Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1920 — JASPER COUNTY POPULATION [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY POPULATION

By Townships and Incorporated Towns in 1920. Following is the 1920 census population of Jasper county by townships and incorporated towns, showing the gain and loss of each: Gain. Loss Barkley -—1,274 200 Carpenter (inc. Remington) —1,952 16 Gillam 577 32 Hanging Grove 383 49 Jordan 592 45 Kankakee 486 80 Keener 954 243 Marion (inc. Rens—selaer) — ...8,983 291 ...... Milroy 276 10 Newton 558 27 Union 1,283 2 Wialker 761 46 Wheatfield (inc. town) —- 932 170 .— 13,961 1,013 198 Net gain in county - 915 Remington .1,044 62 Rensselaer ... 2,912 519 Wheatfield — - 382 25

Totals <.338 606 It will be seen from the above that while the total gain in the county was 915 during the past decade, two-thirds of this gain was made in the towns and all but 87 of the 606 gain made in the towns was made In Rensselaer. Marion township lost 228 and Carpenter township lost 46. Wheatfield is the only township having an incorporated town which made any gain as a township. While the township Including the town gained 170, the town of Wheatfield gained but 25, making a net gain in the township outside of 145. In the decade from 1900 to 1910 Jasper county lost 1,248 in population (good old Republican times), Barkley losing 229; Carpenter, 230; Gillam, 144; Hanging Grove, 48; Jordan, 134; Kankakee, 66; Milroy, 110; Newton, 27; Union, 38; Walker, 254; Wheatfield (including town), 124. Marion township, including Rensselaer, showed the only gain between 1900 and 1910, the net gain in the town and township being 209. Of the incorporated towns during the same period Rensselaer gained 138, but Remington lost 138 and Wheatfield lost 9. While we are not yet back to where we were when the Republicans took charge of the national government in 1896 we only lack 331 and with four years more of Democratic control we will pass the best report ever made by our county.