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CIRCUSGS JOYTOH UNTmF/DS GREET lt;51 ANT AMU SIS*• • •MENT EKSf T ERPI^I SE ONARRIVAL 'HER B.PARADE IS SEENBY GREAT CROWDEarly A l't or noon !ftn(ls Show Grounds Crowded—Weather Auspicious Eor Successful Visit of tiio Robinson Shows.AC daybreak.'this morning a goodly number of circus fans were on hand at the side track on Franklin street to witness the unloading of the John Robinson shows, which came into this city on two long trains at about five o'clock.By the time the last section which carries the performers arrived here,f the preceding sections were nearly unloaded and the almost incredible celerity and orderly speed with which this vast mass of property and animals was transported to tho/Show grouuds near the ball park was a revelation to any but a circus man or member of the commissary department with an army at the front.Horses and wagons sprung into sight as if by magic and. for hours a steady /Stream of paraphernalia, animals on foot and in cages, circus employes and onlookers flowed between the trains and the circus lot. Several huge elephante stood at hand to push the heavy wagons into place on the lot.Breakfast was served to the hundreds of performers and working men a.t nine o’clock from the dining and cook tents, which were tlio first up. At 9:45 a bugle sounded the first warning and from all directions (locked -gaily dressed and uniformed participants who promptly climbed into their places on the wagons and into the line of parade. At I/O:3-0 tliho final bugle was sounded and the long lino was set. in motion towardthe business district.Befoife the mid-day meal was over all was in readiness for the actual business of the day. Visitors wererapidly arriving in the wake of theparade, many of them from out of town, the crowds at the ticket wagon grew larger and larger, the side shows opened up, 'and mid the noise of various musical contrivances, the ■hands and the excitement, the masses began pouring into the Mg tentAmerica. Among the novelty sensations there is Madame iDeMarce’s(bicycle riding baboons, Huson’s performing wild • animals, the .Powell troupe, the Avalions, Tetu Kob-inson and. the Weavers in wonderful high wire exploits, the Youngs, He-[Dare Warner trio, the Butlers and the Yorks in unprecedented aerial sensations and others to the number of 40, comprising many otherwell known celebrities of the air.The IJyeno trou.pp of Japanese, the Ali IBen Seal troupe of Arabianathletes, Kent’s performing seals, and many other novel and interesting acts as well as a complement of trained animal numbers, of .almost ’overy description, including four -separate herds of performing elo-iphants. The entire program is enlivened intermittently by the drollery of numerous really funny [clowns.Tonight’s performance will startHOLD POTATOSOFF THE MARKEGROWERS RELUCTANT TO SECT AT PRESENT PRICES,promptly at 8 o’clock, it is announc-- lf . . , . the doors of the big tent to bethrough the well stocked menagerie, open one hour earlier for the ac-where many of, the animals kept a watchful eye and open mouth for the welcome popcorn or -peanut that was sure to come their way'.'T wonty-sevc^n Displays.The circus program is made up of 2(7 displays, most of them keeping three rings and the aerial rigging in constant action, -filling the dome of the1 enormous tent from end to end with flying forms, accomplishing thrilling feats that the management declares discounts everything hitherto presented herewith a circus. A large race track is used for the presentation -of the \ games and racing contests.Among those participating in the performances are Adey and Mary Bedini, Melrose and Meers, the Gastellos, the Dowande’s and the Orton family in new1 and striking creations of equestrianism, and Mary Connors, conceded to be one of the greatest riders, male or female, incommodation of patrons,Spuds Brought To Market To 3a Are Small—-Rain Is Needed in*Certain Sections.SINN FEIN LEADERARRESTED AGAIN(Associated Press Leased 'Wire.)Dublin, Aug. 14.—J. J. Walsh, a ■prominent member of the Sinn Fein .Qa.rly yet for the crop to mature, party whose death sentence for par-That local .potato growers propoto delay marketing the productlong as possible in the hope that be jter prices can be obtained is the 1 timation which local buyers have i coivod from agricultural quarto] The Muscatine county potato yield reported to he quite large but n evenly distributed. In the Blue Gra neighborhood it is said that rain badly needed for this crop.Potatoes that have been dug frc local gardens are small in size, hen somewhat of a disappointment to t growers, who would do well to ke their courage up as in any case itticipation in the recent rebellion was commuted to ten years penal servitude and who was lately granted amnesty, was arrested here yesterday in connection with the formation of Sinn Fein clubs in the south of Ireland. N ,Courts martial recently have sentenced three Sinn Feiners from the county Clare and four from the county Galway to imprisonment varying from two years to three months for offences against the anti-drilling order.Many growers have not harvest the crop yet and are not eatisflSPEr\URne
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Muscatine Journal
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Tue, Aug 14, 1917
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