Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1911 — IS IT AN AIRSHIP? [ARTICLE]

IS IT AN AIRSHIP?

For several evenings lately a moving light has been seen in the sky over toward Mt. Ayr, and people here who have noticed it have,, thought it was an air ship. It was seen last week every evening when it was still, the writer himself having his attention called to it Thursday eve ning. No one seems to be able to tell just what it is, and we have wondered whether it was the Diogenes of the Mt. Ayr Pilot out with his lantern looking for the tracklayers on the Purtelle electric road or that the Halstead boys had invented an air craft and were trying it out of evenings. Will some one over in the vicinity of the disturbance kindly put us wise?