The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1909-12-23
CENSUS TAKERS n
SHOULD APPLY
At EARL Y .DA LIE
Applications Must All Be III
BysJantiary25 the Dr.
rector Says.
FARMERS DIS T.R / CT
Has Been Divided by Him
Into a Number Of
Subdistricts.

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Discussing the coming census Ha.-
vey w. Harmer, supervisor for the
First congressional district Of VEST
Virginia, gave the Telegram an in
teresting interview Thursday as willI
be noted.
Have you begun your. duties as|
supervision Of the census?. Mr.. Har-I
mer was asked.
Yes, my time has been more orI
less taken up with these duties ever
since my appointment"
When does the work of the
enumerators begin?"
"The; enumerators win begin thel.
work on the 18th day of April.
1910, and in cities d 5, 900 popula-
ton at the last census they must
complete the work within two weeks.
and in all other cases within thirty
days. have about completed d.
vision of my district into enumera-
ton districts and there will he six
enumeration districts. In Brooke
county, seven in Hancock. twenty
nine In Harrison county, thirteen in
Lewis county, twenty-five in Marion
county, twenty in Marshall coun-
ty, forty-seven in Ohio county
and fifteen in Wetzel county, or one
hundred and fifty-nine enumerators
in all In my district"
How are these generators APP
pointed. and when will the appoint
ments be .made?"
The appointments are made. by
the supervisors with the approval,
however, of the director OF census.
The director called the supervisors
from the New England States, New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Del
aware, Maryland, Virginia, West vir-
ginia and North Carolina to Wash
ington last Friday for a conference
in relation to our duties, and espe-
cially as to the appointment OF
!, enumerators. There was eigthy-nine
supervisors present and Saturday
President Taft received us at the
White House and spoke to US en-
phasizlng the fact that the taking OF
the census Is. great business prop
osition in which every one is inter-
ested, and of our responsibilities rs
= supervisors. There will be sixty
three thousand enumerators in all,
whose compensation will amount to
from three to four dollars per day
on an average, as they are paid a
fixed sum for each person, farm.
barn or productive industry listed
by them. At this conference the d.
rector requested us to have all appli.
cations for appointment of enumera-
tors in our hands by the 25th of
January These applicants will
then be required to take what he
designates an examination on the
5th day of February, and the appli-
cants will be furnished with full in-
structions OF how to take the emu
meration. and the examination will
be conducted near their homes, pos
sibly by their local postmasters, and
will consist simply In testing their
ability to properly fill out the sched-
ules OF population and agriculture
such as will be used in the actual
taking of the enumeration. This
test will be very much, or in fact the
same as was; required in the last
census and will not be a technical
civil service examination by any
means.
When the examination is COM
pleted the schedules will be return
ed to the supervisor who will grade
them. and from the list OF applicants
make his appointments of enumera-
tors, subject. however, to the ap.
proval of the director Of the census,
These appointments will be made
about the first of March, and until
that time the supervisor will not be
permitted to say who will be ap-,
pointed