Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1914 — Carnival Showing in Rochester This Week. [ARTICLE]

Carnival Showing in Rochester This Week.

The carnival drew a good crowd again Saturday afternoon and night, especially at night. The shows all packed up Sunday morning and pulled out for Rochester, Ind., where they are showing at the fair there this week. Some of the stands and the restaurants did a very good business as a whole during the carnival, but to other lines of business it was a damage, as usual.

If we must have carnivals in the future, let them be run on some vacant lots or at one side of town, and not blockade our principal streets with them. We believe that the shows would do an even better business if this were done, where they could all be close together, and the restaurants would do practically as well as though they were on our main thoroughfares, and we know that all the general lines of business would be fhuch benefited by taking them off the streets.

This carnival company was probably one of the best and cleanest that we ever had here, but where they are of any general benefit to a town or a community is beyond our comprehension. If we must be afflicted with them in the future, let's insist on their being run on private grounds.