Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — Fair At Crown Point Next Week: [ARTICLE]

Fair At Crown Point Next Week:

The fair at Crown Point begins next week, and reports from there say it is destined to be a great efcow. Owing to the fact that the Gary & Southern Traction Co., have completed their line into Crown Point this summer from Gary and northern Lake county cities, insures thousands of people, and the society has arranged to greet them with a fair twice the size of former .ones, including eight free acts, among them being the SI,OOO show of Marantette's Society horses and Trotting ostrich, which has a record to a speed buggy of 1:14 for a half mile. Eight races are on the program for the week. The fair runs both day and night and is a SIO,OOO proposition for the society to pull off. John Duvall of Rensselaer has his trotter entered in the 2:24 trot stake for Friday.