Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1919 — AIRSHIP IN CITY FOR THREE DAYS OF FLIGHTS. [ARTICLE]

AIRSHIP IN CITY FOR THREE DAYS OF FLIGHTS.

An aeroplane, the property of Denton R. Craig, of Lafayette, and piloted by Lieut. Dunn, arrived in Rensselaer late Thursday afternoon and will remain here until Monday morning and will be prepared to make flights at any hour of the day for those who care to enjoy the thrills of a ride heavenwards. This is the plane which was scheduled to have come here last week butt which was laid up for repairs fallowing an accident at Fowler when it lit on its nose in a corn paitch causing a damage of $250 to a Benton county farmer’s crop. The first Rensselaer party to make a flight in the plane was Mdse Gwendolyn Kannal, daughter of Dr. J. H. Kannal, who made the trip about 7 o’clock in the evening. Miss Kannal described the teip as thrilling and was so enthusiastic over the Sight thalt it is not improbable that (the doctor’s automobile wifi so»o<n have to give up its place in his garage to a 1920 model aeroplane. Lawrence McLain was the other passenger of the evening, and he, too, found the trip through the air to be a wonderfully enjoyable sensation. Anyone desiring to imitate a bird during the three days’ atay of the plane may do so by making application to A. E. or Nels Shafer at the Main Garage.