Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-16
VISIT OF CENSUS TAKERS.
eY WILL BEGIN YORK ON THE FIRST
DAY or JUNE.
Origin Of the Census and its Scope-List Of Census
Takers In Vernon Coui sy-Eyerybody Make
Ready for Their Coming Many Questions to
Answer

ldkefS IN vernon Soul ky-EF0typVuy NAM
Ready for Their Coming Many Questions Il
Answer
| During the year 1900 a census will be
takeL not only in the United States, but
in Austrn.- Hungary, Belgium, Denmark,
Germany, Holland, Norway, Sweden
and Switzerland; and next year in the
! British Empire, France and Italy. The
vastness Of the operation was thus COM
prehensively expressed by an eminent
/ statistieian: Millions will again be
spent; the great army of enumerators,
an army which includes in all half a
million, perhaps million Of agents, will
/ be mobolized once more. Battalons of
| this army of enumerators will again in
wade every inhabited place, from the
snow-clad peaks of Alaska and of Ice.
| land to Cape Town and even to the
| south of Australia
The earliest census ia recorded in the
book of Numbers, in the Bible. Nearly
| five hundred years later King David
| took another, which occupied nine
/ Lionths and twenty days. No census is
known 10 have been taken during the
| Middle Ages, or indeed, until the seven
teenth century.
In France and Germany the census
period is quinquennial; in the other
countries above named it is decennial.
the first regular census of France was
taken in 1901. In England the first
proprosal to take census was made in
parliament in 1853, but 1t was abandoned
because many people feared lest some
public misfortune or an epidemical dis
temper should follow the numbering"
The United States was the first country
to provide for a regularly recurring
enumeration of the people A decennial
cer sus was ordained in the constitution.
The first was taken in 1890; that to be
taken this year will be the twelfth. The
primary object of the census in this
country was to provide basis for repre-
sentation But the scope of the inquiry
has been SO much enlarged as to gather
uniform statistical information as TO
the progress of the nation, etc.
ENUMERAToRs IN VERNON COUNTY.
Their neighbors may now plan to well
come the following named gentlemen
after the first of June They will ask
great many questions, all of which must
be honestly answered, and their work
must be completed by June 80. They
will wear badges when on duty The
badge is made of German silver and
bears the words United States Census,
1900" The shape is that of "a shield,
surmounted by an eagle, and the size is
| II inches long by Ii wide.
! Bergen--Peter O. Runningen.
| Christiana-Wm. A. Homstad.
| Westby ViIlage-Paul SteensoD.
Cluton-Peter Hanson.
| Ccon-Helge Larson.
| Forest-Clarence Sherman.
Franklin-Torger Berg.
| Ganoa-Aibert Kuehn, Jr.
/ Greenwood--U -Urlah II Kaufman.
Hamburg-Stener J. Ellertson.
/ Harmony-Paul Hanson.
| Hillshoro Towp-John Dillon.
/ Hnlsboro Niliage-D Il. Fine.
| jefferson Emery II. Allen,
KfslSapoo and Readstown Village-ole
Larson.
stark and La Fargo yillage--E. 7. Nixon.
Liberty and Mound park-J. Harris.
Yhrestown and Ontario Village-Wm
siing-Thos. Peterson.
Enion-J ], Butcher
Niroqua City-Geo; E. Chambers.
yiroqua Town-F. W Alexander.
Webster-J Marion Allen.
Wheatland and Desoto Village-Charles
| collins
Il. POPULATION OF CITY AND COUNTY
The population of the city of Viroqua
in 1890, according TO the United States
census, was /, 092; in 1895, according tC
the state census. 1888. Ii a like ratio
of gain is maintained, of which there il
no doubt, the figures will show fully
2, 200.
The population of Vernon county in
1890, according to the United States
census, was 25 III; in 1895 according
to the state census, %, 635. The enumer
ators will probably find 81 900 people
in it,