News: Neillsville, Wis. - Zellmars’ Big Circus (21 July 1928)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Zellmar

----Source: Neillsville Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) July 12, 1928

Zellmars’ Big Circus (21 July 1928)

The big show is coming boys. The smell of the sawdust is in the air.  Hear the call of the bugle and the crack of the ringmaster’s whip.  The only all-steel show train in the world will bring Zellmar Bros. Trained Wild Animal Exhibition to Neillsville on Saturday, July 21 for two performances, afternoon and night, rain or shine.  This is the show you have been waiting for, The Zellmar Bros. famous show stands without a rival.  Everybody knows them, for they never advertise what they do not give; hence the big top is always jammed with a happy, eager crowd.  Originality and progressiveness have been the watchword of these kings of the arena.  They have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars, have given years of careful systematic preparation to perfect their wonderful organization and a glorious reward is the culmination of their efforts.  In order to obtain the latest and best in the amusement world, to satisfy the ever-changing public, to retain the patronage and popularity, so necessary for the continuance of a traveling institution of such magnitude, to accomplish which the Zellmar Bros. have balked at no effort no matter how herculean, or at an pecuniary outlay no matter how extravagant.