Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1898 — School Children Counted. [ARTICLE]

School Children Counted.

Special school census taker E. D. Rhoades, finished up the enumeration of the children of school ages in the school tow T n of Rensselaer, Friday evening. He found the number of boys between the ages of 6 and 21 to be 372. Or girls between those ages, there are 398. The total is 770. The total last year was 796, or a falling off of 26. Considering the large number of families who moved out of town upon farms, this spring, and the considerable number who moved to other towns, we have done well to so nearly hold our own in the number of our school children.