Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-09-01

$4,000 Welcome Filler at Little
Falls, His Old Home
Town

Little Falls, Minn.-After visiting
for the first time in two years the
white house on the Mississippi river
where he spent his boyhood, Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh, flying hero of
the world, stepped into the Spirit of
st. Louis here and brought to an end
his homecoming celebration and the
greatest occasion in the history Of
Little Falls.
Honored by $4,000 persons gathered
for the festivities from all over the
state, Colonel Lindbergh came home
to one Of the most enthusiastic ova.
lions he has received since his fight
across the Atlantic ocean.
Filler and Mother Visit Old Home
It was a real Homecoming for the
fiier and for his mother, Mrs. Evange-
line Lindbergh, who few into Little
Falls just ahead of him. While crowds
awaited him In town, he slipped away
with his mother and drove out the
two miles to the woods in which his
former home, despoiled by enthusiasts
tic souvenir hunters, stands.
For an hour he and his mother wan.
dered through the grounds and the
vacant house, reliving in their memo
ries scenes Of days when the fiier was
only young Charley Lindbergh Of Lit
tie Falls instead of Colonel Lind
bergh Of the United States. Then the
colonel was hurried to the flying field
on the other side Of town and took
off ~ the Spirit of st. Louis for Fargo,
N. D., his next stop on his tour of the
United States in the interest of com.
mercial aeronautics.
After the Lindberghs had left the
old homestead, N. N. Bergheim, attor-
ney for the Lindbergh estate, said
Colonel Lfndbergh and his mother
had virtually agreed that the old home
should be turned over to the Ameri-
can Legion post at Little Falls and
maintained under their supervision as
community farm center and public
meeting place. Interests Of the two
other heirs to the estate will be pur-
chased with funds provided for that
purpose by Colonel Lindbergh at
whose particular request 1t is under
stood the arrangements are being
made.
10 Honored at Banquet
Charley was the guest of his for
mer neighbors at one Of the greatest
banquets ever conducted in this city.
The dinner came after q day of
speaking and eulogy on the part of
leaders of Morrison county and Of the
city at the fair grounds.
Seated at q long table with leaders
Of the state and county and Mayor
Austin Grimes of Little Falls, ''Lindy"
seemingly had become new man in
the few hours after his landing.
For the first time since the tour
started his features were constantly
lighted with smile as he watched the
throng Of old acquaintances at the
tables before him.
A constant stream Of old friends
and neighbors strobe to the table to
grasp his hand with the greeting Of
Hello Charles" or Hello Charley
and then to turn to his mother, Mrs.
Evangeline Lindbergh, and greet her
as the fiier grinned happily.
No formal Introduction marked the
rising of Colonel Lindbergh to make
his speech. Instead, he was an
nounced merely as Charles, and the
crowd of several thousand rose to its
feet, cheered and laughed or cried
bit happily, then sat down to hear
what their boy had to say.
Promises to Return Visit
Colonel Lindbergh told his neigh.
bors It was harder to make a speech
than It was to fly across the Atlantic.
He again reiterated his statement,
made earlier in the day, that until
business. He promises that he would
October % his time was limited to
come back again for 'flong visit.
In his talk the fiier told the men
and women flying over large bodies
Of water in land ships probably never
would be practical, but that the time
is near when flying boats will make
the trip in regular schedule between
New York and Paris"
He predicted that 1928 would see
general rise in the airplane manufac-
turing business of the country and
that 1t would be only matter of time
before experiments had conquered the
dread sleet danger by chemical and
mechanical means.