Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — One Decade’s Development. [ARTICLE]

One Decade’s Development.

Eighty-five cities of more than 30,000 inhabitants have adopted the commission form of government, according to a recent census bulletin. The cities vary irf population from Boise, Idaho, with 33,000, to Buffalo, with 465,000, and are scattered through 27 states. Nearly half the population ip cities of 30,000 to 500,000, including 7,700,000 persons, lives, under commission government This represents the development in a little more than a decade.