Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — AIRSHIPS DREW FAIR CROWD [ARTICLE]

AIRSHIPS DREW FAIR CROWD

Despite the Short Notice Given of Their Coming. Quite a crowd of people was in town Saturday morning to see the two airplanes that came av’er from Rantoul, Illinois, despite the short notice given. The planes came first to Mt. Ayr and thence to this city arriving here at 10:45 o’clock. Their trip here was made in the interests of the Fourth Liberty Loan drive which started Saturday morning. The planes came direct from the west and landed in the Amsler pasture just at the north side of town. They were here perhaps three quarters of an ho'uir, and when leaving circled over the city, thence back to their landing place and then headed off toward Francesville, their next stop. It is understood that they went from Francesville to Winamac and thence to South Bend. The fliers and their planes were quite an attraction to our people, (many of whom had never seen one of these ships in flight before, and had a little more notice been given of the date they were to be here an ' immense crowd from all parts of the county would have been in Rensselaer to see them.