Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1920 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

CENSUS FIGURES RELEASED AT WASHINGTON TUESDAY REVEALS THAT RENSSELAER IS NOW THEHOME OF L9IJ MOPLE, OR Sl» MORE SOULS THAN THE CITY BOASTED AT THE TIME OF THE 1910 CENSUS. THE INCREASE REPRESENTS RIJT PER -nS* LARGE INCREASE IS A SOURCE OF MUCH TION TO IN GENERAL AND EXCEEDS FOR THE MOST PART THE EXPECTATIONS OF ALL. CONSERVATIVE GUESSERS HAD ESTIMATED THE CITY’S POPULATION BETWEEN TWENTYSIX AND TWENTY-SEVWi HUNDRED PEOPLE, BASING TH||R PREDICTION UPON THE FACT TILAT THE 1920 SCHOOL ENUMERATION SHOWED THAT THE COUNTY HAD PRACTICALLY STOOD STILL DURING THE TEN-YEAR PERIOD 1910-1920, IN ITS SCHOOL ■ IT WOULD SEEM THAT THE POPULATION HAS INCREASED MORE RAPIDLY THAN THE SCHOOL ENUMERATION. THE NUMBER OF PUPILS ENUMERATED IN THIS CITY IN 1910 WAS 620 AND IN 1920 659 WERE ENUMERATED, A GAIN OF 39. IN T9lO THE ENUMERATION OF THE SCHOOL PUPILS OF THE COUNTY WAS 3841. IN 1920 THE ENUMERATION WAS 3925. THIS IS A GAIN OF, 84. IN 1910 THE POPULATION OF RENSSELAER WAS GIVEN AS 2,393 AND THAT OF THE COUNTY AS 13,044. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE CENSUS FIGURES FOR THE COUNTY WILL NOT GREATLY EXCEED 14,000.

NOTICE OF IMPORTANCE. All children having or suspected of having whooping cough must be kept on their.' own premises. The contagion is spread by direct contact. . This office has been informed that whooping cough children are being allowed on the streets, moving picture shows and churches. If this order is not complied with, names of parents of children seen away from their own premises will be turned over to the prosecutor. Children with contagious disease will not be allowed to expose other BOARD OF HEALTH.