The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-01-20
More Census Applications Wanted.

peeu issued Dy supervisor OF census,
w. G. Chubb, of Corning, Iowa. He
urges all persons in his district de-
string to serve to obtain their appli-
cation form at once and to file them
with him before January 81, when
he must stop considering new appli-
cations to prepare for the "test" 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
successful candidates before giving
his consent to the issue of commits
sions to them by the supervisor. By
the middle or latter part of March
all the enumerators will have been
commissioned and in receipt of de-
tailed instructions concerning their
work
To quiet any qualms relative to
the test of the qualifications of ap-
plicants, to be made February S, the
supervisor has obtained some infor-
nation from the census director con-
corning the "test" of Twelfth Census
enumerators. 1t has been officially
stated that the 1910 test" will be
very similar to the one in the pre-
ceding census and will consist in re-
curing applicants to fill sample
schedules from printed narratives
concerning census facts. AS the
rural enumerators are to carry both
the population and agricultural
schedule, they will be tested" with
samples of both, but the city enum-
orators, who carry the population
schedule alone, will only be required
to prove their ability by filling a
sample of that schedule.
The test" population schedule
narrative in 1910 was, in part, as
follows:
THE enumerator of the forty-ffth
enumeration district of the ninth
supervisors district of the state of
Pennsylvania, in the village of
Port Royal, Londonderry township,
Schuylkill county, begins his enumer-
alton June /, 1900, at No. 201 Bur-
ton street.
'lhis house is occupied by single
family, consisting of Patrick O'Leary,
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
he was just % years old. Three
years after his arrival he was mar
ried to an Irish girl who had come
over from his native village year
before. AS soon as possible he be-
came naturalized. He can read and
write and speak English, and owns a
good house, free of incumbrance,
which he has bought from his earn
ings as teamster, in which occupa-
ton he has had steady work during
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 children, 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. 2n3 Burton
street, the enumerator found m
English woman by the name of Mrs
Jane Parker, widow, occupying 9
rented house With her single daugh.
ter, Virginia, and her married
daughter, Nellie E., and the husband
of the latter, Albert Johnson.
"Mrs. Parker came to this country
"a years ago, has a good education
is a dressmaker by trade, and has
constant employment. She was 81
years old last April, and is of Scottish
birth on her mothers side. She ha:
had four children, three of whom are
living and one of whom has died.
Virginia is of English parentage
has been through the local school;
and has been a saleswoman for eigh
months of the past. year; she wa:
born in Philadelphia in March, 1877
Nellie E. was % years old las
January, and has but recently mar
ried. She was born in Baltimore
read, writes, and speaks English.
Albert Johnson, the husband o
Nellie, was born in New York City, o
Welsh parents, November, 1865. HI
is in the grocery business and keeps
his own books and accounts.
1T seems comparatively simple, &C
cordiDe to the surel visor. to draw
out Of the above statement the re
qrired details for tic population
schedule and to enter them under tn
proper column divisions 'eiatine t
location, name, relationship, persona
description, nativity, citizenship, &C
cupation, education, etc.
About all such test" can do i
to evidence the lesibilily of an appli
carts Handwriting and his ability t
determine where to write in the sam
pie schedule the facts clearly state,
in the narrative.
The agricultural schedule nara
tive for 1900 was very similar, ex
cept that the facts stated relate t
farm and farming operations.
Before the test" February 5, TIL
supervisor will send each applicant
list of instructions concerning film
in the ''test" schedules, which vii
still further simplify the subject an
insure the passing of the test b
those who possess only an ordinar
common school education and pral