Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1914 — WM. CAUSE CARNIVAL AUG. 31 TO SEPT. 5 [ARTICLE]

WM. CAUSE CARNIVAL AUG. 31 TO SEPT. 5

, Local Lodge of Red Men to Bring Carnival Here for Entire Week —Largest Ever Shown Here. * O. C. Reel, the advance man of the Wm. Gause carnival, was here on Thursday and in a conference with the local order of Red Men interested them in the carnival now showing at Valparaiso. It seems that there was a mix-up in the dates of the show, and th/advance man who was sick for several weeks, cancelled an engagement that was made during his illness. Rensselaer is the smallest place that they have shown, as the size of the carnival is such that larger cities are played. The contract with the local parties was conditioned on a visit to the shows at Valparaiso, which was made last evening, and the representatives who went to Valparaiso are enthusiastic about the carnival. It. is the cleanest show on the road, everything connected with it°being clean, moral and refined. Not one feature is off color; there are no girl shows, but the show advertises as being clean /from top to bottom in every particular. The local committee, after -.scing, signed up, and as a result Renssealer will have the largest carnival in her history, starting Monday, Aug. 31, and ending September 5.

This carnival carries ten pay shows, a ferris wheel, merry-go-round and motordrome. There are twenty concessions with the carnival. The big feature headline of the aggregation is a thirty-piece Italian band, which is the biggest and best carnival band in the country. It is the custom of the management to always give a sacred cohcert in the town on the Sunday preceding the opening day. The coneert by this band will be held on the court house - lawn on Sunday evening, Aug. 30, from 7 to 9 p. m., and from all reports it will be a sacred concert worth coming a long ways to hear. The churches at Valparaiso dismissed last Sunday to attend in a body, and the Rensselaer men who went up to see and learn for themselves, vouch that this show is all that is claimed for it. The following members of the Red Men lodge were active in getting this entertainment for Rensselaer, and will have charge of the carnival: A 1 Wallace, True Woodworth, Cal Cain, Chas. Rishling, Fred Arnott, Frank Rowen and Ed J. Duvall. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Richards yesterday.