Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1908 — NOBODY WANTS A CARNIVAL. [ARTICLE]

NOBODY WANTS A CARNIVAL.

• The great majority of \he people of Rensselaer do not want any more carnivals here, but if there are a few whose desire for such things cannot be satiated, let them take a day or two off and go up to Chicago and put in the time on South Clark street or some other equally notorious locality of the Windy City. Even a majority of the doctors here, who usually profit most from the result of so-called carnivals, are also against having anything of the sort here again. Carnivals are a relic of the old Tom McCoy days of licensed saloons and speak-easies on every corner, with gambling rooms et cetera over the groggeries. Rensselaer wants no more of them, and when the promoter calls around give him the marble heart.