Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — AGAINST A CARNIVAL. [ARTICLE]

AGAINST A CARNIVAL.

NT he pastors of the various churches of Rensselaer have joined in a letter to the K. of P. lodge, asking the lodge to reconsider the matter of holding the proposed street fair and carnival. The letter sets forth, we are informed, that from both a moral and financial standpoint these affairs are a damage to a city, that they mean a wide-open town with all the undesirable concomitants the term implies, and that so far as bringing business to the town is concerned they are an actual damage to nearly every legitimate business, the “fakirs” and carnival followers taking away about all the money that is brought in by the visitors. No action has as yet been taken by the lodge in reference to the letter, except to read it in open lodge. We understand, however, that quite a good many K. of P's. were much impressed with some of the points made by the preachers against the project.