Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1913 — SPARKS CIRCUS IS COMING MAY 21 [ARTICLE]

SPARKS CIRCUS IS COMING MAY 21

i • . ' i Rensselaer is to HayetA.Big Circus, Hippodrome and Menagerie— Baseball Park Rented. All day Saturday the busiest, man in town was Mr. F. M. Heaton, advance agent for Sparks World’s Fmous Shows. He was like a will-o-the-wisp, now here, now there, making contracts and arranging for the coming of the great circus. The grounds known as the Base Ball Grounds were leased from their owners, and he was several times heard to make complaint tliat the grounds were hardly large enough to accommodate the show properly. The Sparks shows, as they will appear here this jrear, rank among the leading circuses of the country. It is claimed to have a solid train of twenty monster railroad cars, al-. most four hundred people and over two hundred animals, both foreign and domestic. The show employs over fifty people in the department of publicity alone and from now on until show day the country for twenty miles around will be given a thorough billing and if the weather is at ail favorable May 21st, they will haveto entertain an immense throng on that day.