Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor MentJos from Many Places. ESTIMATE POPULATION 12,393 Which Is 051 Less Than the Figures Given in the 1910 Census. In - the census bureau’s Revised estimate at Washington of the population of the counties in Indiana which is to serve as the basis for fixing the state’s quota under the selective conscription act, Jasper county is given a population of 12,393, which is 651 less than the population given us by the census of 1910. Practically all our neighboring counties are likewise estimated at less than the figures of the 191<jL census. Benton’s estimate is 11,577, against 12,658 in 1910; Newton’s estimate is 9,600, against 10,904 in 1910; Pulaski county is 10,472 against 13,312 in 1910; Starke' county is 9,367, against 10,567 In 1910; White courtly is 14,517. ggainst ‘ 1 7,602 in 1910. The total population of the state is estimated at 2,738,893, or 38,017 more than the official figures in 1910. On the above basis Jasper county’s quota would be in -the neighborhood of eighty-two men on the first draft, but given credit — which it must he —for enlistments in the nationai guard and regular army and it is probable our quota is already ‘filled with perhaps a few to spare. The credits for the entire state is somewhere in the neighborhood of 7,000, which would leave the number to be raised by draft at about 11,000. These 11,000 must come from counties whose quota has not been filled either by enlistments in the regular army or national guard. The total for the entire state of Indiana is 18,258 men, and is apportioned to the various counties as follows:

Adams 115, Allen 152, Fort Wayne (city) 557, Bartholomew 12 ff, Benton 76, Blackford 74, Boone. 136, Brown 32, Carroll 92, Cass 23 7, Clark 14 6, Clay 164. Clinton 154, Crawford 62, Daviess 143, Dearborn 110, Decatur 87, De kalb 144, Delaware 345, Dubois lid.* Elkhart 330, Fayette 107, Floyd 167, Fountain 106, Franklin 73, Fulton 81, Gibson 170, . Grant 301, Greene 209, Hamilton 118, Hancock 96, Harrison 89, Hendricks 100, Henry 207, Howard 176, Huntington 176, Jackson 156, Jasper 82, Jay 127, Jefferson 97, Jennings 64, Johnson 116, Knox 2 73, Kosciusko 146, Lagrange 76, Lake 537, East Chicago (city) 468, Gary (city) 736, Laporte 331, Lawrence 162, Madison 417, Marion 192, Indianapolis (city) 2,264. Marshall 132, Martin 62, Miami 171, Monroe 145, Montgomery 156, Morgan 10 7, Newton 61, Noble 123, Ohio 21. Orange POO, Owen 67, Parke 103, Perry 88, Pike 98, Porter 142, Posey 113, Pulaski 69, Putnam 100, Randolph 14 5, Ripley 90, Rush 104, St. Joseph 196. South Bend (city) 46 5, Scott 34, Shelby 145, Spencer 68, Starke 62, .Steuben 72, Sullivan 175, Switzerland 48, Tippecanoe 260. Tipton 92, Union 31, Vanderburg 83, Evansville (city) 509, Verfhillion 198, “Vigo 195, Terre Haute (city) 44.8! Wabash 15 4, Warren .60, Warrick 107. Washington 86, Wayne 268, Wells 1.14, White 96, Whitley 88. ■>