Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1903 — Ban Placed on Street Fairs. [ARTICLE]

Ban Placed on Street Fairs.

The Indiana grand lodge, Knights of Pythias, deoided Thursday that street fairs must go so far as the order is oonoerned. A resolution was passed declaring that no subordinate lodge, section of endowment rank or company o* the uniform rank should own or conduct or in any way have anything to do with street fairs or street oarnivals. The representatives to the supreme lodge were instructed to exert their influence to secure recognition of the Rathbone Sisters as an auxiliary order. This aotion of the grand lodge in regard to street fairs will meet with praotioally universe I approval. While there are street fairs and street fairs, and no* and then one, like that whioh was held here this year, is so conducted that little if any harm resulted from it, yet there is such a oonstant temptation brought to bear upon the management to open the doors to immoral or injurious features, for the sake of financial suooess, that on the whole they are more harm than good to the communities where they are held and to any orders or societies which are connected with them. The Elks preceded the Knights as holders of street fairs, and they also preceded them by a year in seeing that more harm Uum good that resulted from them, and took aotion against them, accordingly.