Pittston Gazette from Pittston, Pennsylvania • Page 5

MARCH 27,1926 cniris 1'', Jbr Economical Transportation TUE PIT1GT01T GAZETTE fl ARROWS ROAD TO L0Sawneis RANSOM PUT IN acclaim ims RUES GOOD 99 CONDITION Tl DAY a rt The Directors of the Poor of the Ransom Home and Mental Hospital, under the supervision of Robert W. Bowen, superintendent, have had a force of men from the Mental Hos pital, numbering thirty-tfive, together with John Kolesar, Frank Schul- theis, Edward Delaney and Peter Galand, employes, working on the Duryea Borough road known as the 'Narrows" for several weeks. Through the courtesy of the Le high Vailey Railroad, B. P. Houser, Ships Hotel, Mort Lake, England, March 27.

Cambridge today won the annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race on the Thames while hundreds of thousands lined the river banks and shouted encouragement to the oarsmen. The time was 19 minutes, '29 seconds, an even minute slower than the course record of 18:29, established by a gray Oxford crew In 1911. The crews embarked at 12:17 p. m. and the race started at 12:26, four minutes before scheduled time, but Just at the right moment to take advantage of slack water at high tide.

Cambridge won by about five lengths, the greatest margin of victory since 1903, barring the fiasco of last year, when the strangely designed Oxford shell virtually swamped and was thirty lengths behind when Cambridge crossed the finishing line The race was rowed over smooth General Tard Master at Coxton, and Mr. Riley, Supervisor, twenty-two cars fashes gere pushed In on the coal crusher siding. Frank Devlin was very much interested In the. work and donated some pipes for draining and also furnished a large bank of ashes which were used on the road. The following men gave their ser vice, teams and trucks, without any water, in a light wind and under a sunny sky.

The count between the two universities since the classic was first rowed in 1S29, now stands: Cambridge 37; Oxford 40'. One race in 1877 was a dead heat. SIX SEDAN charge to the Borough of Duryea: T. M. Kresge, Secretary of the Good Roads Association of Newton, James and Clarence Lacoe, Russell Richards, Wcflla Richards, Philip Stoft, D.

H. Bodel, Walter Huggler, Thomas Learn, George Vanyo, Howard and Louis Felker, George Winston, John Lucas and Charles Hantz, all of Ransom, Pa. About four miles of dirt roaip belonging' to Lackawanna County are taken care of by the Pittston Poor District. The traveling public who are compelled to use the old road known as the leading from Pitti-ton to Ransom, are loud in their praise of the men who have given time and work. in keping this road in passable condition.

DEATH OP ALFRED DAVIS. Alfred B. Davis, of Scranton, former jury commissioner of Lackawanna cohnty for 25 years, died yesterday. He had been, in failing health for a year. He was born in Scranton and had lived there all his life.

For many years he had been employed as a clerk at Glen Alden collieries. Your first drive in the Improved Chevrolet will be a revelation! Improved, made amazingly smooth and responsive Chevrolet offers today a combination of power and effortless fjerformance absolutely new in the ow price field! But even more remarkable is the fact that these improvements cost you not more, but actually less because the prices have been substantially reduced. Take a ride in the Improved Chevrolet. A demonstration will delight you! Ask for a Demonstrationl cb. Factory.

Price and specifica-Am ac to ckouf without motif. If this big, extra-powerful, gravity-balanced Overland Six does not "come clean" on every count if it fails to register 100 -plus at every point from which, in your own opinion, car-performance should be measured we lose. You win. This car is offered on the challenge that, under any reasonable condition of use, it will out-run, out-pull, out-accelerate any other car in its class. With 40-brake-horse-power sent in a straight line from the motor through to the rear axle-shaft, this engine delivers more power and speed and pulling-ability than has ever before been known in a car of its size or price-class.

Test it yourself set your own conditions. You choose the road. You pick the hill. You fix the traffic point. You name the ruts, the turns, the mud, the sand Hew Low Prices Touring 510 Roadster 510 Coupe 645 Coach 645 Sedan 735 Landau 765 V2 Ton Truck 395 (CPuuib only) 1 Ton Truck 550 (Chant only) fjyb.

Flint. Michigos SSfB The New WILLYS FINANCE PLAN mm a tmclltr down payment, smaller monthly payment; and the tomtit credit-tost in the industry. TIMELY TIPS on OU fc.Il. OCOTX J' urn aim- Central Chevrolet Auto Company "TWO DOORS BELOW MARKET STREET" 107 SOUTH MAIN STREET PHONE 1933 PITTSTON, PA. Wilkes -Barre Chevrolet Auto Sales Company 108 S.

Mam Wilkes-Barre, Pa. HUALITt AT LOW COST. How to Test Gasoline Mileage Most owners have a vague idea that they get so many miles to the gallon of gasoline, but I venture to say that not one out of fifty know positively whether this figure is correct or not. It is a good idea to check up occasionally on the mileage you are getting. If you are getting a good mileage there is nothing wrong with the engine for when it begins to lose compression or its efficiency falls off then you use more gasoline.

