordered Byers to rush him a carload of Jordans for "immediate "im-mediate delivery. Byers reports road conditions ahove the average, having experienced no difficulty excepting the last twenty miles into Pocatelio, which he reports having been in pretty bad shape on account of snow and mud. He states that though war preparations are evident all along the line and have had a tendency to somewhat disturb automobile auto-mobile i rade conditions, still, on the whole, conditions are settling down to normal. Everybody now realizes that though we have a war on our hands we still have to go ahead and live our regular regu-lar lives do our work and keep on going the best we can. lie says. Byers states that the vogue for brilliant bril-liant colors i? In hich favor all over the country and that most orders received for cars now specify some particular combination, com-bination, rejecting the taste and the particular par-ticular ideas of the motor-car purchaser. The Mercers now displayed in Byers 's salesrooms at 33 West Broadway are excellent ex-cellent criterion? of the tendency toward beau! if ul and unusual color schemes in car finishing. |