Quite a number of persons here were interested Saturday morning to know why an airplane circled over the city for several times and then flew on its way. Later in the day this was explained when Mr. Sam Hogwood picked up a scrap of paper on which was the following writing:
“Please deliver to Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Wellons, Smithfield, N.C.: Greetings to you both from Earl Hoag. Just discovered I will soon be over Smithfield. Hope you get this.
--“EARL HOAG”
Mr. Hoag was in the air service during the World War with Robert A. Wellons, and has since visited here several times. When they were stationed at Scottsfield, Ill., they performed a very difficult stunt when they threated in and out five bridges over the Mississippi Rover near Cincinnati, in an airplane. Mr. Hoag is now from Washington, D.C. He was headed sout in his plane as he passed over Smithfield Saturday.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Tuesday, May 18, 1926
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