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SOUNDS LIKE OLD TIMES (ciVtw from Pag 13V ft IF YOU WANT REAL COMFORT and 4, I 1 vl Come See Us! Rhythmic Sm-o-o-o-o-o-th ntle OVERALL HEAD- TO-TCI MASSACE THAT STIMULATE! CiftCULATICX WITHOUT IMSBEASIX3 PULSE RATE CHAIR Since VIVERATIOM It was on this rock that Ed Hoffman, a trainer with the Charlie, an elephant, in 1901. At rear is the "cat barn." OIICINA1 LOUNGE St I I 8 1 'V i' 1 Elephant'i Rock on the farm. Wallace Circus, was killed by miles from a apot In the Wabash River where "Charlie" one of the elephants in Col. Ben Wallace's show, killed his keeper Ed Hoffman, back In 1901. Newspaper accounts of the day said Charlie was being watered near the rock, when, for- some reason, the "beast turneiTbn Hoffman and beat him to death on the boulder.

When Charlie's tragic deed was discovered (newspapers said Charlie was seen probing the water near the rock for Hoffman's body) the elephant was put to death before a squad of high-powered rifles. The rock, minus a plaque describing the event still is at the farm. The stellar boarder at Kelly's elephant barn la without a doubt "Old Babe." Now pushing 80 years, Kelly estimates, Babe has come back to Peru to die. After a career of circuses, road shows, and several movies, the tired old animal Is IS ft. NOT CYCLONIC FORCEFUL EXTREME speeds up relaxation for YOU! connot be properly pictured or described words, we tug test you come to our storo or arrange home kiddie rides at the farm, which are operated in the Summer months.

Hay, bran, vegetables and bread make up the most of the daily food ration. Kelly's hippo War Baby eats a healthy share of the daily rations, too. The white-haired Kelly -describes himself as having more nerve than sense with animals. He grew up In the circus world, traveling first with his father's circus, the Kelly-Norrls Show, out of Florida. He left the circus world for a time to work with a telephone corporation, then held a concession at the Chicago Railroad Fair.

"But when my family was reared, I' got back into the business. I guess I felt as if were missing something." MAMUFACTUEIS ILK. ANNEX come 1 SEE OUR EXHIBIT AUG. 29-SEPT. 7 PlrM mt rBEE LITEBATl'KE.

Tlib I in not a ulnaaa nil He mlew I rcut. 8-l-8S nun tlUtf IKU RS: Itailj to SO Tr. till 9 AIM b) Ap-oinlarnl now content to stand In her stall, trying to mooch bran from the workers as they pass by. KELLY'S FIVE elephants were purchased from the St. Louis Zoo when he bought the animal farm in 1954.

Trained to do a variety of skits, the pachyderm quarUt-was one of the biggest drawing cards at the St. Louis Zoo for a decade. Kelly acquired the animals when zoo officials announced that they were bringing in nine baby elephants and selling the old-timers, which ranged in age from 14 to 27 years. For the past two years, Kelly has been acclimating the foursome to the noise of the world outside their zoo compound. He uses one or more of the elephants In a publicity stunt or act The quartet is yet to perform In a circus ring.

TO HELP pay the feed bill, Kelly has set up a series Three of Kelly's their paces in of I I Os2iSlC225: I CHAIR EJ rwiHiuliw MM mawilbtUtr to cTt tor CUCl LATLD mrtc tion WITHOVT EX. TEAVACANCE. Ea9 finnl run. HMALL Down rVMlNT. T.3 11 I I mm-- xf i i i -s mm x.x-s ii i a A YOUNGER I If BETTER 7 S.

Ill MEMORIALS I IT" TEH 'lC-lSrtL i i7lr, a LHNHMHNfi I c. JUMM tl i 1 ALLY'S VENTURE hasn't brought back the title of "Circus City" to Peru, but it has kept a spark of that era giowing an era which once saw Peru as the Mecca of the circus world. elephants are put through ring barn by Bert Pettus. lor FREI Jurtrld ooJi(et write, pnono of com In r. '4(1 'tun nmfiVt KOOSIER MOHUMENT CO.

IKC In tnalM-Mlb SATI8EACTIOM (Haatr Office) 20SS N. MrrlM St. WA 8-45(13, la Trm YSOOE.WaoaliKtoaSI. KLS Saracr S. IS One section of the farm is a graveyard of circus wagons, once gay, brightly colored.

AUGUST 19, I95.