You Want to Make Some
one Happy for Xmas!
Why not give her a nice bottle of perfume, or
some stationery in a pretty holly box?
Come and Make Our Store Your
Headquarters
Meet your friends here, come in to look, even
if you do not buy. We have the Xmas spirit and
gladly welcome you. Take the children some of our
chocolate and nut candies.
Prompt and Efficient Service, Economy in
Price.
RED CROSS DRUG CO.
(Continued from front page)
steel.
Naturally every operation in
all the plants tends finally to
ward the assembly conveyor
tracks. There are four of them,
each 645 feet long.
We followed the whole opera
tion. We began at one end
where the frames and rear sys
tems are put in place. By the
time the other end of the convey
or is reached the frame has grown
into the finished car.
From overhead parts are low
ered by chains. Along the way
men are attaching the parts.
The frame is notin motion all the
time, but can be instantly con
nected with the links of an end
less chain and sent on its way
whenever desired.
Top quality of workmanship is
assured by having each man do
work on which he is an expert,
if it be only to tighten a bolt.
Lines of motors, already tested,
wait on both sides of the con
veyor. These are put into place,
cantilever springs are put on,
steering mechs^ism and lighting
and starting s^tems are adjust
ed. Gradually the car takes
form.
Instead of painting the chasis
with a brush, a sprayer is used.
It does the work more rapidly,
more uniformly and at a lower
cost.
The tracks of the assembly
lead directly througn ovens in
which the paint is baked. Fend
ers and running boards come in
to their places.
Wheels with the tires on are
brought along on a runway.
First comes a front wheel, then
a rear wheel. You ought to see
them put on the tires. It is
lightning. By a special device,
invented by one of the men in
the department, the tire can be
put on a wheel in three seconds.
From overhead bodies are drop
ped down on the chassis and soon
made fast.
The car is now ready for its
tests. Rapidly revolving wheels
in the floor engage the wheels of
the car and send shem at high
speed to make sure that they
are operating freely. This is
not a test under the power of
the car.
Gasoline and water are then
put into the car. It is pushed
off the track into another room,
till its wheels are in contact with
wheels in the floor.
With the use of the self start
er, the machine gets its first
chance to prove the success of
its construction.
It surprised me the way the
motors started. They were off
with a rush. There was no
hitch or delay. All the work
had been done right. In a few
minutes the motor was working
apparantly almost as smoothly
as if it had been a year on the
road.
We saw how the cars were
shipped. The export depart
ment has the big feature in this
line. The finished car under
goes preparation by having its
wheels taken off and fastened on
the under side of the frame
which forms the top covering
for the car.
The top is covered with tar
paper as a protection against the
elements, and all is securely
boxed.
Along comes a big crane run
ning in an oyerland groove a
quarter of a mile long. The
operator sits in a small cab not
unlike that of a railroad engi
neer. Chains grab the box con
taining the car, and within forty
five seconds have carried it out
side the building and place it on
the flat car.
It is processes like these, all
that I have described, that ex
plain why every car in the Wil
lys—Overland line is what it is
at so low a cost. Making so
many is the answer, making
them to go all over the world
and having profited by the ex
periences of users everywhere.
Quantity production, immense
and costly machines, skilled de-1
signing, careful inspection, ac
curate tests of material, efficient
factory methods, rapid assem-;
bly and advanced methods of
handling, all these we saw: all
these tell why the Willys—Over
land Company lives up to its
ideals of a car for every need or
taste, price, class and service
right.
We saw the line. It is quality
from the lowest priced to the
headliner. It will be the mar
vel of the automobile shows.
This sightseeing tour was only
one angle of the Convention.
The two day’s program in
cluded a rollicking beefsteak
dinner, a more formal banquet,
a minstrel show, a concert by
the famous Overland Band and a
concert by the Glee Club.
Finally there was a speech by
the moving genius of it all, Mr.
Willys himself.
You will agree with me that
this was some project to have
been put over all within one
plant and by the people of the
organization.
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Best, of
Judsonia, will arrive Sunday to
be guests of relatives during the
holidays. ,
Ye editor left Wednesday for
a ten day’s stay in Hot Springs.
Misses Ruby Hargis and John
nie Harris returned home
Wednesday from Galloway col
lege. They were accompanied
by Miss Gamille Smith who will
be the guest of Miss Harris for
several days.
Guardian’s Sale.
Notice is hereby given that in
pursuance of the authority and
directions contained in the de
cretal order of the Probate Court
of the Northern District of
Woodruff County Arkansas,
made and entered on the 7th. day
of December 1916, in a certain
cause pending in said Court in
which Lee Huddleston by his
Guardian G. W. Huddleston, in
an Ex parte Petition present
said cause to the Court, the un
dersigned as said Guardian will
offer for sale at Public vendue to
the highest bidder, no bid to be
considered for less than three
fourths of the appraised value,
in front of the Bank of McCrory
in the Town of McCrory in the
Northern District of Woodruff
County, between the hours for
judicial ghles, on Saturday the
6th. day of January 1917, an un
divided One Half Interest in and
to the following described real
estate situated in the Northern
District of Woodruff County, to
wit: —
<<The South West of the North -
East; The North West of the
South East; The North Half of
the Fractional South West, all
situated in Section 19 Township
8 North Range 1 West and the
South West of the South West of
Section 20 Township 8 North
Range 1 West.’’
Terms of sale: Approved se
curity not less than three months.
Given under my hand this 7th.
day of December, 1916. j
G. W. Huddleston.
Guardian of Lee Huddleston.
Adv. 12-8-4t.
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