Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1917 — ENUMERATION SHOWS A LOSS [ARTICLE]

ENUMERATION SHOWS A LOSS

Of 202 Over Thar Taken in 1916 in Jasper Cowaty. The annual atn«<afies of school rfuldren in Jasper eexiiry shows a big loss over the tauxsitioa of It 16, the greatest loss ' teinx in Walker township, which is aiasety•ne, and it must be that a mistake was made there' ia the eanmeratio'tt last year or this, fer.it is-not jrpb* able that- so great a loss has been sustained om-tLe past year. . Hanging Grove. Jordan, Marian and Rensselaer show a slight gain, while all the other corporations show a loss; the net loss being 292. Remington lost an even thirty; Wheatfield, two; Wheatfield tovmshi;-. four; Union, ten; Newton,'fifteen; Milroy, fire; Keener, one; Kankakee, thirteen; Gillam, eleven; Carpenter, sixteen, and Barkley, twenty-one. Hanging Grove gained four; Jordan, one; Marion, one, and Rensselaer, eleven. The returns by townships and school corporations for both ISIS and 1917 follow: :

1916 1917 Barkley .411 399 Carpenter . . .257 271 Gillam 237 ±26 Hanging Grove. ... 134 138 Jordan .... -.. .152 153 Kankakee .136 123 Keener 262 ’ 261 Marion 316 311 Milroy 118 113 Newton ...199 184 Union ......373 363 Walker 317 226 Wheatfield ...179 175 Rensselaer .659 670 Remington 369 279 Wheatfield (town) . t ... 123 121 Totals .... - 4,296 4,994