Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1911 — CENTER OF POPULATION [ARTICLE]

CENTER OF POPULATION

Now Settles Down Six Miles South east of Bloomington. Bloomington, Ind , July 10— Bloomington was officially informed by the census bureau that it is six miles northwest of the center of population The report from Washington says: “The movement of the center of population from census to census is a net resultant‘of all the various movements of the people east, west, north and south. In the last ten years this center has moved south about seven miles and west about twenty seven miles. The westward move ment was rearly double that of the decade before. During the last cen tury this center has kept close to the thirty-ninth parallel.”