The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-01-14
MORE APPLICANTS FOR JOBS
AS CENSUS TAKtRS WANTED
James T. Bennett, Supervisor for This
District. Issues Call and States
That the Test Will be
Very Easy.

A call for more applicants for place'
as census enumerators AS been issue.
by supervisor of the census for this
(twelfth) district, James T. Bennett
OF DeTour. He urges all persons IN
this district desiring 10 serve 20 OBJ
tain their application forms at once
and II file them with him before Jan
uary 81. when he must stop consider
ing new applications in order 10 pre-
pare for the test" OF the previous
Applicants on February 3. 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" papers,
20 Census Director Durand, who VIII
! carefully go over and rerate the pa
per Of the successful candidates be-
I fore giving his consent 10 the issue
of commissions 20 them by the super
visor. BY the middle or latter part Of
March all the enumerators will have
been commissioned and i'm receipt Of
detailed instructions concerning their
work
To quiet any qualms relative to the
test" Of the qualifications Of appli-
cants. 10 be made February 3, the sup
ervisor has obtained some information
from the census director concerning
the test" Of Twelfth Census enumor-
ators. II has been officially stated
that the 1910 test" win be very sim
=, e Il,
sus and will consist i'm requiring APP
plicants 10 ill sample schedules from
printed narratives concerning census
facts AS the rural enumerators arc
10 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 sam
pie Of that schedule.
The test" population schedule mar
rative in 1900 was. i'm part. as follows:
THE enumerator of the forty-hfth
enumeration district of the ninth SUI
pervisors district of the state Of
Pennsylvania. i'm the village OF Port
Royal Londonderry Township, Schuyl-
kin county begins his enumeration
June /, 1900, at No. POI Burton street.
This house is occupied by n sim
gle family. consisting of Patrick
OLeary, 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 re
was just % years old. Three years
after his arrival he was married to an
Irish girl who had come over from his
native village year before. AS soon
as possible he became naturalized. He
can read and write and speak English,
and owns a good house, free of incum-
brance, which he has bought from his
earnings as a teamster. i'm which oc-
cupation he has had steady work dur
ing the past year.
Margaret, his wife, is also of Irish
and was born in January,
and is nearly four years younger than
her husband. she has had two chill
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 a 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 English wo-
man by the name Of Mrs. Jane Park
er, widow occupying rented house
with her single daughter, Virginia.
and her married daughter, Nellie T.,
and the husband of the later, Albert
Johnson.
Mrs. Parker came TO this country
"a years ago, has a good education, is
n dressmalIer by trade. and has con-
slant employment. She was so years
old last April, and is of Scottish birth
on her mothers side. She has had
four children three of whom are liv-
ing and one OF whom has died.
Virginia is Of English parentage.
has been through the local schools and
has been a saleswoman for eight
months Of the past year; she was born
in Philadelphia. 1871.
Nellie Il. was 2S years old last jan
uary, and has but recently married.
She was born I'm Baltimore, reads.
writes and speaks English.
albert Johnson. the husband Of
Nellie was born in New York City Of
Welsh parents. November, 1865. He Is
in the grocery business and keeps his
own books and accounts"
II seems comparatively simple, ac-