So that you may have something to guide you as to the actual mile-are you should get, a test should be carried out when you know' that everything, including engine, brakes, are in perfect condition. The spark plugs should be taken out and the points set so that they are the correct distance apart. If the spark plug points are set either too far apart or too clcse together, you will not get a good hot spark. For a Ford the points should be set so that a well worn dime just slips between them, while for all other cars, the points should be at just a shade LESS than the thickness of a smooth dime. Start preparations for the test, by making sure that car moves freely and that the brakes are not binding.

Get the car on a flat BARBER MOTOR CAR CO. i 27 West Oak Street, Pittston Pa. the Great WILLYS-OVERLAND YlNE Car for Every Parte Doctors' Heart Detective An experimental model of portnlile electro-cardiograph, used In studying the electric current. of (lip heart, lias recentiv been item. 1 1M11LIM1111M11MILI1IU1MIIIIM iiiiiiiwiiwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini II What Cause Clumsiness? Dr.

E. C. Clements, who Is a British physician and aviator, says that many people are clumsy because they lack the proper balance between the muscular systems of their eyes. The physician made a thorough study of the eye disorders which make some men Incapable of becoming good aviators. The clumsy mnn cannot lnnd the plnnes successfully, even If he can operate them successfully when tn the air.

According to Doctor Clements, two factors nre essential to proper binocular vision. The brain must interpret correctly the Impulses which nre received from the eyes. The muscles mut respond to these stimnli efficiently. There nre many cases where de-fpcts of this kind onn be remedied by a course of vinnl exercises. Pathfinder Magazine.

Of! SUMMING No Partner of the Devil One time Sorvais Le Roy, the Illusionist, was playing In Milwaukee. He ron out of rabbits serious situation for any ninsrlolnn. Le Roy found that nn old German who lived outside of the city raised rabbits. He Immediately went to the farm. The rabbits were there plenty of them and the required number was soon bought and paid for.

Le Itoy wns so pleased that he pulled out a wnrt of his personal passes and wrote out one for the farmer ami his wife. The German took one look nt the pass end his pye fell upon a picture of a devil that" adorned the slln paper. Then he seized the rabMts and threw (he money back In Le Roy's hand. Hh would have nothing to do with any transaction In which the devil was concerned. Howard Thurston la Collier's.

onstrated. The cardiograph Itself Is not new device, but never before haa there been an Instrument which portable nor one commercially de- veloped in which vacuum tubes are used for amplifying the heart TOlt itges. Records of a patient's heart may do obtained now at the doctor'a RQr- frery or In the patient's home. A doctor can easily learn to operate the portable device after a few demonstrations, says a writer in Kngllsh Mechanics, and It Is expect id that the apparatus will be pro-'' jiielble at a cost and In quantities hat will permit of Its wide OS throughout the medical profession. smootn surtace ana pusn it to see that it rolls freely once you have it-on the move.

Even a heavy car should not be hard to push once it starts. Examine the height of the lubricant in the gear box and rear axle. Make sure that the wheel bearings are properly adjusted and lubricated. If you jack up the front wheels one at a time and spin them, it will quickly show their condition. If they are O.

then they will spin for some time and stop with the tire valve at the bottom of the wheel. The rear wheels should be jacked up and revolved to see that the brake bands are not binding on the brake drums. If you have not adjusted the brakes for Editor Of course the Weat majority of us West Slders are age without Don Quixote methods and steam calliope accompaniment. This tilt at the gasoline stations is of doubtful advertising value to West Pittston. Nearby newspaper headlines appropriately give the affair as taking place in the "Garden Village, "Staid Garden Village," etc.

Now it is high time wo West Siders Ket rid of this garden village appellation. Nice respectable name, but ut of date. We are no longer a common or garden" village. We are regular town, as sooA a3 we wake up to the fact, with a commercial beginning and remarkable prospects for growth. W.

B. WALTER. That would be a throw-back in our civilization. So it is a certain measure of closing that Is wanted. Best interests of the general public, not rights of shopkeepers, is the issue.

The present move of Burgess Klinger is partial enforcement, but his line of action appears to be not the best line that could have been chosen. Other communities of good people rn.u easy distinction between what is reasonably necessary and what should be banned. Their police notices to keep closed or suffer effective prosecution, being directed and supported by public opinion, are obeyed without protest. They man kind of Sunday. Tendencies In that QUART I CAN direction should be curbed.

But KUBfttR TE5TING GASOLINE MILEAGE neither do we, except possibly a rare HOSE few, want everything closed up to the. last notch, stopping trains, buss- is, street cars, telephones, tele-iraphs, the mails, preparation of Monday morning's newspapers, etc. For Quick Kesults Gazette Want. For Quick Results Gazette Wanta. COUPS OR COACH have OAKLAND Sales Doubled BODIES BY riSBCB I fw; j-ffmfwt 1 i wwwi in ii nwwwwl some time, this will be a good time to do it.

