Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1916 — Saturday, August 5, Will Be a Big Day in Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

Saturday, August 5, Will Be a Big Day in Rensselaer.

Advertising car No. 1 of the Hagen beck-Wallace circus was in Rensselaer Monday billing the town and county for miles about for the show to be given here on Saturday, August 5. This is now one of the largest shows on the road, and it requires 61 large specially built railroad cars to transport it. The Hagenbeck-Wallace circus has exhibited several times in Rensselaer and it has a good reputation here. When last here, in 1912, it required 48 cars to bring the show here, and the addition of 13 more cars since that time indicates that the show is more than one-fourth larger than when last here. The show comes from Monticello here and will go from Rensselaer to Joliet, 111. Advertising car No. 2 will be here next Monday and No. 3 the following Monday. Saturday, August 5, will indeed be a big day in Rensselaer and one of the largest crowds ever in the city will be here to take in the show.