Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1909 — No Big Circuses Headed This Way As Far As Known. [ARTICLE]

No Big Circuses Headed This Way As Far As Known.

Rensselaer has been disdainfully passed up so far this year by all the big circuses and as far as is known none contemplate a visit here unless it is late in the fall when returning to their winter quarters. Why this slight to the most prosperous section of the country is unknown. And other cities much larger than Rensselaer are being treated in the same way. Anderson, Muncie, and others of the big towns are mourning the lack of circus exhibitions. All of the big shows are in another part of the country and little has been heard of them thiß season. But it Is proving a bonanza for the one-horse shows. Taking advantage of the larger exhibitions they are present in Indiana in large numbers and some of them bear names that have never been heard of before in this section. But even these have turned Rensselaer down, but they are billed for Wheatfield, Knlman, DeMotte, Tefft and in fact every small place in the county.