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Show MOTOR MOTIONS. j The new Packard catalogue just issued is of Junusual interest describing the methods used In manufacturing and testing the Packard cars. It is beautifully illustrated, and after giving a little history of the Packard starting with the orig- inal plant at the little town of Warren, Ohio, and finishing with the great factory now operated at detroit by the Packard people, it explains-how explains-how the new models are built and the various test to which they are subjected before being finally accepted. The Packard story is written in a way to interest in-terest the layman as well as the man with a bubble, bub-ble, and the booklet is very attractive. & & & "Wouldn't it make an Idaho stage driver think he had 'em to see a big automobile carrying the mall for Uncle Sam, and that is precisely what will happen on the Star Route from Burley west to Oakley, Idaho, this year. The contractor H. J. Wells purchased a surrey type Rambler for this purpose, and there is a probability pro-bability that he will purchase a second car. Ghosts of good Indians, all that is wild and wooley is going fast. & & & W. G Filer has an order in Chicago for one ot the best American cars, but the name has not been divulged. j & & Lester D. Freed bought a Reo during the week, but has not decided who he will employ to run it. It will be remembered that according to one of the dailies) he started in when a mere child to drive a delivery wagon for his brothers in the furniture-business furniture-business and now that he has become manager of the concern, he may give Claude or Ellis a better bet-ter start .than he had, and allow them to run his Reo. & & D. E. Burley now has the fever, and by summer expects to make the trip from the News corner to the club in much shorter time than formerly. A man on. foot didn't stand a chance last summer, and the finishing blow to the hopes of vouth will' : . QO.mo when Dave gets a car. Alone, David is irresistible, ir-resistible, and with an automobile attachment, the rest of us would do well to move to happier climes. It is said that one of the wealthiest men in this city has placed an order for an electric brougham to be delivered during the summer. His wife is an enthusiast on the subject of automobiles, and while he prefers his horses, he has been made to see 'the light to such an extent that he has purchased pur-chased a Columbia machine. It is lavish in its conveniences and trimmings, accommodates four people inside, has electric lights and signals inside and out, and the electrical effect it carried so far that there are footwarmers for winter use, and electric fans for summer. L. H. Becraft of Ogden has placed an order for a Columbia electric carriage with the Mathewson Automobile company of Denver. The order calls for early delivery, and will add another fine machine ma-chine to the list in the Junction City. The Columbia is in a class alone in electric vehicles. ? The automobile is serving a new purpose according ac-cording to the testimony taken at a recent police investigation in Oil City, Pa., where a number of policemen were tried for neglect of duty. One of the charges read that they were "habit-uully "habit-uully sleeping in automobiles when they should have been patrolling their beat's." |