Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1909 — WRIGHTS KEEP BUSY DESPITE CELEBRATION [ARTICLE]

WRIGHTS KEEP BUSY DESPITE CELEBRATION

Hurry Home Because They Hau to Get Up Early. Dayton, 0., June 18—During the first of the two days’ celebration in their honor this is what the Wright brothers did: Nine a. m.— Left work in their aeroplane shop and in their shirt sleeves went out in the street to hear every whistle and bell in town blow and ring for ten minutes; 9:10 a. m.—Returned to work; 10 a. m.—Drove in a parade to the opening ceremony of the “home coming” celebration; 11 a. m.—Returned to work; 12 m.—Reunion nt dinner with Bishop Milton Wright, the father; Miss Katherine Wright, the sister; Reuchlin Wright of Tonganaxie, Kan., a brother, and Loren, another brother; 2:30 p. m— Reviewed a parade given in their honor; 4:00 p. m.—Worked two hours packing up parts of an aeroplane for shipment to Washington; 8:00 p. m.—Attended a public reception and shook hands with as many Daytonlans as could get near them; 9:00 p. m.—Saw a pyrotechnical display on the river front in which their own portraits, eighty feet high and entwined in an American flag, were shown. When the fireworks were over, Wilbur turned to Orville and said: “Let’s hurry home. You know we have to got up early.**

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