Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1915 — FOUR BIG DAYS [ARTICLE]

FOUR BIG DAYS

And Nights At Hammond’s Fall Carnival and Jubilee. The great activity and bustle at present going on in Hammond for the forthcoming -Fall Festival,” which will take place October 20, 21, 22 and 23. The Chamber of Commerce, who is sponsoring the event, is planning to make this festival more extensive and comprehensive than anything of the kind hitherto produced in that city. An unusually large appropriation has been set aside for the free outdoor attractions and every care taken that these will include only highclass and special features. There will also be a nightly display of fireworks, with a mechanical device showing a war scene and bombardment.

The booths for the mercantile and manufacturing exhibits will be located on specified streets of a central section of the city, which will also include a "pleasure zone,” where the amusements and free attractions will be placed and pastimes, which will include carousels and mechanical devices of every name and nature will be there, with every conceivable kind of music and recreational imoration at Hammond s Fall Festival, display nightly, with amusement devices of all kinds. Special Illumination and decorations, bands of music, parades and everything that will contribute to an especially enjoyable and profitable vacation will be there. Also several imporant circus and’ hippodrome acts will be among the offerings, together with many novelties and high-class features, bands of music, parades and universable up-to-date pastime devices will adjl to the enjoyment of the occasion.— Advt.