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The Western Union Telegraph Company.
The rules of this Company require that all messages received for transmission shall be written on the message blanks of the Company, under and subject to the conditions printed thereon, which conditions have been agreed to by the sender of the following message.

William Orton, Pres't,
Geo. H. Mumford, Sec'y
New York

Dated Fayette City, Pa. Oct, 15 1875
Received at Waynesburg, Pa. Oct. 15 1875
To Mr. Charles E. Wise

I landed safely about five miles north east of Fayette City at two thirty oclock Shall I come to Wynesburg or not shall I buy a coat

John Wise

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ing; was moving toward Middletown; could see the Swatara creek and the Union canal; freight train opposite to me on its way to Harrisburg; I had entirely lost sight of Harrisburg. At 4:50 I was 4,500ft. high, thermometer 64 degrees; 5:02 3,000ft., high, descending rapidly. I landed on Jacob Reider's cornfield in Londonderry township, Dauphin county, accupied by John Garrett, between two woods; at five minutes past five o'clock and I was about fifteen miles from the driving park from which I ascended. After descending I waited a few minutes when two men and some boys made their appearance when I told them I wanted them to tow me out of the cornfield to some pasture field. But as it would not lift me up very easy Mr. Garrett got some little boy to step in the basket and we towed him along through the cornfield. After having got through the field we left some other boy get in and we left him up for a while. We then pulled it down and commened to leave the gas out and get things ready to pack up. At fifteen minutes of seven o'clock we had everything packed up and some boys from Middletown drove me to the railroad depot, where I had the balloon expressed, and I arrived back in Harrisburg all safe and sound and in time to see Duprez & Benedict's minstrels.

John Wise, The Younger
1951 N. Eleventh street, Philadelphia, Pa.

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Local Matters
Jim. J. Pauley-Editor
Waynesburg, October 20, 1875

"The Little Balloon Boy" is now the Lion in this section.

Let's have a "Centennial Balloon Ascension" and the biggest crowd ever in Waynesburg, on the Fourth of July next. We'll say further on this subject hereafter, and shall speak for Johnny Wise as the aeronaut.

Waynesburg is suffering from an attack of "Balloon Fever," which has taken a more serious hold of our peo- than the Epizootic, Hay Fever or Hoss Disorder ever did.