Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1903 — WHAT MONTICELLO MISSED. [ARTICLE]

WHAT MONTICELLO MISSED.

White County Democrat: Monticello people of an observant turn were able last Saturday and Sunday to point out a few samples of what carnival week would have brought to town. In some manner it got noised among some of the roving hangers-on of these institutions that Montcello’s street carnival was to begin last Monday, and it was so entered in their books. Some of them had not learned that the affair had been dropped, and Saturday they began dropping in, to be on the ground early and get the lay of the land. There were professionals of various kinds, both male an female, and some left their proffesson to be guessed, and all seemed greatly disappointed when they learned that our people had concluded to not throw the town open to them for a weeks liscsnse and revelry. Of course these were not the people who were to be employed to furnish the public attractions, but only a few straggling representatives of that great army of iewdness, licentiousness and graft that operate in back rooms, back yards and alleys, as an iventitable concomitant to a street carnival. With these few samples to judge from our community may be glad that we escaped battalion back of them.