Alva Review-Courier -

PAULS VALLEY, Okla. (AP) — Wearing a white cowboy hat and sitting ringside, John Ringling North II watches almost every performance of Kelly Miller Circus — a remarkable feat if you know the Hugo-based show runs twice daily during its 33-week season.

North, 77, is the last of his famous circus family in the business. His grandmother was the original seven Ringling brother's only sister.

There is nobody to take the show on the road next year after North retires at the end of Kelly Miller's season this year. The show was founded in 1938 as the Al G. Kelly Miller Brothers Circus and would celebra...