The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-01-13
APPLICANTS FOR ENUMERATORS
Should File Their Papers On Or Before
January Is.

call for more applicants for places
as census enumeratOrs has been issued
by supervisor of census John j. Stump.
He urges all persons in his district de-
string to serve to obtain their applica-
ton forms at once and to file them with
HIM before January %, when he must
stop considering new applications in
order 20 prepare for the test" of the
previous applicants on February 5. At
ter this he will examine and rate the
papers until about February %, when
he will forward his list of designations
as enumerators, with their test" pa
pers, to Census Director Durand, who
will carefully go over and rerate the
! papers of the successful candidates be-
fore giving his consent 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 detailed
instructions concerning their work.
To quiet any oualms relative to the
test" of the qualifications of appli-
cants, to be made February 5, the su-
peryisor has obtained some information
from the Census Director concerning
the test" of Twelfth Census enumera-
tors. 1t has been officially stated that
the 1910 test will be very similar to
the one in the preceding census and will
consist in requiring applicants to fill
sample schedules from printed nara
tives concerning census facts. AS he
rural enumerators are to carry both the
population and agricultural schedule,
they will be "tested" with samples of
both, but the city enumerators, who
carry the population schedule alone,
will be required to prove their ability
by filling a sample of that schedule.
( The test" population schedule nara
tive in 1900 was in part, as follows:
THE enumerator of the forty-ffth
enumeration district of the ninth super
visors district of the State of Pennsyl-
vania, in the village of Port Royal, Lon
donderry Township, Schuylkill County,
begins his enumeration June !, 1900, at
No. POI 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, 1870. when he was
just % years old. Three years after his
arrival he was married to an Irish girl
who had come over from his native viii
lage year before. As soon as possible
he became naturaized. He can read
and write and speak English, and owns
a good house, free of incumbrance,
which ne has bought from his earnings,
as 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 nearly 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,
February, 1875. He has good com
mon school education, works at any
sort of day labor, and secured nine
months steady work during the past
year. He is not married.
'In the next house, 203 Burton street,
/ the enumerator found an English wo-
man by the name of Mrs. Jane Parker,
a widow, occupying a rented house
with her single daughter, Virginia, and
her married daughter, Nellie E., and
the husband of the latter, Albert John
son.
MRS. Parker came to this country
"a years ago, has good education, is
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 has died.
Virginia 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 Phila-
delphia in March, 1877.
Nellie E. was Is 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
Nellie 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, &C
cording to the supervisor, to draw out
of the above statement the required de-
tails for the population schedule and to
/ enter them under the proper column
divisions relating to location, name, re-
lationship, personal description, nativ-
ity, citizenship, occupation, education,
etc.
About all such test" can do is to
evidence the legibility of an applicant $