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Show REAL ESTATE BOOMER Had RIAL fciM rEfiPRISE (Bj nleriuttlonnl New Service.) uiXMi'.MJ, Man, ISric Brompton, of Indian Springs, Manitoba, wanted lo buy a farm, knew exact) what he wanted and had the collateral. to he stepped tnio a Winnipeg ieul estate o::ice 1 have a farm that I believe will just you, ' sa.id ihe real estate man 1-les Unity-six miles west of city o:i Canadian national railways. Kine farming country. Grain yield big 1'ienty oi livestock, ti cut dairying dairy-ing country," Sounds good to hear you tell it." replied Miompton. ' But you ve got to show me. I must see the land." Got twenty minutes to spare?" "Sure " "J0m with me." The real estat.- man clapped on his hat and catching Kromplun !y the arm rushed him Into the street. Brompton was nonplussed Kither the real estate man whs crazy or he was nhoui to perpetrate some practical Joke. A few blocks away they came to an aerodrome Thev stepped Into .i Waiting airplane. The machine rose half a mite Into the sky and made a bcc-lln course westward In l-ts than twenty minutes It was over the faini. From the flying car Broopton Inspected every corner and angle of the land. W hen the aeroplane came lo earth the deal was closed across u wing of the machine and the property prop-erty was turned over lo the pur-; chaser. Tills la said to be the first time on j the American continent thai a farm has been sold by airplane. |