Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1895 — We’ve Got The Two Thousand. [ARTICLE]

We’ve Got The Two Thousand.

AND NOW FOR A CITY CHARTER. Councilman E, E. Rhoades had his census of the town of Rensselaer practically completed. Tuesday night He has made a careful, accu rate census, listing- none but bona-fide residents, and although there are still a few not on his list, which ought to and will be listed, there is not one listed who ought not to be. Thus the count is still a little short of the actual number of our inhabitants. These stragglers will probably all b® found within a few and the corrected total will be given next week. Here then is the census of our town, as the count now stands: Males. 983 Females 1047 Total ...2030 The U. S. Census of J une “1890 gave us a population of 1455. The increase then, in five years, lacking twp months, is 575, or at the rate of more than 115 every year. Which is a very good rate of increase, indeed. This population, being in excess of 2000 gives the town a lawful right to take out a city charter, and to rise to the dignity of a city. And The Republican suggests that it ought to be done, without much delay.

It should be stated that of the above number 47 are not strictly within the corporation limits, as yet, but live in that portion of the town proposed to be annexed at the June term of the County Commissioners’ Court. This leaves within the actual present corporate limits, a population 1983, which is 17 less than 2000 needed for a city. But Mr. Rhoades is confident that more than enough corrections.will be made t > make up the 2,000, not to speak of the 47 living in the territory to be annexed in June. The school census, made by Mr. Rhoades at the same time, is 681. This is an increase over last year of 47.