Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-01-13
ABOUT THE CENSUS.
Another Word to Applicants for
Places as Enumerators.

e places as census enumerators has
e been issued by supervisor of cen.
{ Sus Clarence A. Barnes. He urges
I all persons in his district desiring
} to serve to obtain their application
T. forms at once and to file them with
him before January %, when he
must stop considering new apph
cations in order to prepare for the
test" of the previous applicants
on February 5. After this he will
examine and rate the papers until
bout February %, when he will
forward his list of designations rs
enumerators, with their "test"
papers, to Census Director Durand.
who will carefully go over and
rerate the papers of the successful
candidates before giving his con.
sent to the issue of commissions to
them by the supervisor. BY the
middle or latter part of March all
the enumerators will have been
commissioned and in receipt of de.
tailed instructions concerning their
work.
To quiet any qualms relative tJ
the test" of the qualifications of
applicants, to be made February
D, the supervisor has obtained
some information from the Cen
Sus Director concerning the "test"
of Twelfth Census enumerators. lrI
has been officially stated that the
1910 test" will be very similar
to the one in the preceding census
and will consist in requiring ap-
plicants to fill sample schedules |
from printed narratives concern |
ing census facts. AS the rural en-
umerators are to carry both the
population and agricultural schel-
ule, they will be Tested" with
samples Of both, but the city EMU |
merators, who carry the popula-
ton schedle alone, will only be re-
quired to prove their ability by fl
ing sample of that schedule.
The test" population schedule
narrative in 1900 was in part, as
follows:
"The enumerators of the forty
fifth enumeration district of the
ninth supervisors district of the
State of Pennsylvania, in the vii
lage of Port Royal, Londonderry
Township, Schuylkill County. b.
gins his enumeration June l, 1900,
at No. POI Burton street.
"This house is occupied by a
single family, consisting of Patrick
OLeary, his wife, Margaret, and
his son. James.
"Patrick came to this country
from Ireland (where he was born
of Irish parents) in May of 1870,
when he was just % years old. /
Three years after his arrival ne
was married to an Irish girl who ,
had come over from his native vii
lage year before. As soon as pos
sible he became naturalized. He
can read and write and speak Eli
glish, and owns a good house, free :
of incumbrance, which he has
bought from his earnings as a
teamster, in which occupation he ,
has had steady work during the ,
past year, :
Margaret, his wife, is also of
Irish parentage, and was born in I
January, and is nearly four years
than her husband. She has
had two children, only one Of
whom is living. She can read and |
speak English, but has to make '
her mark for her signature. i
"JameS was born in Harrisburg,
February, 1875. He has a good
common school education, works !
at any sort of day labor, and Sc !
cures nine months steady work =,
during the past year. He is not
married,
"In the next house, 203 Burton ,
street, the enumeratOr found an .
English woman by the name of +;
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