You learn little tricks as you go along. Years ago it was the bars and the drunks and the fights. Even though Farmer's Day is a time to get together and for people to have an opportunity to see each other at a kind of homecoming, the fights would break out and eight or ten people would be taken to jail. We had to close down the town and the bars about midnight or the drinking would have gone on all night long. The past years we have had very few difficulties with drunks.
People come to see the parade and visit and then go home.
We have always had problems with the carnies, some worse than others. A young girl in town who did not have a good reputation got mixed up with a bunch of them and a gang bang rape was the result. Another time, one of my officers arrested the son of the owner of that year's carnival soon after it had arrived in town. He had been drinking and didn't get his way and began smashing things. The owner came to me the next day and didn't think we should be arresting any of his people.