Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1903 — City School Enumeration. [ARTICLE]

City School Enumeration.

* \ The enumeration of children of school age "in Rensselaer, just completed, gives tbs total number at 701. This is quite a fair increase over last year, when the total was 669. The increase being 32. In 1901 it was 695; and in 1900 it was 697. The last and we think only time it ever before touohed 700 * was Tn 1898, when y u. -*y , the total was 763. But in those days, if we remember rightly, the enumeration included a great many families who sent to school here, but lived outside the corporation; which rule is different now,