Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1915 — COUNTY FAIR WOULD BE FINE FOR US [ARTICLE]

COUNTY FAIR WOULD BE FINE FOR US

Jasper County Could Doubtless Make One Pay—Automobiles Great Factor of Patronage. Some three or four years ago some one proposed a county fair for Jasper county and several pieces of land near this city were mentioned as suitable places for a fair ground. The movement, however, never went any further because there was no one to take the project up. The fairs in neighboring counties, however, are drawing increased patronage each year, and they are splendid factors in encouraging the raising of fine stock, the exhibition of grain, vegetables, fruits, fancy work, domestic science products, etc. With the advent of the automobile distances have been so annihilated that a drive of 30 to 50 miles to attend a fair is not very great and thus is the drawing territory for a fair much greater than in previous years. With a fair ground the question of carnivals, street fairs, etc., would be solved. It would take a lot of money, however, to purchase land and get a fair started and the work of a responsible leader would be necessary to start it off.