The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-01-20
ENUA4ERATORS WANTED.

J application forms at once and to file them
with him before January IS, when he
must stop considering new applications
in order to prepare for the 'test" of the
previous applicants on February S. After
this he will examine and rate the papers
until about February p, when he will
forward his list of designations as emu
merators, with their ''test" papers, to Cen
sus Director Durapd, who will carefully
90 over and rerate the papers of the sue
cessful candidates before giving his con-
sent to the issue of commissions to- them
by the supervisor BY the middle or later
part of March al the enumerators will
have been commissioned and in receipt
of detailed instructions concerning their
work.
To quiet any qualms relative to the
"test' of the qualifications of applicants,
to be made February S, the supervisor
has obtained some information from the
| Census Director concerning the "test' of
1 i
| officially stated that the 1910 test Will
be very similar to the one in the preced-
ing census and will consist in requiring
applicants to fill samples schedules from
printed narratives concerning census
facts. AS the rule enumerators are to
carry both the population and agricul-
tural schedule, they will be tested" with
sample of both, but the city enumerators
| who carry the population schedule alone,
will only be required to prove their
ability of fling a sample of that schedule.
The "test" population schedule MARIA
tive in 1900 was, in part, as follows;
"The enumerator of the forty-hfth emu
meration district of the ninth supervisors
district of the state of Pennsylvania, in the
villige of Port Royal, Londonderry Town
ship, Schuylkill county, beginning his emu
meration June I, 1900, at No. 2oI Burton
street.
'"This house is occupied by single
family, consisting of Patrick O'Leary, 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
lust ~ years old. Three years after his
arrival he was married to an Irish girl
who had come over from his native vii
lage year before. He can read
/ and write and speak English, and owns a
good house. free of incumberance, which
he has bought of 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 January, and
is neary four years younger 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.
"James was born in Harrisburg, Feb
ruary, 1875. He has a good common
| school education. works at any sort or
day labor, and secured nine months
steady work during the past year. He
is not married.
Gin the next house, 2o3 Burton street,
the enumerator found an English woman
by the name of Mrs. Jane Parker, a
widow, occupying rented house with
her single daughter, Virginia, and her
married daughter, Nellie E., and the
husband of the latter, Albert johnson.
"Mrs. Parker came to this country "a
years ago, has a good education, is a
dressmaker by trade, and has constant
+ employment. She was SO years old last
April, and is of Scottish birth on her
mothers side. She has had four chill
dren, three of whom are living and one
of whom is dead.
'sVirginia is of English parentage, has
been through the local schools and has
been a saleswoman for eight months OF
the past year; she was born in Philadel.
phia> in March 1877.
"Nellie E. was 20 years old last Jan
. uary, and has but recently married. She
) was born in Baltimore, reads, writes and
) speaks English.
"Albert Johnson, the husband of Mel
lie, was born in New York City, of Welsh
parents, November 1865. He is in the
grocery business and keeps his own books
and accounts.
1t seems comparatively simple, accord
ing to the supervisor, to draw out of th'
above statement the required details fol
the population schedule and to entel
them under the proper column divisions
relating to location, name, relationship
personal description, nativity, citizen
ship, occupation, education, etc.
About all such 'test" can do is tt
evidence the legability of an applicant
handwriting and his ability to determine