The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-09-09
CLASSIFICATIaNS OF
CLERKS and CARRIERS
Married Women or Women Not Psnysi-
caIIy Sound or in Good Health, Will
Not Be Admitted to the Examna-
tion-HoW Subjects Are Made.

The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced that an
examination for the positions of clerk
and carrier in the postoffice service
will be held in Hattiesburg on Novem-
ber 2, 1910.
Clerks in offices of the first class
(Which applies to Hattiesburg) and
carriers in the city delivery service
are divided into six grades, with sala-
ries for each, as follows: First grade,
salary $500; second grade, salary
$500; third grade, salary 5000; fourth
grade, salary $1,000; fifth grade. sala-
ry $1,100; sixth grade, salary $1,000.
Clerks and carriers at first class Off
ces will be promoted successfully to
the fifth grade, and clerks and carri-
ers at second class offices will be pro-
NOTED successfully to the fourth
grade.
All promotions of both clerks and
carriers will be made at the beginning
of the quarter following the expiration
of a years service in the next lower
grade. No promotion will be made
except upon evidence satisfactory to
the department of the efficiency and
faithfulness of the employe during the
preceding year.
The examination will consist of the
following subjects:
/. Spelling twenty words of aver
age difficulty in common use).
2. Arithmetic (simple tests of addi-
ton, subtraction, multiplication, and
division of whole numbers, common
and decimal fractions, and United
States money!.
8. Letter-writing "a letter of not
less than 125 words on some subject
of general interest. Compositors may
select either of two subjects given).
4. Penmanship (the handwriting of
ing from plain copy will be considered
with special reference to the eliments
of legibility, rapidity, neatness, gener-
al appearance, etc).
5. Copying from plain copy Ia SIM
pie test in coping accurately few
printed lines in the competitors hand
writing).
6. United States geography (rela-
tive to boundaries of states, and to
capitals, largest cities, rivers and 9th
er bodies of water, and the location by
states of prominent cities, etc).
7. Reading addresses { test in not
ing with pen or pencil, on printed
sheet of addresses, differences be-
tween the printed addresses and the
written address of which they are a
copy).
Applicants for the postoffice service
are required to be physically sound
and in good health, and married wo-
men will not be admitted to this ex-
animation: This prohibition, how
ever, does not apply to divorced wo-
men or women who are separated
from their husbands and support
themselves.
This examination will be open to
all citizens of the United States who
comply with the requirements, and
from the eligibles resulting from it, it
is expected that certification will be
made to existing and future vacancies
in the postoffice department,
Those who desire to take this ev-
animation should make application to
the local secretary of the civil service,
at the Hattiesburg postoffice.
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