Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1905 — Queer John Carr Queers the Car[?]ival. [ARTICLE]

Queer John Carr Queers the Car[?]ival.

Fowler Review. The Hoosier Amusement Co.that is showing at Rensselaer this week, -will not come to Fowler but goes to Paris, 11l After the merchants had raised about one hundred dollars towards furnishing the electric lights necessary to supply the show and the town council had agreed to give them a license, Carr stepped in and threatened to get but an injunction if an attempt was made to bring the show here. The manager had the mayor of Rensselaer telephone Carr that the amusements are very clean. That they were not bothering their school children, etc , but he insisted he was going to make all the trouble he could, so the advance agent left yesterday for Paris, 111. The Hoosier Amusement Co’s. “ were willing to make any kind of an agreement that there would be nogambling, immoral or suggestive acts, and the dog in the manger attitude of John Carr in opposition to the wishes of the principal merchants in town who subscribed tp the fund is characteristic.