Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-29
RACE SUICIDE IN N)NA!
SCHOOL CENSUS OF STATE
SHOWS DECREASE OF 5000
CHILDREN,
BIRTH RATE is LESS
OR ENUMERATION DERELlcT
More Than 1000 More Boys of sehoo
Age in State Than Girls-city ane
Rural Population About Equal-To-
tai Cost of Schools Last Year Elk.
ceeded $4,000, 600.
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Des Moines, Dec. 29.-Has so-called |
race suicide taken hold in Iowa, or are
the school census enumerators dere-
Ect in their duty?
The school population of lows is on
the decline. The count last made shows
a falling off of over 5000 from the
one the year before
In accordance with the law which re-
quires that the superintendent of pub
lie instruction shall file with the audi
tor of state before the first of each year
a list of the children of school age
in each county. Superintendent John
+. Riggs has filed his annual report
on this subject 1t shows:
Persons of school age, males. .346, 123
Persons of school age, females. 33S.623
Total =. MISREPRESENTATION. 6S4,7+s
EXCESS Of males .............. 1900
The total for 1909 reported was 5,119
less than for the previous year. This
is the smallest enumeration since 1892.
In 1898 there We're 6s7150 school chill
dren reported. and the number in
creased up till 1900 when the report
showed ,S1154. which is $4,000 more
than the count at this time.
OF the males reported 1927 reside
in the city, town and village corpora
tions, and 1885 in rural Districts OF
tho fam Loo ,a,,,rtaJ 1-e cor 1.-Two in
town and 161,726 in the country It will
thus be seen that the boys thrive best
in the country and the girls in town.
The total enrolment last year was
1S,446, or little more than three
ourths of the total enumeration. The
average attendance at school was 361.-
sos. which is less than 50 per cent of
tine number of school age.
There are in Iowa 361.419 persons of
the ages from { to 1.-THE ages for
compulsory attendance
The averag monthly cost for tuition
for each pupil in attendance was 1884
and this is on account of teachers SAL
aries only.
The teachers of the state were paid
during the year $1,000. 1859. and the
total cost of schools including all ex-
penditures was sl2,7o2, 229.10.
'.', ~ .s'''.'-.ts 70 Is 800 -
Polk county in order TO return to prac-
tice of the law. and on the ground thai
practice is more lucrative. there is Nc
dearth Of lawyers willing to take tbs
job 1t seems more than likely tina
the choice lies between three men
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q Judge Miller. Who has resigned. hs
n had q remarkable career. He used
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