Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1909 — Absent Minded. [ARTICLE]

Absent Minded.

Col. Charley Coey, the president of the American Federation of Aero Clubs, is credited with this story of an aeronautical pilot: “He is really too absent-minded to pilot a balloon. He used, you know, to be a railroad conductor, but he had to give up the work; he was too ab-sent-minded for it. too. "On his train one day, as he passed through the cars taking up the tickets, a joking passenger, instead of proffering, his jJasteboard, solemnly proffered his forefinger. “Never noticing anything out ot the way, the conductor punched a little chunk out of the side of the finger and passed on.”