Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1902 — HAY YET HAVE CARNIVAL. [ARTICLE]

HAY YET HAVE CARNIVAL.

The K. of P. Lodge held a special meeting last Friday night to re-consider the matter of holding a street fair here next month. Geo. B Ensenberger, who has charge of Wright’s Carnival Co., of Evansville, was here and made a proposition to the lodge to bring their aggregation of attractions to Rensselaer for SSOO, and to give the lodge 15 per cent of the earnings while here. The carnival company carry 15 shows, it is claimed, a band of 16 pieces and have something like 300 people altogether. J, H. S. Ellis and Photographer Parker were appointed a committee to go to LaSalle, 111., this week and see if the moral tone of the show was up to the standard demanded for Rensselaer, and if their report is favorable it is very likely that the proposed street carniVal will be held. Later: The committee returned from LaSalle Thursday morning, and report the show to be the cleanest and best they ever saw’, and, as the necessary SSOO has been subscribed, we understand it is altogether likely that the carnival will be a sure go.