The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-09-23
Examinations To Be Held 10
Select Men To Take Places
in the Postal Service
MANY PLACES MAY Be OPEN

The United States Civil Service Com
mission announces that on Nov. 20 at
Kenosha examination will be held for
the positions of clerk and carrier III
the post Office service.
Clerks in offices Of the first and
second class and carriers in the city
delivery service are divided into six
grades, as follows: First grade, salary
5000; second grade, salary $500; third
grade, salary 5000; fourth grade, salary
$1,000; fifth grade, salary $1,l00; sixth
grade, salary $1,000. Clerks and car
riers at first class Offices will be pro-
NOTED successfully to the fifth grade,
offices will be promoted successfully to
the fourth grade.
carriers will be made at the beginning
of the quarter following the expiration
Of years service in the next lower
grade. No promotion will be made ex-
cept upon evidence satisfactory to the
post office department of the efficiency
and faithfulness of the employee dur
ing the preceding year. When clerk
or carrier fails of promotion because
of unsatisfactory service he may be
promoted at the beginning of the
second quarter thereafter, or Of any
subsequent quarter, on evidence that
his record has been satisfactory during
the intervening period. Clerks and
carriers Of the highest grade in their
respective offices are eligible for pro
motion to the higher positions in said
post Offices.
Any clerk is eligible for transfer to
the service of carrier, and any car
rier is eligible for transfer to the
service Of a clerk.
Auxiliary employees are paid for
actual service at the rate of 80 cents
an hour. NSuch auxiliary employees,
however, are required to work not less
than two hours daily, and may serve
as substitutes They are eligible for
appointment as clerks and carriers of
the first grade.
Substitutes are paid at the rate Of
80 cents an hour when serving for alb
sent clerks and carriers, and they are
eligible for appointment as auxiliary
employees and as clerks and carriers
of the first grade
The examination will consist of the
subjects mentioned below, weighted as
indicated:
Subjects Weights.
l Spelling (twenty words of aver
age difficulty in common use) 10
2 Arithmetic (simple tests in adj
dition, subtraction, multiplica-
tion, and division Of whole
numbers, common and decimal
fractions, and United States
money! -. ........... 20
3. Letter writing Ga letter of not
less than 125 words on some
subject of general interest.
Competitors may select either
of two subject given) ....... 20
4 Penmanship (the handwriting
of the competitor in the sub
/. ject of copying from plain
copy will be considered with
special reference to the ele-
ments of legibility, rapidity,
neatness, general appearance,
etc. 20
5 Copying from plain copy Ca sim
pie test in copying accurately
few printed lines in the
competitor handwriting -. 10
6 United States geographic rela-
tive to the boundaries of
states, and to capitals, largest
! cities, rivers and other bodies
Of waters, and the location by
states of prominent cities.
etc., ................ 10
IL Reading addresses (test in not
ing with pen or pencil, on a