Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1910 — JASPER COUNTY HAS LESS POPULATION THAN IN 1900. [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY HAS LESS POPULATION THAN IN 1900.

Official Census Shows Falling Off of 1,248 in Ten Years—Present Census is 18,044.

Special to Evening Republican. Washington, D. C., Nov. Iff.— Jasper 'county’s population at the thirteenth census Is 13,044; the twelfth census was 14,292, and the eleventh census 11,185. E. DANA DURAND, Director.

It will no doubt be a great surprise to the people of Jasper county to find that the population is 1,248 less than it was ten years ago. There is nothing in this preliminary notice, of course, to indicate where the shortage came from. The population of Rensselaer in 1900 was 2,255, and it is probable that there has been little, if any, increase in this city. The population of Remington is reported to have fallen off, and Wheatfield is about the same size, possibly a little larger than it was ten years ago. There have been removals, to be sure, but about all the farms are tenanted that were ten years ago. There has been some tendency toward concentrated ownership, which is not calculated to increase population. The official population of Rensselaer will soon be made public and we can then learn whether the hub has kept up its part in maintaining the population of Jasper county.

The Kankakee Valley Review relates a serious accident that befell Tom Gundy, a young man eployed in D. K. Frye’s store at Roselawn. He was driving from Roselawii to Thayer with one of I. N. Best’s livery rigs last Saturday evening. One of the horses stumbled and broke the neck yoke strap and the horses began to run. After they had gone a short distance the pole of the buggy stuck in the ground, and with the sudden stopping of the rig Tom was thrown straight into the air and in coming down head first one of the whippietrees which was broken stuck in his right leg, entering about the groin and penetrating toward the knee, a distance of about 10 inches. He was impaled head downward and had a difficult time in getting his limb loose, having to push himself upward from the tongue. After he had freed himself he crawled on his hands and knees a distance of half a mile to a farm residence but found no one at home. He then went to the road and when a buggy came by he called for aid, but the first buggy did not stop. He later stopped another buggy and was taken to Thayer, where it was found that a splinter from the singletree, half an inch square, and more than 10 inches long, was still in the leg. It was necessary to give an anaesthetic when this was removed. He is now recovering but it is possible that he will have to have an operation performed to make certain that all the splinters were removed from the leg.

‘ Farmer” Hopkins came almost taking his last auto ride last Sunday evening. He was accompanied by his son George and three daughters, and was returning from a trip to the north part of the county. At the dredge ditch at the Schroer corner in Barkley township, the auto ran off the grade and jumped over the bank and into the ditch, turning completely over. Miraculously all the family escaped injury, although the machine was a complete wreck. Mark Schroer, who witnessed the accident, thought all of the passengers in the car had certainly been killed and called his father to hasten with him to the scene. When they reached there George Hopkins had already reached tKb bank and the little girls were scrambling up the bank and “Farmer” was standing in the center of the ditch, in which there was about two feet of water. The car was pulled up on the bank and the next day taken to Mr. Hopkins’ home. It is an Auburn car and the estimated injury to it is S4OO.