1911

Billboard, January 7, 1911, p. 21. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Most of the circus news was unreadable. Only selected items were transcribed.

    J. Wilton Traber, of Hamilton, O., mailed cards to his friends during the holiday season, bearing the following legend: A Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year, 1910-11 - J. Milton Traber, Hamilton, Ohio. A remnant of Montgomery Queen Circus, S. H. Barrett & Co. Show, the Great Adam Forepaugh Show, Phil. Diefenbach Circus, Albert M. Wetter Show, Hummell, Hamilton and Sells Show, the Famous Carl Hagenbeck Trained Animal Show, Darling and DeOnzo Dog and Pony Show, the DeOnzo Bros. European Star Co., "Now a Trouper at Home."

    Jones Bros. Buffalo Ranch Wild West is now practically but a memory as a fourteen car show, as the entire train with the exception of two sleeping cars, have been disposed of to Wheeler and Downie, the Masterson Shows, and to Thos. Weidemann. The Masterson Shows secured the privilege car, Thelma, which the Jones Bros. purchased from Norris & Rowe at the last sale of that show. J. Augustus Jones, has no intention of leaving the amusement field and is now engaged in assembling a two or three car outfit for the coming season.

    George Doorman, formerly with the Parker Carnival Company, and at one time with the Great Gaskills Shows, is now connected with the Polack Booking Exchange of Pittsburg, as outside office man. Mr. Doorman will also be associated with Bill Rice and Sydney Wire in the winter circus, which is being promoted under local auspices throughout Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

    Jimmy Sprigg, the clown policeman, from the Ringling Bros. Shows, is spending the winter season at his home in Toledo, O.

    Ed C. Knupp, general agent of the John Robinson Shows, has signed the following billers for Bob Simons' opposition brigade, with the Robinson Shows next season: Thos. Hodgeman, Wm. Roddy, Rags Warner, Leo Hart, George Chenet, Burt McPhail and James Rhoades.

    The Six Waltons, acrobats and tumblers, have signed with the Polack Winter Circus, and will do their two acts with the show. The acrobatic acts will be billed as the Six Waltons, while their statuary work and art posing will be billed at the Dellarosa Troupe of Roman Appollos.

    "Col." J. C. M. Bremer, circus and privilege man, spent Christmas at his home, 16 Amhurst street, Charleston, S. C.

    Ben E. Taylor, last season had the band with the Andrew Downie Shows, is engaged as musical director with the new Downie and Wheeler Shows. He will have a band of sixteen musicians.

    Clare A. Berger, treasurer and press agent of Jones Bros. Buffalo Ranch Wild West last season, returned to his home in Warren, Pa.

    Harry Mullinger, circus biller and agent, last season with Forepaugh-Sells Show, is acting as assistant advertising agent at the Lyceum Theatre, Pittsburg, Pa.

    Earl Smith, with the J. H. Eschman European Circus last season, has charge of the stock at the winter quarters of this show at Linden Hills, Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. Smith has signed for next season.

    Ben Hassellman, of Burlington, Ia., will be in charge of the inspection car of the Barnum and Bailey Show next season. Mr. Hassellman closed with the Forepaugh-Sells Bros. advance car last season.

    Carl Nemo, barrel jumper and equilibrist, will be with Gollmar Bros. Circus again next season.

    Gus Berry, for the past six seasons chef with the Al. F. Wheeler Shows, will have charge of the cook and dining tents with the new Downie & Wheeler Shows next season.

    Clyde Ingalls, side show manager of the Barnum and Bailey Show, is wintering in Burlington, Ia. Mr. Ingalls will again be with the big show next spring.

    The Howe's Great London Shows are wintering at Verona, Pa., and a big bunch of old-timers are passing the winter in the huge menagerie building.

    Fred Elzor and family, last season with Elzor and Munn's Circus, have launched a contortion act in vaudeville.

    Arthur Mead, last season on the No. 2 car of the Forepaugh-Sells Show, is spending the winter in Warren, Pa., with his parents.

    Garry Vanderbilt and wife, last season with Sun Bros. Show, have returned to their home in Warren, Pa., for the winter.

    Sam Wireback has the candy privileges also the up-town wagon with the Frank A. Robbins Show for the season of 1911.

Billboard, January 14, 1911, pp. 20, 21, 46. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    John White and son go with Welsh Brothers Shows next season, taking with them eight animal acts. Next season will be the forty-third one for John White Sr., in the show business. Mr. White is one of the oldest horse trainers in the business and has traveled with practically all the shows, big and little. He was for eleven years with the Stowe and Long Show, seven years with Sells Brothers, four years with the Barnum Shows, six years with the Welsh Brothers, and with many others, besides conducting his own shows.

    In indoor circus was recently given by the Bloomington (Ill.) Aerie of Eagles. The company was gotten together by Eddie Ward, of the Flying Wards, and Harry LaMar, of the LaMar Troupe. Those who took part in the performance were: Donahugh and Hamilton, comedy acrobats; Miss Victoria Davenport, bareback rider; the Flying Wards, aerialists; Dan Kelly and his giraffe Jocko; the Four Kellys, tight wire; Orrin Davenport, somersault rider and equestrian; Miss Kelly, globe roller; Charlie Smith and assistants, clowns; LaTell Sisters, the Human Butterfiles in a mid-air act swing by their teeth; the Arisato Troupe acrobats and equilibrists; the Two Davenports, bareback riders; Miss Edith Fisher, trapeze and revolving act, and the LaMar Troupe, trapeze artists.

    The executive staff for W. H. Coulter's Railroad Shows for the season of 1911: W. H. Coulter, general director; Dean Leon, equestrian director; A. H. Buckley, contracting agent; Fred D. Fowler, general representative; Bert Scott, general superintendent; Geo. H. Embree, manager of side shows; J. F. Patton, treasurer; Jas. Babcock, master of transportation; Art Eldridge, superintendent of privileges; Mr. Carpenter, boss canvasman; Jim Howard, in charge of stock. Ray Thompson will handle the dogs and ponies.

    J. E. Henry's Wagon Show closed the season at headquarters, Stonewall, Okla., Nov. 30, after touring the states of Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska for a season of thirty-eight weeks. Mr. Henry will put out a one-ring circus, carrying two side shows, and will ahve twenty wagons and ten cages of animals. He will also carry his own electric light plant mounted on a wagon.

    Heber Bros. have purchased a large tract of land located in Columbus, upon which they will build quarters for the accomodation of their show. For the last five years they have occupied the old Sells Bros. winter quarters in Columbus. Heber Brothers have placed orders for new tents, seats, etc. Several new wagons are under construction.

    M. C. Cookston is at Peoria, Ill., for the winter, acting as superintendent of the Young Buffalo winter quarters, rebuilding and remodeling the entire show, also looking after one hundred and forty head of stock that has been turned out on the farm.

    Among the people already engaged for Welsh Bros. Great Shows and London Hippodrome Combined for the season of 1911 are: Prof. John White, with his troupe of animals, Mme. Yucca, strong woman, and May Koster, female singing clown.

    Keller Brothers Show is still on the road and not in winter quarters at Guthriesville, S. C., as printed in a recent issue of The Billboard. Albert Mitchell, in a balancing act, and Mr. and Mrs. Mack Blyth recently joined the show.

    Harry Parker will make second openings on side show and second concert announcements with the Forepaugh-Sells Show next season.

    Charles and Mona Barnett spent the holidays in Rock Island, Ill. They have signed with the Sun Bros. Show for the season of 1911.

    George Wormald will have the side show canvas with the Forepaugh-Sells Show again next season.

    The winter quarters of the Hunt Silver Plate Show are located at Kingston, N. Y.

    In the Supreme Court of Brooklyn last week, Judge Putnam granted an absolute divorce to Madge Carlton Levis [Cariton?] from John H. Levis, the allegation by the plaintiff being that after twenty years of married life she discoverd that at the time of the wedding Levis had a wife living. The truth of the charge was not questioned, counsel for Levis appearing in court only to state that there would be no defense. At the time of the wedding, Miss Carlton, then a girl of sixteen, was a rider with the Barnum & Bailey Circus, as also was Levis, who subsequently joined the Ringling Bros. Circus and more recently was superintendent of the Hippodrome in New York.

    J. B. Rhodes, who has closed a contract with Howe's Great London Shows, season 1911, is at present handling transportation and rolling stock of Miller Bros., touring the South for the winter.

    Springfield, Ill., Jan. 7. Walter Robinson, aged forty years, a former circus advance man, was found deat at a local hotel Tuesday moring of this week. Death was due to heart trouble. The remains were sent to Cincinnati, O., for burial.

    M. L. Clark & Sons Show will close at Tioga, La., January 12, and ship to winter quarters at Alexandria. On January 2, a rather cold night chilled one of the elephants, causing it to die.

    Albert Davenport purchased a six year old dapple gray, which he is breaking for his new act. Assisted by his brother John, he will put out some reading next season.

    The W. J. Irwin Family returned to their home in Steelville, Mo., after thirty-six weeks in vaudeville. They are practicing some new tricks at their new ring barn.

    Leota Zapp, an equestrian artist with her high school and menage horses, has been engaged as a feature attraction at the Eagles' Show at Fresno, Cal., Jan. 11.

    Harry J. Piel has again signed with the Buffalo Bill-Pawnee Bill Show, to sell reserved seats in the white wagon. This will make his fourth season with the show.

    D. Q. Miller, for the past five seasons with the Al. F. Wheeler Shows, has signed as lot superintendent with the Downie and Wheeler's World's Best Shows. H. A. Mann, circus agent, will the coming season look after the press work in advance of the Downie and Wheeler Shows.

Billboard, January 21, 1911, p. 21. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    W. C. Thompson, who has been press representative of the 101 Ranch Wild West since its inception three years ago, has enlisted with the Buffalo Bill-Pawnee Bill forces, under Louis E. Cooke, general agent. Mr. Thompson entered the circus field four years ago, when he allied himself with Pawnee Bill's Wild West as the assistant of Edward Arlington. . . .

    Chicago, Jan. 14. Joe Callis will be manager of Howe's Great London side shows next season. He has been in the show business ever since he ran away form home to go with a circus when he was seven years old.

    Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 14. The sad ending of a romance of the circus ring was brought to light in a decision by Judge Magil, ordering Edwin K. Mozart to pay his wife, on account of desertion, $15 a week and to enter a $2,000 bond to guarantee the payment. Mozart is maanger of various amusement concerns at Lancaster, Pa., and Elmira, N. Y. His wife, Georgia Kane, was a former circus performer. They were married in Louisville, Ky., in 1882.

    Knoxville, Tenn., Jan.14. On application of Lucille Van Burger (Lucille Mulhall), Federal Judge E. T. Sanford ordered the release upon the giving of a $350 bond, of Red Buck and Grenola, two horses used by Miss Mulhall in her vaudeville act. These horses were used in the Mulhall Wild West Show here during the recent Appalachian Exposition and were tied up in litigation between Mulhall and the Expositon Company.

    The following artists are rehearsing at the Jones Bros. Palace, steam heated, stock pavilion new yards, East St. Louis, Ill.: Fred Ledgett, Nettie Greer, and Dallie Julian, equestrians; the Roltaire Trio, comedy acrobats; the Two Vernons, foot jugglers; Six Flying Herberts, aerial act; Goodrich Trio, Sam Bennett and others.

    E. P. Barlow's Dog and Pony Show returned to winter quarters at South Milford, Ind., last October, from a three year trip through the South and West. Roseline Stickney will have charge of the dogs and ponies. James Wiley and Charley Baird are looking after the stock.

    Frank S. Stout, at present engaged with Polack's Indoor Circus as pantomime clown, has signed for the coming season with the Sells-Floto Shows as Roman rider and clown, using his own original entrees and numbers.

    Joe Wallace and wife have signed contracts for the season of 1911 with Howe's Great London Shows, Joe to do riding acts and his wife, menage. They were with the Forepaugh-Sells Shows last season.

    Charles Abbott and H. M. Smith, of Cincinnati local I. A. B. B. of A., No. 11, at present at the Grand Opera House, have signed contracts with the John Robinson Shows.

    Chas. Hilderra has signed with Sun Bros. Show again for next season, his third consecutive season. Hilderra is a present with Polack's Indoor Circus, presenting his contortion act and clowning.

    The Siegrist-Silbon and Foster's Great American Show closed a three weeks' engagement at Honolulu, Hawaii, and left for Hilo, the next largest city in the islands, for a two weeks' run.

    Sig Sautelel, who sold his circus a few years ago and retired to Homer, N. Y., announces his intention of returning to the circus field. He will launch a new show in May.

    John Shelley writes that he will be back with the Sun Bros. Shows as bandmaster.

    Walter L. Main is making preparations for the opening of his three car dog and pony show. Joe Berris is breaking the stock for Mr. Main.

    Linda Jeal Julian will again be with the Yankee Robinson Show the coming season, her fourth with this aggregation.

    Joe Wallace and wife, Sadie Conners, have signed contracts with Howe's Great London Shows for the season of 1911.

    Charles Evans, veteran boss hostler, has signed as superintendent of stock with the new Downie and Wheeler Show.

    George Wombold will handle the canvas with the Young Buffalo Wild West the coming season.

Billboard, January 28, 1911, pp. 32, 33. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Henry Wagner, known as Young Montana, will again be with the Young Buffalo Wild West, his second season with that show. He is a brother of Geo. E. Wagner, manager of the Great Wagner Show.

    Sealy, Tex., Jan. 20. The Adam Fetzer Shows closed a season of forty-seven weeks here on Jan. 12. The show will winter at this place and open again March 5. The following performers were with the show at its closing stand: Hodge and Scroggins, Lamont Bros., the Glens, Jas. Corley, McGinness Brothers, Prof. Seem's Military Band. General agent Jack L. Bledsoe will spend the winter in Houston, whild Mr. and Mrs. Feltzer will spend a few weeks at their farm near San Antonio.

    A new show will be seen on tour the coming season under the name of Rice's Circus. It will be backed by Mr. Rice. The show will leave winter quarters at Geneva, O., about April 1 and ship south where it will open. There will be nine cars including one advance. Joe Berris, who was with the Walter L. Main Show for fourteen years with Cole Bros. and last year with the Yankee Robinson Show, will have full charge of this new venture.

    The following people are engaged to appear with the Sun Brothers Shows for the coming season, which opens early in the spring, at Macon, Ga.: the Cevene Troupe, John Marinella, the Tokyo Royal Court Japanese Troupe, Herman Griggs and Miss Blanche Reed, Tossing Deckero, Charles and Mona Barnett, Charles Hilderra, Aerial Allens, Nat Goetz, Otto Weaver, Fred Kenno, Bill Farmer, "Doc" Grant, Bernard Winton, and "Cheerful" Gardiner [sic Gardner]. James A. Morrow, side show manager; John Shelly, band conductor; _. M. Newton, official representative, and ___ A. Fenimore, assistant manager.

    Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 19. As the result of a fall on and icy sidewalk in which his skill was fractured, Col. Wm. Baker, a giant, died at the Emergency Hospital, Tuesday. Baker was seven feet, seven inches in height and weighed close to two hundred and fifty pounds. He traveled part of last season with the 101 Ranch.

    The quarters of the Dode Fisk Show are located at Brenham, Tex. A number of the people connected with the show last season are wintering there. They include Geo. Nolley, treasurer; Chester White, superintendent; "Dutch," boss canvasman, "Russ,", chef; Wonewoc Dutch, boss of stock, Wm. Weldon, leader of big band, Geo. During and wife, Mike Rooney, Minnie Hodgini, Roy ___, Geo. Wyman, Tom Johnson, Chapman and Burpire.

    Thos. Smith, of Beaver Falls, Pa., purchasing agent for the Buffalo Bill-Pawnee Bill Shows, placed an order with the Pressed Steel Car Company, of Pittsburg, for an initial order of ten stock cars. Mr. Smith, who has had charge of all the stock with the Two Bills Shows the past two seasons, has been re-engaged for the season of 1911. He is at present in full charge of the winter quarters at Trenton, N. J.

    Ben S. Benson has been re-enagaged by Eschman's European Circus for the coming season to act in the capacity of general agent.

    Virgil L. Barnett will be identified with Miller Brothers and Arlington's 101 Ranch Wild West, season 1911, his third with that organization.

    Will T. Miller will be manager of the side show with the Downie and Wheeler Shows the coming season. Mr. Miller has been side show manager with the Wheeler Shows for five seasons.

    Sig Sautelle and Oscar Lowande have formed a partnership to put on the road this coming summer a wagon show. They will have a large menagerie and the customary annex.

    Jolly Jenaro, the clown juggler and manager of the Great Wagner Show, is playing vaudeville dates. He will again have charge of the Wagner Show the coming season. The Wagner Show will have ten acts next season. Mrs. Murphy will again close the show with her loop the loop act. Nellie Jenaro, the coon shouter, is working her act in the picture theatres in Dayton, O. She will again be with the Wagner Show the coming season.

    A. H. Buckley, railroad contracting agent, has signed for the season 1911 with W. H. Coulter's Railroad Shows as general traffic manager.

    Harry Pilkington, who has been with the Keller Bros. Show for the past two seasons, is spending the winter at his home in Philadelphia.

    Joe (Irish) Geary will make second openings on side show and second concert announcements with the Forepaugh-Sells Show the coming season.

    Shorty Thompson and Blackie Miller, formerly of the Ringling Bros. Show, have opened a rooming house at 345 South State street, Chicago.

    Frank W. Blasser's troupe of twenty-four peforming poodles will be with the John Robinson Ten Big Shows the coming season.

    Edw. S. Brill has been engaged by the Ringling Bros. to act as bandmaster for the Barnum and Bailey show the coming season.

Billboard, February 4, 1911, pp. 20, 21. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Johnny and Dolly Mullins, wild west performers, formerly with 101 and Dickey's Circle D Ranch shows, are at present with John R. Smith Wild West Shows touring the South. Harry McIntyre and wife, also "Rusty" are with the aggregation. The outift carries twenty head of saddle stock and are at present playing through South Carolina.

    Lucille Mulhall and her husband, Martin Van Bergen, the cowboy singer, are in New York with a view of placing their act in vaudeville.

    "Mexican" George Hooker has been engaged by Mr. Powers, owner of Powers' Elephants, to ride one of the bulls into a tank of water at the Hippodrome there at each show.

    Joe Lynch (cowboy) formerly chief of cowboys with Cummins' Wild West Show, is located in London, England, where he is married and doing well.

    Mollie Bailey's Great Southern Shows will open on the 23rd of February. The show will have quite a number of new people. All of last season's performers have been retained with the exception of the Irwin Family. A troupe of trained dogs, ponies and goats will be a feature. An additional baggage car has been purchased for the accommodation of the new attractions. M. T. Everton, who has been the general agent for the past six years, has resigned. He has accepted a position with a local enterprise.

    Augusta, Ga., Jan. 28. California Frank just returned from a trip to New York and Chicago where he closed a deal for cars and equipment to put out a fourteen-car show for next season, which is to be known as California Frank's All Star Wild West. On his return to winter quarters at Augusta, Ga., he stopped at Knoxville, Tenn., and closed a deal for the entire Mulhall Wild West which was shipped to Augusta on Jan. 18. Co. Zack, Georgie, Mildred, and Charlie Mulhall all shipped to winter quarters and are working out new stuff for next summer such as roping and tying wild steers for which this family is famous. Miss Ada Sommerville has returned to quarters and is working out a new string of dancing horses. Mr. Be Ho Gray has also returned and is working out a lot of ne roping stuff. Sam Garrett, Miss Mamie Francis and Hootis Killinger and wife are also busy.

    A new tented organization which will go out at the opening of the season, is now outfitting at Sparta, Wis. The owners and managers of the show, Messrs. Bulger and Cheney, are makingit one of the finest dog and pony shows on the road. The outfit will be known as the Bulger and Cheney Dog and Pony Shows.

    Atwater, O., Jan. 28. Workmen are busy at the winter quarters of E. G. Smith's Circus and Museum, building and decorating two new cages. On Jan. 23, "Checkers," a Shetland stallion, dropped dead from apoplexy. F. D. Dunlap has signed as lot superintendent, and Mrs. Dunlap will take reserved seat ticket. Harry DeCleo and B. Lewis are the latest additions to the list of performers. Geo. L. Barnon will have a position on the advance force.

    John Groat, who was with the J. H Eschman European Circus last season, has been re-engaged. He will appear in the big show band, and also do a character sketch in the concert.

    George H. Weyman, principal clown with the Dode Fisk Show for the past two seasons, has again been engaged for the coming season. He is at winter quarters at Brenham, Tex.

    Johnnie Crossett will be with the J. E. Henry Show the coming season in his high stilt, clowing and concert acts.

    James Kingcaid, principal producing clown and Edward Walton, August clown, have signed with Sun Brothers Shows, opening early in March at Macon, Ga.

    Chas. Hilderra has closed with the Polack Indoor Circus and opened on the Griffin Circuit for a few weeks before going south to join Sun Bros. Show.

    Harry Overton, circus agent, is clerking this winter in one of Cincinnati's principal hotels. He will be with the Gentry Shows this season.

    Otto Weaver, of Campbell Bros. Show, returned home in Decatur, Ill. He will go out with Sun Bros. Shows this season.

    George Wombold will not be with the Forepaugh-Sells show, but will have the canvas with the Young Buffalo Wild West out of Peoria, Ill.

    The Mexican Za Mora family of aerialists are engaged as a special feature with the Sun Brothers Shows for the coming season.

    The M. L. Clark Show will open early in March. Mr. Clark has secured a few more animals, also several new cages for his outfit.

    Francis Hosier is one of the Toledo boys of John Robinson's advance car No. 1.

    Young and Weaver, clowns and comedy acrobats, have signed with Sun Brothers Shows for the season of 1911.

    Harry R. Overton has been re-engaged as contracting agent with the Genrty Bros. Shows for the coming season.

    The Hocum family of riders and wire walkers will be with the Frank A. Robbins Show again next season.

    Bert Hale will handle the tickets with the J. H. Eschman European Circus, his second season.

    Ray Dick, contortionist, has signed with the W. H. Coulter Railroad Show for the season of 1911.

    Clark Brothers have signed contracts for the season of 1911 with Howe's Great London Shows.

Billboard, February 18, 1911, pp. 20, 21. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Oxford, Pa., Feb. 11. Downie and Wheeler's Shows. The advance will be headed by F. J. Frisk, for the past seven years general agent for the Wheeler Shows. H. A. Mann will look after the press in advance, also have the general supervision of the billing of the show. Fred E. Wheeler will have charge of No. 1 car, while J. E. Pettit will look after the opposition forces. E. H. Hayden will be excursion agent. Back with the show, D. Q. (Dad) Miller will be superintendent of working forces, with Murray Thatcher as assistant. The veteran, Chas. (Pop) Evans will be superintendent of stock, and Walter Allen will have charge of the pony and ring stock. Capt. H. Snider will have charge of the menagerie and wild animal acts, and Lew Williams will have charge of the train. Henry Lucier will be master mechanic. Nearly all of the Downie wagons which have been repaired and painted at Medina, N. Y., have already been shipped to the Wheeler quarters at Oxford, Pa., to be followed in March by the balance of the outfit including live stock and cars, as the new aggregation will open at Oxford early in April.

    Stonewall, Okla., Feb. 10. Notes from J. E. Henry's Show. Chas. Everton is training the Shetland ponies and menage horses. The following people have signed: Prof. Wm. Mitchell, P. Shulede, J. S. Whistrell, Wilbur Carner, Clint Meirs, Edward Walton, musicians; Johnnie Crossett, principal clown; Arthur Henry, frogman; B. Henry, Roman riding act; the Rinaldos, equilibrists; Chas. Everton, equestrian director; Goldie, aerial artist; Mr. Pearl, Roman rings; Capt. Ramey Lee, in charge of animals. This season Mr. Henry will carry one of the largest menageries for an overland show; ten double cages of animals, besides two camels, one elephant, one yak, one llama, one deer. One hundred head of horses will be used to transport the show. The opening date is March 18.

    Young Buffalo Wild West, reorganized by Col. V. C. Seaver, the Peoria, Ill., showman for the coming season. The show train will consist of twenty-four sixty-foot cars, hearlded by fifty agents and billers, using two advance cars and several brigades. The spectacular numbers will include The Siege of the Alamo, military tournaments by ex-United States and British soldiers; Shooting Up the Town, as enacted in Cheyenne, Wyo. last summer for the edification of ex-President Roosevelt, with rolling scenery, showing the main street of Cheyenne for a background. Prominent among the special features will be exhibitions by Annie Oakely, Capt. A. H. Bogardus, Fred Burns, Lew Sunlin's troupe of trained bovines, Hardin's Zouaves, twenty in number; Helen Russlee's "Calamity Jane" cowgirl's brass band; Gordon and Gordon, casting the battle-ax; George Vanderburg and his comedy mule; Julia Allen's blue ribbon horse, Teddy; Mlle. Marie, side saddle expert and whip; Ferro Sisters, Buffalo Vernon and O. D. Stevens. A. L. Salvail will be manager for the annex and offical announcer. Fred Burns, besides staging the big numbers, will have charge of the performance in the arena.
    Young Buffalo Advance. Lon B. Williams, the advance director, announces that he has already lined up his advance forces. The roster includes Lon B. Williams, general agent and traffic manager; Frank C. Cooper, advertising manager; Frank Fishaker, contracting press agent; Lew Fuller, press agent at large; H. L. (Buck) Massie, local contractor with Ed M. Cake, in charge of advance car No. 1, and C. J. Admire, boss billposter with twenty men. Charles Collier will be manager of the No. 2 car, with W. W. Brooks in charge of the paper, with fifteen billposters; E. A. Bentley, special agent; Hugh S. Smith, excursion agent; D. J. Bevington, in charge of programs and bugle brigade; Richard Cavanaugh, mailing clerk; James A. Bentley, press agent back, and C. L. Hoover, checker-up. The country and rural routes will be programmed by five cowboy buglers on horseback, and Robert Porter has been contracted to give stereopticon and moving pictures five days in advance of the show's appearance, the display reproducing many of the Young Buffalo special features.

    Harrisburg, Ill., Feb. 11. Wiedemann Bros. Show. At winter quarters Larry Eagan who will have charge of the canvas next season, has charge of all the men and is getting things in shape. Mr. Wiedemann has returned from Lancaster, Mo., where he purchased several baggage wagons, two flats, two elephants, one camel and eight more draft horses. The following people are wintering here waiting for the opening: Wirt W. Damron, Henry Boggs, Frank McGuyre and wife, Henry Morris and wife, Claude Littrel and wife, Harry Lee and Jos. C. Donahue.

    Mollie Bailey Shows. Houston, Tex., Feb. 10. After ten weeks in winter quarters the Mollie Bailey Shows will start out Feb. 23, with two new cars. The Bailey outfit is a vaudeville show with seventeen acts, and includes the following performers: Three Bailey Bros., in seven acts; Bailey Sisters, in four acts; Karl B. Larkin, juggler; Mike Hwatacz, in three acts; Chas. Dryden, barrel jumper; Martin, contortionist. The show carries trained mules, ponies, goats, dogs and birds. A band of ten pieces will be under the direction of Prof. W. K. Bailey. S. W. West will have charge of the advance with one assistant. Allie Bailey is chandelier man and mail agent. The show this year will tour Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado.

    LaMont Bros. Show notes. Salem, Ill., Feb. 11. The show will be enlarged to some extent by the addition of a few wagons. There will also be a new calliope. Prof. Chas. Randolph is breaking a troupe of dogs and ponies. Elmer E. Porterfield will have charge of the side show, Lloyd Massey will be bandmaster, Orie Traver, in charge of canvas, and Lloyd Nolan, superintendent of stock.

    The following are wintering at the Dode Fisk winter quarters at Brenham, Tex.: Chester White, superintendent; Frank (Dutch) Weliner, boss canvasman; Walter Weldenvondt, boss hostler; Mike Rooney, equestrian director; W. F. Weldeon, bandmaster; George Loley, treasurer; Roy Marble, superintendent of privileges; W. L. Shaw, boss porter; Russell Bourke, chef; C. A. Clark, agent; Mr. and Mrs. Irving, Miss Minnie Hodgini, J. C. Johnson, Guy Repaiz, Joe Pluharek, Pete L. Amoreaux, Champan and Berube, Louie Johnson, Boots Washburn, Walter Distler elephant trainer; J. A. Parker, superintendent of paint shop; Joe Torpey, head waiter; Louise Coucha and Geo. Wyman.

    Frank Hardee, who has managed the side shows with the Dode Fisk outfit, has signed as manager of privileges and general announcer. Frank did not take any chances with his road show this season, but has been taking things easy with his wife, Gypsy, who is one of the best known snake charmers.

    Oscar Lowande, bareback rider, who has just concluded an engagement at the New York Hippodrome, returned to Homer, N. Y., where he as associated himself with Sig. Sautelle, who is fitting up a new twelve car show for the coming season.

    Clinton Newton has been re-engaged for another season with the Sun Bros. Shows, his fifth year under the Sun banner. He will act in the capacity of attorney and immediate publicity promoter, back with the show.

    Capt. G. Dimitri, manager of the Russian Cossack Rough Riders, with his No. 1 troupe, is engaged for the season of 1911 with the Young Buffalo Wild West. The No. 2 troupe will be with Coulter's Railroad Shows.

    The Downie & Wheeler Shows have secured for the coming season as a free outside attraction a thriller in the act of The Great Reynard, who, while blindfolded, dashes down a 100 ft. ladder on an ordinary unicycle.

    Prof. Allen Perkins, of Los Angeles, Cal., has arranged with Sun Bros. Shows to furnish an original act of performing seals and sea lions for the coming tenting tour.

    Including the troupers at the winter quarters of the Yankee Robinson Shows at Granger, Ia., are: John Boyd, Whity McGuire, Geo. Johnson, C. Gibson, Fred Gay, Ross Ashcroft adn Tom Gill.

    Broncho John Sullivan says that he will not follow the fairs this season, but will put out one of the best wagon shows in the wild west line. He has hired his people for the season.

    F. Al Pearce, proprietor and manager, and Frank Carey, business manager of Allan's Comedian, will again be identified wiht the Two Bill's Show this coming season.

    W. H. (Dike) Franklin, known as Si Perkins, the original rube clown, is playing with Geo. M. Burk's Wild West throughout the South.

    Howard Damon has signed with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows as trainmaster for season 1911.

    The new thirty-two whistle calliope of the Downie and Wheeler Shows will be operated the coming season by Al F. Wheeler Jr.

    Harold Hooper, billposter with Ringlings, season of 1910, has signed with the Yankee Robinson Shows for the season.

    Jesse Bond and Claton Sheets have signed with the advance of the Yankee Robinson Shows for the season of 1911.

    DeMar Bros., tight wire, have signed contracts for the coming season with Silver's Model Tent Shows.

    Vincent Harag, clown with Howe's Great London Shows during the season of 1910, died at Philadelphia, Jan. 27.

    Jack I. Mylie has signed with the John H. Sparks Show. He will assist with the advance work of the show.

    C. S. Clarke has been engaged as local contractor with the John H. Sparks Shows, his second season.

    Girard Leon, the original advertiser, will travel this coming season with the Yankee Robinson Show.

    Ward Richardson, formerly agent of the Fred Locke Show, has embarked in business at Frankfort, O.

    C. J. Butts (Whitey) will have charge of the train with the Young Buffalo Wild West the coming season.

    Harry Allen, fixer, will again travel with the Frank A. Robbins Show next summer.

    Dan Bodder, trap drummer, goes out with the Barnum and Bailey Show again this season.

    Clinton M. Newton and George Boyd will again be with the Sun Bros. Circus next season. The band with Sun Bros. will be under the direction of John Shelly.

    Heber Bros., of Columbus, recently bought some wagons of the Fred Locke Show.

    Claude Orton goes with the Robinson Show next season in charge of stock.

    The Four Kellys, wire act, are at their home, Petersburg, Ill.

    Cole and Rogers Show is in winter quarters at San Antonio, Tex.

    The H. W. Freed Show will open the season at Niles, Mich., May 6.

Billboard, March 4, 1911, pp. 20, 21, 32. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    San Antonio, Tex., Feb. 24. The inaugural performance of the 1911 tour of the Cole and Rogers Show takes place in the city tomorrow. Line-up of the executive staff: E. H. Jones, of Jones Bros. Buffalo Ranch Wild West, proprietor and manager; H. J. Williams, general agent; Wm. Rice, advertising agent with nine billposters; Joe Dempsey, treasurer and chief ticket seller; Dr. Jean Renzo, manager side show a premier talker; Robert Peasley, equestrian director; O. L. Patten, band master; Joe Dempsey, master of transportation; Joe Quinlan, boss canvasman, big show; Slim Kilgore, boss canvasman on side show; Curley Mallon, boss hostler; Jake Budraw, boss property man; Barnum Davis, boss animal man; Tom Ford, manager privileges; Harry Currin, boss butcher kid; Chin. resere seat ticket seller; Bob Cook, steward; George Hughes, principal chef.
    The program is made up of the following acts; Miss Lizzie Roberts and her troupe of performing poodles; Miss Mirdie Martino, equilibrist, on rolling globe; Robert Peasley, cannon ball juggler; George Wittie, slide for life on wire cable and bounding wire act; DeShone Sisters, tight wire; Obany Brothers, acrobats, leapers, tumblers; George Vanderburg, comedy mule hurdle; Mons. Roy, contortionist adn hand balancer; the Great Peasleys, Japanese breakaway ladder; Lew La Clede, producing clown; Roy Leonhart, Bob Cook and George Vanderburg, clowns; Myrtle, performing elephant, Pat Rooney, monkey aeronaut; school of twelve educated Shetland ponies, exhibited by Robert Peasley.
    The annex includes the following: La Belle Armato, oriental dancer; Marie Vold, mind reader; F. A. Goldie, Punch, magic and ventriloquism; Mlle. De Shone, snake enchantress; Mons. Le Tour, human pin cushion; Captain Barnum Davis adn big African lion, Zimbo; Texas, largest camel in the world; Jo-Jo, baby gorilla. Joe Dempsy and George Harris will sell side show tickets.

    The Mollie Bailey Show inaugurated its forty-sixth annual tour on Feb. 23. The show has been enlarged this season. It will take three cars to transport the outfit, one 68 ft. Pullman sleeper and two 70 ft. baggage cars. The roster: Mollie A. Bailey, sole owner; Eugene Bailey, manager; J. W. Wet, general agent with two assistants; Brad Bailey, manager side show; Allie Bailey, equestrian director; W. K. Bailey, bandmaster; A. Gross, orchestra leader; Charley Dickens, superintendent of privileges; A. H. Hardesty, master of transportation; Duke Merkling, steward. Performers with the show: the Bailey Brothers, Bailey Sisters, Four Dickens, Rowe and Stinson, breakaway ladder; Albertine, wire; ___ horizontal bar; Karl B. Larkin, Hindoo juggler; Mike Hwatacz, the wonder; Chas. Dryden, barrel jumper; Martin, the frogman; Joe Bowers, principal clown; Bob Craig, mule hurdle. Houston Red is in charge of the canvas with eight assistants. Slim Friddles is chandelier man. The show will tour Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Oklahoma.

    H. W. Free's Show. Niles, Mich., Feb. 25. In his third season it is the intention of Mr. Freed to make H. W. Freed's New Show oone of the best wagon shows. The show is chiefly a dog and pony shwo, but is diversified with a number of aerial and acrobatic acts. This season's program will consist of H. W. Freed's performing ponies and troupe of trained dogs; Mr. Freed's juggling act; Chas. Alderfer, head balancing trapeze artist; Arch Newman, barrel jumper; Sylvia, rolling globe; Chas. Smith, single trapeze and contortionist, and Homer J. Whitmarsh, principal clown assisted by Johnny Wellman and Wm. Richards. The canvas is a 60 ft. with a 30 ft. middle piece, dressing room 30 ft., round top stage, 20 by 50; cook tent, 14 by 24. Ten wagons built especially for wagon show use and twenty head of baggage stock will be used to transport the outfit. The show opens at Niles, Mich. for three days, beginning May 4, and then goes into the principal towns in Southern Michigan, following closely the route of two years ago.

    Stonewall, Okla., Feb. 24. J. E. Henry, owner of the J. E. Henry Show, returned from Lancaster where he purchased a leopard, a lioness and two lion dens from Wm. P. Hall. Three kangaroos were received from the East a few days ago. Mr. Henry intends to run a one-ring circus and menagerie this season, carrying twenty wagons, ten cages of animals, one elephant, two camels, one llama and one yak. Chas. N. Sweeney, advance agentk arrived at quarters last week. He will again have charge of the advance with three assistans. This is the seventh year that he has acted in that capacity. Thomas Murray, wire artist; Harry Moore, flying trapeze, and Johnnie Crossett, principal clown, have signed.

    C. L. ("Mont") Topping, who has been prominent in the politics of West Virginia, is arranging to put out a seven car railroad show the coming season as a "feeler." Mr. Topping is prominently connected, and is going into the show business out of pure love for it. He has some experienced showmen associated with him. Captain Jack Shumate and John C. White are framing up the outfit. Captain Shumate says it will be the best one-ring circus put on the road.

    Brenham, Tex., Feb. 24. Dode Fisk has sold his show, known as the Dode Fisk Shows, to C. Mugivan. It will be called Sanger Bros. Combined Shows.

    Roster of the Shipp and Feltus Circus, now touring Central America, Panama, South America and the West Indies: Edward Shipp and Roy Feltus, equal owners; Edward Shipp, Mrs. E. Shipp, Miss Virginia Shipp, Roy Feltus, Mrs. R. Feltus, John Judge, Mrs. J. Judge, Wm. C. Rolland, equestrian director; John F. Adams, Paul Brachard, Mrs. P. Brachard, Walter Linsley, Mrs. W. Linsley, Dave Evelien, Arthur Trapnell, Bernard Dooley, Myron Orton, Norman Orton, Clarence Orton, Bernie Potter, Jean Job, Chas. Stewart, band master; Henry Harris, Lawrence Watson, Dee Browman, Henry Waak, Henry Humble, Bailis Newton, Alvin Alton, Manuel Campo, Leopoldo Bolados, Horacio Lopez, Antonio Arueta, Con Hogan, boss canvasman; Chas. Musser, boss of ring stock; James Bass, superintendent of lights; Ed Harker, superintendent of properties; Ed Tilh, boss of baggage stock.

    The wagons and paraphernalia of Bonheur Bros. Show are in readiness for the opening of the season. Frank B. Kelso has signed to train stock and put on a wire act. Geo. f. Dole and Mike Freeman, with a midget, will do clowning and specialties. The show will carry eighteen head of ponies, dogs, goats and monkeys. Alvin Hilgier has had charge of the stock at quarters since December. Several new wagons will be added to the show. Arthur West will be boss canvasman and Jack McConnell, superintendent of stock. Will Logan, Homer Riddle and Doc James will also be connected with the Bonheur Show.

    Everybody is busy at the winter quarters of the Ed. P. Barlow Show at South Milfornd, Ind. Four new wagons will soon be received. A street parade will be a feature of the show this season. Arthur Howe and wife and Frank Deckero have been re-engaged, their ninth season. Fred Warren, band leader, has signed for his second season. Miss Rosetine Stickney is in the ring barn working the dogs and ponies. The Barlow Show will open at South Milford, April 22, and will tour Indiana, Illinois and Iowa. The show will carry twenty-five people, seventeen dogs and twenty-seven horses.

    The equestrian and comedy section of the Sun Brothers new program wil be present by clever entertainers. The riding act, by Mr. and Mrs. Herman Griggs, James Fish Jr., Miss Blanche Reede, Miss Mona Barnett and Charles Barnett. The clown acts by Fred Kenno, Edward Walton, Charles Hilderra, "Bill" Farmer, Walter Feathers and the Three Jolly Vardells. Herman Griggs will be the equestrian director.

    John Laverne Groat, of Jamestown, N. Y., and Miss Vivian Myrtle Mourer, of Oelwein, Ia., were quietly married at Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 6. After the ceremony they received a reception at the headquarters of the J. H. Eschman European Circus, Mr. Groat having been in the employ of that organization last season. Mrs. Groat is a musician and sword swallower. They will both be connected with the Eschman Shows, season 1911.

    The Yankee American Show gave an indoor circus at the Standard Hall, Sheboygan, Wis., February 25. The following made up the program: Weber and Burkhart, double trapeze; the Nelsons, double Roman rings; Fred Wolfgram; Bobo Trio, comedy acrobats; Fred Bagimel, hand and head balancer; the Two Lindemans, equilibrists in mid-air; the Dancing Sisters, contortionists; Alvin Zinemann, Hubo Kaw, Fred Schindler, Peter Marks, Tetz Weber and Wm. Lindemann, clowns.

    Bobby Green, elephant man, with the Ringling Show since 1905, died at his home in Rochester, Ind., Feb. 17, from a hemorrhage of the lungs. He is survived by his father and sister. The funeral took place at Fulton, Ind.

    The Great Keystone Shows opened their tour at Salem, N. C., Feb. 20. The show has not been in quarters at Guthriesville, S. C., as reported, but has been at Walhalla, S. C. since Jan. 17, refitting and overhauling for the 1911 season.

    Work is progressing at the quarters of the Honest Bill Show at Quenemo, Kans. Honest Bill has augmented his show by the purchase of elephants, lions, monkeys, etc. Besides the usual vaudeville program, there will be prize Shetland, dogs, and the pony with the human brain. The show will tour North through Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas.

    Roster of the Mollie A. Bailey Show: Mollie A. Bailey, sole owner; Eugene Bailey, business manager; Willie K. Bailey, band leader; Brad S. Bailey, equestrian director; Albertine Bailey, master of lights and props; Birdie S. Bailey, secretary; Joe W. West, advance agent; Sam Medlin, boss canvasman.

    Harry C. Fenton writes us that he is about to have his marriage to Myrtle Day annulled, as he has learned that she already had a husband at the time they were married. Fenton was with Pawnee Bill's Wild West when he was wedded to Miss Day, the ceremony taking place on horseback at Latrobe, Pa.

    Elmer C. Myers, who was with the Al. F. Wheeler Show last season, has received a new miniature tableau wagon, which will be seen the coming season with E. G. Smith's Colossal Shows and Trained Animal Exhibition. Mr. Myers will have the privilege and pit attraction with the Smith Shows.

    Miss Lena Thomas and Herman Joseph were married in Kansas City, Mo., February 7. Both were formerly connected with Campbell Bros. Show. They have signed with the Coulter Show for the coming season, and will be known as Joseph and Joseph, the Hebrew rube and the country girl.

    J. P. McCormick has signed with the Sun Bros. Shows as director in chief of the culinary department. Mr. McCormick will have a new cook house accoutrement, including a new steam table, cook house wagon of his own invention, which he has just patented.

    Gene R. Milton will be associated with George V. Connor in the management of the outside shows with the 101 Ranch Real Wild West Show the coming season. It will be Milton's sixth consecutive season that he has been with Mr. Connor.

    Arthur Webb, who has been bandmaster for the Yankee Robinson Shows for the past five years, will not follow the white tops this season. He has signed to direct a band of twenty men at Electric Park, Waterloo, Iowa, his home city.

    Performers that have signed with the Great Wagner Show are Harry Russell, contortionist; Wilson Sisters, trapeze; Harry Jenaro, slack wire; Spot Clark, rings; Jolly Jenaro, clown juggling, and Mrs. Mark Murphy, looping the loop.

    The Two Jordens, Frank and George, are engaged for the season of 1911 with Young Buffalo's Wild West and Texas Rangers, which opens in Peoria, Ill., April 28.

    Kenilworth LaChoisser, calliope player with the Young Buffalo Wild West last season, will again be identified with the Young Buffalo Show which opens at Peoria, Ill., April 29.

    Wm. J. Brown, at one time the owner and manager of the Brown Family Big Tent Show, is now with the Johnny J. Jones Exposition Shows.

    Park B. Prentiss, for the past five seasons bandmaster of the Sells-Floto Shows, has severed his connection with that organization, and will put out a one car show under canvas. He is at present with Royal and Adams' Indoor Circus.

    Preparations are under way at the quarters of the Eight Riggs Bros. Shows. Four new cages have been added to the outfit, which will make it a twelve wagon show. All performers from last season have been re-engaged.

    Nellie Jenaro, of the Two Jenaros, will have charge of the reserved seats and do her specialty in the concert with the Great Wagner Show this season.

    Preparations are going on at the winter quarters of the Cole and Rice Circus at Geneva, Ohio. This will be an eight car show with one car in advance. Joe Berris will be the equestrian director.

    Vic Stout, who has been with the advance of the J. H. Boyer Show all winter, will close March 1, in order to join the Mighty Haag Show as car manager, his second season in that position.

    Heber Bros. Show will open in Columbus, O., the latter part of April. It will be the twenty-seventh season for the Heber Brothers.

    A. D. Reynard and Company, trick cyclists, are among the latest additions to the roster of the Downie and Wheeler Shows for the coming season. Gus Berry, who will have charge of the commissary department with the Downie & Wheeler Show, is spending the winter at his home, Winchester, N. H.

    Elmer E. (Spike) Goodell, for eight years with Martin Downs, and last year twenty-four hour man with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show, will be with Ringling Bros. this season.

    Albert Powell, the funny female impersonating clown, has signed with the Yankee Robinson Shows for the coming season.

    H. H. Whittler has signed as general agent with Welsh Bros. New Shows, his twelfth season with the Welsh outfit.

    Ab Johnson and wife, Horace Webb Rollins and wife, John Carroll and wife, Jack Harris and Chas. Lucky and wife, have been engaged with the Sells-Floto Shows.

    Louis Von Ingelheim, who has had charge of the horses belonging to J. C. Miller, of the 101 Ranch, will again act in that capacity, making his fourth season.

    W. P. Hall, of Lancaster, Mo., the circus broker, bought two elephants from Jerry Mugavin recently and immediately sold them to the Wiedemann Shows.

    The Forepaugh & Glasgow Shows sold two elephants to the Howe's Great London Shows. They were shipped to the headquarters at Verona, Pa., last week.

    Andrew Downie was on the Buffalo, N. Y. market last week, buying draught stock for the Downie and Wheeler Shows. Several fine teams were secured.

    Harry Mann, circus agent, last year with the John Robinson Show, will be the general agent of the New Sanger Shows this season.

    Kennedy's X. I. T. Ranch Wild West will not go on the road this season as Mr. Kennedy has other business which will be given his attention.

    Jolly Jenaro, clown juggler, and manager of the Great Wagner Show, has purchased an automobile, to be used this season for advance work.

    Jack Pearson has signed for the 1911 season with the Wiedemann Show to appear in his bag punching, slack wire and fancy rifle shooting acts.

    Harry Bayfield has again been engaged to appear with the Forepaugh-Sells Show.

    The Bartik Troupe, Austin King and wife, John Fuller and wife, Ed. Collier and Evelyn Buehl will be with the Two Bills Show.

    Andrew Stuertz, tattooed man, will be with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows this season, his third with that organization.

    H. W. Freed has returned from a trip through Southern Indiana where he purchased two teams of dapple gray mules for his show.

    Sammy Lucas will again have charge of the performing ponies with H. W. Freed's New Show. He will have two assistants.

    Woody Van, veteran band leader, has been engaged to furnish a twenty-five piece band for Yankee Robinson's Circus this season.

    Fred Delmont and his troupe of comedy whirlwind skaters, eight in number, have signed with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show.

    Tom and Al Campbell, for a number of years with the Barnum and Bailey cook house, will again be with the show.

    Miss Clara Miller is re-engaged with the Mighty Haag Sow for season 1911, to do her principal two-horse carrying act.

    Col. Straub, with his trained animal exhibition, has signed for the season 1911 with Davis Bros. New Model Shows.

    The Aerial McLains, wintering at their home in Peru, Ind., have signed contracts for 1911 with the Gollmar Bros. Circus.

    Frank B. Miller has been re-engaged with the Mighty Haag Show for season 1911 as equestrian director and rider.

    John Agee and wife, Bob Courtney, Miss Emma Stickney and the Three Duttons will be with the Ringling Shows.

    Mrs. Murphy will again be the feature act this season with the Great Wagner Shows in her loop-the-loop act.

    Wm. M. Hedges will have charge of the privileges with the Downie and Wheeler Shows the coming season.

    Robert Tremble will have charge of Mr. Miller's ring stock with the Mighty Haag Show this season.

    Harry Clark and his bunch of clowns have been engaged by Joe Berris for the Cole and Rice Circus.

    Dr. Jas. E. Gordon will be with the Robbins Shows again this season in the capacity of press agent.

    DeMar Brothers, tight wire and aerial artists, have signed for the season 1911 with the Bert Silver Shows.

    Henry Wanner, solo cornetist, will be with the band with Howe's Great London Circus this season.

    George Shepard, John Wellman and Ed Woods have signed with the H. W. Freed's Show.

    The season of Welsh Bros. New Shows opens at Philadelphia, April 22. It will be a ten car show.

    Ora Albaugh will have charge of the canvas with the Great Wagner Show, his third season.

    The J. H. Boyer Show has been in Texas since November 30, and will start north about March 20.

    Frank Kotaro, performer, has signed with the Two Bills Show.

Billboard, March 11, 1911, pp. 20, 21, 57. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Kansas City, Mo., March 4. A new wagon show with headquarters in Lemon, S. D., and which will probably open the season about the first of May, is that of Indian Pete's Wild West Show, with Pete Culbertson and Dr. D. B. Boyd as owners and managers. Both were in Kansas City the week of February 20 selecting their outfit. They gave the Beggs Wagon Co., of Kansas City, their entire order for wagons, which included one band wagon, one ticket wagon, two chariots and a number of heavy baggage and pole wagons.

    The Billboard, Cincinnati, O. Gentlemen. In a recent issue of The Billboard I read an article on circus clowns. The following are names of some of the famous clowns overlooked: Jim Cooke, Barnum Show; Ernest Cooke, W. W. Cole Show; Ted Almonte, John H. Murray Show; Den Stone, John H. Murray Show; Chas. Abbott; Tim Micao, Nathan & Colvn's Show; Bill Carroll, Nathan & Colvin Show; Herbert Williams, L. B. Lent New York Circus; Dave Seal, L. B. Lent New York Circus; George Dunbar, L. B. Lent New York Circus; Frank Robinson, Charles Noyes Circus; Clark Gibbs, Charles Noyes Circus; Charles Madden, Charles Noyes Circus; Ed Neary, S. H. Barrett Show; Charles McCarthy, Adam Forepaugh Show; Kennard Brothers, Sells Bros. Show; Jim West, Sells Bros. Show; George Clark, Flat Foot European Show; Frank Phelps, Hart & Schofield Circus, 1856; George O. Knapp, E. S. Washburn Show, 1855. Yours truly, Still On the Lot.

    Complete roster of Heber Bros. Greater Show includes Reginald C. Heber, general manager; R. F. Heber, assistant manager and bandmaster; R. E. Heber, treasurer; Geo. T. Heber, master of transportation and principal clown; A. R. Heber, superintendent of commissary department; Benj. C. Heber, general agent with two assistants; James Bickens, superintendnet of privileges;; Chas. Faste, superintendent of properties; Edward Green, boss hostler with three assistants; Lew Topper, ring stock superintendent; Frank Ward, superintendent of lights.
    Performers with the show are: Rollo H. Heber and his trained ponies, dogs and monkeys; the Flying VaVons; Acrobatic Franklins; Anthony Brothers, equilibrists and wire artists; Hecker, contortion and swinging perch; the Jeffersons; Avarrell and Adella Heber, specialty artists; "Ginger" Webster and "Pepper" Laughrey, clowns; Ray Shannon and Ed Fox, comediants. The show will open in April, at Columbus, O., for two days.

    Baraboo, Wis., March 4. Gollmar Brothers will open the season of 1911 better equipped than ever. Another large elephant was added to the herd last week and Prof. Emery Stiles is busy breaking new acts. Prof. Romeo Sebastian is busily engaged in breakin a sixteen pony act, which will be one of the features of the parade. Uncle George Holland is adding stock to his array of big teams.

    After a successful season in Texas, Texas Bud's Wild West Show is on its way to the Northern states. While in Texas the following riders were associated with the outfit: Al Parks, of hte Booger Ed Show; Jack Hutton, trick and fancy roper, of Jones Brothers Wild West; Cherokee Spears, of Frontier Days of Nebraska; Shorty Phillips, of L. F. D. Ranch; (Texas) Scott Andrews, an old timer; Slim Stillians, of Montana, and Wild Horse Charlie. Instead of traveling by wagons, as heretofore, two new seventy foot cars will be used. Jack Gibson is in advance, Jess Johnston is general publicity man.

    Preparations for the coming season are going on at DeMott's Combined Show's headquarters, near Tower, Mich. New animals have been purchaed to add to the menagerie, the latest arrival being a young buck elk, which is to be broken to harness. An order for new canvas has been placed. Prof. Frank Caswell, contortionist, has again been signed, also M. L. Bisbee, horizontal bar and equilibrist.

    Bert Silver's Model Tent Show and Silver Family Band and Orchestra closed their famkly theatre season of twenty weeks at Greenville, Mich., Feb. 25, and went into headquarters at Crystal, Mich. The show will carry fifteen wagons and car, thirty-five people and thirty head of horses. The season opens May 10.

    The Aerial Fosters have signed with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows for the season of 1911, and will do their double trapeze act, also their new novelty iron jaw act, which has bee a success in vaudeville under the direction of Norman Jefferies.

    James J. Boyd writes that he has severed his connection with J. B. Nash and R. H. Harrington at Crescent Park, R. I., having been associated with them for the past five seasons. Boyd has made arrangements with the 101 Ranch Show for the coming season to make the arena announcements.

    Doc Zeiger has sold his interest in Reeser's Tennessee Minstrels to his partner, C. E. Daytn, and will be connected with Jas. W. Beattie, who has the side show and candy stands with Weidemann Bros. Kit Carson's Buffalo Ranch Wild West Show.

    Sig. Sautelle and Cecil Lowanda [sic] are both busy in Cortland, N. Y., getting their wagon show ready for the road.

    Bill Backell, of Herkimer, N. Y., will be with J. D. Carey on the No. 2 car of the 101 Ranch Real Wild West Show again this year. Backell has been with Mr. Carey seven years, and opened and closed seven straight seasons with him. Ernie N. Waters will do the twenty-four hour work with the 101 Ranch. Waters was re-engaged in the middle of last season.

    H. L. Tracey, formerly of the Two Traceys, novelty boxing act, will be with the Young Buffalo Wild West Show this season, presentng his fancy roping and bareback riding acts.

    John T. Welsh was in Warren, Pa., last week, where he purchased two sleeping cars from J. Augustus Jones for his new railroad show, which will open in Philadelphia in April.

    Ray and Anna Wood have signed with the Wiedemann Show for the season, to do their clowning, perch, tight wire and concert acts. They are at present with the Lisle Show.

    "Jimmie" Downs, the only son of the late Martin Downs, has decided to keep away from the circus game. He has a paying moving picture show in Toronto, Canada.

    Gus Miller will have the paper on the No. 2 car with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show again this year, his sixth season with John D. Carey. Paul Harrell will pilot the No. 1 car with the 101 Ranch again this year. Carey will follow him, and behind Carey will come Rosenthal. Charlie McClintock will be with the 101 Ranch as special agent, his second season with Edward Arlington. George Griffing will be on the No. 2 car again this season of the 101 Ranch, his second season with this show.

    Wm. H. Delly has been re-engaged as manager of car No. 1, Gollmar Bros. Circus for season of 1911, his eighth in the same capacity with that show.

    New canvas for J. E. Henry's Wagon Show was received at the quarters at Stonewall, Okla., last week. A fourteen piece band will be carried this season.

    C. H. Willard will again be with Sun Bros. advance car No. 2 this seasons, his fourth year with the Sun Show.

    Capt. H. Snider, lion tamer and animal trainer, has signed with the Downie and Wheeler Shows, season 1911.

    The Vardel Bros., gymnasts and equilbrists, will be seen the coming season with the Sun Brothers Circus.

    The Cole and Rogers Show opened the season Feb. 25 at Marion, Texas.

    The Sig Harris Show Beautiful will open in Belleville, Ark., March 22, with the following program. Performers George and Zelema Zenedo, Minnie Marshall, the Great Vesuvius; Charish Family, four in number. Musicians Frank and Earnest Wallick, D. B. Steward, Carl Emerson, Al Keeling, Harry Whitsell, and Capt. Pearl Stuckey, balloonist. The outfit will carry a sixty food round top, with two thirty foot middle pieces, and a thirty by sixty side show. The tour will embrace the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

    Three small elephants and two lions have been added to the menagerie of the Forepaugh-Glasscock Shows. The following people have been engaged: Bill Smith, boss canvasman; Blackie Coffel, in charge of animals; Dad Barns, in charge of horses; Pete Adam, Two Allends, the Aerial Fosters, Bob Dexter, Three McQuinn Sisters, casting act, and Frank Bowies, equestrian director. The show is under the management of Alex Glasscock and H. P. Hobson.

    Owing to the death of his wife, James A. Morrow will not travel this summer. The Sun Brothers have kindly released Mr. Morrow, who will remain at Fresno, Calif., where he will be engaged in a local enterprise. J. S. Robertson has been engaged to manage the side show with the Sun Brothers Shows for the coming tour.

    The Crandell Troupe of riders join the John Sparks Show, with which show they will present their novelty riding act.

    Schepp's Circus will play vaudeville dates until June, and then go under canvas as a wagon show.

Billboard, March 18, 1911, p. 47. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The Smith Greater Shows will open the season of 1911 in Augusta, Ga., for the benefit of the 1920 Club, Monday, March 20. The members of the company who have wintered with the show in Augusta are: Alfonzo Scelsci and his band, James F. Murphy and wife, Chester Winter and wife, H. H. Roberts and wife, Louis Hudon and wife, Geo. McCreary and wife, Mrs. Lena Narder, Miss Bert Johnson, L. M. Berry, J. B. Cullen, James Sullivan, E. H. Koch, James Barberits, Harry Otto, Albert Buckmiller, Gene Cardona, Wm. Drake, R. M. Spurr, Francis Shirly, Red McCauley, Wm. Bowen, H. Jackson, Chas. Moody, E. R. Gentry, Gus McCalister, Chas. Strunk, Jerry Long, Robert Anderson, Jim Prowell, Charlie Johnson, Kid Owens and Wm. Parker. The company will number about 140 people this season. W. S. Cherry is contracting agent and Louie Washburn has charge of the advertising.

    One of the best equipped wagon shows that will be on the road this season is E. G. Smith's Colossal Shows and Trained Animal Exposition. The outfit has been overhauled at winter quarters at Atwater, O. The show will have new wardrobe for the band and drivers, new trappings for the draft stock in the parade. F. D. Dunlap will have charge of the draft stock; Ed. E. Snyner will manage the annex, and Geo. L. Barton will be general agent. A recent addition to the roster is Cameron, female impersonator; "Re Cyns," who will pit his strength against eight draft horses, will be the free outside attraction. Chas. Ward has been added to the clown contingent. J. J. Ray Dee will be back as assistant manager, his ninth season with the Smith Shows.

    Work on the Masterson Railroad Shows is progressing nicely at quarters. Capt. Jack Shumate is doing the training, and Ted Sloan framing up the canvas, with Merritt Belew assisting in each department. The opening date is scheduled for April 21. Roster: W. E. Ferguson will have charge of the advance; F. L. Kenjockety, director of band; F. A. Goldie, in charge of side show; J. M. McVey, trainmaster; Wm. Shonts, in charge of dining service; "Scotty," in charge of ring stock; "Charleston Yellow," principal mule rider, and A. Henderson, boss property man.

    Roster of the Great Keystone Shows: Dock and Russell, proprietors and managers; H. O. Cunningham, advance representative with one assistant; Geo. Gregory, advertising solicitor; Geo. Strait, lot superintendent; Bert Clark, boss hostler; Tom Nelson, equestrian director; Guy Morgan, leader of band. Performers: the Great Ambrose, Geo. Gregory, Harry Loving, Albert Mitchell, Bob Russell, Sam Dock, Mr. and Mrs. Blythe, Buckskin Bill's (Jim Payne) Wild West. Ed Harding has the stand privileges. Business since the opening February 20, has been good.

    Performers that have already signed with the Cole and Rogers Show are the Four Sylvillas, Tracy Andrews, W. H. Bowers, Mrs. Grady, Three Cromers, Two Linsleys, Five Metzers, Three Arcaris, Two Zentos, Geo. Irving and wife, H. B. Soldene, Olivia and Harry Clark, and clowns, twelve in number.

    The Barlow Show, this season, will carry twenty-five people, twenty-seven horses, seventeen dogs and five trained Shetlands. Indiana, Illlinois, Iowa and possibly Nebraska will be the territory covered this year. The show opens at winter quarters, South Milford, Ind., April 29.

    The Humphries Bros., proprietors of the Humphries Bros. Show, have sold their wagons, stock and show paraphernalia. They are now planning to put out a small Wild West Show, to play Texas and Oklahoma. The quarters of Humphries Bros. are at Nixon, Tex.

    The Geo. S. Ely Show will close on March 22 for six weeks, to make preparations for the 1911 season. The show consists of fourteen wagons and forty head of stock. Blackey Grace is at present in charge of the ring barn at Bering, Texas, breaking new stock.

    Burk's Combined Railroad Shows, now in winter quarters at Topeka, Kan., will open their fourteenth season on March 25. Two teams of black draft horses have recently been added. The Burk Show is owned by C. E. [Byerle]. Brockway will be general agent.

    After being out of the circus business for eight years, Lew Nichols has decided to return to the field of the white tops, and manage the side show for Campbell Bros. Shows this season. Mr. Nichols has retired from the carnival business.

    Orke and DeLisco have signed with the J. H. Eschman European Circus. Lottie DeLisco will appear in the annex with her troupe of dogs and birds, while Col. Orke will present his usual act in the big show.

    Wash. (Kid) Hoskins, for sixteen seasons boss hostler on car No. 1 of the Ringling Bros. Show, will be route rider for the Forepaugh-Sells Show this season.

    Bob Abrams and Chas. Butters have signed with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows. Abrams will be ticket seller.

    King Bros. I. X. L. Ranch Wild West Show is in quarters at Lexington, Ky. The show opens early in April.

    S. Stough, formerly of the Ringling Show and various other attractions, is now manager of the advance brigade of the Great Blondin Shows.

    S. J. Franklin will not go out this season, as he has sold his dog and pony show. He has started in business in Beaver City, Neb.

    M. E. Hildebrand, chef of Sun Bros. advance car No. 2, joins the show at Macon, Ga., March 15.

    Chas. E. Bowen, formerly manager of the W. A. Eiler Enterprises, is now general agent and traffic manager of the Great Blondin Shows.

    Col. W. J. Uden was at the W. Hall winter quarters at Lancaster, Mo. last week, and purchased several animals for his menagerie.

    The Robettas Trio, revolving iron jaw, have signed with the John Robinson Ten Big Shows for the coming season.

    Chief Debro and Thelma have been re-engaged with the Mighty Haag Show for season 1911 as attractions in the annex.

    The Matsu Royal Japanese, jugglers and equilibrists, will be with the J. H. Eschman Shows this season. Ed Storm, talking and singling clown, will be with the J. H. Eschman Circus this season.

    John (Pop) May will have charge of the paper on car No. 1 of the Forepaugh-Sells Show this season.

    Pat (Tex) Langan will be with the Barnum and Bailey brigade this season.

    Joseph V. Gifford has been re-engaged to play the calliope with the Forepaugh-Sells Show.

    Joe Kugler, circus biller, will again be with the Barnum Show.

    Melrose and Meers will be with the Ringling Show the coming season.

Billboard, April 15, 1911, pp. 27, 28, 29. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Granger, Ia., April 8. At the quarters of the Yankee Robinson Shows everthing is progressing nicely. John Boyd, master of transportation has his train of twenty-four cars in excellent shape. The three advertising cars are finished and ready. Chas. Kelly, boss canvasman, assisted by Blackie Williamson and Robt. Brown, have everything in their departemnt in shape. The big top is a 180 ft. round top with four 50 ft. middle pieces, the menagerie a 90 ft. round top with five 40 ft. middle pieces, the side show a 80 ft. round top with two 40 ft. middle pieces, the dressing room a 60 ft. round top with a 30 ft. middle piece, the cook tent a 60 ft. round top with a 30 ft. middle piece, the horse tent a 70 ft. round top with three 40 ft. middle pieces. Al Myers has charge of the horse tent. Geo. Johnson has been busy all winter getting the harness and trappings in shape. Whitey McGuire has charge of the animals, and is busy putting his two herds of elephants through their stunts. Cockey Gibson is in charge of the side show canvas, having eighteen double deck banners in front. Wm. Owens will be master of properties, an assurance that everything will runs smoothly in the three rings and two elevated stages. Jake Posey is in charge of the stock. He has just received forty-two head of baggage stock, all dapple greys, four-year-old, and weighing from sixteen to seventeen hundred pounds each. The culinary department is in charge of Geo. Davis, steward, assisted by Joe Miller and Harry Nichols, who was with the International Aviator, in the capacity of chef. Leo Manville, known as Camp-fire Red, is in charge of the camp fire. The waiters, Blackie Riley, Red Hood, Happy Brown, Kid Allen, Bill Ganoe, Jim Cameron and Daddy Mack, are busy fitting up the dining tent.

    The Ty-Bell Sisters will be with the Forepaugh-Sells Show the coming season. J. Ty Bell has just completed the construction of a new apparatus for the act.

    Seven new wagons and four cars have been built for the Famous Robinson Shows.

    Eugene C. Barnell, of The Barnells, has been engaged with the John Robinson Ten Big Shows to sing with the band and do clowning. It will be the first season in ten years that he has been under the white tops. His partner, Edw. Barnell, will reopen his airdome in Dayton, Ky.

    Harry C. Payne, formerly of the Norris & Rowe Show and Buffalo Bill-Pawnee Bill Wild West, and the past winter connected with the 101 Ranch Round Up pictures, joins the ranks of Howe's Great London Shows for the season.

    The Two Jordens, comedians, will this season be with Young Buffalo Wild West and Texas Rangers.

    Hal Newport, English clown and high stilt walker, re-engaged with the John Robinson 10 Big Shows for season of 1911.

    Memphis, Tenn., April 6. Wm. Taylor, 68 years old, died at St. Joseph's Hospital, April 5, of old age and senility. He was connected with different circuses for more than thirty years, first as an acrobat and later as a clown. While showing in London he was termed a Shakespearean jester, because of the pun she got off on the bard of Avon. He was honored by royalty, and numbered among his friends many old celebrities of the sawdust ring. Dan Rice, Phineas T. Barnu, Tony Pastor and Seth B. Howes being his close friends. Taylor was at some time or other connected with each one of theses. Although he received fabulous salaries during his show life, he practically died penniless. During the past ten years he has been making his home at the Green Tree Hotel. One brother, Chas. T. Taylor, manager of the Mohawk Theatre, Schenectady, N. Y., survives.

    The following people have been engaged for the annex of W. H. Coulter's Railroad Shows, opening in Lancaster, Mo., April 29: Geo. H. Embree, gen. mgr.; W. H. Ball, chief announcer; W. T. Harrington, second openings and ticket boy; Jas. R. Cranor, chief ticket taker; Chas. Williams and five assistants, in charge of canvas; Barney Harkins, tattooed man; Madam Harkins, snake enchantress; the Robertos, impalement act; Lily Harrington, clairvoyant; George Burkhart, punch and magic; Joe Cramer, elastic skin phenomenon; W. R. Bell and his twelve colored funmakers and dancers; Mildred Williard and Mlle. Freda Fouchee, oriental dancers; Aueedy Varterejile and Geo. Poall, oriental musicians; Fred Portuer, Zulu chief.

    Roster of the advance of Cole and Rogers Show: H. J. Williams, general agent; S. Rice, boss billposter, with seven assistants; Hines Carter and Al Hicks, lithographers and bannermen; H. Grey, programmer.

    Wm. Becker, magician, has signed with Sun Bros. Circus for the side show.

    Richards Bros. Wagon Shows have been playing in Southern Texas the past winter to good business. On March 10, Richards Bros. purchased a large ranch on the Medina River, in Baudera County, Texas, where they will raise Shetland ponies. They will also make it ther winter quarters in the future. Two more cages of small animals have been added, also a large two-humped camel. Richards Bros. have secured as a free attraction Miss Foxy, the high diving beauty, who makes a sixty foot leap. The roster: W. C. and F. Richards, props. and mgrs.; Joe Laydon, slack wire and aerialist; Lucille Hampton, contortionist; Lella Ward, flying ladder and globe walker; Edgar Wilcox, Roman rings; E. Gremillion, horizontal bars; Ethelbert Carlton, producing clown; Harry McFarlan, boss canvasman; Jack Sheppard, animal keeper; Gordon Brown, boss hostler; and W. A. Ingram, in charge of the culinary department.

    Roster of Lombard's Imperial Shows for 1911: J. G. Lombard, mgr.; Charlie Bundy, asst. mgr.; "Duke" McKensie, general agent with one assistant; Ed Bedell, leader; James West, equestrian director; the Flying Belmonts, Hill Bros., bars and traps; Dick Weston, singing and knockabout clown and concert performer; Edward & O'Brien, performers. This outfit will be a ten and twenty cent show this season and will play mostly three day stands through Massachusetts, Vermont and New York, traveling by wagon. The season opens in Orange, Mass., about May 15.

    Col. Robt. S. Terry, of Indianapolis, Ind., who is known as Uncle Bob, spent last week as the guest of his nephew, Wm. DeOnzo, head of the DeOnzo Bros., fancy trick bottle and glass candle stick jumpers. The team is now composed of Wm. and Albert DeOnzo and their comedy man.

    Roster of Kit Carson's Buffalo Ranch Wild West are Joe Donohue, general agent and railroad contractor; J. M. Richison, local contractor; Victor J. Foster, car manager; Harry Read, boss billposter, assisted by Clift. Radfield, Will Chapman, Beitz, Mack, Ripple, Reagon, Murphy Beard, Harry Brown, Klugherz, Will Morton and Ed Akers; D. M. Spayd, Mark Kall and Harry Brown, lithographers; Mark Kall and Ed Ashbrook, programmers; Curant Ray, porter.

    Roster of advance car number 2 of Howe's Great London Shows, are Frank Burns, car manager; C. E. Clegg, boss billposter; F. F. Meyers and W. Griswold, lithographers; Johnnie Cashmore, programmer; Martin Simmons, Alec Stitts, George Chesnut, Steve McDonough, Harry Meyers, Dutch Yeager, Tom Tuggle, Ernest Renfroe and B. C. Johnson, billposters; Pete Wiggins, chef.

    Roster car No. 3 of the Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill Shows: Dave Jarret, mgr.; Maurice Coughlin, boss billposter; Geo. Chandler, boss lithographer, assisted by J. P. ___ and A. Jenkins; G. L. Bailey, boss banner man with C. D. Daley, W. Marcus and L. H. Carty as assistants; E. L. Lacey, paste maker; J. Madden, programmer; Al Ruland, R. M. Fisk, E. Booth, J. G. Carey, W. Slater and F. Burton, billposters.

    T. A. Smith, superintendent of stock with the Two Bills Show, who has been spending the winter at his home in Beaver Falls, Pa., left April 1 for Coatesville, Pa., where the stock has been wintering. Mr. Smith informed our representative that he will have ten new all steel stock cars this season. Mr. Smith has had charge of all the stock ever since the Two Bills Shows consolidated.

    Harry DeCleo, juggling gymnast, has signed contracts with Smith's Colossal Circus.

    Jas. A. Morrow, formerly with the Al. G. Barnes Animal Circus, visited the quarters of Wm. P. Hall at Lancaster, Mo., April 1, for the purpose of purchasing some animal cages of the C. W. Parker Shows. Morrow will manage the Parker Animal Circus this season.

    A. L. Salvail, side show manager of the Young Buffalo Wild West Show, is framing up the annex with features. The annex will contain sixteen stages and sixteen double banners.

    The Three Cromers have signed with the Cole and Rice Show.

    Thos. Strevey, ex-chief of police of Taylorville, Ill., has signed with the Foreapaugh-Sells Bros. Circus for the coming season as foreman of the horse-shoeing department. He reported at Baraboo, Wis., March 27.

    Miss Mabel Kenjockety, late of the Jones Bros. Buffalo Ranch Wild West Show, is at the Masterson R. R. Show's quarters, Charleston, W. Va. Miss Kenjockety and trainer, Capt. Jack Shumate are working on their high school horses.

    Chas. Ellet, of the Forepaugh-Sells Bros. Circus, is a guest of his sister-in-law in Allegheny, Pa. Mrs. Frankie Ellet was one of the Silvini acrobats, also one of the Hartwell Sisters, acrobatic dancers.

    The Webb and Long Dog and Pony Show, located in Hamilton, O., and will probably not take to the road this season as Walter Webb has stored the outfit in his livery barn.

    James T. Brown, legal adjuster with Howe's Great London Shows, will not be connected with that show this season as reported during the winter.

    G. Y. Stewart is no longer connected with the Honest Bill Show. Frank Indigo has taken the position as general agent left vacant by Mr. Stewart.

    Winnie Winsome, physical culture girl, and Harry Koster, aerial novelty act, are engaged for the season with the Famous Robinson Shows.

    Harmon and Harper, hand balancers and equilibrists, and Montello, equilibrist, have signed contracts with Billie Boughton's Shows.

    The big top of the Sig. Harris' Show Beautiful was blown down by a heavy wind and rain storm last week. The top was badly torn.

    J. F. Casey, last season with Forepaugh-Sells Show, will have the canvas with the Eschman European Circus this season. Clarence and George Hite, acrobats and equilibrists will again be with the Eschman's European Circus.

    Frank Curran, the Great Monopede, is the free attraction with Honest Bill's Show this season.

    W. J. Curtin's dogs and bears arrived at the quarters of the Masterson R. R. Shows last week.

    James Duval, eccentric fellow, opens April 17 with the John Robinsons Shows in Cincinnati.

    Carcetelli and Wright have signed with Howe's Great London Shows for the season.

    Harry DeCleo has signed for the coming season with E. G. Smith's Colossal Shows.

    Clinton M. Newton will again be with the Sun Bros. Circus the coming season.

    The Scrantons will again be with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows.

    California Frank's All-Star Wild West is increasing from a two car to a sixteen. An organization of the above name has been effected and incorporated under the laws of New York State, C. F. Hafley (California Frank) being president and general director; Major C. F. Rhodes, vice-president and general manager; Fred C. Beckman, treasurer. The show will be handled with fourteen cars back and two in advance. The baggage stock has been secured from Fiss, Doerr and Carroll, New York City, all of which being either gray or black. The ring stock consist of that formerly with the original California Frank Show and those, together with those purchased by Mr. Hafley, at the Mulhall sale in Knoxville, Tenn., including the high school, bucking and saddle horses and long-horned steers at the present in winter quarters at Augusta, Ga. This collection opens at Paterson, N. J., May 4.

Billboard, May 13, 1911, pp. 30, 33. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Webster City, Ia., May 2. On April 29 the Yankee Robinson combined show formally opened the season of 1911 at Perry, Ia. The shows Sundayed at Rolfe, and it rained, snowed and sleeted all night, and Monday morning the dressing room and dining tent has succumbed to a bitter northeast gale, which was still blowing and chilling the marrow of everyone on the lot. Under the clouds, with snow on the tops, the Governor ordered a band wagon parade at 2 o'clock. The side show, with Thomas Ryan, manager, did a three hundred dollar opening, and the big show packed them in. At Webster City, May 2, Tuesday, the same success awaited. The big show opened the program to capacity, although it was cold and disagreeble and the lot a mile from town. - J. Delmar Andrews.

    J. F. Merrill, agent for the Silver Family Shows, will not handle the advance this season due to illness. In his position will be Edwin Gary. The show opens at Crystal, Mich., May, 9, one of the finest fifteen wagon outfits on the road.

    Harry Beltz, of Taylorville, Ill., circus billposter, has signed with Thos. F. Wiedemann's Kit Carson's Buffalo Ranch Wild West for the season. Mr. Beltz was with Gollmar Bros. Circus last season.

    The Downie and Wheeler Shows are playing to big business through Pennsylvania and New Jersey. At Bridgeton, N. J., many were turned away at the night performance. Geo. Levasseur, strong man, and Palmer's colored band, are the latest addition to the roster.

    W. S. Washburn, after an absence of five years from the field of white tops, has returned to the Mighty Haag Shows for the season of 1911.

    C. W. Boyle, eight horse driver for the Gentry Bros. Show last season, is now driving the big team for the Burk's Combined R. R. Shows.

    Mrs. W. R. Hembling, the oldest and only daughter of Dan Rice, by his first marriage, is living in Grand Rapids, Mich.

    It is reported that the Great Clifford Circus will not open before the first of June. The show is in quarters at Canton, O.

    Marshall Martines [Martinez?], last season with Robinson's Ten Big Shows, joined Deul's Dog and Pony Shows.

    Frank Purcell is doing the newspaper contracting in advance of the Yankee Robinson Circus.

    W. E. Rodden, of Saginaw, Mich., is with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows again this season.

    George Strait, musician, is the latest arrival of the Great Keystone Show.

    R. Sidney Allen has signed for the season with the Chas. Geyer R. R. Show.

    Twenty baggage horses were recently added to the Frank A. Robbins Shows.

    Tinney's Band is with the Howe's Great London Shows this season.

Billboard, May 27, 1911, pp. 24, 25, 26, 27. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed. Some of the circus news was unreadable.

    May 15, 1911. The Billboard. Gentlemen - Will you please make a correction that has been published in your paper in regards to Deacon Elmore as manager of the Robinson's Famous Shows annex. I have been engaged for the season of 1911, to fill that one position by the management of the Robinson's Famous Shows. Yours respectively, Geo. F. Donovan, manager of the annex, Robinson's Famous Shows.

    Decatur, Ill., May 20. A Wild West show given under the management of Dick Elliott, a local horse trainer, was attened by 2,200 people at the baseball park here last Sunday. The show was given and taken part in by local people. The organization will be taken on a tour of one day stands throughout Southern Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio. A band of Sioux Indians will be secured and a number of cattle and horses added to the collection. Ten double lenght show cars and several sleeping cars will be purchased. Jesse Hill, of this city will accompany the show as treasurer, and Ben Dodson will be general manager. The troupe will consist of about seventy-five people.

    Madame Cordelia, onetime feature equestrienne with all the principal circuses of the days of her prime, is destitute in Cincinnati, and has asked The Billboard to appeal to her friends for funds.

    Roster of the Old Buffalo Wild West: A. O. Waugh, owner; Jake Hines, advance; Diamond Dick, principal joy; Cherokee Charlie and Buckskin Ben, ropers; Oklahoma George and five trick riders; Standing Bear and eight bucking riders; Harry Blackie Williams, announcer. The outfit carries forty head of stock, sixteen wagons with show and two in advance. C. W. Rayburn is leader of ten piece band. The side show has Princess Sylvia and den of reptiles and Ge Go, wild man; Great Weburn and wife, handcuff kings; Rayle and Rayle, glass blowers; Big Ed, fat boy.

