Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1915 — A BIG HOLIDAY. [ARTICLE]

A BIG HOLIDAY.

Sparks World’s Famous Shows— Circus, Hippodrome! and Menaggerie—To Be Here Thursday, May 13. All day Wednesday the busiest man in town was Mr. J. C. Tracy, advance agent of Spaiks World’s Famous Shows. He was like a will-o-the-wisp, now here, now there, making contracts and arranging for the coming of the great circus. The grounds known as the Kannal circus lot were leased from Dr. H. J. Kannal and he was several times heard to make complaint that the grounds were hardly large enough to accommodate the show The Sparks’ shows as they will appear here this year, rank among the leading circuses of the country. It is claimed to have a solid train of twenty monster railway cars, almost four hundred people and over two hundred animals, both foreign and domestic. The show employs over fifty people in the department of publicity alone and from now on until show day the country for twenty miles around will be given a thorough billing and if the weather is at all favorable May 13, Rensselaer . will have to entertain an immense throng on that day.—Advertisement.