Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — THE CENSUS IN BOWERSVILLE. [ARTICLE]

THE CENSUS IN BOWERSVILLE.

We’re a-kickin’ on the census count down I here in Bowersvllle. The Aggers that they give ont is a mighty bitter pill. yhey show that Pierce’s Station has a ten per cent increase. An’ Jimtown—well they must ’a ’numberated Jimtown’s geese! But Bowersvllle! The census shows she hasn't grown at all. An’ there’s rage and wrath f’m Henry’s store clear to the “City Hall.” We can’t see how they figger it for it has been our pride That in the last ten years there’s only been two,men that died. One o’ them was a peddler, who just gasped fer breath an’ went. When Deacon Skinner didn't ask him to throw off a cent. The other was a feller who fooled with some dynamite— Jest a button an’ a freckle was the only things to light. But, gee-mun-nee! There’s Higgins' twins, an’ Fesler’s girl an’ boy, Besides the triplets that has come to Hezeki’ McCoy, An’ other babies! Man alive! You can't wulk anywheres ’Thout bumpin’ into kerri’ges with youthful sons an’ heirs. It’s jest a kid percession f’m the schoolhouse to the .mill— But it isn't in the census that they took o' Bowersville. The-censits man—he need’t-say he didn’t see ’em all. He might be blind, but surely he could easy hear ’em bawl! An’ that’s why we’re a kickin’ on the census man's report— We got a blame good notion fer to take the case to Court, We think the census taker is in danger o’ the law, Ft-rclassin’ Bowersville along with shrinkin' Omaha. —Baltimore American.