Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1916 — BIG CIRCUS DAY IS DRAWING NEAR [ARTICLE]

BIG CIRCUS DAY IS DRAWING NEAR

Everything Ready For Coming of the Carl Ilagenbeck-Wallace Circus Next Saturday. - It’s tflie circus that’s the question of the hour in Rensselaer, at least for the small boys of six as well as for those of sixty. The billboards, bams and dead wadis are announcing with all the fluency of pictorial art the coming of the Carl Hagenbeck-Wal-lace circus. And already .preparations are being made for the one big holiday event of the year, acknowledged to be better ihan CSuristmas and the Fourth of July put together, circus day with its manifold promises. On tiie morning of Saturday, Aug. 1, the first of the three long trains of yellow cars will be coming, pulling in/to the railroad yards. Much is promised by the management this season. There are 400 performers who take part in the big sfhaw program. Every aitiat was selected because of some especial merit. The Carl Hagenbeck trained wild animals form a big feature of the slhow. In an immense Steel arena will be seen lions, tigers, leopards, polar bears and other wild beats broken to perforin marvelous feats. Performances will be given at 2 and Bp. m. The doors will be opened an hour earlier. The parade is at 10 o’clock in the morning.