| Transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer from microfilm
of the Calhoun Chronicle dated 9/20/1910.
Citizens of Brooksville and Freed Communities were startled Sunday afternoon
by the appearance of a huge balloon soaring among the clouds over their
heads. Dr. Wright and other men who were on Leading creek, got close
enough to the balloon to converse with the occupants. The name of
the balloon was the Miss Sophia, and the two occupants names were Afman
and McCullough both of St. Louis. They had started in a race with
another balloon from Indianapolis, Ind., Friday morning. They stopped
for the night at Solmon Haullp's, near Lough. The balloon was from
there shipped to McFarlan from whence it was shipped back home Monday.
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