    Among the visitors at the Downie & Wheeler Shows in Perth Amboy, N. J., on May 8, was Mrs. G. S. Walker. Mrs. Walker was formerly Sallie Hughes, equestrian,and is now residing in Perth Amboy.

    Jim Stewart, formerly of the Norris and Rowe Show, joined the Sells-Floto Show at Santa Rosa, Cal., May 12. He will assist W. Roody with the local contracting.

    Pat Long, steer wrestler and bulldogger, recently joined Carlisle's Wild West Show.

    R. C. Carlisle, proprietor of the Carlisle Wild West Show, visited Bob Scoville at Coffeyville, Kan., May 1. He and Carlisle trouped with the Barnum and Bailey Show in Europe for three years. Scoville is the leader of the city band and orchestra at Coffeyville. Barney Baldwin visited members of the Carlisle Wild West recently. He trouped with Carlisle in 1890, with the Washburn and Arlington Circus and Wild West.

    Prof. Jno. D. Hollinger's big show band, with Gollmar Bros. Show, this season numbers twent-three men. Francis Reed and Wm. Wallett are doing principal riding this season with Gollmar Bros. Gollmar Bros. have one of the smallest elephants in existence, it being forty-five inches in height.

    Notwithstanding that it rained all day, Prairie Joe's Wild West and Hippodrome Railroad Show opened the season at Dorchester, Wis., May 15. List of people with the outfit: Joe Skerbeck, owner; Ida Skerbeck, secretary and treasurer; Ray Dick, equestrian director; George Krone, leader of fifteen piece band; Bob Shortell, chef, with five assistants; Gus Wasserman, property boss with four assistants; Tom Pemerdon, boss hostler with eight assistants; Fred White, superintendent of lights; Clyde Roys, boss canvasman with eighteen assistants . . . Performers in big show: Roy LeVin, trapeze; Ray Dick, Mandy Skerbeck, Joe Boy and Frank Wheel, contortionists; Bill DeCope, Roman standing; Pauline Skerbeck, clown; Tracy Andrews, tight wire; Capt. Gerom's Troupe of Russian cossacks; Chief Decora's Troupe of Indians; Tex Baker, expert shooter with his troupe of cowboys and girls. The show will tour Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Eastern Canada, British Columbia. Franklin is ahead of the show with five assistants.

    No. 1 advance car of the Yankee Robinson Circus managed by Ben Hasselman has the following crew: Ora L. Hoffman, press agent; H. M. Ingersoll, boss billposter; Frank Rossman, Ed Leise, Sherman Hagan, Tod McDaniels, Jesse Fowlle, (Denver) Ed Smithee, George Ellis, L. M. Gallagher, Bert Higgins, billposters; Charles McGinnis, in charge of banners; Parson Miller and M. M. Lynch, bannermen; Ed A. Rinker, lithographer; Clayton Sheets, programmer; Harry Eggleston, chef . . . Tim Sullivan, paste maker.

    The opening of the Silver Family Shows took place at headquarters, Crystal, Mich., May 9. Fourteen acts make up the program including Sandy Copeland and company, triple bar and casting act; the Klippels, comedy acrobats and perch; DeMar Bros., double trapeze and tight wire; London Blunt, aerial and ground contortionist; Paul Wenzel, grotesque acrobat and trick house; Joe Price, principal clown; Little Howard Price (three years of age), clown; Silver Bros., jugglers, and the Eight Silvers, musicians and performers.

    Roster of the Kinnie Shows: Frank Kinnie, owner and manager; Chas. Darling, agent; Thos. ___, billposter; Wm. Carroll, equestrian director; Harold Kinnie, secretary; Geo. Bishop, musical director; D. Kelly, superintendent of lot; F. Gill, boss of properties; I. ___, superintendent of lights; Geo. Kelly, superintendent of stock. The show carries thirty-five head of stock, has new canvas 90 by 40, new seats, and the New Milburn lighting system.

    No. 2 car of Gollmar Bros. Show has the following crew: Walter Jenson, car manager; Harry Martin, boss billposter; Leroy Fowler, lithographer; Harry Dunbar, programmer; Ed Rell and Fred Walton, bannermen; N. Hammer, Joe Wilsh, Eddie Fay, Harry Sittner, Joe Walton and Frank Young, billposters; Leroy Penoll, paste maker.

    Violet Esher, of Howard and Esher, joined her husband, Billy Howard, with the Forepaugh-Sells Show at Vandergrift, Pa., May 9. They will be one of the features of the concert.

    The Great Reynald, with the Downie and Wheeler Show, jumps the gap on a wheel and also rides on a monocycle in the big top.

    An addition of fifteen Sioux Indians was made to the Wild West section of the Yankee Robinson Shows at Marengo, Ia.

    Miss Josie Ashton, rider, is this season with the Downie and Wheeler Shows. The Downie and Wheeler side show is under the management of Wm. T. Miller, Wm. Grienge makes second openings.

    Miss Arline Palmer and Henry G. Finn, riders, both with the Two Bills Show, were married in Newark, N. J., May 4.

    Jennie Kimball, with her cloud swing, is the free outside attractions with the Forepaugh-Sells Show.

    Capt. Synder, animal trainer, has his lions, bears and dogs with the Downie and Wheeler Shows. Aerial acts are well represented by the Silverlakes and the Geniers with the Downie and Wheeler Show.

    The Kelly troupe of wire and aerial artists joined the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows at Decatur, Ill.

    Prof. Wingert and his twenty-four piece concert band are with the Campbell Bros. Show.

    Walt Allen, late of the Gentry Show, is the equestrian director of the Downie and Wheeler Shows. The clowns are headed by Al. Wheeler Jr. on Downie and Wheeler. Art Gagnon handles the hurdle mules with Downie and Wheeler.

    Harvey Halle has charge of the concert with the Yankee Robinson Shows.

    Wm. Voight recently joined Campbell Bros. Show as auditor.

Billboard, July 1, 1911, pp. 24, 25, 26, 27. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Winfield, Kan., June 23. "Tony" Agler, one of the oldest circus clowns in the world, is very sick at the hospital in this city, his recovery is doubtful on account of his age. He is eighty-seven years old, and during fifty years of that time had a vareity of experiences beneath the canvas. Tony has made Winfield his residence for a number of years since his retirement, and has spent his time around the racing stables, taking care of Shetland ponies, which he taught numerous tricks. Since his illness, a benefit performance has been given for him here at the theatre, as he is without funds.

    Hampton, Ia., June 24. Emery Stiles, boss animal man with Gollmar Bros. Shows, has finally won the case in his claim for the entire estated of his father, the late E. S. Stiles, which amounts to between $20,000 and $25,000, and consists of real estated and personal property. The District and Supreme Courts have both declared that he is entitled to the estate. Recently heirs in the East tried to have the Supreme Court of Iowa open the case, but it refused to do so. When he was a small boy, Emery was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Stiles, but no adoption papers were ever made out. The estate was left to Emery, but because of lack of adoption papers, other relatives have been fighting it. Both Mr. and Mrs. Stiles had said repeatedly that Emery was their adopted son and that sealed his claim to the entire property.

    The number of cars with the California Frank Wild West has been increased. When the show opened it consisted of ten cars back with the show and one ahead. Now thirteen cars are used back with the shows and two in advance. Business has been very good.

    George Glitz, one of the best known circus men in the country, died at the Longview Hospital, Cincinnati, O., June 16. Glitz was known from coast to coast, his specialty being to look after the privileges. He was 52 years old.

    The Jones R. R. Shows were enlarged last week by the addition of a new 68 foot sleeper. A new 100 foot top and new band uniforms were also received. The roster: C. L. Erickson, manager; James Greer, John McClay, C. Philpot, Harry Lausch, Anzy Flowers, Barney Lorton, Frank Weirz, Tom Loomis, R. Padgett, F. Newkirk, Margie Ellmore, Mlle. Lorton, Bessie Weirz, May Fanning, May Pacheco and Blanche Howard. Harry Bowman is ahead of the show with two assistants.

    On the night of June 10, before the opening of R. M. Chambers' One- Ring Circus in Kensington, Philadelphia, Pa., a cyclone swept over the town and stripped the big top almost to ribbons. Mr. Chambers comes from Washington, D. C., and is the first to exhibit Princess Wee Wee, the smallest woman in the world.

    John J. Head and Frank Q. O'Brien, on the No. 2 car of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, are framing up and act they will present over the small time the coming season. The sketch will have much billposting atmosphere in it. Both are from Providence, Rhode Island.

    At New Berlin, N. Y., June 12, the Mighty Haa Show was caught in a hail storm following the afternoon performance. Every tent of the outfit was blown down. Mr. Haag has ordered a new 100 foot round top. A black bear and a tiger have been lost by the show this season.

    The No. 1 band with the Downie & Wheeler Shows includes Ben E. Taylor, leader; Geo. Bass, Z. E. Money, F. A. Church, Jno. Spaulding, Geo. Taylor, Wm. Barrow, Chas. Williams, Sam Deitz, Harry Ramsey, Fred Gardner, H. Havens, F. Rundell and Clyde Martin.

    On June 12 at Manning, Ia., W. H. Coulter closed a deal with his partner, W. M. Hooglewooning, becoming sole owner of the W. H. Coulter & Co. Shows. Mr. Coulter will strengthen the shows and make many improvements. Most of the staff will be retained.

    Al. F. Wheeler Jr., Jno. V. Gleason, Jno. Saville, Jno. Denno, Melville Brown, Ed Bowers, Art Benton and Silver Baum comprise the clown contingent with the Downie & Wheeler Show, located at present at South Chicago.

    Capt. Belvaedt, with the Bulger & Cheney Shows, sustained a broken arm when his 80 foot ladder fell with him, June 14. He was just getting ready to make his high dive. Mr. Belvaedt's act is the free attraction with the show.

    The Downie & Wheeler side show is under the management of W. F. Miller. Wm. Griener is making second openings. Clark Bros. Colored Band and Georgia Minstrels of eleven pieces are giving satisfaction. Owing to the phenomenal business of the Downie & Wheeler Shows, ten lenghts of blues were added to the seating capacity at Exeter, N. H.

    Miss Lucille Mulhall and her husband came to the California Frank Wild West Show at Hackensack, N. J., to visit her father, Col. Zack Mulhall, her brother Charlie, and sisters, Mildred and Georgia.

    Buck Massie, who has been doing the general contracting for the Young Buffalo Show this season, is no longer with it.

    The California Frank Show purchased three yoke of oxen in Haverstraw, N. Y. These cattle will be used on the prairie schooner in the parade and during the performance.

    Harvey W. (Slim) Johnson and Danny McPride, clowns with Robinson's Famous Shows, are making a hit with their original burlesque on the Jeffries-Johnson fight.

    Manager Wiedemann of Kit Carson's Buffalo Ranch Wild West added two more cars recently, making seventeen cars with the show and two in advance.

    Shorty Burk, late of Gollmar Bros. Circus, is the latest addition to the Bulger & Cheney Shows. Voight and his clown band are making good with the Bulger & Cheney Shows.

    With Atterbury Bros. Show is Johnny Hurd with his trick mules.

Billboard, July 19, 1911, p. 26. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Olin H. Taylor is putting on a good concert for the Robinson's Famous Shows. The concert acts: Winnie (Winsome) Koster, song and dance; the Two Ballantynes, Effie and Clovis, musical act; Edna Allen, soubrette; Bill Wesson, comedian; George Grayson, song and monologue; the Robertos, knife throwers; Wallace Bald [Baid?], in Steamboat Bill; Taylor and Hughes (Olon and Ross) comedians and musical act.

    Geo. S. Ely's Two Big Shows will not take the road this season, but will remain in their permanent quarters at Bering, Tex., situated on their stock farm, consisting of four hundred and fifty acres of productive land. Mr. Ely will next season launch the most complete dog and pony show on the road, and still travel overland. A new modern ring barn, with a 42 ft. curb, will be put in use shortly.

    One of the features of the California Frank Show street parade is the auto calliope, played by a full-blooded Indian woman, Princess Neola. This instrument was designed and built by C. E. Hafley (California Frank), and is simply a large pipe organ, mounted on an automobile. A sixteen inch fan, run by the auto's engine, furnishes the air for the instrument.

    The statement made by Guy Weadick in the July 15 issue of The Billboard, that Bee Ho Gray was manager of the kid show with California Frank's Wild West, is not correct. Mr. Gray is in no way connected with the side show, but is one of the special features in the big show.

    Wm. Driscoll, of Minneapolis, Minn., equestrian director with the J. H. Eschman European Shows was married July 13, at Quill Lake, Sask., Can., to Mrs. Amanda Anderson, known in the circus world as Amanda Skerbeck [remainder of text cut off]

    Mr. and Mrs. John B. Wright are in their fifth season with the Jones Bros. Shows. Mr. Wright is ticket agent on the front door, and does an Irish character singing and talking act, while his wife works in the concert.

    T. W. Cleary and wife, Rosina, joined the Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch Show at Miles City, Mont., July 12. Mr. Cleary will be on one of the side show ticket boxes, and his wife will do her oriental dance in the annex.

    The Avallon troupe of wire walkers and acrobats, with Gollmar Bros. show, have increased the number of people in their acts.

Billboard, August 5, 1911, p. 26. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The Bulger & Cheney Shows played Houston, Minn., July 6, and during the afternoon it was announced by the management that the show would pull into winter quarters for a stay of one week, in order to enlarge the show and arrange a new route. On the show's arrival at Sparta, Wis., Corlis Bulger and Sid Smith departed immediately for New York, and purchased from Louis Ruhe two elephants, one lion, one llama and a cage of monkeys. Dudley Cheney went to Evansville, Wis., and purchased a couple of large dens from Colonel Hall. During the stay in quarters, a 40 foot middle piece was added to the big top, a 30 foot middle piece to the kid top, two more flats and a combination car to the train, making as fine a ten car show as ever toured. Everything was newly painted, from flag staffs to toe pins.

    Roster of the side show with the Mighty Haag Shows: E. J. Kelly, manager and announcer; Doc Coates, second openings and ticket seller; Ula Parkinson and Tom Smith, ticket sellers; Chief Debro and wife, Eskimo midgets; Miss Thelma, fat lady; Mlle. Amaza, lady sword swallower; Del Fuego, fire king; Mrs. E. J. Kelly and her cockatoos; Princess Lula, tattooed lady; Mlle. La Daire, snake enchantress; Ned Bottinere, magic, marionettes, also lecture; Princess Mohow, Indian musical artist and saxophone soloist; Eva Thorn and Miss Pearl, oriental and Salome dancers; Walter Dean's Colored Band and Minstrels, twelve in number.

    Frieda Richard, of the Richard Sisters, with the Forepaugh-Sells Bros. Show, has engaged Minnie Taylor to replace Lula Hummel, who was seriously injured when she fell while doing the iron jaw act in York, Pa.

    Roster of the Circle C. Ranch, Wild West Show and Congress of Rough Riders, now traveling through Missouri: Lee Clark, sole owner and manager; Colorado Cotton, king of cowboys; Bob Pierce, producing clown; Charley Mayett, director of concert; Geo. Betzler, leader of band; Red Parliman, business manager and ticket seller. The show carries twenty wagons and about seventy-five head of stock.

    The Lucas Shows opened their tenting season June 1 in South Dakota, and are now playing Nebraska to capacity business. Roster: Three Aerial Lucases, gymnasts; Wm. Fisher, black face song and dance; the Clements, musical and sketch artists; Floyd E. Shaw, pianist; Percy Williamson, drummer.

    Chas. Leondor, age 46, a circus performer since 1888, died in Portland, Ore., July 7, from cancer. Leondor was married to Mae Stoll in 1892, while with the Ringling Bros. Show. She survives him. He was laid to rest at Rose City Cemetery, Portland, Ore.

    The management of Sanger's Combined Shows recently purchased twelve dapple greys, two new Pullman coaches and a new 60 ft. flat car. Preparations are being made for a long tour South. The Sanger Show will be a fourteen car show. The Zazell Troupe, seven in number, who recently came to this country, have joined Sanger's Combined Shows. They have one of the finest casting acts.

    John Ernest, of the Flying Ernstonians, visited the Aerial Stones on the Kinnebrew Bros. Hippodrome Shows at Farmington, Ill., July 21.

    Two more musicians have been added to the Bulger & Cheney Big Show band. The Flying Reagans is the new feature for the big show.

    W. T. Harrington is legal adjuster of the W. H. Coulter and Indian Pete Show. P. Miller has succeeded Mr. Piper as contracting agent.

    Archie Dunlap and wife are spending the summer at their home in Newberry, Mich.

    Sam Cohen is handling the concessions with the Sig. Sautelle Show.

    The Aerial Stones, loop walking act, are featured with Kinnebrew Bros. Hippodrome Shows.

    Chas. Greshum recently joined the Robinson Famous Shows, doing clowning stunts.

    Billy Ward is now Happy Jack Lawton, clown, with the Tiger Bill Wild West Show.

    With Sanger's Combined Shows is Jack Swickey and his eighteen piece military band.

    Martino Lowande Jr. and wife joined the Sig. Sautelle Show at East Greenwich, Mass. Sam Banks, press agent of the Sig Sautelle Show has retired from the staff. The Hall Trio of acrobats are recent arrivals on the Sig Sautelle Show.

Billboard, August 12, 1911, pp. 26, 27. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Lew Nichols has been under the white tops 35 years and has never missed a season. He has been talking on side show doors for 30 years. Nichols is this season handling the side show with Campbell Bros. Circus, the roster of which is Lew Nichols, principal orator and manager; Claude Cooley and Tom Hays, assistants; Blanche Hays, snake charmer; Mrs. Lew Nichols, mind reader; Nora Dops, Maid of Mystery; Tom Hays, blind-folded shooting act; Lew Nichols, magic; vaudeville show by Fred Poole, Rube Shepard and Nora Dops; Willie Shutte, Nebraska fat boy; Hampy Walburg's Jubilee Singers, dancers and comedians; Miss Ray Walburg, singing and dancing soubrette.

    Woody Van, leader and manager of Woody Van's Concert Band of twenty-five pieces, now with the Yankee Robinson Circus, was called home to Mauch Chunck, Pa., July 7, on account of the serious illness of his wife.

    Jones Bros. Buffalo Ranch Wild West side show has the following roster: W. C. Lane, mgr.; Slim Wicks and Ed Baker, ticket sellers; Jack Cousins, inside lecturer, and Punch and Judy; Walter Lester, magician; Nellie Madden, snake charmer and palmist; Carrie Lewis, sword walker; the Norrises, bag punchers and impalement act; May Howard and Rose Cortney, Midway dancers; Sam Fortney, boss canvasman; Curley Stokes, boss animal man.

    Monk Wilson is assistant boss hostler with the Young Buffalo Wild West. Ed Hopkins is no longer George Wormald's assistant, as he left the show at St. Catherines, Can. Neither is Shorty Smith identified any longer with the outfit, he severed his connection with the show at Pelleville, Can., to go to a hospital in Buffalo.

    Tillie Baldwin and Senorita Valdez, the Spanish girl, with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show, are doing great bucking horse riding.

    The California Frank concert is under the direction of Duke R. Lee. In the program are Princess Neola and daughter, Neola May, Bee Gray, banjoist; Duke Lee, shooting act; Bill Caress, Rube monologist, and Mahler and Young.

    The high school act with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show has been enlarged. Vick Allen and Bessie Worley are working two new horses.

    Downie and Wheeler purchased two of the cars of the defunct Masterson Shows. As soon as the sale is confirmed by the courts, they will be added to the rolling equipment.

    Harry Chapman, side show talker and ticket seller with the Forepaugh-Sells Show, married his first wife, from whom he had been separated for fourteen years, at Chicago, July 28.

    Major C. F. Rhodes severed his connection with the California Frank Wild West Show at Providence, R. I.

    Nearly all of the billposters that were in advance of the Welsh Brothers Show have joined the No. 2 car of the Downie & Wheeler Shows.

Billboard, August 19, 1911, pp. 27, 29. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed. Most of the circus news was unreadable.

    The Forepaugh-Sells Circus did not show Phillipsburg, Kas., August 5 on account of a washout on the Rock Island lines below Fairbury, Neb., where the show exhibited August 4. They wildcatted McCook, Neb., and gave one show there, having been billed the day before.

    Harry Gallagher, wire walker, has joined the John H. Sparks Show. Gallagher and Johnnie Smith, both from Limestone, Me. [Mo.?], are framing up a new wire act for the season of 1912 for the Sparks Show.

    Louis Von Engleheim, master of ring stock with the California Frank Show, closed while the show was in New Bedford, Mass. Nathan Williams, of Cheyenne, Wyo., is filling the vacancy.

    Wm. Mocerf, billposter, is no longer with the Robinson Show. He is now on one of the advertising cars of the 101 Ranch Show.

    Harry De cleo, ring gymnast and novelty juggler, is a feature of the E. G. Smith Shows. De Cleo is at present assistant manager and spieler on the annex.

    Win Wallace is with Gollmar Bros. Shows, clowning, riding races and doing his comedy mule hurdle act.

    John Bradley, clown and race rider, has joined Gollmar Bros. Shows for the balance of the season.

    E. L. Brennan, formerly agent of the Yankee Robinson Shows, is at his home in Parsons, Kan.

    Frank Welk (Baraboo) has charge of the ring stock with Gollmar Bros. Shows.

    Elmer C. Meyers is handling the privileges with the E. G. Smith Shows.

    The cook house of the 101 Ranch Wild West is now in charge of R. H. Hartman, alias Muldoon, with seven assistants.

    W. A. Atterbury has taken charge of the advance for Atterbury Bros. Show, replacing Carl Roberts, who resigned.

    Weaver Gray, with the California Frank Wild West Show, spins a rope with his teeth and wins applause.

    The Al. G. Barnes Circus crossed the Canadian line July 23 after a successful two month tour of the Dominion.

    Francis Reed and Bessie Lane, with Gollmar Bros., are rehearsing a new carrying act.

    Capt. Taylor left Atterbury Bros. Show for his home in St. Louis on August 1.

Billboard, August 26, 1911, pp. 27, 28. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Bulger & Cheney notes. William Moore, known as Animal Bill, is making a hit with his trained lion. Flossy Feagans Voight and son Weslyn and Rex Feagans returned to the show after an absence of five day, attending the death and funeral of their father, J. R. Feagans, who was bandmaster of the Bulger & Cheney Shows. Ellis Moody, clown, joined the show at Hampton, Iowa. Charles Sweet is the new cook. Major D. W. Cheney is visiting the show for a couple of weeks. Messrs. Bulger & Cheney are having two new cars made for next season, one of them a sleeper.

    The Tariff Bulletin issued by the Interstate Commerce Comission published an account last week to the effect that W. P. Hall had brought a 19 car show to his headquarters, Lancaster, Mo. The report does not state the name of the show.

    Heber Bros. Greater Shows roster remains the same, with the following additions: Ray Raymond, contortionist, and James R. Ramsey, in advance.

    Sam Fisher, formerly with Sun Bros. Show, joined the Downie & Wheeler Shows at Ravenna, N. Y., August 7, to do flying ring act and assist Art Silverlake in a new aerial number. The drivers with the Downie & Wheeler Shows are wearing new coats and caps in the parade, new wardrobe having been purchased the past week.

    The principal clown with the E. G. Smith Shows is Chas. Ward.

Billboard, September 16, 1911, pp. 38, 40. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Morganfield, Ky., September 8. An assignee's sale of the Robinson's Famous Shows' property will take place at Morganfield, Ky., beginning at 10:30 a.m., Wednesay, September 27, 1911. The property which consists of 100 head of horses and ponies, two elephants, nine lions, five leopards and cages, four camels, one llama, five trained dogs, five flatcars, etc., will be sold to the highest bidders.

    Mack's Wagon Show is now in its seventh week in Connecticut playing to good business. Complete roster: the Simpsons, breakaway perch and impalement act; the Great Malette, wire artist; Henry Staritis [Staritls?], equilibrist and trapeze; Wm. Nichols, contortionist and rings; Ed Acker, comedian and acrobat; Johnny Dales, principal clown, assisted by Danny Evans and Joe Barns. The band is under the direction of Wm. Griswold and includes Field Midgeley, Ed Lansing, Joe Day, Wm. Horne, Dick Burge, Harry Sturgess, Frank Knight, Jack Malloy, Frank Harvey. The big top is in charge of J. Murray, with six assistants. Bob Daly is boss hostler with three assistants, and Roy Cottrell, advance representative with two billposters.

    On the No. 1 advertising car of the Yankee Robinson Circus are F. C. Stern, car manager; Ed Leise, boss billposter, assisted by W. F. Perkins, Chas. Monroe, Lester Stien, Lester Batemann, Jesse Bond, Wm. Holmes, Chas. Davis, Lee Handorf and Chas. McGinnis; T. J. Brophy, in charge of lithographs, assisted by M. O. Kelly; A. L. Hightower, chief banner squarer, assisted by Jack Mitchell and G. Goodso; M. Lowery, official programmer; Chas. Bohlken, chef; Doc Miller, paste maker and porter. Ora L. Hoffman is still working up the excursion business, also doing the stenographer's work on the car.

    The following is the category of acts with J. S. Robertson's annex and supplementary exhibitions with the Sun Bros. Shows: Dudley No Komis, Simian musical marvel; Daplyn, royal English comique; Lieut. Allen Bryan, ventriloquial comedian and vocalist; Miss Adele Drew, musican act; Robertson's Original Baboon theatre; Sisters Bryan, scientific boxers and fencers; Col. Henri Siegmund, eight foot German giant; and Captain John Cordona's lion act.

    Correct roster of the Forepaugh-Sells advertising car No. 2: Tom Dransfield, manager; C. T. Douglas, secretary; D. F. Worth, boss billposter; J. Shallcross, G. Batemen, H. Hartwell, M. Biller, Chas. Smith, Wm. Smith, J. ___, R. Perkins, H. Itskin, Wm. Scott, Chas. R. Staver, W. H. Holland and Peter Hurst, billposters.

    The Barlow Dog & Pony Show closes it season October 7 at South Milford, Ind., the winter quarters of the show. The outfit made Illinois, Iowa and Indiana. This season was the fourteenth for the Barlow Show.

    Cole and Rogers Railroad Shows have enjoyed a prosperous season since opening at San Antonio, Tex., February 5. The outfit has show in the following states: Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Oregon, Washington and is now in Idaho.

    W. S. (Dad) Chambers is the trainmaster with Sun Bros. Shows, having joined the show April 15 at Macon, Ga. He handles eight cars.

    The Bryan Spaun Show, which opened in May, is touring Southern Jersey to good business. One of the features os Zella, the strong man. The outfit will stay out until October. Mr. Spaun will have a wagon on the road next season.

Billboard, October 7, 1911, p. 28. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The season of the Barlow Show comes to a close at South Milford, Ind., October 7. Business was not as good as last year. The show will be enlarged and will carry a side show in 1912. Mrs. Rose Stickney, who has been employed by the Barlow Show since February, will return to Miami, Fla. Frank Decker will return to Sun Bros. Show until they close. Arthur Howe and wife will play vaudeville time. Jack Sulley, principal clown, will also join the Sun Show. The Barlow Show ill work East next season on its old territory after three seasons in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska.

    E. C. Smith's Colossal Shows will be augmented by a seven or eight cate menagerie and a number of hay-eating animals. The Smith Shows will close a season of twenty-four weeks October 7, at Edenburg, Ohio, and pull into winter quarters at Atwater, Ohio, where preparations are under way for additional buildings to house extra paraphernalia and to accommodate the intended purchase of wild animals.

    At Mt. Sterling, Ill., September 20, Carl Nemo, barrel jumper, and Miss Marie Cregler [Cregier?], one of the Enos Troupe, were united in marriage. Both are connected with Gollmar Bros. Show.

    The Bulger and Cheney Shows closed a successful season at West Salem, Wis., on September 16.

    Park B. Prentiss, bandmaster, has signed to take charge of the musical department with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show, season 1912. He is at present with Rice and Woods Carnival Company.

    Earl Hall, formerly assistant manager of Landes Bros. Shows, has joined Kit Carson's Buffalo Ranch Wild West, to assume charge of ticket box No. 2, on the Kid Show, also to make concert announcements in the big show.

    The tents of the Two Bills Show wer all blown down at Kirksville, Mo., directly after the matinee. No one was injured. The evening performance was cancelled.

Billboard, November 11, 1911, p. 27. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The Downie & Wheeler Shows are playing to capacity business through the Carolinas.

    When the Campbell Bros. Circus lost Clovis, N. M., on account of wintery weather, some of the vaudevillians with the show secured the opera house for the night and gave a show. Printing was hastily ordered and distributed, and the night, when they were to have shown under canvas, a fair house greeted them in the theatre. The enterprising artists got a little piece of money for themselves.

    Horne's Wild Animal Show has gone into quarters at Kansas City, Mo., and will run all winter as a zoo and trained wild animal show in that city.

    L. A. Pommier's Show closed a season of twenty-four weeks October 7 and is now in quarters at Richmond, Mo. The Pommier Show used a fifty foot top with a thirty foot middle, carried ten people and a six piece band. Five teams were used to transport the show.

    The J. H. Eschman European Circus received at Portland, Ore., October 20, from an Eastern manufacturer, an entire spread of new canvas for both the big and side shows, also a complete set of new flags and pennants. The Eschman Show will close about the last of October, and ship direct to permanent quarters at Minneapolis, Minn.

    The Campbell Bros. Circus struck hard luck in New Mexico. In Roswell, right after the afternoon show, the top was blown down and the night show lost. Their next stand, Clovis, N. M., they had to pass up entirely on account of a heavy snow storm and extremely cold weather.

    Bessie Earles left the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show two weeks ago, returning to her home where she is applying for a divorce from Bert W. Earles, who is still with the show.

Billboard, November 18, 1911, p. 27. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The Robson Bros. Show, after twenty-seven weeks, closed and arrived at quarters at the fair ground in Reading, Pa., October 20. Vaudeville performances will be given during the winter at the fair grounds. Nearly all of the people have been retained for the winter. John Dorward is managing the stage and is also breaking new stock for next season. Bright Jones has charge of the front of the ___, Harry Trayer is doing the advertising and selling tickets. Albert Lehman of the Barnum Show is on the door. John Dorward goes to New York next week for the purpose of purchasing a new top for next season, which will be a seventy, with two thirty foot middle pieces, also a sixty foot round top for the side show and three new horse tents.

    Bert Rogers, aerial performer and producing clown, who retired from the circus world early in the season, has entered the Realm of Magic. Next season will see him on the road with one of the finest magic and illusion acts ever staged. He will be assisted in the act by his newly made bride.

    The Hagenbeck-Wallace Show lost the day at San Antonio entirely. That section of Texas was eight inches short of its normal rainfall for the year, but on the date this circus was there, most of the missing eight inches of water must have falle, for it came down in torrents.

    Allen E. Smith, cornet, and Fred Chapman, trombone, joined the Downie and Wheeler Shows November 1 to strengthen the band. George R. Taylor, with the Wheeler Shows for the past eight years, closed the same date on account of the serious illness of his mother. He is re-engaged for 1912.

    Bernie Wallace, who went home sick from the Wallace Show, has decided to quit the show business permanently and will probably engaged in the automobile business in Peru.

    Jack Phillips, formerly of the Barnum & Bailey Shows, joined the Downie and Wheeler Shows at Marion, N. C., October 26, to take charge of the musical department, replacing Ben E. Taylor, who was obliged to close on account of previous engagements.

    W. Al White, clown, closed his tenth season with the Ringling Circus October 31, and returned to his home at Brighton, Ia., until April 1 of next year when he will again take to the road. During the winter months he will look after his billiard parlor.

    Wm. H. Lambert was on his way South to join Clark's Circle C. Ranch Show. Mr. Lambert has been connected with the Buffalo Bill & Pawnee Bill Show for the past two seasons.

    Jack Leonard, who was the first man to put on the artillery drill with wild west shows, is living in Winslow, Ariz.

    Charles LaBird and Fred S. Lamb, owners of LaBird and Lamfred Shows, have dissolved partnership. The season closed at Kinard, S. C., November 3. Charles LaBird is again connected with the James Shelby Show.

    Another elephant and several hay-eating animals recently purchased from a New York animal dealer, were added to the menagerie of the Downie and Wheeler Shows at Seneca, S. C., November 4.

    The Flying Slikers closed a ten weeks engagement with the Wagner Circus and returned to their home in Cleveland, O.

    John Rooney, rider with Forepaugh-Sells Show, has purchased a home at Oak Park, Chicago, Ill.

    It is rumored that if not sold, the Al. F. Wheeler wagon show outfit will be out next season to transport a well-known Wild West attraction.

    The Ty-Bell Sisters closed with the Forepaugh-Sells Bros. Show November 11, and have signed with Ringling Bros. Show for next season.

    Homer Hall, comedy acrobat, has returned to his home in Erie, Pa., after closing with the Young Buffalo Wild West.

Billboard, December 2, 1911, pp. 23, 26. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    New York, Nov. 25. William Woodroffe, for many years a clown with the Barnum & Bailey Circus, and once head of Woodroffe's Original Bohemian Glass Blowers, committed suicide by the gas route Tuesday evening of this week in the rear of his candy store at 371 E. 135th Street. Illness prompted him to take his life. He was found lying on two trunks which he had carried around the world with him on one of his theatrical tours. In them were a complete set of implements used in the glass-blowing trade, together with hundreds of newspaper clippings concerning the act and a quantity of theatrical programs, some of which dated back to 1885.

    Chicago, Nov. 25. R. H. Dockrill, equestrian director and high school horse breaker, who for many years was with the Barnum & Bailey Shows, and who has more recently been one of the directorate of the Howe Great London Shows, is in the city visiting old friends. Indidentally he is attending to the placing in vaudeville of the Uno Family of Japanese acrobats.

    Jake D. Newman, who has had charge of the advertising department of the Forepaugh-Sells Bros. Show for the past two years, has been transferred to the Barnum & Bailey Shows in a similar position for the coming season.

    The Yankee Robinson Show cut two days off of its tour because of cold weather in Arkansas and shipped home to Granger, Iowa, on November 11 instead of the 13th.

    George Atkinson, of Hagenbeck-Wallace Show, says: "The blowdonw, which this show recently went through, was not as severe as was first reported. The final performances were given, however, with only the side walls, the big top having been entirely destroyed."

    Arthur R. Cunningham, formerly general agent of the Great Whiteley Shows and who last season managed Rolekes Park at Bethany, Mo., will next season head his own show under the title of Cunningham's International Circus.

    Roster of the Warren Show: D. W. Moorhead and Floyd Trover, owners; D. W. Moorhead, manager; Floyd Trover, assistant manager and router; Harry Fink, second agent; Mrs. Moorhead, treasurer; A. O. Peterson, band leader with twelve musicians; Paul Kissel, orchestra leader with eight men; Frank Merringer, stage manager; Wm. (Whitie) Rhodes, boss canvasman with six assistants. The outfit carries a seventy feet with two middles, and has a top that seats 2,000 people. The shows make two to four day stands and is playing to good business in Texas. At Dublin, Tex., they encountered the worst wind storm since opening on May 1. The center pole was broken and the side walls were considerably torn, but succeeded in getting the big top down without serious injury. The Warren Show carries two cars, having purchased the Pullman car, ___, from the Crawford Minstrels on November 1. There are thirty people with the show. Late arrivals are Ed Christian, comedian, Geo. Murray, novelty performer [remainder of text unreadable].

    Since the closing stand on October 7, E. G. Smith's Colossal Shows, in quarters at Atwater, O., have built an animal barn, 40x60, and installed a heating plant. Mr. Smith purchased from William P. Hall a lion, a leopard, a wild bear, a pair of timber wolves and a four horse team of grays for the band wagon, also a lot of other show property. The show is wintering 28 head of draft stock and fourteen head of ponies. The menagerie will consist of five cages of cat animals and a number of hay-eating animals. At winter quarters are Frank Hicks, in charge of stock; Slim Flannigan, animal man; Carl ___, cook; and Ed Thires in command. People engaged for next season includes J. J. Ray Dee, Charles Ward, Harry DeCleo, Edward Thires, Elmer C. Myers, Frank Hicks, boss hostler, Carl ___, cook and Slim Flannigan, boss animal man.

    Bert Bennett, the Hagenbeck-Wallace 24 hour man, has decided to engage in the hotel business at Vincennes, Ind., and will become the landlord of the New Hotel Raymond.

    C. H. Tinney has been re-engaged to handle the band with Howe's London Shows for 1912.

    H. A. Stone's Dog and Pony Show is in quarters at Middletown, Mo., after closing a successful season.

Billboard, December 9, 1911, pp. 57, 58. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Campbell Bros. Show closes December 6, at San Augustine, Texas, and will winter t Barumont. H. W. Wingert has been re-engaged as bandmaster, making his third season with Campbell Bros. O. C. Kretzer (nee Carpenter) will again have charge of the big top canvas. It will be a 160 foot top, with four 50 foot middles.

    The Yankee Robinson Shows closed in El Reno, Okla., Nov. 12, after a season of twenty-eight weeks. The following performers who opened wiht the show, were with it when the band played Home, Sweet Home: C. H. Sweeney, equestrian director; Fred Costello, assistant equestrian director and principal rider; Royal Tokio Japanese troupe of acrobats and equilibrists; Brock Brothers, comedy acrobats; Smith Brothers, acrobats and double traps; Chesser and Daly, double traps; Charles Ward, Roman rings and single traps; Jerry Alton [Aiton?], head balancing trapeze; Harvey Johnson and Alex Brock, burlesque menage act; W. J. Langer, comedy bounding wire; J. Alex Brock, principal and producing clown; Harvey W. Johnson, John Merkle, Jerry Alton, Frank Miller, Eddie Dorey, Bert Fisher, clowns; Mrs. Sweeney, lady principal and menage rider; Mrs. Fred Costello and Linda Jeal Julian, lady principal riders; Rose Maretta, balancing traps; Mrs. Harvey Hale and Mrs. Julian have the rolling globe; Mrs. J. A. Brock, menage rider and flying ladder; Lucy Daily, flying rings.

    The Tiger Bill Wild West Show and Indian Village is now in its 81st week of playing to good average business since the opening, May 7, 1910 at Evansville, Wis. The show will not close, but will tour all winter in Georgia and Florida. Program: grand entree and introductions, followed by Texas Wonder, trick rider, foot and horseback ropers, introducing Al and Lena Faulk, Earl and Rose Kenney, Texas Jack and Prairie Nell, Bronco Charley, fancy rifle shot; Col. E. D. Snyder and his talking horse, Max; flying ladder act by Josephine Brown, Jos. Shine, aerialist; rope spinning by High Pockets, Texas Wonder; Earnest Lay and Mo Ho, the Indians, scalp dance; clowns with January mule act. The show is carrying 150 head of stock, 75 people, including nine Indians, ten cowboys, eight cowgirls, Josephine Brown, Grant Monroe, acrobats, aerialists, etc., Chas. Boyd and Rube Chenney, clowns; Chas. Herman, rube; Clarence F. Brown, bandmaster, fifteen musicians.

    J. E. Henry's Wagon Show closed at Stonewall, Okla., November 27, having traveled across Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. The show has been out nine months. Next season's tour will open early in February for a trip South along the Red River in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Mr. Henry has one of the largest wagon shows, carrying twenty-five baggage wagons, five house wagons or sleepers, nine cages of animals, and one elephant, making a total of forty-nine wagons [remainder of text cut off]

    The Ketrow Show closed October 6 and was stored in new winter quarters at Anderson, Ind. The show was out twenty weeks, making two and three day stands. The following were with the show all season: Four Ketrows, tight and slack wire; Howard and Estella Alton, comedy sketch artists; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Twiss, singers and dancers; Mardo, clown juggler and bar act; Peters and Southard, comedy boxing act; Miss Grace Rains, musical director; Geo. Suthard, boss canvasman with three assistants; Will Peters, advance agent.

    The Barlow Show closed its fifteenth season October 8, and returned to quarters at South Milford, Ind. An electric light plant has been purchased. Arrangement are being made for an entirely new show for season of 1912. Less people will be carried, but the same number of wagons and horses. The parade will be a feature. Albert Tows and Elmir Gilmir are at quarters caring for stock and preparing for the coming season. The outfit will carry seventeen people, twenty-three horses, a band, eighteen performing dogs and five ponies.

    Bert Rutherford, of the Downie & Wheeler Shows, is at Valdosta, Ga., where he has been superintending the erection of a new stable and ring barn, to be used by the shows.

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Billboard, January 13, 1912, pp. 22, 23, 31. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Harrisburg, Ill., Dec. 29. Wiedemann's Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch will be an eighteen car show next season. A carload of parade stuff has just been received from the East. Tom Tucker is rebuilding the wagons and building some new ones. Harry Parrish has signed with the Wiedemann Shows.

    The opening of the Rhoda Royal Two-ring Circus, Hippodrome and Old Buffalo Wild West took place at the Coliseum, St. Louis, New Year's matinee. The engagement was for a week. The roster includes many names prominent in the circus and wild west business. Business staff: Rhoda Royal, sole owner and general manager; C. B. Fredericks, business manager; E. F. Lampman, press agent and advance; Jack Harris and William Collett, advertising agents; Bert Murphy and C. Murray, advertising privileges; Chic Bell, manager of privileges; John Agee, equestrian director; Joe Miller, superintendent of transportation; Park Prentiss, band leader and twenty musicians; Harvey Hall, concert manager; Robert Courtney, treasurer; C. B. McNulty, superintendent of stock; Charles Lucky, boss property man; John Carroll, Fred Collier and Alex Serbert, ring masters; Abline Potter, John Fuller, Mrs. Flo Fuller, Sarah Agee, Lou [Lon?] King, Evelyn Buhl, Maude Burbank, Charles Siegrist, the Davenports and the Siebert Family, principal equestrians; Frank Cordona, Irene Montgomery, Mlle. Cordona and Siegriest Family, principal aerialists; Ab Johnson, J. Harris, Horace Webb, Eddy Nemo, Billy Jameson, Lon Mower, Frank Stout, R. L. Worth, Joe Vancetta, Little Pinkie, Jerold Clayton, Pat Velder and Chas. Wertz, clowns.
    Col. William A. Lavelle, as old Buffalo, head a large company of cowgirls and cowboys, Prairie Rose leads twenty cowgirls, while Montana Jack captains the cowboys. Over one hundred head of horses, performing elephants, and dogs and ponies are carried.

    Long Branch, N. J., Jan. 5. Jacob Showles, former circus owner, clown and gymnastic performer, died at his home here at the age of 82 years. He traveled with the Dan Rice Circus and later performed with the Forepaugh and Doris shows. He owned and conducted the North American Shows in the early '70s.

    Granger, Ia., Jan. 5. The Old Buffalo Wild West, in winter quarters here, is getting into shape for the coming season. Contrary to reports, the Yankee Robinson Show and the Old Buffalo Wild West will not combine for this season, although both trains are occupying the same sidings near Miller. Old Buffalo, known as th eold Missoula Buffalo Hunter, started from Missoula, Mont., 20 years ago with this show and has not been in Iowa for the past 15 years. The show at that time had misfortune at Marshalltown, Ia., and was stranded there. A portion of the property was brought to Des Moines. The show was later re-organized. Old Buffalo bought ten cars from Ringling Bros. last week and will put them in his equipment this season. Old Buffalo is now 62 years old, having celebrated his birthday December 29, at the quarters here. The stock of the Old Buffalo Wild West is quartered at the Saylor Farm, west of Granger. The quarters are a mile and a half west of the Yankee Robinson farm. Charles Rogers, Montana Pete and Big Enough are in charge. The show opens April 25. The business staff includes Captain W. A. Hundley, manager; Art Reaver, treasurer; Joe Anselberg, legal adjuster; Fred Gray, press agent; Tony Kalb, arena manager.

    J. E. Henry's Show is at winter quarters, Stonewall, Okla. Mr. Henry has purchased a large tract of land just north of his present farm and commenced clearing and getting it ready for farming. There has been an increase in the menagerie, a pair of baby lions, a baby kangaroo and a baby monkey. Charles N. Swinney, advance agent, has just returned from Pine Bluff, Ark. Mr. Swinney has had charge of the advance for seven years. George L. Carter will have charge of annex No. 1, and F. H. Woodruff with Tony the Alligator Boy, annex No. 2. Capt. Ramey Lee, Harry Moore, Levi Axty, George Thompson, Pearl Schuback, William Mitchell, Clint Meir, Wilber Carner, Glen Hamilton, B. F. Phillips and Edwin Canner have sigend for the 1912 season. The Henry Show is expected to open about February 15.

    Harry Overton will again be with the Gentry Show next season, replacing W. W. Gentry as manager of the No. 1 advertising car, the latter returning to duties back with the show.

    Ed. C. McClure, of Beardstown, Ill., has signed contracts with W. H. Horton of the Ringling Show, to take charge of the lithographs on advertising car No. 1 the coming season. During the tented season of 1911 Mr. McClure was assistant to general agent Harry Noyes of the Great Patterson Shows.

    J. S. Phillips is re-engaged for the coming season as musical director with the Downie & Wheeler Shows Combined. He will have a band of twenty musicians.

    C. C. Cheuvront will have charge of the Wallace-Hagenbeck car No. 2 the coming season. "Speck" had the No. 1 car with the Danny Robinson Shows last season.

    The Sayville family closed with the Cole and Rice Shows on account of the illness of Mrs. Sayville.

    William E. Chambers, last season with the Sun Bros., will fill the position of trainmaster with the Downie & Wheeler Shows. George Coy is engaged for the coming season as superintendent of canvas with Downie & Wheeler. W. P. Wachtel will again be with the advance of Downie & Wheeler as special opposition agent.

Billboard, January 20, 1912, p. 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Harrisburg, Ill., Jan. 12. T. F. Wiedemann, wife and daughter, Zella Marie, returned to Harrisburg last week after spending the holidays with Mrs. Wiedemann's mother at Madison, Ind. James W. Beattie will again have charge of the side show and the candy stands next season.

    E. G. Smith's Colossal Shows winter quarters. Bernhard Mense, late of Circus Sidoli, Romain, joined recently and is busy in the animal house. Seven men are employed daily at the quarters. The trained dogs and ponies will remain one of the features.

    Among the troupers wintering in St. Louis are Chas. B. Rigby, boss hostler, and his wife, Bessie E. Rigby. Mrs. Rigby has signed with the Young Buffalo Wild West for the 1912 season.

    Maudie Minerva, of the Revolving Minervas, iron jaw act, spent the holidays with her sister, Addie Dutton, of the Three Duttons.

    Henry J. Sinken, circus agent, late of the Two Bills Show, will be with the Yankee Robinson Shows as manager of the No. 1 car with a crew of 25 men.

    Fred Biggs, female impersonator, is at his home in Marshall, Mo. He has just finished making five costumes, which will be used in his wire act with the John Robinson Ten Big Shows the coming season.

    M. L. Clark and Sons Combined Shows closed the season at Browndell, Tex., December 29, and shipped to winter quarters in Alexandria, La.

Billboard, January 27, 1912, p. 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The advertised feature of the Sig. Sautelle Nine Big Shows this year will be Oscar Lowande and his family of eight riders and acrobats in a new creation with his tally-ho, drawn by six snow-white horses. Another act will be a school of four Arabian horses in a new menage act. The new calliope was received last week. While the Sautelle Show is equally owned by Sig. Sautelle, Oscar Lowande and George W. Rollins, the old trade-mark will remain intact, as its past has been sufficient to amass a fortune for its founder.

    Jim Babcock has charge of the paint room of the Yankee Robinson Circus at the winter quarters, Granger, Ia. Ross Ashcraft is superintendent of the farm and has direct supervision of the work. Fat Lemon is looking after his train and doing all his repairing at quarters. Chas. Kelly, boss canvasman, has his seats all ready for paint. His new canvas will not arrive until April 1.

    Oscar Rodgers, privilege manager, closed a season of 36 weeks with the Sun Show recently. Rodgers is re-engaged for 1912 in the same capacity.

    The Great Leon Show closed at Ashland, Ky., owing to poor business. Since returning to winter quarters at Mansfield, O., Mr. Leon has been ill and confined to his bed for the past six week. He is slowly improving.

    The Mexican Morales Troupe, tramplin triple bar expositors and rolling globe experts, have signed contracts to appear with Sun Brothers Shows, opening in March, at Macon, Ga. Miss Morales of this party will also introduce a new equestric display.

    Arthur G. Keene, last season brigade manager with the California Frank Wild West, will be on the roster of Frank A. Robbins Circus the coming season as special agent.

    Princess DeCarmen (Mrs. Chris Zeitz), who fell and broke her left arm, has given up the circus business. Her husband, animal trainer, has also given up trouping and taken charge of Fiss, Dorr & Carroll's Horse Company in New York.

    Bob Pierce, American singing and talking clown, with a new monologue of entrees and songs, will be seen in the big Imperial program of Sun Bros. Shows the coming tenting season.

    The team of Zandra and Kaima [Kalma?] has dissolved partnership after a season with the Sanger Show, Mr. Zandra has joined hands with Mr. Burdell.

    Floyd Trover, of the Warren Show, sold his interest to D. W. Moorhead on Jan. 6 and joined the J. H. Boyer Show as general agent. Moorhead will open a big medicine show in April.

Billboard, February 3, 1912, pp. 32, 33. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Chicago, Jun. 25. After a season of three weeks, the Rhoda Royal Winter Circus and Old Buffalo Wild West closed last Saturday night at Wichita, Kan. Poor business, incidental to the extremely cold weather throughout the Middle West, is the cause attributed.

    On January 10 at Gardner, Fla., the Cole & Rice Shows, which have been entour during the past forty weeks throughout the East and South, were sold to L. C. Gillette, D. C. Hawn, Joe Berris and R. C. Flint. L. C. Gillette is well known as a general agent. Mr. Hawn is a showman who has handled every position with tented enterprises, from driving stkes to agent; Mr. Berris, one of the oldest equestrian directors, and Mr. Flint, is a treasurer who has had considerable experience. The show will not close, but will remain on the road all winter, touring Florida and other Southern states.

    St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 26. Dock Hadley, contracting agent, died of Bright's disease here. He was buried in Calvary Cemetery.

    Col. F. T. Cummins has signed Billy and Marion Waite, the Australian riders and whip manipulators for season of 1912-13. He is figuring on many new novelties for his new show which goes out on wheels in April.

    Richards Bros. Wagon Show closed at Boerne, Tex., January 6 and is now in quarters on their ranch at Pipecreek, Tex. The show was out eight months and had a successful season. Schuyler's band and orchestra, after filling an engagement of five months, closed at Bartlett, Tex., December 26. The outfit will open at Banders, Tex., about March 21 with a Wild West for a side show and is routed through Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri. The coming season will be Richards Bros. last on wagons.

    Ben E. Taylor will have the band with the Sparks Show this season.

Billboard, February 17, 1912, pp. 22, 23, 50. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Columbus, O., Feb. 9. John Nugent, boss canvasman, died of heart failure Monday afternoon of this week while standing in the post office. He weighed 300 pounds and was 60 years old. A contract to travel with the Young Buffalo Wild West this season was found in his pocket. Nugent was with the Forepaugh-Sells Shows for a number of years. He was a member of the B. P. O. E. and Eagles. Three sisters, who live in Allentown, Pa., are his only relatives.

    Several new features have been added to both the vaudeville and big show performances of the Cole and Rice Shows. The Lee Clark Family of society acrobats are a late addition. Prof. Flint's Troupe of Comedy Bears do a remarkable act. Dick Thomas and Wm. Murphy are doing their original rube stunts.

    A number of the Haag Show performers and people in other departments are wintering in Shreveport, La. They include Agnes DeEspa, single trapeze; Bill Johnson, aerial loop walking; Albert Henry, clown and race rider; Spider Mardello, clown; Roy Fortune, one-legged wire walker; Gail Boyd, clown; the Millers, Frank B., Dolly and Clara, riders; Howard (Dick) Masters, band leader; C A. Cubertson, cornet; P. Paterson, tuba; Carl Sparks, clarinet; Joe Day, clarinet; John Smith, animal trainer; J. Peterson, trombone; C. Dubell, trombone; C. McHenry, saxophone; R. C. Blasingame, trap drums; Frank McGuire, business manager; Henry Emgard, privileges; Louis (Dutch) Meyers, boss canvasman; Eddie Van Camp, light man; Shorty Rhodes, boss of ponies; Bill Williams, lot superintendent; Bill Davis, master of transportation; J. C. Morier, general agent; G. Smith, calliope and alto; Red Crow, tuba; H. Brown, billposter; T. Hayes, billposter; Paul Roberts, advance; Fred Dedrey, Bill Taylor, Holdzer and Rezloh, comedy acrobats; Jimmie O'Neill, hand balancer, has signed with the Haag Show for the 1912 season. Del Fuego has also signed, as have the Four Powell Family, the Holcum Troupe of riders, Sam Kitchie, Doumona and Nade, Weekly and Wood, Holzer and Rezloh, Roy Fortune, Berry and Hicks, Frank B. Miller, equestrian director, and H. Abbe. Mr. Carroll, scenic painter, has all the wagons ready for the parade. The show is reported to open about March 18.

    This season will be the second one for J. W. Moore & Son's one-ring circus, with a new spread of canvas, and all new wagons. The show will have twenty wagons, sixty head of iron gray draft horses, and eight trained Shetland ponies. The main top will be a 100 foot round top with two 30 foot middles; the side show, 40x70; dining tent, 30x60. The roster up-to-date: J. W. Moore, proprietor and manager; J. A. Moore, secretary and treasurer; James Morton, general contractor; John Koleman, boss billposter with four assistants; Joe Fuerstein, boss hostler with eight assistants; Joe Hayden, superintendent lighting plant with two assistants; Wm. Buenger, boss property man with three assistants. The outfit will have two lions, two bears, four tigers, two elephants, one cage of monkeys and parrots. The side show will be under the supervision of George D. Wylis. Roster of side show: Prof. J. T. Jordan, magic; Bill (Butch) Miller, Punch and Judy and vertriloquist; Madam Vida, second sight and snakes; Chas. Shanks, manikins; Prof. Anton Ryan, fire king and sword swallower; Prof. Lawrence Nelson and his band of eight colored musicians. Mosele Banner will have charge of side show canvas with three assistants. Harry Powell and his band of twelve musicians have signed for the main show.

    All of the Lowande acts are booked with different circuses this season. A. G. Lowande and wife will go with the Sells-Floto Show. Cecil Lowande with the Howe Show. Kelley Dan and partner, Hedrix, with Sells-Floto. Mrs. Corriea and daughter with the Frank A. Robbins Show. Pat Kelley, with his troupe of lady wire artists and iron jaw act, known as the Kelley-LaTell Troupe, left Petersburg, Ill., February 1, for New York and will play over the Keith Vaudeville Circuit. Cecil Lowande has returned to Petersburg from his engagement at the Hippodrome, als John Corriea.

    There will be a complete change in the make-up of the Sig. Sautelle Shows for the seasonof 1912. The seating capacity last season was wholly inadequate. This year the show will crry nearly as many seats again as last season. The menagerie will be larger. A lot of attention is being given to the color scheme. All costumes for the parade and the performance will be new. The musical department will comprise seventeen men in the big show band and eight in the side show. With these there will be a calliope and a large Gaviola Military Band Organ with a large and loud chime attachment. Mr. Sautelle is always at the shops and Messrs. Lowande and Rollins at the stables, ring barn or menagerie.

    J. Delmar Andrews, press agent and legal adjuster with the Yankee Robinson Circus last season, is at Perry, Ia., promoting a suplementary edition of one of the local newspapers. He has been re-engaged with the Yankee Robinson Show for the coming season.

    Orke and DeLisco will be with the J. H. Eschman Circus next season. Mr. Orke as equestrian director, and Madam Lotta DeLisco will appear with her troupe of educated canines, including the talking dog, Buster, and her troupe of educated birds and monks.

    P. G. Lowery, colored cornetist, will have his bunch with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show this season.

    J. S. Robertson has been re-engaged as manager of the annex with Howe's London Shows.

    Frank Stebbins, an old-time performer, is conducting a pharmacy in Saginaw, Mich.

    Mr. Buddenhagen is press agent and advertising solicitor for the Cole and Rice Shows.

    Burns, Brown and Burns, comedy bar act, have signed with the Ringling Show.

    Fred Jenks of the Wallace Show, has opened a rooming house in Saginaw, Mich.

    James Duval has signed with the Robbins Show as principal clown.

    Harvey (Slim) Johnson will be with the Ringling Show.

Billboard, February 24, 1912, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Newark, N. J., Feb. 16. The firm of Welsh Brothers, of Philadelphia, have combined with W. E. Thaller and Thos. W. Crowley, amusement promoters of Newark, N. J., to put out a ten car wild west show. Work is well under way as far as cars, seats and wagons are concerned. Season opens at Philadelphia, April 27.

    Al Campbell, of Campbell Bros. Shows, and W. H. Coulter, of Coulter's R. R. Shows, have joined hands and will exploit a circus the coming season which will be called Cole Bros. Shows. The printing will come from the Erie Litho. Co., and is of the lot formerly used by the previous Cole Bros. Show. It is understood that Al Campbell will also route the Campbell Bros. Show, but will devote his personal attention to the new enterprise. The headquarters are in Lancaster, Mo.

    Jersey City, N. J., Feb. 16. In April, when the Frank A. Robbins Show leaves its winter quarters, the policy will have been changed from one ring to two rings and a stage, and some of the foremost aerial acts will be in evidence. . . . The menagerie will be one of the features. The cross cages will be done away with and new large open dens will take their places. A new five pole top will be used for the menagerie. A new 76 foot car will replace the "Mattie," and has arrived at the shops of the Pennsylvania R. R. for a few alterations. Mr. Robbins' new private car, "The Governor," is receiving the finishing touches. It is 70 feet long, steel body, with two state-rooms, reception room and buffet compartment. Jack Cousins, equestrian director, has been busy breaking in some new horse acts. He will present a six jet-black high school horse act this season. In addition two four-horse acts have been broken, four greys and four roans. Charles Lowry, hurdle rider, will ride the greys while Jack Cousins will ride the roans. About fouty head of stock will be added this year, making a total of 150. Dr. J. E. Gordon has been re-engaged as press representative, his fourth season with the Robbins Show.

    Campbell Bros. concert band will be one of the features with the show this season. H. W. Wingert will wield the baton.

    The ring barn of the Davenports in Chicago presents a scene of activity. Orrin Davenport's act goes with the Barnum Show this season, the Hobsons with the Sells-Floto Circus. It is understood that Flora Bedini (Mrs. Walter Guice) and Walter Guice Troupe will be with the Gollmar Shows. Albert Davenport is breaking in a new horse. Wm. DeMott was a caller at the ring barn last week, on his way to the Yankee Robinson quarters in Des Monies. Pat Valdo, clown, is spending a few weeks with the Davenports. He will be with the Wallace Show this season.

    The Castella's Indoor Circus opened January 26, at Henderson, N. C. The program includes Dave, Miss Edith, Fred and Miss Bessie Castella, equestrians; Chas. Castella, aerialist; Miss Hettie Castella, iron jaw act; Miss Aida Castella, menage and wire act; Joe Marvella, dancing and balancing; Ed Walton, clown, and Master Eddie, assisted by Red Carroll. The show is book for eight weeks, at the close of which they have contracted for the circus season. [Note: Castello family].

    Arthur R. Cunningham is framing up his International Circus at Bethany, Mo. In all probability he will carry a number of Indians and put on some wild west features. The Whitlarks, double trapeze artists, have been engaged. J. W. Whiteley, who owns and trained Sparks Jr., the talking pony,is training a new pony act for this show. An Italian band will furnish the music.

    After closing the season with the Downie & Wheeler Shows, Sandy Copeland returned to Cadillac, Mich. Copeland will be with the Silver Family Shows this season. He is framing up a black top moving picture show, and will also have two gymnast acts, a bar act and a three people aerial act. He has engaged Chas. Stone and wife, late of the Dode Fisk and Sanger Shows.

    Phil E. Keeler, last season with the Forepaugh Show as producing clown and black face comedian in Bayfield's Minstrels, has been meeting with success in the Middle West. The vaudeville team of Pike and Keeler has dissolved partnership. Keeler is at present finishing his new home in Milford, Conn. He will be with Chas. Bray's Overland Show season 1912.

    Brock Bros. and the Edna Trio are breaking in a new act. These people have been acrobats until recently, but are now practicing a trampolin bar act. Alex Brock will be remembered as principal and producing clown with Danny Robinson's Famous Shows last season, also with the Yankee Robinson Show after the close of Robinson's Famous Shows.

    Prof. Emery J. Smith, the original "Foxy Grandpa" and musical artist, is at the winter quarters of the J. H. Eschman Circus, at Linden Hills, Minneapolis, Minn., and will troupe again next season with this organization. Mr. Smith is preparing a comical single turn for the concert. He will also act as assistant treasurer of the show.

    The Rippel Bros. Show will go out this season with an entire new outfit, both in wagons, stock and tents. Hugo Egener will be in charge of the advance wagon, this third season. Perry Lewis will have charge of the band, Sam Chandler the stock. A number of wild west acts will be added to the show.

    General agent R. M. Harvey of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show is now the sole owner of the Grand Opera House, Perry, Ia., as well as the proprietor of the largest daily newspaper in Central Iowa.

    Jack Sulley has been re-engaged with the Barlow Show, also Albert Towns, Charley Baird, Elmir Gilmire, Burt Suavely, baritone; Chas. Smith, slide trombone; Ros C. Doyon, juggler and contortionist. Mr. Barlow will have a complete little wagon show this season, his fifteenth season.

    The Orton Family, who were in South America during the season of 1911 with the Feltus Show, are wintering in Vineland, N. J., where they have erected a ring barn and expect to produce a six people act for the coming season. They have purchased property there and have a good location.

    Bobby Fountain, showman, has been engaged by Sun Brothers as manager of their supplementary and annex shows.

    Wm. Hesse and James Sullivan have joined hands and assisted by two other men are meeting with success in vaudeville under the name of the Four Hesse Comiques. They have been re-engaged by the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show for the coming season.

    The annex with the J. H. Eschman Circus will be in charge of Ray Dick, the magician.

    Geo. Johnson, last season twenty-four hour man with the Yankee Robinson Circus, after a serious illness for weeks in the hospital in his home town, Quincy, Ill., is now at the winter quarters of the Yankee Robinson Show, Granger, Ia.

    Monroe's Mighty Shows, wintering at Pitts, Ark., will be enlarged. A. M. Cauble, the owner, is training two big animal acts. The show will open at Cash, Ark., about March 1, and tour Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska.

    Cumming and Cumming, comedy acrobats, have closed with Adam Fetzer's R. R. Shows and will open with the Goesely Wagon Show March 1. Bill Robson, baritone player, also goes with the Goesley Show.

    Wm. Day, clown, last season with Danny Robinson's Famous Shows, is having a lot of new props made. Day expects to be with the Barnum Show this season.

    Toney Kalb, from New Ulm, Minn., now of Des Moines, is to be with the Yankee Robinson Show this summer.

    In a previous issue it was mentioned that W. B. Fredericks, band master with the Forepaugh Show last season, would this season with Ringling Brothers. It should have been J. J. Richards.

    The opening of the Old Dominion Shows, under the management of K. Iseminger, has been set for April 24. A contract for twelve sets of double and single harness has been given out.

    Yello, strong man; Billy Gety, ring performer; Flexible Frye, contortionist, and Joe Coleman, black face comedian, have signed with the Byron Spaun Wagon Show for the season.

    Trainmaster Boyd ("Fat Lemon") is busy at the Buchanan farm, the Yankee Robinson winter quarters, near Granger, Ia., getting his train in readiness for the summer tour.

    Colonel W. B. Yorks, who was with the J. H. Eschman Circus last season, has signed up for the 1912 tour of this organization, and will act again as general superintendent.

    E. Y. Meyer, the high pitch man, is touring Texas until the Yankee Robinson season opens, when his voice will be heard just across the street from the uptown wagon.

    Norma Davenport will not assist her husband, Stick Davenport, at the St. Louis Hippodrome, week of Feb. 12. Mrs. Bessie Koontz, an apprentice, will work with him.

    Chas. Evans, known as Pop Evans, is at his home in Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa. He will be with the Frank Robbins Show this season.

    John Devinney left Cincinnati January 29, for the Two Bills quarters at Trenton, N. J.

    C. D. McIntyre, railroad and local circus contracting agent, for a number of seasons with Gollmar Bros. Show, and previously with Forepaugh & Sells Bros., etc., has been engaged by Edward Arlington for his attractions.

Billboard, March 2, 1912, pp. 22, 23, 24, 25. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Toledo, O., Feb. 23. A report made by a number of prominent acts who took part in the Winter Circus held at Pittsburg last week alleges that salaries amounting to $3,000 are due various performers. It is said that court proceedings will be instituted against the management of the circus. Harry Clark of Toledo was among the artists on the bill and says that there were several White Rats on the programme.

    Venice, Cal., Feb. 20. The opening of the Al G. Barnes Big Three-Ring Wild Animal Circus takes place in Santa Monica, several miles from here up the coast, on March 2. More than a hundred workmen have labored night and day, in two shifts, that the show might take the road on schedule time. In the railroad shops the new railroad bats and stock cars have been built. A dozen new tableau wagons, carved and decorated with gold leaf, have been built, baggage wagons have been constructed. Twenty-five double lenght especially constructed railroad cars will be needed to transport the hsow, which includes two cars for the advance. Practically all of the coaches will be of the vestibule Pullman type. Every employe of the show from the humble razor back to the members of the executive staff sleeps in a berth. Each Pullman is electrically lighted. One of the features this year is the new diner. Although the employees eat on the lot, they will have an opportunity of gathering each night following the show to partake of a light lunch and while away their spare moments. Mr. Barnes' special car is equipped with hot and cold shower baths, steam heat, etc. There are several elegantly appointed state rooms, a den, library and reception room. The decorative scheme on the interior was done under the directionof Mrs. Barnes.
    Every piece of the six tents will be new this year. The big top will be a 100 foot round top, with two 10 foot middles and a 50 foot middle. The Al. G. Barnes Circus is an exclusively wild animal show. Three hundred and fifty animals are carried. There are twenty-four forest bred African lions, all which work in one group. Following a one day stand in Santa Monica on March 2, the show will move to Los Angeles where a week's engagement will be played beginning March 4. The No. 1 Advertising car left several days ago. Harold Bushea, general agent, left last night for San Francisco in the interest of the show. William K. Peck, contracting agent, left today.
    Roster of the executive staff; Al. G. Barnes, manager; Mrs. Al. G. Barnes, treasurer; Harold Bushea, general agent; William K. Peck, contracting agent; H. S. Tyler, adjuster; A. L. Sands, twenty-four hour man; Floyd King, general press representative; J. R. Hardie, auditor; Robert Kane, superintendent of side show; Captain C. W. Sharp, equestrian director; Tote Ducro [Ducrow], principal clown; E. E. Markham, director of big show band with twenty-five soloists; George Lott, director of side show band with ten musicians. R. A. Byrne, manager advance car No. 1 with eighteen men; Thomas O'Brien, manager advance car No. 2 with ten men; and ___ Giles, manager of excursion brigade with five men.
    Bosses: Jerry Burns, superintendent of lot; Max French, superintendent of canvas; Charles Cook, trainmaster; Sam Burgy, superintendent of ring stock; George Gessell, superintendnet of lights; Captain Stonewall, superintendent of menagerie; William Embrey, superintendent of elephants; Earl Trainer, superintendent of props. Animal trainers: Captain Stonewall, Major Robert Thornton, Herr Louis Roth, Captain Sharp, Chas. Fulton, Bert Jackson, Sam Bergie, George Stettler, Tote Ducro [Ducrow], Edward Deshamps, William J. Tafe, Dollie Barnes, Ethel Bonday, Martha Florene, Lucille La Monte, Mabel Scott, Miss Mabel Stark, Miss Margaret Recardo, Frank Warner, Bert Worth and Teddy Shaffer.

    The winter quarters of E. G. Smith's Colossal Shows have been refitted to accomodate the housing of the enlarged show. A new animal barn, 40x60, has been built, and permanent cages to keep the wild animals in during the winter months erected, also a heating plant installed. Most of the people have been engaged for next season. Clayton Grobe will be general agent, with two billposters; George R. Taylor, second agent and lithographer; Harry Elias, local contractor and adjuster; George H. Irving, manager of annex; J. J. Ray Dee, equestrian director; Charles Allspaugh, boss hostler; Slim Hicks, assistant; George Purcell in charge of ring stock; Ed Thires, general superintendent; Ed Moss, in charge of side show canvas; Charles A. Ward, principal clown, will have a new line of entrees. DeCleo and Ortello will be one of the aerial features. Ray Dee in his wire act will open his ninth season with this show. The opening date has been slated for April 27, at Atwater, O. The show will not play over its old territory, but will be found in an entire new section of the East.

    Following is a brief history of the show people who are now in the employ of Barrett and Zimmerman during the winter months, and the positions they occupy at the Midway Stables: Max Zimmerman is employed as head salesman, and is in charge of the publicity department. Mr. Zimmerman's show history dates back to 1884 during the time that the dime museum business was in full blast, when he was a manager and lecturer. In 1890 he owned a half interest in the Hurlburt and Zimmerman Shows; in1892, Synder & Zimmerman's Colossal Colored Carnival; 1893, Coup, Snyder and Zimmerman's Combined Shows; 1898 and 1899, Bartholew's Equine Paradox, and many other amusement enterprises since then. Erne Houghton is general superintendent and boss foreman at the stables. Mr. Houghton's career dates back to 1881. Henry (Apples) Welsh is Houghton's assistant. Frank Rooney, a Ringling man, has charge of the ring stock. Bill Moore (Animal Bill) has charge of the animals. Tom Bohn is also employed at the stables.

    Buck Conner's Texas Wild West will leave El Paso, Tex., on March 2 for a tour of the Southern states. Conner has Rangers Moore, Webster, Croon and Dorris, Rurales Durantes, Frillos, Reyes and Feleo of Mexico, Senorita Morias, Mexican lady roper, and Miss Jane Bernoudy, the American cowgirl and her wild bunch. Conner's band of eight Mexicans from Banda Guardia in ropa chora, is one of the novelties of the day. They were at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo.

    Painting and repairing is going on at the quarters of the Lucky Tull's Wild West and Dog and Pony Show at Grand Saline, Tex. Blackie Murray, boss canvasman, has a spread of new canvas. The big top will be an 80 with two 40's, the horse tent 30x70. The show will carry twelve trained ponies, two trick mules, a troupe of twenty-five trained dogs, ten head of bucking horses, six cowboys, four clowns, thirty-four head of mules and baggage stock. The Tull Show changed quarters from Canton to Grand Saline.

    The H. W. Freed Dog and Pony Show will open as usual the first week of May at Niles, Mich., the winter quarters and home of Mr. Freed. This show will use eight wagons and two pony rigs, a 50 foot round top, with 30 foot middle piece, 20x40 pony tent, 24x40 horse tent, 12x18 cook tent. People engaged at present include Charles Aluerfer and family, aerialists and rolling globe; Homer J. Whitmarsh, clown; Orvie Draper, trapeze, and Clarence Walters, hand balancing and contortion.

    It is likely that Barrett and Zimmerman, horse dealers at Midway, St. Paul, Minn., will put out a show either this or next season. Circus property of all kinds has been purchased during the past season, and the stables have the appearance of winter quarters, including railroad cars, tents, wagons, chariots, trained animals, horses and mules and circus paraphernalia. Painters are at work on the show property, and trained horses, mules and ponies are being worked every day.

    The Bert Silver Model Tent Show will open the season at headquarters, Crystal, Mich., about May 4 and tour Central Michigan, as usual. Sandy Copeland and Company, triple bar and casting act; the Aerial Stones and Cycling Reids have been signed. The Silver Family are building a new theatre at their home, Silver Park, which will be operated as a vaudeville house during the summer season. This year will be Bert Silver's forty-sixth in the show business.

    Charles Andress, the veteran circus manager, retired, has purchased a 1912 Chalmers New 36-Horse power roadster. He is contemplating long country drives this season. His early spring itinerary includes his farms in Michigan, Mudlava Spring at Kramer, Ind., Baraboo, Wis., and in May will make the trip overland to his farm at Great Bend, Kan. This summer he will visit some of the circuses en tour.

    This season will be the seventh for Harry Crigler and his band with the Gentry Show. The members include Chas. Kellman, Chas. Piske, E. W. Robinson, V. L. Sutton, Ed Kemper, T. J. Wolfe, Chas. Storm, Paul C. Hennel, Chas. Byrde, Chris Schmidt, Anton Lindsay, G. E. Hughes, Porter Kitzing, Maurice Demaree, Fred House, Geo. J. Cady, W. H. Hinds, Pierre J. Olker, P. J. Cahill and Myron Tully.

    The Original Zanton Bros., ring gymnasts and equilibrists, will be with the Gollmar Show this season. At the present time they are practicing in Canton, O., at the Hill Training Academy. Besides the Zanton Brothers at the Academy are Burdell and Zandra, Cuban trapeze and ring artists; Hicks and Hicks, comedy casting and return act, and Terry Anderson, one-legged high wire walker.

    The Olifans are spending the winter in Atlantic City. They will be with the Sells-Floto Show the coming season, where they will introduce several clown numbers.

    Harry H. Curran (clown), who has just closed with the Greater American Show, now playing in the Hawaiian Islands, has returned to this city. He will leave for Albuquerque, N. Mex., about the 30th of next month to join the Sells-Floto Shows.

    Pat Langan has signed with car No. 1 of the Ringling Show for the coming season. Lanagan, Macon and Vandegriff scored in a new musical comedy, composed mostly of local talent of Weatherford, Tex.

    Harvey W. Johnson and Warren E. Baird are playing in repertoire in St. Louis, where they have been since the closing of the Barnum Show. They have a new knockabout act, which will be featured with the Ringling Show this season.

    In a recent issue it was mentioned that Col. Phil DeCoupe and his wife would be with the Gollmar Show this season. The statement was correct with regard to his wife, Zelda. The Colonel, however, will put out his own show as usual.

    The Nickel Plate Shows are in quarters at Davenport, Ia. The show this season will be under the personal supervision of C. S. Duvall and Francis H. Blakely and will open in Ohio on May 1.

    Dan R. Abney, singer, with Jethro Almond's R. R. Shows last season, is now located at Newberry, S. C.

    Atterbury Bros. Wagon Show is in quarters at St. Louis, Mo., where preparations are being made for the opening early in April. C. R. LaMont, of LaMont Bros. shows, was a visitor last week. William Lee will be in advance of the Atterbury Show this season.

    Geo. H. Degnon, excursion agent of the 101 Ranch, left for Venice, Cal., February 12, to complete arrangements for the opening date, March 23. Ira H. Simmons will handle the program ahead of the show.

    Louie LaClede, clown, will again be the principal and producing clown with the Cole & Rogers Show, his fourth season with this organization.

    Campbell Bros. Shows will open the season of 1912 the early part of March in Texas. The winter quarters are at Beaumont, Tex.

    Billie Rice, Charlie Single Bell and Shots Baldwin, comedy acrobats, are being featured over the Pantages Time. They will finish the time in March and open with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show. The Kellerve Bros. are playing vaudeville and will be with Hagenbeck-Wallace the coming season.

    W. B. Herrod will be with the Ringling Bros. Show next season.

    The quarters of Billie Boughton's Overland Show at Ambia, Ind. is a busy place, particularly in the wood-working shop, where several wagons and cages are being built. Nearly all the performers have signed.

    M. L. Clarks and Son's Combined Shows will open early in March with an enlarged show. A new band wagon, one more lion den, two lions, two leopards, one hyena and twelve monkeys have been purchased.

    Twenty-five people are at the quarters of the S. B. Anderson Show getting things in shape. Arizona Hinnie's Wild West will be the feature of the show. Eugene Marcum is the manager of the Anderson Show.

    Dr. F. E. Tryon, press agent for Gollmar Bros. Shows the past several years, will again be with them this summer. This winter he has been connected with the Metropolitan Hospital, New York City.

    A. Augestad, baton spinner and contortionist, will again be with the Ringling Show, his fifth season.

    William H. Delly has signed as manager of car No. 1, Gollmar Bros. Circus, his ninth season in the same capacity with this show.

    Glen McIntosh, of the John Robinson Show, has opened a moving picture house in Bellevue, Mich., and owing to the success of the enterprise, will not be with any of the white tops next season.

    Shannon Bros. Tent Show will open in May at Fremont, Ind. The show will be quartered at Wapakoneta, O., during the winter season, as manager Harry Shannon has purchased a new home there.

    Thomas Abbott, now connected with the Philharmonic Band of Boston, Mass., and recently with the Ringling Shows, has signed with Campbell Bros. for this season as solo clarinet.

    One of the big features of Gollmar Bros. Shows for the coming season will be Prof. John Hollinger's band of twenty-five men. This makes Hollinger's third season with the Gollmars.

    Banty Brown, clown, has returned to Baraboo, Wis., making the statement that the sawdust ring no longer holds any charm for him. He prefers life as a railroader.

    Gordon Orton and wife have signed with Sanger's Combined Shows, and are now in winter quarters at Monroe Park, Mobile, Ala., practicing their novelty riding acts.

    Charles Ward, aerialist, who was injured while on the Yankee Robinson Show last season, has recovered, and has signed with Jones Bros. Shows for this season.

    Garry Vanderbilt, dubbed by his friends as "John Law," will spend the summer on Gollmar Bros. Shows, his third season with this show.

    William Delavan will be boss hostler with Sun Brothers Shows. "Del" is wintering at Baraboo.

    Sidney Wrink, at one time mule rider with the John Robinson Show, is now preaching the gospel in Huntington, W. Va.

    John Henry Rice will again have charge of matters ahead of the Frank A. Robbins Show.

    H. R. Stout, who will lead the band with the Yankee Robinson Show the coming season, is in Des Moines, planning a new concert program.

    Charles W. Holland, known as Slivers, boss canvasman with the Forepaugh Show last season, has been engaged by Gollmar Bros. for the 1912 season.

    Mrs. James Sullivan left for Peru, Ind., recently, to join the Riding Connors, who are engaged with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show the coming season.

    The Orton Troupe have signed for the coming season with Downie & Wheeler's Shows. They are at present at their home at Vineland, N. J.

    William Diederich, formerly trombonist with the Barnum & Bailey Shows, has signed with Campbell Bros. as first trombone for the coming season.

    Harry Pilkington is putting in the winter at his home in Philadelphia, and will again be with the Downie & Wheeler Shows season 1912.

    Harry Bayfield, late of Forepaugh and Ringling Bros. Shows, has been engaged with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show for the coming season.

    Ralph Lane and wife, Bessie, have signed for the coming season with Gollmar Bros. Shows. Ralph had the uptown was last season.

    Capt. G. Georgian has signed contracts with the Young Buffalo Wild West for hte coming season with his troupe of six Royal Cossacks.

    The Melnotts, wire artists, have been engaged with the Ringling Show for the season.

    Harry Nugent, who was with the Frank A. Robbins Show last season, will be back again doing magic,and Punch and Judy lecturing.

    Dan Leon will be equestrian director with Campbell Bros. Shows. The show will open at Beaumont, Tex., the later part of March.

