The log cabin Democrat., 1910-01-11
SUPERVISOR CALLS
 FOR APPLICANTS
CENSUS JOBS ARE EASY

Russellville, Jan. IA call for more applicants for places as census enumerators has been issued by super visor of census, Tom D. Brooks. He urges all persons in his district desir- ing to serve to obtain their application i forms at once and to file them with him before January 25, when he must stop considering new applications in order to prepare for the test" of the previous applicants on February D. After this he will examine and rate the papers until about February 22, when he will forward his list of desig- nations as enumerators, with their 'test" papers, to Census Director Du- rand, who will carefully go over and rerate 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 enumera tors will have been commissioned and in receipt of detailed instructions con corning their work.
 To quiet any qualms relative to the ''test" of the qualifications of appli- cants, to be made February 5, the su- pervisor has obtained some informa- ton from the census director concern ing the "test" of twelfth census enum- orators. It has been officially stated that the 1910 test" will be very sim liar to the one in the preceding census and will consist in requiring appl- cants to fill sample schedules from printed narratives concerning census facts. As the rural enumeratorS are to carry both the population and az rcultural schedule they will be test ed" with samples of both but the city enumerators who carry the population schedule alone, will only be required to prove their ability by filling sam pie of that schedule.
 The test population schedule mar rative in 1900 was, in part, as fol lows:
 "The enumerator of the forty-fifth enumeration district of the ninth su- pervisor's district of the state of Pennsylvania, in the village of Port Royal, Londonderry Township, Schyl- kill county, begins his enumeration June 1, 1900, at No. POI Burton street. "This house is occupied by a single 1 family, consisting of Patrick O'Leary, his wife. Margaret, and his son, James.
 Patrick came to this county from Ireland (where he was born of lrsh parents) in May of 1870, when he was 1 just P years old. Three years after 1 his arrival he was married to an Irish girl who had come over from his na- tive village a year before. As soon as possible he became naturallZed. He can read and write and speak English, and owns good house, free of incum- brance, which he has bought from his earnings as teamster, in which oc- cupation he has had steady work dur ing 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 chil- dren, 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, 2O3 Burton street, the enumerator found an En gl sh woman by the name of Mrs. Jane Parker, a widow, occupying a rented house with her single daughter, Vir
 ginia, and her married daughter, Mel