Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1909 — A BIC SHOW IS ASSURED [ARTICLE]

A BIC SHOW IS ASSURED

Almost SI,OOO In Purses and Amusements for Horse Show PROGRAM IS BEING MADE OP And There Will Be Something Doing All the Time—Everything Is Free As Water, and the Entire County Is Invited to Come to Rensselaer Oct. 14, 15 and 16, Three Big Days. Everything is moving along nicely in the arrangements for the big Horse Show to be held here week after next. The finance committee, Messrs, D. M. Worland and Fred Phillips, have met with flattering success in raising funds and donations of prizes, and SBOO in purses and for amusements and $l3O in special prizes by individual stable horse owners is the result of their efforts. Arrangements have been completed, we understand, for a ballonist to make daily ascensions and parachute drops during the show, and a contract will nkely have been made by to-day for a good band of music to play each day. The committee is negotiating with the Wolband and one or two others, but at this writing it looks like the Wolcott band, one of the best in northern Indiana, would be secured. In the ball game events Oxford will play Thursday and Brook Friday. Saturday the high school football team will play a Lafayette' team. The qpmmlttee has prevailed upon , Mr. Leek to lease the north half of his hitch barn for use of the association for housing the horses on exhibition, and these quarters will be free to exhibitors, neither will any entry fee be charged. Everything is absolutely free and there is no limit as to distance or locality where horses are owned or bred. Mr. Leek consented to lease a part of his barn only that he might help the cause along, as he could, no doubt, easily fill the barn every day of the show with teams and make much more out of it. ■Everyone is showing the same spirit, sacrificing self-interest for the general good of the cause, and with good weather we may confidently look for a good time and a big crowd here during the show. The program is not complete at this writing, but we hope to be able to publish it in full in the next issue of The Democrat.