Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1919 — GRANT INCREASES TO CENSUS ENUMERATORS. [ARTICLE]

GRANT INCREASES TO CENSUS ENUMERATORS.

.Washington, D. C., Dec. 4.—lncrease of rates of pay for enumerators of the fourteenth decennial census to four cents for each person enumerated and thirty cents for each farm reported was announced todayrby Director Samuel L. Rogers. Approximately 87,000 enumerators are affected. The new rates are the maximum authorized by law. Payment during the last census was at the rate of 2 to 3 cents per name and 20 cents per farm. The increase was necessary to attract properly •qualified men and women, Mr. Rogers said.