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Show noj;:DAUTO MEETINQ an old time tramp printer yesterday reminded us that there was a time when the principal uses of gasoline were cleaning type and popping1 it off in explosive stoves. Her Is a tip from a local auto man: "A good vulcanising cement may b made from scraps of repair fabric. Keep the clippings free from dirt and when you have an accumulation of several pounds, dissolve the friction in high test gasoline. - Run the scraps through a wringer to extract all of the friction." y Rpeaklng of the war. our Bulgarian correspondent comments: Diplomats snd such like may worry and wonder what It Is all about, but to me It is perfectly plain. The Car off State would not run in neutral so Chauffeur Wilson threw In his high, and now she's burning- up the road on her way to "somewhere In the future. If the alcohol from wood system of substitution works for automobile fuel, it might be a good scheme, it haa been suggested, for a lot of business men to conserve their supply of pencil sharp-enings. sharp-enings. Or, it Is pointed out by some, because of the high cost of living and everything. It might a profitable elwsse fee an entrepreneur e take up a collection of patent pencil sharpening sharp-ening boxes, extract carefully the ground up wood bits, and make a fortune, for-tune, ferreting out. th alcohol from the dust and selling ft to car owners- Glen Miller, chairman of the Republican Repub-lican state committee, and local capitalist, capi-talist, was among the purchasers of Chandler cars during: th week from the C. A. Quigley Auto company. Exchange Ex-change place. It was announced by Mr. Quigley yeaterday several shipments of mat-chine mat-chine are expected, and the cars since : the opening of spring have enjoyed ' unprecedented popuarity. 1 Another strip of paving promises to : add delight to the trip from Salt Lake j to Ogden by way of automobile. Work, It Is reported, on the Beck street Joo I Is being rushed by the contractors, it j Is a commemorable fact, it is pointed i out, that three days after tne contract was signed, work was begun. Tourists are arriving daily from Los Angeles over the Arrowhead trail Which. It Is renorted. la In better ahnne than any road leading from the city. The average time for the run Is about four days, according to T. K. Mott secretary of the Automobile Dealers' association of Salt Lake. Q. Stewart, manager of the Lincoln garage, who left Salt Lake more than two weeks ago to placard the Lincoln highway with garage advertisements, la now In Laramie. Wyo.. according to word received In Salt Lake yeaterday. f'. C. McDonald, factory representative representa-tive of the Jeffrey-Naah Truck company, com-pany, who for several weeks has been In Bait Lake supervising the reorganisation reorganis-ation of the Tracy Motor company, haa returned from a trip to Idaho. Mr. McDonald visited th Jeffrey branch in Pocatello. |