The 1920 Census Begins 

The Clinton Advertiser, Friday, Jan. 2, 1920, Page 7

ENUMERATORS BEGIN WORK ON CENSUS

The sixteen Census Enumerators appointed for the City of Clinton commenced their work of taking the 1920 Census Friday monring January 2nd and after a thorough canvass of the city expect to have their duties completed in a short time.
The Census takers for Clinton county are also taking up their work today and the people are urged to cooperate with them in every respect to make their duties as easy as possible and consistent with the plans of the Census bureau. Any problems arising from the task will be taken care of by an advisory committee and the public is requested to abide with the following suggestions:

When the census enumerator come to your home, tell him everything he wishes to know, and aid in speeding up his work.

Be prepared to answer the enumerator by reading over the question to be asked, which follow:

  1.  Age last birthday.
  2. Each person 10 years of age and over will be asked whether he is able to read or write.
  3. Each person will be asked his birthplace as well as the birthplace of father and mother.
  4. If foreign born the date of coming to the United State will be asked, and, if naturalized, the date of becoming a citizen; also mother tongue or native language.
  5. Each head of a family will be asked whether his home is owned by him or rented. If owned, whether the home is mortgaged or free of debt.
  6. Each person will be asked his occupation and whether he is an employer or employe or is working on his own account.

The answers to the above questions give valuable and vital information to the government concerning the heal of the persons under its protection.

Questions Asked Farmers.

  1.  Each occupant of a farm will be asked how many years, if any, he worked on a farm for wages; how many years, if any, he was a tenant; and how many years, if any, he farmed as an owner. 
  2. Whether he (a) owns or (b) rents or (c) partly owns and partly rents his farm or whether (d) he operates the farm for others as a manager or superintendent.
  3. How many acres in his farm? Number of improved acres? Number of unimproved acres and number of acres of woodland?
  4. Total value of farm? Total value of buildings? Value of implements and machinery on farm?
  5. Whether farm is mortgaged? If so, the amount of the mortgage?
  6. Expenses for feed, fertilizer and labor in the year 1919?
  7. Several questions concerning artificial drainage of his farm.
  8. Number of cows, horses, sheep, chickens and other domestic animals on the farm Jan. 1, 1920?
  9. Quantity and acreage of all crops gown on the farm in 1919, including fruits and vegetables?
  10. Quanitity of milk and butter sold off the farm during the year 1919?
  11. Acreage of timber land on farm and value of forest products.

Correct answers to the above questions are of the utmost importance. The United State department of agriculture assisted the census in preparing the questions on the agriculture schedule and appeals to the farmers everywhere to keep farm records for census purposes.
Copies of the agriculture schedule can be had in advance by any farmer by writing to the Director of the Census, Washington, D. C.

The following enumerators are covering the city of Clinton:

John E. Nyquist
Mrs. Emma B. Andrews
Mrs. Effie M. Graefe
Mrs. Gertrude A. Keogh
Mrs. Ethel O. Burdick
Thomas J. Kane
Miss Helen M. McGinty
Miss Vera Fowler
Mrs. Mattie B. Stange
Mrs. Martha E. Spence
Sturley B. Nitterauer
Mrs. Susan Robinson
Mrs. Cordelia Bendtschneider
August Stange
Mrs. Minnie O'Hern
Miss Bertha M. Tiesse

The city has been sub divided into territories to assist them in their work so be prepared to receive them as they can be expected at your home anytime from today on.

The Clinton Advertiser, Saturday, Jan. 3, 1920, Page 6

ENUMERATORS WORK RAPIDLY
The sixteen census enumerators appointed for the city of Clinton and who commenced their work of taking the fourteenth census Friday, January 2d, are progressing very rapidly with their huge task. One enumerator has already secured 200 names, or rather secured that number on Friday alone.
Assistant Supervisor H. C. Bixby of Davenport is in this city today to aid the census takers in anyway possible. Mr. Bixby is working out of the Davenport office in charge of Supervisor Sam H. Erwin. This office responsible for six counties, Iowa, Johnson, Muscatine, Jackson, Scott and Clinton.
Mr. Bixby ?? the following list of revised enumerators who will attend to the enumeration of the census in Clinton county.

Township Name
Bloomfield Otis W. Babcock, Delmar
Brookfield Mrs. Fred Schepers, Lost Nation
Camanche Mrs. Ella Ga??ahl, Camanche
Center Horace E. Collins, Camanche
Deep Creek Leslie V. Bruhn, Miles
DeWitt Chas. H. Hullinger, DeWitt
DeWitt city Eugene E. Smith, DeWitt
Eden August P. Benson, Clinton
Elk River 1/2 Frank H. McGrath, Andover
Elk River 1/2 August Schmult, Andover
Grant Louis P. Wulf, Lost Nation
Hampshire Leo M. Hans, Clinton
Liberty R. E. Hill, Elwood
Lincoln Frank M. Keyport, Clinton
Olive Hans Johnson, Calamus
Orange Perle Hicks, Grand Mound
Sharon B. C. Horstmann, Toronto
Spring Rock William A. Hoker, Wheatland
Spring Valley Mrs. Bertha Haring, Lyons
Washington Andrew McConohey, DeWitt
Waterford Wm. F. Dohrmann, Charlotte
Welton Timothy ? Sweeney, Welton

Effort is being made to make this census as thorough as possible and it is expected that two weeks will be consumed by the workers in the city of Clinton. The lists of college students are also proving an aid to those taking care of the work and in cases where persons are not found at home a card is left to be filled and turned over to the enumerator so that the name will be counted.
Any persons who contemplate being out of the city should notify the enumerator or the district office at Davenport so that an adequate count can be made. The Davenport office can be addressed by mailing to Sam H. Erwin, Supervisor of Census, Davenport, Iowa.

ANDOVER
Census Men on Job Friday
The local census enumerators, Aug. Schmidt and F. H. McGrath, will be "on the job" Friday morning, so be prepared to answer questions. The questions which are the most puzzling and which should be given most thought are the amount of milk products and the number of dozens of eggs produced on the farm during the year 1919.