    The Chas. Seigrist Troupe of aerialists are at their home in Canton, Pa. They will be with the Barnum Show.

    Dick (Schrimp) Pinkney will be with Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows again this summer, his third season with this show.

    Al Picardo will be with the Sun Brothers comedy section this year. He will also present his comedic juggleur specialty.

    Madame Silvai, known as The Jungle Serpent Queen, now wintering at Perry, Ia., returns to the Yankee Robinson Shows this season.

    Ben E. Taylor will have the band with the Sparks Show this season. Taylor has been with the Downie Show the past two seasons.

    The Great Burkhart, King of Coins, will again be with the Downie & Wheeler Show. He is at his home in Brooklyn.

    The James Shelby Show has closed and Chas. LaBird has taken the entire outfit of wagons and turned it into a railroad show, now known as LaBird's New Railroad Shows. The roster includes Char. LaBird, proprietor and manager; Mrs. Chas. LaBird, main show ticket taker; Geo. W. Powell, side show ticket taker; Marvin Jackson, boss canvasman with four assistants; John Blair, property man. Big show acts: Red Powell, clown and contortionist; Madame Davene and daughter, double trapeze; LaBird Bros., comedy acrobats and clowns; Mlle Lottie Sailor, ladder and single trapeze; Davene Sisters, contortionists; Chas. LaBird, juggling, hand balancing and tub spinning acts; Mlle. Tottie and her trained dogs; LaBird Family of acrobats. Concert: LaBird-Davene Trio, song and dance; Master Iza, singing and talking act, and Prof. Andres, escape artist. Side show: Chas. LaBird, magician; the Two Song Birds, singers and dancers; Charles, Punch and Judy; Jack, man-eating wolf.

    Heber Bros. Wagon Show, with headquarters at Columbus, O., will open the latter part of April. Buck Texas and his Western Rangers and a troupe of Russians have been engaged for the Wild West, which will be an added feature with the show this season. Three brigades will constitute the advance.

    Articles of incorporation were granted January 9 at Sacramento, Cal., for the Mackay European Circus, Menagerie and Hippodrome, with a capital of $100,000, to be operated at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, 1915, at San Francisco, Cal. The features are The Garden of Eden, as presented by Hagenbeck at the Chicago and St. Louis World's Fairs and the Vienna Water Circus.

    Princess DeCarmen (Mrs. Chris Zeitz) had to undergo another operation on her arm, which was broken some time ago. A broken bone was taken out which was not removed when first set. There is little hope of her using the arm again as it is stiff at the elbow.

    Robert Stickney Sr. has purchased two English thoroughbred high school horses, which will be exhibited at parks and fairs after the close of the Polly of the Circus Company, with which Mr. Stickney and his daughter are now traveling. Mrs. Emma Stickney will be with the Sells-Floto Shows.

    Harvey Hale's Indoor Circus is comprised of sixteen people. The band and orchestra is under the leadership of Monty Myers. The principal performers include Rose Marretta, Sadie Martin, Susie Carnahan, Maude Hogg, Frank LeRoy, John Styles, Monty Myers and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hale.

    Mr. and Mrs. Ambros Means have signed with the Two Bills Show. Ambros Means was one of the cowboys that accompanied Buffalo Jones to British East Africa.

    Harry Beltz, of Taylorville, Ill., billposter, has signed with the Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch Wild West. Beltz was with the Kit Carson Show last season, and has spent several years with the advance cars of Gollmar Bros. and Danny Robinson.

    The J. W. Moore and Son's One-Ring Circus will open at St. Charles, Mo., April 6 and will tour Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. It will be a twenty wagon outfit. Last season the show was out thirty-two weeks, touring Missouri, Kansas and Iowa.

    James Greer will be trainmaster this season with Campbell Bros. Shows.

    J. E. Bullock will again be connected with the Downie & Wheeler Shows.

    W. H. McFarland, of side show fame, owns the three leading shows with the Nat Reiss Carnival Company.

    C. E. Diamond, aerialist and acrobat, last season with the Frank A. Robbins Show, has signed with the Mighty Haag Show. Diamond is one of the old Gregory Family of aerialists and acrobats.

    Mackay's European Circus, Menagerie and New York Hippodrome open their regular season early in May at Cleveland, O., appearing there under the joint auspices of the Eagles and Moose.

    The Aerial McLains have signed contracts with the Gollmar Show, their second season with this show. They are now at their home in Peru, Ind.

    Roy Holliday, of Fairbury, Neb., will be back with the Campbell Shows, having charge of the main entrance.

    Kelly Bros. closed a season of seven weeks February 10, at their ring barn in Petersburg, Ill. D. W. Kelly will be with the Sells-Floto Show season 1912.

    New dog and monkey acts are being broken at the quarters of the Howard S. Starrett's Society Shows for the 1912 season. Bert F. Fuller will be boss hostler.

    Doc Coates has been re-engaged as manager of the Mighty Haag Show annes. He is now with Willis' Ten-in-One, with the Reiss Carnival Company.

    The LaFayettes will be with the Ringling Show. They recently closed a four weeks' engagement at the ring barn of the Kelly Bros., Petersburg, Ill.

    Berre and Hicks, gymnasts, will not be with the Mighty Haag Show as stated in a recent issue of The Billboard, but with the John Sparks Show.

    This season will be Elmer Porterfield's seventh as manager of the side show with LaMont Bros. Carrie Porterfield will do her Spanish ring act.

    Oliver H. Payne, trap drummer, is wintering at Tampa, Fla. He is engaged with Ned Brills' concert band on the Barnum and Bailey Show.

    Mrs. Iva Herne is passing the winter with her mother, Mrs. A. Vaught, in Carmi, Ill. She will be with the Wallace Show again.

    "Skinny" DeGrush, of the Hagenbeck-Wallace advance forces, is in Perry, Ia. He is boss stage carpenter at the Grand Opera House.

    Harry Maison, formerly of the Buffalo Bill and Barnum and Bailey shows, is a member of the Atlantic City Fire Department.

    Knight and Day are at their hoem in Vinita, Okla. They will go to the 101 Ranch about the middle of March.

    Arthur Borella will be with Hagenbeck-Wallace Show next season.

    Frank (Shorty) Maynard, has been re-engaged by the Floto Show.

    Baird and Johnson, producing clowns, will be seen in the Ringling Show.

    The Three Kobers, aerialists and contortionists, are booked with the Sun Brothers Shows for the coming season.

    Phil (Denver) Darling will be with Barnum & Bailey Show next season.

    D. M. Spayd will be with the Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch Wild West as programmer, his second season with the show.

    Hagerbara Sotiro, Japanese equilibrist, will be with the Mighty Haag Show doing his hand balancing and wire acts.

    The Reno-McCree Troupe are at home in Toledo, O., preparing for their season with the Hagenbeck Show.

    Frank L. Horton, one of the rough riders with the Ringling Show, was recently married and is living in Baraboo, Wis.

    George R. Taylor, trombone, last season with Downie & Wheeler Shows, has signed with the John Sparks Show.

    Mrs. Corriea and family left Petersburg, Ill. last week to play and engagement at the Pittsburg Society Circus.

    The Hocum family of riders are not engaged with the Haag Show as was announced in a previous issue.

    Ben Austin will again officiate as general agent with Gentry Bros.

    Wm. P. Campbell, legal adjuster for Campbell Bros. Show, is at his home near Drummond, Okla.

    Pony Barnett and his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Griggs are at the winter quarters of Sun Bros. Show.

    Ed. Davies, manager of the Maydo Troupe of acrobats and aerialists, has signed with Campbell Bros. Show.

    Buck Reger and Company, producing clowns, have signed with Howe's Great London Shows for this summer.

    Joe Miller, boss property man with the Forepaugh Show last season, will go with the Ringling Show.

    Tom Kennedy, in advance of the Frank A. Robbins Show last season, is at home in Passaic, N. J.

    Barney Shea ahs accepted the position as manager of all privileges with the Cole and Rice Shows.

    Sam Morris, of Philadelphia, will have full charge of the Frank A. Robbins side show this season.

    Billy Day, late of Danny Robinson's Show, will be with the Barnum and Bailey Show this season.

    Roy D. Smith and family, the Delamead Troupe, will again be seen with the Sells-Folot Shows.

    Harry Ridgley will again be with Gollmar Bros. Shows as a reserve seat ticket seller.

    The Bayrooty Trio will be in the Sells-Floto side show, making their second season.

    Don Wilson has signed with Howe's Great London Shows for the coming season as clown.

    Wm. Hesse will be one of the comedy acrobatic acts with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows. Ernest Girard has signed to do clowning with Hagenbeck-Wallace.

    Mrs. Effie Dutton is the latest arrival in the circus colony at the Sells-Floto quarters.

    The Ellis Family, equilibrists and gymnasts, have signed with Richards Bros. Circus.

    William Vogt will again be with the Campbell Shows, his second season.

    Girard Leon goes with the Wiedemann Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch this season.

    Fred Worrell will be the adjuster with the Ringling Show the coming season.

    Fred Egener and Pat Valdo will be with Hagenbeck-Wallace next season.

    Jim Rossi and Harry Clemens will go with Barnum & Bailey next season.

    Harry F. Wills [Wilis?] the calliope king, has signed with the Sells-Floto Shows. Lee Hendrick will be among the clowns with Sells-Floto.

    M. C. Sherman will be with the John Sparks Show this season.

    Earl Banvard will be with the Ringling Show this season.

Billboard, March 9, 1912, pp. 22, 24. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Last week, in Chicago, an arrangement was made, whereby the Young Buffalo Wild West and Col. Frederick T. Cummins' Far East and Indian Congress were combined. When the show opens the season at Peoria, Ill., Saturday, April 27, Col. Cummins will be seen in the saddle for the first time in America in six years. During Col. Cummins' absence abroad, he has appeared in all the principal cities of the Old World with his Far East and Indian Congress. As director-general, Col. Cummins will have full charge of the arena. Lon B. Williams, general agent of the show, J. H. B. Fitzpatrick has been engaged as general press agent.

    C. D. McIntyre will be contracting agent with Ringling Brothers. The Riding Rooneys, the Flying Nelsons and the Melnotte wire act have all been engaged for Ringling Bros. Fred Worrall, who was with Forepaugh-Sells last season, will be Ringling Bros.

    Jim Duryea leaves for Denver this week to again assume the position of adjuster with the Sells-Floto shows.

    J. Augustus Jones, of Jones and Bros. Buffalo Show, purchased three carloads of equipment for his show.

    Arrangements have recently been completed whereby Dickey's Wild West will be the feature attraction at Dominion Park, Montreal, Can., and will exhibit in the arena in front of the grand stand which has been used for the Fighting the Flames Show. Manager Dickey states that the wild west will be carrying twenty-five horses, seven Texas steers, twenty-five cowboys and girls, fifteen Indians and a ten piece band. The park opens May 18 and the wild west will leave Kansas City, Mo., May 1, and make five two day stands en route to Montreal. The show will be transported in two baggage cars and a combination sleeper and diner. The show will remain at Dominion Park for the summer season and will work a circuit of state fairs during the fall season. The Dickey Show has been operated under the management of Mr. Dickey for the past eight years.

    Denver, Colo., Feb. 27. Rhoda Royal presented his indoor circus at the Auditorium in this city. A complete record of the week's attendance shows that 26,364 people visited the big building Champer Street during the week. Among the people who took part were Effee Dutton, Mrs. Rhoda Royal, Maude Burbank, John Agee, Victoria Cardona and her brother, Maud Rollins, the Roy Smith Troupe, May Saunders, Lucille King, Alvine and Bertram Potter, Ethel Roberts, John Carroll, Evaline Buhl, Lucia Zora, Fred Allispaw, Mr. and Mrs. Lucky, George Fuller, Viola Stirk, Inez Smith, Irene Montgomery, John Fuller, Charles Dailey, Shorty Maynard, Jack Harris, Frank Stout, Ab Johnson and Jerry Clayton. Fred Bailey Hutchinson, of the Sells-Floto Show, helped Rhoda Royal out and took most of the active management off his shoulders.

    Reedsburg, Wis., Feb. 29. Owing to poor health for some time, C. O. Miller, circus employee, took his life this morning by shooting himself. Miller had been connected with Ringling Bros. Show as property man for a number of years. He leaves a wife and son.

    A new sixty-foot round top, with two thirty foot middles, has been received at the quarters of the S. B. Anderson Shwo. Mr. Anderson will have three shows out this season, two of which will be seen with carnival companies. The Wild West department with the big show will be under the management of Arizona Hinnie, an American cowpuncher, who will carry ten head of stock and five cowboys. Eugene Marcum, assistant manager of the Anderson Show, was in Indianapolis last week, and purchased twenty head of draft horses for the baggage wagons and parade.

    The Byron Spaun Shows will open the season May 1 at Jamestown, N. J. This will be the first season that this show has travled overland. Robert P. Donaldson will have charge of the advance.

    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cosgrove have signed with the Gollmar Show, to clown and work in the concert.

    Richard Bros. Show at the new winter quarters, Pike Creek, Tex. Five new wagons have arrived. Richard Bros. will be a fourteen wagon show. They have added a troupe of twelve trained Shetland ponies, trained by Frank B. Kelso, also a troupe of trained dogs. Complete roster: F. Richards, general manager; W. C. Richards, secretary and treasurer; Cisco Richards, ticket wagon; Frank Richards, front door; O. N. Clark, reserved seats; Geo. H. Saunders, concert announcer and producer; Oscar Wallace, boss canvasman with six assistants; Otis Peace, boss hostler; George Johnson, cook house with two assistants; Pete Boughton, superintendent of wagons; M. Richards, pony boy. The top will be a sixty foot round top with two forty foot middles. This will be Richard Bros. last season on wagons, going out next season as a two-car railroad show.

    The season of 1911 was a satisfactory one for J. J. Dashington's Dog and Pony Vaudeville Show, opening May 24 and closing October 4, under canvas. The show played in opera houses from October 6 to February 10, making a season of thirty-nine weeks. Everything is housed away in winter quarters at Moline, Ill. Mr. Dashington is breaking new stock. The show will number eighteen people and Dashington's troupe of twenty performing dogs, ponies and monkeys, and will make week stands through Iowa and Illinois.

    Ed Long is busy at the ring barn of the Barlow Show, South Milford, Ind. Wagons are being overhauled and harness and trappings repaired. Jack Sulley and Ross C. Doyou have been signed as leading performers. Feliz Sauches will have charge of the band. Burt Suavely, bariton, Chas. Smith, slide, and Archie A. Calkins, alto, have already signed. Johy Presler has been re-engaged as assistant overseer of horse tent. Albert Towns, Elmer Gilmir and Chas. Baird are now at quarters.

    John Foley died at the home of his brother, T. H. Baldwin, Mitchellville, Ia., Feb. 18, at the age of 50 years. He was known as Forepaugh, which name he inherited from the Adame Forepaugh Show, having entered the profession with that organization in the early '80s as pony boy. Since that time he has been identified with nearly all the shows traveling. Last season he was assistant to Jake Posey, boss hostler with the Yankee Robinson Show.

    L. R. Clark, of Clark Bros. Progressive Shows, has returned from Kansas City to winter quarters at Alexandria, La., with twelve draft horses, now making a total of thirty head of stock. The show will carry an eighty feet round top with two thirty foot middles, side show fifty foot round top with one thirty foot middle. The opening took place in Alexandria, March 1. The show will run forty weeks this year and tour Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia.

    The George W. Hall Jr. Trained Wild Animal Show will open May 9. New tents arrived at quarters, Evansville, Wis., last week. This season will be the thirtieth for the show. Frank E. Hall will be general manager. The show will carry seven trained animal acts, consisting of dogs, ponies, monkeys, pigs and Sargo, the performing elephant, worked by a lady trainer, a feature for a small show.

    The E. G. Smith Shows will open at Atwater, O., April 27. New features have been added to the big show, while the menagerie has been enlarged by the addition of six new cages of animals. General agent Clayton R. Grove has signed the following assistants: George r. Fayeor, second agent; Harry Elias, local contractor; B. Ferguson, George Bismark and C. Raymond, billposters.

    Harry F. Wills, callliope player, will be with the Sells-Floto Shows again this season, his third with that organization. Wills had his own little vaudeville show out this winter, with five people, including himself, wife and little daughter. He is now at home in Litchfield, Ill.

    Woody's Combined Shows will open June 27 at Afton, Okla., and will travel north. Two cars will be carried. The Woody family will be the free attraction. Roster: Robert Woody, manager and press agent; Sallie Woody, treasurer and ticket seller; Garet Wormington, boss canvasman; Aaron Woody, advance.

    Carl H. Erickson, trombonist, last season with the Yankee Robinson Show, has recovered from malaria, and with his wife and baby are with relatives in Alaska. They will not be with the white tops this season.

    A. D. Reynard and Company, trick cycling and bicycle leap the gap acts, will open with Downie & Wheeler's Show at Valdosta, Ga., March 9, their second season with this show.

    E. R. (Shorty) Wallace, of Yellow Kid fame, late of John Robinson's Ten Big Shows, also the Carl Hagenbeck Show in __, has contracted as traveling salesman for the Peter Massaro Macaroni Co.

    Moselle O'Bannon with his troupe of ten African athletes, Omar, Henney and Shotrow Trio, return act, and Sam Brown, clown, have signed with J. W. Moore and Son's One-Ring Circus, which opens at St. Charles, Mo., early part of April.

    Logan Sizemore, clown, last season with the Forepaugh-Sells Show, will be this season with Gollmar Bros. Show, and will be featured as the Ragtime Calliope King.

    George Lansing has booked with Sun Bros. Show as clown.

    Old Bill Farmer will be in the big Imperial Program of the Sun Show. Bill is spending the winter on his farm down at Hutto, Tex.

    W. H. Reaney, seasons of 1909 and 1910 twenty-four hour agent of the Two Bills Show, and season of 1911 contracting agent of Gollmar Bros. Circus, will this year do the local contracting with the Yankee Robinson Show.

    Louis Ritt and Harry Pierce of Baltimore, will have the banners on car No. 1 of the Young Buffalo Wild West and Far East. Mark Wisehart will be boss billposter.

    The Tan Araki Royal Court Japanese Company will appear with Sun Bros. Shows during the coming tenting tour.

    Fred Bowers is re-engaged as boss billposter by Pete Sun for his advance car No. 2, his fifth consecutive season with Sun Brothers.

    G. G. Fuller is to take charge of advertising wagons with the Big Sautelle Show under F. H. Stowell, who is the general agent.

    Harry DeCleo has completed his new act and is rehearsing on his flying rings and trapeze. He will be with Smith's Colossal Shows.

    Jack Klippel will be one of the leading clowns with Sun Bros. Circus.

    Carson and Campbell, rifle shots and knife throwers, have signed contracts for the side show with the 101 Ranch Wild West.

    Beany Schell, and old time trouper of the Gentry Shows, is in charge of a twenty-two piece Indian band at Juneau, Alaska.

    Pat Valdo, clown, late of the Barnum & Bailey Show, will be with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows.

    The Hines-Kimball Troupe, last two seasons with the Forepaugh-Sells Show, will be with Ringling Bros. Show.

    LaMont Bros., of wagon show fame, are framing up a two car circus at Salem, Ill., their winter quarters.

    Theo. Stout and his twenty piece band will furnish the music for the Yankee Robinson Show.

    W. C. Lane will manage the side show with Jones Bros. Show, his seventh season with this show.

    L. L. Dillon, a railroad dispatcher, is the new trainmaster with the Sun Show.

    C. M. Hibbard has signed with the Wallace Show as first assistant to Whitey Oldknow.

    Harry McClusky will be with the Sells-Floto Shows again the coming season.

    Walter Main is at home, Geneva, O., buying and selling show property.

    The Lindemanns, equilibrists, will be with the Sells-Floto Show.

Billboard, March 23, 1912, p. 60. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The John Robinson Circus will not go on the road this season. The management of the circus closed a deal to divide the show into acts and send them on the road under the supervision of the Western Vaudeville Manager's Association. Part of the circus has been playing at the St. Louis Hippodrome for the past 11 weeks. It is said that the circus will be divided into seven sections, each of which will provide a vaudeville act. These acts will be sent out individually and no two of tem will be staged in a city at the same tiem. The acts to be sent out are the trained elephants, the lions and leopards, the high school horses and trick horses, the Wild West Show, consisting of eight riders, and the rough rider outfit. This will be the first season since 1824, when the show was organized by the original John Robinson, that is has missed a season.

    Nat Sebastian, of St. Louis, Mo., writes that Gerard Leon, who he believes was a member of the Yankee Robinson Show last season, died at the City Hospital, March 11, from tuberculosis after a short illness. The only relative of whom he has ever heard Leon speak of was a daughter supposed to be living in New York City, name unknown.

    Frank J. O'Donnell has been re-engaged as contracting press agent with the Wallace Show. Harry Grappen will be the advance press agent and George Atkinson agent back with the show.

    Seibel Bros. Trained Animal Show will open the season at Watertown, Wis., the first week in May. Seibel Bros. opened May 11, 1911 in Watertown, closed at Rome, Wis., October 6; opened their vaudeville show in Chicago and showed there for seven weeks, toured the larger cities west of the Mississippi and closed in St. Louis March 9. Arrangements have been made at the quarters. New wagons, cages, horses and animals were bought and trainer Prof. Roy Rush and his assistants have been getting new animal acts ready. One of the attractions of the show will be a group of baboons, apes and monkeys. Pinky, the freckled faced baboon, will be a feature. Owing to the increase new quarters have been purchased adjoining Rock River, 102 W. Cady Street, in the heart of the city, with large brick buildings, one 40x60, three stories. This will be used for harness and paint shops and the balance for storage.

    Roster of Russell Bros. Olympic Shows: R. E. Robertson, sole owner and manager; Mrs. R. E. Robertson, secy. and treas.; J. C. Taylor, gen. agt.; Red Davis, supt. of canvas; Harry Rice, supt. of stock. The performers include: the Cassels, slack wire, swing perch, Roman rings and double traps; Billy Fields, tight wire, contortion and equilibrist; Ed LaMont, single traps, juggling and tumbling; Chas. Wicks, singing and talking clown; Mlle. Cassell's ponies, dog and goats; Prof. Elbert's Zouave band of eight pieces. The show will use a 60 by 90 big top, a 40 by 60 side show, with a 70 foot banner front. Nine wagons and eighteen head of heavy draft mules will be used to transport the outfit. The season opens April 29 and the show will tour Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.

    Hunt's Silver Plate Shows have consolidated with the John L. Werner Trained Animal and Wild West Show. The big top will be a 90 foot, with two 40 foot middles; side show 60x90; dressing room, 45 foot round top; horse tents, 30x55 and 28x45; cook house, 22x32. Thirty head of draft stock, besides the trained stallions and ponies will be used. The program will include the Herzog stallions, Werner's seven trained bears, two high school menage acts, tandem riding act, riding bear, trained dogs and ponies and throwing donkeys, the Hunt Family in ground and aerial acts, and Cayuse Jack, with five Wild West performers. Chet Brown will have charge of the advance, and J. G. Morrel will lead the big show band of eight pieces.

    Everything around the Yankee Robinson Show quarters is progressing nicely. James Babcock has finished painting the parade wagons, and John Boyd (Fat Lemon) has the train in shape. George Johnson is busy on harness. Chas. Kelly is directing his assistants in the building of the new grand stand that will be carried by the show this season. It will seat 954 people. All the work is done under the direction of Ross Ashcraft, who has been with the Yankee Robinson Show for six years. Sixteen horses will be added, making in all 138 head of stock.

Billboard, April 27, 1912, pp. 21, 32. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    H. J. Barrill, known as the Security Man, died of typhoid fever at Hammond, La., March 18. He was the inventor of the Security Whitle and traveled with Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Show for some years. Mr. Barrill was known all over the United States as the whistler and was connected at various times with the leading railroad circuses.

    James R. Bonheur's Pictureland Theatre, which has been traveling through Arkansas since the holidays, shipped from Howe, Okla., to the winter quarters of the main show at Carmen, Okla., April 13. Howard Bonheur has been superintending the work at quarters since one section of the show arrived at Carmen the first of the year, and a twenty wagon show will leave quarters sometime in April for a tour through Oklahoma and Kansas. Frank Kelso, trainer, is now training Radium, a promising horse. One of the annex features of the show will be a new moving picture theatre operated by an Ellis direct connected dynamo and engine with a mica igniter. Mike Freeman, known as Funny Freeman, will again be with the Greater Golden Mastcot, his fifth season.

    The following have signed contracts with Rippel Bros. Show: Three Irwins, Robt. W. Griffin, Princess Nata, Lewis, Daniel and Lewis, Rippel and Rose, Three Egners, Ora Whiteman and wife, Arizona Alf, Tex Crockett, Montana Ike, performers. Clowns: Windy Freeman, Jim Hamilton and Percy Fisher. Musicians: D. J. Barter, leader, Perry Lewis, Mr. Daniels, E. V. Hankins, Earl Hankins, B. J. Stevenson, Russell Lloyd, Chas. Rippel, Ed Sweeney. Al Radcliff will be advance man. The show opens about May 8 and will tour Indiana, Michigan and Illinois.

    Car No. 1 of the 101 Ranch Wild West: P. W. Harrell, car manager; A. L. Stanley, secretary; I. H. Simmons, program solicitor; F. McKeand, boss billposter; C. Blodgett, W. Jensen, A. DeFrane, William Pokinghorn, B. Heard, E. McKeand, H. Lamb, B. Stites, J. Howard and C. Walker, billposters; J. Ellington, boss lithographer; R. Young and William Ray, lithographers; H. Kaley, chauffer on the auto carried on the bill car; G. McArdle, paste maker.

    Roster of the Haag Show advance car No. 2: G. C. Mayer, general agent; Vic Stout, car manager; Sam Cobb, opposition agent; G. H. Hayes, boss billposter; G. H. Hill, second brush; F. Greeson, Bill Emerson, Slim McDonald, Joe Sanderlin, J. Castmare, Obern Ramage, L. Milligan, L. A. Hardin, billposters; W. E. Brown, L. A. Waite, opposition; Wm. Hatt, lithographer; B. Prudhome, bannerman; Tobias Jones, paste maker.

    Mr. Wheeler, of Downie and Wheeler Shows purchased sixteen head of draught horses, all grays, now making 54 head of baggage stock with the show. Capt. Snider left last week for Oxford, where he will lay off for awhile. Doc Hastings is handling the lion act since the captain's departure.

    Roster of Leo Blondin's Show: B. J. Acuff, Leo and Eleanor Blondin, Clare Baldin, Kathleen Barrett, Chas. Bowen, T. Buckley, Henry Chalberg, Marion Curnutt, Mr. and Mrs. Gomer Davies, May Holborn, C. M. Hutchins, P. C. Lamoreaux, E. W. Marsh, Mrs. W. E. McAndrews, Ed F. Reed, W. Salander, J. J. Spellman, Wm. Schweitzer, Ferris Taylor and C. Vannie.

    James Duval, with the Barnum & Bailey Show for the last few seasons, has signed as principal clown with the Frank A. Robbins Show, opening in Jersey City on April 24. Mr. Duval has just recovered from the protracted illness which prevented him from resuming work with the Barnum Show.

    Tom Mix reported in Peoria, Ill. last week to fulfill his contract with Young Buffalo's Wild West and Col. Cummins' Far East.

    Mrs. Robert Stickney Sr. and daughter have closed with the Polly of the Circus Company and are at home in Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, O.

    The Brissons have signed contracts for the coming season with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show to do their hand balancing and contortion act.

    Joseph Lewis, the Yiddisher cowboy, formerly with Barnum and Bailey, is with the 101 Ranch this season.

    The Nutty Ray, juggler, and Roy Johnson, aerialist, joined Campbell Bros. Show at ___, Ala., April 15.

    Billy Nelson with his Jungle Show opened with the Two Bills Show April 20.

Billboard, May 4, 1912, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    "Governor" John F. Robinson filed a deed of assignment in the Insolvency Court, Cincinnati, April __, to his attorney, Milton Saylor. The cause of the assignment is given as litigation and pressure of creditors. The liabilities are scheduled as "unknown" and the assets likewise. Judge Warner fixed the assignee's preliminary bond at $100,000, which will be increased when the total assets are ascertained. A number of causes led up to the failure of Mr. Robinson, the culmination being the litigation following the troubles of the Second National Bank of this city, of which Mr. Robinson held 160 shares of stock, which in the reorganizationof the bank has been assessed 100 per cent. Following this Mr. Robinson was sued by a Kentucky bank on a note for ___, and later suit was filed to set aside the estated he had conveyed to his wife some time ago, among the pieces being Robinson's Opera House. Robinson's Opera House was recently closed by the City Building Inspector, cutting off a revenue of $12,000, which has practically been the total income of the "Governor" for some time. The income left by Robinson's first wife, and which he had drawn for years under an agreement with his daughters, has been tied up for several years by litigation in the local courts. With all these things piling on him, "Governor" John Robinson, at 80 years of age, has decided to quit. "Governor" Robinson declares that he has no intention of continuing in the business. "The fight is an unequal one," he said, "and there is no use, at my age, of endeavoring to build up from what is left." Attorney Milton Saylor, himself an old circus man, estimates the property of Mr. Robinson to amount to almost $1,000,000, and that creditors will be paid in bull and a handsome surplus left for the veteran showman.

    Chas. Davis, for the past three years the assistant train master with Al. G. Barnes Circus, has answered the final summons. Death came to Mr. Davis on April 8 while the show was exhibiting in Stockton, Cal. He was a victim of the white plague. Until a week before his death he was up and about his duties. Mr. Davis joined the show in 1910 while in Pasco, Wash. He was the son of a wealthy banker, but took to trouping. The body was forwarded to his former home in Winters, where interment took place on April 11. Two days later the Barnes Shows visited the town and special services were held.

    Warren B. Irons lost the big boa constrictor which he purchased from Austin and Stone's Museum to use as an uptown platform show in conjunction with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show. It is said that Irons paid a thousand dollars for the snake and nine hundred for the platform wagon, in which it was to be exhibited. The snake died when the show had been out only three days. Irons will use the wagon for a three-in-one show.

    Performers with Brown and Pommier's Combined Shows: Prof. Harris, free attraction; the Stallcups, Brown Duo, Harris and Harris, Dell Simmons, Harold and Ray, Master Bonny, Mlle. Lanora and Pommier and Watson. This outfit has changed its opening date from April 27 to May 2 at Richmond, Mo.

    Frank Keeble, trombone player, who was with the Ringling Bros. Show from 1893 to 1895 and with the old Sells Bros. Show when they made their trip to Australia, is permanently located at his home in Jeffersonville, Ind., where he has been for the past nine years.

    Bill Fortner, W. A. Ramsey, Chas. Miller, Lillian Miller, all Wild West performers; Martin, the Jap juggler; Miss Chipman, balancing trapeze; the LaComa Trio, bounding table acrobats, and Gus Gentry, aerialist, recently joined Campbell Bros. Show.

    Fred Egener, last season with Barnum and Bailey Show, is a hit with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show this season, singing with Park Prentiss' band. Egener is also clowning.

    Mrs. Ada Costello rejoined the Downie and Wheeler Shows April 18, after an absence of three weeks at her home in Henderson, N. C., breaking a new principal horse.

    Andrew Peterson, musician with Ringling Bros. last season, and C. E. Duble, musician, last season with the John Robinson Show, are both with the Mighty Haag Shows.

    The Two Gothards, Lawrence and Isabelle, joined the Downie and Wheeler Shows April 20 to work with the Orton Troupe, in a five people high wire act.

    Roy Fortune, clown and wire walker, is not with the Downie and Wheeler Shows as mentioned in the issue of April 20, but with the Mighty Haag Shows.

    Clark Sparks, clarinetist, is with the Haag Show. Mr. Sparks has been connected with the Haag outfit for the past eight years.

Billboard, May 18, 1912, pp. 41, 68. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Mrs. Phil Ellsworth, sometimes known as Dot Ellsworth, died at Rapid City, S. D., April 18, from cancer of the stomach, and the age of 41. She traveled many years with her husband with the leading circuses, her last engagement being with the Great Wallace Show. Her sudden death came as a shock to her husband, who is with the Nat Reiss Carnival Company. As requested, her body was interred at Nabb, Ind., near the old farm where she spent many happy days.

    Fairmont, W. Va., May 11. Vance Hall, of Troy, O., was fatally hurt and William Smith, of Athens, O., seriously injured here as the result of a runaway. The men were employees of the Ringling Circus. They were driving a two-horse rig when it upset and was thrown over the hillside.

    The crew on car No. 1 of the Young Buffalo-Frederick Cummins Shows: Joe Rosenthal, car manager; Mart Wisehart, boss billposter; W. Mocert, C. McClure, Joe Hyde, William Chaplin, F. Wirick, F. Zahn, M. Stokes, L. Smith. H. Sanderson, L. Ritts, banner man assisted by J. Shumm, H. Oliver and William Bullen; D. E. Barnett, program solicitor; G. Williams, programmer; W. Mocerf, steward; C. Eikenbery, chef; W. Richy, car porter.

    Hattie Bell's Pride of the West Shows is in New Mexico. The outfit carries twenty-five people, one car, 80 by 40 big top, 30 foot dressing top, four head of riding stock, eight performers, ten piece band. Business staff: Hattie Bell, manager; Harry P. Hobson, assistant manager; Lon Glasscock, general agent; Rudy Bell, band leader; Walter Allen, equestrian director; W. Calwell, boss canvasman; Mike Murphy, in charge of ring stock; Slim Brown, boss razor back.

    On the No. 1 car of Howe's London Shows: Wm. Gilman, car manager; Mart Simmons, boss billposter; James Cox, P. W. Hayes, George Chestnut, William Lockard, S. McDonough, L. Lewis, J. Lane, C. King, T. Beers, billposters; F. M. Libby, in charge of lithos; Bill Challoner, programmer and paste maker; Peter Wiggins, chef, and Busch, car porter.

    Old Sig Harris Show is now touring Eastern Texas in the fruit belt to fair business. With the outfit are Sig Harris, Ugly Red and troupe of bronco busters; Tommy Loomis, Dad Ross, Mattie and Elmer Thurman, Frank and Nina Cutler. Eight wagons are used and the top is a 50 with 2 thirty middles. Band of seven pieces of under the direction of Tommy Loomis.

    The showmen of Rice Bros. Circus won a battle from the villagers of Cornwall, N. Y., May 6. The village toughs set in to do up the men employed with the show, but the razor backs and teamsters made them retreat. A number of the villagers were hurt and Richard Shannon, proprietor of the show, was hit on the head with a rock.

    Chiquita, the Living Doll, is proving a boomerang for Warren Irons, with the Wallace Show, who recently lost a snake.

    Starrett's Circus opened the season May 12 in Brooklyn, N. Y., where it will play for four weeks and then take to the road. All new canvas is in evidence. Eight more Shetlands have been added, also a number of dogs. Mr. Starrett will, as usual, work the horse, pony and dog acts himself.

    The No. 2 car of the 101 Ranch Show: John D. Carey, car manager; Gus Miller, Boss billposter; Howard Rexraut, Joe Miller, George ___, C. Taylor, billposters; Otto Birkensen, F. Alexander, lithographers; Porky O'Brien, bannerman; Windy McNisk and C. Brown, programmers.

    Capt. H. Snider, who was with the Downie & Wheeler Show earlier in the season, leaving on account of illness, has joined Fred Elzor's Circus and Trained Animal Show. He is working a cage of lions, also the Wallace untamable lion.

    Lee Howard, Doc Grant, Mocho Bradley, Harry Hammer, Ernest Weitke, Charles Reichert, Jack Wallin and the Williams Family, performers with the Sanger Shows, were visitors at The Billboard office, May 5.

    The Duel Dog and Pony show carries fifteen ponies, all spots, twenty-eight very small dogs, forty people, three cars, 70 foot top with two 40 middle pieces, and will route South after a few dates in Indiana and Illinois.

    Robson Bros. have added to their show four big gray draught horses and two ponies. New arrivals are Pete Heilman, clarinet; Ed MacIntyre, equilibrist; Fred Johnson and Eddie Edwards, drivers.

    John Merkle and Eddie Dorey are recent additions to the Charles Ellet Troupe of bar performers with the Sanger Shows.

    The LaMont R. R. Show opened at Salem, Ill., May 4 to capacity business. The show travels in five cars. George Day is The Billboard agent.

    Bischoff and Bagemal, acrobats, have signed with George W. Hall's Trained Wild Animal Show, which opens at Evansville, Wis.

    Brock Bros. and Edna Trio, comedy horizontal bar gymnasts, have signed with the Yankee Robinson Shows.

    Wiedemann Bros. Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch Wild West Show opened their season at Harrisburg, Ill., April 1. The weather conditions were anything but favorable. It was necessary to cancel the second stand, Eldorado, on account of ground conditions, it being impossible to get the wagons on or off the lot. At Herrin, on account of the soft ground, only one show was given. The first two wagons off the runs went in mud up to the axels. The show was gilleyed from the train to the lot. At Charleston, Mo., the fourth stand, the Mayor refused to let the show unload as the levee had just bursted and the citizens of the city were harboring the refugees. On the Sunday run out of Poplar Bluff, Mo., on the Frisco Railroad, on account of the inferior road bed, worn ties, etc., the rails spread, throwing five cars into the ditch and injuring about ten workingmen. No one was seriously hurt, but the show was compelled to leave one flat car behind, which the wrecking crew broke in two trying to place it back on the rails. The calliope, water wagon and stage coach were also left behind as they were all badly damaged. The remainder of the rain was taken back to Poplar Bluff, there transferred to the Iron Mountain, sent via Hoxie, Ark., to Springfield, Mo., cancelling Willow Springs. Several of the riders have been injured from horses falling on bad, mushy lots. At Scott City, Kan., April 29, Marion Medicine Cloud, one of the squaws, presented her husband with a baby boy.

Billboard, May 25, 1912, pp. 23, 58. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Mt. Vernon, N. Y., May 18. The Frank A. Robbins Jr. Wild West Show, T. J. Martin, general manager, will open here next Thursday, after a two weeks' lay-off on account of inclement weather. Bud A. Fisher will again be with the outfit as chief of cowboys. Chief Yellow Bird will have a band of eight Sioux Indians. George M. Barton, from the Two Bills Show, will do his trick riding act. Leo Brunswicke, the New York Hippodrome rube, will rube the show and be producing clown. James Alaymen will scratch bronchos. Mrs. George Barton ill again be in the saddle with several other lady riders. Frank S. Morris will do a slide-for-life and wire act.

    The band of the Sells-Floto Show is under the direction of W. P. English, assisted by Karl L. King, and includes T. P. Falen, D. E. Dickson, Arthur Guerinl, Willie White, G. Surles and Henry Werner, cornets; J. R. Robinson, George Becker, C. F. Magee, Ernst Heuter and G. Riddins, clarinet; M. Chambre, E-flat clarinet; William Lee, piccolo and flute; Chas. Kennedy, M. Coplin and W. H. Parons, horns; Benjamin West, Cecil Dye and F. C. Chappell, trombones; Don Montgomery, A. Herb and A. E. Waak, basses; V. B. Graham and Karl L. King, baritones; H. F. Young and Edward Durkee, drums; Miss Lottie Rutherford, saxophone soloist.

    E. G. Smith's Colossal Shows opened at Atwater, O. The outfit is larger than last, carrying side show and menagerie. The side show is under the management of George Irving and includes Miss Millie Labelle, snake charmer; George Irving, Punch and magic; Jargo, man-fighting baboon; Madame Irving, mind reader; George Sacks, musical act; Marvelous Lee, strong man, and four cages of animals; ticket sellers, E. G. Smith and George Irving; doorman, Ray Dee; Prof. Stutzman's band. On the big show: Hadj Ajah Troupe of Japs, J. J. Ray Dee, wire artist and contortionist; DeCleo and brother, aerialists and jugglers; Charles Ward, principal clown with five assistants; Bert LaVellie and brother, acrobats; the Mayes, casting act; Prof. Dickey's Red Huzzar band, and Prof. Smith's troupe of dogs and ponies. The cook house is under the management of Ben C. Mense. The show is headed for the Eastern state.

    The Aerial Patts are again with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows.

    Roster of No. 3 Barnum & Bailey car includes George Clare, car manager; Ed Schrimpf, boss billposter, with the following men: John Werer, J. DeLong, Earl Salter, A. Hawarth, Joe McCormick, J. Frane, H. Johnson, Ed Haggerty, J. Latham, C. Schaeffer, J. Hemmingway, Jerry Bename, H. Nugent, R. Morrison; Jimmy Powers in charge of banners, assisted by Burt Ellsworth, Frank Foster, Fred Day, Ted Buck and C. Parker; J. Ward, Joe King and Rex Wood, programs; H. Newman and Emil Weiss, lithos.

    Roster of brigade No. 1, Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows: R. D. Leister, agent; C. E. Smith, secretary; C. T. Kengherz, banner squarer; R. H. Lindsay, Harry Lestie, John F. Wingo, Jack Broad, Fat Barger and Oscar Close.

    The Rice Bros. Circus had a blow down on May 13 at Hancock, N. Y. All of the canvas was torn to ribbons. Clarence Rosetti, a performer was so badly hurt that he had to be left in the hospital at Hancock. Pete LaBell and Company quit the show and returned to New York on May 15.

    Harry Curtis, for ten years with the Wallace Show and season 1910-11 with the Forepaugh-Sells Show, has sold his picture show at Lebanon, Ky., and passed through Cincinnati May 15, en route to Peru, Ind.

    George Oram and wife, Nellie King, are with Sanger's Combined Shows.

    Campbell Brothers Shows encountered the worst weather of the season through Colorado, week of May 6 and 13. Snow to the depth of 12 inches fell at Boulder and were unable to put up the big top. Longmount, Colo., was no better and at both of these stands a vaudeville show was put on at the Opera House. The show train going into Longmont, Colo., was covered with snow to a depth of 10 inches.

    Luken's Dog and Pony Circus, with sixteen dogs and six ponies, closed a season of 28 weeks on the United time at Johnstown, Pa., last week. Harry Dickinson, who has managed the act for two years, will put out a wagon show from Reading, Pa., about June 1.

    The Honest Bill outfit is a trained animal, dog and pony show and includes in its program Clyde and Lottie Rialdo, hand balancers and aerialists; Rialdo, club juggler, and LeRoy Newton, comedian and concert performer.

    The Gollmar Show was billed for Guttenburg, Ia., Saturday, May 11. The show arrived on time but encountered a heavy rain storm. Manager Chas. Gollmar decided it was impossible to attempt a performance. By special request of the Mayor and City Council, the show remained over and showed Sunday to a packed tent, one performance.

    Heber Bros. Greater Show opened in Columbus, O., May 2 and 3 to good business. The three new advance wagons under Benj. C. Heber, general advance, started three weeks ahead of the opening date.

    The Barlow Show opened at South Milford, Ind., May 4. A blow down occurred at Hamilton, Ind., May 7, which did considerable damage. Andy Hines joined at South Milford, Long's dogs and ponies are with the show.

    On the night of May 7 the winter quarters of Woody's Combined Shows at Afton, Ohio, were destroyed by fire. None of the show property was saved. The loss is estimated at $20,000, with no insurance.

    Mrs. James Holzer, of Holzer and Rezloh, comedy acrobats, has left the Mighty Haag Shows and gone to her home in St. Louis for a rest. Jim Holzer is still with the show, doing his suicide acrobatic act and a little clowning.

    Tracy Andrews, aerial contortionist, was forced to close with Gollmar Bros. Show on account of a broken wrist, which he received in a twenty-five foot fall from his trapeze.

    The Jenniers, acrobats and aerialists, are in their second season with the Downie & Wheeler Show.

    Adelbert Dean is ringmaster of Ring No. 1 and Al Swan, of Ring No. 2 with Gollmar Bros. Show.

    Roy Barrett is clowning on the Mighty Haag Show this season.

    The Frank A. Robbins Jr. three car show closed at Bethel, Pa., May 11.

Billboard, June 1, 1912, pp. 22, 23, 58. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The Sig. Sautelle Shows opened at Homer, N. Y., May 10. The program includes the Great Lowanda, rider; Mamie Lowanda, rider; John Corriea and Miss Cannon, carrying act; the Aerial Cowdens, trapeze; Winsome Winnie, butterfly swing; John Haggerty and his mule, Mr. Marr, rubber man; Earnest Lowanda, cloud swing; Sandy Lorella, Ava Muelwall and Tumson, brother act and bars; Bess Limmous, balancing trapeze; Reitford and Reitford, double swinging perch; LaShelle Kilwar, heavy weights and cannon balls; Mr. Rollins and his elephants; Kohn's dogs and goats; the Eight Lowandes and their tally-ho act; Pogie O'Brion, Danny O'Brion, Diker Dalt and Lew Wallace, clowns.
    Rose Reynolds, featuring her den of death and lions, is the headliner for the concert with Dale and Dale, Johnny Whalen, Stella Grotz, Inez Oran, Coultier and Russell and Essie Mets. The side show consists of a display of trained wild animals, Lemeul Menges, principal trainer; Rose Reynolds, and Henry Fountain, assistants; Andy Watts, Punch and magic; Kerr Falman, announcer; Cameron, impersonator and enchantress; Walter Sibley, sword swallower.
    Executive staff: Sig. Sautelle, Oscar Lowanda and George W. Rollins, equal owners; Sig. Sautelle, manager; George D. Rollins, assistant manager; Oscar Lowanda, equestrian director; Mrs. Lowanda and Mrs. Rollins, auditors; Mrs. Sautelle, front door; Dan Traver, superintendent of canvas; Red Minor, assistant; Doc Kingman, veterinary; Charles Hale, superintendent of stock; William Hadley, assistant; Whalen and Gilgore, ticket sellers; Chappie Belcher, boss props; William Chapman, license; Pete Ullman, stands; Frank Jackson, steward; Louis Leonards, bandmaster with 20 men.

    The following circuses are contracted for Canada over the Grand Trunk R. R.: Mighty Haag Shows, Howe's Great London Show, Sanger Combined Shows and Ringling Bros. Show. The John Sparks Shows is heading through New England for the Maritime Provinces, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Isle. There is a provincial license of $15 per day for circuses and $5 per day for dog and pony shows. This license is independent of the local or municipal license. There is also an import duty of 15 cents per pound on all printed matter, which makes a tour of Canada expensive, yet they all seem to make money and go back yearly.

    Several accident occurred during the past week with the Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch Wild West Show. At North Platte, Neb., Walter Herzog, employe of the side show, in trying to cross the train, was caught underneath a flat and dragged a hundred yards, suffering a fractured hip. Mrs. James Donahue was injured at Julesburg, Colo., when she was run over by a horse. Roy Bacon was injured at Julesburg when a bucking horse fell on him. At Sterling, Colo., L. E. Collins became entangled in a broken cinch while riding the pony express. All the patients are doing was well as could be expected. Harry C. Miller is now the producing clown with the show. The Flying Millers, seven in number, are the latest addition to the big show. They do a casting, double trapeze and wire act.

    The Zimmerman and Goodwin Golden Crystal Shows will open in Minneapolis, week of June 10, following with a week in St. Paul, and then playing the larger towns in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and the Dakotas. This will be an Elks' Circus and will play only under the auspices of the Elks. The show will carry ten cars. Max Zimmerman and Hal Goodwin are the proprietors and maangers. The horses carried will be among the finest. The big top will be an 80 with three 40 foot middles. Ernest Houghton will have charge of the stock. R. Williams will be transportation manager, and J. Simpson will have charge of the advance. A band of 20 pieces will be in order. Tom Jay's troupe of educated donkeys, ten in number, will be a number on the program.

    Malsch's Overland Shows opened at Homewood, Pa., May 15, to capacity business. The following have signed for the season: H. Meddeher, general agent; Princess Lunnette, aerialist and contortionist; Masters and Davis, Roman rings and hand-to-hand balancing; Thief Tamaqua, Indian juggler, and his wooden-headed family; Joe Baker, principal clown and comedy barrel jumper; Waden, feats of physical culture. The trick carries a six piece band. Charles Malsch is the proprietor and manager; Lyda Malsch, treasurer; Frank White, formerly with Smith's Greater Shows, superintendent of cook house.

    Bidwell and Wrighter's Progressive Shows, a wagon show carrying sixteen people, opened at Wyalusing, Pa., May 20. The outfit will tour Pennsylvania and New York states. The show uses a 70 foot top and a miniature menagerie is displayed in a 30 by 50 foot tent. Roster: Clarence Bidwell and Gordon Wrighter, owners; Jud Witter, advance, with John Delaney as assistant; Mrs. C. D. Bidwell, treasurer; Joe McGill, in charge of canvas with four assistants. Performers: Clarence Bidwell, black face comedian; Gordon Wrighter, talking clown; Al Mondsello, slack and high wire; Alberti, hoop roller and juggler; Helen Marion, illustrated songs; Lucille Lanning, rolling globe; Sergeant Sam Hotaling, musical artist and bugler; Happy Horton, wooden show dancer and grotesque acrobat.

    The H. W. Freed Dog and Pony Show opened at Niles, Mich., April 27. The show carries in all nine wagons, 19 head of baggage stock, seven ponies and 14 dogs. With the show are H. W. Freed, owner and manager; Mrs. Freed, secretary and treasurer; Charles Alderfer, superintendent on lot; Mrs. Alderfer, reserved seats; Homer Whitmarsh, clown; Walters, contortionist; Sylvia, rolling globe; Pitts and Carter, concert team; Fred Grim, boss hostler, four assistants; Charles Wray, boss canvasman, five assistants.

    Fred Elzor's Combined Overland Shows started out of Garland, Pa., April 30. Prof. Charles E. Valentine has a ten piece band under his direction. Jasper Fulton is superintendent of concessions, and W. C. (Judge) Lane, maanger of the annex. Among the fun-makers in the big top are the Dolls, father and son; Fred Salmoa, Lee Smith and John Blatz. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Wright are with the show, Mr. Wright being the accountant.

    The Hagenbeck-Wallace car No. 2 crew includes C. C. Cheuvrant, manager; A. Edmoir, boss billposter, assisted by George O'Brien, J. Jerguson, M. Chaplin, B. Berger, R. Sherman, F. Ross and A. Gerard; Charles Beeler, banners, assisted by M. Lee, M. Enck, Foreman and M. Schwahn; M. Collett, lithos, assisted by A. Magill; M. Fritz, programs.

    Atterbury Bros. Show was struck by a cyclone at Herculaneum, Mo., last week. The big top was destroyed, center poles broken and ticket wagon turned upside down. Manager Atterbury hurried to St. Louis and purchased a new big top. Three stands were lost. Jack Kline has charge of the new top. Shorty Robertson is superintendent of the dining tent.

    Roster car No. 2 of Barnum & Bailey: Tom Dransfield, manager; J. LyBrand, boss billposter; F. Wilson, porter; R. L. Seymore, Tucker, Barnett, Mulvihill, Lewis, Wynn, Gage, Custin, Conrath, Phillips, Ellsworth, Hoover, Schaffer, Delany, Piper, Justman, Smith, Itskin, Hollin, Foster and Fitzpatrick.

    R. N. Updyke, tuba; R. E. Perry, trap drummer, and A. L. Anderson, balancing trapeze, joined Deuel's Dog and Pony Show at Mt. Carmel, Ill. The first blowdown occurred at Huntingburg, Ind., May 8. A complete new outfit will go up at Mt. Vernon, Ill.

    Cooper Bros. Wild West Show, which recently opened at Salem, Ore., experienced a short life and went into storage at Centralia, Wash., where it is reported that it will undergo re-organization and be put on the road again sometime in June. Inclement weather has been quoted as the reason for its failure to get by.

    Included in the roster of the No. 1 car, Campbell Bros. Shows are Emory D. Proffitt, manager; Charles Vandagriff, boss billposter; F. V. Howard, Alex Marr, Skinney Clauson, Slim Sanders, J. R. Renfro, Charles Allen, Billie Spencer, Al Roadhouse, Snyder and Paul Adams.

    Tommy Exum, for eight years with the Robinson Shows in various capacities and last season as manager of the uptown wagon, has joined the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows. He is managing Chiquita, the living doll attraction.

    Rentz Bros. Circus and Menagerie will open at Cortland, O., June 1 instead of May 30 as reported. Fifty horses will be with this wagon show and the performers will be transported in automobiles.

    Charles Wydman joined Campbell Bros. Show on May 17. Wydman and Ray are doing a double juggling act.

    John C. Eckel, night editor of the Philadelphia North American, is raising a fund for the widow of the late Whiting Allen, who through his many years' connection with the circus business was well known to the profession. One condition that Mr. Eckel is striving for is to pay for a life membership to the Elkins Masonic Home for Mrs. Allen. Whiting Allen had been ailing for some time previous to his death, so that he left absolutely nothing.

    Eight heavy draft horses and two new wagons have been added to the Fred Elzor Combined Shows. There are now 26 wagons in all. Capt. Snider is going big with his untamable lion, Wallace, in the side show.

    Monroe's Mighty Shows carry 30 head of draft stock and six bucking horses, besides the ring stock.

    Col. W. J. Uden will have some of his animals at the Barrett & Zimmerman Stables, St. Paul, Minn., the early part of June, as a free attraction.

    The Flying Nelsons are with the Ringling Show and not with the Sparks Show as listed in the roster in last week's issue of The Billboard.

    The Charles Ellet Troupe is with the Yankee Robinson Circus and not with the Sanger Show as mentioned in a previous issue.

    Ray Wood closed with the Cook & Barrett Show.

Billboard, June 22, 1912, pp. 22, 58. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Newark, N. J., June 15. At the evening performance of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows here, June 7, Mrs. Joseph Wallace, wife of the adopted son of Benjamin Wallace, fell from the backs of a team of horses during a Roman standing hurdle race and was seriously injured. It is said that one leg is broken and she is probably internally injured.

    Fairmont, W. Va., June 14. At last night's performance of the Buffalo Bill-Pawnee Bill Shows, John C. O'Brien, 23 years old, was killed when the rear tracks of a cannon, which was being pulled from the arena, turned over, pinning him udnerneath. O'Brien was a former jockey and is from Brooklyn.

    The Aerial Youngs, formerly with LaMont Bros. Shows, have joined the Gollmar Show.

    Tom Burns closed with the Two Bills side show June 12 to take charge of his real estate office at Galt, Can.

    The remains of "Little Hutch," baby elephant with the Sells-Floto Show, which died of pneumonia at Pendleton, Ore., June 6, were shipped to Denver, where the body of the pachyderm will be mounted and kept on exhibition.

    Heber Bros. Circus and Wild West is taking the same route as 1910. While giving a matinee peformance at Prospect, O., Walter Harter, in making a leap for the trapeze, missed and fell from the dome of the tent, alighting on his shoulder and head. He suffered no ill effects from the fall, climbing up the rigging and finishing his act. The show carries 12 feature acts and 12 piece band.

    The Silver Family Circus is now in its fifth week. Several changes have been made in the roster. The Silver Family open their new theatre at Crystal, Mich., June 20 with pictures and vaudeville acts. Mrs. Bert Silver will maange the house while the circus is on tour. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Woodward will be assistant managers.

    The program of the concert, Campbell Bros. Show: Miss Arora Mantecon, Spanish dancing; Charles Widman, comedy juggling; Bill Farmer, monologue and comedy rube dancing; Johnnie Alton, singing; Lindsay Wilson, buck and wing dancing; Cossacks, in Russian dances.

    Geo. A. Newton, a one-eighth-breed Chippewa Indian, was married to Miss Ollie Mitchkoff, manager of the Mitchkoff Russian dancers, in Washington, D. C., May 28. Both are connected with the Young Buffalor-Fred Cummins' Shows, in the big top.

    Montazell Bros., aerial artists, have joined the Wintermute Bros. Shows to do their double trapeze, single trapeze and slack wire acts.

    Weber and Burkhart, with Gollmar Bros. Shows last season, will stay in Sheboygan, Wis., this summer.

    The great Kotimsky troupe, musicians, singers, dancers and Russian cossack rough riders, are with Campbell Bros. Show.

    The Guice Troupe of aerial bar performers is a feature with Gollmar Bros. Shows.

Billboard, June 29, 1912, pp. 38, 39, 78. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Frank Johnson, 24 years of age, engaged by Sanger Shows to handle the elephant act, was tusked twice by the animal during a rehearsal at Milton, Ont., Can., June 13, and died from the injuries in a hospital in Toronto the next day. No letters or means of identification were found on Johnson, but it is thought that his home is either in Winchester or Lexington, Ky. His right name was Clemens. He had no previous experience in the handling of elephants, but informed the management of the shows that he had. His body was interred in Toronto, June 17.

    John White, after 56 years in the circus business, has retired and gone back to Baltimore, Md., where he will raise stock. White is known as one of the best horse trainers in the country. John White Jr. now controls eight animal acts, some of which were formerly broken by his father. Mr. White Sr. has been with both the largest and smallest shows of this country and has now turned his hand to stock-raising. For many years he was with Stowe and Long Shows, seven years with Sells Bros., four years with Barnum and Bailey, eight years with Welsh Bros. and for a number of years had a show of his own. He now has on his farm 36 head of stock, two of which are imported French coach stallions.

    Billy Maurittus, of the Maurittus Family, clown and Humpty Dumpty performer, died at the City Hospital, Cincinnati, June 17, from Bright's disease. He was 65 years old. His body was sent to Philadelphia for burial.

    Chicago, June 19. Niles Center, Ill., just North of Chicago, will witness the opening of the fifth consecutive season of the Daisy Lawrence Dog and Pony Shows on June 29. The shows are owned by Mrs. Daisy Lawrence. . . . She is the sister of Mazie Cecil, who is known in repertoire circles in New England and the East. Harry Lawrence is the manager of the show, and he is also principal clown and works on the revolving ladders. Mrs. Lawrence works the dogs and ponies. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hinkley give an exhibition of acrobatics, and work on the traps. The other principals are: Abe Sachs, boss canvasman; Bill Hunter, musical director, and Ed. Hammond, boss horseman. The show travels by wagon, over the same territory in Illinois and Wisconsin, from year to year. Their jumps are uniformly eight to ten miles, and they drive from stand to stand. They have 12 burros as beasts of burden. A snow white baby burros with black-tipped ears, was born in Chicago on June 14, a feature that attracts attention. The show plays at 15 and 25 cents, under a grand Kerr top, 50x80 feet, with a 30 foot middle piece.

    Items from Haag Show. The Great Lind, female impersonator, joined June 14 at Bracebridge, Ont., to do his slack wire and Spanish dance. The attractions in the annex: Chief Debro and wife,Esquimauz midgets; Frank and Emma Caldwell, tattooed couple and impalement; Veno, man of mystery; Mlle. LaDaire, snake enchantress; the Great DeVuell, knife and sword swallower; Mlle. DuMar, lady bag puncher; Thelma, mind reader; Veno's Punch and magic; Rose, the Mexican bearded girl; Prof. Nelson's colored band of ten pieces and minstrel show combined; Zallah's three oriental dancing girls.
    Del Fuego, the well-known clown, who died May 31, was with the Haag Show season 1910-11. He also opened with the Haag outfit this season, but was compelled to close on April 24, owing to severe illness. At Washington, C. H., O. May 10, a new big 120 foot round top with two 50 foot and one 40 foot middle pieces were put up. The concert band of 20 solo musicians is under the direction of Dick Masters, and includes Carl Sparks, Edw. Fowler, Charles Covalt, Elmer Discher, Charles Redrick, Frank Ross, John Lutz, R. C. Blasingame, Albert Marshall, A. Petersen, Jack F. Muir, Lockie Smith, C. E. Duble, Andrew Peterson, Emil Farrar, Harry Breham, Gus Englehardt, Everett James, Bert King and Paul Nowalk. On June 17 the shows exhibited at South Porcupine, Ont., the farthest point north in Ontario that has a railroad.

    Roster of the Circle C Ranch Wild West: L. R. Clark, manager and adjuster; A. T. Clark, general agent; Prof. Charles, band director. Performers and riders: Leonard Stroud, Burt Kelley, W. H. Littleton, Joe Hepstall, Frank Anderson, Pearl Clark, Eugenie Clark, Thos. Giddings, Three Hardig Bros., comedy jugglers and clowns. Teddy Black has charge of privileges. Thirty head of stock and ten wagons are carried. A heavy wind and rain storm struck the show at Millerton, Okla., June 13 and tore the canvas and side walls to pieces. No one was hurt. Another storm came up at Valliant, Okla., June 17, and blew top and walls and wagons off the lot, killing two head of stock, one being the famous bucking mare, Oklahoma Queen.

    Beatrice DeNova, of the Flying DeNovas, is in critical condition at the North Louisiana Sanitarium, Shreveport, La., with a cronic case of stomach trouble. The DeNovas were compelled to leave the Haag Show at White Plains, N. Y., last July on account of Mrs. DeNova's condition and went to Chicago where her health improved. They then went to their ranch near Bradley, Arkl, to rest up. Recently Mrs. DeNova's health became worse and it was necessary for her to go to the hospital.

    Heads of the Downie & Wheeler working departments: George (Pop) Coy, superintendent of canvas; Joe Kesser, assistant; Henry (Apples) Welsh, superintendent of stock; Frank Wright (Milwaukee Whitey), assistant; Clint A. Grahm, superintendent of train; F. M. Koen, superintendent of lights; Jud Kelly, superintendent of side show canvas; Bud McLeod, superintendent of properties; Doc Hastings, superintendent of menagerie; Charles Cole, superintendnet of elephants; Gus Berry, superintendent of commissary department.

    Texas Bud's Days of '49, under the management of Buck Conner, is now playing Illinois. The outfit is to take the rail soon as a two car show, making two day stands and will make the principal fairs and picnics of Iowa, Missouri and Arkanasas. Running Water, the Indian fancy roper, and Tex Pickett, Jack Frietz, Oklahoma Kid, and G. W. Jameison, later carnival owner and manager, are new arrivals on the show.

    Brown and Pommier opened their show at Richmond, Mo., May 2, to good business. At their second stant a storm came up just before the performance started, but the people were gotten out before the tent was blown down. Business has been just fair since opening. The outfit went into Iowa May 18, heads for the Northwest. Lester Perkins has joined with his contortion act.

    H. W. Freed, owner of Freed's Dog and Pony Show, is mourning the loss of his mother, who died suddenly at Niles, Mich., June 12. Mrs. Freed was 83 years old. During Mr. Freed's absence, Charles Alderfer had full charge of the show.

    Roster of Moore's All-American band, with Wiedemann's Buffalo Ranch Shows: Eddie Moore, director; Charles Darrow, H. P. Hulholland, Fred Mitchell, George Gale, Harry Hartman, Harry Harris, George Hart, E. T. Horne, Gus Miller, P. E. Fuller, W. E. Barnes, Chas. Collins, Tubba Bernhardt, Charles French, Richard Moore and John Carroll.

    A snow white horse, also a troupe of ponies has been added to the ring stock of Robson Bros. Show.

    George Irving is manager of the side show with E. G. Smith's Colossal Shows. On the big show are Chas. Ward, principal clown; Harry DeCleo, juggler and gymnast; Ray Dee, wire performer. Mrs. George Irving, mind reading act, and George Irving, with his magic and punch, are on the side show.

    Fred Flanery, roper and rider with King Bros. I. X. L. Ranch Wild West, accidentally shot himself at Summersville, Ky., a few weeks ago and died from the wound. Flanery was formerly with the 101 Ranch, Two Bills and other Wild West shows.

    Property men with the Wallace Show: C. H. (Blackie) Williamson, boss; Roy (Areno) Jones, first assistant, and Mick O'Hara, second. Charles (Irish) Devaney arrived in Newark, N. J.

    P. W. Henny, formerly employed in various capacities with Sun Bros., Ed. P. Barlow's and other shows, passed away in Chicago, May 24. His remains were shipped to relatives in Philadelphia, his old home.

    With Prairie Lillie's and Nebraska Bill's Wild West are: John M. Fronty, chief of cowboys; Jim Kinney, four horse catch; C. R. Prettyman, the cop; Dick LaMonte (Tarpon Dick), Archie Zascetely, chief of Cossacks.

    Joe Edwards joined the Downie and Wheeler Shows at Herkimer, N. J., and is putting on the Punch and Judy show and presenting his magic act in the side show.

    Billy Ashton is clowning with the Rentz Wagon Show through Ohio.

    Virgil and Bessie Barnett are with the Barnum Show, both riding Roman and menage act.

    Doc Bacon is with the Sig Sautelle Show.

Billboard, July 6, 1912, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Editor The Billboard: I want to thank the gentlemen and ladies of the Rockwood and Company Cocoa Factory at 88 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., for what they are doing to help me out of Kansas City, Mo., in the way of a donation. I was the principal and producing clowns at the big Kansas City Hippodrome, Kansas City, Mo., which opened May 16 and closed June 2 when the managers decamped without paying a salary to any of the performers. I also wish to than M. G. ___, owner of the Electric Park in that city for the generous donating of his park in an effort to help us out. Splinters, "The Funniest Clown in America."

    Valentine, Neb., June 27. Glen W. Shearer, B-flat cornetist in Prof. Stout's band, with the Yankee Robinson Circus was accidentally drowned here Sunday afternoon, June 23, while bathing with others in Lake Minnechaduza. The lifeless body was recovered three-quarters of an hour later. In compliance with instructions from his parents, the remains were shipped to his home at Montezuma, Iowa, for burial. He was about 22 years old.

    The program of LaMont Bros. R. R. Show includes Charles Baker, clown song; Elmer Porterfield, juggler; Charles Baker, Harry Randolph and Corrie Porterfield, horizontal bars; clown act by six of the funmakers; trained poinie, William Taylor; trick mule, Ora Travers and Harold Holt; dogs, William Taylor; Mrs. Porterfield and Andy Nole, Roman rings; Charles Baker, Roman race; Carrie Porterfield, Charles Bakder and Andy Nole, triple ring act; elephants, Homer Eddings, trainer; Aerial Bakers, double trapeze; Ray Nichols, riding monkey; Harry West, light and heavy balancing. Side show: Mrs. Porterfield, sword swallower and animal trainer; Mrs. Anna Randolph, snake charmer.

    Slivers Holland, boss canvasman with Gollmar Bros. Show, left at Princeton, Minn., and returned to Baraboo, Wis. Among the new arrivals on the show are the Aerial Youngs, double trapeze and ring act. Tracy Andrews, who was injured by falling from his trapeze some time ago, returned last week.

    John Devinney, boss canvasman of the Two Bills Show, died April 20 at Trenton, N. J. He had been with Buffalo Bill seven years and prior to that with the Forepaugh-Sells Show about fifteen years.

    Rippel Bros. Show plays eight more stands in Indiana and then goes into Illinois for the balance of the season. Mr. Lewis has taken charge of the band, succeeding Dave Barter, who assumes the leadership of the West Terre Haute (Ind.) Band.

    Clyde (Carley) Shaw, for a number of years with the Barnum & Bailey Shows, is married and has a lovely home on Roscoe Blvd., Chicago. Mr. Shaw holds a position in Riverview Park.

    Dave Dedrick, circus adjuster, severed his connection with the Wiedemann Kit Carson Show at Caldwell, Idaho, June 17.

Billboard, July 13, 1912, p. 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The Duel Dog and Pony Show played Bedford, Ind., July 3 and 4, and had the big top pitched on the public square, closing both street and sidewalk in order to get up. Bedford is the home of the Duel boys and they organized their first show there, but this was the first time the show was exhibited in Beford in 17 years. It was necessary to give four shows July 3 and five shows on the 4th to accommodate the crowds.

    A petition was filed in the United States Dristict Court, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 2, by the creditors of John F. Robinson, veteran circus man, asking that he be declared bankrupt. Since the assignment made by Governor Robinson, the management of the estated has been in the hands of a local attorney.

    Gene Miller, trombone player of the big top band, has left the Young Buffalo Show to locate permanently at Bridgeport, Conn. W. W. Cockrain, legal adjuster, severed his connection with the show at Fitchburg, Mass. F. C. Dalton, cornet player, of Cleveland, O., joined the big show band at Brockton, Mass.

    There is no clown by the name of Billy Ash with Rentz Bros. Show, as mentioned in a recent issue. Jimmie Gibbons is the producing clown.

    A. N. (Stick) Davenport and Miss Bessie Koontze joined the Downie and Wheeler Shows at Montpelier, Vt., presenting a number of riding acts.

    Archie Noopan joined the H. W. Freed Show at Adline, Ill., June 29, for the balance of the season to do his comedy barrel jumping and magic in the concert.

    Doc Coates does the talking with the Haag Show, assisted by Ulie Parkerson and John Oakerson.

Billboard, August 3, 1912, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Streator, Ill., July 23. An announcement that the coming winter will find Conner's Indoor Circus, featuring Hagenbeck-Wallace trained wild animals, bid for popular favor in two-ring and one-stage circus. Among the innovations are a troupe of trained elephants from the Carl Hagenbeck herd, that do stunts including the "baseball" stunts, the "barber shop" scene and other new acts. Zebras also from the Hagenbeck herd will be seen in interesting feats. The show will carry over 75 people, not counting the advance, and will travel in its own special train of special cars. The summer quarters are at Peru, Ind., the home of the Wallace Shows. George Conner, who is backing the project, is the equestrian director of the H. & W. Shows. The winter circus which bears his name will play the big Eastern cities for week stands, mostly under auspices of the different orders. Pat Burke, now superintendent of reserved seats with H. & W. Show, has been engaged as assistant to Mr. Conner and will manage the show. George Aiken will do the railroad contracting in all probabilities, and E. H. Heckman and Henry Grapen will do the advance press work.

    Prince Youturkey, who died July 6 as the result of a fall from his wire during a matiness performance in New Brunswick, N. J., July 2, was one of the oldest performers with the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Flatiron, a member of the show was helpful to Mrs. Youturkey. He took up a subscription among the members of the Barnum show and raised over $300. He also accompanied Mrs. Youturkey to Sunbury, Pa., her home, where the Prince was buried.

    W. T. and C. C. Kennedy, of Kennedy Bros. Show, who dissolved partnership in 1910, have consolidated again and will put out a two car show, opening at Normanna, Tex. W. T. Kennedy, who has an extensive berry farm at McRae, Ark., left July 25, for Normanna, where the outfit has been stored since April, to get ready for the opening. The show will make Texas and Oklahoma this fall.

    Paul Alberta Wiggins, who has been with the Ringling Show for the past five years as ticket seller and electrician, died in El Paso, Tex., July 5, of tuberculosis. His remains were shipped to Bonham, Tex., for interment. Albert Wasson, who was with the Ringling and Sells-Forepaugh Shows, acted as one of the pall bearers.

    Captain H. Snider, animal trainer, closed with Fred Elzor's Shows and is working Spitfire, the untameable lion with the Downie and Wheeler Shows again. George Burkhart, king of coins, also returned. The side show is going big since the arrival of Snider and Burkhart.

    James A. Morrow is still with the Al. G. Barnes Animal Circus, his fifth year with this show. He is going to Australia next spring. His wife, Billie Stone, has retired from the show business and is at her home at Blackstone, Cal.

    F. M. Farrell is with the Sig. Sautelle Show doing punch, magic, ventriloquism and inside lecturing.

Billboard, August 10, 1912, pp. 22, 47. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    New York, July 30. I. Z. Strebig, contracting agent for Jerry Mugavin's Shows, died at the New Grand Hotel, Sunday night, July 28. Heart failue is said to have been the cause of death. Mr. Strebig was 63 years of age. Ike Streibig was born near Bradtford, Can., and raised in Western Pennsylvania. His career as a showman began in 1876, when R. C. Campbell engaged him to do excursion work for the W. W. Cole Shows, and from this date until 1885 he was an attache of Mr. Cole's Show. During the season of 1886 he was with Adam Forepaugh's Circus, and the following season toured with Downs. In 1888-89 he was again with the Forepaugh Shows. In 1890 he joined the Barnum & Bailey Shows and remained for many season. In 1892-93 he worked under W. E. Franklin doing excursion work. He was with the Forepaugh Shows in 1895. Sells Bros. in 1896. In 1900 he joined Sells-Gray outfit, and remained during 1900 and 1901. During early 1902 he was with the Lemen Shows, and later the same season joined the Sells-Down aggregation. He remained the season of 1903. At one time he was with Frank James and Cole Younger Wild West. In 1905 he was with the Frank Smith Shows and in 1906 he was in the employ of Mr. Mugivan. Mr. Strebig was married twice. His second marriage was to Ada Melrose. He had one son, by the second marriage. His home was in Haddon Heights, Camden Country, N. J. . . .

    Miss Sophia Daley and Tony Patt, who again this season compose the team of the Aerial Patts, are in their second season with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, offering their double trapeze and Roman ring acts.

Billboard, August 17, 1912, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Len Goheen, who had the advance with the M. L. Clark and Son's Shows last season, joined the Clark Shows as general agent, July 28, and will steer the show through Colorado. Del Nartello, clown, formerly of the Yankee Robinson Shows, joined at Del Norte. Dr. Grunning is legal adjuster and physician with the show. Vern Woodruff, billposter, joined the advance at Delta. Willie (Peanut Bill) Clark has the stands and the uptown wagon.

    Owing to illness in his family, J. E. Bullock severed his connection with the Downie & Wheeler Shows the past week and returned to his home at Canton, Pa.

    Nazor's Overland Shows were flooded out at Aloy, W. Va., July 24. Considerable wardrobe was ruined. The stand of the 24th and 25th were lost.

Circus Slang, by Floyd King.
    One may travel with a circus an entire season and never hear of the show grounds spoken of as anything else but a "lot." The natives wonder what is meant by the term for to them the exhibition grounds is the show grounds. In the parlance of the circus tents are always spoken of as "tops." For instance the tent where the big show takes place is known as the "big top," the side show tent is the "kid show top," etc. Tickets around a circus are always called "ducats" and the man who takes the tickets is the "ducat box man," passes are generally spoken of as "broads," formerly they were generally called "fakes."
    The rallying cry of "Hey Rube!" would bewilder the average recruit now-a-days, but this may be accounted for in the fact that there is ample police protection for "troupers" today. The "Hey Rube!" cry is but a war cry which means grab a stake and go after the natives causing the trouble.
    The "walking of the ghost" is but another term for pay-day. One dollar is generally spoken of as a ___ or sometimes as a "samoleon." Five dollars is always known as a "fin."
    A "grafting" show is a circus where dishonest methods are allowed and a "grafter" is but one of the principals. He is generally spoken of as a "grafter."
    A "connection" man is one who works in the partition between the big show "top" and the menagerie "top." He sells reserved seats from a little grip strapped about his shoulder and the money he takes is sometimes spoken of as "push money." The "fixer" or "squarer" is the man who makes things aright with the town officials. To save his feelings he is sometimes called an "adjuster;" the latter term was first applied by the Ringling Brothers to Charles Andress, on of the most famous of all "fixers."
    In circus dialect a ___ and "yap" are names for rustics who are sometimes known as "natives." The owner of a show is never known by any other title than that of a "governor."
    A "soft change" man is one who works the seats with a few packages of some confectionery. He approaches a "native" and asks him to exchange a little paper money for his silver. "For you know it is so heavy."
    A "butcher" is one who sells lemonade, peanuts, popcorn, etc. Lemonade is known as "juice" and peanuts as "red hots." "Plain juice" is water. The general admission seats are spoken of as "blues." A "razor back" is one of the workmen who assista in the loading and unloading of the circus trains. The laborers about a tented aggregation are commonly called "rough necks" or "red necks."
    The men who sell tickets in front of the side show are known as "orators" or sometimes "grinders" and "speilers."
    The "chandelier" man is one who has charge of the beacons and torches. The license is always known as the "reader."

Billboard, August 24, 1912, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    It was mentioned in a recent issue that Claude Holloway was in Birnamwood, Wis., teaching the band at that place. This was a mistake as Mr. Holloway informs us that he is at the present time leading the band of the Holloway Shows.

    Bronco Bill's Wild West is doing good business through the state of Michigan. The big show consists of Indian Massacre, performed by Dave Perrine, Jean Tracy, Marie Tracy, Jack Cornell, Broncho Bill, Jack Steven, Bill Laurence; rifle shooting by Marie Tracy and Bill Laurence; clowns Jack Cornell and Jean Macy [sic]; roping ponies by Broncho Bill and Bill Laurence; contortionist, Miss Laura May; Spanish ring, Nellie Howard; bareback riders D. Tem and Lucy Jones; four-pony drill, Dave Perrine; Jargo the giraffe, Joe Shields and Mr. ___. The concert consists of Dave Perrine, banjo, song and dance; H. K. Harrigan, eccentric Irish comedian; Broncho Bill, ventriloquist; Jack Simmond, Dutch comedian; Mr. and Mrs. Tracy in black face; war dance by four Indians from Reservation. Fred Miller is in charge of stock.

    The Reynolds Dog and Pony Show is in its ninth annual tour through Maine. Fairs have been booked for September and October. After these engagements the company will head toward New Hampshire and into New York state. Roster: Frank H. Reynolds, owner and manager; Mrs. Frank H. Reynolds, soubrette and magic; Master Teddy Reynolds, child vocalist. The show closes November 18 and will repair to winter quarters, Candia, N. H.

    The Silver Family Circus, according to reports, is doing a fine business. The show closes in five weeks, September 14, making the season one week longer than usual. The Silver Family band furnish the muscis and free acts for the North Branch (Mich.) Fair, September 25-27. Sandy Copeland furnishes free acts for Traverse City Fair, same dates. The Silvers then open their new theatre at Crystal, Mich., for fall and winter season.

    Tiger Bill's Wild West and Indian Village, after playing seven weeks on the Chicago lots, has taken the road again for a long season. This is now a ten car show with one car in advance.

    Kennedy Bros. Shows opened at Mineral City, Tex., August 15. An 80 ft. top with two 30 ft. middle pieces are carried. Two cars are used to transport the outfit.

    Charles Reed closed the DeMott's Combined Shows in Michigan July 30 and opened on August 1 in Illinois with the Mysterious Smith Company.

Billboard, August 31, 1912, pp. 22, 23, 58. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Sterling, Ill., August 22. Sparks from a blazing barn carried three blocks by the wind fell on the main tent of Ringling Bros. Circus here today at 1:00 p.m., and burned it to the ground within ten minutes. The few people who were in the tent escaped. The animal tent was taken down just in time to save it.

    Webster City, Iowa, August 21. William Schwartz, an employee of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, was killed last week in Wahoo, Neb., in a peculiar way. In the evening he lay down to sleep near one of the heavy property wagons with his head directly in front of the rear wheel. The driver hitched onto the wagon without seeing the sleeping man and started to drive off. The wheel passed over Schwartz's head, cutting it nearly in two and killing him instantly. His parents in Canton, O., were notified and the circus management left money enough to pay shipping and burial expenses.

    Chicago, August 19. Advices from Niles, Mich., state that nine show cars belonging to Tiger Bill's Circus, which were parked in the Michigan Central Railway yards there, were engulfed in the high water yesterday. They are surrounded by wreckage and mired in sand, and cannot be moved for several days.

