Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1914 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns.—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. Kentland Business Men ‘Not Favorable to Carnival. ” A canvas of the business men of Kentland was made Monday afternoon by a committee of the Commercial Club to ascertain more definitely the sentiment concerning the fall festival, or public entertainment contemplated by the club. About twenty-five expressed opposition to any form of public entertainment for this fall, owing to crop conditions and other matters that seemed to interfere. A few were indifferent, and only about a half dozen manifested any enthusiasm whatever toward the project. As a greater unity of purpose is essential to the success of an undertaking of this kind than was shown by the canvass, the event has been declared off. -Kentland Enterprise.