Garland Globe | 1908-09-05 | Page 7 | Ouch!

Col. Charles Cooey, the president of tho Amerlrnu Federation of Aero H clubs, said the other day of an aero- H "Ho Is really too absent-minded to pilot n balloon. Ho used, you know, J to bo a railroad conductor, but he had J to give up tho work; he was loo al- for H "On his train, ono day, as he passed through tho cars Inking up the tick- H cts, a Joking pnsaenger, Instead ot H proffering his pastoboard, solemnly H proffered his forcflngor. H "Novor noticing nnythlng out of the H way, tho conductor punched a little H chunk out of tho Bldo of tho .fluger H and passed, on." H