    M. L. Clark & Sons Wagon Shows were in Montrose, Colo., recently. They are traveling overland throughout the Rocky Mountains, showing in large and small towns. They carry eight animal cages, three elephants, two camels, cowboy band and a good circus outfit. Although in Colorado, owing to the mountainous country and the towns being from twenty-five to fifty miles apart, they are able to set up three and four times per week and doing good business.

    Herr Bowman, assistant side show manager of the Al. G. Barnes three-ring Wild Animal Circus, closed with the show. He is booked in vaudeville. He will present an illusion act, assisted by his wife, La Zola, serpentine dancer, and daughter Gladys and her vanishing piano illusion.

    Miss Dot Long, lady clown with Frank A. Robbins Circus, and W. R. Travis of the same show, were quietly married August 17.

    Kenilworth LaChoisser, the ragtime calliope king, is at present a feature of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows' parade, having joined at Burlington, Ia., after closing the summer boat season at Memphis, Tenn., on the excursion steamer Pattona.

    John W. Compton and wife (Cleo, the Girl in Red) have left the Jones Bros. Show and joined Kit Carson's Wild West Show at Ashland, Ore. Both will work in the side show.

    Edward Fowler, A. Peterson and A. W. Hughes, musicians, closed with the Haag Show at Danforth, Me., August 17, and joined the Downie & Wheeler Show. James Halzer, clown, and Jim McCammon, race rider, closed with the Mighty Haag August 21. DeLorenzo, slack wire artist, closed with the Mighty Haag, August 7, and joined the Howe's Great London Show. Shreveport, La., will again be the winter quarters of the Mighty Haag Show. The show will close about November 30. Louis Rosenbaum is chef on the privilege car of the Mighty Haag.

Billboard, September 7, 1912, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Roster, Tiger Bill's Wild West: Col. E. D. Snyder, general manager and director; J. G. Miller, business manager; H. C. Murry, general representative; Mrs. E. D. Snyder, secretary and treasurer; Jimmie Cummings, press representative; Nop (Shorty) Coria, musical director; Tom Keeting, superintendent canvas with 35 assistants; Chick Whitty, master of transportation; side show, W. J. Hennessey (Spike), manager; Mrs. J. G. Miller, in charge of privileges; Capt. Scott, superintendent animal department; Dr. Pike, boss hostler; Blacky (Irish), head chef of cook house; Wilkey, 24-hour man. Some of the feature acts: Col. E. D. Snyder, Bronco Charley, Capt. Scott, Leo Snyder (Texas Wonder), Teddy Chester, Bronco Ned, Montana Ann, Mrs. Chester and Young Ricoda and his fighting bears. The show consists of three coaches, one privilege car, three stock cars, four flats carrying 85 head of stock, one hundred and twenty-five people, and a twelve piece band.

    Chicago, August 22. James M. Brenton, former mayor of Des Moines, and at one time a circus performer, died at a hospital here Sunday night. He came to Chicago from Deadwood, S. D., as a delegate to the recent Progressive National Convention and was taken ill. Brenton was 53 years old.

    Atterbury Bros. Shows have been on the road eighteen weeks, and claim that business has not been as good up to the present time as it was last season, although improving. J. Nelly, wire performer, joined at Richards, Mo. [remainder of text cut off]

    In the issue of The Billboard dated August 17, it was stated that Len Gohene was routing and had charge of the advance with the M. L. Clark & Son's Shows. A letter from L. C. Long recently, stating that he joined the shows August 5, at Montrose, Colo., and is doing that work instead of Mr. Gohene. Upon Mr. Long's return to the advance, after an absence of eighteen months, he purchased two mountain lions and a cinnamon bear, which he added to the menagerie.

    Joseph H. Hughes and Billy Cavanaugh, who have had charge of the candy privileges of the Frank A. Robbins Show since its opening, and who have been with said shows for the past six seasons, have quit the circus business temporarily, to enter the aviation field. They have purchased a latest model hydroplane. Mr. Hughes is doing the promoting and Mr. Cavanaugh the flying.

    The Downie and Wheeler Shows so far have enjoyed a prosperous season. The equipemnt has been increased to fourteen cars.

    Al. F. Wheeler writes that he has several tempting propositions to again launch the "New Model" wagon show, and it is highly probable that the same will again be a bidder for public patronage next season.

Billboard, September 14, 1912, p. 46. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    This has been the banner season for the Orton Bros. Circus. The show made the territory north of St. Paul, up around Duluth, then worked the Great Northern Railway into South Dakota. The outfit will winter either in South Dakota or Northern Nebraska, instead of going into quarters at Ortonville, Ia. The ring stock will be shipped back to quarters, where a large ring barn will be used for training purposes. The Ortons are planning to place a No. 2 show on the road next season, R. Z. Orton managing the No. 1, and Mrs. Orton the No. 2. The show has had two accidents. Miles Orton fell while doing the principal act, straining the ligaments in his left arm, and Baby Orton's menage horse fell on her foot. Criley Orton, the general manager, has retired from the show business in order to look after the large land interests at Ortonville. Miles Orton is now in charge of affairs. The show will be out late this fall.

    The Carl H. Clark Ideal Dog and Pony Shows are at present playing Illinois, doing fine business. The management expects to stay out until December. The shows carry a 70 foot big top with two 40 foot middle pieces, a 60 foot horse top with two 30 foot middle pieces, 60 head of baggage horses and ponies, and 32 dogs. The roster: Carl H. Clark and Fred D. Fowler, owners and managers; E. E. Fowler, general agent; C. W. Cale, boss billposter with six assistants; San Froser, superintendent; R. E. Froser, privileges; Jno. Connors, big top; Ed Morton, boss hostler; Roy E. Cook, bandmaster with eleven men; Jno. E. Perkins, Chas. Hamilton, J. E. Benefiel, Harry Nemo, Frank Denton, Clarence Mitchell, Jno. Moss, Wm. Snoden, Chas. Fox, Geo. Adams and Francis Stahl.

    B. H. Mille, who recently severed his connection with the 101 Ranch Shows, has accepted a position on the Yankee Robinson advertising car No. 1 as assistant to F. C. Stern.

    I. H. Kridler, slack wire and tramp clown, closed with Heber Brothers Show and is at home in Syracuse, N. Y., where he is framing up a comedy wire and juggling act for vaudeville.

    The Robson Brothers Show, after 19 weeks on the road, report good business. Professor Romeo Greene's Indian Band is a feature. The trick will close the second or third week in October at Reading, Pa.

    The old pioneer of billposters, Ed Cake, joined the excursion car of the 101 Ranch Wild West Show.

    The friends of James Dallas, of Danville, Ill., will regret to learn that he passed away on August 19 at Cardston, Alta., Can., after a brief illness. The deceased was formerly with the Robinson Shows, but for the past few seasons was connected with the Sanger Shows.

    The Texas Bud Wild West Show had a blowdown at Manning, Ia., August 31. Tents, sidewalls and canopy were torn to ribbons in two minutes. Manager P. J. Snell immediately went to Omaha and secured all new sidewall in time to open at the fair at Carroll, Ia., September 3.

    H. W. Wingert and his entire concert band, late of Campbell Brothers Shows, will be a feature of the Cole Brothers Shows for the balance of the season. They joined immediately after the closing of the Campbell Brothers.

    L. Ledoux, who has been touring Canada with the J. H. Eschman Shows, reports business as being very good. Mr. Ledoux has charge of the privilege department and is also Billboard agent with the show.

    Bob Pearce, the old-time clown, has cast his lot with the Sun Bros. Circus. He joined this outfit Sunday, August 25, in Kentucky.

    Philip Eddy, formerly of the Cevene Troupe, who was confined to the hospital after a serious accident at Saginaw, Mich., has returned to the Wallace Show.

    Nazor's Overland Show is now in its sixteenth week in West Virginia, playing to good business. The show will play two more weeks under canvas, and will then go into opera houses.

    Al E. Hutchinson is playing fairs and vaudeville, having closed with the Young Buffalo Show at Salem, N. H.

    Doc Zeiger [Zelger?] clowed with the Frank A. Robbins Shows at Jackson, Mich., and joined the Tiger Bill Wild West Show at Bangor, Mich.

    T. J. Forde writes that he closed his season as adjuster of the Gollmar Bros. Shows at Oak Park, Ill., August 26, and is now at Geneva, O., with his family.

    Bert Geyer, equilibrist, is with Duvall's Big City Show. The show is touring the South under canvas.

    Business with the Shipp and Feltus Circus in South American still continues big.

Billboard, September 21, 1912, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    John F. Robinson, circus manager, was adjudged bankrupt September 11 by United States bankruptcy referee. Involuntary proceedings were brought some time ago by a Falmouth (Ky.) bank and other creditors. Robinson, however, filed a protest in the U. S. District Court the following day against being adjudged a bankrupt. He was declared bankrupt on the ground that he was in default in not answering the application of his creditors.

    Hot Springs, Ark., Sept. 14. S. W. F. Wallace, widely known as a circus man, died here yesterday of heart failure. He had been under treatment for kidney trouble and was thought to be improving.

    The Silver Family Shows closd the tenting season of 1912 at Pompeii, Mich., September 7, after a successful season. The shows started out May 11, opening at Crystal, Mich., carrying thirty people, twenty-four horses and twelve wagons, and despite the stormy weather at certaint times, did not lose a single performance. The outfit is being stored away in sixteen sheds and two barns at Crystal, Mich., the headquarters. . . . Sandy Copeland, bar performer, and his wife, Frances Silver Copeland, will build a modern home at Crystal this winter.

    From LaMont Bros. Show. Prof. O. R. Chaffin, bandmaster, is in this third season with the show. Fourteen pieces make up the band. Ed Arnold, cornet player, who was with the Campbell Bros. Show for a number of years, was overcome by heat during the afternoon performance at Brunswick, Mo., August 28. Two other musicians also suffered from the heat. B. E. Krighaum, cornet player, joined in New London, Mo., his home town, September 3. . . . Bill LaMont, who is associated with his brothers, Charley and Harry, in the management of the show, and doing local contracting and handling the transportation, is getting the show over some new territory. Business was very bad in the early part of the season owing to the rainy weather, but it is picking up now. One blowdown has occurred; also a railroad wreck while making a special run to Estherville, Iowa. Some members were shaken up, but no one was injured seriously. Frank Sherman and W. A. Thomas, both of St. Louis, formerly of the Kit Carson Wild West Show, joined in DeSoto, Mo., September 9, taking charge of the candy stands.

    Evansville, Ind., September 9. Two drivers with the Ringling Show here today were run over by a train while crossing the track near the lot on their way to the horse tents. Scotty Wilson, an old-time, six-horse driver, was killed, and the other gentleman, and eight-horse driver, whose name was withheld, was badly injured.

    Colonel Fred T. Cummins is not, at yet, financially interested in the Young Buffalo Corporation, as mentioned in last week's issue [remainder of text cut off]

    The J. H. Eschman European Circus is now in its 16th week. The show has recently been playing North Dakota and Minnesota and will work South. Charles Paul, veteran clown, will not go South with the show, having decided to re-enter vaudeville the coming winter. Charley Elvin, who has been confined to a hospital, rejoined on September 2. The Japanese Iwago Ehara joined at East Grand Forks, Minn., Sept. 8. John Pettee, steward, after a brief visit to his home in the Twin Cities, will rejoin the show on its Southern tour. The outfit has traveled over 4,000 miles this season.

    Miss Evelyn Buhl, menage rider, and Mervyn Victorine, of the Stadium Trio, gymnasts with the Sells-Floto Shows, were married August 20 while the show was in Winnipeg, Can. The Stadium Trio left the Sells-Floto organization at Omaha. Mr. Victorine will continue with the trio, which opened their vaudeville season September 15.

    James Holzer, clown, was not discharged from the Haag Show, as was concluded in a recent issue. He received a message to come home, as his wife gave birth to a baby girl, August 17. He had to leave the show hurriedly, and was paid off at his request.

    The Sanger Show started on its thirteenth week on Labor Day. Opening in Florida where seven weeks were spent, the show went North into Canada as far as the railroads run, and after thirteen weeks in Canada, is now headed South again.

    Joseph H. Hughes and Billy Cavanaugh have closed with Frank A. Robbins after six successful seasons to take up aviation.

Billboard, October 5, 1912, pp. 22, 23, 58. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Montrose, Colo., Sept. 24. During the engagement of the Sanger Circus at Montrose Fair last week, Williard W. Davis, who had joined the circus earlier in the week as a clown, was killed while attempting to turn a flip-flop in midair, alighting on his head. Davis, who was 24 years of age, was ambitious to become an acrobat, and when the Sanger management refused to take him on in that capacity, he joined as a clown. It was in an attempt to rival the acrobats that he met his death. It is said that his parents reside in Illinois, but that he had an uncle residing in Grand Junction, this state.

    Sioux City, Ia., Sept. 25. To suddenly lose ten heavily billed Nebraska stands a few hours before the show was to enter the state was the predicament the Al. G. Barnes Circus found itself in last night. The show was in Onawa, the last stand in Iowa, and the first section of the train was being made up preparatory to leave for Omaha when a message was received from the state veterinary surgeon of Colorado, warning Mr. Barnes that the show would not be allowed to enter the state should a single stand be made in Nebraska, where an epidemic affecting horses is in full sway. Then came a consultation of the executive staff back with the shwo and for the next three hours the telegraph wires fairly burned with messages. General agent Harold Bushea was located in Chicago, and in the course of a couple of hours had contracted to move the show far away from the infected territory. Colorado was scheduled to follow Nebraska and as several towns in that state had been billed it was decided to make the cities on the scheduled time. But in order to reach Colorado and not going through Kansas or Nebraska it was necessary to go to South Dakota, the state left a day or so ago by the show. The first available city was Pierre, and 528 miles away. By midnight the first section had departed for Pierre, which is to be followed by Rapid City, S. D., and Cheyenne, Wyo. The sudden change of the route will cost the show in the neighborhood of $15,000.

    William P. Wakefield, 59 years of age, of Reading, Mass., died at his home at 1:30 a.m., Sunday, September 16, of heart failure. Mr. Wakefield was connected with the Frank A. Robbins Circus as chef of advertising car No. 1 for two seasons, later chef of the 101 Ranch advertising car for two seasons. Before going into the circus business he spent twelve years traveling in different parts of the West. His wife survives him.

    From what can be gathered from the management and those connected with the Downie & Wheeler Shows during their travel in lower Delaware, winter quarters will be established at Oxford, Pa., this season. This is the hometown of Al. F. Wheeler, one of the owners of the shows, and it is said that the shows will be put up at the fair grounds which are owned and controlled by Mr. Wheeler. For the past few days Mr. Wheeler has been at Oxford, looking after the interest of the fair which has been in progress. He is expecting to join the shows, which are traveling Southward, in the direction of Valdosta, Ga., last season's winter quarters, where it is believed they will make arrangement to transport some of the paraphernalia in storage there.

    Fred Forrester, who last season toured with the Downie & Wheeler Shows, acting in the capacity of assistant press agent and side show ticket seller, is this season holding down the job of secretary and treasurer with the show. Forrester, who hails from Medina, N. Y., the home state of Andrew Downie, one of the owners of the shows, is expecting to be with the shows next season.

    The Texas Bud Wild West has been secured for the Concordia, Mo., Street Fair, from October 17 to 19. This show has been doing big business playing Iowa fairs. After playing the street fair at Concordia, the show will go into Texas. The entire outfit is owned and managed by P. J. Snell, the original Texas Bud.

    Cole Bros. Show has been playing to fair business in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, and has only lost one day, that being at Burton, Kan., on account of the blowdown September 16. The show will go South for the winter.

    Edward M. Bell joined the Downie & Wheeler side show last week, and is acting as manager and ballyhoo man. Bell's wife, having the cognomen of May Derby in the circus world, is also with the side show, handling the snakes.

    W. E. Baney, who for the last four seasons has been connected with Howe's London Shows, was married September 19. He will reside in Lock Haben, Pa., in which city he is engaged.

    Ed L. Brannan joined the Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch Wild West in Texas, September 19, looking after the railroads and other advance matters.

    Al O'Day works the Downie & Wheeler Big Show with the song books, etc.

    H. S. Rowe enjoyed about the briefest season on record in the carnival business.

    The year 1912 will go down in the records of most of the circuses as a "bum-bum."

    Bud Atkinson was born in Minnesota.

    Fairbury, Neb., Sept. 25. The stock of the defunct Campbell Bros. Show, when auctioned off here, was purchased by John Heasty, a trustee for the creditors of the show, for $17.000. A chattle mortgage for $50,000 was filed against the circus by creditors. This show was stranded here August 10. The property consisted of a number of wild animals, horses, wagons and equipment.

Billboard, October 12, 1912, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Judge Hollister, of the United States District Court, Cincinnati, in the case of John Robinson, veteran circus man, on September 30, revoked his order declaring Robinson a bankrupt and referred the case back to Referee Whitaker for further consideration. This action was taken after Robinson's attorney had stated to the court that the circus man's affairs were in such shape that it would not be consistent to declare him a bankrupt. The involuntary bankruptcy proceedings were instituted some time ago by the Citizen's Bank of Falmouth, Ky., and Thomson & Vandiveer, tent makers of Cincinnati.

    The Downie & Wheeler Shows will close a season of thirty-two weeks at Riverton, Va., on October 18, and immediately ship into winter quarters at Oxford, Pa.

    H. S. Rowe, general agent for Bud Atkinson, the Australian show magnate, who has been in America the past several months, organizing the wild west and circus aggregation for the Antipodes, left Cincinnati October 2, for Chicago. Mr. Rowe goes direct to San Francisco, from which point he will sail for Sydney, N. S. W., October 15. Mr. Atkinson is at present in Chicago, where he will be for a week or two. His plans are to sail from San Francisco with his newly-formed outfit on November 19.

    After playing two of the biggest county fairs in Michigan, Buckskin Ben's Wild West & Dog & Pony Shows made the jump from Hillsdale, Mich., to Richmond, Va., to take up ten weeks of fairs in the South.

    The H. W. Freed Show closed the season at Westville, Ind., 42 miels from its winter quarters, September 25. The show was out 22 weeks, traveling through Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. P. D. Miller, general agent, attended to the work ahead, billing and getting lots and licenses. The show will winter as usual at Niles, Mich. Alderfer and family left for their home at Denver, Ind. Archie Noonan and Walters are booked in picture houses. Homer Witmarsh will winter in Toledo, Ohio.

    Harry Chester, who during the past season did the advance work for Barlow's Dog & Pony Show, and for two years previous to that had the same position with the Dashington animal outift, is now in Chicago with a medical advertising stunt. Chester has already put his John Hancock to a next year's Dashington contract.

    The Downie & Wheeler Shows exhibited on October 1 at Henderson, N. C., the home of Dave Costello, of circus fame, and who at one time traveled with this show. Members of the company were entertained at the home of Mr. Costello.

    E. P. Barlow, chief mogul of Barlow's Dog & Pony Show, has just about recovered from the burns he sustained ten weeks ago while operating a motion picture projecting machine at West Liberty, Ill.

    Walter Wiseman, formerly of the Wallace and Ringling Shows, was united in marriage to Jennie M. Hughes, at Covington, Ky., recently.

    Virgil and Bessie Barnett are again back with the 101 Ranch Wild West. They closed with the Barnum and Bailey Circus at San Francisco. The Barnetts are engaged with the 101 Ranch Wild West for the season of 1914

    Mollie Bailey made one stand in Kansas and is back in Texas again. She has not the least love for the state of Kansas, and she will tell you so in her own emphatic way.

    Harry Parrish, trainmaster, joined the 101 Ranch Wild West at Tulsa, Okla., September 23, to handle the train for the balance of the season.

    Pogie O'Brien, principal clown with the Sig. Sautelle Shows, left for his boarding house in Reading, Pa. The Sig. Sautelle Nine Big Shows closed the season at DeRuyter, N. Y., October 5.

    The Young Buffalo Wild West and Colonel Cummins Far East Shows closed at Boonville, Mo., October 5.

    Johnny Marinella is equestrian director of Kit Carson's Wild West and Circus.

Billboard, October 19, 1912, pp. 22, 27. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Frank Wright, formerly a well-known showman, died at his home in Hyde Park, a suburb of Cincinnati, Oct. 6, of cancer of the stomach. The deceased was connected with the old John Robinson circus for a number of years and it was while in the employ of this circus that he met and married the late James Robinson's daughter Mr. Wright in recent years has conducted a hostelry which was a headquarters for visiting professionals. He leaves a widow, a son and a daughter.

    The Downie & Wheeler show will close at Riverton, Va., October 18, and go into winter quarters at Oxford, Pa., where a special siding is being built to handle the cars.

    D. P. White, twenty-four hour man with the Frank A. Robbins Shows last season, is advance agent for Prairie Lillie and Nebraska Bill's Wild West this season.

    Hot Spring, Ark., Oct. 11. Mrs. W. F. Wallace, wife of the late W. F. Wallace, died at Conway, Ark., October 9, of heart failure. Her husband died about a month ago. She was 58 years of age and is survived by two children. The Wallaces have been playing on fair time through the South.

    Heber Bros. Circus and Wild West closed at West Mansfield, O., September 29, with the following roster: Reginald C. Heber, manager; R. F. Heber, assistant manager; R. E. Heber, treasurer; George Heber, manager of transportation; A. R. Heber, steward; Benjamin C. Heber, general advance; James B. Ramsey, advance No. 1; Roy Woods, advance No. 2; Frank Watts, 24-hour man; Arthur Langhrey, boss canvasman; F. W. Bond, assistant, with eight men; Harry Row, lights; Earl Mead, boss properties with four assistants; Earl Baker, ring stock; Charles Parks, boss of animals; Edward Taylor, boss hostler with six assistants; Joseph L. Cole, cook house; Frank Walker, assistant; E. V. Lahm, musican director with band of twelve pieces; Rollo H. Heber, performing animals. Performers: Edward Fox, Leonard Washburn, Raymond Shannon, Chester Langhrey, Dehema, Mabel Avanell, Walter Harter, Nell Hoskisn, Buck Carson, Chief Greywolf, Flying LaVons, Acrobatic Franklins, Adell Sisters and Edward Looker. Only two performances were lost during the entire season.

    The Hagenbeck-Wallace Show has adopted the unusual custom of remaining in the North instead of invading the South this season. It is doubtful whether the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows will ever again venture South of the Mason and Dixie line, owing to the exorbitant license, transportation and high cost of feed. The show will close at Dyersburg, Tenn., November 4.

    Mr. Matthews, juggler, who has been playing vaudeville, recently joined the side show of Howe's Great London Circus.

    A commodious new ring barn, which will be fitted with steam heat, electric light and all modern conveniences, is among the improvments being made at the Downie & Wheeler winter quarters at Oxford, Pa.

    Charles Pogie O'Brien, clown with the Sig Sautelle Show, is now at his home in Reading, Pa.

    William E. Sands closed the season with the Frank A. Robbins Circus, October 5. He has been re-engaged with this show for next season.

Billboard, November 16, 1912, p. 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Hot Springs, Ark., Nov. 5. Miller Brothers and Arlington's 101 Ranch consummated a deal with the Business Men's League of this city recently whereby the league will furnish winter quarters for this big aggregation opposite the Oaklawn Racetrack. The show has signed a contract with the Arkansas State Fair Association to furnish the attractions the last two days of their event, November 15 and 16, only to move opposite the race track to winter.

    The J. H. Eschman Shows arrived in Geiger, Ala., November 6, after a jump of 484 miles from Farrell, Ark. Manager Eschman furnished all attractions for the Inter-State Fair at Geiger, November 6 to 9 inclusive. This is the first fair ever held there. Five counties participated in it. Mr. and Mrs. Mat Shriner recently joined the shows. Mr. Shriner was with the show in 1911. Lawrence Ledoux, concessioner, paid a visit to Kansas City, his home town, recently, and rejoined the show at Tuckerman, Ark. Harry A. Nugent, with his punch and magic, and Aga illusion, late of the Robins [sic] show, joined at Corning, Ark., and has charge of the side show. Charles Cooper, boss canvasman with Whitey Witt as his assistant and a crew, are getting the "rag" up in record time. Griffin, the concessioner, joined at Farrell, Ark. In spite of election, opposition and some bad weather, business is satisfactory and all are looking forward to a winter in the South. . . .

    Downie & Wheeler Shows. The show is snugly stored away in its winter quarters at Oxford, Pa. A new animal barn and ring barn has been erected. "Pop" McCoy is taking a three weeks' vacation but will be on hand when construction work begins again. Captain H. Snyder is again in charge of the winter quarters with fifteen assistants. All new canvas has been ordered and will be nearly twice the size of former years. The new Pullman car purchased by Messrs. Downie & Wheeler for the No. 1 advertising car for next season has arrived in Oxford. The exterior is done in Pennsylvania maroon, elaborated in gold and the interior is finished in mahogany and the berths are so arranged that each man will have practically a private section. There will be sleeping accomodations for thirty people. There are lockers for wearing apparel, linen lockers and compartments for the storage of baggage. Wash rooms are located at each end of the car with running hot and cold water. There are two furnished offices which will be occupied by the car manager and the press agent. This end also has an observation platform. A new coil, high pressure, quick firing boiler for making paste has been installed, so when not in use it is entirely closed from view. A neat little kitchen occupies a small section near one end over which Monroe Jones will preside. This will be Mr. Jones' third season in that capacity. Gas will be used for illuminating purposes. Nearly all of last season's crew has signed for the season of 1913.

    Rice Brothers' Colossal Shows will be one of the big circuses for 1913. C. W. McCurren will be the man who holds the big stick. Mr. McCurren is being backed by a syndicate from Harlowtown, Mont. That this show will be a big one is evidenced by the fact that Barrett & Zimmerman, of the Midway Horse Market, St. Paul, horse dealers, are furnishing 100 head of baggage wagon and heavy draft horses. Among them will be dapple grays. New cars are being built for the show by the Peteler Car Co. of St. Paul. A number of the largest barns and ring stables at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds, Hamilin, Minn., have been leased for the coming winter, to be used as headquarters for the show. The veteran horse trainer and circus man, John Shumate, and a corps of assistants are engaged breaking ring stock, ponies and saddle horses at the State Fair Grounds. A shipment of wild animals will arrive shortly. The temporary business office of the show will be at Barrett & Zimmerman's Midway Stables, St. Paul, until the new offices especially prepared for this show are completed at the State Fair Grounds.

    Sam J. Garrett, trick and fancy roper, who has been out all season with Irwin ros. Real Cheyenne Frontier Wild West Show, is visiting his folks at DeGraff, Kan. He expects to go with Charles B. Irwin sometime next month to the roping and riding contest at Juarez, Mexico.

    Fred Kettler closed with the 101 Ranch Wild West at Hot Springs, Ark., and made a trip to Wooster, O., his home town, in order to cast his vote. Red ___ and Pop Quinnett, of the Yankee Robinson Show, also voted at Wooster.

Billboard, November 23, 1912, p. 22. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., in the issue of November 9, announced the sale of Campbell Bros. Shows. A letter from Campbell Bros. states that such is not the case, as the shows are in quarters at Fairbury, Neb., in litigation, and will not be for sale until after the case has been settled in the December term of the court. Some of the stock was sold on October 30. Virg Campbell, who has been out of the business for several years, bought the high school horses and some of the ponies, and most of the baggage stock was sold to a horse dealer at St. Joseph, Mo., These sales probably caused the report that the whole show had been sold.

    101 Ranch Wild West. The train was wrecked between Hope and Nashville, Ark., by bad track. All the flats went into the ditch and some of them were so badly damaged that they were beyond repair. The sleepers and stock cars remained on the track and were unharmed. Several parade wagons and the steam calliope wwere also demolished. The accident occurred about 3 a.m. and the show shipped to Hope, Ark., instead of showing at Nashville. They gave one show at Hope, and did well considering that they had no advertising. Tony Ybanez, assistant treasurer, was in the white ticket wagon when the wreck occurred and had a narrow escapt when the wagon turned over and was smashed. A. J. Haverilla, the ammunition boss, and Miller, a razorback, were badly burned while mixing rosin to be used for targets. During the last act E. J. Sparks had his face badly burned by the fire on the burning wagon. . . .

    H. W. Wingert closed with Cole Bros. Shows at Siloam Springs, Ark., November 2, and returned to his home in Toledo, Ohio. The Cole Bros. Shows will winter at Lancaster, Mo.

    The remains of Johnny Rooney, famous bareback rider, who died in Chicago November 8, as a result of injuries sustained November 6, when struck by a street car, were buried at Baraboo, Wis., November 11.

    Chas. A. Chapman, with advertising car No. 3 of Ringling Bros. shows the past season, is now at his home in Albany, N. Y.

    Marie DeVere, of Frank A. Robbins' Show, was recently on her way to Rhode Island, where she owns a large stock farm.

    A. G. Campbell will not be connected with the W. H. Coulter and Cole Bros. Shows next season.

    Sanger's Great European Shows close at Shuqualak, MIss., November 26, and will winter at Montgomery, Ala.

    Lawrence Ledoux is now in charge of the candy stand with the J. H. Eschman Shows, now touring the South.

Billboard, November 30, 1912, p. 39. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Billie Boughton's Overland Show closed a successful season at Wakarusa, Ind., October 14, and shipped South, opening at Harriman, Tenn., November 4. The show has been enlarged by adding three more wagons and several performers. The roster of performers: Billie Boughton, comedian and clown; Amy Boughton, magician and serpentine dancer; Helen May, traps, rings, tight wire, and singing and dancing; Billie Rysdon, bars and rings; Boughton and May, musical act; Tommie Wyatt, balancing traps and contortion; Boughton and Rysdon, revolving ladder.

    Orton Bros. Circus reports that it has just closed a successful season and has gone into winter quarters at Bristow, Neb., where the show will open early in April, 1913. Criley Orton, former manager, has resigned in favor of his brother, R. Z. Orton, who will manage the show in the future.

    F. J. Frink has been re-engaged as general agent of the Downie and Wheeler Shows for next season, his ninth consecutive season under the Wheeler banner.

    George Hedges, of the Shubert Theatres, St. Louis, will be with the Hagenbeck-Wallace advance next season in charge of the opposition brigade. Mr. Hedges has has considerable circus experience, but has been off the road for some time.

    Wm. A. Wright, billposter, closed with the John H. Sparks advance last month, at Troy, N. C., owing to illness. He will be at his home in Pembroke, Ont., Can., for the winter. Mr. Wright will again be with Sparks' advance next season.

    Barrett (Fat) Gruner, bass player with the Yankee Robinson Circus, died at his home in Pickneyville, Ill., Nov. 2. Death was due to an attack of typhoid fever.

    Walter George, who has been with the Kennedy Bros. Show for the past four seasons, has returned to his home in Idabel, Okla.

    George Atkinson left Chicago last week to tak the management of one of Hagenbeck-Wallace picture shows. He goes with the Kansas and Oklahoma show.

    George Aiken, Jim Eviston and Charles __, are all doing fine work in booking the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Films.

Billboard, December 14, 1912, p. 72. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Gentry Bros. closed at Elgin, Texas, November 30. The show will winter in its home town, Bloomington, Ind., for the first time tin two years.

    The Honest Bill aggregation is stored away in its winter quarters at Quenemo, Kan. Two large barns, one for draft horses, and the other for midget ponies, are now being built. Honest Bill is spending several thousand dollars for hay-eating animals to add to his menagerie, and is breaking several new pony and dog animal acts for the coming season.

    The Fred Elzor Show is still touring Georgia and doing nice business. Among the late arrivals on the show are Arthur Benson and Frazer Clark. Walter Allen has a ten piece band, composed of these musicians: Walter Allen, Lee Hall, Fred Spencer, C. E. Tuttle, Harry Chapman, Walter Holback, Jack Settrick, Howard Ramsdall, George Porter and ___ Linkons. The show will stay out all winter in Florida. Lee Smith is handling the mail and billboards. A shipment of twelve head of draft horses with a new cage for the menagerie arrived recently. The show is in its thirty-second week and has only lost four days. Roster: Fred Elzor, manager; John Wright, assistant manager; H. C. Fay, big show ticket seller; John Washburn, superintendent of canvas with ten men; Arthur Benson, outside attraction; Frazer Clark, upside down ladder and ground rings; the Courtneys, double traps and Roman rings; Smith and Ramsdell, acrobats; Jack Ray Dee, slack wire, traps and juggling; Edgar Eggers, singing and talking clown; Mrs. Elzor, contortionist; Howard Ramsdell, rolling globe and clown; John Schremmer, hand balancing and clown, and Lee Smith, mule rider and clown.

Billboard, December 21, 1912, pp. 23, 48. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 12. Walter Porter, famous acrobat, founder of the Melrose Troupe and originator of the spectacular somersaulting over elephants, featured for years with the Barnum and Bailey Show, died here Monday, as the result of injuries sustained through a thrilling feat, which won him fame. Porter, who was only forty-one years old, acting as base for the broken pyramid, three men high, in which the middle man displaces himself, permitting the upper man to descend upon the lower man's shoulders, received shocks about the head which created nervous paralysis resulting in death. He was with the Barnum Show since early childhood.

    The O'Brien and Allen Colossal Shows opening their season at Gordon, Ala., Saturday, October 5, and the management states that the announcement that the show was transported on two cars was a mistake, as it is a wagon show, or rather a circus, and is carried on twenty wagons. Forty-five head of draft horses and five ring horses are also carried. The show has an 85 foot round top with one 40 and one 30 foot middle piece. The kid top is 50 feet, with a 30 foot middle piece. The show will tour Alabama, Georgia and Florida this winter. It will not close until the last of February, and will then only lay over for two weeks for repairs. Business has been good. The roster of the business staff: J. E. McNair, general superintendent; William O'Brien, manager; Earl Hammond, treasurer; Bert Vanlandham, advance with two assistants; R. E. Parsons, boss canvasman with ten assistants; Nick Nickelle [Nickelie?], head cook and Jolly Casey, boss hostler with four assistants. Performers: William O'Brien's troupe of acrobats and statuary act; Prof. Burns and his dogs and monkeys; Grace Thomas, lady principal and menage act; Grace Thomas and May Sinclair, two horse carrying act; Aerial Stones, double tight wire artists, and Fothergile Troupe, aerial bars and return act. A special feature is Naomi, the human cannon ball. Sid Allen, principal clown, with the help of Lavomey and Foster, keeps the natives happy. The music is furnished by Charles Pabst and band of twelve pieces.

    Seibel Bros. United Show. The show opened at Watertown, Wis., May 2, and closed at Owen, Wis., October 5. The ring stock, animals and paraphernalia were shipped from Dale, Wis., over the Soo Line to Watertown, Wis., where the show is now in winter quarters. The baggage stock, with surplus of empty wagons, were driven to the winter quarters from Dale. A large barn, 36 by 60, for storing wagons and other paraphernalia, has just been completed. The show traveled through Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota, and only lost one stand (owing to heavy rains), but played another city instead. The vaudeville acts, under the management of E. Seibel, are hard at work. Edward's Trained animals opened at Chicago, November 14. Rush's Animal Circus is now playing the Webster Time. These acts will be out all winter. In the meantime new stock will be trained for next season. New wagons are now being built under the supervision of Great Toepke. The harness department is being looked after by Dod Herman. Jack Kelly, the mule rider, will be with the show again next season. Roy Rush has been engaged as equestrian director, and will have charge of the stock. The roster at time of closing: James G. Prescott, general agent; Carl Erdman, assistant, accompanied by billposters and lithographers; E. Seibel, manager; Edw. Seibel, treasurer; Roy Rush, equestrian director; Bob Williams, band leader; Charley Muck, cornet; Al Johnson, baritone; Fred Schulty, Frank Higgins, slide trombone; Tony Fischer, clarinet; Vernl Holverstol, tuba; John Worning, alto; Harry Atwood, drums and traps, and Harry Smith, bass drum. Side show: Jack Kelly, announcer; Joe Allen, animal trainer and bear act; Major Del Fontaine, slack wire and balance spinning; Joe Murphy, Punch and Judy; E. Albright, privileges; Big Gust, boss canvasman; Al Towne, boss hostler; Ben Hur Albright, boss pony man, and George Goggles, boss animal man.

    Thomas Crum, of Middleton, N. Y., and Miss Catherine Cooper, of Nashville, Tenn., were married at Conway, Ark., November 22. Mr. Crum recently closed the season with the Yankee Robinson Circus, where he had charge of the candy stands. The newly weds will make their home in Middleton, N. Y.

Billboard, December 28, 1912, pp. 22, 35. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    New York, Dec. 20. Harry Allen, circus man and late legal adjuster for the Sanger Greater European Shows, was in New York this week when he purchased the state-right for Pennsylvania for the Cleopatra moving pictures. Harry Allen was formerly wil the Cole Brothers Shows and later with Howe's Great London Shows. He was also with the H. R. Polack winter circus and other smaller car shows.

    Ft. Worth, Tex., Dec. 20. Dick Smith, known in the circus world as a side show orator, having spent thirty years or more of his life in and around the tents of big shows, is at a local hospital, dying of a complication of diseases. Two years ago he drifted into this city, and has been able to eke out a bare existence by dispensing electricity "per shock" as a cure for rheumatism and other ailments. Smith, while in his prime, spent money freely on his friends, and in contrast, none of them responded to his many appeals for aid. The doctors say that Smith only has a few weeks to live.

    Bill LaMont, who was injured in a wreck at Chanola, Mo., on September 17, in which Harry LaMont, one of the proprietors of the LaMont Show, lost his life, was awarded $5,000 damages; Mrs. Harry LaMont received $11,000. Chas. R. LaMont $6,000 damages for injuries sustained by his wife. Charley Travler received $1,200; Fred Koppelman, $1,000; Lee Burger, $500. Satisfactory settlements were made by the railway company with Bill Shively, Happy Warren, Sandy Nichols, Edw. Arnold, Charles Baker and Harry West. Chas. R. LaMont has not yet made a settlement with the railway company for loss of his show property, which was entirely demolished in the disasterous wreck. [remainder of text cut off]

    The J. H. Eschman European Circus, now touring the South, experienced some extremely cold weather, and is spite of this is doing an excellent business. L. E. Arndt, John H. Allen and E. E. Bell, late of the Sanger Show, joined in Alabama recently. Miss Bird Martine, rolling globe and lady contortionist, also joined recently. Little Nemo, the vaudeville elephant, continues to be one of the features with the show.

    King Bros. Wild West closed the season at Jacksonville, Fla., December 8. The entire season was spent in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The show's paraphernalia is stored at the Ostrich Farm, Jacksonville, where Jack W. King, with a company of 12 people and 15 horses is furnishing the daily attraction.

    Leon W. Washburn, the one-time circus showman, took his first plunge into the street carnival game last summer with Colonel Francis Ferari. Business was big last season and Mr. Washburn is taking interest in this, for him, a new departure. Uncle Leona is a busy man, he has two Uncle Tom's Cabin companies on the road this winter and is also personally managing the Washburn Theatre, in Chester, Pa.

    The Sig Sautelle Shows, for years a wagon outfit, will take to the rails next season and use from 15 to 18 railroad cars. The new show is being assembled at Homer, N. Y. Bert Rutherfor has been appointed general agent, and has established an office in Philadelphia.

    W. P. Hall, of Lancaster, Mo., has taken over the outfit used by the Cole Bros. Shows last season, under the management of W. H. Coulter and Al G. Campbell, who have dissolved partnership. Art Eldredge, superintendent of the show, has just finished breaking a troupe of elephants owned by Mr. Hale [sic Hall?], and will open with them at the Great Northern Hippodrome, Chicago, January 6. Mr. Eldredge is also booking eight performing ponies and a troupe of menage horses to be handled by Mrs. Eldredge.

    Major C. F. Rhodes, business manager of the Young Buffalo Wild West, season of 1910, and California Frank Show, 1911, is running a department store in Douglass, Ga., and is at present figuring on putting out a Wild West for the coming season.

    C. W. Finney, local contractor for the Gentry Brothers last season, has been appointed general agent of the No. 2 show, which they will put out next spring. B. F. Austin, general agent of the No. 1 Gentry Show, is in Chicago looking after the interests of a trained animal act which he owns.

    The S. B. Anderson Dog and Pony Show closed its first season in the show business November 6 with much success. Mr. Anderson is at his home in Marble Corner, Ind., training new stock, and his wife is practicing some fancy and trick rifle shooting [missing text]. Next seasonit will be known as S. B. Anderson's Wild West, Dog and Pony Show. S. E. Derington, known as Red, who has been with Mr. Anderson the past season, is helping him train new stock. Mr. Derington has taken a wife, who will also accompany the show next season, a cousin of Mr. Anderson's wife. The two ladies will produce some clever turns on their high school horses, and will also produce a musical act. Clarence Adams Anderson, clown, will be with the show again next season. Mr. Anderson has a general store at Marble Corner, Ind., which he looks after during the winter.

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Billboard, January 4, 1913, p. 22, 39. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Omaha, Neb., Dec. 23. Ed Eddy, known in the show world as a clown, comedian and bareback rider, who was with Irwin Bros. Cheyenne Wild West last summer, met with a serious accident here a few days ago while training the noted man-killing stallion for some special acts. Mr. Eddy is claimed to be one of the best broncho busters in the business. It is reported that there is but little hope for his recovery. He has been in the show business 30 years.

    New York, Dec. 28. Ralph C. Carlisle, whose tabloid Wild West show is one of the features of the Under Many Flags, the spectacle at the New York Hippodrome, is framing a small Wild West show for the coming season and will arrange to show over a circuit of the larger amusement parks or will play independently throughout the New England States and Canada. Carlisle is well known in the circus world and was formerly with the Barnum and Bailey and other well-known tented organizations.

    Dayton, O., Dec. 25. Elmer Satterley, circus acrobat and his wife and two year old daughter were found destitute here yesterday. Satterley was ill and without medical attention while his wife and child faces the prospect of a cheerless Christmas. Mr. Mittendorf, Humane Officer, sent Satterley to the Miami Valley Hospital for treatment, and supplied the wife and child with enough funds to go to Richmond, Ind., to enjoy Christmas with relatives.

    Chicago, Ill., Dec. 23. Dr. J. E. Fitzgerald, who has been with Gollmar Bros. Shows for fourteen seasons, died at the Mercy Hospital here yesterday, aged 49 years. The remains were shipped to Astoria, Ill., today for burial. His wife survives him.

    Millard E. Cousins, who has been engaged as a driver of one of the wagons of the Vernon Seaver Wild West Show for the past three years, died at the Proctor Hospital here Sunday. Before driving for the Vernon Seaver show, Mr. Cousins traveled with Buffalo Bill and the Barnum & Bailey Shows. He was 62 years of age. Two months ago Mr. Cousins was attacked with asthma, and complications arising necessitated his being sent to the Proctor Hospital. He came from a wealthy family in Portland, Maine, where his body was sent for burial.

    Ben C. Heber, one of the proprietors and managers of Heber Bros. Greater Show, Wild West and Menagerie, will be united in matrimony to Miss Zella Harrison the early part of April 1913.

    Sig. Sautelle R. R. Shows. Preparations are now under way at the winter quarters of Sig. Sautelle's Shows at Homer, N. Y. The owners, Sig. Sautelle, Oscar Lowande and George W. Rollins, have decided (owing to the show having become too large to be transported in the old-fashioned way) to transform it all into a model, 15 car show. Nearly all the wagon show property will be left behind, or sold, making a new outfit. The tents are now in the hands of the makers, and will include a big top, 130 feet, with three middle pieces, each 50 feet. The menagerie will be 70 feet, with four 30s. The side show will be 60 feet, with two 30s. The menagerie will be enlarged to 20 cages. There will be three bands in parade, a mammoth chime organ and a calliope, over 200 head of horses with massive tableau and mounted people, and a realistic Wild West ranch, with a cowboy band, stage coach, prairie schooner, cowboys, cowgirls, Mexicans and Cossacks.
    Sig. Sautelle will be at the helm and direct the business affairs in the capacity of director general, Oscar Lowande will direct the arenic exhibition; George W. Rollins the side show and privileges; Bert Rutherford, general business representative and contractor; Dan Travers the working departments, and Gerald Irwin will have charge of the trained wild animal department. One of the recent favored features is Nebraska Bill and Prairie Lillie, who will be at the head of the Wild West department. There will be twenty men in advance of the show, one car and a box brigade. The biggest part of the cars and wagons will be new. The hippodrome will include elephant and camel races, races of all nations, chariot, Roman standing, jockey, pony and monkey, man against horse, and Wild West contests.

    Notes from the Jones Bros. Shows. J. Augustus Jones and C. L. Erickson were Billboard callers December 23. Mr. Jones has been in poor health for several months and has made his headquarters at Hot Springs, Ark. After visiting his home in Warren, Pa., he will return to Hot Springs. The Jones Bros. World-Toured Shows, under the management of E. H. Jones, went into winter quarters at Hattiesburg, Miss., and will undergo some important changes before their opening in the spring. E. H. Jones was also in Cincinnati for a few days with his brother, J. Augustus, and will join him in Warren, Pa., their home. C. L. Erickson has been identified with one of the Jones Shows touring the South.

    Hagenbeck-Wallace happenings. Ray Ireland, late of the Indiana Brewers' Association, has been engaged as private secretary to general manager C. E. Cory, and will be in Peru until the circus season starts out in April. Whitey Oldknow, boss canvasman, is running a temperance hotel in Peru. Slim Rogers, side show boss canvasman, is located in Oakdale, a suburb of Peru. Bob Abrams, boss hostler, is at winter quarters. John Worden has charge of the elephants. Pop Ferris, after an absence of eight years, has returned and has charge of the cat animals. Frank Riley, of the lunch stand, is running a restaurant in connection with a saloon. Charles (Pop) Sweeney, last season with Yankee Robinson Show, has twelve machines running full time getting new wardrobe ready for the coming season. Jimmie Davis, of the commissary department, is also at winter quarters.

    Roster of the Robinson side show of the Yankee Robinson Circus & Texas Bill's Wild West Annex for season of 1913: Cal Towers, manager; Buck Smith, orator and treasurer; A. B. Murray, ticket seller; James S. Darto and wife, talking figures, magic, bag punching and mind reading; Petro Donatella, knife thrower; Joe Donatella, musical act; Miss Ella, midget; B. Harkin, tattooed marvel; Mrs. Harkin, snake charmer; Prof. Birdgewarter's Colored Band and Concert Company; Jimmie Offo's Turkish Band the the Oriental department made up of four peope. Jack Pfeiffenburger will be boss canvasman.

    Jones Bros. World Tour Shows closed a season of 53 weeks at Bassfield, Miss., December 19, having opened at Alvarado, Tex., February 19. The show traveled 11,539 miles, making the following states: Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico and back through Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi.

    Woody's shows are in winter quarters at Afton, Okla. The show will once mre be a wagon show next season. The roster of the show in winter quarters at present: R. Woody, manager; Mr. ___, assistant manager; Chester Frasber, boss canvasman and J. Duning, boss hostler.

    Lonie LaClede, equestrian director of the Jones Bros. Shows, closed a season of 43 weeks with that show recently, and has been engaged for the season of 1913, to serve in the same capacity, his fifth year with this show. Mr. LaClede will spend the winter in New Orleans and on his orange grove at Hollister, Fla.

    Lizzie Roberts, a Virginia society belle, who has been doing a high school riding act with the Jones Brothers Shows for several seasons, will spend the winter at her home in Island Ford, Va. Show will open with the show again next season at Hattiesburg, Miss., March 1.

    The Barbours, society athletes, have been engaged by the Downie & Wheeler Shows for the season of 1913. In addition to their posturing act, they will present an exhibition of scientific wrestling as a feature of the concert.

    Charles Seigrist, showman, late of the Barnum Show and now a resident of Canton, Ohio, was at the Wellington Hotel, Chicago, last week in the interests of the Hoberdier-Seigrist Winter Circus, which will open at Canton, Ohio the week of January 13.

    W. A. Hoberdier, manager of the City Auditorium, Canton, O., announces an indoor circus for January 13-18. Plans are now being made to convert the large hall into a circus arena with three rings.

    Messrs. Arlington and Beckman have engaged Walter L. Shannon to manage the annex with the new Wild West they are organizing for next season. For a number of seasons Mr. Shannon handled the privileges with the Norris and Rowe Shows.

    Mollie A. Bailey closed the most prosperous seasaon December 3, at Wills Point, Texas, and made the longest railroad jump experienced by her show to the winter quarters at 1215 Oak Street, Houston, Texas.

    George Sun, of the Sun Bros. Shows, writes that the show closes the season at White Springs, Fla., Januar 11, and goes into winter quarters at Central City Park, Macon, Ga.

    Frank A. Brown (Harmony Hank) and wife, the lady with the band, rural fun-makers, are engaged with the Downie & Wheeler Shows for next season, their second season with this show.

    Harry Ridgley will again be back with the Gollmar Bros. Show next season on tickets, his fourth season with that show. He is at his home in Olney, Ill.

    Al. F. Wheeler Jr. will look after the press back with the show, and will also have charge of the reserve seat tickets with the Downie and Wheeler Shows the coming season.

    John T. Backman's act, known at Marguerite and Her Lions, has been engaged by Gollmar Bros. for the season of 1913, his third season with that show.

    Walter Allen will again handle the elephant acts and high school horses with the Downie and Wheeler Shows, his third season with this show.

    Cal Towers and wife will leave in a few days to visit their son in Kansas, who is an engineer on the Rock Island Syster.

    Schilder Brothers have had a successful season with their dog and pony show. The show will winter at Sherman, Texas.

    Frank A. Robbins Jr. will be with Sig. Sautelle's Show next season.

    Charles Mugivan, of Sanger's Combined Shows, spent Christmas with his relatives at Terre Haute, Ind.

Billboard, January 11, 1913, pp. 22, 23, 43. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Rentz Bros. German Circus, which made its first tour last season by wagon, were successful, all things considered. This year they have decided to go by rail. Will use nine cars and the outfit will all be new. The aggregation will open in or near Pittsburg, April 19. On account of so much dissatisfaction with almost every show in the cook tent, the camp will be eliminated with Rentz Bros., except a small camp only for the working men and the bosses. The performers and musicians will board themselves. About a dozen trained animal acts have been purchased and are in shape for the new show. An entire car will be carried for a restaurant where meals will be served the show people at cost. The show will be under new management and ownership. The owners are young Germans from the Smoky City.

    101 Ranch Wild West. Virgil Barnett and wife are breaking a new act for next season at their winter quarters on the ranch at Bliss, Okla. Z. T. Miller will return to Louisiana shortly, where he has a large ranch, in charge of Dan Dix. William Pickert, steer thrower, is on the ranch, breaking wild horses and wild steers.

    Manager Charles Sparks, of the John H. Sparks Shows, placed an order with a builder of circus wagons for three new tableau wagons. One of the old tableau and parade wagons is being newly decorated and painted. There are twenty men at the winter quarters at Salisbury, N. C., getting things ready for the coming season. James Jacobs is in charge and Fletcher Smith, assisted by Jack Lorain and a force of six men are looking after the decorations. The show is stored in four large buildings on the Rowan County fair grounds. It will open early in the spring, and again cover the Atlantic coast states and New England. Jack Phillips has been engaged as musical director for the coming season. He will have a band of fourteen men. Jack Lorain, late of the 101 Ranch, will have charge of the lights.

    J. H. Eschman Circus. Christmans week will be remembered, the entire week having been spent at Apalachicola, Fla., where six performances were given under the auspices of the Battery Park Association. On New Year's night, in the big circus tent, Harry Nugent, who had handled the annex on the Southern tour, and Miss Ethel Thompson, of Brooklyn, N. Y., were united in matrimony.

    Rentz Bros. Circus will open the 1913 season in April. Whether it will remain on wagons or go by rail will be decided shortly by the management. The winter quarters are at 220 Taggart st., Pittsburg, Pa.

    Jim Morrow, who has been with the Al. G. Barnes Wild Animal Circus for the past five seasons, has been re-engaged for the season of 1913.

    W. J. Irwin and family after a season with Sanger's Circus, arrived at their home in Steelville, Mo., December 24.

    A. H. Barkley, traffic manager for Campbell Bros. Shows for the past several seasons, is at his home, 3205 Morrell ave., Kansas City, Mo.

    J. C. Wodetsky, circus and theatrical agent, and Miss Sue Goodwin, soubret, were married at St. Louis, December 28.

Billboard, January 18, 1913, pp. 17, 22, 23, 42. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    George Jennier, of the Jennier Society Circus, was married to Miss Sophie Miller, animal trainer with J. J. Jones Show, at Tampa, Fla., December 19. The young couple are en route with the Jones Show.

    Oxford, Pa., Jan. 11. A new bidder for public patronage in the Wild West field, to be known as Tompkins' Real Wild West and Frontier Exhibition, is being organized at New Hope, Pa., by Al. F. Wheeler and Charles H. Tompkins, owner and manager of Tompkins' Western Attractions, which will form the nucleus of the new aggregation to which will be added the entire physical equipment of the Al. F. Wheeler New Model Shows. Over one hundred head of horses, mules, bronchos and ponies will be used in the exhibition and to transport the outfit over the road. Six carloads of paraphernalia wer shipped from the Wheeler winter quarters at Oxford, Pa., to New Hope, Pa., last week, where the new show is being assembled, and where the work of fitting up will be done under the direction of Mr. Tompkins.

    Newark, N. J., Jan. 10. Prairie Lillie & Nebraska Bill's Wild West has just completed arrangements to go out again the coming season, under the name of Wyoming Bill's Wild West, with all new canvas. The show will have ten cars, the same as last year, but will play circus acts. Last season the show remained out 24 weeks. The coming season it expects to start out in April and remain out for a long season, going South in the winter. The show will be enlarged with pit shows and other concessions. Arrangements have been made to put on a large side show.

    St. Thomas, Ont., Can., Jan. 8. Wm. H. Sells, a well-known resident of St. Thomas, died January 7,after a brief illness following a stroke of paralysis. The Sells Brothers, of the circus of that name, were uncles of the deceased.

    Quincy, Ill., Jan. 10. Ella Ewing, "the Missouri giantess," said to have been the tallest woman in the world, died at her home near Gorin, Mo., not far from this city, today, at the age of 40 years. Miss Ewing was 8 feet, 3 inches in height and form any years traveled with circuses.

    Christie & Leonard's Overland Shows Combined, after closing a season of 82 weeks at Nashville, N. C., November 16, went into winter quarters near Henderson, N. C. Instead of four wagons the coming season, the show will have seven, together with a 50 foot round top with two 30 foot middle pieces and a 40 foot top with a 30 foot middle piece for the side show. Twelve head of draft horses will also be carried. The following people have already signed: G. W. Christie, manager; Mrs. G. W. Christie, treasurer; Jack Walters, band leader; Edward Davidson, boss canvasman; Will Wright, boss hostler; Charles L. Densmore, in charge of privileges; Charley Dickson, boss property man; Jack Adams, balloon ascension; the Manginleys, aerial gymnasts; the Grants, acrobatic contortion act; Florence Christie, high wire act; Joe Mayfield, musical clown, and Leonard Christie, singing clown. The season will open about the first of April.

    Roster of Moyer Bros. Shows, now touring Louisiana and Texas in two 70 foot cars: George Moyer, general manager; Vic Stout, general advance manager; Bob Peasley, equestrian director; Dick Masters, musical director; Frank McGuire, adjuster. Perfomers: Albert Powell Troupe, Peasley Sisters, Debolian Troupe, the Peasleys (Bob and Neta), James McCommon, Pete Jenkins, Ameilia, Aba Troupe of Japs, Gail Boyd, Alvo Brothers and Mardello. Concert: Peasleys, Gail Boyd, Amelia, Mardello, Pobisco and Sampson. Dutch Myers, for many years with the Mighty Haag Shows, has charge of the canvas. He will again be with the Haag Shows the coming season.

    Kelly Bros. Winter Circus opened its season at Petersburg, Ill., December 25. From all indications the show will likely run until spring, with a change of program weekly. The roster: Pat and Dan Kelly, owners and managers; Amelia and Johnnie Corriea, carrying act; Cecil Lowande, principal; Mrs. Julian Hurdle; Five Kelleys, wire act; Aerial Lafayettes; George Brown's acrobatic dogs; Alex Lowande, bounding rope; Mrs. Dan Kelley and Mrs. Alex Lowande, rolling globes; and Kelly, Brown, Myers and Phillips, clowns. Henry Kern's ten piece band furnishes the music.

    Fred Beckman, who together with Ed Arlington, will put out a Wild West show next season, is putting out an outfit which will be a 101 Show on a small scale. The show is being built new from ground up and eleven tabloid wagons are being constructed, and it is stated that the show will not exceed fifteen cars. Harold Bushea will be general agent and George Robinson general contractor. It is stated on good authority that the new show will not be known as the California Frank Wild West Show, but no mention has been made as to what name the show will go under.

    Robson Bros. Shows will be enlarged the coming season by adding several more wagons and fifteen head of stock, together with a side show and menagerie. A new spread of canvas has been ordered. The main tent will be 80 feet, with two 40 foot middle pieces. A twelve piece band has been engaged to furnish the music. The show has just purchased a new band wagon, and will put out a parade. Everyone is busy around the winter quarters, Reading, Pa.

    Prof. Al. J. Massey, who has for years been associated with the Ringling band, being an assistant director to Prof. Sweet, will be the musical director with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows the coming season. Prof. Park Prentiss, who had the Hagenbeck-Wallace band last season, will go back to the Sells-Floto Show.

    Sky Clark, formerly connected with circuses, has a museum on Main street, one of the principal streets of Los Angeles. Associated with Mr. Clark is Herbert Snow, who at one time conducted a dog and pony circus on the Pacific Coast.

    The Fred Elzor Show closed for one week at White Springs, Fla., December 26, to undergo repairs, etc. The show has been out 36 weeks and only lost five days, having opened at Garland, Pa., April 30. John Kerman, ticket seller, joined recently. The band is under the direction of Fred Spencer.

    The Mighty Jones Shows changed their winter quarters from Spring Hope, N. C., to Bailey, N. C. on account of the high taxes demanded. A few of the animals will be wintered at Spring Hope. The magic and illusions which are now at Huntingdon, Pa., will be transferred to Bailey. The tents and fittings for same will remain in Chicago.

    Mlle. Clifford, sword swallower, wintering at Canton, Ohio, will again be with Gollmar Bros. Circus the coming season.

    McCree-Davenport Troupe of riders opened with W. A. Hoberdier's Indoor Circus at the Auditorium, Canton, O., January 13. They will be with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show the coming season.

    Theo. (Punch) Graupner has closed a forty weeks' engagement with Sun Bros. side show. Mr. Graupner has signed contracts with Gentry Bros. Show for the season of 1913.

    Harry Bayfield, who had a successful season with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show last season, is engaged to go with the Sells-Floto Show the coming season.

    Harry Curtis will be in charge of the first advance car of the Downie & Wheeler Shows, and also do the press contracting. This winter Mr. Curtis is the night clerk at the ___ Hotel, Peru, Ind.

    The Howe's London Shows will go out early this spring with 16 cars. This number includes an advance car. The Sanger Show will consist of eight cars and an advance car ahead. Jerry Mugivan, part owner of the Howe's Great London Shows and the Sanger Show, has returned to Montgomery, Ala.

    It is doubtful whether physicians will allow Harold Bushea, who was recently removed from the Hollenbeck Hotel, Los Angeles, Cal., to his home in Cleveland, Ohio, to go on the road for some time to come.

    Pop Coy, formerly with Gentry Bros. Show, is building two large animal cages for the Downie & Wheeler Show. A shipment of wild animals will arrive at Oxford, Pa., the winter quarters, March 1.

    Jack Stevens and wife have charge of the concessions on the Broncho Joe Wild West and Society Circus. They will also have charge of the cook house shortly. This makes their third season with this show.

    Steve Cross, wintering at Canton, Ohio, will again clown with Gollmar Bros. Show, season 1913, together with B. T. Miller (Snookums), who is also at Canton.

    G. C. Moyer will again be general agent of the Might Haag Shows.

    Mrs. Frank J. Murphy, known as Mlle. Amy, will handle the snakes again with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show the coming season.

    The Original Zanton Brothers will be with Gollmar Bros. Circus.

    Fred Egener, producer of clown stunts and a tenor singer, has been re-engaged with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows.

    Minert DeOrlo, the clown policeman, is at Millville, N. J. He will be with Frank A. Robbins Show again the coming season.

    George W. Chandler has signed with the Old Dominion Shows for the coming season.

Billboard, January 25, 1913, pp. 22, 23, 43. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    New York, Jan. 16. C. I. Norris, formerly with Norris & Rowe's Circus, and who now has an act in vaudeville, known as Norris' Baboons (Emperor and Empress), left here recently to accept a position as general agent and traffic manager of the Al. G. Barnes Shows, offered him by Al. G. Barnes, by wire, from Venice, Cal. The act will still continue in vaudeville.

    Chicago, Jan. 16. Vernon C. Seaver announced today that he had secured Frank C. Cooper as general agent for the Young Buffalo Wild West and Col. Cummins' Far East, next season. Last season Mr. Cooper was on the staff of the Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill Show, and in 1911 he was general advertising manager for the Seaver Show, and for years has been connected with some of the leading circuses. Mr. Cooper had been re-engaged by Louis E. Cooke, general agent of the Two Bills Shows, but was released upon the request of Mr. Cooper.

    Chicago, Jan. 16. Solly Wise, of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, celebrated his thirty-ninth birthday on January 13.

    E. F. Lampman, who has been on the publicity end of amusement ventures, will next season be in the press department of the Two Bills Show. For the past two seasons Mr. Lampman has been connected with the Young Buffalo Wild West.

    J. H. Eschman Shows. At Hosford, Fla., January 2, a severe blow down was experiences. The night performance in the big show was about half over when a terrific wind storm came up and blew the side show big top and candy stand flat to the ground. No one was seriously injured, but the show lost River Junction, its next stand.

    Downie & Wheeler Shows. Clint A. Graham has again been engaged as trainmaster, his second season. Harry Curtis has been engaged as manager of car No. 1, which will carry a crew of 16 men. The Hollis Family have been engaged for the coming season. George Carren will have charge of the box brigade. . . .

    Orton Bros. Circus. The year 1912 was one of the most prosperous the show has ever enjoyed. During the season the Orton Show toured Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakots and Nebraska, going almost as far North as the Canadian boundary. The show opened early and enjoyed a long season, closing the latter part of October in Northern Nebraska. All the paraphernalia was stored at Bristow, Neb., where the show ill open the coming season, and the stock was returned to the circus farm at Ortonville. A unique feature of the show is that the entire performance is put on by the Orton children, Lawrence, Miles, Bayard, Grace, Nellie and Baby Orton. One hundred and forty acres, just across the road from the winter quarters, were recently purchased by Mr. Orton, and will be placed in charge of one of his sons during the coming season.

    E. G. Smith's Shows. The repair and paint department of E. G. Smith Colossal Shows are in full swing. Everything will be in readiness by April 26, when the show is slated to open at Atwater, Ohio. Elmer C. Myers will be in advance with two assistants, his second season with the show. George H. Irving will again manager the side show. Millie LaBelle will inaugurate her second season with the annex. Other members who have signed are J. J. Ray Dee, J. B. Gagnier, D. M. Spayd, H. A. Ramsey, H. DeCleo, Jack Henderson and Edward Thires.

    Sam Stricklan, owner of Stricklan's Animals, will put out a dog and pony show next summer.

    W. C. (Doc) St. Clair will again be one of the agents for the Barnum and Bailey Shows.

    J. H. B. Fitzpatrick will again be general press agent for the Young Buffalo Wild West.

    Stanley F. Dawson will again be on the executive staff of the Arlington and Beckman Big Show.

    The case of Frank Connors, acrobat, who was identified with the Barnum and Bailey Circus and later went into vaudeville, and who, it is alleged, was murdered on train 4, Erie Railroad, March 10, 1911, is being investigated by his family. It is stated that the body was found on a lonely section of the Erie railroad, near Bear Lake, Pa., and was buried without an inquest, by the railroad company, in Potter's field, at Corry, Pa. Joseph Connors, with his mother, about five days ago or so after finding out about his death, went to Corry and had the body exhumed and demanded an inquest. There was a deep gash in the back of his right hand, as though done with a razor, and in the palm of his left hand was a similar gash. It is believed that in the struggle to throw him from the train, his assailant used a razor. Connors has collected a mass of evidence which he says he expects to use in a suit against the Erie Railroad.

    Charles L. Smith will be with the Sig Sautelle New Railroad Shows to play in the band and double calliope.

    Sixteen greys and eight blacks for the baggage were received at winter quarters of the Tompkins Wild West and Cooper and Whitby Shows at New Hope, Pa., the past week. The horses were purchased on the Philadelphia markets by Al. F. Wheeler and Charles H. Thompkins. Fifty draft horses will be needed to pull the show. Mabel Hackney and her dancing horse, Vardius, will be one of the principal features. Miss Hackney is at present in El Reno, Okla., visiting her mother. Jim Pidcock has charge of the winter quarters with ten men in the shops. All the wagons which were used by the Al. F. Wheeler Shows will be painted white and gold.

    W. A. Hoberdier opened his Indoor Circus at the Auditorium, Canton, Ohio, January 13, to big business. Among some of the acts were: LaBelle Victoria, high wire, formerly with the Barnum & Bailey Shows; Nelson Family, consisting of four generations; Walter Guice and Troupe, in a triple bar act; Hill Brothers, acrobats; and the McCree-Davenport Troupe, consisting of two ladies, two gents, three horses and a dog.

    Woody Van, veteran band leader, has been engaged to furnish a concert band for Arlington & Beckmann's Wild West Show. This will make Woody's 32nd season in the show business. Mr. Van writes that he has invested in three dwelling properties in Allentown, Pa., and will make that his permanent home.

    Johanna Kefes Kuesel, who had a trained cockatoo show with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, is seeking a divorce from her husband, George Kuesel, to whom she was married at Chicago, August 20, 1904. She also want to be restored to her maiden name.

    Among visitors at the Downie & Wheeler winter quarters at Oxford, Pa., were Colonel M. H. Welsh, George M. Forepaugh and Leon Washburn. Mr Washburn purchased several cars and other paraphernalia for use with the Washburn-Ferari Carnival Company.

    Len Goheen is at his home in Shelbyville, Ill. He has just closed contracts for the Downie & Wheeler Shows for the advertising privileges the coming season.

    Twenty-two teams belonging to the Young Buffalo Wild West Shows are working on the new Chicago and North Western Railroad grade at Peoria, Ill., an all winter's job. This gives employment to all of the show's drivers.

    Mrs. Carrie Porterfield will do her flying rings with the LaMont Bros. Show season 1913, her eighth season with this shwo, while Elmer Porterfield will manage the side show, his eighth season also.

    The Orton Troupe and Johnny Wicks have been engaged by the Downie & Wheeler Shows for the coming season. Miss Iva Orton will again be with the Orton Troupe.

    George Wombold has been re-engaged as boss canvasman with the Young Buffalo Wild West for next season, his third season with this show.

    W. H. Kennedy, of Kennedy's Wild West and Frontier Days, and wife, are at their ranch at Fort Sumner, N. M.

    Edward Hirner has again signed with John H. Sparks Show to take charge of the commissary department, his second season.

    H. H. (Billy) Selvage signed contracts with the Downie & Wheeler Shows to do special work in advance of the show the coming season. Jack Sully has signed with Downie & Wheeler to do concert turn and general clown.

    Thomas (Doc) Coates has been re-engaged as manager of the Mighty Haag side shows for the coming season, his third season.

    A. L. Salvail will handle the annex next season with the Frank A. Robbins Show.

Billboard, February 8, 1913, pp. 22, 23, 42, 50. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Geneva, O., Jan. 29. Walter L. Main's auction sale came off yesterday with a large crowd in attendance. The sale started at 9:30 a.m. in the Tuttle House bowling alley building. The harness, saddles, girdles and about 50 collars were disposed of. Mr. Main reports everything sold except a few cars and wagons, and some wardrobe upon which there were no bids. Among the purchasers were: Charles Sparks, of the John Sparks Shows; Downie and Wheeler, of Oxford, Pa., and A. E. Jones, of Jones Bros. Shows.

    Stanley Dawson has signed with the Two Bills for the coming season.

    Sun Bros. Shows quarters. George Sun, manager of the show for the past 21 years, will take a rest touring the country. He will make an extensive tour of the leading places of interest in America. Pete Sun is in full charge of the show. Ray G. Piper has been re-engaged as contracting agent, J. L. Springer, advance car manager, and Jas. M. Beach, special agent. The new bandmaster is W. C. Dean. Some of the important bookings comprise the Wallett Family, equestrians and general specialists; Three Famous Kobers, Tan Araki Troupe, Garcinetti Bros., Edwin ___ and wife, Cheerful Gardner and his troupe of elephants, and Otto Weaver, fashion plate equilibrist.

    Sig. Sautelle Shows. Seven car loads of new wagons arrived at winter quarters, Homer, N. Y., February 1. There will be twenty cages of wild animals in the menagerie, which will have a top, sixty feet, with four thirty foot middle pieces. The advance cars have arrived. An innovation will be installed by which the car will carry an independent lighting apparatus. The animals on the outside of the cars are being painted by Mrs. Rollins, the wife of one of the owners, who is a graduate from an art school of San Francisco. Jack Shumate has been engaged as superintendent of stock, and Charles Connors, trainmaster. Charles L. Smith will handle the calliope, which is new. Jack Rhettenbock will be superintendent of animals, succeeding Jerold Irwin. Henry Pullman will officiate as twenty-four hour man. Thomas Hargreaves will re-enter the canvas world with this organization in the realm of the advance forces. Oscar Lowande will be the star around which the lesser lights will rotate in the big show. He will introduce as a feature of his performance this year a series of somersaults from the backs of four horses, one after the other, all running at tandem one behind the other. Dan Travers will handle the tops with a corps of forty men, his third year with this show. Capt. Frank Cramer will feature the fight for life with three big lions in the concert. Nebraska Bill and Prairie Lillie will have charge of the Wild West department. There will be twenty-four cowboys and girls, and ten blanket Indians in their division. John Haggerty and Earnest Ladeaux, mule riders and acrobats, are at Homer practicing daily. Edward Dime has returned from Cuba, and will have the lights again this year, his third season.

    George Aiken has been engaged as railroad contractor for the Buffalo Bill-Pawnee Bill Shows.

    Mr. Nelson and daughter, Lola, of Nelson's Wild West Show, in winter quarters at Chapman, Kans. Mr. Nelson plans to be out on the road by the middle of April. Mr. Nelson is buying all new canvas for the show. He will have a big touring car for the advance, 83 head of horses, and will carry his own electric light plant. The cages for the small animals and freaks are being rebuilt, and new ones added for the side show, which he carries as an annex to the Wild West Show.

    E. J. Kelly, who formerly handled the side show with the Forepaugh-Sells Show, will fill the same position with the Downie & Wheeler Shows the coming season. Fred Kenno will again be principal producing clown, his second season. Ed M. Jackson, will again be on the business end. Charles (Pop) Evans will again be superintendent of stock.

    Major C. F. Rhodes will open the Oklahoma Bill's Wild West Show in Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia. While on his way home from the West he stopped off at Kansas City, Mo., and gave Baker and Lockwood an order for complete Wild West canopy, seats, etc. He also bought a carload of arena stock from Wm. P. Hall, of Lancaster, Mo., who is known as the "Horse King."

    The J. E. Henry Wagon Show closed January 23, after being out forty-eight weeks and traveling about 5,000 miles, covering Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Texas. The show is in winter quarters at Powell's Mule Barns, San Antonio, Texas. When the show opens March 1 at San Antonio, it will carry 35 wagons, 120 head of draft stock, 12 head of Shetland ponies, 9 cages of animals, Old Gup (elephant), two camels and a number of trained lions. The show will run one main circus and dog and pony show and four side shows, and will play one and two day stands in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.

    The George W. Hall Jr. Show will not go out this season until about August 1, and will play fair dates. Mr. Hall's animal acts, including Largo, the performing elephants, will be with the Wintermute Bros. Show the coming season.

    Carl H. Clark, of Fowler and Clark's Dog and Pony Shows, has added eleven more ponies to his school of equine entertainers, making a total of 52 horses and ponies. The show will open in Belleville, Id., about April 15.

    Heber Bros. Greater Circus, Menagerie and Wild West will have new and larger tops for the season of 1913. Wild animals are arriving for the menagerie, and the trainers are busy in the barns under the supervision of Rollo Heber, breaking in new equestrian and animal acts. Heber Bros. Show Printing House, doing work exclusively for the show, is busy printing heralds, handbills, posters, date lines, etc. Many new wagons will be added. The show will open at Columbus, O., for one week the latter part of April or first of May.

    Staats Brothers expect to take to the road about May with a wagon show consisting of a ticket wagon, band wagon, pole wagon, one advance, one canvas, two-seat wagon, one menagerie, one cook house, one sleeping car, twelve horses, twelve ponies, one buffalo, goats, etc., and twelve piece band. The drawing attraction in parade will be the miniature cage, two and one-half feet high and weighing 150 pounds. It will be drawn by four small ponies, with a large size ape as the driver. The Messrs. Staats Brothers will have no side show, but will have an outside attraction, Jack Clark, high diver.

    Billie Boughton writes that his show has gone into Georgia, business very good. Loy (Mack) Berry, after an absence of a year, has joined again, to take charge of the canvas. Tommie Wyatt (Curley) closed at Buchanan. A storm at Yorkville caused the whole bunch jump out with palms and needles and repair the damage. At Buchana a drunk fell against the seat jacks and caused several sections to fall. The seats were well filled, but no one was injured.

    Mrs. Chic Bell, professionally known as Miss Olga Reed, was recently granted a decree of divorce at Peru, Ind., on the ground of desertion. The court, however, stipulated in its decree that Miss Reed would not be allowed to marry again for a period of two years. The fair plaintiff is one of hte Riding Conners Troupe and will be seen again with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows. Chic Bell has an extensive acquaintance among show people, having been identified creditably with the privilege departments of the larger shows for years.

    Chas. E. Griffin, who suffered a second attack of paralysis at his home in Albia, Ia., December 20, is now able with the aid of crutches, to move about the house. Mr. Griffin was manager of the side show with Buffalo Bill's Wild West the four seasons in Europe, and season of 1907 in this country. He was to have come out season of 1909 with Ringling Bros. Show, but had his first stroke of paralysis during the show's engagement at Madison Square Garden, New York City.

    Ed C. Walton and E. M. Payne, who have been off the road for a little over a year, will launch a wagon show the coming season. They are now framing up the show at their home in Tracy, Kans., and expect to open about May 15. They will carry four wagons and ten head of stock. The show will be put on by the two families. They will play Northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska until the latter part of September, and then will go into Oklahoma for a long season.

    Robert Woody, manager of Woody's Combined Shows, has purchased a strip of land at Chambers, Kan., and is at present doing some repair work there. The show will still be wintered in the old quarters at Afton, Okla., but all business will be transacted at Mulbery, Kan., the post-office station for Chambers. Owing to the inclement weather, all work on the show has been stopped. Thirty acres of land have been added to the Afton quarters.

    Winter quarters of the H. W. Freed Dog & Pony Show at Niles, Mich. The following people are engaged for the coming season: Alderfer Family, aerialists; P. D. Miller, advance agent; Whimsical Whitmark, clown; Nick Carter, Will Sherwood, John Wilkinson, Wilbur Wilkinson, Sam Freet [Freed?], Abner Green, Johnnie Evers and John Reagan.

    In a recent issue of The Billboard is was stated that W. C. St. Clair would be manager of number two car with the 101 Ranch Wild West. Mr. St. Clair states that this was an error and that he will be with the Barnum & Bailey Show.

    D. R. Lynch will be with the Two Bills Shows again next season.

    Fred Morgan will do local contracting for Miller Bros. & Arlington's 101 Ranch Wild West.

    The Silver Family Show opens in May. The show will carry thirty-five people, thirty horses and a ten piece band and orchestra. The show will be some larger the coming season, the same route in Michigan will be followed.

    Paul Bottini, assistant manager of the Botini Bros. Show, has just returned to Rome, N. Y., the winter quarters, From Canada. Dominick Sanson, for the past several seasons connected with some of the big circuses, has been engaged by the Bottini Bros. to handle the lights. Mrs. Agatha Bottini, treasurer, has left to visit friends in New York.

    Buffalo Vernon, who was one of the original troupe of cowboys Art Boden took over last summer as a feature Wild West act for the Wirth Brothers Circus in Australia, is no longer connected with that show. Vernon joined Bud Atkinson's Circus in Sydney resently.

    C. J. Swezeny, formerly boss billposter and lithographer of Campbell Bros. Shows, and Miss Sadie Reed were married at Kansas City, Mo., September 9 last. It has been kept a secret ever since. The couple is playing vaudeville. Mr. Swezeny has signed up with the Yankee Robinson Show as bannerman and lithographer for the coming season.

    Work on Christie and Leonard Shows is progressing rapidly. It will be ready to depart form the winter quarters, Henderson, N. C., about March 15. Two new features this year will be Robert Laudore and the Magileys.

    Lew Nichols, old-time showman, who has had the side shows with some of the biggest aggregations, will this year have the side show with the Young Buffalo Wild West & Col. Cummins Far East. Mr. Nichols will be in the South with his carnival company until the opening of the Wild West in Peoria.

    Dakot Max writes from his wild animal farm in Los Angeles that he is spending the winter with his father, who has been manager of Big Otto's Wild Animal Show for the last nine years. In May, Dakota Max's Wild West Show and H. F. Sander's Wild Animal Show will open as a two-in-one attraction.

    Col. W. J. Uden built a new ring barn, 40x60 feet, this winter at his quarters in Flanagan, Ill., and is at present breaking new acts for the show the coming season. C. Sweet who was with the Kennedy Shows last season, will be with Mr. Uden this year.

    J. E. Pettit has been engaged by Al. F. Wheeler as special opposition agent for the Tompkins Wild West and Cooper-Whitby Circus Combined. Mr. Pettit was with the Al. F. Wheeler Shows for four seasons holding down the same kind of position, and will make general agent, Forepaugh, a valuable aid.

    W. H. (Pokie) Hinds has resigned from Harry Crigler's Band, with the Gentry Show, to accept the management of the cook house with the same aggregation. Mr. Hinds is one of the best-known bass players in the business and has been with the Gentry Show almost continuously for eighteen years.

    Si Stebbins and his wife will again this season be associated with the Young Buffalo aggregation. Mr. Stebbins will again have the advertising privileges with the show. Mr. Stebbins was known for years as Mr. Vino, the original Barnum & Bailey farmer.

    W. J. Daplyn, advertising agent, who was with Sanger's Combined Shows and Sun Bros. Show the past season, sailed for his home in England on the S. S. Mauretainia January 22. Mr. Daplyn will have the advertising privileges with the John H. Sparks Show the coming season.

    Dr. H. W. Turner, formerly veterinarian with the Barnum and Bailey Shows, and now State Inspector of Pennsylvania, is rendering assistance to Al. F. Wheeler in picking the baggage stock for the Tompkins Wild West and Cooper and Whitby's Circus.

    The roster of Rice Bros. Colossal Shows for the coming season: C. W. McCurren, general manager; A. H. Barkley, general agent; Mr. Burgower, treasurer; Jas. W. Battie, privilege director; Lee Howard, equestrian director; Jack Shumate, lot superintendent, and H. W. Wingert, musical director.

