Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1920 — MORE POPULATION STATISTICS [ARTICLE]

MORE POPULATION STATISTICS

Issued by the Census Bureau Show । Great City Increase. Population statistics for 1920, an. nourfcSd by the census bureau, include: Syracuse, N. Y., 171,647, an increase of 34,398, or 25.1% over 1910; Mason City, la., 20,065, Increase 8,835, or 78.7%; Atlantic, la., 5,329, increase 769, or 16.9%; Wellington, Kan., 7,048, increase 14, or 0.2%. Syracuse ranked thirty-fourth among the cities in 1910, having increased 26.6% in the decade. Its nearest rivals then were New Haven, Conn., with 133,605; Birmingham. Ala., with 132,685, and Memphis, Tenn., with 131,105. The populations of those cities for 1920 have not been announced. Alton, 111., 24,714, an increase of 7,186, or 41.0% over 1910; Newton, la., 6,627, increase 2,011, or 43.6%; Dismarck, N. D., 6,951, Increase 1,508, or 27.7%; Keokuk, la., 14,423, increase 415, or 3.0%; Columbia, MO., 10,681, increase 1,019, or 10.5%; Columbia, S. C., 37,524, increase 11,205 or 42.6%.