Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — Jasper County Still Leads. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Still Leads.

The State Superintendent has finished compiling tiie school enumeration recently taken. It shows 734,474 school age children in the state, and a decrease, owing to more correct enumeration, of 64,603, from last year. Jasper county, which was the first in the state to file its enumeration report, is one of only six in the whole state which show an increase in enumeration over last year. And the per cent of increase in Jasper County is greater than in any other oounty. These six counties with their per cent, of increase, are, Jasper, 5 per cent, Blackftfog 4, Lake 3, Delaware 2, Jay 2, Orange