The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-11-19
EVUNERATORS WILL
Be NANEDFOR THIS
COUNTY JANUARY |
OLD CIVIL DISTRICTS WILL BE
MADE THE ENUMERATION
DIVISIONS.
T0BE TWENTY.EIGHT APPOINTEEs
VIII &c Required in maury, Twenty
Five In the Country and Three in
city Of columkia-supervisor Rich
7rdson Talks Of His Work.

Census enumeIators for Maury coun-
Z. viii not be appointed until January
OBJ after This statement was made
De- Marion Richardson, Of Lawrence.
burg the Supervisor for the Seventh
District. who was in the city late
Thursday afternoon. Mr. Richardson
stated that the old civil districts of
the county would be the enumeration
districts. He believes that the small
err the territory given to the enumera-
tors the more thorough and accurate
will be the work done by them. The
wards will, of course be the enumera-
ton districts in the city of Columbia.
It will take twenty-eight enumera-
tors to take the census of this county.
one each for the old twenty-five dis /
tricts and three for the city of Co |
lumbia The enumerators will re-
ceiye two cents per head for the |
people enumerated and additional |
conversation for the inventories of |
farm products, stock and industrial
enterprises which will be reported.
1t will cast considerable more than
81 900 to pay the enumerators in Maui
ry county.
Il am very anxious to have an ac-
curate census, said Mr.. Richardson
1T will be to the interest of the town
and county to have every person and
every dollar of property correctly emu
merated. The census reports stand
for ten years. During that time they ,
are the standard by which the people ,
very largely judge of the progress of t
the towns, cities and country districts. t
There are heavy penalties for padding /
the reports, but none for failure to Y
therefore if errors are |
made they are most likely to be made \
against the city or county in which T
the enumeration is made. Hence it .
is of vital Importance that great care r
and attention be exercised in the G
work. For these reasons | have de- i,
3ided upon the smaller political sub v
divisions for the work a
The census could not, of course, be v
aiken in this county in the old dis r
riots as the basis, but for the fact c
hat the new districts are made up OF a
ntire cid districts When the results Z
re ascertained all that will be neces n
AIRY will be to add the totals Of the a
Id districts composing one of the new Il
istricts and we get the total for the D
resent subdivision. For instance, ii
he returns from the old nineteenth il
nd twentieth will make the totals for 81
he new second"
Enumerators in the country districts
re limited to thirty days for their
york. while those in the bounds of o
he city of Columbia must finish with
d fifteen days In towns of less than
,o10 they have thirty days, therefore
is the only place in the
istricts where the census must be =,
nisheI within fifteen days.
Mr. Richardson, the supervisor for :,
his district. is one of the leading Re-
ub'inans of this section. He was tho
epublican nominee for Railroad Com
lissioner last year and is the member :
the State Committee from this dis
i"t or rather he was until his ap- =,
ointment as Supervisor necessitated
S resignation.