Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-01-13
ISSUES CALL FOR
ENUMERATORS
FOR BREWERS, CENSUS SUPERVISOR OF
HARVEY has ISSUED CALL FOR
MORE ENUMERAT0RS

Brewster, Harvey, N. D. 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 Is, when he must
stop considering new applications in
order to prepare for the 'ttest" of
the previous applicants on February
S. 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, to Census Direc-
tor Durand, who will carefully go
over and rerate the papers Of the sue
cessful 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 commits
stoned and in receipt of detailed in
structions concerning their work.
To quiet any qualms relative to the
cants to be made February 5, the su-
pervisor has obtained some informa-
ton from the Census Director con-
cerning the test" of Twelfth Census
enumerators. It has been officially
stated that the 1910 test" will be
very similar to the one in the preced-
ing census and will consist in requir-
ing applicants to fill sample schedules
from printed narratives concerning
census facts. AS the rural enumera-
tors are to carry both the population
and agricultural schedule, they will
be s.tested" with samples of both, but
the city enumerators, who carry the
population schedule alone, will be re-
quired to prove their ability by filing
a sample of that schedule.
The "test" population schedule
narrative in 1900 was, in part, as fol-
lows:
s"The enumerator Of the forty fifth
enumeration district of the ninth SUI
pervisor's district of the state OF
Pennsylvania, in the village of Port
Royal, Londonderry Township, schnylc:'
kill 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,an his son, James.
!"Patrick came to this. country from
Ireland +(where hes was born of Irish
parentsj in May of 1870, when he was
just 22.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 natural
lied. He can read and. write and
speak English, and owns a. good house
free of encumbrance, which. ,he; has
bought. from his earnings as; q team
ster. in which occupation he has had.
steady work during the. past year. 4
Margaret, his wife,>is also OF Irish p,
parentage, and was born in January,
and is nearly four years younger tnan
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 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.
I'm the next house, 2O3 Burton
street, the enumerator found an Eng
1ish woman by the name of Mrs. Jane
Parker, widow, occupying rented
house with her single daughter, Vir-
einia, and her married daughter, Mel
lie E., and the husband of the latter,
Albert johnson. @-~ 10.
Mrs. Parker came to this country
"a years ago, has a good education, IS
a dressmake7 by trade, and has con-
stant employment. She was so years
old last April, and is of Scottish birth
on her mothers side. She has had
ofur children, three of whom are Hv-
ing and one of whom mas died.
"Virginit 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 in March, 1877.
"Nellie E. was % years old last
january, and has but recently mar
ried. She was born in Baltimore,
reads. writes, and speaks English.
albert Johnson, the husband OF
Nellie, was born in New York City,
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