If the lubricating oil in the crankcase has not been changed within the last five or six hundred miles, it should be drained and fresh oil poured into the crankcase. The above precautions should guarantee that your car is running freely so you can proceed to make the gasoline mileage test. For this purpose secure a tin can that will hold exactly a quart or even two quarts of gasoline. It is not possible to make a very accurate test by measuring the gasoline in the tank. Punch a hole with a thin nail in the top of the can to provide an air hole.

The bottom of the can should be funnel shaped so that every drop of gasoline will reach the carburetor. Select a stretch of level road for your test and preferably one on which you are not liable to have to make any traffic stops. When you reach the starting point, turn off the gasoline at the main tank and allow the engine to run until it stops through lack of gasoline. It is necessary that all of the gasoline in the carburetor be used before connecting up the special test can. It is necessary to disconnect the gasoline line running from the main tank to the carburetor and attach one end of the rubber tube to the carburetor.

It is usually necessary to bind some string around the tube where it connects to the carburetor to make sure that it will not come off when you are driving along the road. 1 Hang the can on one of the door handles or to the side of the windscreen, then attach the rubber tube coming from the carburetor to the bottom of the can, and pour in exactly a quart of gasoline, then start the engine. Maintain a steady speed of about 25 miles an hour and run until the engine stops. The difference between speedometer readings at beginning and end of run multiplied by four will give you the miles you are getting per gallon of gasoline. Copyright.

1925, by S. N. L. Technical Syndicate rflr rVmmms Vy 'I I925 17 1924 The Brilliance and Snap of a Real Big Engine All America has bestowed upon the Oakland Six the one sure mark of preference ever-growing demand. State after state has favorecf the car so strongly that sales have doubled in the past six months.

The reasons for this unprecedented favor will be readily apparent to anyone Wh6 tests Oakland Six abilities. The car has power for any hill you will encounter more speed than you will care to useacceleration that excites envy smoothness of performance unmatched in its field and, better still, a rugged endurance that assures years of service. Moreover, Oakland's amazing prices 70 to $350 lower single out the Oakland Six as an unequalled investment. POWERED by the largest engine used in any six priced below $1000, the Pontiac Six has created an entirely new basis of comparison in the field of low priced sixes. Here you find at your command what has heretofore been generally considered impossible in a car of this price the stamina, snap and power of a big stxi cylinder engine.

It is literally and emphatically true that the Pontiac Six, both la traffic and on the open highway exhibits speed and flexibility that verge on the revolutionary. Yet breath-taking performance is but one of the reasons underlying the spectacular success of this new General Motors Six. Bell Chimes Go Back to Fifteenth Century The ringing of a bell, or bells, to give notice of the beginning of church services, and at duyllght and darkness, is a custom lost in antiquity. The curfew was an ancient custom that has only, recently passed away, and we still have the bell for a variety of useful purposes In our present-day requirements. People visiting Europe for the first time are surprised at the melodies and penis Of bells they hear.

Some peals consist of as many as fifty bells, and the skill with which they are manipulated only comes after long practice in the art. Historical documents show that there was a Bet of chimes about the year 850, which consisted of small suspended bells that were tapped with a wooden mallet Of course bells are much older than this, hut not chimes. Half swinging chime; were first Introduced In the Fifteenth century. In most cases foi chiming the bell hangs dead, and ts struck with the clapper or wltt an outside or free hammer, oi 'they are swung only short Declare Birds Are Insensible to Color Bavarian scientists claim to have made certain the fact that birds cannot see color, are not affected by it; In fact, any color Is good with the birds, even those of bright and gay plumage having no appreciation of the fact that they are better dressed than others. Even the gorgeous display of the male peacock bring no sensation of beautiful colors to the eyes of other birds about.

The test with birds' eyes show, the scientists assert, that birds do not look at things as human beings do, that all flying birds by day see everything In a bright, red orange light and are only sensitive in slight way to the short waves of light that make blue and violet visible. Night-flying birds are less sensitive to colors than those that make their flight by day, the eyes of all birds being screened from Intense light by tiny globules of oil in the retina of the eye that act as color screens. The Bavarian scientists say the Darwin Idea, that beautiful plumage of birds ts a factor in the of mates. Is merely a fanciful theory, poetic and Interesting but lacking scientific support. GARAGE Oakland Six, companion to the Pontiac Six $975 to $1295.

Alt prices at factors TRAIL GARAGE 706 Exeter West Pittston. virnnNO and i fc will West Pittston A 708 Exeter Avenue PON1 SIX ANION CAR TO THE PONTI I THE SIXES CHIEF OF I "5r--''m 'EODUCT OIV CBNEEAL For Quick RevulU Gazette Rea4 the Gazette ana Keep Posted, V..