The Holly chieftain., 1919-07-10
Airplain Remains Six Days
Following Big Ah.
MORE THAN SCORE OF
CITIZENS GO AT $40 PER
Lieut.. Geo. Puflsa, Govsrnmsnt
Aerial Instructor During the
War, Furnishes Progressive Hol-
lyites Week Of Aerial Voyages.


in Colorado which has so many air
plane fans as Holly. Since the 4th
of July 20 less than a score of our
prominent hitizens, both men and
women, have taken ride in the
airplane which gave the exhibi-
tions here on the afternoon of the
4th and which has since been sta
toned on the golf links just
north of town. The price was $40
for 20 minutes ride, which further
indicates our good sporting quail
ties
Every night and morning since
the 4th from one to half dozen of
Holly citizens have been taking
Commute joy ride with Lieut.. Geo.
Puflea, the veteran airplane pilot
who came here with the airplane
from Denver on the morning of the
4th.
Lieut.. Puflea was one of the
highest paid airplane instructors
in the employ of the United States
Government during the war, and
has been flying since 1909. He is
Roumanian by birth but a very
congenial fellow and has made
many warm acquaintances here
during the past week.
Almost without eceptiOn those
who have, ridden are delighted
with the experience and thrill. The
particular thrill, they say is in
landing. Being dropped from Is.
story building in an ordinary pas
senger elevator is not even cir
cumstance to the sensation exper-
fenced in landing on the ground
in an airplane from an elevation
of 500 feet or more.
The highest elevation attained
during the week was Tuesday ev-
ening when Geo. Marsh, cashier at
the Santa Fe depot, went up with
Lieut.. Puflea and they reported
having attained an attitude Of
$500 feet. Most of the aerial joyri-
ders of Holly have been satisfied
with from 500 to 1000 feet.
The first person in Holly to take
an aerial ride was Miss Muriel
Hunter of Garden City, Kansas,
who lives with Peter A. Bauor's
family in the country. Mrs. VIM.
Burke the lady wl.O secured the
free .ide offe. ",l by the Holly Phar-
m.,y to the :hst lady making az.
plication to ride in the airplane on
the 4th, was the second.
Others who have ridden since
the evening of the 4th are Ed
Jones, Lewis CLANCY, Forest John
son, j. H. Leonard of the Amity
Model Dairy farm and two sons,
Edward and Joe, w. w. Hecke.
thorn, superintendent of schools,
X. A. Shanner, Mrs Lewis CLANCY.
Wray Richardson, Sim Bragg, Ted
Fortney, Geo. Marsh, Harry o.
Kane. Don Citizens, Albert Morich,
Irene Plank, J. R. Johnson and Ce-
ell Wilson.
There are still others comtempla-
ting an aerial ride, and there is al
so talk of the formation of small
corporation here for the purchase
of the airplane, among those most
interested being Ed. Jones and
Ray Brown. In the event of deal,
Lieut.. Geo. Puflea would be re-
tanned as pilot and an aerial pas.
senger service would be estab
lished here in Holly. The price of
the airplane is $500. AS yet deal
has not been closed here, and it is
reported Hartman parties are al
so in the market for a plane.
There is no getting around the
fact that the airplane flights here
on the 4th put Holly on the aerial
map very substantially and in the
event the plane is bought by the
local syndicate, Holly will be the
first town in the state outside of
Denver to have an airplane and to
engage in passenger air service.
Boy Scouts Did Well.