Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1917 — I Crane Your Necks Saturday; Aeroplanes Going Over. [ARTICLE]

I Crane Your Necks Saturday; Aeroplanes Going Over.

Keep your eyes open and listen for the whirring of the aeroplane propeller on Saturday, October 20. There may be something doing in the sky over Rensselaer. Army flyers will make coast to coast aeroplane raids on that day in behalf of the liberty loan, and as we are inside the Rantoul zone they may come this

way. At an appointed hour, forty-five aviators and eight balloonists, armed withpaperbombs, will ascend for flights ranging from fifteen to bne hundred sixty miles between camps where the “Eyes of the Army” are in training. As cities, villages anc towns are passed over, hundreds of red, white and blue paper bombs containing Liberty Loan literature, will be dropped on each municipality. There will also be dropped one large red bomb (to which will be attached a long ribbon) containing a special message for the mayor. The most daring aviators and balloonists from the different camps will be selected for these flights. Applications for the honor of flying in behalf of the Loan already” are coming in to the war department. Besides dropping the bombs, the flyers doubtless will give brief exhibitions above every city over which they pass.