    Geo. J. Bass has signed up with Al. F. Wheeler as assistant manager of Tompkins Wild West and Cooper-Whitby's Circus Combined. Mr. Bass has previously filled the position with the Al. F. Wheeler New Model Shows.

    Dolly Texas, the Montana cowgirl, who has been with Tompkins Wild West Shows, will be with the Tompkins Wild West and Cooper-Whitby Shows the coming season.

    Lindemann Bros., proprietors of the Yankee American Shows, are completing a new practicing barn at Sheboygan, Wis., 60x60 feet and 30 feet high. Now practicing at the barn are Weber and Burkhardt, Peter and Louise Nelson, Billy and Milly Lindemann, Four Casting Webers and the Parker Troupe.

    The Bottini Bros. United Shows will go out for the first time early in the spring, and will play all the small towns in Central New York. The show will be a one car show, and will have one small ring. Jos. Bottii will act as general manager, while Paul Bottini will be superintendent.

    D. M. Spayd will be in harness again this coming season, having signed with the Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch Wild West as chef on the bill car. Mr. Spayd was on the E. P. Barlow bill car in 1911 and 1912. At present he is manager of the O. K. Restaurant at Benton Harbor, Mich.

    The Wirth Bros. Circus has just finished a seven weeks' season in Melbourne, where they played their own playhouse, the Hippodrome. Hillary Long continues to be a favorite with his head balancing act.

    Hugh McCullough, steward on the Kit Carson Wild West Show the last two seasons, will again have charge of the cook house with a new outfit and much larger. The show will have two wagons and water wagon for the Hotel Kit alone.

    A big barn has been completed at the winter quarters of Monroe's Mighty Shows, Mt. Vernon, Ark. The show will again be on wagons the coming season, with several new animal acts and Wild West features, opening at Mt. Vernon about March 22.

    F. G. Nazor, of Nazor's Overland Show, wintering at Ontario, O., has contracted with the Smith Family of musicians and versatile performers for the coming season. The show will be enlarged in the way of wagons and carriages, and will play all week stands.

    Fred Griffin, who has been Sanger's European Shows the past season, has been re-engaged for the coming season. He is at present employed by the M. and St. L. and Wabash Railroad at Albia, Ia., as telegraph operator and ticket clerk.

    Sergia Georgian's troupe of Cossacks have signed for the third season with the Young Buffalo Wild West; also Chief John Tevi and his seven South African natives, of Dahomeyans.

    Spencer F. Williams will have the band with the Tompkins Wild West and Cooper-Whitby Circus.

    The Robettas, iron jaw trio, will be with the John Robinson Show the coming season.

    Enos and Lawton have been engaged by the Sig. Sautelle Shows for the coming season.

Billboard, February 15, 1913, pp. 22, 35, 53. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Fairbury, Neb., Feb. 7. The Campbell Bros. Shows have been bought by a new corporation composed of A. G. Campbell, Lee Greer and Fred Hatfield, and will again be on the road the coming season, but under a new name. It will be a fifteen car show, carry about fifty head of draft horses, thirty head of ring and race stock, and twenty ponies, four elephants, four camels and other lead stock. The parade will be one of the features. The show will open about the middle of April.

    San Francisco, Feb. 5. C. I. Norris may not be the general agent with the Barnes Circus after all. Norris has had his baboon act plyaing on the "Good Time," and made the trip across the continent with the idea of becoming the general agent. After working a short time, Norris found that conditions were not as he would have tem, and is awaiting the arrival of his family here.

    W. H. Godfrey has signed up to go with the Yankee Robinson Shows this season as legal adjuster.

    Heads of departments of the Young Buffalo Wild West & Col. Cummins Far East and Vernon C. Seaver's American Hippodrome for the approaching season: Vernon C. Seaver, general manager; M. C. Cookston, superintendent; George C. Gute, auditor; C. R. Gerdes, secretary; D. Robinson, treasurer; George Wombold, boss canvasman; Lew Nichols, manager side show; George Applehause, in charge of tickets; Willis Atterbury, big show bandmaster; Wm. H. Reid, manager side show band; Monk Wilson, boss hostler. Advance: F. C. Cooper, general agent; H. S. Maddy, local contractor; J. H. B. Fitzpatrick, general press agent; C. F. Collins, press agent with exhibition; Joe Rosenthal, manager No. 1 advance car; Geo. A. Kennedy, manager No. 2 advance car; Jack Williams, special agent; James Robinson, mailing clerk; Joe Colby, checker-up, and George Corliss, in charge of program brigade.

    LaMont Brothers who suffered a heavy loss in a railroad wreck on the Frisco line last fall, have not yet settled with the railroad company, but will take out a wagon show the coming season. Most of the old wagon show property is in good condition and will be used in connection with a number of new wagons, including two large tableau wagons. The show will also have a new canvas and paraphernalia. A car load of new material and two tableau wagons arrived last week from St. Louis. The show, when complete, will consist of from 35 to 40 wagons, transported by 60 head of horses and half as many mules.

    The Quire United Shows will go out this season with new tent and new paper. The tent just arrived at winter quarters, Reading, Pa. The shows are now owned and managed by Chas. H. and M. A. Quire, Mr. Harvey having retired from the show business to continue his moving picture shwo. Charles Quire is going to sell his advertising business in order to devote his entire time to the show.

    H. A. Stone, manager of Stone's Dog & Pony Shows has just received three buffaloe which will be trained for this season, and a number of cockatoos and deers. Mr. Stone is running a picture show at Middletown, Mo., the winter quarters. Last year was Mr. Stone's twenty-third season in the show business.

    The Jennier family of acrobats and riders, Mrs. Jennier, George, Walter and Roy, together with Ed Millette, son-in-law of Mrs. Jennier, and his wife, Maude, are with the Johnny J. Jones Carnival Company. They have their owne show. The Jennier family was for years with the old Howe's Circus and later with the Harris Nickel Plate Show. The Millettes are formerly of the Ringling Brothers Shows.

    F. G. Nazor, of Nazor's Overland Show, is breaking new dogs for the coming seasons under canvas. Mrs. Nazor will also add some new birds to her educated bird act. Two new wagons will be added to the show and an orchestra of four pieces will e carried. The feature of the show will be the Smith Twins, singers and dancers. The show is slated to open in Ontario, Ohio, May 14.

    The LaMont Brothers Circus, of Salem, Ill., will travel overland this season. For many years this show used this method of transportation. The season of 1912 the show went out as a two car outfit. Billboard readers are familiar with the details of the railroad wreck which completely destroyed the show as well as the life of one of the brothers.

    Fletcher and Sid Terrell, owners of the Buckskin Bill's Wild West are in Paducah, Ky., Fletcher is running a horse and mule market, while Sid is running a distillery, turning out the famous Old Terry Whisky. Thad Terrell is also in Paducah, where he is on the police force.

    Three famous circus performing families, a total of eighteen individuals, the Codona Family, LaBelle Victoria, the Nelson Family and the Garcia Troupe, left their Chicago homes to join the Wirth Circus, now assembling in 'Frisco, in time to take the liner for Australia on the 11th.

    The advance staff of Fred Elzor's Combination Shows, now en route through Florida: W. J. Whitton, general agent; Milton Baker, in charge of paper; C. P. Corbine and John Blocker Jr., billposters, and Johnnie (Kid) Richardson, in charge of lithographs.

    J. W. Williams has been signed by Frank C. Cooper as special agent for the Young Buffalo Wild West-Col. Cummins Far East.

    Newark, N. J., Feb. 6. Messrs. Thaller, Crowley and Welsh, who have for the past three seasons controlled and managed the Prairie Lillie and Nebraska Bill Wild West, have decided to change the name to Wyoming Bill's Wild West and Circus Combined this season. The managers have arranged an extended tour of the Southern cities this year, and it is their intention to make the entertainment larger by the addition of numerous circus acts, including Powers' Hippodrome Elephants. Many cowgirls and cowboys, including John M. Frantz, Kinney Boys, Joe Cleary and Charley Aldrich, have signed up. Several new cars and new parade wagons, including a band chariot, new parade wardrobe and trappings will be added. The parade, with three bands, witll be the feature of the show. A new outfit of canvas has been ordered and another carload of Western horses purchased.

    Charles Sparks, proprietor of Sparks Worlds Famous Shows, announced that the following are a few of the acts engaged for the coming season: the Flying Valentinos, the Guise Troupe, the Irmenas, the Cycling Reynards, the Bartletts, Stoddard and Wallace, Marsh and Young, and Capt. Wesley's Seals and Sea Lions, the latter being the special feature attraction. Jack Phillips will have charge of the fourteen piece band, the side show under the direction of H. H. Hall.

    Billy Jameson is at present clowning for the McCree-Davenport riding act. Reno McCree is engaged at the Hippodrome, St. Louis, for three weeks, giving a different riding act each week. Mr. McCree bought a new horse from Stick Davenport, and Reno McCree Jr. is doing somersaults on it.

    Lew Nichols will be the side show manager with the Young Buffalor Wild West and Col. Cummins Far East the coming season. He is wintering on his farm at Ganado, Texas.

    Lucky Tull, of Lucky Tull's Wild West, Dog and Pony Show, returned to his winter quarters at Oklahoma City, Okla., from Goodnight, Texas, where he has a deal for some buffalos under consideration.

    Stoddard and Wallace have signed contracts with the John H. Sparks Shows for the coming season. Stoddard to do rube and Wallace to do fat cop and concert turn. This will make their third season with the Sparks Show.

    Stanley F. Dawson will not appear with the Beckman and Arlington Shows as it was rumored, but will continue with the Two Bills Show as secretary, the same position he held last season.

    Tan Arakis are re-enagaged with Sun Bros. Shows for this year, their third season.

    Tom (Harold) Murray, with Jones Bros. Shows the past season as ticket seller, will again be with that organization the coming season.

    Geo. M. Forepaugh has signed with Al. F. Wheeler as general agnt of the Tompkin's Wild West and Cooper-Whitby Circus.

    The Guiran Fisher Troupe of Aerialists have signed with Hagenbeck-Wallace Show this season. The troupe is wintering at Bloomington, Ill.

    Miss Etta Meyers, lady rider with Ray Thompson's high school horses, has left the Ray Thompson act to take charge of the menage horses of the Young Buffalo Wild West. Singhalese Takiria Pannikiya and his troupe of twelve Singhalese will be added to the Young Buffalo Wild West this season.

    The Duncans, Jack and Rose, have signed with Tompkins Wild West and Cooper-Whitby Circus to do fancy riding and roping the coming season.

    Chas. Leahy, ring gymnast, will be with Gollmar Bros. Show.

    S. Cullins and Jack Higgens will be with Colonel W. J. Udens' Show the coming season. Mr. Higgens was with the Barnum and Bailey Show in 1911.

    Dode Fisk will not take a show out the coming season. He is at present in El Paso, Texas, at the Juarez races with his runner, and expects to follow this game this season.

    Parson Miller, last season with the Kit Carson Wild West as local contractor, will this season be the contractor ahead of the Downie & Wheeler Shows.

    Theodore (Punch) Graupner, last season with Sun Bros. Shows, has quit the circus game, and has opened a meat market at St. Charles, Mo.

    George Applehanse will have charge of the reserved seat tickets again this season with the Young Buffalo Wild West Show.

    Clyde S. Clarke will be car manager for the John H. Sparks Shows this season, his fourth year with this show.

    Tom Hargreaves, who several years ago had out a 20 car circus, is running a hotel at Chester, Pa.

    Ed Browne's Overland Show will open the season at Bath, Me., May 1, and will feature Prof. Elnor's Troupe of 16 spotted ponies.

    The W. J. Irwin Family will open an indoor circus again at Steelville, Mo., about February 15, for a month's run.

    W. C. Dean will lead the band with Sun Bros. the coming season. He will have fifteen men.

    Frank B. Miller, equestrian director and rider, has been re-engaged by the Mighty Haag Shows for this season.

Billboard, February 22, 1913, pp. 22, 23, 42, 50. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Porto Rico, Feb. 11. The Ralph C. Carlisle wild west show and congress of rough riders arrived here from New York and proceeded to land the horses and show equipment in readiness for the big insular fair, now in preparation here. The Carlisle show comes here direct from the New York Hippodrome, where it has been one of the feature attractions of Under Many Flages, the big spectacular now holding the stage there.

    Akron, O., Feb. 14. Prof. Wm. Littleton, owner of the educated horse, Lady Fancheon, and the bucking mule, Pete, is organizing a two car show at Akron, Ohio. The show will carry a ten piece band. The big top will be 60 feet with two 30 feet middle pieces. John Blocker Jr. will have charge of the side show. The executive staff: Prof. William Littleton, sole owner; Charles Still, general manager; John Blocker Jr., assistant manager; John Anderson, treasurer; George Kline, in charge of concert and reserved seats; Milton Baker, general agent; Ed Pofall, local contractor; George Strupler, in charge of pape and billposter; Wm. Hostler and Wm. Cramer, billposters; Wm. Strunk, in charge of lithographs; Adam Anderson, banners; James Crile, boss canvasman, with George Blocker and John Motz as assistants, and George Mervin, in charge of lights. The show will open near Cleveland about April 5.

    M. L. Clark and Son's Shows. Colonel M. L. Clark has been able to be up and around after a four weeks' spell of typhoid fever. Little Earl Clark is seriously ill with spinal meningitis. The following people have signed for the coming season: Prof. Julius Martinez, band of 12 pieces; W. T. Wilkins, rings, trapeze and tight wire; the Glens, Ed and Alice, impalement act, foot juggling; Howe and Barlow, equilibrists, with their trained dog, Ginger; the LaComas, Chris and Pearl, aerialists; the LaComa Trio, brother act. Everything around winter quarters at Dona Ana, N. M., is being retouched under the management of Lee Clark and will be ready for the opening on or before March 1. Colonel M. L. Clark pulled off a fight between his large elephant, Ned, and a bull at the Juarez Bull Ring, February 2, drawing the largest crowd in the history of the Bull Ring, due to the advertising of general agent H. C. Long. He arranged for three parades in the city of El Paso, advertising the fight, which was a success, both from an amusement and financial standpoint.

    W. A. Dickey, owner of the Circle D. Ranch Wild West Show, has purchased a section of farm land near Brandon, Man., Can. He will have a force of men start in to put the acreage into a wheat crops. He says his wild west show will return to Dominion Park, Montreal.

    The winter quarters of Richards Bros. Dog and Pony Show at Pipe Creek, Texas, is a busy place. Five new wagons will be added this season. The show will carry a 70 foot big top, with two 30 foot middle pieces, and a 30x50 foot kid show top. The cook, horse and kid tops will all be new. The management has purchased a player piano to be used instead of an orchestra. There will be sixteen wagons, forty head of draft stock, eighteen head of Shetland ponies, two dog cages, and three pony rigs. The show will tour Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.

    Charles McClintock returns to the press department of the 101 Ranch Show this summer.

    George Atkinson has been meeting with success since the closing of the circus season, as manager of Show No. 4, of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Spectacular, exhibiting in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Michigan. He has been re-engaged as press agent back with the show with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows for the coming season.

    Thomas Bisping, bareback rider, now with the Eli and Jane Company, was recently married to Elsie Bates, of Sioux City, Iowa, ragtime piano player at Pawnee, Neb. Mr. Bisping was at one time bareback rider with the John Robinson Shows, and late of the New York Hippodrome.

    Geo. M. Forepaugh has been engaged as general agent for Tompkins Real Wild West and Cooper-Whitby Circus for the coming season. The paper will be mostly special to cover both circus and Wild West. The advance will consist of Mr. Forepaugh, general agent, one lithographer, one banner man and four billposters.

    Everyone is busy at the winter quarters of Monroe's Mighty Shows. Ten of the old wagons will be replaced by new ones, and fifteen head of stock will be added. The show which Mr. Cauble, owner, has out for the winter is doing nicely.

    Fred (Shorty) Pride and wife have signed contracts with Nebraska Bill and Prairie Lillie, who will have the Wild West department on the Sig. Sautelle Show for the season 1913. They will work with Nebraska Bill.

    Doc Selby will again be with Col. Uden's Show this season with six dogs. The show will have eight wagons and twenty-five head of horses, and will play Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. The opening date is slated for May 30.

    Grant Keeney, last season chef on the advance of Cole Bros. Shows, and who was married to Marie Phillips, of Girard, Kan., August 27 last, will not travel this season, as he is now chef at a Bloomington, Ill., hotel.

    The Barnetts are spending the winter at Rock Island, Ill., where they are having a new iron jaw rigging constructed. They will be with Gollmar Bros. Show the coming season.

    The James (Everet, Mabell and Little Fay) have signed with the Mollie A. Bailey Show for the coming season. Little Fay to do contortion and rings.

    Chas. E. Diamond, aerialist and acrobat, has signed with the Mighty Haag Shows for the 1913 season, his second season with this show.

    Young and Marsh, comedy acrobats and clowns, have signed with the John Sparks Shows for the coming season.

    Col. F. Fleming (Kit Carson Jr.) will again be in the feature saddle of the Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch Wild West this season.

    Robert Bigsby has been engaged as superintendent of the 101 Ranch Wild West for the coming season.

    San Francisco, Feb. 7. C. I. Norris, who was supposed to be the general agent of the Barnes Wild Animal Circus, has severed his connection with that aggregation and left with his family Tuesday, for his home at Santa Cruz, where he will start breaking animal acts for vaudeville. His big baboon act now playing Eastern time, is meeting with such success that it is his intention to put on other acts of a similar nature.

    Al. F. Wheeler and Charles H. Tompkins spent several hours in New York last week picking up some animals for the side show of the Tompkins Wild West and Cooper-Whitby Circus, among which was a lioness. Ed. P. Barlow will be with this show in charge of the stock, while Mrs. Barlow will have charge of the commissary department. Will Jazues will be big show announcer.

    Prince Oskazuma, Cuban Charlie, fire fiend, mimic, direct from Circo Veyti, Havana, Cuba, who is booked with the Young Buffalo Wild West and Col. Cummins Far East Shows for the coming season, is also contracting to bring a Cuban circus into the States soon.

    Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson (formerly Mrs. Agnes DeEspa) have been re-engaged with the Mighty Haag Shows for the coming season. Mrs. Johnson recently secured a divorce from Ernest DeEspa.

    Ed Bell and wife (May Derby), late of Ringling Bros. Shows, will be with the side show of the Sparks Shows the coming season.

Billboard, March 1, 1913, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Fred Heaton has been re-engaged as local contractor of the Sparks Shows for the coming season, his second season in this capacity. In 1910 Fred did good work as special agent of the above shows. Harry H. Hall will again have the annex with the Sparks Shows this season, making three in a row for Harry. The Flying Valentionos and the Walter Guice troupe will be the principal aerial numbers on the Sparks program this season.

    The Bottini Bros. Greater United Shows will be a little larger than was thought at first. Instead of a 50x80 foot top, they will have a 60x120 foot tope. They will also carry a side show, and instead of playing small towns will play the large towns and small cities. Mlle. Emore's two educated wild bronchos will be the feature of the show. William Tessler [Tessier?] wire act and head balancing trapeze will be another feature. Others who have signed with the show are Weekly and Wood Trio, aerial and iron jaw; Bart and Barth, acrobats; Rynell and Carpenter, strong act; Waters Bros., comedy acrobats, and Munet [sic?] DeOrlo, knockabout clown policeman. Colirutle adn Alfonso, the human ostrich, will feature under the kid top. Hugh Williams has been engaged to take charge of the advance. Charles Brodie will have charge of the canvas.

    Roster of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Military Band for season 1913: Al J. Massey, director; Percy Brown, Ted Nicholson, John Jaquish, Henry Werner, L. K. Merchant, William Fredericks, cornets; Robert Willamon, Ed Berger, J. C. Davis, Will Weatherall, Al Winlund, clarinets; E. H. Bundy, E-flat clarinet; C. A. Baker, flute; Charles Wetterman, W. Sidwell, Harry Coplin, Fred Parlier, horns; Jim Price, Mark Stubley, Willard Edwards, trombones; Jesse (Daniel) Davis, William McLaughlin, euphoniums; Pierre J. Olker, Charles Farmer, basses; R. E. Perry, Edmund McLatchey, drums.

    The outfit of the Brown and Pommier Show is getting its annual coat of paint. An order has been given for new canvas. The top will be 60 feet, with a 30 foot middle piece. Several of the same people will be with the show this season. Lester Perkins will be on hand with his contortion act, and Harold Harris with his free act. Among the troupers around teh winter quarters at Richmond, Mo., are: Lonnie Watson, Harry Bales, Charles Morton, Harry Cary, Leon Pommier, I. A. Pommier, John Pommier, Arch Talbot, Marie Roney, Lottie Brown and E. C. Brown.

    Link Morrow, of Morrow Bros. Dog and Pony Show, is breaking in some new ponies and dogs for the coming season. As the show was fitted with a new set of canvas last season, no new canvas will be added this year except a few small dressing tents. The show will have 10 wagons, 25 head of baggage stock, 12 head of Shetland ponies and 15 dogs, and will tour Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, opening the early part of May.

    William H. Delly, manager of car No. 1 of Gollmar Bros. Circus the past season, has been spending the winter on his farm near Bowling Green, Mo. Mr. Delly has been re-engaged in the same capacity with this show for 1913.

    LeRoy K. Chapman, who has been with some of the leading circuses, has signed with Rice Bros. Shows for the coming season, as clown. The Two Famous Clacks, double traps and wire act, will be with Rice Bros. this season. H. W. Wingert and his concert band will be featured with Rice Bros.

    Sanger's Greater European Shows will go out this season with 12 cars and all new equipment. The executive staff: Louis D. Thilman, manager; Harry A. Mann, general agent; William M. Dale, local contractor; Hosea F. Moyer, manager advance car, and Jack L. Bledsoe, special agent.

    Al Webb, steward with the Ringling Bros. Show, spent a few weeks in his home town, Omaha, Neb., recently.

    Al. G. Barnes has secured the services of W. P. English to furnish the band for the big show this season.

    D. F. Lynch will again be with the Two Bills Show the coming season.

    Fred Cox will be chief of the cowboys with Oklahoma Bill's Wild West and Indian Congress the coming season. Miss Myrtle Cox, equestrienne, will also be with this show the coming season.

    Thomas Abbott, late of the Philharmonic Band of Boston, will again be with H. W. Wingert, playing solo clarinet.

    Rice Bros. Shows will put on a spec and two ballet numbers as an added attraction to their regular circus performance.

    Rentz Bros. Circus will open in Pittsburg, Pa., Saturday, April 19. Tight [sic] cars will be used with the show and one in advance. The show will have one ring, one elephant and a drove of Shetland ponies.

    The Lilletas, late of the LaFeari Trio, have signed contracts with Wintermute's Circus for the coming season to present their balancing ladder act.

    Letitia, the Girl from Missouri, will be with Sig. Sautelle's Show the coming season.

    The Hollis Family, equestrians, will this season be with Downie and Wheeler Shows.

    It is said that Frank Skerbeck, the veteran one-ring showman, will take out his circus from Dorchester, Wis., this summer. The show has not been out for two years.

    Harry Kelley, steward with Howe's Great London Show, is at his home in South Omaha. Mr. Kelley will again be with this show the coming season.

    Frank McKeown, armless wonder, has been added to the kid show with Bottini Bros. Shows for the coming season, while Arthur Barth will be producing clown.

    Nettie Greer has signed with the McCree-Davenport troupe, who will be with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows this season.

Billboard, March 8, 1913, p. 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Wyoming Bill's Wild West and Circus Combined is going out this season with a brand new outfit from stakes to cars. It is the intention of the management to arrange an extended tour of the Southern cities, which will tak the show through the winter months. It will be a 15 car show, and the entertainment will be strengthened by the addition of numerous circus acts, including Power's Hippodrome Elephants. There will be a 20 piece Indian band. The management purchased a herd of long horned steers from Old Mexico. They have also engaged Prince Archie and his troupe of Russian Cossacks. There is great activity around the winter quarters at Hillside Park, Belleville, N. J., where the work is under the supervision of John T. Welsh. Tom Morrow (Old Reliable Tom) has been engaged as general and press agent. John M. Franz is looking after the stock in winter quarters. He was also elected to the office of constable of the town of Belleville. John B. McNally, manager of the organization, is still advertising manager for Jacob's Theater.

    Eddie Botsfor, of the Two Bills Shows, and late of the New York Hippodrome, will be with the Two Bills Shows again this season. He is located at Pawnee, Okla.

    Opening Dates. Barnum & Bailey will open at Madison Square Garden March 22, and will begin its road tour at Brooklyn immediately after the Garden engagement. Hagenbeck-Wallace will open in St. Louis April 12 for eight days, after which the road tour will begin at Peru. Mille Bros. and Arlington's 101 Ranch Wild West will open April 5 at Hot Springs, Ark. Ringling Bros. Shows open about April 5 at the Coliseum, Chicago, and from there start their road tour at Zanesville, Ohio. Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Far East Show opens at Convention Hall, Philadelphia, April 2.

Billboard, March 15, 1913, pp. 22, 23, 43, 58, 59. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Col. Vernon C. Seaver has made the announcement that Young Buffalo Wild West and Col. Cummins Far East Circus will open at Peoria, Ill., on Saturday, April 26. As the old circus grounds have been built up by real estated promoters, the management has arranged to occupy the baseball grounds on the North side of the city. The show will remain in Peoria one day.

    Reading, Pa., March 6. Bright Jones, manager of the Robson Bros. Shows since it organized, sold out his entire interest in this show and joined hands with Pete Heilman, late owner of the Rice and Bell United Shows, for the coming season. The shows will be known as the Jones and Heilman Greatest Shows Combined. Everything will be new. The managers are trying to make it oneof the best one-ring overland show on the road this season.

    Chicago, March 4. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rivers gave a wedding and birthday party to their show friends on March 1. Mr. Rivers is well known to the circus world, and Mrs. Rivers was formerly the wife of Bunk Allen, now deceased.

    Col. Sander and Dakota Max, father and son, are the proprietors of Dakota Max's Wild West and Trained Animal Shows, now in winter quarters at Los Angeles, Cal.

    Gollmar Bros. Shows will open Monday, April 28, in Milwaukee at the Auditorium for a week's stand, closing May 5. This is the first time in the twenty-one years of the history of the Gollmar's openings that the show did not begin its routings at Baraboo.

    W. C. Lewis, known among circus people as William Murry, 64 years of age, died February 13. The deceased started out when a boy with Stone, Murry and Roster [sic] as the boy champion rider of the world. He rode the hurdle act and clowned through the sixties and seventies with all the leading shows. He leaves a widow who is very much in need, and who would be grateful for any donations the circus people may make. Contributions can be sent to his widow, Mrs. Julia C. Lewis, 1213 Kellar street, Carthage, Mo.

    The Circo Pubillones, which opened under canvas on January 7, at Bainoa, Province of Havana, Cuba, is having a prosperous season, and lost but two performances on account of rain. The following troupers are with the show: James Irwin, trapeze; Two Ringlins, rings and hand balancing; Monte ___ Family of Four, comedy musical act; Chocolate, clown; Three Cottrells, riders; Peter Taylor with his trained lions; John and Frank Longbotham, secretary and treasurer; George McMasters, side show manager; Otisa McMasters, with her collection of serpents; George Bell, colored giant. The season will close about May 20, in Havana. George Bell, the colored giant, closes March 20, and will join Ringling Bros. George McMasters and wife (Otisa) close April 3, and sail from Havana for New York on April 5. After a ten days' visit with parents at Kankakee and Streator, Ill., they will join the Ringling Show. Peter Taylor sails about May 1 to join the Two Bills Show to work the lions with Mr. Wilson in the side show.

    Francisco A. Lentini, the three-legged wonder, is with the Circo Columbia, doing his wire act, also a comedy juggling act, assisted by Jack Chandler. They will close March 15 to join the Ringling Show.

    Al. G. Campbell annouces that he has perfected all plans preparatory to launching his fifteen car show this season.

    A. H. Barkley, general agent of the Rice Brothers Colossal Circus, left recently for his home in Kansas City. Mr. Barkley announces the following additions to the advance staff of the Rice Brothers: George Rich, manage car No. 1; George Dynan, local contractor; George Gippert, press representative and the banner privilege.

    A. H. Barkley wishes the editor of The Billboard to announce that Al F. Gorman is in no way identified with the Rice Brothers Shwos, as recently announced in The Billboard, a result of a statement printed in the March 1 issue. Mr. Gorman represented Rice & Dore at the Fair Secretaries recent meeting in Chicago.

    James M. Hathaway, formerly identified with Sells-Floto, Hagenbeck-Wallace and other circuses, will put on tour the coming season two one-car tent shows, in which he will feature the Hagenbeck-Wallace Spectacle.

    Ray Atkinson, the "Fatty Felix" of Smith Bros. Circus, who died at Cleveland, O., recently, was buried from an undertaker's establisment at Camden, Ohio, March 2, owing to the coffin being too large to take into Atkinson's home. It took 16 pallbearers to carry the coffin, which weighed 587 pounds. The deceased was 23 years of age.

    H. P. Coffey arrived in Chicago recently, direct from New York and Cincinnati, where he went to consummate a deal for cars to be used next season by his show. He announces that on the 23rd of January, Cole Bros. Pan-American Shows were destroyed by wreck and fire on the Yazoo Valley Railroad at Cleveland, Miss. The sleeping coach and baggage car were entirely destroyed. The railway has acknowledged the claim and is negotiating for damage terms with H. L. Cole, general manager, and H. P. Coffey, assistant manager and manager of the side show and privileges, who are the heaviest losers. This show is arranging to open in Mississippi early in April with a three car outfit.

    Al Mondsello has again signed contracts to appear with Lampe Bros. Newest Shows for season of 1913, his third season with this show. This season he will be featured in his high wire act.

    Miss Beatrice Leslie, late of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, will line up with Howe's Great London Shows next season.

    E. K. Reitmeyer, commissioner of the Zoo at Memphis, Tenn., died recently in Florida, where he had gone for his health. He deceased was employed in the animal department of a number of large circuses years ago.

    W. H. Dearmin and wife, known as Bill and Blemme Odus, have signed contracts with the Arlington and Beckman Wild West Shows.

    W. W. Gentry, showman, was made deputy sheriff in Garland County, Hot Springs, Ark., by his father-in-law, Rob Williams, sheriff of that county recently.

    P. W. Brown will be cornet soloist with the concert band of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show the coming season.

    Sam DeForest, acrobatic and talking clown and concert man, has signed contracts with the Downie and Wheeler Shows for this season.

Billboard, March 22, 1913, p. 58. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Los Angeles, Cal., March 12. Samuel J. Banks, who was engaged by Al. G. Barnes a short time ago, is no longer press agent for the Al. G. Barnes Circus. The show opened at Santa Monica, Cal., March 8, and from there went to Los Angeles, where is is playing in the Shrine Auditorium this week.

    Fred Beckman has engaged Zack and Lucille Mulhall as a feature attraction for the new Arlington & Beckmann's Wild West Shows.

    John G. Robinson signed contracts last week with the National Conservation Exposition to exhibit his elephants and zoo for the entire exposition period of two months. This precludes all possibility of the John Robinson Shows taking the road for the season of 1913.

    Jim Pattersson is going to put out a circus in 1914.

    Sun Brothers Shows will begin their twenty-second annual tour March 31, at Central City Park, Macon, Ga. The show is claimed to be one of the best two ring outfits. William F. Wallett will be equestrian director. The Four Lamy Brothers will be the special aerial feature. The Three Tan Arakis will also appear in a big aerial number. The Great Marinella will be a special feature act.

    Lucky Tull's Wild West, Dog and Poney Show and Yoder Bros. Congress of Cowboys, Cowgirls and Indians have consolidated, playing the Middle West. One of the features will be Captain Draunan, 74 years of age, who has had a number of years experience in the West as scout guide and Indian fighter. Chief Big Panther will head a troupe of Indians. The cowboys and cowgirls will have Bates Christian as captain. One of the features of the parade will be a mounted cowboy band. Thirty head of wild west horses will be carried. A corps of workmen are busy at winter quarters for the opening date, April 1. An order for an air calliope has just been place. Owen Lamb will handle one of the side shows. Executive staff: Lucky Tull, general manager; J. M. Yoder, treasurer; Miss Alma Tull, secretary; O. J. Yoder, assistant manager; Edwin R. Capps, musical director; Alvan Hilger, equestrian director and Lon Rucker, trainmaster.

    Lew Nichols has just inherited a substantial fortune from his uncle, Frank Nichols, who published a marble trade publication in Chicago. This relative has declined in health and recently suffered a paralytic stroke, and has given Lew the fortune to take care of him until his end. This request has made it necessary for Lew to retire from business, bidding farewell to Young Buffalo.

Billboard, May 10, 1913, pp. 19, 23, 38. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Art Bowers has purchased a half interest in Rice Bros. Shows at St. Paul.

    Whitey Oldknow, for many years a boss canvasman with the big ones, is running a hotel in Peru.

    Lon Williams has the number 2 Gentry Show this year. It is to be an old-time Gentry dog and pony show on four cars.

    Niles, Mich., April 29. H. W. Freed's New Show opened the season of 1913 here last Saturday. The show left winter quarters on Grant Street Friday morning for the lot on East Third street in a downpour of rain. Saturday morning bid fair to good weather, and the big top was put up at noon. Business in the afternoon was good. The evening the big top was packed to the ring bank, the greatest success, financially, the Freed Show has ever had in this city.

    Al. F. Wheeler, equal owner of the Downie & Wheeler Shows, which exhibited in Kennett Square, Pa., April 21, was seriously injured in a collision between the team he was driving and a double team attached to a farm wagon. According to reports, the two horse team attached to the wagon were running away when the heavy wagon struck and demolished Mr. Wheeler's carriage and knocked Mr. Wheeler, who, it is said, was heading the show parade, unconscious. A farmer carried him to a nearby house and a physician was summoned and dressed the injuries.

    C. I. Norris, of the former Norris & Rowe Circus partnership, arrived in Chicago from Wheeling, W. Va., April 26. He appears the week of April 28, at the Majestic Theater here and affirms that 1913 will not find him under white top.

    Kit Carson Show notes. L. Harris joined at Central City, Ky., replacing William Wiggens as boss hostler. Enos and Lawton, clowns, joined at Princeton. Rube Dalroy is producing clowns. E. R. Moore's band is now made up of 25 pieces, three new musicians having arrived recently. The Gold Dust Twins are the latest additions, having joined at English, Ind.

    Cole Bros. Shows opened the season at Phillipsburg, Kans., April 26, to big business. The show carries 24 cars in the train and two cars in advance.

Billboard, May 31, 1913, pp. 19, 20, 21. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The Silver Family Show opened the season at the headquarters, Crystal, Mich., May 10. The same route through Michigan will be played again this year. Performers with the show: Sandy Copeland, bars and rings; Bohn and Wilhelm, hand balancers and acrobats; Cliff's Comedy Dogs; Harry Williams, Dutch comedian; Earl Rose, bounding wire, traps and rings; Kurello, contortionist; S. Ruce, comedian; Geo. Murphy, clown; Ed Cross, ringmaster; Silver Bros., jugglers; Carl Bremer, magician and announcer; Eigth Silvers, singers, bell ringers and band and orchestra. Executive staff: Bert Silver, assistant manager; Dick Silver, stage manager; Laura Silver, leader band; Pearl Silver, secretary; Mrs. Bert Silver, treasurer; Frances and Ruby Silver, wardrobe.

    At the beginning of the afternoon performance at Lancaster, Pa., May 16, a storm resembling a tornado struck the Two Bills Show. A large portion of the big tents were blown down, burying a large number of persons under the canvas, and then the rain came down in torrents. Several persons were injured, but none seriously.

    Arrangement have been made whereby Al. F. Wheeler, who has owned controlling interest in the Oxford Fair Grounds, Oxford, Pa., for some years back, is to take over the entire title of the real estated and buildings of the Oxford Agricultural Association. The fair grounds have been used as winter quarters for Mr. Wheeler's different amusement enterprises. . . .

    J. P. Gallagher, of Medina, N. Y., formerly of the circus firms of Downey and Gallagher, and Van Amburg and Gallagher, and now of the theatrical firm of Shaw-Gallagher, has accepted an appointment as superintendent of midway amusements at the New York State Fair, to be held at Syracuse, September 8-13.

    The J. H. Eschman European Shows opened at Hopkins, Minn., for their northwestern tour, May 10. The show gave the usual free street parade on the principal streets of the city. The show carries a large series of side shows, in addition to the main entertainments. Little Nemo, the trick baby elephant, was a particular source of entertainment. J. H. Eschman is in personal charge, with Ben S. Benson as general agent.

    The O'Brien and McNair Colossal Shows are in quarters at the Calumet Plantation, Columbia, Ala., preparing for the opening of the season at Gordon, Ala., August 2. The people engaged so far are the William O'Brien Troupe of Acrobats, Gracie Thomas, Prof. Sims, Three Aerial Stones, Nick and his ponies and dogs, Naomi, Roscal Baker, the Dales, Joe Mole and brother, and Wiley McNair. The show the coming season will carry 21 wagons, 75 head of stock and an 80 foot round top with two 40 foot middle pieces. J. E. McNair is superintendent and W. O'Brien, general maanger.

    Everything has been running smoothly with the Robson Bros. Shows since the opening at Reading, Pa., April 17. Howard Robson returned to the show recently from Allentown, Pa., with six head of work horses. Saturday, May 17, the show played Ft. Loudon, Pa., the home of Sam Dock, of the Dock and Russel Shows, now touring the Southern states.

    Irwin Bros. Wild West Show recently purchased a canvas arena from the Baker & Lockwood Company at a cost of $10,000. . . .

    W. Kellogg, legal adjuster with the Howe's Great London Shows last season, is acting in that capacity for Jerry Mugavin with the Sanger Great European Shows this seasons. Mr. Mugavin, owner of the Howe and Sanger Shows, it is said, will send the first named through Delaward and Maryland this fall. The Sanger Shows recently played Delaward and Maryland towns and did fair businss, considering the season of the year.

    List of clowns with Sells-Floto Shows this season: Shorty Maynard, Frank Stout, George Brown, Dan Kelly, Abe Johnson, Leo Hendricks, Fred Biggs, John Albion, Jerry Clayton, Carlton Emery, Ward Wright, Harry Curran, Harry Bayfield, George St. Fegan, William Meirs, and Jack Harris.

    Mrs. James Williams and Mrs. Dude Akin of Bloomington, Ind., have gone to New York City to spend the summer as guests of the Dr. Blume Family. Mr. Williams is boss canvasman with the Gentry Show, and until recent years Mrs. Williams has been a lion trainer. Dr. Blume is a nephew of Mrs. Akin.

    Gollmar Bros. Circus struck hard luck in Iowa recently, suffering blow downs at Maquoketa, Clinton and Muscatine, and arrived at Waterloo too late for matinee, but gave the parade at 4 p.m. and had a packed tent at the night show.

    List of clowns with the Mighty Haag Shows: Jim McCammon, Fred L. Gay, Roy Barrett, Roy Fortune, (Spider) Frank Mosley, James Albert Henry, E. Wright, Charley Diamond M. Star, Rene and Emele, Bill Farmer, Joe Nadan and Mr. Bowers.

    Arthur Davis, who does the talking and magic on the side show of the Kit Carson Wild West, rejoined the outfit Wednesday the 7th, at Carmi, Ill. He spent the previous two weeks at his home in Chicago suffering from an abdominal ailment.

    Herr Bowman, well-known side show performer and manager, who was assistant side show manager with the Al. G. Barnes Circus last season, is now touring the Sandwich Island, and will then open in Auckland, New Zealand for a long season.

    Harry C. Chapman, veteran ticket seller and announcer, who has been connected with the Ringling Bros. Shows for the past three seasons, is on the side show of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus with J. E. Ogden.

    Barney Wood, who was associated with the Barnum & Bailey and Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows for a number of years, has quit the road and is now manager of Riverview Park, Peoria, Ill., on which place he has a ten year lease.

    Bobbie Kane, formerly with Al. G. Barnes Circus, and Harry L. Bush joined the Sells-Floto Circus with the Cannibals from the Island of Madagascar, at San Francisco, May 1.

    Joe Frog is framing up a 40 car circus, which will in all probability use the old title of the Rentz & Amber Shows. The headquarters of this outfit will be in Kansas City.

    Homer Hall, advertising man for the Pearl Stock Co., has gone to Pittsburg, where he will remain until June 1, when he joins Ringling Bros. Shows.

    Forces out of its regular spring territory by the exigencies of the floods, the Haag Show was compelled to put in a lot of Missouri country that proved unseasonable.

    Clara Curtin, aerialist, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Herman G. C. Gro, of Reading, Pa., also a circus performer, were united in marriage at Hartford City, Ind., May 18.

    Ben Cook, of Cincinnati, who claims he has followed the white tops in several capacities for the past 40 years, is in advance of the Sanger's Greater European Shows as a special agent.

    The Smith Family, father, mother and three daughters, have changed their name to the Musical Moon Family Company, and are booked with Nazor's Family Show.

    J. Steckel's Circus is touring (tenting they call it over there) Ireland. The permanent address of J. Steckel is Kilmallock, Ireland.

    D. P. Phillips is press agent back with the Sanger Shows this season. The Sanger Shows are carrying twelve cars this season.

    Harry Robettas, iron jaw performer, is with Kennedy Bros. Wagon Show in Texas.

    Albert Gaston, singing and talking clown, closed with the Fowler & Clark Show May 10.

Billboard, June 7, 1913, pp. 21, 22. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Henderson, N. C., May 28. One man was killed, a woman probably fatally injured, and several other persons suffered injuries sustained in a panic here yesterday when the Two Bills Circus tent was blown down by a heavy windstorm.

    W. J. Miller, former owner of Bill Miller's Wild West Show, joined Colorado Grant's Wild West, Dog and Pony Show for the season. While showing Lancaster, Ohio, the home of George W. Little and wife, former owners of Dana Robinson's Famous Shows, the Littles gave Mrs. Colorado Grant and W. J. Miller a reception at their home.

    James R. Bonheur, one of the managers of the Bonheur Bros. Great Texas Show, and Will Logan and Mike Freeman, also members of the show, were kicked by horses within the past two weeks.

    Shipp and Feltus' North American Circus opened its season at Buenos Aires, Argentina, S. A., Friday night, April 25.

    A recent report from Fredonia, N. Y., has it that John C. Miller, who claims to be the youngest circus proprietor in the world, has started on the road with his show. Miller is only 21 years old, and has been in the show business several years. He first started with a trained horse and later added other animals trained by himself. This year he is traveling with a large tent show. He has about 20 performers, a band, 12 teams of horses, trained ponies, dogs, goats and a black bear.

    The annex of the J. H. Eschman European Circus, under the management of Ray Dick, has the following attractions: Punch Magic, Miss Birdie, snake enchantress; Prof. York, with Buster, the educated dog; Illusion, Burdie Martino, Egyptian palmist; Prof. Freeman's Alabama Minstrels, Miss Birdie and Bertha Cole, oriental dancers.

Billboard, June 14, 1913, pp. 18, 19, 21. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The Mollie Bailey R. R. Shows have been out of winter quarters 15 weeks and have not lost a night. Program: Act 1: Jules Behre and Allie Bailey, horizontal bars; Act 2: Bailey Dickens, juvenile song and dance; Act 3: Mike Hwatatz, hand balancing and shoot-the-shoots on his head; Act 4: Mable James, iron jaw; Act 5: Allie and Brad Bailey, double comics; Act 6: Alice Bailey, song and dance; Act 7: Little Fay James, contortionist; Act 8: trained mules, introducing the famous bucking mule, Peanuts; Act 9: Jules Behre, contortionist; Act 10: Mike Hwatatz, up-side-down man; Act 11: the Baileys, tight-wire walking; Act 12: Mable James, flying perch; Act 13: Allie Bailey, slack wire; Act 14: Alice & Brad Bailey, carrying perch; Act 15: Fay James, Spanish rings; Act 16: Bill Perkins and the Bailey Brothers.
    Roster: Mollie A. Bailey, proprietor; Eugene Bailey, general manager; B. Dickens, secretary; Charley Dickens, route agent; Billy Barlow, advance agent; Birdie Dickens, steward; B. S. Bailey, manager of side shows; W. K. Bailey, leader of band; Everete James, solo cornet; Albert Gross, slide trombone; G. F. Barnes, tuba; J. Duttenberg, clarinet; G. A. Bailey, baritone; Will Geoshe, trap drummer; Brad Bailey, bass drummer; Alf Hardesty, boss canvasman with five assistants; J. E. Bailey, manager of stock; A. Bailey, light man.

    The Lucky Tull and Yoder Bros. Combined Wild West, Dog and Pony Shows opened the season at Oklahoma City, Okla., recently, to good business. The show carries 2,000 feet of new side wall, red and white. Harry Robettas is the free attraction and producing clown, and Hodges the funny Dutch cop and singing clown. Tull and Yoder have purchased several new bronchos, while Mrs. Tull has purchased several Shetland ponies. Roster: Lucky Tull and Yoder Bros., owners; Tom Tull, general manager; Homer Davis, advance agent with three assistants; James Yoder, secretary and treasurer; W. Kennedy, side show manager; Jake Heath, equestrian director; Harry Rogers, boss canvasman, with Newton Shields, assistant; Cal Huntsinger, bandmaster; Rollie Tull, superintendent of stock; James Yoder, chief of cowboys; C. C. Kennedy, privileges, Ollie Yoder, reserved seats.

    The Jones and Heilman Greatest Shows have completed three weeks of big business through New Jersey, and are now making New York. They have added another two horse team and wagon to carry the side show annex, which was added recently. They have also added six more lengths of seats to accommodate the large crowds. Ray West is doing loop walking and balancing traps. John Bachman, comedy juggler and clown is making 'em laugh. Miss Fanny Rice, Roman rings and single traps, and the Fry Family of acrobats. Freddie Johnson is superintendent of canvas and Harry Dowdy superintendent of stock.

    The program of the Honest Bill Show: Tony, bareback rider; Four black trick ponies; the Hodges, comedy sketch, entitled A Mile a Minute; Cupid, the educated pony or the pony with the human brain; Manala, juggler; Flying Hawk, flying traps and Roman rings; Sissie Ann, menage act; Elnora Hodge, contortionist; Baby Boston, trained elephant; eight pony military drill, and Newton's troupe of pomeranian dogs.

    Nazor's Family Show opened the canvas season May 20, at Ontario, Ohio, to good business and is playing all week stands. The roster: F. Nazor, manager and owner; Mrs. Nazor, treasurer; P.J. Smith, Mrs. P. J. Smith, Smith Twins, Little Mildred, Will Nutting, Moon Family and Kelo, performers. The outfit is transported in the show's own wagons and carriages.

    The Brown and Pommier Combined Shows are playing Northern Missouri to good business. Four more lengths of seast were ordered from winter quarters recently. Robert Clemments, formerly of the Mollie A. Bailey Show, is now with the show. Prof. Lester joined recently with his free act, taking the place of Prof. Harris.

    The Frank Adams Circus is wild-catting through the Southern part of the state.

    The Great Burkhart is with the Sig. Sautelle Shows, and will remain with them the whole season. He has charge of the annex and makes first openings, etc.

Billboard, June 21, 1913, pp. 50, 52, 64, 65. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Bentley and Ranft United Shows opened at Eaton Rapids, Mich., May 17. The roster: Charles A. Bentley, general manager; L. H. Ranft, treasurer and assistant manager; Mrs. Ranft, main ticket wagon; Mrs. C. Bentley, main door; Sylvester Bullis, general agent; John Gregory, boss canvasman; Ray Blue, boss hostler; Prof. Blackett, band leader. Performers: Yewis [sic?], Daniels and Lewis; Bob Woolrab, Fluhrer and Fluhrer, A Bentley, Joe Mecham, Geneva Bentley and Jean Wheeler.

    Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows Sold. On July the first next B. E. Wallace will round out a quarter of a century in the circus business and hand over the property to a syndicate to operate it an perpetuate its name. Mr. Wallace retires from the arena absolutely and entirely. He will devote the balance of this year to his large banking, mercantile and real estate interests in Peru, and as soon as they are shaped up and running smoothly, he will leave on a long trip around the world. His nephew, C. E. Cory, is in the new syndicate, but not in a capacity representative of Mr. Wallace, for the latter will have no one iota of interest in the big thing. Even now he has none except that such earnings as the show may make between now and August 1 are his. On June 11 he was paid his price in cash and signed the bill of sale.
    The syndicate that acquires the show is a corporation under the laws of Indiana and the principal stockholders are: John O. Talbot, Denver, Colo.; C. E. Cory, Peru, Ind.; Hugh Harrison, Seattle, Wash.; John Warren, Chicago, Ill.; E. M. Ballard, West Baden, Ind.; Charles Hageman, Kansas City, Mo. The capital stock of the holding company is $300,000, of which $200,000 is preferred and $100,000 is common. The individual holdings will not be made public, but it is surmised that Messrs. Talbot, Cory and Ballard hold the largest blocks and between them control the board. The show will probably winter in Peru this coming winter, but this has not been definitely determined. Next year a site near St. Louis will be acquired and buildings and sidings and switches installed before fall and here the show will make its home thereafter.
    Chicago, June 11. The Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows were sold today to the Carl Hagenbeck & Great Wallace Show Company of Indianapolis, Ind. This new firm consists of John O. Talbott, now of Denver, but formerly legal adjuster for Uncle Ben Wallace, as president; Charles E. Corey, secretary and treasurer; Edward M. Ballard, vice-president, while John O. Talbott, Charles E. Corey, E. M. Ballard, John B. Warren, of Chicago, and Charles Hagaman will form the board of directors. The show will be delivered into their hands intact on the 30th day of this month when they play Peekskill, N. Y. Mr. Talbott will within the next week join the shows a travel along until the property becomes his the end of the month.

    The Mollie A. Bailey Show lost its first night of the season at Texico, N. M., Friday, June 6, when a severe wind storm struck the big top just before the night performance. The big top and side walls were damaged to a great extent, tearing the canvas in several places. The ropes on one side were all broken, and the reserved seats, light and riggings were also damaged somewhat. The show cancelled Saturday's stand, and stayed over at Texico, where it repaired everything Saturda morning, and held the regular matinee and night's performance without any further trouble.

    James Gray, formerly of the Sells-Gray Shows, and recently successful real estate operator in Southern California, will build a home in New Rochelle, New York. Charles Ringling has a residence in this suburb as has also the former figure in the circus world, L. H. French.

    The Young Buffalo Wild West, Col. Cummins Far East and Seaver's Hippodrome have finally ducked the bad weather they have been having the past several weeks, and are now having fine weather and good business. Elizabeth Russell, of the side show, and Harry Metz, of the privilege car, were married at Lock Haven, Pa., recently.

    Downie & Wheeler Shows. Lynch and Schribel, comedy acrobats and clowns, joined the show at Dover, N. H., June 12. Arther F. Norris, formerly with Julius Cahn's New England theaters, recently arrived to take charge of the big ticket wagon. Prof. Wiseman joined at Beverly, Mass., to take charge of the animal acts. The show added a new menagerie top and a new dressing top at Dover, N. H., June 12. A large shipment of wild animals from Ruhe was received at that place.

    New York, June 14. T. J. Fitzsimmons, well known in Australia and in South Africa as an animal trainer and showman, who was formerly with such show aggregations as the Frank Fillis' Savage South Africa, Texas Jacks' Wild West, of which he was manager, and Fitz's American Cricus, which recently disbanded at Capetown, ins in New York having recently arrived from South Africa with a party of American performers who were with his show when it closed. Mr. Fitzsimmons is the original rider of the big leap for life jump.

Billboard, June 28, 1913, pp. 24, 26, 27. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    George R. Wells, "the smileless man," while traveling with the Sells-Floto Circus in California, fell off the train and sustained injuries which have resulted in rheumatism, which has crippled him to the extent that he is only able to get around in a wheel chair. His is now at Byron Hot Springs, California, in bad shape, both physically and financially, and appeals to his friends for a little aide to enable him to get to Mt. Clemens, Mich., where he can take treatment for his rheumatism.

    The Sig. Sautelle Shows have closed their tour through Maine, and were not in error when they decided to see if the trade-mark remained fresh in the memory of the inhabitants of the East. At Rochester, the home of George W. Rollins, the natives packed the tent at both performances. At the night performance Mayor Frank Maguire presented him with a gold-headed cane, studded with diamonds. The presentation was made through the business men of that city, who have watched Mr. Rollins rise from the shoemaker's bench to where he is at now. Spader Johnson joined the clown colony June 14. Mr. Clark, formerly of the Cole Bros. Show, now has the stock, and Mr. Spivens the train.

    George M. Kelly, the once champion leaper of the circus world, whose whereabouts was discovered through the mention of him in the book, Watch Yourself Go By, is in dire need of aid. The author, Al. G. Field, of minstrel fame, was a member of the Thayer & Noyes Circus Company at the time Kelly was at the zenith of his career. Mr. Kelly is residing in Binghamton, N. Y., nearly blind and in need. Al. G. Field has started a subscription to relieve the immediate wants of the old-time gladiator. A benefit performance will be given later on and tickets will be sent to a representative with all the tented exhibitions. All monies will be sent to The Billboard. The money will be sent direct to Mr. Kelly and his wife, Binghamton, N. Y. A brief history of George M. Kelly will be of interest. In 1855 he joined the Levi North Circus. He continued with North until 1860. Then with the North and Robinson Circus 1861-62. The Robinson of the firm was Alex Robinson, a brother to old John Robinson. In 1863 at Fairplay, Wis., he joined the Costello and Van Blake Circus. In 1864 he joined the Howe Show. In 1865 he joined the Thayer and Noyes Circus in Washington, D. C. He continued with this concern until 1867, when with a combination of champion circus athletes he went to Europe. It was in Paris that Kelly made a leap over 17 horses. This made him world famous. Kelly was a feature with the old John Robinson 10 Big Shows in 1869; with the Commonwealth Shows in 1871 and back with the John Robinson Shows in 1872, 1873 and 1874. In 1875 he was with the W. W. Cole Circus. He met with an accident that kept himout of the ring. In 1876 he was back again to the Robinson Show, with the Sells Brothers in 1881-1882, which was really his last active work under the white tents. Were it not for his loss of eyesight, Mr. Kelly would not appeal to his friends.

    The Broncho Bill Wild West will open its season July 4 at Mason, Neb. The show will carry 60 head of horses, 40 to be used in the arena and 20 for baggage stock. The show will consist of a ten piece band, headed by Prof. Henn Rockey, 12 cowboys, eight cowgirls and ten Indians. "Cinch Kerr," broncho buster and steer bull-dogger of Wyoming will be chief of the cowboys. W. Carey will have charge of the tickets, George Davis reserved seats, H. Snow candy privilege, and Frank Robinson pit show. Transportation will be made in wagons, with two wagons in advance. No. 1 will be in charge of Steve Lester with three billposters, and No. 2 in charge of Carl Underwood. The show intends to play through Nebraska and the Dakotas.

    Gollmar Bros. Shows Combined with Herr Driesbock's collection of trained wild animal have just completed the first three weeks of their annual tour through Minnesota and South Dakota. At Siseton, S. D., the first section did not get in town until two o'clock adn the second section one hour later. The parade was on the streets at four o'clock, and the afternoon performance started at five. Business was good through Illinois and Iowa, in consideration that the show had over two weeks of rainy weather. The Military Band is under the direction of Prof. John Hollenger [sic?]. Bob Ray is playing solo cornet. Al (Montana) Swan has charge of the mail. Senator McDonald has taken charge of the up-town wagon. The side show is under the management of Lew Aronson. Harry Ridgely and E. Lester Miller are Mr. Arnoson's assistants. Prof. James Harris, trombone soloist, is leading the band and presenting the big mistrel show in the side show, featuring the Dancing Dixie Dandies.

    The Don Carlos Circus recently played an engagement at the Airdome, El Paso, Texas.

    Charles Camm and Josie Rapp, both of the Hagenbeck-Wallace side show, were united in marriage June 10 at Norristown, Pa., while the show was exhibiting there.

    Wm. J. Gilman is now doing the local contracting for Saner's European Circus.

    From Buenos Aires, S. A., under date of Ma 15, Tony Lowande writes that his company is meeting with success in all parts, that the Shipp and Feltus Circus is at present showing in the Anfiteatro to capacity business, and that all other shows that have been in the Anfiteatro, Frank Brown included, have gone to the walls.

    Billy Cavanaugh and Joseph H. Hughes, circus privilege men, have purchased the Pine Tree Inn at Moosehead Lake, Me. At the close of the summer season they will locate in Florida for the winter. Joseph H. Mull, formerly of the Frank A. Robbins Show, is head clerk at the Pine Tree.

    Laurence Ledoux has the candy stands with the J. H. Eschman Shows.

    The Irwin Family recently joined the Attebury Bros. Circus, which is now in its seventh week with business good.

    Harry E. Crandell, formerly general agent for the Eschman European Circus, joined Rentz Bros. Circus at Pittsburg, Pa. recently to act as general agent and railroad contractor. Othes on the advance are Morris Vick, local contractor; George Chester, press representative, and Wm. Lane, boss billposter with five men.

    Kennedy Bros. Shows have closed, and the Kennedy Bros. have joined the Lucky Tull and Yoder Bros. Wild West Show. Mr. and Mrs. M. Crane, trick riders, joined the Lucky Tull and Yoder Bros. at Antiers, Okla.

    Wm. (Dutch) Nowack, and old-time trouper, who traveled with a number of shows as assistant boss canvasman, died at St. Louis,Mo., June 2.

    Col. W. E. Franklin, who is leading the simple life at Valparaiso, Indiana, does not believe in carrying things too far. That simple life can be overdone, so he has complexed it by adding to his entourage a seven-passenger touring car and chauffeur and a Japanese chef.

    Ben Howell, bronco rider, who has been connected with the Malone Bros. Wild West Shows for the past three seasons, was injured recently when a wild horse fell on him twice. He is now under the doctor's care. Claude Close and Aubrey Stamford, trapeze and Roman ring artists, left this show to start one of their own. The Darnwell Sister Team, slack wire and trapeze artists, of the Thomas Bros. Wagon Shows, joined recently. Dell Simmons, clown juggler, while trying to do a left under-spin, collided with two of the knives, causing one to cut him above and below his left eye. The shows have been playing to good business since their opening at Terrell, Okla., in March.

    Amazon Bros. Circus opened the season June 9 at Columbus, Ohio, to a fair audience. Mons LaPlace, manager, has an excellent outfit this year. The program: Brown and Suttle, black-face and clown; LaPlace and LaPlace, bar performers; Donald Clark, slack wire and dancer; Dolores Bude, girl of mystery; May LaPlace, singing clown; Clark and Mentenhall, comedy jugglers and acrobats.

    A. S. Englert, known as Captain Smith, boss canvasman of the late Martin Downs Cole Bros. Shows, and Miss Anna Haendler, prominent young lady of Erie, Pa., were married at Hamilton, Ont., Can., June 16.

    Roster of Ballard's 20th Century Circus: Dewitt Ballard, proprietor; Chas. Bannard, manager; Jos. F. Moore, treasurer and press agent; Michael Martin, boss canvasman; Tom Campbell, privilege man; Eli Fournier, boss hostler.

    Byron Spaun is doing small towns at two per week of three days each, with real changes in the performance and playing to his best house last, when the weather permits. This upsets all traditions of the business.

    Word reaches us that Jack Denners, who for many years was the proprietor of the Rowan Bros. Circus, died a short time ago in Henty, Australia.

Billboard, July 5, 1913, p. 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    During a recent visit at Norfolk, Neb., where he was a guest of R. f. Schiller, retired circus man, Mr. Richards stated that he had completed arrangements for the equipment and outfit, and would proceed immediately with the preliminary organization of the 40 car circus, under the title of the Great Van Amberg Bros. Shows, which he proposes to have completed and read to start out early in the season of 1914.

    Since the opening in North Carolina, April 1, the Christie and Leonard Wagon Show has covered Virginia, and is now in West Virginia. The show has been doing only fair business. One drawback to the show in the mountains is the condition of the roads, it being almost impossible to get from place to place. The show will play Central West Virginia a few weeks, and will then go back to North Carolina.

    Atterbury Bros. United Shows are now in their seventh week of the most prosperous season they have had in the past five years. More baggage stock is being added to the outift each week. Sig. Frisco has taken Frank Renzo's place as equestrian director. Wm. Atterbury has taken charge of the advance.

Billboard, July 12, 1913, pp. 28, 30, 45. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    A rumor is out that Maloon Bros. Show disbanded at Union City, Ind., June 24, and it is alleged that manager Carlton Maloon vamosed with two weeks' salary of the troupe and a weeks' door receipts, amounting to somewhere in the neighborhoond of $500.

    Heber Bros. Circus and Wild West Show has been doing big business all season. Earl Mead is superintendent of canvas. Benj. C. Heber, general advance, has signed Ray Von Fossen as banner man to strengthen the advance, also James J. Ramsey, who will take charge of advance No. 2. Phillip J. Strauss and Lou Warner are handling the brushes and Walter Reed the programs.

    Gollmar Bros. Shows. Miss Nola Satterfield joined recently and is featuring Bobbie, the cake-walking horse. Col. Phil Keeler painted his calliope a bright crimson and the wheels a beautiful gold.

    Rentz Bros. Circus. Don McKenzie joined Rentz Bros. at Newton, N. J., as contracting agent. Mr. McKenzie has been out of the game for the past two years. He was formerly auditor with the W. L. Main Show, and later with Howe's Great London Shows. George Chester, press agent, closed at Mauch Chunk, Pa., and has been succeeded by William Lane. William Jacks, John Hayes and John Cerville, late of the Sig. Sautelle Shows, joined the advance at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Roster of the advance: Harry E. Crandell, general agent; Don McKenzie, contracting agent; William Lane, William Jacks, George Koneskay, John Hayes, John Cerville, W. H. Jones and Tom Connors.

    The Jones No. 2 Show had a slight blow down at Arnold, Pa., Friday, June 20. The dressing room and side show tops and one pole on the big top were blown down. This happened at 6:30 p.m. The big show started at 8:30. At United and Mammoth, Pa., the show was cut short on account of big wind and rain storms. J. Augustus Jones paid the show a three days' visit on his way to Kentucky to look over his Cole and Cooper Show. Frank Lenord, the animal trainer, put his new dogs through some new tricks last week. LaClede and Gren are breaking in a new clown act, A Trip to Joyland. Thomas Aiton joined at Cresson, Pa., to handle the big show and concert tickets and to run the privilege car. Jack Roach, magic and punch man, from Durham, N. C., joined the kid show at Marion Center. The LaMarr Sisters, iron jaw and aerial act, joined at Blairsville, Pa. The show has been doing big business in the mining towns of Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

    Mr. and Mrs. James W. Beattie and daughter, Dorothy May, sailed June 19 for Europe. Mr. Beattie, who this season is with Rice Bros. Circus, now in Saskatchewan, Can., arrived in Montreal June 26 to see his family off, but at the last moment decided to accompany them. Mr. Beattie's interests with the shows are in capable hands, and will be well taken care of. As soon as conditions permit, Mr. Beattie will return to the show.

    Thos. L. Finn's Great Eastern Shows are now in their ninth week and doing capacity business. The noon-day street parade is making the natives sit up and take notice. The parade consists of three bands, five open dens, seven cages, three camels and Cracker Jack (kangaroo). The show carries 108 head of stock and 96 people. A Shetland pony was born at Ausable, N. Y. The roster: T. L. Finn, owner and manager; Mrs. T. L. Finn, treasurer; Edw. Dunn, assistant manager; Phil Holden, superintendent; Jack Conden, equestrian director; Jack Ryan, in charge of big top with eleven men; Jack Lewis, boss hostler; Skip Mathews, assistant, with 22 men; Kid Show Whitie has the side show top with six men, and Dode O'Brian cook house with three assistants.

Billboard, July 19, 1913, pp. 24, 25. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Stull Bros. Shows, which opened at Beverly, Ohio, May 30, are said to have stranded at Bellaire, Ohio, July 4, leaving the performers in straightened circumstances. Among those with the shows at the time were the Gothard Troupe, wire artists; Two LaBertos, contortionists; Dunn's Dogs and Ponies; the Aividos, Jap jugglers; Ralph Dick, aerialist and acrobat; Lawrence and Otis, acrobats; the Hendersons, triple bar; Johnny Wicks, clown; Ralph Wilson, clown, and Edward Rodgers, concert band.

    English, Ind., July 11. Charles Alderfer, while doing his head balancing trapeze act with the H. W. Freed Shows here yesterday, had a severe fall, caused by ropes on his rigging giving away. Mr. Alderfer was left in care of the Masons in this city. It will be some time before he will be able to rejoin the show.

    Albert Salamonski, the European circus proprietor, passed away at Moscow, Russia, July 8.

    Harry C. Chapman closed with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show at Peekskill, N. Y., June 28, to embark in the real estated business. He has opened offices in the Putnam Building, 1493 Broadway, New York City, and will handle Long Island property exclusively. William Andrus, the famous breaker of live stock, especiall bucking mules, has just purchased a $7,000 home from him. Mr. Chapman has been in the circus business for at least forty years, and traveled with a number of big shows. Among them were the Old Van Amburg Show, Original Forepaugh Show 1876, Original Barnum Show 1877, Walter L. Main Show, Forepaugh-Sells Show, Ringling Bros. Show and then the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus.

    J. M. Slocum, who has been operating a tent show at Emporia, Kan., under the name of Cramer's Dog and Pony Show, was arrested July 5, upon advices from Council Bluffs, Iowa, that he is wanted in that city on separate charges of larceny and larceny as bailee. Slocum says he intends to fight requisition. It is alleged that the five performers on the show, failing to receive their salaries and hold-backs, tried to attach the properties and found them all mortgaged to a firm in Wichita.

    The J. H. Boyer Show is playing to capacity business. July 4 it played the Bainbridge, Ind., Horse Fair. Floyd Trover, general agent, spent the Fourth back with the show.

    Harry DeCleo, now with the Heber Bros. Greater Show, is acting as drum major for the Regnold Franklin Concert Band of twelve pieces, and is making a hit with his baton spinning at each concert. He also reports that his aerial ring act and juggling is getting applause. Mr. DeCleo will sever his connection with the show about October 15, to enter vaudeville for the winter.

    J. S. Sanders, the famous humanitarian warden of the Iowa State Prison at Fort Madison, Iowa, was once a circus bandmaster.

    DeWitt Ballard's Greatest 10-20-Cent Show On Earth, as clean-cut a little trick as ever took the road, closed the season at Waltham, Mass., July 1. Insufficient capital and bad country are given as the cause. It was a Bridgeport, Conn., enterprise, opening at that city early in May.

    Will Bradley, late of Howe's Great London Shows, and Nellie Capps, of Jones Bros. Shows, were married at Kittaning, Pa., June 10.

Billboard, August 2, 1913, p. 25. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Heber Bros. Circus, on its return to winter quarters at Columbus, Ohio, on October 1, will not disband, but will keep all the talent, band and orchestra, horses, ponies, monkeys, bears, donkeys, clowns, etc., running in opera houses as an indoor circus. The show will travel in three special cars.

Billboard, August 9, 1913, pp. 23, 24. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Winnipeg, Man., Can., July 19. Tex McLeod, trick and fancy roper, and one of the stars of the Sells-Floto Circus this season, and Miss Emily Stickney, of the Stickney Family, equestrians with the same show, will be married at the Stickney home in Cincinnati, Ohio, just as soon as the season closes.

    The J. H. Eschman European Circus was one of the first shows to cross the boundary into Canada and the first one to back out. Three weeks of unsatisfactory business induced the management to change the route, which has proved to be a wise course, as the show has been meeting with success ever since the change, proving to be the most successful season during the show's four years' existence. Mr. Eschman is undecided whether to double the size of the show and devote his entire time to it, or lease or sell the outfit and devote his attention to his business and financial interests at Minneapolis. The annex, under the management of Ray Dic, has been doing excellent business. Recent additions to this department are the Jones and Carey Trio and Miss Hazel Conlon. Capt. J. W. York continues as equestrian director. J. M. Stevens has the band, Lawrence LaDoux handles the privileges and Otto Fowler the mail. E. H. Smith, the original Foxy Grandpa, is putting in his third season with the show.

    After five weeks in Canadian sunshine, rain and mud, Yankee Robinson Circus showed it final stand July 14, at Rainy River, Ont., to a grand day's business, crossing the border on the 15th from Fort Francis to International Falls, Minn., where a day's capacity returns greeted the show. A wreck out of the Falls caused the loss of an entire days' receipts at Virginia, otherwise not much damage. On the 17th the circus moved on to Hibbin, where fine weather and two big crowds partly compensated for any Virginia shortage. A 200 mile Sunday run to Cambridge was worth while, the show had a banner afternoon Monday, the 21st. The business at Red Wing, 22nd, and Winona, 23rd, was on the capacity order. Charles Sweeney, the oldest equestrian director in the world, celebrated his fifty-seventh tented season at Winona.

    John H. Sparks Shows. A telegram from Cleveland, Tenn., announces the death of Alonzo Turner, who for the past two years has had the band and furnished the colored talent with the side show. Mr. Turner was taken ill about three weeks ago, when his wife left with him for their home. He has been connected with most of the colored shows that toured the South for the past 10 years. He was a cornet soloist of note and a valuable adjunct to the side show. A. C. Orcutt, steward, has arranged to put out a repertoire show as soon as the circus season closes.

Billboard, August 23, 1913, p. 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Gollmar Bros. Shows. The Flying Herberts left at Sparta, Wis., to fill fair engagements. Their places were filled by the Lamy Brothers, casting act and acrobats. The week previous to leaving, the Happy Eight (so called with the show), consisting of MacLain and wife, Young and wife, Barnett and wife, and Pike and wife, invited Alec Todd and wife, who are members of the Flying Herberts this season to a farewell picnic. Charles LaBelle joined at Lake Mills, Wis., to clown and ride mule hurdle. Faye Hicks, oriental dancer, joined at Fairchild, Wis., and is working daily in the side show. The train suffered a wreck in the yards at Sparta, Wis., putting the lunch car and ring stock car out of commission. Neither people nor stock were injured.

    Cole Bros. Show, by Doc Filley. The Cole Bros. Show did capacity business at Auburn, Neb., August 7. Just as our show was being loaded at Humboldt, Neb., August 6, the Yankee Robinson Show train came along and stopped for a few minutes. Freddie Hatfield is at his home in Fairbury, Neb., for a few days, visiting friends, filling up on his mother's cooking, and attending to business pertaining to the show. A water wagon was added to the show August 8 at Falls City, Neb. Ed Campbell visited his home for a few days last week. Wm. Campbell, proprietor of the side show, was obliged to add another middle piece to hs top to accommodate the patronage.

    Wintermute Bros. Wagon Show has been out 12 weeks, having opened the season in Southern Wisconsin on May 10. Roster: Harry Wintermute and Frank E. Hall, proprietors; Mrs. Frank E. Hall, treasurer; James B. Rock, agent; Frank Hall, general superintendent; Geo. C. Golden, chef; Harry Rivers, candy stand. Performers: the Lilletas, acrobatic and contortion; Thomas W. Wintermute Jr., wire and hurdle; Fisher and Lester, trapeze and revolving ladders; Vern Schneider, clown. Aside from these, ten separate acts by trained animals, ponies, dogs, monkeys, pigs, bears, including the feature act, Jargo, the large performing elephant introduced by Mlle. Zella, are presented.

    Lowery Bros. Shows are in their fifteenth week, business the best in the history of the show, this being their seventh year out. The show this season has made all three days stands, without a bloomer, and will continue to play three day stands for the balance of its Eastern trip. It will soon head southward for a long season. P. J. O'Neil left the show at McAdoo, Pa., for his home to attend to other business. The roster: George B. Lowery, sole owner and director; Mrs. George B. Lowery, treasurer; John Clare, advance; Pat Hilbert in charge of big top with seven men. Performers: Flying Magenleys [sic?], Ed and Lotta Freed and Nippert, Ray Williams, Jerry Frontz, Two Macks, Billy Smith and Ed Foye.

    Bronco Joe's Wild West Show, which opened the season May 1, is in Michigan, doing good business. D. W. Perrine, manager, has just put up a new outfit. The big tent or airdome is 80 feet with two 30 foot middle pieces, and the pony tent is 50 feet. This is a 15 wagon show, carrying 15 head of Shetlands and 40 horses and broncos. This was formerly the Tiger Bill Show No. 1. The show is experiencing the largest business it has ever had. There are 13 numbers on the program and the ticket wagon is number 13, and Friday is the show's lucky day.

    Daniel R. Lewis, side show manager with the Wyoming Bill Wild West Show, died in a hospital at Avoca, N. Y., August 6, while being operated on for appendicitis. [missing text] was 27 years of age, and had many friends in the show business, having spent the last part of his career under the white tops. Last season he was with the 101 Ranch Wild West. The remains were buried at Baltimore, Md., his home town.

    Charley Johnson, known in world of white tops as a boss canvasman, boss property man, and all-around big top man, died at the Branch Hospital, Cincinnati, August 2, and was buried two days later. At the beginning of the season he joined the Young Buffalo Wild West, but only worked a short while when he broke down and returned to Cincinnati, where his friends tried to make him comfortable in his fight with the great white plague. His old friend, Bert Fee, manager of the Hotel Bremen, Cincinnati, took charge of the last rites.

    D. Phillip Phillips, many years known as "The Boy Agent," whose last circus engagement was with the Sanger Shows, this season, has dropped the show business cold, and is now in New York as representative of the Cleveland (Ohio) banks in their stock and bond department.

    Charles A. (Kid) Koster, circus agent, who leaves shortly to take charge of one of the advance cars of Howe's Great London Shows, is planning to put on a musical comedly the coming season to play the Middle West.

    C. H. (Pop) Sweeney and wife, and Walter Goodenough left the Yankee Robinson Shows at Clarinda, Iowa, and are now at Peru, Ind.

    Robert Emerick, who for the past two seasons was with the Barnum & Bailey No. 1 car,is now connected with one of the concessions at Electric Park, Kansas City, Mo.

Billboard, August 30, 1913, pp. 24, 26, 27. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The new management of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Combined Shows has definitely decided to put out a three-train show next season. The fact that this circus has heretofore been carried on two trains only, has long proven a handicap, in so much as some of the horses, the cook and dining tent, stakes and the employes in said departments have had to remain back with the show until the first of the two trains could be assembled after the exhibition was over. Under the 1914 arrangement, this advance squadron can get off the lot in plenty of time to allow them to reach stands of greater distance sufficiently early to have their canvas erected, the horses fed, the stakes driven and the lot ready for the main white top and concession canopies. Messrs. Talbott and Cory have arranged for the purchase of three of the elephants recently with the Two Bills Show. These bulls will join shortly.

    Bloomington, Ind., Aug. 21. The Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows were visited by a severe wind, electrical and rain storm here late today. The main tent was blown to the ground and the seats scattered over the field, making it impossible to give a night show. Two persons were injured, Harry Williams, of Toledo, Ohio, and Thomas Chestnut, a tent man of Peru, Ind. Mr. Williams received a broken leg when the wagon, under which he had taken shelter, was blown over on him, and Mr. Chestnut suffered a fractured arm in the same way. They were taken to a hospital.

    Chicago, August 22. A terrific wind storm struck Gentry Brothers Dog and Pony Show at 59th and Langley avenue, last night, during the evening performance. The guy ropes gave way and the big top collapsed on the audience of about 500 men, women and children. The lights in the tent were immediatly extinguished, and the people became panicky. Men cut their way through the canvas, and liberated the women and children. A number of people were more or less severely injured, including Mrs. Hannah Dooley, trampled upon by the crowd; Charles McDonald, clown, knocked unconscious by the falling tent pole; Lawrence Mertes, choked by rope from falling tent pole. The damage to the show property was quickly repaired, and the show appeared today in good shape at ___ and Devon, in North Side, Chicago.

    Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 19. Henry Wagner Sr., of the Great Wagner Show, died at his home here last Sunday.

    New York, Aug. 25. Fred D. Darling, the dog and pony and monkey circus proprietor, who has just concluded a season's engagement at Luna Park, Coney Island, has been engaged for the New York Hippodrome Circus for the entire winter. Mr. Darling is furnishing ponies, dogs and comedy mule which will be used in various scenes of this season's spectacle. At Luna, Darling has a trained wild animal show and also furnished all of the free attractions and acted as equestrian director in the open air circus.

    Nine performers joined the Frank A. Robbins Show for its trip in the South, Wm. DeMott and wife, riders; the Gothard Troupe, three in number, wire, acrobatic and aerial acts; Miss Marie Millett, trapeze and flying rings, and the Crandall Troupe, three in number, riders and acrobats.

    Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows. Madam Nadje and her brother closed with the show Monday night, August 18, to engaged in vaudeville. This was Nadje's first experience under white top, and she made good. Joe LaJoe arranged to celebrate Labor day by having his mother-in-law, Mrs. Russell, bring his one year old daughter, Venita, to Paris, Ill., from Aurora, their home, to see her ma and pa. Tony Patt, of the Aerial Patts, who took sick while at Syracuse, N. Y., rejoined the show in Michigan recently. His partner (Sophie Daly) spent the off-time visiting her folks in Ironton, Ohio. Curley Fletcher, after seven years with the show, is now working in a new department. He is on the front. Fred Edgner and Lon Moorie, two joeys, played their home town - Brazil, Ind. - Tuesday. The H. W. management have bought a new $2,500 five-seated Apperson "Jack Rabbit" auto. Talbot and Cory brought it on from Kokomo for their own use, a wonderful time-saver. The Four Aleximes have not been with the show for two weeks. This troupe came from Holland, and after playing fair dates, may return to the lowland.
    Al J. Massey is a real disciplinarian. Not one of his musicians can booze. The following recently replaced discharged offenders: "Jap" Nelson, saxophone from the Kilties; Jesse Davis, an old veteran on the euphonium; Lawrence Stengel, trombone, and Eddie Buront, solo bass, from Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. John Andrew, H. W. treasurer, has closed to take out Lowry's Minstrels this winter. Lowry has been re-engaged for next year's annex again. . . .

    J. H. Eschman European Shows. D. C. Hawn, general agent, reports their dates at Blue Island, August 30 to September 4. At Blue Island, the show will re-organize and take on more people in all lines for its annual Southern tour. The company will also add some new animal acts at Blue Island, among which will be a boxing kangaroo, and an annex feature. An outside free attraction, known as The Fearless Melrose, recently joined the show to do his act twice daily.

    Rentz Bros. Circus just completed a tour through the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains, and report business very good. Professor Johnson, with his illusion and Punch and Judy, joined Rentz Bros. Circus at Helena, N. Y., to work the side show. Professor Willis' Colored Band and Jubilee Singers is one of the side show attractions with Rentz Bros.

    Wm. Gilman, for the past two years has managed the Lyric Theater at Belleville, Ill., is doing the local contracting for the Sanger European Circus.

    C. I. Norris is still out with his baboons (Emperor and Empress).

    Jolly Jenaro, clown juggler with the Great Wagner Show, was called to his home in Milwaukee, August 17, on account of the death of his father, Henry Wagner Sr., of the Great Wagner Show.

