Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1911 — SHOWS OPEN TONIGHT GOOD 1ST DAY CROWD [ARTICLE]

SHOWS OPEN TONIGHT GOOD 1ST DAY CROWD

LITTLE DELAY IN STARTING, HOT THINGS ARE LOOKING FINE FOR BIG SHOW AND INHENSE ASSEMBLAGE. Free Attractions Good Boys’ Bind Has Been Playing All Day, and Italian Band Will Play this Afternoon and Tonight. The horse show and business men's celebration will be well on by tonight. The management of the New Exposition Shows, which were engaged by the Commercial Club to entertain visitors during the Horse Show, made strenuous efforts to have their attractions open for ‘business this afternoon but were unable to do so. All shows, concessions, free acts, and riding devices will be ready for business tonight, and Prof. Angelo’s Italian band will play for the carnival attractions. The Parker jumping-horse carry-us-all, by all odds the finest merry-go-round which has ever been brought to Rensselaer, has attracted no little attention and carries its own light plant and military band organ. The diving horses, May and June, will be the feature sensational free act and will dive at ten and four o’clock promptly every day of the Horse Show. Vontello and Nina, one of Europe’s most celebrated acrobatic teams, will appear tonight at nine o’clock promptly, In their trapeze and ring acts. “Bob,” the boxing kangaroo, will be presented In a very clevor boxing contest with Miss Myrtle Seaman, at 7:30 every evening. Among the many shows