Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1899 — “Mary” Has Migrated. [ARTICLE]

“Mary” Has Migrated.

The merry-go-round, familiarly known A as Mary, and officially as a riding-gallery, which for a week past has occupied the vacant lots south of The Republican office made its last run here Saturday night. Their week here has not been very profitable, (owing largely to several quite cool evenings, which cut down the attendance greatly, for the merry-go-round is pre-eminently a fine weather bird. The proprietors, Messrs. Miller & Murray, have loaded the outfit into a car and shipped it to Henderson, Ky. They say the South is the best place for their business not only on account of more warm weather, but also because the people there seem not to be so palled and surfeited with entertainments of all kinds as in the north. The colored population are especially liberal patrons, but they are also pretty hard to keep in order. The entire outfit makes .a carload, and it also represents quite a large investment, the cost's! the factory, as stated by the proprietors, being 12400.