    Brown and Pommier's Combined Shows have added a wild west attraction to their show. They have purchased some bucking stock, and engaged two riders and some Indians. They are now playing fairs.

    Frank Winch, formerly a circus press agent, is leading the simple life at Jackson, Mich. Winch is advertising manager for the Ruby Steel Sign Works of Jackson.

    Bill Kinney, press agent for the Walter L. Main Shows several years, is now at Erie, Pa., managing editor of The Evening Hearld.

    Murray A. Pennock, who went to Australia with the Bud Atkinson Show, is back in the states and has joined the Al. G. Barnes Show.

    Roster, Gentry Bros. Show No. 2 band: J. E. Richardson, director; A. R. Kennedy, solo cornet; Vernon Fowler, assistant solo cornet; James Stevenson, Bb clarinet; Arch Hinkley, Eb clarinet; Max Freeman, bass; E. C. McMaster, baritone; Henry Blank, 1st trombone; Chester Franklin, 2nd trombone; Al Just, 1st alto; Joe P. Donnelly, 2nd alto; Cal Richardson, trap drums.

    Sig. Sautelle is all there on a tried, true and experienced bunch of joeys. The line-up: Spader Johnson, Lew Nichols, Pete Bell, Denny Ryan, Fred Ledgett, Dollie Julian, Martinho Lowande Jr., and Pogie O'Brien. They almost all date back to the golden eighties and sterling nineties.

Billboard, September 6, 1913, pp. 29, 31, 57. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Henry Wiggins, general agent of the Old Dominion Shows, with two assistants, is doing nice work through Western Pennsylvania.

    The Riding Crandalls have left the Sanger European Shows.

    Dick Masters is now with the Park Prentiss band with the Sells-Floto Shows, and will remain for the remainder of the season.

    John W. Garrett, of Rice Bros. Colossal Shows, paid his first visit in three years to his home in Mt. Home, Idaho, when the shows played there recently.

    Gollmar Bros. Shows. The Flying Herberts left the show to play fairs, and were replaced by Lamey Brothers. The Pit Show Juanita is pulling the coin. With Walter Rhodes as manager, Slivers Bowden as assistant manager, and Evertee Herr as ticket seller, Juanita has a capable staff to lead her to success. M. E. Bacon is spending his first season as legal adjuster. John Bauer, of Canton, Ohio, brother of Mrs. Carl A. Zanton (Mlle. Clifford) visited at Waukegan, Ill. Devaney and Ray leave the show August 30, at Roschelle, Ill. Albert Gaston, veteran clown, joined the shows at Ripon, Wis., recently. He had spent the forepart of the season with Fowler and Clark. John Hollinger, band leader, has replaced John Ray, cornet soloist, with G. Edward Pierce; Andrew Granger, trombonist, with C. Jones Vernon, and Tom Crosby, clarinet, with Henry Prescott. Charles LaBell was added to the joey fraternity at Lake Mills.

    Belleville, Ill., August 27, 1913. To my friends and brother billposters: I am here in the St. Clair County Hospital, suffering from a stroke of paralysis, which I received while billing for the M. L. Clark Show over a year ago. I want to buy a wheel chair so I can sell the daily papers, and I haven't the funds. It it's only a little contribution, it all helps. Yours respectfully, Charles T. Treager, Care County Hospital, Belleville, Ill.

    Charles Thomas, who has been with the Sangers' Combined Shows for the past three years, has left the show and is on his way to his home at Mattoon, Ill. Mr. Thomas will remain at his home for an indefinite stay.

    A. E. Howard, the trained animal man, left for the South with several head of stock and some trained domestics. He will join the Cole and Cooper Shows as soon as he can reach the shows.

    George Wombold, after leaving the Young Buffalo Show at Atlantic City, has been engaged to take charge of the canvas on the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows.

    A correspondent writes: "Busines with Sun Brothers Greater Progressive Shows has been fair. We had a fair matinee Monday at Kewanna in the rain and a good night; Flora was fine afternoon and night; Rockville in the rain was light; Rosedale also rain and light, and Sullivan was fair. Here at Robinson it also looks only fair. Wallace comes in here in September and that won't help us any. Had Peter learned of it in time he would have cut out a lot of it. We lost one of our big lions the other day by heat exhaustion.

    It may be of interest to his many circus friends to learn that the funeral of the late William J. Doris was taken care of by Sam Scribner of the Columbia Amusement Co., and E. F. Albee, of the United Booking Office, both of whom were old friends of the deceased. Bill, who was a brother of John B. Doris, died at the Fordham Home, Fordham, N. Y., three weeks ago.

    Nazor's Family Show is in its eleventh week, making three night stands in Ohio, with business good. George Grant, comedy juggler and wire performer, joined at St. Louisville. The show will be enlarged next season to a five wagon outfit, with one ring and an eight piece band, and will play one night stands over the same territory.

    G. Burkhart, who had the management of the annex with the Sig. Sautelle Show, owing to dissatisfaction, left at Plainfield, N. J., and joined the Frank A. Robbins Show at Liberty, N. Y., to manage the side show for the balance of the season.

    It is reported that the Young Buffalo Wild West was cut down to a fourteen car show at Hagerstown, Md., August 25, cutting out the twenty ox team and other feature acts.

    The Robson Bros. Shows are in their eighteenth week, with business good considering the bad weather we have had the last month. We had a blowdown at Shippenville, Pa. Capacity business ruled at Bakerton, Pa., August 20, and Baker's Mines, August 23. George Flatt's ten piece band furnishes the music. We carry 22 wagons and 52 head of stock. We are headed southward at present, and expect to be around Baltimore, Md., by the time cold weather sets in. Then we will ship our outfit by water from Baltimore to Charleston, S. C., and work over through Georgia and Alabama during the winter.

    Downie & Wheeler Shows, by Al. F. Wheeler Jr. Altho the second show this season to play Long Island, N. Y., we enjoyed the biggest business in the history of the show, capacity business ruling at the afternoon performances and several turnaways recorded at night. At Riverhead, August 22, it was necessary to spread straw on the hippodrome track and cut out the tournament. J. S. Roberton caught the overflow with his big annex and did a land office business until 10 p.m. Bert Andrus joined the show at Greenport, L. I., as legal adjuster, together with Walter S. Parks, stenographer, and Harry C. Chapman, side show orator. The show is geing greatly strengthened for its Southern trip. The season will be a long one, contracts already having been closed to keep the show out until the wash water freezes in the buckets.

    James W. Beattie reached the Rice Bros. Circus in Oregon, having had a most enjoyable trip for several weeks in Europe. Mr. Beattie is equipping the different departments under his control with the Rice Bros. Circus, with new attractions and many extra pairs of hands for the hard battle he expects in getting money with his privileges this fall.

    The Sanger Combined Shows experienced a very severe blowdown while playing Gettysburg, Pa., August 18. The tents were pitched on the old battlefield, and ideal place for handling the show. About 5 o'clock in the evening it became very dark and a fierce windstorm turned up so suddenly that no one had time to save anything except their lives. Luckily there was no one in the big top at the time, and no one was seriously injured. One center pole in the big top and another in the menagerie were broken, one horse killed outright, and a number of others badly hurt, and the tops were so badly damaged that Mr. Thillman has ordered a lot of new canvas.

    Shenandoah, Pa., Aug. 26. A riot was caused here late Saturday night during the performance of the Sig Sautelle Nine Big Shows, when a mob threw stones in the dressing room and the cowboys and canvasmen charged them with pistols and clubs. Three men were probably fatally injured. John Ellis, 40 years old, was picked up unconscious and is still in serious condition; Walter Washinsky, 23 years of age, was shot in the left side breast, and William Byrne, 30 years of age, received a fractured skull. A number of others were slightly injured. The chief of police arrested Warren Potter, colored, of Boston, charged with the assaults. He was locked up and committed to prison awaiting the results of the injuries of the three men. The tent was crowded with people when the riot occurred, and a panic was almost created. The big top almost collapsed, owing to several ropes being cut.

    Jones Bros. No. 1 Show has returned to the states after playing nine weeks in Canada. The Canadian trip was not as profitable as was at first expected, but Mr. Jones claims the show more than broke even. At Deer Park, Wash., nearly all the workingmen left the show to join Ringling Brothers, but through rapid wook of the bosses they managed to get enough men to handle the canvas which enabled them to keep the show moving. The show will son make some long jumps by way of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

    Gus and Art Lind are with Cole Bros. Shows, doing their wire, foot juggling and unsupported ladder acts. Although in the corn belt regions, which have been considerably damaged by the extreme heat, business has been encouraging for the show.

    George Steinard and wife, Marguerite Still, closed with the Sig Sautlle Shows.

    Captain Walker, the blue man, formerly with the Two Bills Show, is now with Ringling Bros. as a feature of the side show.

    Gary Vanderbilt is successfully managing Jones Bros. No. 2 Show, now en route through Kentucky and Tennessee.

    Roy Bassett, late of the Haag Shows, joined the Yankee Robinson Shows to do clowning.

    Danny R. Robinson is now connected with Mr. Mugivan in a managerial capacity.

    Buck Reger has left the Gollmar Show and is in Chicago.

Billboard, September 13, 1913, pp. 25, 26, 27. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    At Vaughn, N. M., September 7, H. L. "Buck" Massie finishes up a thirty-one weeks' season as general agent and traffic manager for the Al. G. Barnes Circus. Buck will spend the winter with his mother and sister in Los Angeles.

    Sig. Sautelle Shows. Business has been good since entering Pennsylvania. Some changes have been made which assists materially for the good of the show. Prof. Buckhead and his Country Store have departed from the annex. Oram and King have been secured to fill the vacancy and have made a hit with the public and management. The annex is now, and has been from the begining, under the management of one of the proprietors, George W. Rollins. W. I. Harrington and wife are also additions to this department. The Reliance Film Company has been with us for some time and have focused about everything from the razor-backs to the cooch, including the whole performance, parade and free exhibitions. They are to make a feature film in which circus life will get a good airing on the screen. The show will enter its first stand in West Virginia at Morgantown and at the end of a couple of weeks will invade Kentucky for an indefinite stay. The management have announced a long season South and will not go into winter quarters before the last of December or first of January. Oscar Lowande has the bee for a wagon show next season in addition to the railroad show.

    Hagenbeck-Wallace Show, by George Atkinson. W. B. Irons received a monster snake from Ruhe, the animal dealer. The reptile is twenty-eight feet long and is now on exhibition in the "up-town wagon." George Wombold joined as boss canvasman at Decatur, Ill. Whitey Murray and Slim Walsh are the assistants. Monk Wilson is now trainmaster, having taken charge at Cairo, Ill. John R. Andrew spent several days at his home in Monticello, Ill. Will Davis is special railroad trainmaster.

    Al. G. Barnes Circus. Oklahoma City. William Peck, local contractor, came back to the show here and stayed with us until Enid. Lawton, Sunday, August 31. Here everyone had an opportunity to visit the Arapho Indian camp, where one thousand Indians were camping out awaiting the arrival of the show. September 1, A. G. Barnes had one of his birthidays, but we do not know which one. Many of the boys missed the train out of Lawton, Monday night, but arrived at Weatherford in time for the parade. Charles Cook's mother was on the show paying her son a visit. Mrs. Cook's home is in Springfield, Mo. The closing of the Two Bills Show in Denver has increased our annex. Among those who came over were: V. Belasco and wife, cartoonists; Loretta White, snake enchantress, and James George and R. G. Dunlap, Highland Scotch piper and novelty drummer. P. J. Stanton, manager of the side show, is putting this addition to his annex.

    Frank (Red) Moore, for several years boss hostler for Gentry Bros. Show, was hit by a street car, August 27, and died the same day in Sheridan Park Hospital, Chicago. Anyone knowing the home of Mr. Moore, kindly communicate at once with F. D. Gardner, 5723 Race avenue, Chicago.

    The Honest Bill Show is playing to good business in Oklahoma. This show will next play Texas, up to Christmas, and then ship back to Quenemo, Kans., the winter quarters.

    Mrs. Forrester, of Medina, N. Y., mother of Fred C. Forrester, who is a nephew of A. T. Downie, of the Downie ad Wheeler Shows, has been a guest of the show for the past two weeks.

    The Mighty Haag Shows showed Madison, Ill., on Labor Day, to good business. The shows looked quite nifty in a brand new top furnished by the Baker & Lockwood firm, and it is said that it was furnished on five days' time. The Miller Family is still the feature of the show and the horse, King George, is working in perfect style. Our old friend, Gay, is making and creating enthusiasm in his clown antics.

    Heber Bros. Circus and Wild West. Have just finished eighteen weeks of good business, without a blowdown. August 27 was Harter's Day at Sweetserm, Ind., that town being the birthplace of Walter Harter, aerialist. Heber Klink, clarinetist, leaves September 8 to direct a theater orchestra in Lima, Ohio. Benjamin Heber, general advance, uses an auto almost exclusively in his work. Phillip Strauss, billposter, while covering a country route for Greenfield, started for a barn just as it was struck by lightning. He was slightly shocked, the barn and its contents being destroyed. Plans are nearly complete for the Heber Bros. Indoor Circus, which will be on the rails, playing opera houses, the latter part of October.

    Notes of Atterbury Bros. Circus. Professor Burns and his troupe of dogs joined recently. The show has been out seventeen weeks and will finish the season the last week in October. W. A. Atterbury, general agent of the show, just received a new wagon, harness and team for the advance. The show has added six more head of baggage stock lately, and is prepared for the fall mud, if we have any.

    Smith's Colossal Shows. E. G. Smith, proprietor and manager of the Smith's Colossal Shows, who has been on the sick list for the past four weeks, was obliged to leave the show last week and go to a hospital in Pittsburg, where he will undergo an operation for gall stones. The principal territory covered this season has been the mining districts of Pennsylvania and business has been good. The show will stay out until about October 15, and will winter as usual at Atwater, Ohio. George H. Irving, manager of the side show, is going to put out a minstrel show at the end of the season. Jack Ray Dee, high wire and club juggler, is going on a Southern show for the winter. Gagnier, talking and singing clown, will winter at his farm in Michigan. Elmer C. Myers, general agent, has several good propositions for the winter. McIntyre and Devere, aerialists and acrobats, will troupe this winter. H. A. Ramsey, band leader, has several good propositions. Charles Dickey will lead an orchestra in Friedana, Pa.

    George S. Ely's Big Wagon Shows are having a most successful season, the ghost walking regularly. The shows opened April 17 and will stay out until next April, then going into quarters at Valda Ranch, Bering, Texas, for about six weeks to overhaul. The show carries 12 wagons, 35 head of horses, and 80 foot top with one 30 and one 20 foot middle piece. There are 26 people with the show, with the following roster: George S. Ely, owner and manager; K. S. Ely, treasurer; Hadam Rosa, magician and marionettes; Mons. Hugo, aerialist; Blackey and Nell Conely, concert; William Mitchell, clown and concert specialty; George S. Ely's ponies and mules.

    Monroe Shows and Buffalo Tom's Wild West is in its twenty-second week of the season. The show carries a nice bunch of wild animals, featuring the baby elephant. Sixteen wagons, 60 horses and 35 people are carried. The Austin Bros., aerialists and trick riders, will close shortly to enter school. They have signed for next season. The management has decided to go South and stay out all winter. After eight years with the Smith Greater Shows, M. P. Tate left at Loraine, Ohio, to join the Liberty Shows.

    The Joey lineup of the Kit Carson Show is as follows: Rue (Slim) Enos, producer; Earl Lawton, Fred Nelson, Jack Nelson, Iri Marr, Tom Walters, Harry Rabetis, Harry McDonald. Joe Fuentus is working the come-in as a female impersonator. The Joeys are all working in harmony.

Billboard, September 20, 1913, pp. 24, 25, 26, 27. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The Yankee Robinson Show was struck by a cyclone at Albia, Iowa, the afternoon of September 5, a short time after the performance began, demolishing the main tent and the animal tent. The side show manager was successful in keeping his tent in the air. The grand entry was over and the performance was just starting when the cyclone struck. While the show people were making great efforts to keep the audience from getting panic stricken, the round top began to move. Luckily the top went down slowly and those on the north, east and south ends got out without any trouble, but the west end went down before all were out, catching many between the canvas and seats. The canvasmen got busy in order to keep the women and children from smothering. Edwin McConville, the 12 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack McConville, had his skull crushed and part of his scalp torn away when one of the poles holding the side walls of the tent struck him, while four others in the audience were badly injured. Among the show people injured were Dave Joseph, musician, lips and face cut; Lara Badens, waiter in the dining car, struck by a pole; Earl Alldafer, four ribs broken and internally injured, and Fred Costello, equestrian director, eye hurt and back seriously injured by being struck by a pole.

    Edward Arlington signed a contract with the Miller Brothers for the continuation of their partnership to extend three years longer, making it run until 1916.

    Official of the Barnum & Bailey Show declare that the drought affected business and materially cut down the attendance during its stay in Missouri from September 2 to 10. In some places in Missouri it was difficult to obtain sufficient water for the people and stock.

    Charles McClintock has been re-engaged for the season of 1914 by Edward Arlington for the 101 Ranch.

    Grafton, W. Va., Sept. 10. Lives were placed in danger and Wm. Kalley, a driver, was perhaps fatally injured here yesterday in the Sig. Sautelle Shows parade when the horses attached to a cage containing a large leopard and two cubs became frightened and ran through the streets crowded with spectators. While rounding a corner the cage overturned and seriously injured the driver. The cage was also badly damaged. The horses broke loose from the cag and continued their flight until captured by some circus cowboys.

    Line-up of Atterbury Bros. One-ring Circus: Atterbury Brothers, proprietors; R. L. Atterbury, manager; W. A. Atterbury, general agent; Ray McDermont, boss hostler; Charles Burton, boss canvasman with six assistants; Mrs. Dora Atterbury, in charge of reserved seats; Jimmy Sevier, in charge of lights; A. D. Atterbury, painter and blacksmith. Performers: Irwin Family, aerialists; Miss Kitty, contortionist; Prof. Burns' Troupe of 14 dogs; William Bruce, magician; Jack Shepard, principal clown; George Jones, rider of trick mules, and Mike Roberts, bicycle and wire artist. Charles Burton also has charge of the candy stands. The show is doing bigger business this season than within the last four years. The biggest business was in Northern Missouri. Thirty head of stock are carried. The show will close in October.

    Robson Bros. Shows. Prof. John Dorward's outfit was reinforced by two new arrivals last week, a little mare pony and a jack. Business is good at the present time. A big rain storm came up about 7:30 p.m., September 6, at Hooversville, Pa., and put a damper on business, though we had a fair sized crowd at that. Howard (Shorty) Wartloft is back with the show again after being on the advance for two months. He is now in charge of the candy stands. The Aerial Wertz's are on the show now doing double traps and revolving ladder.

    F. G. Nazor, of Nazor's Family Shows, advises that he will close the canvas show on or about October 10, and after one week's rest, will start South through Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama, working society and lodge benefits and transporting with his own wagons and horses.

    The 101 Ranch Wild West Show closes the season at Birmingham, Ala., November 8.

    Floyd King, general representative for the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows the current season, has been re-engaged for the season of 1914.

    The death of James Farley, known throughout the country as the "strike breaker," and a former circus man, was reported September 11, from his home in Plattsburg, N. Y.

    Buck, Reger, the clown, fell and was killed at Lincoln, Neb., August 30.

Billboard, September 27, 1913, pp. 24, 25, 26, 27. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Albuquerque, N. M., Sept. 15. Mrs. Maude Thornton, equestrienne, with the Al. G. Barnes Circus, died of tuberculosis at Belen, N. M. She was the wife of Bob Thornton, an animal trainer. Mrs. Thornton was a famous rider, having been with the Barnum & Bailey, Sells-Floto and Forepaugh Shows for years before joining the Barnes Circus. She was 25 years of age. The remains were brought to this city from Belen, and placed in the Santa Barbara Cemetery. The funeral was attened by the Al. G. Barnes Circus people.

    Chicago, Sept. 8. Word has just been received from Greenville, Texas, that Pauline Tate, a Chicago living picture artist, connected with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, was accidently pushed from the crowded platform of a Pullman under the wheels of the car and so severely injured that she died shortly after the accident. The body will be sent to Brazil, Ind., for burial.

    W. L. Bachenstoe, an old circus man back in the Four Paw time, is now manager of the Wilson Theater at Beloit, Wis.

    A telegram from Denver, dated September 10, states that Mr. Barrett, of the Rice Bros. Show, is still in Sheldon, where the Rice Bros. Show is in the hands of a receiver.

    The Young Buffalo Wild West, Colonel Cummins Far East and Seaver's Hippodrome closes the season at Marion, Ill., October 4, and will again winter at Peoria, Ill.

    Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 21. The Gentry Show No. 1, which played a three days' engagement here last week, has had bad luck all around. The first night, Monday, one of the heaviest gales and rainstorms of the season came up about show time in the afternoon and continued through the night, putting the lid on attendance. It rained the second day and was cloudy the third, though the last day brought better business. As a climax, on Wednesday, fifteen canvasmen struck and quit the show. They brought suit in a magistrate's court, seeking to attach the trick ponies for back wages. The management, however, produced receipts from them showing full payment and the suits were dismissed.

    John L. Reh, of the Great Keystone Shows, writes: "Weather good and business fine. We are now in the Northern neck of Old Virginia. On September 10, at Montrose, Va., one of the lights exploded and knocked out ___ Russell, one of the managers, and our leading clown was hurt about the head, cutting a big gash in his nose and lip. The doctor said he will have to lay off for several weeks.

    Report from Colorado Springs indicate that the Campbell Bros. Shows did very poor business. The report, which gained some circulation in Chicago, that the Campbell Shows had disbanded in Colorado Springs, probably originated as a result of this condition. Telegraphic dispatches from Denver, received on September 11, stated that there is absolutely no truth in the report.

    Cliff Wilson, who recently joined the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, went to work for Sol Wise, but is now on tickets. A number of the boys from the Young Buffalo Show have joined out with the H. & W. Show.

    Harry St. Clair, formerly of the Two Bills Show, is managing a lunch wagon in Trenton, New Jersey.

Billboard, October 11, 1913, pp. 24, 26, 27. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    J. M. Duke Kolfage, 24-hour man with the Gollmar Bros. Shows, and Miss Lillian H. Olson, of Webster City, Iowa, were united in marriage at Ida Grove, Iowa, September 15. They will be at home in Detroit, Mich., November 15.

    Chicago, Oct. 4. The Central Trust Co., of this city, has been appointed receiver for the Rice Bros. Colossal Railroad Shows. The only effects of the circus located in Chicago are a number of animals, which were loaned to the Lincoln Park Zoo. The main portion of the circus is at Omaha, Nebraska.

    Hartford, Conn., Sept. 30. Alfred Anderson, of this city, who for several years traveled with a circus, performing various feats of strength, was drowned in Pozuannock today while on a fishing trip. He was well known as a wrestler and sport promoter.

    Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 30. Letitia Yates, young Englishwoman from Auckland, New Zealand, has the distinction of being the only living woman circus press agent. Miss Yates visited this city yesterday in advance of the Sells-Floto Shows. She is only 20 years old and never had the slightest experience in her present work until last November, when visiting in Denver where she met H. H. Tammen, the newspaper and circus magnate. He sent her out on a trial trip and all this season she has been chief press agent in advance of the shows. She is an expert horsewoman herself, and owns several horses which she has trained. She intends to spend the winter with the show at winter quarters near Denver and get in touch with circus life from the inside.

    Olivia Griffin, of Soldene and Olivia, mind readers, is very much in need of assistance. She advises us that she is an Albino, has een with the Barnum Show before J. A. Bailey was with him; was with James L. Hutchinson, of the Barnum Show; in 1911 again with the Barnum and Bailey Circus; in 1898 and a part of the season 1899, under Woody Campbell and F. M. Drew. She was the first wife of Professor Charles E. Griffin. This woman is in destitute circumstances and has never had to ask for anything before. Any contributions may be sent to her to the following address: Olivia Griffin, of Soldene and Olivia, mind readers and snake enchantress, at her home, Hillburn, N. Y.

    The Amazon Bros. Big Minstrel Show and Circus closed the season at East Columbus, Ohio. The 1913 season proved to abe the most successful one in the history of the shows. All three day stands, with an entire change of program each night, were played. Next season the show will be much larger, as the management has found that the 50x100 foot top was not large enough for the crowds. Mon. LaPlace, manager and owner, has placed an order with one of the tent manufacturers in Columbus for a new outfit, which will be built similar to a wild west show, 70x120 sied wall and canopy over seats. Fifteen wagons and about 50 head of stock will be carried and one-night stands will be made. Jesse James, the Bandit King, which will be practically acted on horses, will be produced, as well as some wild west features in the arena. Mr. LaPlace expects to make this one of the greatest novelty on the road, carrying Indians, cowboys, cowgirls and an outlaw band. Several of the people that were with the show this year have already signed contracts for next season. The roster of the show the past season was: Mons. LaPlace, manager; Mrs. LaPlace, treasurer; Arthur Brown, Ray Woodson, Shorty Landis, Bob Fisher, Charles Davis, Robt. ___, Charles Johnson, Leonzo Sisters, Madam Deboe, Delores Bende, Grace DeCamer, and Carl Langley and his eight piece band. The show will winter at Columbus, Ohio.

    Marmaduke Kolfaghe, 24-hour man with the Gollmar Bros. Shows, and Miss Lillian Olson, of Webster City, Iowa, were united in marriage at Ida Grove, Iowa, recently.

    Frank A. Robbins Shows close the season at Port Deposit, Md., October 4.

    The Tompkins Wild West and Cooper and Whitby Circus are still playing to capacity business through Maryland and Delaward, and will remain out until late in October. The first season for this new combination has been wonderfully successful. Chick Varnell joined last week to strengthen the ring performance, and several new cowboys and Indians have been added to enlarge the wild west contingent for the Southern trip. As yet it has not been definitely decided whether the show will winter at the Wheeler winter quarters at Oxford, Pa., or at Lambertville, N. J. Charles H. Tompkins is appearing in the performance daily, while Miss Mabel Hackney's act with her dancing horse, Vardius, is one of the classy acts. M. Zednav has charge of the big animal annex. George Bass and Colonel Adam Gillespie are Mr. Tompkins' aides in the management of the show. - Al. F. Wheeler Jr.

    J. C. (Nobby) Clark is in Chicago, taking a rest, but will soon be playing dates again with his menage horse and educated doves.

    Wm. A. LaVelle, scout and plainsman, has just returned from Australia, for the Bud Atkinson's American Circus, which he says was left in a precarious condition, and that some of the people are still in Australia, trying to work their way back to America.

    C. F. Hafley, known as California Frank, was a visitor at The Billboard office. He is filling an extended engagement with his Wild West Shows with the Herbert A. Kline Shows, which open in Springfield, Ill, October 6. After the closing of the engagement with H. A. K., he is to form a company for the Coast. The new company will embrace Flecie Bernard, Walter Sibley, and possibly another well known showman. The show will consist of ten cars. Harold Bushea will be the general agent.

    Another good old scout has turned up in the film game, this time in Portland, Ore. William (Billy) Binford, of original Dan Rice, Sells Bros., and old John Robinson Circus connection back in the '70s and '80s, is now manager of the Mutual Film Corporation's Portland happiness, succeeding H. E. Stevens.

    M. W. Crawford in in Seattle, Wash. This former cyclist with the Ringling Bros. Show and son of the Aerial Crawfords, of the same show, is now manager of the Isis Film Theater there. His father is still among the living and resides in New York.

    The report that Buck Reger fell and was killed at Lincoln, Neb., August 30, seems to be without foundation. Although he cannot be located, his friends say that if the news were true, they would know about it.

    The Two Plamondons, aerial revolving ladder act, have signed with the Sells-Floto Shows for season 1914.

    Cole Bros. Show is now on its way to the Pacific Coast, playing one day stands through Utah.

Billboard, October 18, 1913, pp. 24, 25, 26, 27. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Louisville, Ky., Oct. 8. Mrs. E. J. Kelly, wife of E. J. Kelly, side show manager with the Mighty Haag Shows, died after a long illness of a complication of diseases at the Deaconess Hospital here yesterday morning. Mrs. Kelly was well known in the profession, having done a sword-swallowing act for the past eight years with several large circuses. Funeral services will be held from the Broadway Christian Church, Thursday morning, at 10 o'clock. Interment in St. Louis Cemetery, this city.

    Chicago, Oct. 8. Dave Jarrett, former circus man, has for the past few months been in the feature film business and has just returned today from Oshkosh, Wis., after terminating a tour with his feature film, Inspector of Police.

    If present plans materialize, Col. Fred Cummins will next season take over the Vernon C. Seaver Young Buffalo Wild West and Hippodrome and Colonel Cummins Far East Shows. Mr. Seaver's retirement from the Wild West field is not a surprise to those who are in a position to know the magnitude of his theatrical interests which new demand his full attention. Mr. Seaver has given Colonel Cummins an option on the entire outfit, and if the Colonel is successful in interesting one or two other parties in the financing and handling of the shows, the season of 1914 will see this showman at the head of one of the finest combinations on the road.

    Boston, Oct. 8. Frank Bellfontaine, said to have been Barnum's original "tattooed man," died yesterday at the Homeopathic Hospital from appendicitis. Just as a surgeon was preparing to operate on Bellfontaine, he collapsed and died in a few minutes.

    Tompkins Wild West and Cooper-Whitby's Circus close the season at Vienna, Md., October 22.

    From New Orleans, La., comes the report that Princess Rajah, wife of South Sea Island Joe, eloped with the so-called "Wild Man of Borneo," Saturday, October 4, taking with them $1,000 belonging to Joe.

    Heber Bros. Greater Shows closed a twenty-two weeks of successful business at South Charleston, Ohio, Saturday, October 4. The show has not missed a performance all season, and hasn't had a blowdown. Roster: Reginald C. Heber, general manager; R. F. Heber, assistant manager; A. R. Heber, treasurer; George T. Heber, master transportation; Rollo H. Heber, equestrian director; Carl Claspill, director of fourteen piece band; Benjamin C. Heber, general advance; James R. Ramsey, special advance; Phillip J. Strauss, boss billposter; Fred Watts and Lew Winters, billposters; John Langey, lithographer; Bill Leeds, programs; Earl Mead, supt. canvas; Dick Joyce, assistant; Ray Gift, properties; Clyde Wiley, lights; Charles Miller, assistant; Whitey Jamison, seats; Ed Barlow, supt. draft stock; John Rafferty, supt. ring stock; William Vaughan, supt. animals; Lew Ames, privileges; James Field, chef; Walter Davidson, assistant; Fred Watts, steward. Attractions: Rollo H. Heber's performing horses, ponies, dogs and monkeys; Hubert Cloverstone and comedy mule riding; King and his comedy trained bears; the Flying LaVons; DeHemas' slack wire equilibrists; Buck and Bess Carson's Wild West features; Walter Harter, balancing trapeze and clown swing; Adell Sisters, international dances, featuring the Russian dances, and the Acrobatic Franklins. Side show: Reginald Haughton, manager, with Theo. Lang, contortionist, and Earl Berwin, magician. Clowns: James Davidson, Raymond Shannon, Rube Waters, Dave Adell, Fred Irving, Lew Moore and Jack Long.

    Jones Bros. World Toured Shows, E. H. Jones, manager, are still reaping the harvest, after passing through some obstinate weather in Montana. September 23 and 24 we were completely tied up in a blizzard. The band of 12 pieces, directed by S. S. Sanders, is a feature of the show. The fun makers are comprised of Roy Leonhart, Bob Cook, and Sam Copeland. Robert Peasley, equestrian director, runs the arena with a vim and snap. Ed Adell, ringmaster, with his troupe of dogs and ponies, never fails to please. Lizzie Roberts, high tight wire, is a feature. The Peasley Trio are also wonderful performers. Roy Leonhart is clever when it comes to bending. George Whittie, bounding wire artist, and Captain Weldon, with his performing baby elephant, are also clever. Frank Goldie, manager of the side show, is making good. Captain Weldon's untamable lion act is a feature of the side show. Professor Goldie is doing magic and Punch, Marie Dempsey, snake enchantress. A. C. Jones, superintendent of the concession with the help of Owen Lewis and Jasper Fulton.

    The Millionaire Doll (Fred L. Gay) is producing his masterpiece with the Mighty Haag Show in the concert.

    The Aerial Schoenes have closed with the Jones Bros. No. 2 Show and are in Cincinnati.

    Frank (Blackie) Howard has arrived at his home in Geneva, Ohio, having closed with the Frank A. Robbins Shows, Mrs. Howard preceded him three months ago.

    The Gollmar Bros. Show closes the season at Tipton, Iowa, Saturday, October 11.

    The Sells-Floto Shows close the season at Amarillo, Texas, October 22, and will again winter in Denver, Colo.

    E. V. Hankins, a former member of the LaMont Show, and William Davis Jr., were visitors on the LaMont Show at Dugger, Ind., October 3. V. O. Thompson, band leader, and Robert Nelson, the frog man, with the LaMont Show, are planning a visit with E. V. Hankins, of West Terre Haute, Ind., after the show closes October 18.

    Edward Grinsted left the Rippel Bros. Show at Hoosierville, Ind., last week and returned to his old winter quarters at Terre Haute.

    Charles Leahy, ring gymnast, closed a successful season with the Gollmar Brothers Circus.

    Miller Daughitt closed with the Miller Show and returned to his home in Terre Haute, Ind.

    The following people have been engaged for the Arlington and Chandler Wild West Show, which is to sail for Buenos Ayres on November 1: D. V. Tantlinger, Edith Tantlinger, Tommy Kirnan, Lulu Parr, McBride and Auto Polo team, Otto Kline, trick rider; Professor LaBlancs and band and Prince Lucca and Troupe of Cossaks. Caesar Guiletti will be the special representative, and Johnny Ellingston, of advertising car No. 1 of the 101 Ranch Wild West, will be in charge of the advertising.

    Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, by George Atkinson. Our business at Galveton, Houston and Beaumont was big. At Port Arthur we encountered rain and a soft lot, which detained the show until daylight. We arrived at Orange late, found the lot under water and were compelled to cancel it, together with Lake Charles, Crowley, Oppelousas, New Iberia and Morgan City. The management then decided to pull into New Orleans, where we opened Wednesday, October 1, three days ahead of our paper. We are now on a dry lot and business is good, considering our unhearlded arrival.

    Sig. Sautelle Shows, by George W. Rollins. The Nine Big are on their way to the South. We have had several bad cases of typhoid fever and one has proven fatal. At this writing Willie Traver is down sick at the hospital at Charleston, W. Va., Louise Cannon had sufficiently recovered to rejoin the show. Stanley Kiefer, our trainmaster, died at Morgantown, W. Va., and his body was sent to his home by the Order of Moose, of which lodge he was a member. The LaBelle Trio closed at Paris, Ky., together with the Silverlakes, to play vaudeville. Martin Lowande has secured about all his talent for his circus, which is to play South American this winter. Captain Jack Shumate is now in charge of the stock. Bill O'Day, who joined recently, has the canvas.

    Charles Curran, of the Sells-Floto Circus, joined hands with George McSparrow, the young band director for the past four seasons with the Sells-Floto, and will open an opera house attraction at Ft. Worth, Texas, October 28. The new company will be known as McSparrow's Comedy Company. . . .

    Great Keystone Show, by John L. Reh. Just received a new horse top, 25x50, from Julius Thomson. Thursday, October 2, we were visited by a wind storm, but in spite of it, everything was up and ready by 8:15. George Kidds was hit with a quarter pole and was laid up for awhile. From under the dress top we had to dig out Frank Mathes and Tom Nelson. Nelson suffered a sprained wrist. Lucy the monkey, which left the show about three weeks ago, was glad to bet back. The boys in clown alley have added a new clown number called Married on Stilts - five on stilts at the same time in the ring.

    LaMont Brothers will close their thirteenth annual tour at Farina, Ill., Saturday, October 18, and the entire outift will be transported to the winter quarters at Salem, Ill. The show has traveled 1,900 miles, covering five states, having two blowdowns and missing three shows.

    The J. H. Eschman European Circus has been making good, and the management contemplates remaining out again all winter. J. D. Bohman, formerly of the Two Bills Shows, recently joined to strengthen the advance. Charles Cooper, veteran canvas boss, rejoined the show in Kentucky. Charles Warner is his first assistant. A new animal act and two aerial acts will be added to the big show program. Little Nemo, the educated baby elephant, will not appear in vaudeville the coming winter. The show carries a complete set of banners with its annex, and on the inside are several cages of small animals, birds, snakes and crocodiles, modern magician, mind reader, snake enchantress, high school dogs and performing birds, London Punch and Judy, the Great Aga Illusion, oriental dancing girls, and the Alabama Minstrels. This is the company's sixteenth month out.

    Joe Everett, professionally known at Joe Vincetti, of the team of Henchey, Vincetti and Bush, late of the Bud Atkinson Circus, was married to Miss Vera White, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, while playing Sydney, N. S. W., Australia, on January 18. The couple is playing the Brennan and Fuller Vaudeville Circuit of New Zealand and Australia.

    The Lundgreens, May and George, celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversay of their marriage on October 4. Among the guests were the family of Fred Herbert, the dog trainer, and Sallie Hughes, formerly an equestrienne. The Lundgreens, old time circus and vaudeville headliners, are now in retirement, having purchased a fruit and poultry farm at Wyoming, Del., a few years ago.

Billboard, October 25, 1913, pp. 25, 27. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The Al. G. Barnes Circus closes the season October 23 at The Dalles, Ore. Since its enlargement of circus size, this outfit has never wintered in Oregon before, having selected Venice and San Francisco in California previously. The year's winter quartering comes a month and a half earlier than ususal.

    Rockingham, N. C., Oct. 17. The co-partnership that has existed between Downie and Wheeler for the past three years will be dissovled at the close of the present season. Both parties will put out independent shows for the season of 1914.

    The Cole and Cooper Show is now in Mississippi after being in Kentucky and Tennessee for the past 25 weeks, and is still playing to good business. The show has practically the same line-up as when starting out, with the exception of a few changes. Dave Dedirck, legal adjuster; Red Sheldon, boss candy butcher and Geo. Parento are late additions. Frank McGuyer, legal adjuster, left us at Sardis, Miss., to join Jones Bros. Show No. 2. Clarence F. Brown has the concert band of 14 pieces. The roster: Fred Elzor, manager; J. B. Wright, assistant manager; Dave Dedrick, legal adjuster; Lee Smith, equestrian director; Jim Keenan and Harry Charles, ticket sellers; Obie St. Clergy, superintendent of stock; Will Moore, superintendent of canvas; Chas. Linkson, superintendent of kid show canvas; Joe Spears, superintendent of props. Big show: Frazer Clark, outside attraction; Smith and Ramsdell, acrobats; Mlle. Josephine, Roman rings, Spanish web and ladder; Geo. Parento, back ladder drop and single traps; Frazer Clark, cloud swing and perch; Howard Ramsdell, rolling globe and clown; Edgar Eggers, singing and talking clown; Fritz and Weston, double traps and comedy acrobats; John Schrenner, contortionist and clown; Lee Smith, mule hurdle rider. The show will remain in Mississippi until about Christmas.

    Rose Wentworth is in Chicago with her husband, Ed Carr, and will leave for Buenos Ayres, South America, within a few days to fill an extended engagement with Arlington and Chandler American Wild West. Mr. Carr, during his wife's absence, will look after his ranch and stock interest, and Rose says when she returns she will sell the buffaloes and other stock and retire from the business. Rose and Mr. Carr have been conducting a Wild West show of their own since they left the Two Bills Show.

    The Tompkins Wild West and Cooper-Whitby Circus will close at Vienna, Md., October 22, and ship to winter quarters at New Hope, Pa.

    Ray Dick, magician, is making good in the annex of Sparks Show. Ray recently closed an engagement with the Great Southern Shows, at Tuscumbia, Ala. He joined the Sparks Show in Mississippi.

    James W. Beattie is still at Omaha, Neb., where he has been since Rice Bros. Circus closed. He is looking after the interest of one of the owners of this show. Mr. Beattie says from present indications matters will be settled shortly.

    Gabe Boone, old-time musician and band leader, who at one time had the band with the old W. B. Reynolds Show, also with the "Pop Corn" George Shows, and trouped for years with old John Robinson, W. W. Cole, John B. Norris, Col. Dan Rice, 4-Paw-Sells, Campbell Bros. and Haag's Mighty Shows, together with his wife, are now located on a little farm of their own about a mile from Arcadia, La. They have a chicken ranch and a pond, well stocked with fish. Gabe says he is band leader of "Old Gabes" Band in Arcadia, and plays the cornet in the Methodist church choir.

    Charles (Pogie) O'Brien, clown, is still with the Sig. Sautelles Shows, his third season with that show. Pogie also closes the concert with a sketch.

    In answer to an inquiry in this column a few weeks ago: George DeHaven is dead. Kelly and Mack, Jack Cavanaugh and Chris Markeson (also dead) were working with Mr. DeHaven at the time of his death. Heart failure was claimed to be the cause. Doc Cavanaugh acted as one of the pallbearers. The remains were buried in the Lawton, Okla., Cemetery.

    D. P. White, who has been acting as contracting agent ahead of Wyoming Bill's Wild West, has finished his work and is now traveling with the show on its tour through lower Delaware. This is White's third succesive season in lower Delaware, having traveled with the Frank A. Robbins Shows as 24-hour agent, contracting agent for Prairie Lillie and Nebraska Bill last season, and this season with the same show under the name of Wyoming Bill's Wild West.

    The H. W. Freed Dog and Pony Show closed the season at Woodland, Ind., October 1, and went into winter quarters at 605 Grant street, Niles, Mich. The show was out 22 1/2 weeks and not a performance was missed. Improvements are now being made at the winter quarters. New roofing is being put on the stables, and another stable is being added.

Billboard, November 1, 1913, pp. 22, 23, 24. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Owing to so much sickness and need of rest, the Great Keystone Show will close November 1, the first time in 110 weeks. In spite of bad weather, the show has been doing fair business. Sam Dock, manager, Mrs. Russell and Mr. Blyth are all under the doctor's care.

    The Downie & Wheeler Shows Combined close the season at Front Royal, Va., November 12.

    The Jones Bros. Show No. 1, of which E. H. Jones is manager, closes the season December 17, at Hattiesburg, Miss.

    The Leach-LaQuinlan Trio, en route with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, sails for Europe in December, and opens in Berlin for the Schumann Circus, January 1, for three months, after which they go to London to open on the Moss Empire circuit. They expect to be there a year.

    Dr. E. Lester Miller, ticket seller on the Gollmar Bros. Shows for the last two seasons, closed the season with that show October 11, and joined the Sun Bros. Shows at Hernando, Miss., October 13, for their Southern tour.

    The J. H. Eschman European Circus experienced some very wet weather in Tennessee. At Gates, and the afternoon performance, when the side show was filled with people, a heavy downpour of rain overflowed the lot to a depth of over three feet. The rain lasted about 45 minutes and soon overflowed the banks of a nearby creek, driving everybody to the stages and upper seats. Teams were hurriedly pressed into service by the show folks and the women and children were all taken to safety. Sunday, October 12, was spent in Memphis. October 13, the show entered Mississippi, and in spite of the fact that the state seems to be completely over-run with circuses and other tent shows, fair business is being done. Capt. J. W. York recently added a bunch of trained dogs to his No. 2 troupe. D. C. Hawn, general agent, was back with the show last week in consultation with the Governor in reference to routing for the coming winter. Lee Hall and wife are recent additions to the annex, and George Stillman and Leo North to the band.

    Jack Watson will have the band with Tiger Bill's Wild West Show next season.

    Lew Christensen, aerial gymnast, closed a successful season with the LaMont Show, and is in St. Louis before entering vaudeville.

    Robson Bros. Show closes the season at Akron, Pa., October 25.

Billboard, November 8, 1913, pp. 24, 25, 53. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    New York, Oct. 30. With the closing of the Arlington & Beckman Oklahoma Wild West Show, at Texarkana, Texas, October 18, the partnership that has existed between Edward Arlington and Fred Beckman was dissolved. An application for receivership has been made by Adolph Marks, who is handling the dissolution of the partnership. Fred Beckman intends to send out a ten car Wild West show next season, but Edward Arlington will in no way be connected with Beckmann and the Oklahoma Ranch Show.

    Columbus, Ga., October 27. The big tent of the Barnum & Bailey Circus was set afire and about half destroyed during the performance here last Saturday afternoon. The fire was started by a lighted cigar, cast aside by a careless smoker. The seats and poles were not harmed. The crowd was able to leave the tent at various places and no serious mishap occurrred.

    D. W. Perrine, manager of Broncho Joe's Wild West Show, succumbed to typhoid fever at this home in Eaton Rapids, Mich., October 23. The Barnum of the Tall Timbers, as the deceased was known by the people of Eaton Rapids, operated a wagon show for the past fifteen or more years. On numerous occasions he had been asked why he did not operate a railroad show, and this fall he had contracted for the manufacture of a fifteen car equipment. As a tribute to their lost showman, all places of business were closed for one hour on Saturday, October 25, when the burial took place.

    The Billboard has been informed that the Coburn Brothers, of East Palatine, Ohio, will take out an overland show next spring, and that thirty head of stock will be carried. The show will consist of twelve wagons built to order by F. M. Crawford. The top will be an 80 with a 40 foot middle piece. W. E. Coburn, the general manager, contemplates playing Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.

    Warren Lewis, from Ypsilanti, Mich., well known around the big circuses some 15 years ago as the boy announcer, and who has since been an auctioneer. It has just looked out that Mr. Lewis has interested several wealthy gentlemen in a new big show, to be known as Warren Lewis' All New Big Railroad Shows, with winter quarters at Ypsilanti, a suburb of Detroit, where Mr. Warren has his own Michigan Central railroad siding and roomy auction barns and paddock yards.

    Gentry Bros. Show No. 2. Roster: Gentry Brothers, owners; C. W. Finney, general manager; Jack Wright, treasurer; Roy L. Rush, equestrian director; E. Edw. Bailey, head reserved and concert ticket seller; Arch. W. Hinckley, assistant on tickets; Burt Misner, manager of annex; Albert McCall, bandmaster; Berre and Hicks, performers; Carl H. Richardson, manager of privileges; John Smith, chef; Robert Hampton, superintendent of canvas; F. M. Koen, superintendent of lights; Freddy Walters, superintendent of ponies; Jacob Cummings, superintendent of dogs; Jess Maddox, superintendent of properties; C. ___, superintendnet of cars and Joe Sullivan, porter.

    The Robson Bros. Shows closed a successful season of twenty-eight weeks at Akron, Pa., October 25. The show has missed but two shows during the season. Howard Robson has piloted the show throughout the season. George Flatt, band leader, will direct a concert band at Reading, Pa. Ed Blandy, juggler and comedy acrobat, has vaudeville bookings. The Russell Sisters, contortionists, will work up a new act for next season. The Aerial Wertz, trapeze, rings and revolving ladder artists, will spend the winter on their plantation in Southern Georgia. Ardell Leaman, reserved seat the concert ticket seller, will open a moving picture theater in the East. Pearson Dorward, funmaker, will spend the winter at Reading, Pa.

    The Great Noble Shows closed a successful season of twenty-six weeks recently and are now in winter quarters at Columbus, Ga. John Backman and Ida Ivey, both members of the show, were married at Columbus, October 20. The bride is a stepdaughter of W. H. Noble, the proprietor. The show will open about March 1 with the following people: Prof. W. H. Noble, proprietor; John J. Backman, manager; Pat Crow, advance man with three assistants; Mrs. Noble, Mrs. Backman, Miss Lizzie Daniel, Theo Penton, Hugh Noble, John Noble and Wm. Noble.

    William Falconbery writes: "William Claggett and myself, who were with the Young Buffalo Shows the past seasons, are spending the winter at our homes in Sullivan, Ind., working on our farms, but will be back in harness again next season.

    The Original Bernards have been offered an engagement of two years in South American from Tony Lowande.

    The Great Keystone Shows close the season at Goochland Court House, Va., November 1. The show will make Goochland C. H. its wintering city.

    Johnnie Marinella, of the Great Marinellas, is en route with Sun Bros. Circus. Next season Johnnie will be seen in a double act with Enos, the contortionist.

    Nellie Allen, of the Sanger Show, is handling the snakes in the annex of the Mighty Haag Shows.

    The Sells-Floto Show is now in winter quarters at Denver, Colo., having covered 16,407 miles of territory since opening the season March 25. On November 1 preparations will be started for the merging of the Sells-Floto troupe with the Buffalo Bill Wild West for the season of 1914. The Sells-Floto Circus will continue to give its regular performances, and Buffalo Bill (Col. Cody) will personally direct and play the best of wild west. Two shows will be given for the same admission charged this year for one, 25 cents.

    Jones Bros. No. 1 Show, by Jasper Fulton. Mrs. Sam Copeland has returned home, taking the "old clown" with her. Mrs. Frank Goldie completed her sojourn with her husband and has gone home after a pleasant visit. The show lost three days last week through inclement weather. Joe Dempsey, who puts up the rag, and departed for his hme with his wife for a few days.

    Charles Wise, sometimes called Mike, who was a member of the Sells-Floto Circus the past season, died October 27, in a hospital at Amarillo, Texas, where he went after the show closed in that city, October 22. The remains are at the N. S. Griggs Undertaking Co., Amarillo, Texas. It is believed that the deceased has a wife and daughter in either Dayton or Cincinnati, Ohio. The deceased is from 45 to 50 years of age, black hair, grey on temples, dark complexion, dark eyes, small mustache, height about five feet, eleven inches and weighs about 190 pounds. The undertakers are holding the body in abeyance, waiting to hear from his friends who were with the Sells-Floto Shows.

    The Atterbury Bros. Shows closed a season of 25 weeks at DuBois, Ill., recently, and went into winter quarters at Evansville, Ind. The show played Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa, traveling a little over 2,000 miles. The Irwin family returned to their home in Steelville, Mo. Prof. Burns and his troupe of dogs went to Louisville, Ky.; M. Bruce to Columbus, Ind.; Dave McGarick to Pittsburg, Pa; George Jones to Velpen, Ind., and the workingmen to winter quarters with the train.

    Frisco Johnnie Williams, who as far back as 1873 assumed the role of trouper with the old Wilson Circus, and then with the Walter Main Show, advance agent for the magicians, Herman & Raymond, as well as manager of the Empress Theater for the S. & C. in Portland, Ore., has signed with James Grainger to go out with the Edison No. 20 talking picture show.

    Harry Curran, prominent clown with the Sells-Floto Circus this past season until the sudden death of his brother called him away from the white tents, has just joined the Whitney Scott Artic Pictures, as agent for the Pacific tour. Harry expects to return to clown alley next season.

    Frank Mathews, colored hostler, who has traveled with the Great Keystone Shows for the past three years, dropped dead while the show was pulling in Ruther Glen, Va., recently. The body was buried by Messrs. Dock and Russell, managers of the show.

    Bessie E. Rigby was granted a divorce from Charles B. Rigby on October 27 in the Circuit Court of Saginaw County, Saginaw, Mich. Mrs. Rigby was connected with the Wyoming Bill Wild West Show for the past two seasons.

Billboard, November 11, 1913, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 12. George Moyer, general agent of the Haag Shows, spent several days here on his way north. He looked over the old Billings trotting track and grounds and the Tri-State Fairgrounds, with a view to securing winter quarters here for his shows next winter. George Aiken, circus railroad contractor, formerly with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows and the Buffalo Bill Shows, was also a Memphis visitor. He has a number of motordromes in operation in the South, with carnival companies. James D. Dwyer, assistant manager of the Sells-Floto Shows, was here Thursday last, arranging a settlement of some claims which arose when his show was here in October. James Donaldson, press agent, formerly with the Buffalo Bill and 101 Ranch shows, passed through the city last week on his way to Cincinnati, where he will frame up several small shows for tank towns. Floyd King, a Memphis man, press agent with Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, spent two days at home the past week, and left for Cincinnati. He will begin work at once for Wm. A. Zrady, Ltd., Ready Money Company.

    In a recent issue of The Billboard, we stated that the Jones Bros. Shows would winter at Hattiesburg, Miss. J. Augustus Jones advises us that the winter quarters have been secured at Norfolk, Va., and the show will winter there. The No. 2 Show will close November 29, and ship direct to Norfolk.

    Martinho Lowande has equipped his show with a complete line of new canvas, The canvas was manufactured by Thomson & Co., of Cincinnati, and included a 90 foot round top with two thirties, and all the necessary paraphernalia. The stuff was shipped direct to South America for the opening of the show.

    Toronto, Ont., Nov. 12. Toronto will see its first winter circus when Frank P. Spellman Circus opens in the Arena, on Monday, November 24, for one week. The circus is composed of twenty-two numbers, made up of equestrians, aerialists and clowns, and a large number of performing elephants, tigers, leopards, bears, dogs, seals, donkeys and horses.

    The Billboard is receipt of a letter from Mrs. L. C. Lewis, widow of W. C. Lewis, known in the circus world as William Murray, and old-time circus performer, who died last February, at Carthage, Mo. Mrs. Lewis states that the doctor bills for the deceased for his one year's illness almost exhausted all of his savings, and that she is now in needy circumstances and would appreciate any help from her husband's circus friends. She can be addressed at 1213 Kellar street, Carthage, Mo.

    The Famous Robinson Show will soon end its season and winter in Montgomery, Ala., with Howe's Great London Show. Doc Grant, the rube, and Harry Mix, as his sister, keep the audience in an uproar before the opening of the big show. Willie Marks, with his Jargo, has the center track and pulls off many a good laugh. Albert Powell and Family will play vaudeville after the holidays. Norman Orton and wife will take a needed rest at home. Cecil Lowande will hike to his wife and family at Petersburg, and break in a new horse for next season. Joe Bell will take a rest and hie to Philadelphia.

    Al. G. Barnes' Personals. Al Sands, general manager of the Barnes Show, in addition to signing up for 1914, has purchased a five-passenger automobile, with which he will tour the Oregon metropolis this winter. Harry Davis, manager of the Barnes' advance car No. 2, is framing up a vaudeville sketch. Harry is a veteran, having been formerly in the theatrical game ahead of Virginia Harned, Robert Mantell, Kolb and Dill, etc. William K. Peck has signed up with Al. G. Barnes again for 1914. Murray Pennock will also be in next season's roster with the Barnes outfit, but will spend the winter at the Oakland house of Alexander Pantages, as advertising director. Bessie Harvey lined up again with the Barnes Show for next year. Mr. Barnes is converting one of the two cars he purchased from the Buffalo Bill Show into a stateroom for next season's use.

    Wm. M. Gilman has closed as contracting agent of the Famous Robinson Show, and is now at his home in Falls City, Neb. Gilman will be with one of the Mugivan and Bowers' shows season of 1914.

    The Fowler and Clark Dog and Pony Shows are in winter quarters at Albany, Mo.

    George H. Weymann, rube clown, and George LaMar, clown, closed the season with Gollmar Bros. Show at Tipton, Iowa, and immediately joined the Sun Bros. Show for its Southern tour, at Hernando, Miss.

    Walter Rhodes, who had the snake pit show with Gollmar Bros. the past season, has had a big season. He knows how to stop the truly rural in front of his joint. He himself makes up as a Mexican. He looks and acts the part, and when a boy, who is concealed beneath the pit, works some kind of a "fake" that sounds like some hideous animal growling, or someone groaning, the jays certainly fall, and they don't get any the worst of it, for it's a good show.

    W. H. (Billy) Rice and his wife, Matilda, and son, Bill Jr., and the largest bulldog in America, were in town. Bill called at The Billboard office and told me that the Rice and Dore Show had a good season, and that the show is now incorporated, at Portland, Ore., for $10,000.

    Art Bowers, associate partner of Mr. Garrett of the Rice Bros Show was in Chicago for a few days. Through Mr. Bowers and Mr. Garrett the show has been thrown into involuntary bankruptcy, and the claims will be judicated. Charles McCurran, who has been general superintendent of the shows is here for the winter. He says the show has some very fine stock and equipment.

    Fred Paol, who has been out all season with the Cole Bros. Shows, is among the new arrivals in Chicago. He says the show closed the season in Williard, N. M., October 17, and will winter in Kansas City and will go out again in the spring under Al. Campbell's guidance.

    S. B. Anderson's Dog and Pony Circus and Vaudeville Show Combined closed a successful season at Madison, Ind., and went into winter quarters at Marble Corner, Ind. Mr. Anderson is framing a one-night stand show for next season and is training several new ponies, eight new dogs and several more monkeys. He will start out the early part of April and will travel through the Southern part of Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama, expecting to be out thirty weeks. He will have a six-wagon show, carrying about forty head of horses and ponies, twelve dogs, eight monkeys and about seventeen people.

    G. E. (Doc) Boyce, of Waterloo, Iowa, opened his Hagenbeck-Wallace Spectacular Show for the season on September 11, and has been playing Iowa to extra good business. He is playing over most of the same route he played last season. Doc has his show framed up on circus style. He puts flashy banners on a carriage, sleigh bells on the horses and makes a little street parade and megaphones the whole town, letting the natives known all about the Great Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus to be seen in the movies that eve.

Billboard, November 29, 1913, pp. 56, 57, 122, 123. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Cleveland, O., Nov. 21. Pollock Willis Cobb, age 72, retired circus man, died at his home here yesterday morning. Death was due to heart disease superinduced by a kidney disorder. He had been in bad health for some time, but only a week or ten days ago was forece to take to his bed. The deceased was one of the oldest and most widely known circus press agents in the United States, having traveled with tented organizations for 40 years or more. Mr. Cobb was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 15, 1842, and had been through all branches of the circus business. When 20 years of age he started out with Carl Hagenbeck's Show as publicity man. From the Hagenbeck Show he went with Sells Bros. Circus aas manager, and later joined the John Robinsons Circus. He was also active in the theatrical field. He is survived by a widow and a son.

    Gus Fairbanks, who traveled with some of the largest shows as agent for the past thirty-five years, is dead. He was 55 years of age. The deceased was with the Frank A. Robbins Shows for a number of years, and the past season was general agent of the Oklahoma Bill Wild West Show. He was one of the first men to take a show to Cuba.

    The Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch Wild West Show closes the season at Rock Mart, Ga., November 29, and goes into winter quarters at the fair grounds, Birmingham, Ala.

    The John H. Sparks Show will close the season of 1913 at Kershaw, S. C., November 29.

    At the present time no less than three tented organizations are being housed at the Al. F. Wheeler winter quarters at Oxford, Pa. The Frank A. Robinsons [sic] Shows were run in here temporarily, pending negotiations for a new winter home., and the division of the Downie & Wheeler Shows into two separate and distinct concerns for the next tenting season, has been in progress here for the past week. Mr. Downie will put out a big trained wild animal show to be known as the La Tena Three-Ring Trained Wild Animal Circus, while the title of the concern that Mr. Wheeler will head will be Wheeler Bros. Greater Shows and Great Stampede Wild West. The latter show will be a combination of circus, hippodrome and wild west. The Downie Shows will go into winter quarters at Timonium, Md., while the Wheeler Bros. Show will remain at the Oxford quarters. The Tompkins Wild West and Cooper-Whitby Show, in which Mr. Wheeler is also interested, will winter at Lambertville, N. J.

    Chicago, Nov. 18. A winter circus is under way and is being promoted by H. W. Wright, the carnival manager. It is being billed to open at the Globe Theater, which is being turned into a real circus in appearance by having a circus tent upon the stage, with an opening showing the interior and general prospectus of a regular tent show. Some good acts have been engaged. R. E. Jennings is working on an advertising program and assisting Mr. Wright.
    Butch Fredericks (Old Honest John) is back in the city, and with him comes the Rice Bros. Circus from Shelton, Neb.
    J. P. Dwyer, legal adjuster of the Sells-Floto Shows, has taken up his residence on the North Side, but will legal matters at odd times until the opening of the big doings in the Spring.
    Wm. Godfrey, the vender with Yankee Robinson is among the wise ones about town. The show is comfortably stored at Des Moines, Iowa.

    M. L. Clark & Sons Shows. We left Alexandria, La., March 23, 1912, traveled out to California and are now on our way back home. We traveled over the mountains of Colorado and Utah, down as far as Needles, Cal., and then back through Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. After coming out of New Mexico we stopped for a short time to make repairs, and then went into Texas, on to Kansas, back into Oklahoma, and we are now in Texas again, only a few hundred miles from home. There have been many changes in people. Some of the stickers, besides Mr. Clark's family, are: Mr. and Mrs. LaComa [missing text] we are all anxious to reach Alexandria, but manager Clark says he is going to stay out as long as business and weather are good.

    Andrew G. Backe, owner and manager of Backe's New Model Shows, closed his eighth season under canvas, October 16, at Oregon HIll, Pa., and went into winter quarters at Morris, Pa. Business was good all season, except one bloomer and several stormy days. All wagons will be overhauled and painted during the winter. Four new ones will be built, giving the show a total of twelve wagons. Harry Aubel will again handle the advance next season. The LaGardos, contortionists, traps and wire artists, have gon to their home. Ossin and Conklin are in vaudeville. Jewett, the educated pony, and dogs, will again go in vaudeville this winter. The other trained stock will remain in quarters. Mr. Backe expects to have one of the neatest little wagon shows on the road next season.

    George S. Ely's Circus is now in its twenty-second week, with business good. The show will remain out all winter. The show carries thirty head of stock, ten wagons, 80 foot round top, fourteen lenghts of seats and twenty-eight people. Richard Honzelia's cornet band of seven solo musicians is the big feature. Roster: George S. Ely, manager; K. S. Ely, treasurer; Joseph Jackson, in charge of canvas with six assistants; Carl, in charge with four assistants; Luther, props; Charley Ban, cook; Steve Jet, in charge of lights. Performers: Madam Rosa, magician; Lulu Fregl [Fregi?], snake enchantress; Nellie Spencer, soubret; Mons Hugo, wire and traps; Thomas J. Connelly, producing clown; William Mitchell, monolog and concert; and George S. Ely's Januar Act and Trained horses.

    The Montgomery Queen Shows, E. H. Jones, manager are still out. The Show is in the Mississippi delta, and although the afternoon houses are nothing to brag about, we certainly get the night business. Miss Lizzie Roberts will go to her home in Virginia when the show closes. Robert Cook, purchasing agent and banner man, is pleased with business. Roy Leonhart, producing clown, will be in Warren, Pa. for awhile. J. J. Sanders, the boy band leader, deserves credit for his handling of the band. John Smiley Smith, clarinet player was recently transferred over to the Cole & Cooper show. Miss Marie Dempsey is mourning the loss of a large pet reptile. Joseph Dempsey is superintendent of canvas. David Dedrick is here.

    John White Jr., after playing two years on the Sullivan & Considine Circuit, has signed up for the season of 1914 with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, taking three animal acts over there.

    The James Trio has spent a successful season of forty weeks with the Mollie Bailey Show, and will spend the winter at their home in Houston, Texas. They have signed with the Mighty Haag Show for the season of 1914, Mabelle to feature her iron jaw act, The Act Beautiful, and Everette to take charge of the band.

    Bert Cole, of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, will represent the Donaldson Lithograph Co. in the East this winter and will again go out with the Hagenbeck-Wallace next year. Mr. Cole has been with the Hagenbeck-Wallace fourteen seasons. J. F. (Pat) Burke, superintendent of tickets with Hagenbeck-Wallace, will hibernate in Washington C. H., Ohio, for the witner and rejoin the show next season.

    The Charlie Seigrist Troupe open at the World's Fair, the big annual winter show at the Agricultural Hall, London, on Boxing Day, for a six weeks' engagement, after which they will return to America to rejoin the Barnum & Bailey Show.

    Mrs. J. R. Smith( Young Buffalo's wife) recently visited her parents in Providence, R. I.

    The following people have already signed with the Great Keystone Shows for next season: W. H. Ashdown, general agent; Charles Ogden, contractor; Thomas Nelson, wire artists and juggler, and Capt. H. G. Blyth, fancy rifle and pistol shot.

    J. C. Polo closed with the J. H. Eschman European Circus November 22, to begin his vaudeville work for the winter.

    Miss Claire Dock is visiting her father, Sam Dock, one of the proprietors of the Great Keystone Shows, at Goochland, Va.

    The Mollie Bailey Show will close a prosperous season at Nevasota, Texas, November 29. Mrs. Mollie Bailey, proprietress and sole owner of the show, celebrated her seventy-third birthday recently, and had, as a visitor, her granddaughter, 22 years of age, of Dallas, Texas. The write-up in a recent issue of The Billboard about Kid Koster being in advance of this show is in error. He has never been connected with this outfit.

Billboard, December 6, 1913, pp. 22, 43. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Toronto, Nov. 26. At the magnificent Arena on November 24, Frank P. Spellman's Indoor Circus opened for a week's engagement. There are two rings and a stage. Some of the feature acts are the Ten Siegrists, Silbon aerialists; Spellman's troupe of performing bears; Miss Dolly Julian, lady bareback rider; the Lunette Sisters; the Whirling Geisha Girls; Emily Stickney, bareback rider; the Schiavoni Acrobats; Marvelous Con Deray, in a heel swing; Gerue Sisters, aerialists; Crimmins and Crow, contortionists; Madame Jannette, flying rings; Fred Ledgett, equestrian; Emma Stickney, equestrienne star; Hill's group of performing ponies; Flatiron and the English militant; Barlow, Dynamite and Barlow; the Ledgetts, two horse carrying act; Lee Sisters, hurdle riders; Delmore and Oneida, perch artists; Flatiron's giraffes and others. There are a host of clowns. The uniformed band is excellent.

    Rice Brothers' Sale. Chicago, Nov. 26. Wally W. Cochrane, Butch Fredericks and a few more good friends of manager Garrett, all under the guidance and legal advice of Adolph Marks, did some good work to land the Rice Brothers in Chicago from Nebraska, for who would have journeyed "away" out there to buy show stuff at this time of year? From a sale standpoint the scheme was an immense success. The material and stock disposed of brought the biggest price ever seen at a small show sale. Rumor has it that the former owner and manager, Mr. Garrett, was really the principal buyer himself, and that the show will be greatly augmented and put out in fine shape next season. There is nothing definitely known as yet for publication, but the signs point that way. . . . About the only thing that left town was the camel bought by W. P. Hall, and a lioness bought by J. Augustus Jones. The sale brought about $16,000.

    The John H. Sparks Shows closed their season November 29, at Kershaw, S. C., and are in winter quarters at the fair grounds at Salisbury, N. C. The season consisted of 201 show stands, thirty-three and one-half weeks, covering 18 states, and traveling 11,066 miles. Only one accident of a serious nature occurred during the season, and that was the burning of Governor Sparks' private car, Virginia, a loss of about $7,000. This accident occurred on the long run from Oconto, Wis., to Munsing, Mich., on the night of June 21, and it was only through quick action that the lives of the people in the car were saved, for the contents were entirely destroyed. T. W. Ballenger has been re-engaged as general agent for the coming season. He has just returned from Chicago, where he has purchased one of the finest sleepers sold by the Pullman Company. This car will be remodeled gby the Hotchkiss & Blue people into an advance car. The car used the present season will be used next year as a No. 2 car, and will also be remodeled. The performance the coming year will be given in two rings and on a 24 foot elevated stage.

    Andy Thumer, eccentric juggler, is at home in Baltimore after a season of twenty-eight weeks with the Old Dominion Show. Andy was principal clown with the show, and has signed contracts for the season of 1914. He was formerly with E. G. Smith's Colossal Shows.

    Walter C. Hodges and wife will winter in San Francisco. Mr. Hodges had a good season as owner of the privilege car with Al. G. Barnes Circus.

    John Douglas (Leopard Johnnie), for the past four years with Winston's trained sea lion act, who closed with the Hurling seals in Chicago last spring, is putting in the winter at Minneapolis, Minn., at the home of his sister.

    Earle A. Banvard, clown with Ringling Bros. the past season, and Miss Grace Darling were married in Kansas City November 6. They have been engaged for Ringling Bros. for the season of 1914.

    Carlisle's Frontier Wild West and Open-Air Exhibition has closed its season and has gone into winte quarters at South Cairo, N. Y.

    Due to good weather and business, Norton Bros. fifteen-wagon show will stay out until Christmas. The show will then lay up for a few weeks at Palacios, Texas, for repairs.

Billboard, December 13, 1913, pp. 24, 25. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Rentz Bros. Circus closed a season of 32 weeks at Bassett, Va., November 29, and shipped to Geneva, O. The show enjoyed a prosperous season, having toured six states, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginai, and North and South Carolina. The show will open early in April with an entirely new outfit, an it is the intention of the management to also place an eight car show on the road. The Williams Family, leading features of the big show, have arranged to spend the winter season in the South with a vaudeville company.

    Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 3. Frank P. Spellman's Indoor Circus is att he Broadway Auditorium here, this week, playing under the auspices of the United Trades and Labor Council of this city. Among those with the show are Frank P. Spellman, general agent; Paul C. Blum, press agent; William Woods, advertising agent, and James Fleming, treasurer.

    Venice, Cal. The Barnes Show, that has wintered here for the last two years is not here this year.

    Gentry Bros. No. 2 will close the season at Lake Charles, La., December 14.

    The Cole Bros. are reported to have finally yielded to the inevitable and closed their season at Willard, New Mexico. The same advices state that the animals were sold to parties in the East, and shipped there.

    Bert Cole writes that George W. Atkinson will not be connected with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show next season.

    Lula Parr sailed for South America on the steamer Beatrice, November 29, to join Eddie Arlington Wild West Show at Japanese Gardens, Buenos Ayres.

Billboard, December 20, 1913, p. 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Oscar Lowande and Frank A. Robbins opened their winter season with a two car circus at Green Cove Springs, Fla., November 26. The show has been doing fine business since. Last week the show was strengthened by the Powell Family, wire artists and contortionist. The band has been enlarged to fourteen pieces. The new ones are Frank Ruff, Michael Leake, J. W. Henslye and H. M. Kaehenel. The show is now in Southern Georgia, and will tour Georgia and its neighboring states throughout the winter months. The roster: Oscar Lowande, manager; Mrs. Mayme Lowande, secretary-treasurer; Frank A. Robbins, contracting agent; Lew Nichols, adjuster, and principal clown; Johnny Coriea, equestrian director; E. B. Flanagan, bandmaster; George Oran, side show manager; Joe Ringling, boss canvasman, and Harry Allen, privilege manager.

    Bangor, Pa., December 10. The opening of the white top season of 1914 will find a new circus - an up-to-date complete two car show. The show will be under the management of William Everett, and will tour the Eastern part of the country. Mr. Everett has been connected with th Wortham & Allen United Shows for the past two years, and has been successful. He already has a large force of men at work putting the show together, at the winter quarters.

    From Yankee Robinson Quarters. Charles Kelly got the show all put away in nice shape two days after the arrival at Granger, Iowa. The paint shop is full of wagons and four painters are working on them. Mark Hensley (Bo-Bo) and Peppers, are in charge of the stock. Ralph Howser is at the quarters training some new stock for the coming season. The show will go out next season as a sixteen car outfit, and will play the West. George Meighan will have charge of the advance, and all the old bosses will be back. John Quiggle, trainmaster, is in Des Moines for the winter.

    The executive roster of the Giant Trained Wild Animal Circus, a new show which Col. H. G. Wilson is framing at the present time, for the season of 1914-15, will be as follows: Col. H. G. Wilson, proprietor; Peter A. Taylor (famous wild animal subjugator), general manager; Joe Marks, private secretary to Mr. Taylor. The show will feature Macanzella Zira, lady wild animal tamer, with her group of leopards and tigers; Captain Guys, with his group of wild African lions; Major Miller, with his four trained performing elephants; Falkandauf and his combination group of animals; Pauleski, with his five Bengal tigers; Bam Bola, the African chief, and his wrestling bear; Senior Bazzina and his trained stallions; and Senior Tony Cometta and his twenty-eight piece band.

    Ed Shipp's ring barn and training quarters at Petersburg, Ill., are now owned by Dan and Pat Kelley. Pat Kelley Latell Troupe were with Ringling Bros. last season and Dan was doing the revolving ladder and clowning with Sells-Floto.

    George H. Brown, formerly clowning, etc., with the B & B. Show, and last season with Sells-Floto, is now divorced from his wife, Marie Pauline Meers, one of the Meers Sisters, riders. The decree was granted Nov. 6.

Billboard, December 27, 1913, pp. 22, 57. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Webster, Fla., Dec. 16. Sun Bros. World's Progressive Shows will spend the Yuletide at Miami, Fla. The present season will terminate at St. Augustine, Fla., January 1 and at the conclusion of the night show, the aggregation, intact, will leave for its permanent home at Central City Park, Macon, Ga.

    Park B. Prentiss got stuck on a red-headed gal named Jessie L. Wilson, from Pierce City, "Show Me State," and they were robbed of their single blessedness at 9 p.m. Friday, November 28, 1913. Latch string open at Venice, Cal., after January 1, 1914.

    The winter quarters of the new Wheeler Bros. Shows and Stampede Wild West at Oxford, Pa. The grounds, located in the heart of the city, comprise twenty acres of land, on which are located stables for over two hundred horses, large buildings for storage purposes, blacksmith and paint shops, animal barns, etc. Mr. Wheeler has just completed one of the finest ring barns in this country. All buildings are supplied with running water, and lighted by electricity. Capt. H. Snider is again in charge of the quarters, which position he has filled for many years, while Henry Lucier is the master mechanic. The show is being fitted up, and will be one of the most complete medium-sized railroad shows. Al. F. Wheeler, who will be sole owner and manager of the new enterprise, has been busy ever since the closing of the Downie & Wheeler Shows, buying new equipment and paraphernalia. The arenic performance will be a combination of circus, Wild West and hippodrome features, requiring three rings for its production.

    Goochland, Va., Dec. 17. The partnership between Dock & Russell, managers of the Great Keystone Show, has been dissolved. The show is now owned by Dock & Blyth. Mr. Dock will look after the managerial duties.

    Venice (Cal.) News. Jerry Smith, at one time with Norris and Rowe, and also with Jerry Mugivan, and the old Wallace Show, has a concession here. Jerry is another who has tired of the road and has gone back to the simple life. Al Butler, one of H. H. Tammen's young men, is doing something to the ads in the telephone book, and making money at it, and in the meantime is contracting a few lots for the coming season for Buffalo Bill and Sells-Floto. Pete Staunton, late of the Two Bills, will surprise the natives with a new frame-up soon. His Scotch band, in front of the sea elephant show created quite a furore. Harry Moore and wife, of the Barnes Show, are enjoying the sunshine of Southern California. Chick Gammon, of the Barnes and H. W. Shows, has the front of the sea elephant show.

    Chicago, Dec. 18. Paul Bloom has just come to town from Columbus, O. He left the Nat Reiss Carnival Co., and joined Frank Spellman's Circus, which is made up of the following acts: Ledgett and Dollie Julian, formerly with Barnum & Bailey; Bob Stickney Family, riders; Laurette Sisters, iron jaw; Art Eldridge, working Col. Hall's (not Pop) elephants.

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Billboard, January 3, 1914, pp. 22, 23, 57. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    C. E. Cory, manager, and R. M. Harvey, contracting agent, of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, spent December 26 in St. Louis, Mo., in conference with Frank M. Robinson, manager of the St. Louis Coliseum, the result of which was the signing of a contract that insures the opening of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows in this city next April, for a stay of two weeks. Mr. Harvey will arrive here early the coming year to care for the appearance of the shows. The flood prevented their opening in St. Louis last year.

    Paterson, N. J., December 20. Thomas H. Roberts, known in the show business as a clown, died at his home here at 431 Eleventh avenue, of tuberculosis. He was 42 years of age and unmarried. The deceased clowned with Ringling Bros. Show for twelve years, and was with the John Robinson Ten Big Shows for two years, a partner of the comedy acrobatic trio known as Reno, Azora and Roberts. He was also a member of the White Rats and the Ft. Worth (Tex.) Lodge of Eagles. The body was laid to rest in the family's lot at Butler, N. J.

    During the winter Al. G. Barnes will place three of his animal acts in vaudeville. Bill Dailey, formerly field manager of the Bert Levey Circuit, who is now acting as personal representative for artists will arrange the booking. Rinktock Comedy Circus will be the first act to arrive in San Francisco. The four riding animals, a lion, bear, monkey and dog, who ride four white ponies, will constitute the next act. The last, is Al. G. Barnes' black high school horse.

    The M. L. Clark and Sons Show closed a season of forty-one weeks at Liberty, Tex., December 22. It was manager Clark's intention to stay out until New Year's, but owing to the bad roads he changed his mind. Prof. Leon Feist's Band played Home Sweet Home at the Monday night performance, and the people with the show began to hurry for trains to reach their homes by Christmas. Arthur Burson went to New Orleans, the LaComa family to Alexandria, La., and the two Genns to San Antonio. Charles Liles and wife will spend a few days in Houston, and then visit Madam Lile's children in Shreveport, La. After visiting Shreveport, they will go to Col. M. L. Clark's ranch near San Antonio, where the show will winter. The show will open the season of 1914 about February 20, and will again be piloted by H. C. Long.

    Sun Bros. Circus will close the 1913 season at St. Augustine, Fla., January 1, and go into winter quarters at Macon, Ga. Ray G. Piper, general agent, will spend the winter at San Angelo, Tex. James M. Beach, contracting agent, closed at St. Augustine Dec. 5, and is spending the holidays at his home in Seneca Falls, N. Y. Mr. Beach has been re-engaged for 1914, his eighth consecutive season with the show. J. L. Springer, manager of advance car No. 2, is spending the winter at his home in New Philadelphia, O. Myron A. Bentley, special agent, closed at St. Augustine December 12, and is wintering at Macon, Ga.

    The LeClair, Webber and Hughes Dog, Pony and Monkey Circus is now in winter quarters on LeClair's Pony Farm, 14 miles south of Providence, R. I., and is well quartered in miniature as the largest circus in America. Geo. A. Manchester, owner and manager of this little show, is also proprietor of the LeClair Pony Farm, where he has accumulated his share in the breeding and raising of ponies and dogs. The LeClair troupes of ponies and dogs are all at the farm, the No. 1 troupe having just returned from Waterville, Me., where they did their last work in 1913 for the Waterville Chamber of Commerce Winter Circus, under the direction of Wallace Lupien.
    A new ring barn, with 16 stalls and loft, is nearing completion, and will be in charge of S. W. (Blacky) King. Mr. King will have 26 ponies and between 40 and 50 dogs to work this winter. Blacky came here direct after the closing of the Rentz Bros. Shows. He will be assisted by Wallace Lupien, who has been with the LeClair ponies for several years, and who has risen from a pony punk to a trainer-in-charge in three years. Chas. Washington, the colored trainer, will also assist in the ring barn.
    This show will go out next season on three 60 foot cars, and will carry a ten cage menagerie, a combination band and ticket wagon, 26 to 30 ponies, 50 dogs, 5 working monkeys and 8 draft horses. The canvas consists of a 70 foot round top with two 40 foot middle pieces; a 60 foot menagerie top, with two thirties; a 50 foot dressing room; a 50 foot side show, with a 40 foot middle piece, and a 20x30 cook house. The show will carry 20 lenghts of blue seats and 10 lenghts of reserves. Every seat, jack, stringer, pole and stake was made on the farm from trees cut on the place. Mr. Manchester has just returned from Boston, where he has closed one of the best circus contracts ever made, under the terms of which the LeClair, Webber and Hughes will play 22 weeks of 3-day stands in New England, or 44 towns, under the auspices of Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade, every stand under guarantee. Chas. Gordon, for many years agent for Chas. L. Davis' "Alvin Joslin" Co., and press agent of the Alvin Theater of Pittsburg, will have charge of the advance of this show for 1914.

