Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1906 — REMONSTRATORS SHOULD GET BUSY IN WHEATFIELD. [ARTICLE]

REMONSTRATORS SHOULD GET BUSY IN WHEATFIELD.

H. Yeoman returned Wednesday evening from Wheatfield, where he aud A. V. Farmer have a 12-mile ditch contract, cleaning the Wheatfield and Hodge ditch. The dredge was launched Wednesday and he says will be throwing dirt by*Jan. 1. Dave tells a story about an airship passing over near where the dredge lies at about sa. m. Tuesday. Some of the men who were up saw the ship and called the others out to see it. It was plainly discernible, carried a front and rear light and was going in a south-easterly direction,“tacking” like a 6hip sailing against the wind. We tried to tell Dave that the dredge men were not used to Mike Bernicken’s brand of wet goods, but he insists that the thing was really an air ship, all right, all right.