Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-01-11
CENSUS ENUMERAToRs.

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CENSUS ENUMERAToRs.
A call for more applicants for places
as census enumerators has been issued
by supervisor of census, DR.. r. L.
Douglas Of Rodman. He urges all per-
| sons in his district desiring to serve to
obtain their application forms at once
and to file them with him before jan
uary 25, when he must stop considering
new applicants In order to prepare for
the test" of the previous applicants
on February S. After this he will ex-
| anime and rate the papers until about
February %, when he will forward his
list of designations as enumerators,
with their test" papers, to Census d.
rector Durand, who will carefully go
over and rerate the papers Of the sue
cessful candidates before giving his
consent to the issue Of commissions to
them by the supervisor BY the middle
or latter part of March all the enumera-
tors will have been commissioned and
in receipt Of detailed instructions con-
cerning their work,
To quiet any qualms relative to the
test" of the qualifications Of. appli-
capts, to be made February 5, the SUI
pervisor has obtained some information
from the census director concerning the
test" Of Twelfth census enumerators.
It has been officially stated that the
1910 test" will be very similar to the
one in the preceding census and VIII
consist in requiring applicants 10 MI
sample schedules from printed nara
tives concerning census facts, AZ tbe
population and agricultural schedule,
they will be tested" with samples OF
both, but the city epumerators, who
carry the population schedule alone,
will only be required to prove tneir
ability by filling a sample OF that
schedule.
The test" population schedule mar,
rativc in 1900 was, In part, a. follows;
1.-The enumerator Of the foTty-hfth
enumeration district Of the ninth SUI
pervisors district Of the state Of Penn,
syivania, in the village Of Port Royal.
Londonderry township. Schuylkill
county, begins his enumeration June
/ /, 1900, at No. 201 Burton street.
This house Is occupied by q 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
Just % years old. Three years atter
his arrival he was married to an irish
girl who had come over from MS ma
tive village a year before. AS soon as
possible he became naturalized. he
can read and write and speak English,
and owns q good house, free OF incum-
brance, which he has bought from his
earnings as a teamster, in which occu-
patton 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 ffusbapd i'She has had two caiii
dren,. onlyhone Of WHOM is living. she
can read and speak English, bat has
to make her mark for her signature
lanes Vas born In Harrisburg" Feb
ruary," 1875" He has q good commoh
school edusat atioH, works at any sort oi
day labor, and SECURED hins moRths
steady wor rk during the paf year: He
IN the next house, 2O3 Burton street,
the eHumerater found an English Yom-
an by the name Of Mrs: Jane Parker, E
widow, Occupying q reeBtea h9uss WiM
her single daughter, VtrgiRia, aRd neE
married daughter, Nellie, By aRa the
husband of the latter Albert JphRsoR
MRS. Parker came 10 this country 81
years ago, has O good education, Is
dressmaker by trade, and has constant
employment. She was 80 years old last
April, and Is Of Scottish birth on her
mothers side. She has had four chill
dreh, three of whom are living and one
OF Whonf has died"
t"VTrsihia Isl OF English parentage,
has Been Chi rough the: local schools and
has Seen r. sales%6rtian "for eight
months Of tie past year: shel was borS
In Phiiadeiphia lii Maafeh. 1877:
Nellie II. WAS 2s years gig LAST 1ahI
uary. and has PUT fesehay lHattisa rgas
She was born In Baltimore feaes,
writes and speaks English.
ALBERT johnson, the husband OF Mel:
lie, was born in New York city. OF
Welsh parents, November, 1855. He ID
I'm the grocery business and keeps mis-
oWh books and accounts
X seeHs rnoIHaratively simple, ac.
cerding to the HsIpatttsbr. To draw out
of the above statemeAt the fegutrea
details for the population sehedutf ana
to enter them under the proper column
division relating to location, name, re-
tivity, citizenship, occupation, educa-
ton, etc.
fbotlt all such test" can do Is to
evidence the 1eglbNity of an applicants
handwriting and his ability" to 'deters
mine where to write in the sample
schedule the facts CLEARLY stated in the
Narrative" ~ c'N':
for 1905 Vas TfFfSt s$ifla$ff sxasbf thaf |
the facts stated relate TO FARMS ana
farming operations.
Before the "test" February B, the
supervisor will send each appiicant 9
list of instructions concerning filling |
in the test" schedules, which will still
further simplify the subject and insure
the passing of the test by those who
possess only an ordinary common
scGoej egiieation and practical common
seHss. "' y q