    A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jas. T. Bayne, November 18. The little one is doing nicely, but Mrs. Bayne's health is poor. Mr. Bayne is owner and manager of Bayne's Dog and Pony Show, in winter quarters at Graham, Ok. The show was formerly known as Bayne's 20-Wagon Shows.

    Chicago, Dec. 25. Dan Leon, one of the old-timers, bought six Shetland ponies and a home and training quarters at Mt. Washington, Mo. Mr. Leon and his wife were with Gollmar Bros. Show last season, he being equestrian director.

    Rice Bros. are planning for 1914, having winter quarters put in shape here in Chicago. Chas. McCorrier, Butch Fredericks, Al. Campbell, Jim Beatty and others are being considered among the staff.

    While the Sig. Sautelle Shows are disorganized, and, as rumor has it, no chance of going out under the old staff and ownership, it is asserted by some that the Signor will put it out himself individually.

    Jack O'Brien, an old-timer with privileges, for many years associated with D'Arcy with the Lee French Show, Andress Colossal Shows, D'Arcy & O'Brien Southern Shows, etc., was a Billboard caller. Up until two years ago, Jack was associated with Campbell Bros. Shows. After leaving Campbell Bros., he married a wealthy lady at Fairbury, Neb., and started a big Georgia Minstrel Show, under canvas, with sixty people, forty-five colored and fifteen white, and travels in his own cars.

    George H. Batchelor, who died in Boston recently at the age of 86 years, was the only surviving member of Isaac Burk's Circus that toured New York and New England from 1839 to 1844. He was also with Howe and Marbles Shows and with Howe and Cushings Circus. He was also attached at different times to the Forepaugh, Ward and Dumont, O'Brien and Doris Shows.

Billboard, January 10, 1914, pp. 26, 27, 28, 29, 65. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Fred R. Castle, old-time circus performer, died at the Home Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark., at 6:30 a.m., December 29. Death was due to bronchial pneumonia. The deceased traveled with the Adam Forepaugh Shows, doing his famous double somersault over the backs of fourteen elephants, and was later connected with Buckskin Bill, Campbell Bros., Parker's Shows, Cosmopolitan, Kline and others. His last road work was with the Herbert A. Kline Shows in 1911. Of late years he confined himself to buying, selling and leasing show property, and traveling with his steam calliope. Castle had been ill for two years, but lately was improving and was planning a small Wild West show for the coming season. December 24 he visited the J. H. Eschman Shows, while exhibiting in Hot Springs, and the day being damp and cold, he contracted a cold. The remains were buried at St. Louis. A wife survives him.

    George M. Forepaugh has been re-engaged as general agent of the Tompkins Wild West & Cooper-Whitby Circus for the season of 1914. Mr. Forepaugh will have one more wagon and two more billposters ahead with him. J. E. Pettit has also been re-engaged as special agent. Three more baggage wagons and two more dens will be carried. The parade will have two bands and an air calliope.

    The Winter Circus that was organized and put in operation at the Globe Theater by H. W. Wright has lost out as many predicted it would. Mr. Wright was depressed on account of the sad failure. Mr. Garrett, owner and promoter of the Rice Brothers Circus, immediately took charge and put on a very commendable circus performance, under the guidance of his equestrian director, Mike Rooney. We are very much in doubt whether the ultimate results will be a financial success, but let us hope so.

    Bottini Bros., proprietors of a two car circus out of Rome, N. Y., were found not guilty of receiving stolen property at Watertown a short time ago.

    Bert Rutherford leaves the Sautelle Show after a season's work as general agent to accept a similar position with Andrew Downie.

    After a successful season, Monroe's Mighty Shows and Buffalo Tom's Wild West closed at Greenwood, Miss., and stored everything away at that place. Immediatley after the closing they opened a show for the winter which is being managed by Buffalo Tom. A. M. Cauble, the owner, went direct to the winter quarters at Mt. Vernon, Ark., to superintend the training of stock for the coming season. The show will open the season of 19194 early in March at Tupelo, Miss., and will carry sixty horses and fifteen wagons.

    The 1913 season has been the most prosperous season Amazon Bros. Show has had in its past twenty years' experience. Although thirteen is considered unlucky, it has proved a winner for this show. The show opened May 13, carried thirteen musicians in the band, thirteen performers, thirteen head of stock, had thirteen at each table in the dining tent and closed December 13. Only one accident happened the whole season. The coming season the show will go out larger. A new advance wagon, a larger ticket wagon and one more sleeping car will be added. Manager LaPlace will start East shortly to purchase about six or eight of dayage horses. John McMillan will have charge of the stock the coming season, and will have eight assistants. James Seat will be boss canvasman, with ten men. Work on the show will start about the first of the year so everything will be ready for an early opening on or about April 23.

    The farm, training barns, winter headquarters, and show show printing headquarters of Heber Bros. Greater Show, Circus and Menagerie are some of the busiest places on earth. The rule to enlarge every year will be adhered to firmly this year. The show will carry no stock lithos the coming season, but will have all special designs. New show truck autos have been purchased to transport the outfit to and from the lots. Two of the latest designed circus privilege wagons have been purchased, and many importations of wild animals, plumaged birds and reptile are being added. A new lot of elegant wagons, as well as chariots and cages will be added. Two limosine cars will go overland to watch and inspect all country billing. Ben C. Heber, wife and son, took a trip South to spend the holidays, while Rollo Heber followed suit on a Northern trip.

    Lee Smith, who was with the Cole & Cooper Show the past season, will again be with with one of the Jones Bros. Shows next season.

    Harry Mann, general agent of the Robinson Shows, is spending a few weeks in Syracuse, N. Y., his home town. He will leave the early part of the year for Montgomery, Ala., to confer with Jerry Mugivan and Bert Bowers, owners of the show.

    Col. Adam Gillespie, for many years assistant manager for Al. F. Wheeler with his New Model Shows, and who filled the same position last season with the Tompkins Wild West and Cooper-Whitby Circus, is at his home town, Calais, Me., where he owns a residence and other real estated interests.

    The Four Bradburys, while resting up at Montgomery, Ala., received a message from home (Sullivan, Ind.) that their brother was in bad condition and not expected to live. Upon arriving home they found him much better and on the road to recovery. They will rest at Sullivan, then play vaudeville dates. They were with Howe's Great London Shows the past season, and have signed with the Ringling Show for the season of 1914, to work both their musical and dog acts.

    The Hollis Family, with the Downie & Wheeler Shows the past season, purchased a home in Sylvania, O. (eight miles from Toledo), and are putting up a ring barn, 50x50. Mrs. Nettie Greer, late of the McCree Davenport Troupe, will be one of the Hollis Family next season.

    The boys at the LaTena Big Three-Ring Trained Wild Animal Circus winter quarters at Timonium, Md., enjoyed an elaborate Christmas dinner. Owner and manager, Andrew J. Downie, was absent from the quarters, but the boys made themselves at home.

    The John H. Sparks Shows, now in winter quarters at Salisbury, N. C., will be enlarged for next season. Fletcher Smith, who has had charge of the painting and decorating of the show for the past four seasons, is again busy at the quarters, and has been re-engaged as press agent for next season. Mr. Smith was with the Sparks Show up to last June, and then went to Rentz Bros. Circus.

    Claude Orton and wife closed a successful season with the Sanger Show, after the holidays returned to Montgomery, Ala., the winter quarters of the show. Mr. Orton will handle the stock with the Sanger Show, season of 1914.

    F. G. Nazor, manager of Nazor's Show, purchased an old church building at Ontario, O., overhauled same and is now using it for show quarters. The season of 1914 will find Mr. Nazor on the road with a five wagon show, working two night stands in Ohio, and carrying twelve people.

    Captain H. Snyder [sic], the lion tamer of Wheeling [sic] Bros. Circus, was married to Mrs. Rebecca Whitley, of Tarboro, N. C., December 12, at his apartments on the circus grounds at Oxford, Pa.

    Alec Todd and wife, and Ed Ward and wife, of the Flying Wards, have erected a large building on their farm near Troy Mills, Ia., for practicing purposes, and are putting together a six people flying act. They have a new leaper coming from England.

    Walter C. Coburn, manager of Coburn Bros. Circus, in winter quarters at East Palestine, O., recently purchased three miniature cages for the coming season. Mr. Coburn now has fifteen wagons and nine ponies, and is purchasing much parade paraphernalia.

    Joe Kelly, captain of car No. 60, with the Forepaugh-Sells Show, and last season head porter with the Yankee Robinson Show, returned to Des Moines by way of Chicago.

    Lucius Foster, of the Yankee Robinson Show, died at the St. George Hotel, Lancaster, Mo., recently. The deceased also traveled with the Barnum Show a number of years ago. Two daughters, one the wife of Art Eldridge, the boss hostler, survive him.

    The remains of J. Delmar Andrews (notice of whose death appeared in a recent issue) were taken to Orangeburg, S. C., and laid to rest by his father. Mrs. J. D. Andrews, known as Madam Syulvia, left for her home in Springfield, O., for the winter.

    Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dearmin, known as Bill and Clemie Odus, who were with the Arlington and Beckman Oklahoma Ranch Show the past season, are wintering in Houston, Tex. Mr. Dearmin had a snake show there last season and did well.

    Louie LaClede, equestrian director of Jones Bros. World Toured Shows the past season, will spend the winter in Norfolk, Va. This made Mr. LaClede's fifth season with the Jones Bros.

    The show known as W. C. Neelng's Novelty Circus will next season be known as Neelings Bros. American Wonder, and will carry twelve wagons. The show will tour Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Iowa.

    A. C. Jones and wife, of the Montgomery Queen Shows, will spend the winter in Warren, Pa. A. C. is the youngest brother of the Jones family, of which Capt. J. Augustus Jones is the head.

    LeClair's Dog, Pony and Monkey Circus closed the season at the Merchants' Indoor Carnival at Waterville, Me., and went into winter quarters at LeClair's pony farm, at Crompton, R. I.

    Red Carroll, for many years filled the position of boss props with the John Robinson Shows, is engaged in the same capacity for the coming season with Wheeler Bros. and the Stampede.

    Bronson C. McDonald, circus musician, and Miss Louise Belleguic, vaudeville performer, were married in Duluth, Minn., recently. They will join hands in a new musical and dancing act.

    J. S. Robertson, for the past two seasons managed the annex with the Downie & Wheeler Shows, will fill the same position the coming season with the new Wheeler Bros. Shows.

    Charles LaBelle, clown and mule hurdle rider, is engaged for the season of 1914 with Wheeler Bros. and the Stampede.

    The J. J. Evans Show closed a successful season at Wooster, O., and went into winter quarters at Massillon, O. J. J. Evans, manager, will play a few vaudeville dates near Massillon, with part of his performers during the winter, and will start out early next spring with a four-wagon show.

    H. W. Wingert will again have the band with Rice Bros. Shows the coming season. The Five Howards have signed with Rice Bros. for 1914.

    Shorty Maynard, clown, has signed with the Sells-Floto-Buffalo Bill Shows for season of 1914.

Billboard, January 17, 1914, pp. 22, 23, 24. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    New York, Jan. 12. Interest is evidenced in circus circles here owing to the news of the new amalgamation of the Jones Brothers, of J. Augustus Jones fame, with Harry G. Wilson, one of the best side show managers and for many seasons identified with Pawnee Bill Show, Miller Bros. 101 Ranch, Buffalo Bill Show and lately with the Two Bills Show. Rumor states that the new combination will represent a twenty-car show, carrying big top, menagerie, side show and some smaller tented attractions. The Billboard representative was able to obtain an interview with J. Augustus Jones and Harry Wilson, during which the former said: We have not yet laid down all of our plans but we have decided that our show will not exceed one full train of cars. The policy of the entertainment will be strictly circus with a big feature menagerie of more than 150 wild beasts and specimens of rare foreign animals. Our program will be constructed along entirely original lines in which trained wild animal features will predominate. We will carry a novel spectacle and will give daily street parades. We hope to open our season some time in April or early May. The shows will be billed as the Jones Brothers and Wilson. J. Augustus Jones will have charge of the advance.

    Fred R. Castle. In the last issue of The Billboard appeared an obituary notice of Fred R. Castle, who died in Hot Springs, Ark., Dec. 29. The decedent was one of the oldest living circus performers, and his career covers a period of more than two score years. Mr. Castle was born March 30, 1854, at Ogdensburg, N. Y. When one year old his parents moved to Galesburg, Ill. In 1868 he entered the circus profession as an acrobat with M. O. Connorj's Great Western Circus, working on connection with Harry Lambkins, doing leaps and ground tumbling. He was with the Great Western in '68, '69, '70 and '71, was with Dan Rice in '72, when he went south by boat; was with the Trans-Atlantic Shows winter of '72 and '73; P. A. Older Show in '73; Van Amburg Show in '74; Sells Bros., '75, '76, '77, and '78, and Adam Forepaugh Show in '79, '80, '81 and '82. John Worland also worked with Mr. Castle, both doing principal leaping and tumbling. He then left the show business, moved to Clayton, Kan., and tried farming and stock-raising till 1897. He joined the Campbell Bros. Circus; then Buckskin Bill's Wild West for two seasons; was with the Cosmopolitan Carnival Co., Snyder & Anderson several seasons, furnishing the calliope music; was with the Kennedy Carnival Co. one season and with Herbert A. Kline in 1911, his last season to travel, has he lost his health and was unable to fulfill his engagements. He was 59 years, 8 months and 29 days old. Interment was made in St. Louis. A wife, two brothers, Frank J. Castle, of Norcatur, Kan., who also spent several years in the circus business, and Ace Castle, of Clayton, Kan., and one sister, Mrs. Ida Eagan, of Galesburg, Ill., survive him.

    When the season of 1914 opens another show will be found on the road, a seventeen car outfit, which will be put out by Shep Camp, old burlesque and dramatic artist, who is at present with the Round-Up Company. The show will be brand new and will have two rings. The name of the show, as well as the route which will be followed, have not as yet been decided upon.

    Virgil and Bessie Barnett are meeting with success with their posing statue act with the Alice Lloyd Vaudeville Road Show. They will be with the Ringling Show the coming season.

    Wm. A. Main, who has been connected with the Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Bros. Shows for ten consecutive seasons, has entered the moving picture field, working for the Universal Company.

    Floyd King, circus press agent, has returned home in Memphis, Tenn., following the closing of William A. Brady's Ready Money Show in New York. King is police reporter on The Memphis News Scimitar for the winter. He will again head the press department of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows next season.

    Red Bank, N. J., Jan. 6. George D. Walters, known in show business, passed away at his home in Fair Haven last night, at the age of 47. He recently underwent an operation for internal trouble, and his recovery seemed certain until a sudden change. Walters was with the Barnum & Bailey Circus for several years, was transportation agent for the Wallace Shows for several years, and manager of Al W. Martin's Uncle Tom's Cabin Company. Last season he was with one of Gus Hill's Mutt and Jeff companies. A wife, father, three sisters and two brothers survive him. One of the brothers, Charles L. Walters, is manager of the Gaiety Theater, St. Louis. The deceased was a member of the White Rats.

    Charles and Lizzie Liles have been engaged by Col. M. L. Clark for the season of 1914, their fourth year with the M. L. Clark and Son Shows. Mr. Liles will be on the front of the side show and will also have charge of the concert, while Mrs. Liles will have full charge of the reserve seats for Madame Clark.

    Savannah, Ga., Jan. 5. The Lowande & Robbins Indoor Circus, operated by Oscar Lowande and Frank A. Robbins Jr., stranded at the Savannah Theater here last week, after two performances were given. Oscar Lowande left town early last Friday, taking with him the prize trick dog and two boxes of snakes. The show had been on the road since the closing of the Ringling Bros. Show the latter part of November, and didn't make expenses. Members of the company, some twenty odd, state that they had only received two half-week salar payments since the show started out six weeks ago. The Friday performance was given, but bad weather kept the theater practically empty at both performances, and feeling sorry for the unfortunate performers, manager Seeskind, of the Savannah Theater, allowed them to give one more performance Saturday, in hopes of getting enough money to get out of town. The only property belonging to the show that is left is a white horse, and this, it is said, will be sold and the proceeds divided among the performers. Most of the other articles are said to be owned by the different members of the show, individually, and will only be sold as a last resort.

    Ernst D. Landers, auditor of the Gollmar Bros., is now editor of The Ogle (Co.) Republican, and owns his own printing company at Orange, Ill.

    Ed Wiley will be back again with the Gollmars, as twenty-four hour man.

    [Chicago] Warren Irons and Pearl McVae were married last Wednesday. Mr. Irons paid Col. Hall $2,225 for the tiny elephant. The elephant will be one of the attractions of Warren's five-in-one pit show with H. & W. next season.

    Work on the Happy Billy's Fuxious Shows, in winter quarters at Hotchkiss, Va., has already started. The show will have a six car train next season, 1913 proving a banner year for the show. Katie Woody and her educated pony will again be a leading attraction. Happy Billy paid $1,000 for this pony and gave it to his wife as a bridal present. A new Power's 6A and a Simplex Picture machine have been added. Warner's features will only be used next season. All of the stock is in fine shape. Several high school horses will be added.

    Fowler & Clark's Famous Dog and Pony Shows closed a season of twenty-six weeks at Columbus Jct., Ia., October 15, and shipped to their new winter quarters at Albany, Mo. This show will not be enlarged, but will remain about the same size as last season. A new electric lighting system has been contracted for next season.

    Vic Graham, Frank Mullikin, Sam Rickey and Thomas and Guy W. Cleveland sailed with the Lowande Circus Band for a ten weeks' tour of Panama.

    The Three Taggarts, horizontal bar and aerial artists, sailed with the Martin Lowande Jr. Circus, for a tour of Panama and South America.

    Arthur Boden recently returned to San Francisco from Australia after a very successful season with the Wirth Bros. Circus.

    Hughey V. Harrison will have the privilege car and side show with the Al. G. Barnes Circus the coming season.

    Fred L. Gay, clown, has signed contracts with the Yankee Robinson Shows for the coming season. A. L. Salvail will have the side show with the Yankee Robinson Shows.

    William R. Wright has signed with the LaMont Bros. Show as trap drummer for next season.

    Dan Leon is training a new pony act at Mt. Washington, Mo., for the Gollmar rings.

    Harry Mann has been re-engaged as general agent of the Sanger Shows.

Billboard, January 24, 1914, pp. 22, 23, 24, 25. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Rentz Bros. One-ring Circus, Wild West and Trained Animal Circus Combined, will open the season of 1914, Saturday, April 4. Between February 9 and April 1 their troupe of performing ponies, dogs, donkeys and horses will play vaudeville dats. The management of the show deems it a better policy not to run a cook tent for the employees of the show. They believe in letting the employees feed themselves. No parade will be given this season.

    Carl Mitchell will again lead the band with Tompkins Wild West and Cooper-Whitby Circus. He will have fourteen musicians. Carroll Mitchell, trombone soloist, will be featured. Carl, Cecil and Carroll are at present en route with the Oak Hill Farm Co. General agent Forepaugh will have with him Jack Rea and Charles W. Gallager, with two more billposters, one more wagon and all special paper. Parker Anderson, the colored trainer, is busy at the farm with some new acts. He is breaking in the two new horses purchased at the Old Glory Sale, in New York. A new pony drill and a riding dog act will be put on the coming season. Mr. and Mrs. George Asplund, of Phoenix, Ariz., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Tompkins at their winter home in Lambertville, N. J. Mr. Asplund is an old-time cattle man. Mr. Tompkins and Mr. Asplund drove trail herds from Texas to Montana for the X. I. T. Cattle Co., from 1885 to 1890. This is the first time these two old-timers have met in twenty-three years.

    Henry (Apples) Welsh will be superintendent of stock with the Wheeler Bros. Shows. He has been spending the winter on his brother's ranch in Wyoming, and incidentally picking up a carload of arena stock that will be used in the Wild West performance this season. All baggage stock will be heavy dapple grays, and as in past seasons, the Wheeler Show will feature its fine horses. Frank (Blackie) Howard will have the top this season with the Wheeler Bros.

    Young and Marsh Trio will again be connected with the John H. Sparks Shows as principal and producing clowns, and will also put on their acrobatic act.

    Buster LeRoy Marsh, of Young and Marsh Trio, was married at the City Hall, New York City, recently, to Miss Augusta Young, a non-professional.

    Mrs. Arthur Chapin, of the Rice, Sully and Scott Trio, stopped off at Cedar Rapids, Ia., recently, with the intention of staying one day to visit her brother, Alec Todd, who is manager of the Six Flying Wards.

    Fred L. Gay, the clown, joined the J. H. Eschman European Circus at Hot Springs, Ark. The show makes a long jump from there to the east coast of Florida, after laying off for ten days to paint up.

    Rose and Jack Duncan, formerly with the Charles H. Tompkins Wild West Show, are wintering in Pittsburg, Pa. They will be with the Julia Allen Wild West Show, doing their fancy roping and shooting act, the coming season.

    As predicted in last week's Billboard, the winter at the Globe Theater, Chicago, has again gone to the bad, and it would appear that this playhouse is up against it, for nothing seems to go in it. Whether it is from the location or from the fact that it is down for a "Jonah" is more than we care to venture.

    New York, Jan. 15. The Professional Aid Society to American Girl Circus Performers has been formed. The American girls engaged for the season by the Barnum & Bailey Circus, gathered in the apartments of Miss Bird Millman, the slack wire performer, in the Hotel Oxford last Sunday, and declared against the importation of foreign talent. They insist the American girl is being crowded out of the circus business to such an extent that in the cook tent one scarcely hears a word of English spoken, and in the dressing tent nearly all the girls are foreigners. The circus, they declared, offers a better chance than the chorus of a Broadway show, with plenty of travel, less danger and pleasanter work and a chance to become artists in aerial work. The society is to be incorporated and American girl athletes are invited to join. The following officers of the associaton were elected: Eugenie Silbon, president; Bird Millman, secretary, and Sarah Hackett, treasurer. Among the Barnum & Bailey American performers who attended the meeting were: Florence Darling, trapezist; Victoria Davenport, rider; Edith Seagrist, aerialist; Emily Silbon, aerialist; Grace Marion, aerialist; Lottie Rutherford; Ella Hackett, acrobat; Evelyn Baker, bicyclist; Florence Fuller, horse trainer; Freda Comfort, wire walker; Marie Elser, rider; Bessie Mainwood, flat race rider; Rose Meyers, rider; Violet LaFelle, acrobat; Florence Kearney, gymnast, and Mrs. Emma Talbot, "mother" of the circus.

    San Bernardino, Cal., Jan. 12. One of the old-time circus men who has been out of the limelight for several years, has been discovered here, in the person of Mr. Woods, who for several years was identified as a trainer of horse acts with Barnum & Bailey, Ringling Bros., and a number of other famous big top caravans. At one time Woods had a circus of his own, known as Wood Bros. Show. A devastating railroad wreck and the panic of the last decade put the Indian sign on the project. Woods is the owner of the Auditorium Theater, the only vaudeville house here. He assures us that his annual lay-by is $12,000 or over, and that he is happy with his playhouse venture.

    The annex of the new Wheeler Bros. Shows and Stampede Wild West will be managed by J. S. Robertson, who has booked a novel program of attractions. Batsell's Octoroons, a company of sixteen people, in a musical tabloid, will be a new departure from the old minstrel show. Other attractions will be Stano, the mechanical man; Morse, the living skeleton; Cleero, comedy magician; Great Barrington, ventriloquist; Millie Nevo and her snakes; Glovania's monkey music hall, which will be staged in a miniature theater, and Aga, the aeroplane girl. There will also be a collection of rare animals on exhibiton. A steel arena will be arranged at one end of the annex, in which Capt. Snyder's groupe of performing lions and leopards will be exhibited. The Oriental theater will be a novelty in which six dancers will appear.

    San Bernardino, Cal., Jan. 12. A show with a province all its own has again invaded California in the form of the Mexican Old Country Circus of Escalente Bros., which is playing in the towns with large Mexican populations in Southern California. All work is in Spanish, and the temporary or permanent exiles from the Southern Republic who come in contact with the show, throng the gate to see their old home show. About fifty people are carried, the trick traveling with a sixty foot baggage car and two sleepers. The top is one hundred and fifty feet with two poles. High class team and single dances, pantomimes, magician, trapeze, ladder, tumbling, juvenile and adult, contortionist and other acts are carried. The show is booked for Colton for this week, and will play two weeks in the Mexican colony in Los Angeles.

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America, Dec. 10. The Shipp & Feltus Shows secured the big Pavilion International to show in here. It seats over 3,000 persons and holding almost that many more. It is located in the heart of the city on its main thoroghfare. Messrs. Ship and Feltus billed the town for a month and have had either capacity or turnaway every day since opening. The show is now in its fourth week.

    Mrs. G. W. Christie, of the Christie and Leonard Shows, has opened a candy kitchen and bakery in Chester, Va., her home town. G. W. Christie and Ed Wynnes will go out the coming season with a scenic Wild West show, using a 50c80 big top and a 30x50 side show top, and their own electric light plant. The following people have already signed up: Mrs. Florence Christie, Leonard Christie, Joe Martin and Will Hale.

    Leo Ferner, catcher with the Siegrist-Silbon Troupe in the Barnum & Bailey Show for ten years, played at Talbot's Hippodrome week of January 5, with an act known as The Waldrons, novelty aerialists.

    The Irwin Bros., James and William, will open their tent show about April 15. This outfit has not been on the road for a number of years. They have all new tents, poles, seats and lights. Some of the features will be Kitty May Irwin, in her dancing rope act; Mlle. Irwin, club juggling and rifle shooting, and the Irwin Bros., in head balancing and trapeze.

    Roarest m. Pester, age 2 years, son of L. C. Pester, died at the home of L. Clark in Duluth, Minn., January 6. Interment was made a Duluth. Mrs. Pester, who was known as Margaret DeVere, lady wild animal trainer, died a few days after baby Roarest was born. Mr. Pester was superintendent of animals with Rice Bros. Circus season of 1913.

    Fred Buchanan of Des Moines, owner of the Yankee Robinson Shows, has been in Ft. Dodge, Ia., looking over the Cardiff Giant recently brought back to that town by J. R. Mulroney. Buchanan plans to add this famous old hoax to one of his side shows next season. Mulroney will not sell the giant, but Buchanan hopes to be able to lease it.

    Roy Barrett, after closing a season with the Yankee Robinson Show, joined the Clifton-Ellley Shows for the winter. Mr. Barrett has signed contracts with Howe's Great London Shows for the season of 1914, to clown and double in the street band.

    The Riding Millers, last season with the Mighty Haag Shows, will be featured with Howe's Great London Shows next season. Besides their acts, Mr. Miller will be equestrian director with the show.

    Captain C. W. Sharpe, formerly of the Sells-Floto Shows, and more lately equestrienne director for the Al G. Barnes Shows, is temporarily out of the game. He is on the police force at Venice, Cal.

    Doc Coates, who has been with the Mighty Haag Shows for the past four seasons, is at his home in Putnam, N. Y. Doc has been engaged for season of 1914.

    D. W. Batsell will furnish a colored band and minstrel company of twelve people for the Wheeler Bros. Shows season of 1914.

    Albert Gaston, veteran clown, who is engaged with the H. H. Boyer R. R. Shows for the season of 1914, is doorman at the New Travis Theater, Houston, Tex., for the winter.

    The McLains are wintering at Peru, Ind. They will again be with the Gollmar Bros. Show the coming season, their fourth consecutive season with that show.

    Frank E. Hall has purchased a half interest in the Wintermute Wagon Show. Several new animal acts will be added and the show will be enlarged for the season of 1914.

    Charley Henderson, who was with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows the past season, will be trainmaster with the Robinson Famous Shows the coming season.

    Al (Montana) Swan will again have the mail on the Gollmar Bros. Shows, his fourth season on this show.

    K. L. King has been engaged as bandmaster with the Sells-Floto-Buffalo Bill Show for the season of 1914, and will write the special music for the spectacle, The Warpath.

    George Jennier Jr. will be back home with the Wheeler Bros. Shows the coming season. He is at present in the South with the Wise Carnival Co.

    Frank A. Elliott has signed as contractor with Tompkins Wild West and Cooper-Whitby Circus for the coming season.

    The Hamiltons, Claude and Nora, muscial artists, are engaged for the coming season with the Wheeler Bros. Circus.

Billboard, January 31, 1914, pp. 22, 23, 24. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Beverly, O., Jan. 20. The complete show outfit, formerly owned by Stull Bros., and used but a few weeks, will be sold at auction by the Citizens Bank Co., of this city, at 10 a.m., Wednesday, February 4.

    Louis Plamondon, with the Ringling Bros. for the last two seasons, goes out this year with Sells-Floto-Buffalo Bill. Mr. Plamondon is wintering in Topeka, Kan.

    Raleigh Wilson, clown with Ringling Bros. last year and re-engaged this season, is putting in his spare time running a printing office in Fairbury, Neb.

    M. E. Bacon, legal adjuster, last season with the Gollmar Bros. Show, has been engaged by Andrew Downie as legal adjuster for LaTena's Wild Animal Circus.

    Dominick Miniscalo, the one-man band with the Yankee Robinson Shows last year, also manager of the Midget Madame Loretta, will join out with the Sparks Circus next season.

    Frank Hurst, formerly an agent with the W. C. Coup Shows, is now a film man, the Kinematiphone Company of America is his racket.

    Word reaches us from Savannah, Ga., that the property of the Lowande-Robbins Show, which is at Brunswick, Ga., was attached by the performers, but so far they have been unable to get a settlement of their claims.

    Mrs. Ella Gray, wife of Barry Gray, known in the profession as Barry and Ella Gray, marionette performers, who were connected with the Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Bros. Shows for a number of years, died of anemia in Philldelphia, January 9. The remains were taken to her native village, Louisville, O., where the funeral was held January 11, at the home of her mother, Mrs. Jacob Meese. The deceased was a sister of the well-known ex-showman, J. J. DeVaux, of Los Angeles.

    Bert Cole will again be with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, his fourteenth season with that show.

    John H. Sparks Shows. Manager Charles Sparks purchased the baby elephant offered for sale by William P. Hall. The little fellow, christened Tom Thumb by Mrs. Sparks, arrived at the winter quarters at Salisbury, N. C., in company with another elephant a little larger in size, a camel and 18 head of baggage and ring stock. The recent purchase will give the show five elephants and two camels. Three new cages, a new advance car, a stock and a flat have also been added to the outfit. The Pullman sleeeper, nearly destroyed by fire last summer in Michigan, is being rebuilt and will be added to the train this season to be used by the working bosses and workingmen. This will give the show ten cars back and two ahead.

    The Sun Bros. Shows closed the season January 1, arrived in Macon, Ga., the night of January 2 and had the outfit stored away and all people paid off by Monday, the 5th. The shops have opened up and are now in working order. There are thirty men in quarters. Master mechanic Cherry is working his force of men, and will have the wagons in shape when the opening comes. New cages and wagons are being built. Mike Carry will look after the painting, Jim James the canvas; H. Horton, the work in the blacksmith shops; Arthur Webber, the lights, and B. L. Neal, the harness. Nearly all the people who were with the show last season have been re-engaged. The same bosses with handle the show. Following the custom of the past seven years, no street parade will be given.

Billboard, February 7, 1914, pp. 23, 24, 25. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The Sells-Floto-Buffalo Bill Shows will open the season of 1914 at Alburquerque, N. M., March 28.

    Roy Feltus, of the Shipp & Feltus Shows, writes under date of January 4: We have been away from the States now more than two years, and expect to arrive in New York early in April.

    The line-up of the Sig. Sautelle Shows for the coming season: John Henry Rice, general agent; Mike Connors, in charge of advance car; Charles L. Smith, calliope; Howard Robbinson, treasurer; Prof. Brinker, side show; Harry Allen, adjuster; Dan Traver, boss canvasman; Eugene Woodworth, master mechanic.

    Jim Finnegan, 24-hour agent with the Mighty Haag Shows for many seasons, dropped dead at Shreveport, La., January 27.

    John H. Sparks Shows. The show will be particularly strong in riding and animal acts. Among the act already engaged are Flora Bedini and Olga Reed, Walter Guice, and Bert and Myrtle Mayo. Bert Mayo will again be equestrian director. The leading animal feature will be presented by Capt. Tiebor's Trained Seals and Sea Lions. Prof. Reed's Baseball Elephants and Herr Fritz Brunner's Lions, working in a large steel arena, will again be with the show. A novel telephone stunt by the two baby elephants recetly purchased from William P. Hall will be introduced by trainer Reed. Other acts under contract include the Reynards, bicyclists; Orton Family, aerialists and wire walkers; Lizzie Bartlett, Guice Trio and the Young-Marsh Trio of acrobats. Walter Young will be producing clown, with a number of assistant funmakers.
    Cal Towers will be manager of the side show. P. G. Lowery will furnish the colored band of ten musicians and the colored minstrel show. Other people engaged are Harto and wife, J. F. Hoey and wife, and a company of oriental dancers. Four new cages of animals will be added to the menagerie. Director Phillips has a band of twenty men for the big show. Leslie Bartlett will again fill the position of superintendent of tickets and manipulate the calliope keyboard. The show will be given in two rings and a stage. Eighteen head of stock have been added. A feature will be made of the parade.

    Reginald C. Heber Sr. is the founder of Heber Bros. Circus, Wild West and Menagerie. Mr. Heber organized this show about thirty-five years ago in Syracuse, N. Y., and played the same territory covered by Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey, Van Amburg and other in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Northern and Southern Peninsula of Michigan, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Indiana, Illinois, etc. About seventeen years ago he moved his family from Syracuse, N. Y., to Columbus, O., and the brothers, being too young to join the show were placed in school there. Ben C. Heber, the eldest was the first to graduate and was placed as head executive of the advance and press departments of the show. Reg. C. Heber Jr. came next as assistant manger. The other brothers were placed in equally as important positions as they grew up. All the brothers are thorough musicians, as well as skilled printers, having their own printing plant at the quarters at Columbus.
    Work is progressing on Heber Bros. Circus, Wild West and Menagerie in winter quarters. The side show will be enlarged and many wild animals added. New show automobile trucks and latest designed privilege wagons, with many other new show wagons and chariots, will also be added. Fred Lock, with his workmen, is putting a coat of red paint on all wagons used last year. No acts used last year will be re-engaged. The heavy draft horses, mules, trick donkeys and heavy wagons are on the Heber farm, ten miles north of Columbus. The printing office and training barns are near their residence. Some leaping greyhounds have just arrived. The giant monkey, Jocco, will be used in a new animal fire act next season.

    Billboard readers were pained to read of the sudden downfall of the Lowande-Robbins Circus. The show was a two car outfit organized at the close of the Sig Sautelle season in Georgia, and was to play Florida and Texas for the winter. Poor patronage was the cause of their undoing.

    Homer D. Hobson, well known in the circus busines and educated and trained as a rider by his father, for many years ran a small circus and different outdoor enterprises of his own, again goes with the Sells-Floto-Buffalo Bills Show, his fifth year with that organization. He was with the Sells Bros. for five years, and joined the Ringling Bros. in the spring of 1900, staying with then ten years. Mr. Hobson and his wife do a pretty riding act. They are well fixed, wealthy, having large interests in Texas and Arkansas lands and owning their own home at ring barn in Chicago. Homer's father is 76 years old, strong and robust.

    Things are progressng around Orton Bros. winter quarters at Waukee, Ia. New ring stock is being broken in. Miss Nellie's new principal horse is working good for so short a time. The management of this show recently purchased the performing elephant, Juno, from W. P. Hall. They will add "trained animal exhibition" to the title of the show this season. They have purchased a truck, and will have a bed built, for the advance. The paper will be arranged in the lower half, while the upper half will be used for sleeping purposes. An ordinary touring car was used last season and proved satisfactory.

    Tents of all kinds, canopies and marquees, though accorded liberal space, by no means dominate the work. On the contrary, the whole range of the showmen's requirements are almost completely covered. There are flags of all nationalities and all sizes, curtains, balloons, backstops, carousel covers, wagon covers, drometops, umbrellas, megaphones, netting, seats, jacks, stringers, poles, toe-pins, stakes, lambrequins, cushions, stake pullers, mauls, sledges, layout pins, tape-lines, lights, torches, wicks, palms, rope in all sizes, twines, bags, cots, oiled coats, caps and trousers, lanterns, bulbs, banners, fronts, proscenium arches and scenery.

    E. Lester (Doc) Miller, ticket seller and side show orator with Sun Bros. Show last season, has been re-engaged with Sun Bros.

    William Emery is at the Wheeler winter quarters, Oxford, Pa., breaking in a new elephant act for the Wheeler Bros. Shows. Among the new stunts that will be introduced in the act will be two elephants that do the tango dance. This act will be billed as Wheeler's Tango Dancing Elephants. Mr. Emery will also perfect another act that is to go with the Tompkins Wild West and Cooper & Whitby Circus.

    Everything is moving along under the supervision of E. K. Iseminger at the winter quarters of the Old Dominion Show, at Funkstown, Md. The show will remain a nine wagon show. The show will open about April 3, near Hagerstown, Md. The main tent will be sixty feet, with a thirty foot middle piece, and the side show will be 40x60 feet.

    Billie Boughton's Overland Show is no more. All the stock and nearly all the wagons have been sold at private sale, and the show is now beginning its first season on rails. Business is good. Mr. Boughton, wife and daughter visited the Wm. Todd Show at Nashville, Ga. Mr. Boughton was at one time connected with the Todd Show, as side show manager.

    Tex McLeod and wife, Emily Stickney, have been with the old folks in Cincinnati all winter. The 40 foot ring barn, in which they work every day is an advantage to the little rider and the roper also. Tex will be with the Sells-Floto-Buffalo Bill Shows the first part of the spring, and will then play the big contests held in Washington, Oregon and Nevada.

    Robert Stickney and his troupe of bareback riders have been at their home in Cincinnati since the Frank P. Spellman Indoor Winter Circus went ot the high air in Cleveland the first part of January. They will open at the Hippodrome, Chicago, week of February 16, and will play St. Louis and Kansas City and then jump to Denver to join the Sells-Floto-Buffalo Bill Shows.

    Joe Liday, formerly with Campbell Bros. Circus Band, and former leader of the U. S. Marine Band at the Presidio, San Francisco, is now in charge of the orchestra at the Opera House, Durant, Ok. Mr. Liday also instructs five bands in the vicinity of Durant.

    W. A. Eiler, who closed his tented season a short time ago, could not stand the monotony of laying off, so he concluded to tour Texas with a repertoire show, Eiler's Big New Orleans Minstrels will open under canvas about March 15.

    After playing thirty weeks of independent vaudeville in Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois, Jolly Jenaro is at his home in Dayton, O. He will be with the white tops this season, doing clown juggling and wire acts.

    Jim Eviston will again manage the first advertising car of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows.

    Owing to high water, Norton Bros. Show had to make Rock Island, Tex. its winter quarters this year, instead of Palacios, Tex. The show is being repaired and painted for the coming season.

    The Interurban R. R. has named the station at the Yankee Robinson winter quarters, near Granger, Ia., "Yankton," in honor of the show.

    George Atkinson, formerly with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, will handle the press back with the Sanger Shows.

    John Pettit will be special agent with the Tompkins Wild West and Cooper-Whitby Circus.

    The Burke & Gordon Show has just purchased new winter quarters at Lithia Springs, Ill. Three more wagons will be added for the coming season.

Billboard, February 14, 1914, pp. 22, 23, 24, 25. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The Rentz Bros. Show has decided not to open until Saturday, April 11. The show will ship from Geneva, O., the winter quarters, to some point in Southern Ohio for the opening, as the weather will be too cool on Lake Erie at that time. From the opening stand the show will travel to Maine, then to California and back to Georgis, closing about December 15. The company's performing animals will be in vaudeville, commencing next week, until the circus opens. Rentz Bros. will use a spliced center pole, which they claim will be the first used since the days of Popcorn George.

    John H. Sparks Shows, by Fletcher Smith. The new advance car arrived at the quarters recently. William Green, banner solicitor with the Sparks Shows last season, it located at Willimantic, Conn., for the winter. He will be with the show again this season. Charles Cooper, old-time boss canvasman, is making himself useful in fitting out the show. The show will have five big animal acts this season, with the telephone elephants and the seals as big features. The railroad equipment now includes three 76 foot Pullman sleepers back with the show, and one ahead. The show will also have a new water wagon.

    The following people have been engaged for the Monroe Mighty Shows and Buffalo Tom's Wild West: Walton and Payne, doing five acts; C. E. Close and wife, trick riders and ropers; Texas Tom, bronk scratcher; Vinegarone Jr. (Henry Harall), bronk scratcher; J. W. Cauble, superintendent of stock; Andrew Dunn, superintendent of canvas. The winter show is still running in Mississippi, doing nicely, and will continue until March 1, when it will be overhauled. The show will carry an eight piece mounted cowboy band, and will be one of the strongest little 20 wagon shows in the country.

    Rhoda Royal has taken out a road show of his own for a tour of six weeks before joining the Sells-Floto Show. He opened in Waterloo, Ia., week of January 26, and then went to Cedar Rapids, with Davenport to follow. Mrs. Rhoda Royal has her statue horse, Bismakr, with her, and this is one of the hits with the show. Herman Joseph, Hebrew clown with the Barnum & Bailey Show, deserted vaudebill to go with Rhoda Royal, and when this tour is finished he will again join Barnum & Bailey. The clown roster: Ab Johnson, Jack (Cap.) Harris, Herman Joseph, Jerry Clayton, Rube Celrey, Carlton Emery and Jack Albion. Clayton goes with Joseph on the Barnum & Bailey Show in March.

    Rice Brothers Show. Al Campbell is to be general agent. Wallie Cochrane, Butch Fredericks and Charley McCurren will also be on the staff. Alex Lowande will be equestrian director, with twenty-five head of ring stock. Among some of the recent additions are Art DeComa, with his aerial troupe; Whirling Erfords, Howard Troupe; Three Fredericks. There will be two rings and an elevated stage. Jim Beattie will again have the side show.

    Major John Mertz, the midget feature of the side shows with the Forepaugh-Sells, Sells Bros. and Barnum Shows, celebrated his sixtieth birthday at Salisbury, N. C. recently. He has been living here with his wife, also a midget, for several years. He is clerking in a local drug store.

    T. J. (Tom) Forde has been re-engaged as legal adjuster and claim agent of Gollmar Bros. Shows.

    R. H. Dockrill advises us that he, and not Frank B. Miller, has been engaged as equestrian director of Howe's Great London Shows. He also advises us that John (Irish) Martin will be trainmaster of Robinson's Famous Shows, and not Chas. Henderson, as stated in a previous issue.

    Jerry Barnes, brother to Al. G., is in San Francisco working a bear act, which will not complete its vaudeville bookings until the white top and its army moves out of Portland for the first stand.

    Elmer Porterfield will again have the side show with the LaMont Bros. Show, his ninth season, while Carrie Porterfield, his wife, will do flying rings again and some new tricks.

    Henry Kern has been re-engaged as bandmaster of the Frank A. Robbins Shows.

Billboard, February 21, 1914, pp. 30, 31, 32, 33. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Geneva, O., Feb. 10. The Cole & Rice Show Co. is going into liquidation. The affairs are being settled by Newton Mott, of this city.

    Wheeler Bros. Shows. The Jennier Family Society Circus has been engaged for the coming season for the Wheeler Bros. Shows. Walter Jennier has just purchased two new ring horses, and will spend several weeks at Wheeler quarters breaking in some new riding numbers. George R. Taylor will again be on the Front, his twelfth consecutive season with Mr. Wheeler's different enterprises. He is now taking it easy on his farm in Vermont. Nattalia's Cockatoo Circus has been engaged by J. S. Robertson for the annex. James Daugherty and wife (LaBelle Camille) have also been engaged. In addition to holding down the No. 1 box on the animal annex, Mr. Dougherty will handle the Oriental Theater, and will also have several concessions around the show.

    The Gillespie Shows closed a successful season December 25, at Rembert, S. C., and shipped to Columbus, S. C., where they secured good quarters for the show. Everything has been repaired and painted under the supervision of Jimmie Greer. An automobile will be used as the advance car. Thomas McGinnis will be the agent with two assistants. Mr. Gillespie just returned to the quarters from Lancaster, Mo., with an elephant, lion, camel, sacred cattle and other animals, as well as a carload of horses. The show will carry 50 head of stock this season. The management had the misfortune to lose Sparkle, the $5,000 talking horse recently. Death was due to colic. A spotted Arabian has been broken to take its place. The following people have been re-engaged: Edgar Day, traps and revolving ladder; May McAllister, rings and swinging ladder; Jimmie Greer, contortionist and clown; Joe McAllister, clown; John Whiten, clown; Zeke Hackley, drums; Pat Greer, baritone; LaPetite Della, tango dancer. The show will open at Columbis, S. C., February 18.

    The winter quarters of the LeClair, Webber & Huse Great Eastern Shows at Crompton, R. I., are a busy place. The show will open late in the month of May. A large amount of plush is being made up into trappings and hangings for the show, which will consist of circus, museum and menagerie. It will be a railroad show. Harry Webber and Gus House, general agent and equestrian director, respectively, who have been putting on indoor circuses in New England this winter, recently visited the winter quarters. A dozen new cages will form a part of the equipment of the show this season, and the street parade will be one of the neatest put out by any show of a similar size.

    Billie Jameson will troupe again with the Ringling Shows as clown next season. Billie was recently playing with his wife at Texarkana, Ark.

    The Alpha Troupe, novelty hoop rollers, is at Talbot's Hippodrome week of February 9. It has been six years since this troupe has been with the "big tops." They were formerly with Forepaugh-Sells Show, Wallace Show (before that was combined with Hagenbeck), and the Lemen Shows.

    James Eviston is out of the hospital, following an operation, and at home in Butler, Ind. Jimmy will manage the No. 1 advance car of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows next season, his thirteenth year.

    Sautelle's Nine Big Shows. Oscar Lowande (chief) returned to winter quarters February 4, and the fire was kindled in the ring barn and things have been blazing there ever since. George W. Rollins finished his lecture course, under the auspices of the Empire Lyceum Bureau of Syracuse, February 4, and went to quarters for the remainder of the witner. Mr. Rollins will manage the side show again. Mrs. George W. Rollins is at her home in San Francisco, but will journey East in a short time to resume her work with the show. Among the people already at headquarters are John Henry Rice, general agent; Mike Connors, manager car No. 2; Howard Robinson, secretary; Eugene Woodward, general superintendent; Dan Traver, boss canvasman; Chappie McMasters, animal trainer, and about forty others who are rebuilding the paraphernalia under the direction of Mr. Woodward. Miss Cannon and the LeDoux Trio are expected to arrive in a few days to resume practice. Lew Nichols was one of the first to be re-engaged. He will play principal clown this year, his fourth season. The Great Cameron will be one of the attractions in the annex. Mr. West will have the elephant banners. There will be one car ahead of the show with a special brigade of ten men.

    C. M. Hibbard, formerly of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows as first assistant boss canvasman to W. W. Oldknow, is at Sturgis, Mich., where he is engaged in the electrical wiring contracting business.

    The McLains, aerial gymnasts, are at their home in Peru, Ind., and have signed contracts with the Gollmar Bros. Show, their fourth season.

    Sid Scott, theatrical treasurer, this season at the Lyric and Fischer theaters, at Danville, Ill., has accepted a position with the Jones Bros. & Wilson Trained Animal Circus, to be one of the office staff. This is Sid's first experience in the circus business.

    Alton Osborn Jr., formerly with the advance car No. 1 of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, has retired from the road and is now engaged in the cigar and billiard hall business in his hometown Sturgis, Mich.

    Harry Ridgley, at the present time manager of the Fenton Opera House, Caruthersville, Mo., will again be with Gollmar Bros. Show, his fifth season. Harry's "Pa" owns the only first-class theater in Caruthersville.

    Harry (Hap) Borders, age 22, died at his home in Sullivan, Ind., Wednesday, February 4, of tuberculosis. The deceased had been associated with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show for the past six seasons as boss butcher. His health began to fail him the past year, and his many friends with the show advised him to take a rest. However, their efforts were unavailing and he continued with the show until the close of the season. After his return to Sullivn he accepted the position of night clerk (a position he had formerly held) at the Davis Hotel, acting in this capacity until a week previous to his death. The pall bearers were: J. Bradbury, of the Four Bradburys; Clyde Crooks, buther of the H. W. Show; Mack Pyles, of one of Parker's carnivals; Bill Falkenbury, bullposter of the Young Buffalo Show, and George Sweeney, manager of the Lyric Theater, of Sullivan. The deceased leaves a father, mother, sister and brother.

    J. E. Richardson, musician, who has for the past fifteen years been connected with the leading circus bands of this country, is spending the winter on his house boat, The Walking Frog, down in Arkansas, fishing, trapping, etc. About March 16 Rich will go to San Antonio, Tex., where he will resume is position as bandmaster with Gentry Bros. Show No. 2. . . .

    Roy Smith, manager of the Five Ferris Wheel Girls, who have been playing the vaudeville houses of Chicago, will return again to the white tops, once more with the Sells-Floto-Cody Circus. Smith and his sorority have also been with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows. They shine not only in the arena, but in the parade. Their cornet work has always proven attractive.

    Rentz Bros. Circus is a real Sunday school troupe. No stores with that aggregation, and nothing stronger than ginger ale in the privilege car. Work is being rushed to have everything in readiness for the opening, April 11. The performing ponies, dogs and high school horses are now playing vaudeville dates.

    Lee E. Waite, an old showman, who managed plays two seasons is spending the winter at Glenwood, Ia., Mr. Waite is also a musician, having played with Cole Bros. Circus last season.

    Thomas McNew, late of the Young Buffalo and Sanger Shows, has entered the live stock business. He intends to remain in Peoria, Ill., for the coming summer.

    Joseph V. Gifford, known as Calliope Joe, will not be with the white tops this season, as he has a position with the Texas Oil Company out of Sherman, Tex. He says if things go on as they are now, he will retire from the circus game and try oil.

    Wesley LaPearl has signed with the Mighty Haag Shows, his fourth season with that show. He will have a new snake outfit. LaPearl is spending the winter months in Shreveport, La., as night clerk at the Majestic Hotel.

    Albert Mogle, known as Harry Mogle, clarinet and bass drum player, with the Young Buffalo Shows last season, has signed with the Mighty Haag Shows for the coming season.

    James S. Cochran will be producing clown, in connection with his acrobatic act, with Howe's Great London Shows the coming season. Mr. Cochran was principal clown with Howe's Show in 1911.

    Robert Woody, manager of Woody's Combined Shows, will be at 507 N. Locust street, Pittsburg, Kan., until March 31. Most of the show property is stored away at Afton, Ok., the regular winter quarters.

    G. S. (Yorky) Freed, manager of G. S. Freed's Wagon Shows, was married at Conway, Ark., February 1.

    The Aerial Stones, tight wire artists, closed with the O'Brien and McNair Colossal Shows to play vaudeville dates.

    Warren E. Long opens with the J. H. Boyer Dog and Pony Show at St. Louis, about the middle of April, his seventh season with that show, doubling band and concert.

    Fred Lange, trainmaster of Sun Bros. Show, is very sick at his home in Leavenworth, Kan. Mr. Lange has been re-engaged with the Sun Show for the coming season.

    G. H. (Blackie) Williamson will be superintendent of props with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows.

    Harry C. Chapman and James Dougherty will have the boxes on Wheeler Bros. annex, of which J. S. Robertson will be manager.

    Charles Leahy, Roman ring artist, will be with Gollmar Bros. when the season opens.

    Harry Crawford, wire walker, now in vaudeville doing an act in female attire, has signed with Sun Bros.

    The Earl Sisters (Maud and Zella) have been re-engaged with the Yankee Robinson Circus.

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    Canton, S. D., March 5. Wm. Corson, well known in the circus world, passed away here Tuesday morning after a short illness. He was 65 years of age, and is survived by a wife and son. The deceased was born in Monroe, Wis., March 20, 1849, and started in the show business when only sixteen years of age. Among the shows he traveled with were Stone's Consolidated Shows, the old John Robinson Shows, Barnum Shows and Forepaugh-Sells Shows. He also toured the United States and Europe with hte Wilson Bros., famous acrobats, for a number of years. While playing an engagement with the Forepaugh-Sells Shows, he had the misfortune to sprain his ankle so badly that he was obliged to retire from the arena.

    Eaton Rapids, Mich., March 4. Following the death of her husband, D. W. Perrine, some months ago, Mrs. Perrine has taken up the management of the Broncho Joe Wild West Show, and will pilot the show during the coming season. She will open the show in this city about the first of May, and will play Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and back through the same states, finishing here in the fall. In addition to taking care of the business end of the show, Mrs. Perrine will take up the work with the trained ponies, dogs and monkeys, and appear at each performance in the same line of work performed by her husband during the past few years of his show life.

    London, March 6. Many acts over here hold contracts for the Cosmopolitan Circus, which is to open in New York. These people have their contracts signed, but have received their first scare by a note asking them to postpone their opening until a later date.

    Montgomery, Ala., March 7. Jerry Mugivan lost two cars in a fire here last week, one a sleeper and the other his private car. They were placed in the Western Railway Shops for repairs, and when the shops burned, these two cars were totally destroyed. Mr. Mugivan is in Chicago this week buying cars to replace the ones that burned.

    Lincoln, Neb., March 5. James Garner Russell, known to the Lincoln theater going public as "Dad" Russell, the aged ticket taker of the Oliver, reached his hundredth milestone on March 1. Russell has been a showman since 1820. At the age of 16 he joined the Jerry Mabie Circus, the P. T. Barnum Show of that day. Off and on he was with the canvas topped shows for thirty-five years. The late Tony Pastor worked for many years in the same ring with "Dad" Russell.

    Col. J. C. M. Bremer, known as Peanuts, who has been in the show business for the past twenty years, and who had charge of the candy standts with the Young Buffalo Shows during the seasons of 1911 and '12, died of tuberculosis of the lungs at the Roper Hospital, Charleston, S. C., February 26. The deceased was an inmante of the Branch Hospital, Cincinnati, O., for several years.

    Editor The Billboard, Cincinnati, O. Dear Sir, Harry Inman (The Great Inman), well-known contortionist, is confined to his bed here, suffering with severe pains in the head and trouble with his eyes, caused by doing his act for thirty-one years, and is unable to work any longer. Being badly in need of assistance, he appeals to his brother and sister performers for whatever assistance they can render him. Very truly yours, Mrs. Grace Inman and daughter, Mildred, 253 East Kinney St., Newark, N. J.

    Sun Bros. Show. Prof. Ralston Case will handle the new band with Sun Bros. Shows the coming season, opening March 28 at Macon, Ga. The Eight Peerless Wallett Family, in a potpourri of equestrian acts and aerial displays; Belford acrobatic troupe, Ten Araki Royal Court Japanese Troupe, the Vilas Company, wire runners; Zanfretto-McIntosh pantomimic troupe, are among the headline acts to appear with the show. William F. Wallett will again act as equestrian director. The operating department will have as its bosses: James Cherry, master mechanic; Bob Abrams, superintendent of stock; John James, director of canvas; G. W. Scott, superintendent of properties; Arthur E. Webber, superintendent of lights; George Snell Jr. and H. H. Horton, blacksmiths; B. L. ___, harness maker.

    Wheeler Bros. Greater Shows. B. G. Amaden, for several seasons with Maj. G. W. Lillie, of the Pawnee Bill Show, is engaged for the coming season as legal adjuster with the Wheeler Bros. Shows. J. R. Bullock will be in the ticket wagon. In addition to handling the paste boards, Mr. Bullock will also fill the position of auditor with the show, having served in that capacity for two seasons with the Downie & Wheeler Shwos. Gordon D. Calvit has been engaged as private secretary to Al. F. Wheeler. Mr. Calvit will also have charge of the reserved ticket wagon.

    The LaMont Bros. World's Greatest Overland Show will go out this season carrying 150 horses and ponies, elephants, camels and an eight wagon menagerie. One hundred people will be connected with the show. Two wagons will be in advance. Robert Taylor, general agent, just returned to the winter quarters at Salem, Ill., having visited the states of Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota in the interest of the show. Ray Swanner will be in charge of No. 2 advance with three billposters. Al Crawford will be local contractor. The show opens at Salem, Ill., Saturday, May 2.

    Kansas City. Fred Buchanan, manager and owner of the Yankee Robinson Shows, wintering in Granger, Ia., spent March 3 here. Mr. Buchana made this visit for securing his outfit her, getting canvas, etc., from Baker & Lockwood Mfg. Co., wagons from the Beggs Co., and paper from Ackermann-Quigley Co. Accompanying Mr. Buchana was his brother Lon, general superintendent of the Yankee Robinson Shows. Both Fed and Lon state that he show will go out this year straight and clean, with no graft allowed.

    Memphis, Tenn., March 5. John Andrews, treasurer of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, who has had out P. G. Lowery and his minstrels during the past winter, has closed the show after a successful season in the Midwest. Andrews is getting ready for the opening of the H.-W. Shows and will again serve as treasurer. Lowery will have the band in Doc Ogden's Kid Show, his fourteenth season with the Wallace Show.

    Lon Moore, associate producing clown, Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, season 1913, is putting in the winter around his home in Defiance, O., selling insurance to the natives.

    These are busy days in the winter quarters at Timonium, Md., for the working staff of the LaTena Big Three-Ring Animal Circus. There will be fourteen cars back with the show, and with the additional carload of horses that arrived from Lancaster, Mo., it will be the most pretentious show that Mr. Downie has put out. Burt Rutherford is in charge of the work and will be busy ahead directing the advance. Mr. Downie has engaged some splendid act, among whom are: Margarete and her den of performing lions, Captain Wesley's Trained Seals, Beckman's bears and animals. Timonium is a little berg on the Northern Central Railroad in Maryland, just out of Baltimore.

    Nassau, N. P., Feb. 26. The J. H. Eschman Circus sailed from Miami, Fla., on the 24th for the Bahama Islands. The outfit this season for the cruise in the tropics consists of 35 people, 21 head of performing horses, ponies and donkey, two troupes of performing dogs and a bunch of other small animals, birds and reptiles that were carried in two Sullivan and Eagle cages, and five other smaller cages. Little Nemo, the baby elephant, was also taken on the voyage. The first stop was at Nassau, where Mr. Eschman had been some years ago with the circus. Mark Smith, formerly of the Sells-Floto Shows and the old John Robinson Show, superintended the handling of the tents and show paraphernalia. The trip from Nassau to Andros Islands, about 90 miles, is a dangerous one, and will have to be made on smaller sized steamers than those usually used. If the management's plans do not go amiss, the show will arrive in Miami, Fla., early in March, having arranged to play Miami for three days.

    John H. Sparks Show. C. B. Fredericks, the past winter manager of the Rhoda Royal Indoor Circus, has been engaged as legal adjuster and manager of the privilges car. O'Neil and Janiel, Roman ring experts and head-to-head balancers, have been added to the big show program, and Doc Grant and Harry Meeks to clown alley. A. W. Day, for years with the more prominent carnivals, has signed as 24-hour man, succeeding Guy Hildebrand, who is in Buffalo this winter, street railroading. James Randolph, for several years boss billposter and last season special agent, has been selected manager of the new advance car with a crew of 14 men. Dan Wilson, here two years ago, will be back this season as night watchman on the train. Tom Jacobs is retained as trainmaster. Joe McAllister, for several years clown with this show, will be with the Gillespie Show this season. The show will open early in April and will kill a little time in the South before breaking in some new territory. General agent Ballinger says he has the speediest tack spitter in the business, and that he attracts as much attention as a street parade when he starts tacking banners.

    Tom Finn will close his opera house attraction April 15 and put out a wagon Tom show this sumer in place of his usual wagon circus. He states he is done with the circus for good, and that there is more money in Tom.

    Ed and F. D. Corey, of Corey Bros. Show, paid their respects to the Chicago office. They are wintering in Wahpeton, N. D., and have journeyed to Chicago to be at the Showman's League Ball.

    Sam Nacella, who was formerly with the Barnum & Bailey Show, selling balloons, now owns one of the largest stores in Boston for equipping carnivals and circuses with street goods.

    Owing to the poor health of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Hall Sr., Hall's Animal Shows will not go on the road this spring, but will play fairs when the fair season opens, being booked solid. Sargo, the big performing elephant, has been leased to the Hall & Wintermute Shows and will be featured with Zella Hall, the lady trainer. The remainder of the trained ponies, dogs and monkeys will be with the Howard A. Bruce Vaudeville and Motion Picture Shows.

    The Two Silverlakes, Archie and Melvin, will be with LaTena's Big Three-Ring Wild Animal Circus. Master Melvin is spending the winter on the farm of his uncle, Bob Dunfee, at Durand, Mich., attending school regularly.

    The Marshalls are wintering in Shreveport, La., and have again signed with the Mighty Haag Show; Irene and Anna to do double traps and rolling globe, and Al, baritone in the big show concert band. Mrs. Anna Woods has received a divorce from her husband, Roy Wood, and will be known to the profession now as Miss Anna Marshall. This will make their third consecutive season with the Haag Show.

    The Al. G. Barnes show will open the 1914 season at Roseburg, Ore., April 7.

    Fred B. Murphy, who spent four years with the Sig. Sautelle, Robinson's Ten Big and Sells Bros.-Downs Circus in the earlier days as candy butcher and ticket seller, began to devote his attention to the film game four years ago, and recently announced his appointment to the management of the Boston office of the World's Film Corporation.

    The Mansfield Show this season will be a five wagon outfit and will carry ten people, a school of 25 dogs, troupe of ponies, monkeys and goats, the regular old-time bucking mules, Queenie, the five-legged cow, and Chester, the educated horse, which will be featured. Manager Bert Mansfield will open the show March 16.

    The Rentz Bros. Shows will open Saturday, April 18.

    The James Trio have spent a pleasant winter in Shreveport, La., and a busy one, preparing new wardrobe for the coming season. Everette James will have sixteen musicians with the Mighty Haag Shows.

    The Forsythe Bros., now in vaudeville, have signed with Coburn Bros. Show for the coming season, to do five aerial acts and a concert turn.

    Stoddard and Wallace, producing clowns, will be with LaTena's Big Three-Ring Wild Animal Circus.

    Rhodes and Rhodes, and daughter, Myrtle, have signed with Rentz Bros. Show. The Four LeClairs have signed with Rentz Bros.

    Minnie Hodgini will be with Gollmar Bros. Show.

Billboard, April 4, 1914, pp. 22, 23, 24, 25. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Frank Spellman was in Cincinnati last week visiting John F. Robinson, from whom he has secured a considerable amount of circus equipment which will be used by the Spellman Circus. Mr. Spellman is completing his arrangements for a ten car circus, which will play two and three day stands in the larger cities this season.

    On March 14, at Parkersburg, W. Va., occurred the marriage of Mrs. Carrie Bailey and C. C. Cheuvront, both of that city. The groom is a well-known circus agent, having been a manager of advance cars for several shows, and is at present engaged with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, his third consecutive season with that show as manager of the excursion car. The ceremony was performed at the parsonage of the St. John's Lutheran Church, the service being by the pastor, Rev. H. S. Gilbert. During the coming season Mrs. Cheuvront will spend the summer in Denver, and next fall she will join her husbanc at Peru, Ind., where they will make their home.

    Contrary to its usual custom, the Sparks Show will not open in Salisbury, N. C., as previously intended, but the show will be loaded and shipped to Concord, N. C., for the first performance, Saturday, April 11. On the 13th it is in Charlotte, and makes Salisbury on the 14th. The reason for the change is that manager Chas. Sparks desires to whip the show into shape before playing his home town.

    Chicago, March 25. Warren B. Irons, of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show, accompanied by his wife, is now on his way to Rangoon, India. Mr. Iron's mission is said to be in search of dwarf elephants, of which it is claimed he has the only one in captivity, namely Tom Thumb.

    Macon, Ga., March 26. Sun Bros. will open their season here Saturday, March 28, after being in here for twelve weeks. Jim Cherr has the wagons in fine shape. Dr. Bentley and Geo. Harris painted and have the cars and wagons ready for the road. John James has the canvas in shape. W. F. Wallet looked after the ring stock. Bob Abrams has the baggage stock in fine shape. W. F. Wallet will be equestrian director. The big show acts are the Eight Wallets, Five Belfords, Tan Araki Troupe, Two Goetz, Two McIntosh. Single acts: Alvin Kramer, Bill Farmer, Jas. Gibbons, Jack Cohen, Geo. Metz, Otto Weaver, and a bunch of clowns. Marvin Arnold and wife will handle the Family Theater, and have John Cardona, untamable act; Herr Roberts, boxing kangaroo; Kramer, juggling Dello; Punch and Judy, the Flying Lady and a musical act. Rawlston Case will be band leader with fourteen musicians. The show will be as in the past, clean, no street parade, no dances.

    Robson Bros. Show. The painters are putting the finishing touches on Robson Bros. outfit at Reading, Pa. The new ticket wagon arrived recently. A new canvas wagon has also been added for this season, making in all fourteen wagons back with the show and two in advance. John Robson has just finished a new pony act. The show will open the season in Reading, Pa., for three days, for the benefit of the Associated Charities of that city, and will play Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Vermont. Colonel Cummings will have the big top; William Downs, the stock; Charles Simmons, the kid show.

    The Tompkins Wild West and Cooper-Whitby Circus inaugurates the season of 1914 at Lambertville, N. J., Saturday, April 25. Charles H. Tompkins returned to the winter quarters at Lambertville from his Western trip, bringing with him a bunch of bronks, eight Indians and two Mexicans. The Indians and Mexicans will go to a department store in New York until the circus season opens. Adam Gillespie will be business manager again this season. The feature of the concert will be the tango dance. Niobara Bill and Buckskin Bess have been engaged as the feature couple, both bucking horse riders. Arvia Ardell, of Pueblo, Colo., bucking horse rider and steer bulldogger, will be a feature in the Wild West. We will have nine horses in advance, thirty-eight ring or arena horses, and sixty-four head of work and passenger horses. Prof. Carl Mitchell will have the cowboy band of twelve pieces. Miss Ethel Tucker will have the colored ladies' band of nine pieces in the side show. One of the features of Milton Zednay's side show will be Margarette, the smallest monkey in captivity. Her trainer, Parker Anderson, has trained her to do a wire act. She finishes her number by jumping from the top of a twenty foot pole to her trainer's arms. Mr. Tompkins has purchased grounds near the center of town, and suitable shops and store rooms for housing the shows will be built during the summer.

    The Famous Overland Shows closed their winter season at Mesa, Tex., Saturday, March __, and are now at that point repairing and making additions. Dr. Forsman is having seven new wagons made to order, which will make fifteen wagons in all. He just arrived from the East with twenty head of baggage stock, two African lions and two big snakes, and has contracted for two bulls to be delivered by April 15. The show the coming season will carry an 80 foot big top, with two 40 foot middle pieces; a 40 foot kid top, with a 20 foot middle piece, and a 40x60 foot horse top. The roster: Dr. Forsman and Ed Streets, equal owners; Mrs. Dr. Forsman, treasurer; H. C. Moore, manager of kid show; Red Ford, boss canvasman; Chas. Dupre, in charge of lights and props; Ed Donaldson, boss equestrian director; the Robinsons, Roman rings and traps; H. C. Moore, producing clown with two assistants; Ed Streets, slack wire and trick mule, Jerry; the Fords Troupe of Japs, four in number; Billy Edwards and Harry Hays, broncho busters; Frank Forsman, tight wire and black face; Jessie Hooper, troupe of ponies and dogs. Side show: H. C. Moore, manager; Mrs. H. C. Moore, mind reading; E. P. Yorks, heavy balancer; Jessie Hooper, punch and judy; Miss Tessie Brown, snakes. The side show carries seven platform shows. E. B. Whitey has charge of the canvas with three assistants. Prof. Marlow and band of eight pieces will furnish the music, while Dare Devil Frank will do his slide for life twice daily. The show opens at Iola, Tex., April 25.

    Mrs. Bob Abrams, wife of Bob Abrams, the well-known horseman, called at The Billboard Tuesday. Mrs. Abrams was with Barnum & Bailey Show fifteen years, and was considered on of the most fearless lady chariot drivers. For many years this couple has been associated with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows. Mrs. Abrams having charge of the wardrobe and Bob having charge of the stock. Bob is with the Sun Brothers Show this seaon, while his wife will remain in Chicago to look after their personal interests. They own considerable real estate in and about Chicago.

    The Amazon Bros. Circus and Minstrel Show will open the season at Columbus, O., the headquarters, the first week in may. The new privilege wagon is decorated in yellow, red, gold and silver. Mrs. Mons LaPlace will have charge of it. The show will carry about twenty-five people and will play three day stands through Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Among those who have already signed are Andrew Statenburgh, cornet; Geo. Statenburgh, clarinet; Earl Roof, baritone; Geo. Thoma, tuba; Mrs. Estella Thoma, melophone; Gilbert and Everett, bass and snare drums. All double stage.

    The roster of the Big Four Colossal Shows Combined, which opens April 18: A. P. Johnston, general manager; J. H. Booth, late of the Al. G. Barnes Wild Animal Circus, business manager; Jack Church, formerly with the C. W. Parker Shows, musical director; Warren W. Mathews, producing director. The show carries a 70 foot round top, with two 30 foot middle pieces, pad room, cook house, dressing tents and horse tops.

    Johnnie Marinella, originally of the Great Marinellas, ring performers, who were featured with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows season of 1906, will not be with the Sparks Show, as stated in last week's Billboard. Mr. Marinella has signed contracts with the Jones Bros. and Wilson Shows, and will be assisted by Rue Enos, the knockabout clown and contortionist.

    Philander Howland, old time circus man, will be remembered as having been a bar performer and clown with L. B. Lent, M. M. Hillard, Lent and Skinner, and others of the early days. Mail addressed to him care general delivery, Greenfield, Mass., will reach him.

    After being known as William Vino and Si Stebbins for the past thirty years, Will H. Coffrin has decided to once more get acquainted with his real name, and in the future will answer to same. His act will be known as Si, Hy and Mary. Coffrin is the original Barnum & Bailey rube.

    John Hamilton, veteran showman, left Zanesville for Denver, Colo., to join the Sells-Floto-Buffalo Bill Shows. Mr. Hamilton has been in the show business for half a century.

    A. C. Orcutt, for the past three years steward with the Sparks Show, will not be with that show this year, as stated in last week's issue, having signed up with the LaTena Wild Animal Circus to work in the same capacity.

    Frank A. Cassidy, who for the past few months acted as press agent for the Gus Sun vaudeville and picture shows, in Springfield, O., is now press agent and assistant to Pete Sun, manager of Sun Bros.

    Lee Smith, mule hurdle rider and clown, has left Murdock Bros. Dog and Pony Show and will open with Jones Bros. and Wilson's Shows at Norfolk, Va., his fourth season with the Jones Bros.

    Frank LaBarr, contortionist, has signed with DeMott's Combined Shows for the coming season.

    Chas. Camm and wife have cancelled their contracts with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows and will not be with the white tops this season.

    Jimmie Brooks, wire walker, is booked with Harry LaRoy's One-ring Circus.

Billboard, April 18, 1914, pp. 22, 23, 25. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    It was positively stated at the Havlin Hotel, Cincinnati, last week on excellent authority that the John Robinson Circus will go out in 1915.

    Word reaches The Billboard from Chester, S. C., that Tom Smith, known as Cisco, the Aztec Wonder, or the Missing Link, died of heart failure April 3. The deceased was to have gone with the John H. Sparks Shows this season.

    Mark Mawe is with the Jones Bros. & Wilson's Circus this season. Mr. Mawe was in Baltimore last week purchasing four camels and several horses.

    The Famous Robinson Shows will play Covington, Ky., May 6. This is the show which last season was known as the Sanger Bros.

    Dayton, O., April 8. George E. Wagner, of the Great Wagner Show, known as Jolly Jenaro, clown juggler, is suing his wife, Jeannette Wagner, for divorce in the Dayton courts. They have entered into a legal separation, whereby she receives $2,000 for her rights in the show property, real estate, household goods, etc., which was in both of their names.

    Coburn Bros. Wagon Shows. Work on the different wagons is progressing rapidly. Walter E. Coburn is the busiest person around winter quarters. Jim Henderson is superintendent of canvas, with Hank Thompson as assistant. They will handle a new 70x40 foot round top. All canvas this season will be new. Frank McClure and Puggy Snyder, who has forsaken the carnival field, joined us April 6. Joe Pierce is handling the stock. Sorcho and his band of ten pieces will furnish the music. The show opens at East Palestine, O., the winter quarters, May 1.

    Rentz Circus and Menagerie, after eighteen weeks in winter quarters at Geneva, O., will ship to Ripley, Jackson County, W. Va., and open the season of 1914, Saturday, April 18. Rehearsals will commence April 16. A show is put on every day regardless of the weather. If the weather doesn't permit the performance being put on uder the tents, the stock is theater broke, and the performances are inside.

    Solomon Wise, known as "Solly," died after a lingering illness at the St. Anthony Hospital, Chicago, Tuesday morning, March 31. His wife, Grace, was at his bedside when the end came. Solly was born in Chicago in 1873, and had been in the show business for the past twenty years. For the past seven years he had been connected with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, and previously had served with the old Joe McMann Show, John Robinson Ten Big, Howe's Great London and others. He started his circus career with the Showers & Rentfall Shows. The deceased leaves a widow, mother, three sisters and two brothers, originally from Chicago, but at present living in Minneapolis, Minn. His remains were looked after by the K. of P. and Masons. Services were held at the undertaking establishment by the K. of P., and at the cemetery (Forest Home) the Masons held the last ceremonies.

    Swallow's Circus, an English two-ring circus, will open this month. Johnnie Swallow will be remembered by Barnum & Bailey Show boys as one of the riders during James A. Bailey's regime. The circus will play the English Provinces.

Billboard, May 16, 1914, pp. 18, 28, 29, 30, 31, 59. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Earl Lawton, circus performer, partner of Harry Robettas, died at Lewis Gale Hospital, Roanoke, Va., April 14, from an injury received at Bristol, Tenn., while the Kit Carson Show was exhibiting there April 10; aged 22 years. He leaves a mother and a brother at Tacoma, Wash. Interment was at Tacoma.

    June Smith, general accountant of the Yankee Robinson Shows, committed suicide Thursday night, April 30, en route from Winnebago, Minn., to Rock Rapids, Ia., by taking chloroform. Thursday night he stayed up and settled with the treasurer, Chas. Meyers, and paid off all the men except two, who were at the lot, and the last words he spoke were to Mr. Meyers, asking if he would stay up and pay those men upon their return to the car. He was not short one single cent in his accounts, and no reason can be assigned, except that he committed the act in a fit of despondency. His health had not been good for some time. The run was 158 miles, and at what hour he took the chloroform is not known. He was found by the porter at 10:20 a.m., May 1. The bottle containing the fluid was found in his berth. His wife, who is with the show, is prostrated with grief. He had been ill for the past two years, and had grown very nervous, but still kept his sunny disposition. This was his third season with Mr. Buchanan. He was a high degree Mason, and belonged to the order at Roanoke, Va.

    George Cochran, formerly adjuster of the Ringling Bros. Shows, and also in the past connected with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, died at Independence, Kan., May 6, of blood poisoning. At the time of his death Mr. Cochran was proprietor of the Santa Fe Hotel, at Independence, Kan. We join with his many friends in extending condolence and sympathy to the bereaved wife and family.

    Sells-Floto-Buffalo Bill Shows. San Jose, Cal., April 27. The afternoon show had just started when John Thomas, back door man, was found dead under one of the wagons, a stroke of apoplexy being the cause. He was a conscientious worker and had been with Billy Curtis for the past five years. The show purchased a lot in the San Jose Cemetery, where the remains were interred.

    The Rice Bros. Circus opened its season at Paducah, Ky., the winter quarters, Saturday, May 2. The Aerial Erfords were the hit of the bill, doing several acts, among which is the aerial iron jaw act. The Howards are also good, doing four acts, the feature of which is the double ladder. Miss Martin, bareback rider, is one of the best. For the last three years she was with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show. Geo. Conners is the equestrian directors. Col. Chas. W. McCurren, manager, and J. W. Beattie, were kept busy entertaining the various show people as their guests. It is stated that the show will remain in Kentucky for the next seven weeks. The Rice Show this year travels on wagons. Jim Beattie and wife and daughter have their own wagon, in which they live and cook, one of the neatest frame-ups for a wagon show.

    Los Angeles, Cal., April 28, 1914. The Billboard. Dear Sirs, I wish to thank my many friends with the Sells-Floto-Buffalo Bill Circus, who so kindly rendered me financial assistance during their three days' stay here in Los Angeles. As you know, I have been with all of the larger one, helped build several, and was left stranded here last season among strangers. I am unable to move except with assistance, and will never be with the white tops again, but to my dying day I will cherish a fond memory for the name, Sells-Floto-Buffalo Bill and their employees. Yours respectfully, Lee (Shanty) Coleman.

    Coburn Bros. Show opened the season May 1, at East Palatine, O. C. Boynton, the man who handles any animal act, joined the show April 29, with his group of trained canines. Geo. Edwards has the lemonade privilege. Little Baby Francis Devere, of the Four Deveres, is one of the youngest child doing a contortionist act with any circus. The Aerial Kesters joined the show April 30. Ed Wilson is boss hostler, with Frank Cramer assisting him. The Coburn Bros. Famous Band: James Altier, bandmaster and French horn; Jas. Gravin, baritone; John Anderson, bass; Vincene Monsek, solo cornet; Mike Dina, solo cornet; Earl English, first cornet; Max Frestrup, solo trombone; R. P. Haycock, first trombone; A. C. Nelson, snare drum, and Clarence Nelson, bass drum.

