The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-01-14

). ID. Chamberlin. He urges all
persons in his district desiring TO
serve to obtain their application
forms at once and to file them with
him before January 18th, when he
must stop considering new applica-
items in order to prepare tor the
test" of the previous applicants
on February 5. After 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 60 over and re-
rate the papers Of the successful
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
enumerators will have been com
missioned and in receipt of detailed
Instructions concerning their work i.
To quiet any qualms relative L
the test" of the qualifications Of
applicants, to be made February D,
the supervisor has obtained some
information from the Census Di-
r ctor concerning the test' of
Twelfth Census enumerators. 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
narratives concerning census facts.
AS the rural enumerators are to
carry both the population and agri-
cultural schedule. they will be
tested with samples of both, but
the city enumerators. who carry the
population schedule alone, will
only be required to prove their
ability by filling a sample of that
schedule
The test" population schedule
narrative in 1900 was, in part, as
follows:
The enumerator of the forty
fifth enumeration district of the
ninth supervisors district of the
State of Pennsylvania, in the village
of Port Royal, Londonderry Town
ship. Schuylkill County. begins his
enumeration June /, 1900, at No.
POI Burton street.
This house is occupied by a
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 after his arrival he was
married to an Irish girl who had
come over from his native village a
year before. AS soon as possible he
became naturalized. He can read
and write and speak English. and
owns good house, free of incum-
brance, which he has bought from
his earnings as a teamsteer, 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 a good
common 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 woman by the name of
Mrs. Jane Parker. widow, occu-
plying rented house with her sim
gle daughter, Virginia. and her
married daughter, Nellie E.. and
the husband of the latter, Albert
Johnson.
Mrs. Parker came to this coun-
try "a years ago, has a good educa-
ton, is a 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 children,
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 saleswOman for
eight months of the past year; she
was born in Philadelphia in March,
1877.
Nellie f. was Is years old last |
January. and has but recently mar
RED. She was born in Baltimore.