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IF IN DOUBT ABOUT HOW NORWALK LOOKS, GO UP IN THE AIR TOMORROW AND GET A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE BEST TOWN IN OHIO.

Derhammer, lot in Lafayette.
E. C. Kollfrath to the Dunham Land Co., 64.1 acres in Lafayette.
Marsh M. Kirk to George Abbott, 23 acres in Montville.
J. E. Lemon to Mary C. Mohn, 2 acres in Wadsworth.
Anna Lee to Roy H. Snyder, 5 acres in Wadsworth.
M. H. and Laura Leatherman to Willard Flickinger, village lot in Wadsworth.
Mary C. and James G. Mohn to George Ryland and Wm. L. Good, village lot in Wadsworth.
L. F. and Carrie Morrison to Coronado Oil Co., Inc., 1/2 acre in [[ch?]]hatham.
Della F. Moore to Frank L. Mum-[(?)]aw, village lot in Medina, $500.
H. E. and Ada McClure to Wm. H. d Jennie B. Scheck, 64.61 acres Wadsworth.
Elmira P. McCarty to Louis L. [(?)]denmann and wife, 2 acres in [(?)]risville.
[(?)]ayton and Mary Neff to Henry J.
Mary W. Sadler, village lot in

SEPT-5-191

Aerial Sheriffs Expected Here Late[[r?]] This Afternoon

Lorain Aviators Will Give Exhibition Flights and Carry Passengers.

Bellevue residents will be afforded another opportunity of "touring the air" Saturday and Sunday when Ohio's first aerial sheriffs - Aviators George E. Weaver and C.W. Brown Lorain, recently returned from army service - will make a two-day stop here. The aviators were expected to arrive here late this afternoon and will make landings and flights from a field on the Paul Ruffing farm, just east of the Mill pond. Fred Moore, manager of the Ohio Aviation school, Lorain, was here last evening making arrangements for the visit of the aviators.

The aviators bear the distinction of being the first "air cops" in the state of Ohio, having been named deputies by the Lorain county sheriff. Both have had extensive experience in air navigation as members of the aerial force which played no little part in bringing victory to the allies in the recent world war.

The Cleveland News of Wednesday contained a photo of Sheriff Backus

NORWALKIANS TAKE TO AIR LIKE EAGLETS
Several Norwalk people literally [(?)]t up in the air" last evening-- up with Lieut. Lott in his Cur- [(?)]iplane. And they one and all [(?)]t was the finest thing they ever experienced. The airplane headquarters is on the Gardiner field [(?)]t the of Christie avenue, out beyond [(?)]Lais brewery, and scores people are daily visiting it. Lieut Lott remain a day or two and take passengers who may want to go. [(?)]ag those who made the tr[(?)] last [(?)]ng were Charles B. Ga[(?)]er, [(?)]and cashier of the Citizen's National bank, and R. A. Fisher, [(?)]er- manager of the Reflecto[(?)]r-
"You can't beat it," declares a- [(?)]nd I wouldn't take $100 fo[(?)]y [(?)]ence. In the first place, [(?)]s comfortable as though i[(?)]
I cautioned Lott. when [(?)]d to go easy with me and any didoes. We got up of thousand feet--some [(?)] he asked me if he should the loop. I was up there [(?)] didn't know when I might go high again, so I took a [(?)] and told him to give me every [(?)] in the book. here's the [(?)]rt of it. I didn't know we[(?)] the loop till after he did [(?)] [(?)]on't even tug at the straps [(?)] you in, centrifugal force [(?)]g the phenomena. The o[(?)] a bit woozy was when [(?)]al nose dip and we flipped like a rotary fan, dropping [(?)]mmet all the time. 
was a marvelous experience [(?)] Lieut. Lott certainly knew [(?)]dle the machine most [(?)]"

"Now We're Going to Loop" - And He Did
Gazette Representative Does Air Gymnastics While Crowd Watches

If you want to experience a real t-h-r-i-l-l, the engage Lieutenant Aviator E.P. Lott to take you on an air cruise during his stay here tomorrow. And, if you fear you'll miss your share of the thrills, just quietly inform him, while he's "cranking up," that you want "everything". He'll do the rest.

"What's the sensation of air cruising? To a Gazette representative, who early this afternoon, as a passenger of Lieut. Lott rode miles through the air, above Bellevue and the surrounding country,it surpassed anything offered by the smoothest running automobile, while the birds-eye view which is thus afforded of the city and surrounding country surpasses in beauty even the most vivid imagination of postcard artists. In fact, the birds apparently have the "best of it" insofar as landscape views are concerned.

After climbing into the machine, Lieut. Lott imparted a few simple instructions and warnings, then the start was made. Bumping lightly over a field on the Paul Ruffing farm, just east of the Mill pond, - it seemed no rougher than the city street which was traversed by automobile in reaching the flying field - the aviator turned gracefully and headed westward. Just as a heavy growth of orn hove into view, the machine tilted ever so slightly - took graceful parting from the ground and the Gazette representative was "up in the air" literally, although not figuratively.

Spinning through the air space at a speed of seventyfive miles an hour, many feet above old terra firma - (we had sworn we'd not leave good old earth) Bellevue's business blocks and residencies take on the appearance of those miniatures with which children are accustomed to play, street cars and automobiles, having a similar appearance, while the green fields and ribbon-like roads, winding away for miles in the distance present a view which brings the conclusion that designers of birds-eye view postcards must all be aviators.

Suddenly the engine ceased humming and we thought 'twas all over. We were satisfied, though reluctant to return to ground and once again resume the accustomed routine.

"Now we're going to loop."

It was Aviator Lott speaking. Hardly had he uttered the words when the hum of the engine resumed and - one news hound expected never again to torture a typewriter. The air rushed past at inconceivable speed and while we still were waiting for the earth to meet us, the plane suddenly righted, the engine ceased humming and Aviator Lott was speaking.

"We lopped the loop. Did you know it?" he asked. We assured him we did.

"It was one of the prettiest loops we've ever seen, was the comment of the crowd gathered at the flying field when the plane landed after the flight.

Lt. Lott, who is the navigator in charge of the machine here, has had ten year experience in the flying game and , to use his own words "knows nothing else." He recently returned from service with the American army as an instructor in flying and is fully competent to handle the machine which he uses.

The machine is a Curtiss, of the type used by the American army. It has a wing spread of 45 feet and the motor is 90 horse-power. The flyer develops a speed of 75 miles an hour when driving at capacity.

Lt. Lott flew here this morning from Norwalk where, in two days he carried a total of 35 passengers. At New London, Labor Day, 45 passengers were carried. The machine will remain here until Sunday night for the purpose of carrying passengers. Flights are made in lyogThgers. Flights and landings are made in a large field, just east of the Mill pond.

BEL . GAZETTE -
Bellevue, Ohio, Saturday, September 6, 1919.
Clyde Kelly