Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-01-19
Call for More Census Enumerators.

A call for more applicants for places |
as census enumerators has been is
sued by supervisor of census, Lynn |
M. Hays of Burlington. He urges all |
persons in his district desiring to |
serve to obtain their application forms |
at once and to file them with him be-
fore January %, when he must stop |
considering new applications in order |
to prepare for the test" of the pre-
vious applicants on February 5. After |
this he will examine and rate the pa
pers until about February %, when he
will forward his list of designation
as enumeraters with their '.test" pa
pers, to Census Director Durand,
who will carefully go over and rerate
the papers of the successful candl-
dates before giving his consent to
them by the supervisor. By the mid
die or later part of March all the emu
merators 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 appli-
cants, to be madeFebruary5, the super
visor has obtained some information
from the Census Director concerning
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 CEN
sus and will consist in requiring appli-
cants 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 "test.
ed' with samples of both. but the
city enumerators, who carry the pop
ulation schedule alone, will only be
required to prove their ability by fill
ing sample Of that schedule.
The test population schedule
narrative in 1900 was. in part, as fol-
lows:
'The enumerator of the forty-fifth
enumeration district of the ninth su-
pervlsor's district of the State of
Pennsylvania, in the village of Port
Royal, Londonderry Township, Schuyl-
kill County, begins his enumeration
June l. 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.
d Patrick came to this country from
q Ireland (where he was born of Irish
= parents) in 1870, when he was just
t % years old. Three years after his
: arrival, he was married to an Irish
d girl who had come over from his ma
: tive village year before. AS soon as
possible he became naturaliZed. He
can read and write and speak English,
: and owns good house, free from
! incumbrance, which he bought from
e 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 ir
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
ii English, but has to make her mark
n for her signature. -
: "James was born in Harrisburg
- February, 1875. He has a good com
= mon school education, works at any
d sort of day labor, and secured nine
l. months steady work the past year
If He is not married.
J. ''In the next house, 203 or
o street, the enumeration found an Eng
- lish woman by the name of Mrs. Jane
u Parker, widow, occupying a rented
house with her single daughter. Vir
: GINA, and her married daughter, Mel
1t lie E., and the husband of the latter
! Albert Johnson.
!, !. MRS. Parker came to this country
= "a years ago, has good education, i:
- dressmaker by trade, and has con
:. slant employment She was so years
old last April, and is of Scottish brit
on her mothers side She has hat
H four children, three of whom are nov
living and one of whom has died.
il 'Virginia is of English parentage
- has been through the local school
and has been saleswoman for eigh
lie months of the past year; She wa
l. born in Philadelphia in March, 1877
N ''Nellie E. was % years old las
~ January, and has but recently bee
u married. She was born in Baltimore
: reads, writes, and speaks English.
al "Albert Johnson, the husband O
Nellie, was born in New York City, O
le Welsh parents, November 1865. H
70 is in the grocery business and keep
his own books and accounts"
: 1t seems simple according to tn
, supervisor, to draw out of the abov
statement the required details for tn
population schedule and to enter ther
under the proper column divisions re
lating to location, name, relationship
re personal description, nativity, cit
zenship, occupation, education, etc.
:. About all such "test" can do
10 to evidence the legibility of an appl
In cant's handwriting and his ability t
81 determine where to write in the san
lg pie schedule the facts clearly state
N in the narrative.
20 The agricultural schedule narrativ
- for 1909 was very similar, except thu
~ the facts stated relate tc farms an
l. farming operations
81 Before the--"test" February <. tn
supervisor will send each applicar
ID a list of instructions concerning fl
ing in the test schedules, whic
will still further simplify TIE suhjec
u and insure the passing the test b
Is those who possess Only an ordinar
il common-school educG ton and prat
is tical common sense