    John H. Sparks Shows. Prof. Jack Phillips has a bunch of real musicians, including Michael Leopole, Ollie Dillworth and John Welsh, cornets; Geo. Carroll, M. G. Leffingwell, John French, clarinets; Irving Tuttle, Chas. Smith, altos; Henry Blask, Harry Huse, trombones; Sam Born, tuba; Jack Gratton, baritone; Gy Cohn, Henry Smitt, drums. Walter Young and Buster Young are producing clowns and "Doc" Grant and Harry Meeks, on the track, keep the audience in an uproar. The "he-she" keeps everyone guessing until he pulls off his wig as the whistle blows. Albert Green is the new banner solicitor. Albert "Slim" Keller is beating last seasons' record with his stands and pit joint, He has seat men in Mark Sanford, John Poe, M. B. Sproule, A. W. Day, Jess Pendergast and Charlie Newton. Jim Hodge, with his snake pit, is getting big money. Cal Towers, with his side show, is making good. He was down in this country for nearl thirty years with the John Robinson Show. J. S. Harto is his assistant. Joe Geary was on hand for the opening, but disappeared in Danville.
    Prof. Wright has in his colored band Mack Carter, Isiah Wildes, Eugene Peterson, Tony Barnfield, Sam Kennedy and J. J. Clark, and for vocalists, Dorothy Burton and Cleo Potette. Walter Guice is doing a splendid riding act with his wife, Flora Bedini, on one ring, and Bert Mayo and Olga Reed in the other. Geo. Tipton is proving a capable steward, He has one of the best chefs in Ed Hirner. The Orton Family were obliged to discard their aerial rigging, and are now working the wire act from the ground. O'Neill and Janelle are big applause winners with their strong act. Miss Lizzie Bartlett is busy riding in entry, playing with her husband in the concert, and working the two little bulls broke the past winter by trainer Lewis Reed. Both of the younger Sparks, Clifton and John Jr., are in harness this season. Clifton is auditor and treasurer, and also handles the big show duckets, and John is 24-hour man and purchasing agent.

    The J. E. Henry Combined Shows opened as usual at San Antonio, Tex., to satisfactory business, and from there went up through the mountains of the Northwest, and are now on the plains of Western Texas. The drives are extremely long, but the show carries plenty of draft stock to transport the show over most any kind of road. While in San Antonio Mr. Henry purchased fourteen head of Missouri mules, six draft horses and several small ponies for parade and ring stock; also four new cages and animals to fill them, using the animals in the side show. The show this season will play Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma and Arkansas, and a few towns in Louisiana and Kansas. The show carries ten cages, ten baggage wagons and five sleepers, and two carry-alls.
    The line-up: J. E. Henry, sole owner and manager; Mrs. J. E. Henry, secretary and treasurer; George McKnight, assistant manager and in charge of annex; Capt. Rayney Lee, superintendent of elephants and animals; Wm. Mitchell, musical director; Harry Danborough, privileges, with three assistants; Jim Daily, equestrian director, with a new dog and pony performance; Bertha, Arthur and Robt. Henry, aerial and ground acts; Ed Walton, slack wire and traps; Leonard Silvy, head balancing and foot juggling; Two Paynes, acrobats and iron jaw; Two Garcios, Mexican trampoline and light and heavy balancing; George Barmaster, principal clown with four fun-makers, and Capt. Rayney Lee, performing elephants and lions. Charles M. Sweeney and wife joined a few weeks ago with their snake show.

    Sullivan, Ind., May 7. Fred "Curley" Curtis, trainmaster with the Mighty Haag Shows, who was shot in the left lung here last Thursday by Claude Purcell, a barber of this city, when ordered away from the "runs," died at a hospital here yesterday afternoon. Mr. Curtis was 35 years of age and unmarried.

    The Yankee Robinson Circus played to 4,200 paid admissions at Luverne, Minn., afternoon of May 5. The Royaol Tokio Jap Troupe, Pickard's Seals and Harry Clark's eighteen clowns made hits.

    Virgil L. Barnett has closed his engagement with the Ringling Bros. Circus, and sails from New York City, May 12, for a long engagement in Europe with a posing and high-jumping dog.

    Enos Frazber, aerialist, passed through Cincinnati last week on his way to join the Mighty Haag Shows.

    The Atterbury Bros. Shows opened the season at Mt. Vernon, Ind., April 25, to good business.

Billboard, May 23, 1914, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    The L. H. Ranft Shows opened the season at Niles, Mich., May 2, to capacity business. A new band wagon and a privilege wagon have been added to the outfit. The show carries thirty-five people, twenty horses and a fourteen piece band, and will play through Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The feature with the show is Sylvia Alderfer, slack wire, rolling globe and juggling. June E. Fluhrer, high soprano singer, sings with the band. The people with the show are: L. H. Ranft, owner and manager; Charles Alderfer, superintendent of lot; Mrs. L. H. Ranft, main door; Charles Alderfer, ticket wagon; Mrs. Charles Alderfer, superintendent of reserved seats; Nick Carter, assistant superintendnet reserved seats and boss props; George Fluhrer, stage manager; Charles Bybee, boss hostler and ring boss; Jack Stevens, privilege wagon; James (High Pitch) Murray, boss canvasman with five assistants; Jos. Smith, band and orchestra leader; Fluhrer and Fluhrer, Sylvia Alderfer, Rob Pearson, Joe Cornell, Welcome Gibbons, Nick Carter, Charles Alderfer and Joe Smith, performers.

    Cumberland, Md., May 13. John Boston, who has been with the Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch Wild West for the past two seasons as chandelier man, succumbed to pneumonia here Monday, after a few days' illness. He was 52 years of age. The remains will be held at Butler's morgue until next week, and an effort will be made to locate his wife.

    Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows. May 6, Parkersburg, W. Va. Another lot with mud up to our knees, our third day in mud, and the stock is about played out, as it is taking sixteen and twenty-horse teams to get the show on these soft lots. May Davenport and Joe Litzhell are doing a dandy carrying act. The Cotrell-Powels, in the center ring, with Miss Powel doing the understanding and Mrs. Cotrell the mounting are artists. In No. 1 ring are Dallie Julian and Fred Ledgett. Going to Clarksburg from Parkersburg we went through twenty-four tunnels. The No. 25 sleeping car got scraped up on one of them and had to be repainted. Paul Liniger, of the Liniger Trio, comedy acrobats, has his wife and baby on for a few days visit. Billy Hart, policeman clown, got word that he was the father of a baby boy. Billy has some family, this makes his fifth one. Bettie Thompson, of the Nettie Carroll Troupe, received a message that her father died May 6, but we were so far away from her home she was unable to attend the funeral. Mrs. Warren Irons joined the show and will travel with her husband the rest of the season. Mr. Irons says his 6-in-1 show is a winner.
    At Grafton, W. Va., May 8, the lot was too soft to get on, so we lost the day. We went on to Cumberland, Md. This is the home of Hughie Melnotte, and his father, Mr. Kirk, was out to the show. He is an old gentleman of 52. Howard La Nole, who used to be with Hughie Melnotte, is settled here and leading the simple life. This is also the home of Carl Miller, of the Cevene Troupe. The clown band wagon caused a sensation the other day when the six-horse team ran away. Fred Egner caught hold of a limb of a tree and was hanging in mid-air, while Kid Kennard jumped to the street, hurting his ankle badly. The team was stopped by being turned into an alley. Had a long run into Uniontown, Pa., Sunday. Some dead town to Sunday in. Charleroi, Pa., in early. After supper the sky clouded up and the first thing we knew everyone was running for cover. The side show was blown down and torn to ribbons. The rain came down in torrents and we had to wade in to the big top that night to work. Greensburg, Pa., May 13. Greensburg is the home of Arthur Borella (here's me clown).

    Stone & Murray's Famous Shows. This makes our eleventh week on the road, having covered seven states. Louis Morris and his performing monkeys, Mike and Jocko, are the talk of the town. Bob Peasly has a well-arranged program and there is not a minute's delay between acts. The new elephant act, just broke by Capt. Dunkin, is great. Roy Lenhardt, producing clown, with his suffragette and clown band numbers, is going big. Mrs. Frank A. Goldie, wife of Frank Goldie, side show manager, and Mrs. J. E. Dempsey were recent visitors to the show. In a recent issue of The Billboard it was stated that W. Lanison was band leader. It should have been W. H. Larrisson. We are now in Wisconisn.

    Coburn Bros. Shows. We did turnaway business at East Palestin, O., May 1-2. May 4, Lisbon, O., business good at night. May 5 we used one pole and packed the tent at night. May 6, Columbiana, O., business excellent. May 7, Darlington, Pa., business only fair. May 8, we turned them away at Smpum, Pa. May 9, good matinee and turnaway at night. Little Happy Winters, child clown, met with an accident May 9, but is now able to work.

Billboard, June 6, 1914, pp. 18, 22, 23, 24, 25. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Mrs. Rose Wagner, sister of Jolly Jenaro, manager of the Great Wagner Show, died at Milwaukee, Wis., May 21. Mrs. Wagner was musical director with the Great Wagner Show for the past eight years.

    Warren, Pa., May 27. John James O'Donnell, known in show business as John Cornalla, died at the Emergency Hospital in this city last Sunday, after an illness of four days, with double pneumonia. Mr. Cornalla was born at Greenfield, Ind., May 24, 1882, and when but a lad of sixteen became identified with the Cornalla Family of acrobats, and toured the country with this troupe for eight years. He also traveled with such families and troupes as the Harris Family, Gordon Family and Perchico Family, but when the season of 1914 opened, started out again with the Cornalla Family, with which he had made his debut sixteen years ago. The Cornalla Family is featured with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows this season. He called Kokomo, Ind., his home town from infancy, and was buried at Crown Point Cemetery in that city yesterday. . . . Mike O'Donnell, his brother, was with him when he died. John was 32 years old. He leaves a mother, two sisters and two brothers.

    The Rentz Bros. Show, since opening at Ripley, W. Va., April 18, has been playing to capacity business through West Virginia and Ohio. The show is now in Pennsylvania. Dad Clark, tuba player, was taken ill at Clarksburg, W. Va., rejoined the show at Mingo Jct., O. Prof. Billie Fills, bandmaster, of Tonawanda, N. Y., has succeeded Charles Post. The staff of the show includes Wm. Snyder, manager; Jack Lynne, manager transportation; J. Zimmerman, legal adjuster; B. Kelley, trainmaster; Mose Lowry, superintendent ring stock; Harry DeCleo, equestrian director; Lew Stafford, producing clown; "Punch" Irving, side show manager; "Rip" Haney, juice privilege. Harry DeCleo fell from his traps the other day and injured some muscles in his shoulder. He is commencing the trick Monday. Kenneth Palmer, contortionist, was missed while passing through Oil City, Pa., Sunday night. "Ken" lost his footing on the steps of the coach and fell off at Franklin, Pa. He is busy these days picking cinders out of his face. Geo. DeWalem does not approve of riding the revolving table. It has been suggested that he wear shin guards or pads. The dressing room now has a mascot, a six weeks' old pig, which is anchored at Lew Stafford's stable. The show cars are now all redecorated with a coat of vermillion red.

    LaTena's Circus. Manchester, Conn., May 18. A nice town to Sunday in, only a short street car ride from Hartford. Miss Blanche Reed met with an accident here, and was unable to work for three days. Rockville, Conn., May 19. Herman Griggs took his usual fishing trip here. W. H. Dearmin, of the Haag Show, joined with a snake pit. Willimantic, Conn., May 20. This is the home town of Howard Nelson, one of our band boys. It is also the home of Albert Green, who is now with the Sparks Show. Middletown, Conn., May 21. Arrived in town early and had a two mile haul to the lot, which was a very bad one. The parade left the lot at 12 o'clock and the afternoon show started at 3 o'clock. Pete King joined to take charge of the big top. Essex, Conn., May 22. Sam Boe, the dodger, joined with a nice outfit, while Fred Keno left for Ft. Wayne, Ind., after a visit. New London, Conn., May 23. We followed one week later than Wheeler Brothers, but we did nice business. Howard Nelson has a school class for the children on the show, and teaches them twice a day. Wm. Norris is treasurer and ticket seller in the big wagon.

    Jones Bros. & Wilson Shows. Clearfield, Pa. gave us the first real clear day since we opened at Norfolk, Va., April 7. The wet lots and hauls this spring through the territory we have played were enought to tax the resources of any show. The weather naturally interfered with our business, but not to the extent one would expect. Tyrone, Pa., gave us a very good day's business. Latrobe, Pa., proved a banner stand. The stock, under the supervision of Eli Fournier, has borne the strain of this strenuous season. John Buck, superintendent of canvas, deserves credit for the manner in which he has surmounted all difficulties this spring, notwithstanding the fact that at times he was handicapped for the want of men. New recruits to our program are Beady & Bures, gymnasts, on the parallel bars. Jasper Fulton joined May 18, and has charge of the No. 2 side show. George Roberts is now with our advance forces. Sid Scott, treasurer, actually took off his coat to sell tickets when we turned them away at Latrobe, Pa.

    The Amazon Bros. Shows opened the season at Columbus, O., for one week, playing to capacity business. The roster: Mons. LaPlace, manager; Mrs. Mons. LaPlace, treasurer; Mrs. Geo. Thoma, Mrs. Irvin Mayberry, Mrs. Richard Cisco, Geo. Thoma, Irvin Mayberry, Richard Cisco, Henry Brown, Dell Delphos, Arthur Brown, Clyde Preston, and Miss Ruffy Hatt and her band and orchestra. The show is playing all three day stands, with a change of program each night.

    Hattie Connors, of the Connors Sisters, riders with Howe's Great London Shows, made it known in the dressing room recently that her name was no longer Miss Hattie Hodgini, but that it was Mrs. Reno McCree Jr., the wedding having taken place November 6, 1913. Mr. McCree Jr. is with the Ringling Bros. Shows.

    Jules Behre, who was with the Mollie Bailey Show last season as contortionist and bar performer, is playing vaudeville dates with the Regoras Trio, and will not be connected with any white tops this season.

    Lon B. Ramsdell, who closed with the Juvenile Bostonians to go ahead of Gollmar Bros. Shows, has assumed the management of the Clarke Hotel, Baraboo, Wis.

    Doc Lano, who had charge of the side show with the Mighty Haag Show, left at Roachdale, Ind. He has been succeeded by Mr. Winedecker.

    Little Jess Prendergast left the John H. Sparks Shows at Versailles, O., to join the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus in Columbus, O.

    The Ellet-Stokes Trio is with the Mighty Haag Shows, producing a comedy bar act.

    H. S. Rowe has joined the Irwin Bros. Shows again.

Billboard, June 13, 1914, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    West Brownsville, Pa., June 4. Yesterday, at West Elizabeth, Pa., Sig. Sautelle bought out the interests of his partners, Oscar Lowande and G. W. Rollins, in the Sig. Sautelle Nine Big Shows, and from now on Mr. Sautelle will be the sole owner and manager. The dissolution of partnership was looked forward to for some time, as the profits of the Sautelle Shows were not large enought to satisfy the three showmen. The settlement was made very satisfactorily, and all parted as good friends and wishing each other the best of luck. The Sautelle Shows will remain an eighteen-car show. Business with the show is very good.

    Milwaukee, Wis., June 6. The Beverung Bros. Shows will open the season at their old stand, Kenilworth Place and Farwell avenue, this city, June 13. The brothers will personally supervise the show, while among their department heads will be Harry E. Billings, manager of the side show; Art Dunn, superintendent of outside advertising; Fred Fisher, transportation master; Wm. W. Witt, ringmaster; Louis Warecki, superintendent of props and wardrobe; James A. Regan, head ticket seller in outside wagon; Ed Bodinus, superintendent of reserved seat tickets.

    Atterbury Bros. Circus has been out five weeks. Edw. McIntyre, equilibrist and acrobat, left the show at Montgomery, Ind., last week. Blackie Marshall joined to take charge of the canvas at Montgomery.

Billboard, June 27, 1914, pp. 30, 31. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Milwaukee, Wis., June 17. The Beverung Brothers Shows began their third annaul season here on Saturday. The Five Navarros, with their wire act; Corrigan's herd of trained goats and Carlo's ponies and dogs are the big features of the show. The Daring Delavans, breakaway ladder act; Johnny Ford and Fred Manske, contortionists and balancers, and the Marvelous Marlottes, aerialists, are among the talent with the show. Prof. Anton Musial's Band is also a part of it. The show will remain in and about the suburbs of Milwaukee practically the entire two months it is slated to be out. Its owner are connected with the executive staff of the Majestic Theater here. The show was incorporated last week for $10,000. Robert H. Beverung, Erwin Beverung and Harry E. Billings being the incorporators. The show in its entirety has been leased to the city of New Butler, Wis., for the afternoon of July 4.

    Jasper Fulton left the Jones Bros. & Wilson Shows on June 18, returning to his home at Cornelia, Ga., claiming that this is final adieu to the circus world. Mr. Fulton has been on the road since 1882.

    Frank Campbell, of Cleveland, O., overseer of feed on the Jones Bros. & Wilson Show, while en route from Seneca Falls, N. Y., to Fulton, N. Y., suffered a paralytic stroke and was removed to the Good Shepherd Hospital in Syracuse, N. Y., where he died Thursday morning, June 11. Campbell was 41 years of age and a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, Cleveland Local No. 63. The deceased was assistant boss hostler with the Oklahoma Ranch Wild West last season.

    The Kelly Bros. Greater Shows, since opening at Petersburg, Ill., Saturday, May 2, have been enjoying good business. The outfit is carried on two cars. The big show program: No. 1, grand entry. No. 2, Meier and Ramsey, clown song. No. 3, Meier and Ramsey, comedy breakaway ladder. No. 4, Kelly and Julien, perch act. No. 5, Eckhoff Bros., double traps. No. 6, G. Kelly's trained ponies. No. 7, Madam Ponti, clown number. No. 8. Kelly Bros. trained monkeys and dogs. No. 9, Meier and Ramsey, clown number. No. 10, Great Kelly Latell Troupe of wire walkes (five people). No. 11. Bill Meier's giraffe, clown number. No. 12, Kell, the airship pony. No. 13, Eckhoff Bros., trick house. No. 14, Bernice Sisters, Roman ladders. No. 15, Latell Sisters, iron jaw act. No. 16, walk around by clowns. No. 17, Julian, contortionist. No. 18, monkey and dog race. No. 19, pony race. No. 20, revolving table. The Columbia concert band of ten pieces, under the direction of Prof. Dominick, furnishes the music. The candy stands are managed by Fred Ogden; Bill Meier sells big show tickets; King Cole, concert announcements; Mrs. Kelly, treasurer; Geo. Kelly, superintendent.
    The side show, with a front of nine banners, is under the management of King Cole. Roster: King Cole, openings; Warren Ramsey, ticket seller; Karma, snake charmer; Prof. Reno, trained monkeys; Cutie, small horse; Illusion; King, the magician; Cole's Royal Punch and Judy; Madame LaBelle Cole, mind reader; and King Cole, ventriloquist and lecturer.

    Sig. Sautelle Shows. A new big top, 120 feet, with three 50 foot middle pieces, arrived June 10, and was put up for the first time at Apollo, Pa., June 11. Dan Ryan is equestrian director, with Will Faust, assistant. Kenjockety's Wild West, headed by Miss Mabel Kenjockety, is a valuable asset to the show. Arthur (Punch) Allen has charge of the side show. Howard Robinson, secretary and treasurer, was called home to the Robinson homestead at Chester Springs, Pa., where his mother passed away. A new menagerie top, larger than the old one, arrived at Franklin, Pa., June 16. Under the new menagerie top the very first day it was in the air four lions were born, all males. Prof. Harry Sturgess has augmented his military band, which now numbers twenty-eight pieces.

    The LaTena Circus made its initial appearance at Portland, Me., June 13. L. D. Proctor, adjuster, is a busy man. Pete King, boss canvasman, was with the Oklahoma Ranch in South America last winter. T. B. Ligon, light man, is one of the original troupers of the old school. Labelle Latura is featuring her sword act. H. P. Coffey has little complaint with his side show business. Ernest A. Albright, calliope player, is some musician. His selections on the stam organ are up to the minute. W. H. Dearmin and wife have one of the finest snake shows. Billy D. Jones joined June 11 to handle the pasteboards for the side show. C. A. Giovanni's birds, dogs and monkeys in the side show draw good crowds. W. H. Reid's Band, under the leadership of Prof. Preston Bridwater, has the following musicians: Luke Smith, Geo. Rye, Wm. Thompson, Wilbur Mason, Biship Whitmore, Herman Jackson, James Barry, Henry Jones, W. H. Reid, Wm. Mason, and L. Clark.

    Rentz Bros. has been playing in and around Pittsburg for two weeks. The show is now headed East. Our cars were in pretty close quarters during the strike at East Pittsburg, but after careful handling by "Pen," our porter, and his crew, who watched them, we are again in our home on wheels. On Sunday morning last, a new animal was registered in the ring stock, a Shetland pony named General Lee, or Young Pittsburg.

Billboard, July 4, 1914, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Tyler, Minn., June 25. Caught unawares in a tornado which swept over Southern Minnesota Tuesday evening, the big top of the John H. Sparks Shows was wrecked at Redwood Falls, Minn. The doors were opened and a crowd of 600 people filled one side of the tent. When the performance was about half over the storm stuck, and although an effort was made by manager Chas. Sparks to hurry the people out, the tent was being torn to shreds and the quarter poles and center poles beaten about in the air before the people could reach the door. As far as could be learned, only one person met with any mishap. The big top was torn to ribbons and the performers' dressing top completely destroyed. The performers also lost most of their street wardrobe, while the band had its instruments damaged to a great extent. In order to reach the sleepers, clothes were furnished the performers by neighbors in the vicinity. Jack Phillips, bandmaster, lost his big show program, while Walter Guice, in trying to get his horses out of the pad room, was struck over the head by a flying pole and slightly injured. The side show and menagerie were not damaged. Fortunately, several days ago a new top had been ordered from Chicago, and a hurry call over the wire informed the Governor the top would be ready in a few days. In the meantime the big show is being given with only a side wall protection. The remnants of the show were packed up, and just before daylight the train pulled out for Springfield, Minn., yesterday's stand, and played to crowded seats.

    Milwaukee, Wis., June 24. Beverung Bros. Shows, after being relentlessly pursued by the weather jinx every since they opened less than two weeks ago, were abruptly closed last night by a wind storm, which wrecked the outfit completely, causing a loss estimated at upwards of $3,000, a few hours after the night performance in Wauwatosa, a suburb of Milwaukee. Tents were torn to shreds, wagons were lifted by the wind and smashed against each other, seats, poles and stakes were hurled in every direction, wreaking havoc wherever they fell, and several workmen were slightly hurt by flying debris, or burned in a small fire which occurred when one of the lights fell into a pile of hay near the live stock, all of which escaped injury. The show was heavily billed for two weeks ahead, and had several guarantee dates in the State. Tuesday was the first day of real circus weather the show had since it opened, rain and cold having kept attendance down every day before. The Beverung Brothers are planning to try it again next season with an entirely new outfit.

    Leo Collins, and old time circus performer, boss canvasman and superintendent, having traveled with such shows as Sun Bros., John H. Sparks, Downey McFee, M. L. Clark, Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch and Jones Bros., is confined to the St. Mary's Hospital, Cincinnati, O., suffering with a decayed bone in his arm, and expects to lose the arm in a short while.

    Roster of Lampe Bros. Newest Shows, now playing New Jersey to good business. Executive staff: Fred Lampe, manager; Otto W. Lampe, assistant manager; Chas. Lampe, treasurer; F. Bremster Smith, general agent; Geo. Bennett, local contractor; Frank Berst, advance press agent; John Lampe, press agent back with show; Chas. Lampe, equestrian director; Otto W. Lampe, general superintendent; Bert Lampe, superintendent of privileges; W. C. Brown, musical director; Frank Evans, superintendent reserved seats; J. Gardner, superintendent canvas; Alex Seamen, superintendent lights; Red Lafontaine, superintendent propa; Lew Mulhollard, superintendent of stock; Don Lobdell, announcer; Miss Marie B. Lampe, superintendent commissary department.
    Performers: Blandy Bros., Al Mondcello, Harry Smith, Great Blandoso, H. E. Brison, York and Fredericks, Flying Students and Tom Adams. Musicians in Lampe Bros. Concert Band: W. C. Brown, cornet and leader; Herman G. Volk, cornet; Chas. Lampe, cornet; Bert Lampe, alto; Jack Sullivan, alto; Fred Lampe, trombone; Al Mondcello, trombone; Tom Adams, trombone; Otto Lampe, baritone; John Lampe, tuba; H. E. Brisen [Brison?], snare drum; Ed Blandy, bass drum.

    Great Keystone Shows. Knight and Ferris, concessioners, have purchased a horse and wagon. Among recent visitors were Dave Gillespie, proprietor of the Gillespie Bros. Shows, and Jim Francis and family, of Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Francis is one of the Famous Teets Family. A hybrid, a cross between a Shetland pony and a donkey, was born since opening. Roster: Rock and Blythe, proprietors and managers; Sam Dock, manager; Eddie Blythe, treasurer; W. H. Ashdown, general agent; Chas. T. Ogden, local contractor; Ed Davison, superintendent canvas; Robt. Taylor, boss hostler; Harry Ryal, charge of dogs and ponies; Ed Parish, chef; Jas. Nooven, leader of band; Wiley Ferris, equestrian director; Thos. Nelson, adjuster. Performers: Jas. Wilson, Chas. Harrell, Wiley Ferris, Jas. Shelby Ogden, H. G. Blythe, T. Nelson, Pearl Parish and Sam Dock's dogs and ponies. Side show: three cages; Prof. Nelson, magician; Miss Alice Meekins, second sight; Edw. Davison, impalement, marionettes and punch.

    Jolly Jenaro, the clown juggler and wire artist, joined Heber Bros. Greater Shows, June 15, but had to leave the next day, as he received a telegram to come to Dayton, O., at once to attend to his real estated, which is tied up by the Dayton (O.) courts. He expects to have everything settled in a few weeks and will then be ready for the road.

Billboard, July 18, 1914, pp. 28, 29, 31. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Suits have been instituted against the circus which traveled under the name of Rice Bros., until it disbanded some weeks ago. The suit is for a receivership and restraining orders to prevent the sale of property of the stranded circus, and was brought in the Clark Circuit Court, Jeffersonville, Ky., July 8. The plaintiffs claim the following amounts are due them for services: George Luckas, boss billposter, $155.75; John Diamond, boss canvasman, $81; Louis Bennett, boss seatman, $35; Noel Withrow, billposter, $68.15. The plaintiff alleges that the show started out of Chicago last spring with $50,000 worth of property, but had a bad season, and nearly a month ago reached Jeffersonville in a stranded condition with little of the property left. This in part consists of tents, horses, ponies, snakes, band wagon and other equipment. Two horses, Arabian Prince and King, alleged to be worth $1,500 each, the plaintiff says, have been attached since Jeffersonville was reached. A performing mule is pledged for $75, and two horses have been given as security for $200.

    Reports have been received from various persons that the Circle D. Ranch closed July 6 at Niobrara, Neb., and that the stock is being shipped to Omaha, Neb., to be sold.The wagons and rolling stock will be left at Niobrara, as they belong to John Robinson. The cars are said to belong to the Venice Transportation Co.

    Eaton Rapids, July 9. The wind storm that passed over the southern part of Michigan last week, taking everything in its path, completely destroyed the home of the Bentley United Shows on the Grand River near this city. Upon hearing of the storm, Mr. Bentley hurried home and found the paint shop, wagon shop, tent house, barns, etc., completely wrecked. The show had its winter quarters here for the past thirty-four years.

    C. C. Pierson joined the Bentley Show recently, and is singing with the band each evening in the uptown concerts. Mrs. Bentley and general superintendent Carlton Maloon have charge of the show duing Mr. Bentley's absence.

    Charles T. Treager, an old circus billposter and agent, is at the County Hospital in Belleville, Ill., absolutely penniless, and in need of assistance. Mr. Treager suffered two strokes of paralysis, the first while working as a billposter for a circus, and the second while riding in his wheel chair. He is deprived of his speech, and appeals to all circus, carnival and theatrical billposter friends for a slight contribution. He wants only enough money to purchase a few necessities not supplied by the hospital. Editors note: the condition of Mr. Treager is exactly as he reports it, the editor having established this fact a year ago.]

    The Sinden Shows are playing to good business through Arkansas and Oklahoma, traveling overland and putting on a one-ring circus. The show is under the management of Jewell Jett, who also acts as general agent. The roster: B. H. Sinden, proprietor; Jewell Jett, manager and general agent; Mrs. B. H. Sinden, treasurer; Slim Bailey, boss canvasman; Big George, boss hostler; Ben Sinden and trained dogs and ponies; Jewell Jett, magic and punch; Mrs. Sinden, in the Eva Fay cabinet act; Prof. Sinden, slack wire; Miller Brothers, comedy bar; Billy Reid, black face and clown; Jewell's trained mules and goats; Miss Jett, trapeze, and a six piece band. A concert, consisting of five act, is put on after the big show. Jewell Jett was a side show talker on the Ringling Bros. Show in 1912-13, and on the Oklahoma Ranch Wild West Show in the spring of 1913.

    New York, July 9. Herbert Barnum Seeley, son of Nathan Seeley, and a grandson of P. T. Barnum, died in Maine, Tuesday. Mr. Seeley at one time was connected with the Hippodrome, but of late years little had been heard of him.

    Grand Rapids, Mich., July 8. Orie Kruger, up until a few years ago traveled with circuses as a strong man, specializing in lifting heavy weights with his teeth, died at his home here yesterday. He was 49 years of age, and had been an invalid for the past few years.

    Happy Billy's Famous Shows. Turnaway business was done at Shoofs Springs, Va., July 4. The new tent arrived in thiem for the 4th celebration, and is 40x70 feet, with no center poles to mar the view. It is an invention of Happy Billy. A steel cable and end iron poles are all that are necessary.

    The Seibel Bros. Greater Shows are in their tenth week, and have enjoyed good business. Harry Bischoff, contortionist and juggler is one of the feature acts. Prof. J. W. Cooke has the annex. The tango team, Nemo and Bischoff, make them all scream in their clown number. The big show band is under the direction of Al J. Johnson. The big top is handled by Jim Griffin.

Billboard, July 25, 1914, pp. 27, 28. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Lewiston, O., July 26. Amazon Bros. Shows arrived in Lakeview, O., last Sudnay morning and all tents were put up during the day. Monday morning at 3 o'clock a cyclone struck the show, tearing every stitch of canvas into ribbons and causing damage estimated at about ___. Monday and Tuesday's dates had to be canceled. The management has changed the show from circus and minstrel to circus and wild west, and has added several wild west features. Business has been fairly good. While playing East Columbus, a collection was taken up among the members of the company and donated to an old-timer, Dofy Glue by name, who sends his regards to all friends.

    G. L. Raab & Sons United Overland Shows, after touring the southern part of Indiana, are now in Illinois. Business has been good. Mrs. F. Hill and children are making a hit with their contortionism. Prof. P. L. Burns, the animal trainer, has charge of the drilling poneis, also a troupe of trained dogs. Geo. R. Raab is working the trick mule, Maud, and the Arabian pony, Sport. Wm. Wright is on the job with his funny jokes in black face attire. He is also the producing clown. Col. Raab is the business man of the show. Andy Mangers, known as "Snail," is boss hostler.

    The J. E. Henry Shows are now touring Texas. Tommy Fowler and wife joined at Chico. J. E. Albert Berry and Bernardo Lacendo made a flying trip to Ft. Worth last Sunday, returning Monday. George McKnight, side show manager, came back at Alvold. McK. had been at his home in Alva, Ok., on a two weeks' visit. Buck Sawyer and Sylva have left the show. Every week for the pas five weeks a Shetland pony was born at the horse tent.

    Denver, Col., July 14. John O. Talbot has disposed of his proprietary interests in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows. Full particulars are not known, except that it was Chas. E. Corey who made the purchase from the Denver showman, Wednesday , July 8, at the Omaha stand, because of Corey's desire to increase his holdings on the Indiana circus. At the conclusion of the sale Mr. Talbot was offered an official position with the shows, which, however, was not accepted because of the necessity of his return to Denver to devote his time exclusively to his business interests in that city. His last official act as president of the organization was to call a meeting of the Board of Directors for August 23 at the Plaza Hotel, Terre Haute, Ind. Our readers are familiar with the sale of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show on June 11 of last year by Uncle Ben Wallace to the Carl Hagenbeck and Great Wallace Show Company of Indianapolis, Ind., which incorporated for the sum of $300,000. This firm comprised, among other stockholders, Charles Corey, Charles Hagerman, W. H. Harrison, Ed Ballard and John Warren. The show was not delivered to its present owners until July 1 of last year, on which date B. E. Wallace rounded out a quarter century of showmanship in the circus world.

    Prof. Carlos and his Dog and Pony Show are again back in the Windy City on account of the Beverung Bros. Show being wrecked by a wind storm. The Professor is doing well playing the Chicago theaters.

    John F. Smith (Jack), for many years a vaudeville and circus performer, doing heavy weight balancing, high kicking and silence fun tumbling, is now in prison for a short term.

Billboard, August 1, 1914, p. 24. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Woody Bros. Shows haven't lost a night since May 30, and in addition put in two Sundays. The show has decreased some in people, at the present time, eighteen.

    The Lacoma Bros. have just concluded a brief tour of southeast Arkansas, and are now in northern Louisiana. A compressed-air calliope has been added, improving the parade materially.

    The Silver Family Circus is now in its eleventh week, and found it necessary to enlarge its canvas by adding another center pole and middle piece. The new water-proof canvas was made by the J. C. Goss Co., and was erected for the first time at Ovid, Mich.

    H. E. Billings, press agent of the Beverung Bros. Shows, which were wrecked by a wind storm in Milwaukee, Wis., writes that preparations are now being made for the 1915 season, when they will put out an all new outfit.

    Babe Eckert (Esther S. Eckert), trick pianist, calliope player and Jewish comedian, of Jasper, Ind., joined the Al. G. Barnes Circus as calliope player. Babe last season was with the Yankee Robinson Circus as calliope player and Jewish comedian.

    Chas. Leahy, Roman ring artist, is now with Gollmar Bros. Circus, his second season.

    Capt. H. Snider is now with Lee's United Shows as animal trainer.

Billboard, August 8, 1914, pp. 20, 21, 22. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Chicago, July 29. The Young Buffalo Wild West and Col. Cummins Far East Combined Show ended its career at Alton, Ill., on Tuesday, July 28, indebted to Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Seaver $60,000. The aggregation owed Mr. Seaver $50,000 and Mrs. Seaver $10,000. The climax was capped when Col. V. C. Seaver asked the courts of Illinois to appoint a receiver for the Young Buffalo Wild West and Col. Cummins Far East. The courts named the Union Trust Company of Chicago as receivers for the circus property. The first news of the disaster was given The Billboard representative by Vernon C. Seaver on Thursday of last week. "What was the cause of the sudden closing of the show?" he was asked. "Well, I didn't like the way things were being run with the aggregation or the way things were being handled. There was a certain clique formerly of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show that secured control of the situation and they ran things their own way." Mr. Seaver, although reported far in the hole on the venture already, donated $2,000 to pay part salaries and fares for the 350 members of the company. The Indians have been returned to their reservation at Pine Ridge and all circus property with the exception of the cars has been sent to Lancaster, Mo., to W. P. Hall. The cars are at Alton, Ill. M. C. Cookston, general manager of the aggregation, is at Lancaster, Mo.
    Mr. Seaver reports that several times the show had made demands on him for money, and he finally refused to carry their financial losses any longer and took steps to close the show down, which he succeeded in doing last Thursday. When asked what he intended to do with the property, Mr. Seaver stated that he personally owned everything but the cars, and he did not know just what would be done with them. The cars are the property of the Wild West company. Vernon C. Seaver will devote much of his time to his many theatrical interests. Further information reveals the following: The Young Buffalo Wild West was sued for $8,281.44 by T. B. Campbell at Edwardsville, Ill., July 28. The claim was evidenced by three promissory notes, one for $1,015, one for $1,419 and one for $900, all bearing interest at 6 per cent and all signed by the Young Buffalo Wild West Co., Vernon C. Seaver, President; D. C. Robinson, Treasurer, and C. R. Derdes, Secretary. The Wild West company confessed judgment. Simon Kellerman Jr., one time advance agent for Rice & Dore, and at another time special agent for Tom Allen, is Clerk of the Circuit Court at Edwardsville, in which the suit was filed.

    Dan (Red) Keefe, billposter with the Waterbury (Conn.) Billposting Co., some time ago, while getting on his wagon, hit his shin against the step, causing a slight bruise. Later it turned into a tumor, and it developed that the only thing left was to amputate the leg at the hip. He is now in the Waterbury Hospital awaiting the operation. Mr. Keefe traveled as boss billposter with California Frank's Show, Young Buffalo Show, 101 Ranch Wild West and Hargreaves Show. He was boss billposter for Sam Leedler, who took the McCaddon Shows to France and stranded. He also worked under J. Henry Rice.

    The Wheeler Bros. Shows are now up in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Lew Christensen, alias Reckless Rexall, who is furnishing the free outside breath-taker, tried out a triple breakaway, and it proved some thriller. We believe it even thrilled the Reckless Rexall himself. Chas. (Slivers) LaBelle and his "Fourteen Funnies" have added a spectacular number that takes nearly an hour to set up. A novel feature of the Hippodrome races is the acrobatic Roman standing race, the riders doing backs, forwards and full twisters while going at full speed. Fred (Shorty) Pride, while doing a tail-forward into the saddle, slipped and broke two quarter poles. He came off with only a bruised shoulder. Signor Eugenio Alvarido Mendoza and his band of Mexican bullfighters are making the crowds hold their breath. Eugenio has quite a large class learning the Spanish language.

    Fogg & Carlo Shows. Portland, Ore., July 30. The Don Carlos and Howard Fogg Shows, which were to have closed their two weeks' engagement at The Oakes here last Sunday, have been held over for two more weeks. Prof. Carlo has "broke" two new acts and is training a bear to ride the bucking pony, play football and do other tricks. Some great leaping dogs have been added. Frank Powers has secured some good time in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming.

    Henry Pittson, age 29 years, died July 20 at the home of his parents one mile south of McMinnville, Tenn. He was well known in the circus and carnival game, having traveled with Sun Bros. Shows at one time as musician. He was also connected with carnival bands.

    The Little Rose Sisters (Leoni, Rosey and Katherine) are making a hit with their double trapeze act with the Atterbury Bros. Circus. Amon and Ella LeRoy, who joined recently, are also making good. The show will not close until about January 1. The closing point will be somewhere in Texas.

    R. C. Heber, general manager of Heber Bros. Shows, writes that the baby monkey is doing fine. The monkey, on account of being born on the Sabbath day, was named Billie Sunday. The Heber Shows will remain out until October 15, and play indoors during the winter season.

    Tom Troy and his wife, who have been with the Sig. Sautelle Show, are spending their vacation at their home in Hartford, Conn. Mrs. Troy is recovering from her recent illness and Tom is booking acts for the Cabaret Show which the Hartford Theater is running.

    The Great Fuentes is with the Robinson Famous Show this season.

Billboard, August 15, 1914, pp. 18, 23, 24. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Archie Melville, who trouped for many seasons with the Forepaugh-Sells Show, was married on July 22 to Miss Anna Krumpers of Green Bay, Wis. They have retired from the show business.

    Louis D. Thilman, who was mentioned as having taken over the Sig. Sautelle Shows in the story in the last issue of The Billboard, has in partnership with him, E. J. Robinson. Mr. Robinson is well known in circusdom, having risen from the ranks, until now he has reached the top of the ladder, proprietorship. The Wild West department having been reinstated, the show is now title the Sig. Sautelle Circus & Wild West, and is playing New York. J. Henry Rice, who had charge of the advance force when Sig. Sautelle was the proprietor, as well as when Messrs. Rawlins and Lowande were interested in the outfit, still continues to act in the same capacity.

    Detroit, Mich., August 5. Frank Sweeney, one of the last of the old-timers on the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, leaves tonight to join Howe's Great London Shows.

    Chicago, Aug. 5. Harry Polson has disposed of his interest in the concession with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows to his former partner, Frank Murphy, and will now take his big snakes to the fairs.

    Texas Tom Overland Shows are now in their twenty-ninth week, and have only lost three stands to date, despite the heavy rain. We are now playing Tennessee. Ten wagons, twenty-two head of mules and one saddle horse are carried. The roster: J. T. Parker & Son, owners and managers; Eugene Parker, musical director; Mrs. J. T. Parker, secretary and treasurer; Joe Goughf, boss canvasman; Billie Mills, boss hostler; Dad McKinzie, cookhouse. The Decotas, Charlie and Pearl, joined at Waco, Tex., with their musical stunt. Baby Nell, the little girl clown, is the talk of the town. Violet May gets her share with her songs and dances. Effie Parker is the soubrette. Mrs. Texas Tom is the busiest lady on the show. J. T. Parker has been in the show business about twenty-four years, starting out as a black face comedian. In 1908 he organized the Parker and Son Texas Combination Shows (a wagon show), and continued under that title for five years. In 1913 his brother, W. D. Parker, started a wagon show under the same title, and J. T. being professionally known as Texas Tom, deememd it advisable to change the title to Texas Tom's Overland Shows.

    LaTena's Circus. Doc Ellet and Stokes joined the troupe at Plymouth, Mass. The Silverlakes left at Stoughton, Mass., August 4. We showed Nantaskett Beach last week for two days.

    Eddie Howe is with his grandparents (the E. P. Barlow Show) this season. He will join his parents, known as Howe and Barlow, after the show closes in September. Eddie and E. P. are working on a troupe of cats.

    The Austin Bros. Shows joined the Woody Bros. Shows, and the outfit is now being billed as Woody Bros. & Austin's Combined Shows. Five more wagons were added. About forty head of stock is carried. Lorenzo DeCoker has charge of the band and orchestra; Garet Warmington is doing "clown mule," and Dick Austin, trick riding and leaping.

Billboard, August 22, 1914, pp. 20, 22, 23, 24. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Joseph Lewis, Yiddish cowboy clown, entour with the Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Show, was married in Akron, O., on August 10, to Miss Claire Burden, of Rochester, N. Y.

    Joseph Boyton, ticket seller with Barnum & Bailey Circus, and Miss Irene Ives, of St. Louis, Mo., were married in Denver, Col., on August 4.

    San Diego, Cal., August 14. Samuel G. Edwards, known at one time as champion bareback rider of the world, was taken suddenly ill here early last week and rushed to the Agnew Sanitarium. An operation was immediately performed, but death intervened. The story of Mr. Edwards is rather pathetic, he having died a broken old man. Years and years ago he traveled with P. T. Barnum through Europe, and later traveled with Forepaugh-Sells, Ringling Bros., and several other circuses for a number of years. Getting up in age, he took one desperate trial at the New York Hippodrome, only to prove that age had taken its toll at last. Becoming broken-hearted, he disposed of his splendid string of horses in order to get enough money to come West, where he was a familar figure along the ocean front to tourists at LaJolla. He still carried on his face a smile and was always cheerful. As far as can be learned, he leaves no relatives. The body was laid to rest last Thursday, with only a few friends in attendance. A wreath, made into a horseshoe form, bearing a card with the inscription, "To the Memory of Samuel G. Edwards, Champion Bareback Rider of the World," was the only offering to adorn the coffin. The wreath is said to have been given by an old man, who stood alone with bowed head during the services, and who left without giving his name.

    Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 13. J. H. Conklin, known as Gasoline Blacky, one of the old-time drivers with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, was run over by a switch engine at the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway roundhouse here early yesterday morning, dying shortly after at the Butterworth Hospital. At the time of the accident Conklin was unloading horses. He was about thirty-two years of age. The burial will be dererred in hopes of locating relatives.

    Legal adjuster Joseph H. Hughes closed with the Sig Sautelle Shows at Painted Post, N. Y., August 5, and joined the Frank A. Robbins All Feature Shows at Everett, Pa., August 6. Mr. Hughes has been with the Robbins Shows for the past seven seasons. Wm. J. Cavanaugh, also from the Sautelle Shows, will assist Mr. Hughes.

    Max Boyer will accompany the J. H. Boyer Dog and Pony Show, which Chas. and Victor Hugo, of Cedar Rapids, Ia., purchased (with the exception of the cars), on its tour of Australia. The show is now at the Hugo Bros. training quarters at Cedar Rapids, where it will be reframed.

    Bert Willison writes the Willison's British American Circus is doing fine and making money at Batavia, Java. Bert was at one time with the Al. G. Barnes Circus.

    June Hall, who was 24-hour man with the Al. G. Barnes Show, has taken out a minstrel troupe from Seattle, and is doing fine.

    St. Helens, Ore., Aug. 10. The Don Carlos and Howard Fogg Shows opened here last night to the biggest gross business, says manager Evans. Joe Abrahams, who has been with Mr. Carlos two years, has been promoter to second man as billposter and card-tacker. Howard Fogg states that owing to unsatisfactory services, F. S. Powers was discharged August 1, and claims that two days later he picked up one of their trunks he (Powers) had left at Ranier, and took cuts, hammer, brush and other things. Mr. Fogg also claims that Powers gave is I. O. U. for $5 to the manager of the Columbia Theater, Astoria, when three days before they had given him $25 advance money, and hold the receipt for wages for same; also that they hold the receipt for wages for his services to date. Mr. Fogg is offering $10 reward for information leading to the arrest of Powers and recovery of the property. He says he has a warrant for his arrest at St. Helens, Ore.

    The Raab & Sons United Shows are playing to capacity business through Illinois. Jas. Carrigan is back with the show again, doing his novelty act. Willie Wright left at Martinsville, Ill. Chief Lorenzo Ortego, the wire artist, joined at Hindsboro, replacing Prof. J. Burns, the animal trainer.

    W. H. Quinnett, who has been ahead of the Yankee Robinson Circus for the ninth season, is on his way home. He has finished his forty-sixth year in the circus business. He was formerly of the Quinnett Family, acrobats and gymnasts.

    Ellet and Stokes closed with the Mighty Haag Shows and joined LaTena's Circus for the balance of the season.

Billboard, September 12, 1914, pp. 3, 21. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Barney, Ia., Sept. 4. The tornado which made a sweep practically over the state of Iowa Monday evening struck Atterbury Bros. Shows at Weldon, laying every tent flat. Mrs. Rose Atterbury was doing her wire act at the time the storm broke, and barely escapted being struck by one of the center poles when it broke. One man received some bad scalp wounds and lost several teeth. Everything was repaired and ready for the next stand, Hopeville, where the show had a banner house.

    George Parento, high ladder and table performer and hand balancer, has signed with Powell & Harris' Indoor Circus for the winter season.

    Sam G. Edwards, the international circus rider of two generations ago. His remains were interred at the Peace of Life Cemetery, San Diego, Cal., August 7.

Billboard, September 26, 1914, pp. 23, 24. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Capt. Vincent DeGueria, who for the past four years has been connected with the J. W. Dyer Trained Wild Animal Shows, has severed his connection with that company and signed up for fifty-two weeks with the Yankee Robinson Circus to produce the five-lion act which was recently purchased from J. G. Miller by the Yankee Robinson people.

    Tompkins-Cooper-Whitby Shows, by Dixie Devere. Landesbury, Va., Sept. 13. We have added a cowboy quartette to our concert in the persons of Frank Scott, Shorty Blount, Charles Hackney and Robert Knapp. George Asman, late of the Kit Carson Band, joined us the first part of the week as cornet player. George Brown, trap drummer, left the other day, and all were sorry to see him go. Bob Knapp has been made boss of props. Pete Red Jacket, an Indian roper, joined today. He is a child wonder with the rope. He and Mexican Augustine are going into vaudeville this winter.

    A. L. Wolff closed his season with Ringling Bros. car No. 3, and is now in the distributing business with his brother at Davenport, Ia.

    Fred H. Fisher, of the Flying Fishers, and for over ten years equestrian director of John Robinson's Ten Big Shows, now has the bar of the Hotel LaCrosse at LaCrosse, Wis.

    Slivers Bowden, in the privilege department with Mighty Haag Shows, visited his home folks at Fitchburg, Mass., rejoining the show at Keene, N. H.

    Amon LeRoy and wife closed with Atterbury Bros. United Shows at Brooks, Ia., to play vaudeville dates.

    Al H. West has been re-engaged with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus for next season.

Billboard, October 10, 1914, pp. 21, 22. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    W. J. Daplyn, who has had the advertising privileges with the Gollmar Bros. Shows this season, sailed on the S. S. Mauretania for his home in England, his father's poor health being the cause of his early departure.

    Detroit, Mich., Sept. 30. Hill & Voight's Indoor Circus is playing three-day and week engagements at the leading theaters in this city, following which it goes on the road to play vaudeville, also for fraternal orders, bands, etc. The roster: Hill & Voight, managers; Mrs. Joe Hill, treasurer; Messrs. Scott and Courtney, general agents; Two Voights, jugglers and wire walkers; Hill and Hill, comedy acrobats; Gerald Tritches' comedy dogs; Ted, the spiral tower dog; Harry Hill, principal clown with five other cut-ups; Harry Vardell, aerial act, and a free attractions in front of theaters before each performance. Michigan, Indiana and Ohio will be played.

    The Young Buffalo Wild West Show, bankrupt, was sold by order of the court of Northern Illinois, Tuesday, September 29, at the car shops of Hotchkiss, Blue & Co., Harvey, Ill. Purchasers were few, undoubtedly due to the season nearing its close. The property disposed of consisted of one advertising car, one privilege car and four sleepers, as well as sheets, pillows, blankets, a range, a small amount of printing and numerous other articles. The sale started with the entire outfit being offered in a lump. The bidding was done by G. Faith Adams, V. C. Seaver and Henry Gehn, the outfit being knocked down to Mr. Seaver for the sum of 43,200. This was the largest big offered, and was accepted, subject to approval by the court.

    Negotiations which were under way last week between the U. S. Lithograph Company and Jerry Mugavin, relative to the sale of the Sig. Sautelle Shows to the latter, have fallen through and the shows closed at Leitchfield, Ky., Friday, and shipped to Lawrenceburg, Ind., where they will winter at the fair grounds. It develops Mugivan did not make an offer for the show, but that when he asked the lowest cash price the lithograph company named $18,000. After considering for several days, Mugivan rejected the proposition. Our attention is called to the statement that the U. S. Lithograph Company has taken over the Sautelle Show from Louis H. Thilman and others; the facts are that the lithograph company purchased the show outright from Sig. Sautelle the latter part of July, and Mr. Thilman operated the show under a lease until the closing stand. In the even that the show is not sold before next season, arrangements will be made to put it out under a lease or rental proposition.

    The one-ring show of Vic Hugo, Charlie Marsh, Stick Davenport, etc., that has been mentioned in The Billboard, is not yet a certainty.

    Peter S. McNally, former press agent with many of the big ones - Forepaugh & Sells, Barnum & Bailey, Buffalo Bill, Two Bills, 101 Ranch - and also with many theatrical enterprises for years, is now assistant curator of the Franklin Park Zoological Garden, Boston.

    Percy W. Brown has been appointed leader of the Hagenbeck-Wallace concert band.

    Dan Hoffman has closed with Wheeler Bros. Greater Shows. Owing to the poor financial conditions in the South, it has been decided to close the show six weeks earlier than scheduled.

    Haag's Mighty Shows won't be on rail next season. Back to the wagons for Ernie.

    Billy Milligan, among the oldest and wealthiest clowns in this country, has not been with the white tops this summer. He has benn at his private cottage near Akron, O. This winter Billy will be associated with the famous clown, Doc Keene, in several large indoor circuses.

Billboard, October 17, 1914, pp. 22, 23, 24. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Niles, Mich., October 8. The H. W. Freed Show is again back in its winter quarters in this city, having closed the season at Eau Claire, Mich., September 26.

    Word has just reached The Billboard that Charles W. Miller, noted animal trainer, succumbed to quick consumption in London, England, September 10, and was buried in Hammersmith Cemetery. Mr. Miller, for years, had been a special trainer for Bostock, Hagenbeck, Wombwell and others. He had perfected his wire, Mrs. Lillian Miller, as a trainer. She was on the steamer coming to America to fill engagements with her equestrian lion when her husband died. Thomas A. Fallon, another trainer, who had been a close friend and coworker with Miller for a number of years, died in August, and both men were buried in the same lot at Hammersmith.

    Closing Dates. The Barnum & Bailey Shows, at Memphis, Tenn., October 26. The LaTena Three Ring Animal Circus, at Harrington, Del., October 14. Tompkin's Wild West Shows, at Manchester, Md., October 21.

    After fifty-five years of continuous show life, Aunt Mollie Bailey has retired from the road and is domiciled at her home in Houston, Tex. Aunt Mollie has reached her seventy-fourth milestone. She has something like forty show lots of her own in Texas, in connection with her home, and four renting homes. She is paying taxes on $80,000 worth of property in Texas alone. The business will be continued by her sons and daughter - J. E., Albertine, Willie, Brad and Mrs. Birdie Dickens. The show is in fine condition. Two cars are used, one a Pullman, while the other is a baggage car. The top used is 70 ftte, with a 40 foot middle pieces; the dressing room 30 feet; kid show, 40x60; animal show, 40x60; horse tent, 20x50. Albertine Bailey, on the high wire, and toy airships are the outside attractions. Two performances are given daily. The show will remain out all winter, playing the South, but after November three-day stands will be made, chaning the policy from circus to high-class vaudeville and pictures. The executive staff: Bailey Bros., sole proprietors; J. E. Bailey, manager; G. A. Bailey, director; W. K. Bailey, band leader with twelve musicians; B. S. Bailey, general lot boss; G. A. Bailey, lights; Mrs. Birdie Dickens, treasurer.

    The Seibel Bros. Greater Shows closed their season at Watertown, Wis., October 4, after a successful season around the Great Lakes in Northern Wisconsin. The line-up at time of closing: Pony drill, handled by E. Meyers, ringmaster and trainer; Rooney, the monkey doctor; Prof. Edward's Arabian stallion; Harry Bischoff, jugggler and contortionist; Flying Deloos, return act; Al Hare, Spanish rings; Nemo and Bishop, revolving ladders; Ham and Harry, clowns, featuring the tango dance. Band, under the direction of Al Johnson (third season with this show), with Mr. Johnson, baritone; Gus Nelson, solo cornet; Marion Scizor, solo cornet; Hiram Colwell, first cornet; Duthc Nickols, bass player; Harry Atwood, snare drum; Thos. Reynolds, bass drum. Concert consisted of a tight rope walking dog, snakes; Bischoff, magician, doing comedy, and Lady Kiro, the monkey, looping the loop in an automobile. Annes, with its cages of wild animals, ponies (featuring Babe); Devolo, sword swallower, fire king, etc., was managed by Prof. Cook, the Punch and Judy man, who also made the openings and gave the free outdoor exhibition with his talking figures. This was Doc's second year with Seibel Bros. The big top was handled by Jim Gaffin, for many years with the big ones. Frank P. Presscott, general agent and contractor (with this show for two seasons); cookhouse managed by chef Fred Giersdorf with two assistants, O'Neil and George; Ben, boss ponyman; Chandelier Dutch, lights; Ham and George, props; Jack Blair, candy butchers and privileges.

    Annie Christ, professionally known as Trixie Christie, is a new addition to the Oriental department of the Mighty Haag Shows. She joined at Middleton, Del. Margaret Davis is doing the sword swallowing in the Haag Auxiliary. Slivers Bowden, side-showman is the power of this department.

    Ray Dick, magician, who handled the annex on the Frank Robbins Circus the past season, is at his home in Kokomo, Ind.

    Mrs. C. H. Gilbertson, wife of the superintendent of concessions on the Sells-Floto Show (his sixth season), has gone to her home in Ft. Morgan, Col. Hubby follows as soon as the season closes.

    J. H. Eschman's European Circus. We are now in the mining and fruit countries of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, where we find business on the whole not satisfactory. Mr. and Mrs. Hall recently spent the Sabbath at their home in Boston, Mass. Joe Micomded recently spent the Sabbath at his home in Pittsburg, Pa. The show is now working southwest. Whether this show will remain out again all winter has not been definitely decided.

    Billy Rogers, who has clowned with the Fowler & Clark Dog and Pony Show for the past three years, closed with the show October 10 to play vaudeville dats.

Billboard, October 24, 1914, pp. 18, 22,23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Jim Jennings, a veteran circus man, died October 14, at Noroton, Conn. Mr. Jennings was 72 years of age and traveled with the Barnum & Bailey Show for many years.

    Two cars of the Wheeler Bros. Shows were derailed at Gumberry Junction, about one-half mile from Jackson, N. C., Saturday, October 10, and as far as could be learned three persons were injured. The show played Jackson on the 10th, and was en route over the S. A. L. and N. H. R. R. to Exmore, Va., Monday's stand. The show did not pull out of Gumberry until 4 p.m. Sunday.

    The Jones Bros. & Wilson Trained Wild Animal Shows close the season October 24, at Flat River, Mo., and go into winter quarters on East Thirty-ninth street, St. Louis, Mo. W. E. Sands, manager of car No. 1 advance car, closed October 14, and left for Hagerstown, Md. J. Augustus Jones and Thos. Aiton have been in St. Louis for ten days, getting the winter quarters in shape.

    Howe's Great London Shows closed the season at De Soto, Mo., October 17, and shipped to winter quarters at Peru, Ind.

    The Great Keystone Show will not go into South Carolina this year on account of the unsettled conditions of cotton, but will remain in the mountains of North Carolina as long as the weather permits. Mac McKensey and Geo. (Kid) Peters, while playing Weaversville, N. C., came over to visit Ed Davison, who trouped with them on the Old Sheeby Show eight years ago. The Great Keystone and the Joe Jackson Moving Picture Show were together at Burnsville, N. C. C. W. Harrell, in doing his back ladder drop the other day hurt his arm and will be incapacitated for a few weeks. His partner, Jim Wilson, is now working along. Dan Wheeler leaves the show in a week or two to make some of the Southern fairs with his snake show.

    A. G. Backe's Shows close their ninth season October 17. The aggregation started out last June, and reports a good season despite the hard times and three weeks of inclement weather. Those on the outfit include Andrew G. Backe, owner and manager; Andy Smith, superintendent of props; H. Neibert, boss hostler; Dad Clark, boss of canvas; the La Gardos, slack wire, contortion and traps; A. Emmick, clown; Mrs. Backe, singing clown and swinging ladder; Backe's ponies, dogs, goats, sheep and pigeons.

    R. C. Heber advises that the Heber Bros. Greater Circus, Menagerie and Wild West will not close until October 20. After that it will be opera houses and auditoriums for the winter as an indoor circus.

    Stephen N. Smyth and Miss Addie Kain, both of the Gollmar Bros. Shows, were made one at Pratt, Kan., last week. They were on the Gollmar outfit several seasons.

    Al Swan closed a successful season with the Gollmar Bros. Show at Blair, Neb., October 15, and will hibernate at his home, 722 Washington avenue, Council Bluffs, Ia.

    Al E. Hutchinson, comedian, closed with the Sells-Floto-Buffalo Bill Shows at Wichita Falls, Tex., October 15. Al has been doingold colored parson with banjo in parade on bale of cotton, six-mule stage coach team, and has made good. He also did a banjo, singing and talking act in the concert.

    A letter from the proprietor of Phillips' Dog and Pony Circus states that while the writer was absent from his training quarters in Chicago someone stole his trick mule and burned the barn. He would appreciate any information that may be furnished and to the whereabouts of the mule, as it is an important factor in his act. The mule's head is light gray with a dark body, long tail and clipped mane. Kindly address Phillips' Dog & Pony Circus, 5628 Prairie street, Chicago.

Billboard, November 7, 1914, pp. 20, 22, 23, 24. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Tom S. McCalley was married on October 17 in Atlanta, Ga., to Mrs. Bessie Earles, formerly of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus.

    Wilbur Weirick, of Norfolk, Va., who just finished the season with Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Show, was married in that city on October 16 to Miss Nibbie Warren, also of Norfolk.

    Edw. Hess, of Hess's Trained Horse, Dogs and Monkeys, has quit the carnival game and is framing a six wagon, one-ring circus for next season, to be known as Hess's Old-Time Circus. The outfit will be painted at Nazor's Show quarters, at Ontario, O.

    Chicago, Oct. 30. Fred C. Iseli, a ticket seller of the Ringling Bros. Circus, died in this city last Saturday, from pneumonia. He was taken ill at Birmingham, Ala., with malaria, which reverted into typhoid and finally into pneumonia. The deceased was widely known throughout the circus world, having been with Norris & Rowe, Sells-Floto, Forepaugh and Sells Brothers and the Ringling circuses. He was a native of Troutvale, Ore., to which town the remains were shipped last Sunday night for interment. He is survived by a widow, a mother and a brother. Mrs. Iseli accompanied the remains to Troutville.

    Robert Gilfort, an old-time acrobat, having traveled with circuses, both in the States and abroad, passed away at his home in Orange, N. J., the morning of October 27. The deceased was born in St. Louis in 1845, and became a tumbler in early boyhood. In the early '70s he and his brother started on the road with their Gladiator Statue act, which went great, both in this country and Europe. He leaves a widow to mourn his loss.

    Edw. Lash, of the Grand Theater, Searcy, Ark., sends The Billboard the following letter: "A Mr. C. A. Clark, and old advance agent, having traveled with Campbell Bros., Sells & Downs, Walter L. Main and others, is here with both legs almost useless and financially embarrassed. Whatever help you could give him through your paper would be appreciated."

    The Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows are put away for the winter at the Carthage Fair grounds. C. E. Cory is on his way to Europe to buy animals with which to strengthen the menagerie. Ed Ballard is with his wife and son at West Baden.

    C. P. Farrington, after a season of twenty-eight weeks with the LaTena's Circus as contracting agent, joined the J. B. Robbins Rep Show.

    Bright Jones, of Tompkins Wild West and Cooper-Whitby Circus, returned to his home in Reading, Pa. to spend the winter.

    One of the barns of the Robson Bros. Show, at Reading, Pa., burned to the ground recently. Several tents were destroyed, and one of the ponies had a narrow escape. A new barn will replace the one destroyed.

    Duke Libby, after a season with Howe's Great London shows as brigade agent, passed through Cincy on his way to Dunkirk, N. Y., where he will spend the winter.

    The LaTena Show reports a successful season, had several turnaways in Maine. The show didn't go back to Timoniu, Md., Havere de Grace, Md., this winter.

    Al Bowers, brother to Art and Bert, and his wife, are spending the winter in Boston's Back Bay section. The recently closed with LaTena Show.

    Frank Howard, Barnum & Bailey's Original Tattooed Man, is prospering at the head of his own tattooing establishment in Boston, which he has been conducted for quite a few years ther. He trouped twenty-six years under white tops, nine years alone with Barnum & Bailey, and another nine years with the Wallace Shows, as well as with W. W. Cole, Miller, Stone & Freeman, Pop Brown's United Shows, Lowell & Sisson, and others. In 1874 he joined out with Dan Rice. With him at all times was his famous wife, Anna Howard, who passed from this life something over three years ago. An assistant, Harry Lawson, formerly tattoo man with the Sells & Floto Circus, and more recently with Clark & Snow's Museum of Los Angeles, is to be found. Harry married a Boston girl, Esther Roderick, on October 6. Mrs. Lawson is being tattooed all over by her husband, and will troupe next season, her first season under the white tops. Frank Howard has also been married these last six months to Louisa Morris, originally from St. Helens, England.

    The Striklin Dog & Pony Show is now in winter quarters, afer nine weeks at fairs. A fine big mare for the menage act has been purchased for next season.

    The Great Keystone Shows are now invading western North Carolina. At Blantyre, N. C., Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Blyth's home, the Captain was kept busy entertaing friends. Miss Claire Dock left the show after spending a two weeks' vacation. She will visit her mother at Ft. London, Pa. Mr. Dock is working a pick-out pony. Wiley Ferris has added a new clown number to the big show. It's a satire on the European war. P. J. Swan joined at Lake Toxaway, N. C., to do a black face turn in the concert, and a magic and fire act in the side show.

    The Gollmar Bros. Show closed the season at Blair, Neb., October 15, and made good time in reaching Baraboo, Wis., where it went into winter quarters.

Billboard, November 21, 1914, pp. 18, 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    LaFren L. Taylor, rope spinner and pony express rider, late of the Ringling Bros. Shows, died at his home in Toledo, O., November 10.

    Miller Bros. & Arlington's 101 Ranch Wild West Show closes the season at Hot Springs, November 21. Up to and including that day, the show will have given 373 performances, covered twenty States, visited 155 towns and traveled 9,022 miles. Two performances were given in every town except Columbia, S. C. The longest jump was 204 miles and the shortest eight miles. The cars and equipment will be put in winter quarters at Hot Springs, while the stock will be shipped to Miller Bros.' Ranch, at Bliss, Ok.

    Chicago, Nov. 12. Sam Watson, of Sam Watson's Barn Yard fame, well known in vaudeville and circus circles, announced this week that he will sell outright his entire adt and go into retirement. His group of animals consists of fourteen dogs, fifteen roosters, two cats, one pig and one donkey.

    Heber Brothers closed their Circus, Wild West and Menagerie on October 20, later than any previous season. As the show is larger now, more land has been purchased at Columbus, O., the headquarters, and new buildings will be erected. The Heber Brothers open in opera houses with their ponies, dogs, monkeys, acrobats, clowns, etc., shortly. They will carry their own band and orchestra.

    The Carlos & Fogg Shows have enjoyed ususual business since leaving Portland, Ore., some months ago, and are now en route to San Francisco. The show has been improved by the addition of several new features. Late arrivals include the Rozell Trios and Baby Wanda. A parade is still given every day. The show at present time is booked up to November 27-28, when it will be at Grant's Pass, Ore.

    Fred Walton, 56, formerly of the Four Waltons, acrobats, who traveled with ciruses for a number of years, died at the Branch Hospital, Cincinnati, Friday evening, November 13. Death was due to tuberculosis.

    The Sun Bros. Show will again go back to its old winter quarters at Central City Park, Macon, Ga., where it has wintered the last eight years.

    H. D. Kyes, bandmaster, reports a successful season with the Wheeler Bros. Circus. He is now a vaudevilllist, playing towns in Ohio at the present time.

    Tracy Andrews, after closing a season of 31 weeks as a joey with the Mighty Haag Shows, is on his way to Oskalossa, Ia., where he will pass away the cold winter days.

    Louie LaClede, who was with the Jones Bros. & Wilson Shows the past season, is playing the negro character in Claud Reid's production of The Texas Cattle King.

    Fred H. Fisher, formerly of the Flying Fishers, died Saturday morning, November 7, at the LaCrosse Hospital, LaCrosse, Wis., of diabetes, although gangrene was the immediate cause of his death. Mr. Fisher was born in Rockford, Ill., July 2, 1855. For years he was connected with all the leading circuses, the last one being the John Robinson Ten Big Shows. Since last July he had been conducting the Hotel LaCrosse Annex, at LaCrosse, Wis. He formerly resided in Cincinnati. He leaves a widow, who is a sister of Dan W. Dale, formerly of the John Robinson shows. The remains wer buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery at LaCrosse, Monday, November 9. Mrs. D. W. Dale and son, Charles, journeyed from Cincinnati to attend the funeral.

    W. E. Ferguson, known as Bob, died at the Cincinnati Hospital, Cincinnati, November 12, of softening of the brain. He was taken down some two weeks since, and immediately became very violent, necessitating his being restrained. He never realized his condition, however, for he never once regained his mind. He was born at Lansing, Mich., 54 years ago. His father was Wm. Edward and his mother Elizabeth Ferguson. A devoted wife survives him. The funeral, under Masonic auspices, was held from his late residence, 2415 Auburn avenue, November 14, and was largely attended.

Billboard, November 28, 1914, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Kit Carson Show. Walter L. Wilson, secretary of the Baker & Lockwood Mfg. Co., of Kansas City, Mo., was appointed ancillary receiver of the Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch Wild West Show in the U. S. District Court, Cincinnati, by Judge Hollister, November 20, following the institution of bankruptcy proceedings by East St. Louis (Ill.) creditors several days ago. It is alleged by the creditors that Thomas Wiedemann, of Harrisburg, Ill., the proprietor, committed an act of bankruptcy, when, on October 22, he executed a bill of sale of all his property, consisting of a number of cars and horses and other equipemnt in an effort to give the United States Pringint & Lithographing Co., of Norwood, preference over other creditors. Mr. Wiedemann is said to have been indebted to this company to the amount of $20,000, and that the bill of sale given covered all of the show property.
    The creditors, proceeding against the show are the Baker & Lockwood Mfg. Co., amount, $3,562; Wm. J. Lester, of Zanesville, O., $700; Walter Rhodes, of Cincinnati, $600. The show was attached recently by Sheriff Cooper in the case of Swift & Co., for $7,375, and a special jury of five men last week in Magistrat Dempsey's Court, Cincinnati, decided that the lithograph company was the owner of the property. In appointing the ancillary receiver the Judge ordered all persons in control of any of the assets of the show to turn over same to the receiver, as well as enjoined all creditors, their attorneys, sheriffs, marshals, etc., from transferring or removing, or otherwise interfering with the property of the bankrupt; also from prosecuting, executing or suing out of any court any process, attachement or other writ for the purpose of taking possession of the property or interfering with the ancillary receiver. The outfit consists of between 70 adn 76 horses, five trick mules, three buffaloes, wagons, etc., which are in winter quarters at Terrace Park and Oakely, O.

    Chicago, Nov. 21. J. Augustus Jones has purchased Harry Wilson's interest in the Jones Brothers and Wilson Show, and will put out a big trained animal show in 1915, to be known as J. Augustus Jones' Trained Wild Animal Show. Mr. Jones has two two-car minstrel shows and a one-car circus out for the winter.

    The friends of James H. Hayes, an oldtime showman, will regret to learn of his sudden death at Crawfordsville, Ind., October 29. For the past twelve years Mr. Hayes was connected with A. H. Reed's Cricus. Previous to that he traveled with Tiger Bill's Wild West Show, C. A. Wortham, H. M. Long and a number of other shows. He was a member of the Brotherhood of American Yeomen of Life. He leaves a widow and three children (one daughter and two sons). The daugher, Mrs. Lena Faulk, as well as her husband, are at present traveling with Tiger Bill's Wild West Show with the C. A. Wortham Shows in Texas.

    R. L. Pettit, boss hostler with the Montana Al Wild West, is under arrest at Richmond, Va., on the charge of assaulting Mrs. Minnie White Eagle, an Indian, also connected with the show. The outfit, a wagon show, was en route from Brodnax, Va., where it closed, to its winter quarters at Herndon at the time. The Indian woman claims that Pettit also attacked her husband, and that he is now in the hospital from injuries received.

    The Gentry Bros. Dog and Pony Circus gave its last performance of the 1914 season in San Antonio, Tex., Saturday night, November 7. San Antonio, fofr two years, have been given Gentry's first and last shows of the season, for this city is its winter home and training quarters.

    Atterbury Bros. United Shows and Lucky Bill combined for the last week of the season, and closed with a flourish. The two performances, given under one top made it necessary to have from three to five acts in the ring at one time. Miller, Kan., was the closing town, as manager Atterbury thought it best to cancel the Oklahoma territory on account of depression.

    Capt. H. Snyder's Dog and Pony Show closed the tented season on October 28, at Pomeroy, O., and the Captain is busy with plans for an improved outfit next season. A small collection of wild animals will be added, and with Hazel, trained pony, and Nero, the high-diving dog, with other performing animals, it is expected that the show will be a winner.

    Andy Jacobs, one of the eight-horse drivers with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Cicus, registered at winter quarters at Carthage, O., last week, having just been dismissed from the Cincinnati General Hospital, where he had been confined for several weeks, from injuries received because a circus wagon breaking through a bridge in a Kansas town last fall.

    Claude L. Ray, known as Crazy Ray, the calliope maniac, wishes to advise that, through his attorneys, Hanson & Brown, of Belleville, Ill., he has secured an annulment of his recent marriage to Miss Clara Dybrourki, of 1421 W Division street, Chicago, Ill.

Billboard, December 5, 1914, pp. 22, 23. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    August S. Englert, known under the white tops as Captain Smithy, died suddenly of acute indigestion at the Sisters of Mercy Hospital, Buffalo, N. Y., November 21. The deceased was 42 years of age, and for a while was boss canvasman of the Martin L. Downs Show. The remains were shipped to Erie, Pa., for burial. He leaves a widow.

    Havana, Cuba, Nov. 21. The Pubillones Circus opened Thursday night in the Politeama Theater, Havana. Joe Miller, of the Ringling Shows, and his two assistants, K. Y. Jessie and Harry Raymore, handle the props. Mr. Miller has his hands full trying to make the Cubans understand what he wants them to do. The acts with the show: Miss Darling, troupe of dogs; the Maginleys, double trapeze; Les Jardys, carrying perch; James Powell, principal act; clown number by Pepito and Augusto; the Leach-LaQuinlan Trio, wire; Fred Darling's comedy mule and ponies; Capt. Webb's riding seals; Brothers Powell, double jockey; Les Jardys' troupe of acrobats; the Three Arthurs, cycling act. The Seigrist-Silbon Troupe and Marguerite and her lions are expected to join Thanksgiving Day. The aggreation will play in the Politeama Theater until December 18, when it will begin a road season, playing from two-day to week stands through the sugar cane district of the Island.

    Bloomington, Ind., Nov. 26. Instead of going back to San Antonio, Tex., where they wintered their outfit last year, Gentry Brothers brought their shows to their old quarters in this city, having arrived last Sunday morning. The No. 1 Show closed at Sherman, Tex., November 18, and the No. 2 Show at Whitesboro, Tex., on the same day. The following day both show trains were combined at Denison, Tex., and were dispatched to this city.

    Pommier Bros. Shows have been in Texas over a year, but will not remain out this winter, owing to the bad conditions existing in the South. The outfit will close at Melvin, Tex., December 5, and to into winter quarters at Richmond, Mo.

    After packing the tent paraphernalia and surplus stock in winter quarters at Columbus, O., Heber Bros. opened their Winter Circus November 19, at City Opera House, Delaware, O., for two days. The following acts are with the winter show: the Aerial LaVons, trapeze and Roman rings; Rollo H. Heber's dogs and monkeys, in City of Dogville; the Adell Sisters, international dancers; Heber Bros. Blue-Ribbon Performing Ponies; the Franklins, black eccentrics; Musical Shannons; the Jeffersons, novelty act; Geo. T. Heber, Roy Franklin, Ed Fox, Earl Meeks and Bill Smith, clowns; King's Rough-Riding Monkeys; DeOcea, the Man of Mystery. Roy Franklin is director of the twelve piece band. The show is playing two and three-day and week stands.

    The Geo. S. Ely Show has been out for eighteen months, and has done fairly well, considering the weather. The show will remain out all winter, but will close for six weeks in February and March in order to paint up, as usual. Arkansas and Missouri will be invaded in 1915. Prof. Julio Hinojosa, with his Spanish band, is still a feature. Harold Dean is a late arrival. W. T. Daniels has charge of the top, with four assistants. The show has ten wagons, thirty head of stock and an eighty foot round top.

    Circus Solly, Care The Billboard, Cincinnati, O. Dear Sir, In your column in the issue of November 14, you stated that Vic Stout closed his fifth season with the Haag Show as car manager. The item is erroneous. In the first place Mr. Stout was not in our employ for five years, and secondly, he did not finish the season with this show this year, having been requested to leave before the season was more than half over. Yours respectfully, George C. Moyer, general agent, Mighty Haag Show.

    James M. Beach, contracting agent for Sun Bros. Circus, closed his eight consecutive season with that show at Montezuma, Ga., November 12. Mr. Beach was en route to his home in Seneca Falls, N. Y.

    Frank Zepp (Lardy), well known among the old school of "lucky boys," died recently at the home of his wife's parents in Wakerton, Ind. He was connected for many years with the Great Wallace Shows, Cook & Whitby, Sells & Rentfrow, W. P. Hall's Circus and Pawnee Bill's Wild West. Several years ago he retired from the circus field and opened the first motion picture house in Indianapolis, Ind., in partnership with Al J. Gilligham. He sold his interest in the business four years ago. In late years he was connected with the American Film Exchange.

    Trainmaster Hard Luck Williams, with the Yankee Robinson Circus the past season, has decided to troupe no more and is living on his farm in West Virginia.

    R. E. Smith, musician, formerly with Tinney's Band, of Sells & Downs and Howe's Great London Shows, and Ned Brill's Band, of Barnum & Bailey, has deserted the ranks of the band boys and is studying to be a doctor.

Billboard, December 12, 1914, pp. 18, 23, 43. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    Howard Anderson, boss wardrobe man with Ringling Bros. Circus for the past two years, died of tuberculosis recently, at the home of his mother in Appleton, Wis. His remains were laid to rest in the family plot at Appleton. Orton Bros. Circus is stored away at the Orton farm at Ortonville, Ia. From the opening of the past season at Erlham, Ia., May 2, until the band played Home Sweet Home at Ralston, Ia., October 24, the show encountered more blowdowns and the worst weather ever experieced by the Orton Circus since its organization several years ago. The biggest blow down of the season occurred at Wilton, N. D., during the afternoon performance, when every tent on the ot was laid flat. Although the big top was packed, no one was seriously injured, except one spectator and one of the show's canvasmen. The season's itinerary covered greater territory than ever before, having gone North into Canada, where several stands were made. Jumps of 24 to 26 miles were not uncommon during the summer. The feature acts included Nellie Orton, principal riding; Grace Orton, wire act; Lawrence and Nellie Orton, posing act, and the dog and pony act.

    J. Henry Rice, after closing with the Sig. Sautelle Show, joined the Rentz Bros. Circus in the South, and has done its contracting for the last five and a half weeks. Having finished his duties, he is en route to Chicago.

    This leaves everybody busy around the winter quarters of the Woody Bros. Shows at Afton, Ok. Among the old-timers here are Bob Woody, manager of the Woody Bros. Shows; Thomas Kerley, band director; Wm. Luther, S. S. Hastings and Garrett Worminton. Since our arrival at winter quarters we have sold several of our horses, while younger stock has been purchased to replace them. The seats for the coming season will be new and made of very light material. They will be seven high.

    A. C. Orcott, once a steward but now manager of the privilege car of the LaTena Show, is wintering in New York City and Mt. Vernon. They say Al used to do a 100 yard dash around the top last summer while selling concert tickets.

    Walter Guice and wife, Flora Bedini, are in New Orleans and will sail for a tour of South America with the Shipp & Feltus Circus.

    The Sparks Show has contracted for a compressed air calliope, and will do away with the steam piano it has used for the past five years.

    Bert Mayo and wife, of the Sparks Show, are at their home in Auroro, Mo.

    Mr. Mutton, boss butcher on the Sells-Floto Show, has married Miss Mary Ohmacht, of Nebraska City, his home town.

    Honest Bill's Overland Show is due in Eagle Lake, Tex., December 5. The show will probably close the season and winter at this place.

Billboard, December 26, 1914, p. 18. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by ___. Some items may not be circuses or circus-related. Only selected items were transcribed.

    John C. Coble, formerly part owner of Irwin Brothers' Wild West Show, shot and killed himself at Elko, Nev., December 5.

    Joe Loyd, boss hostler, and Clara Allen, trick and fancy rider and trapeze artist, were quietly married while with the Kit Carson Show the past season. The secret has recently been made known by Mrs. Loyd.

    Alexandria, La., Dec. 17. The Stone & Murray Railroad Shows are scheduled to close the season here today and make a run of 642 miles to St. Louis, where they will winter. The show has been out 41 weeks. H. J. Williams, general agent, will return to Philadelphia, Pa., where he will spend the winter.

    New York, Dec. 18. Mrs. Octavio White, formerly a bareback rider with the Barnum & Bailey Circus, Monday filed a suit in the Supreme Court, asking for a separation from her husband, Octavio White, manager of Zip, known as Barnum's "What Is It."

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