Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1920 — CIRCUS TO BE SATURDAY AFTERNOON FEATURE [ARTICLE]

CIRCUS TO BE SATURDAY AFTERNOON FEATURE

-A big circus, free to everyone, will appear on the streets of Rensselaer Saturday afternoon between 2:30 and 3:30 o’clock. Go slow now and read carefully. A big automobile truck, furnished by the Central Garage, will appear on the streets and will carry a piano and Ernest Zea in his new suit of clothes. Mr. Zea will render vocal and instrumental music. Master Albert AJbin, the little crippled boy who is to be taken to the McClean Sanitarium at St. Louis next week to have his foot straight* ened, will give a recitation. Mr. C. H. Wager, the card writer, will deliver a heart-to-heart-talk and give a brief sketch of his life, relating how he acqired his penmanship and how he became interested in the welfare of unfortunates. Ten of Rensselaer’s prettiest girls will wait, upon the audience with subscription papers, requesting sums of from $25.00 on down. Each girl must secure donations aggregating SIOO, and-will not stop until the amount alk)ted them in cash is collected. The grand total of SI,OOO is to be subscribed in one hour. The ten young ladies will turn over the cash and vouchers to William S. Day, treasurer of Rensselaer’s asociated charities, the unpaid portions to be called a reserved fund to be called for only when absolutely necessary to care for the unfortunates in this vicinity. The circus clown, Mr. Wager, is to turn a somersault as each girl comes in with her SIOO signed up, and when the amounts agregate SI,OOO, including the $55 to be given by Wager, tbs down will turn a somersault in a common kitchen chair upon the automobile and thank the audience. •Mayor Charles G. Spitler has granted a permit for the nolding of the performance. — Smile and give cheerfully. G. H. WAGER.