Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1911 — A GAIN OF 138 IN RENSSELAER [ARTICLE]

A GAIN OF 138 IN RENSSELAER

WhileßemiiigtonLosesl3B,According to 1910 Census TOTAL COUNTY LOSS IS 1,248 Of Which Walker Loses 254 and Barkley 229 Only Marion Tp., and Rensselaer Show Gain, the Former 71 and Latter 138. According to the 1910 census figures for Indiana, made public Saturday, Rensselaer and Marion township gained in population since the 1900 census, and the incorporated towns of Remington and W'heatfield lost. Rensselaer's population is 2,393, a gain of 138; Remington 982, a loss of 138; Wheatfield 357, a loss of 8. Marion tp., outside of Rensselaer is 1299, a gain of 71. The population of the thirteen townships of the county is as follows, exclusive of the city of Rensselaer and the incorporated towns of Remington and Wheatfield :

1910 1900 Barkley ........ . ..1074 1303 Carpenter 986 1078 Gillam . 609 753 Hanging Grove 432 480 Jordan ...... ... .. . 637 771 Kankakee 406 472 Keener 711 764 Marion 1299 1228 Milroy 286 .196 Newton . . ......... 531 558 Union ..1281 1319 Walker 655 909 Wheatfield 405 520 Considering the emigration from this county to the northwest, and great loss of population in the Gifford district, the loss in the country districts is not so surprising. The gain in Rensselaer, however, was rather unexpected, as the stork has not been very active here in the last decade and scores of our older citizens have passed away. We have had no building .boom, landed no factories nor had any other influences tending to increase otir population except the fact that Rensselaer is a mighty good place to live and is one of the best little inland cities in the state and draws trade from a large territory. There are more business houses in our city today and many more homes here than ever before, but the individual families as a rule are also smaller than ever before.

Our neighboring city of Monticello has annexed new territory containing a number of families, has landed a couple of small factories and tried to work up an industrial boom in* the last few years, yet her population is given at only 2,168, a gain of but 61 in the last ttn years! Scores of towns throughout this sectiou-and in the state as a whole have shown a loss, so we can say with considerable pride that “Rensselaer hasn’t done so bad.”

The population of other towns in this vicinity of interest to Jasper county readers follow’: 1910 1900 Ambia .... 359 438 Attica .3335 3005 Boswell 814 824 Bourbon ...1163 1187 Brook 1067 677 Brookston 907 949 Chalmers . . . 513 462 Trown Point ....... 2526 2336 Ddlphi ...2161 2135 Earl Park 609 563' Flora 1386 1209 Fowler ..1491 1429 Francesville 729 596 Goodland .......... 1105 1205 Kentland 1209 1006 Knox 1644 , 1466 Lowell ...1235 ■' 1275 Medaryville 710 .... Monon ...... .1184 1100 Monticello ......... 2168 2107 Morocco ........... 927 920 Mt. Ayr ........... 231 , ... North Judson 1143 944 Otterbein ......... .652 .... Oxford 1010 949 Plymouth ...3838 3656 Remington ... 982 1120 Rensselaer ... r 2393 2255 Reynolds 377 393 Wheatfield 357 366 Winamac ..1607 1684 Wolcott ........ . 873 825