Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-07
WILL HOLD BIG
EXAMINATIONS
PosToFFicE DEPARTMENT is
LOOKING FOR CLERKS AND
CARRIERS.
HERE NOVEMBER /

This City Has Been Selected 40 the
Place for Qulx Of Applicants
for 5,555 Government
Positions.
Applicants for positions az clerks
and carriers for the United states
postoffice will be examined In this CITY
on Wednesday, November l, ACCORDING
to a notice received today by Civll
Service Clerk E. w. Lowenberg Fhe
circular telling of the examinations,
with instructions to the prospective
applicants, is complete as follows:
The United States civil service com
mission announces that on November
l in Ottumwa an examination Will De
held for the positions of clerk and city
carrier in the postoffice service.
Clerks In offices of the first ana
second classes and carriers In the city
delivery service are divided into SIX
grades, as follows First grade, salary
| 5000; second grade, salary $500; tnlrQ
grade, salary 5000; fourth grade, sal
airy, $1,000; fifth grade, salary $l,Aoo:
sixth grade, salary, $1,000. Clerks ana
carriers at first class Offices will pc
promoted successfully to the fiftn
grade. and clerks and carriers at sec
ond class offices will be promoted sue.
cessively to the fourth grade.
Promotions of both clerks and car
riers will be made at the beginning OF
the quarter following the expiration OF
years service in the next lower
grade. No promotion will be made ex-
cept upon evidence satisfactory to the
postoffice department of the efficiency
and faithfulness of the employe dur
ing the preceding year. When clerk
or carrier fails Of promotion because
of unsatisfactory service he may be
promoted at the beginning OF the sec.
ond quarter thereafter, or OF any sub
seQuent quarter, on evidence that his
record has been satisfactory during
the intervening period. Clerks and
and carriers of the highest grade are
eligible for promotion to the higher
positions in their respective offices.
Any clerk is eligible for transfer to
the service of carrier. and any car
rier is eligible for transfer to the serv-
ice Of a clerk.
Auxiliary employees are paid for &C
tual service at the rate of 80 cents an
hour. Such auxiliary employees, how
ever are required to work not less
than two hours daily, and may serve
as substitutes. They are eligible for
appointment as clerks and carriers OF
the first grade.
Substitutes are paid at the rate of 30
cents an hour when serving for absent
clerks and carriers, and they are elig-
ible for appointment as auxiliary en-
ployes and as clerks and carriers OF
the first grade.
Seven Subjects.
The examination will consist Of the
subjects mentioned below. weighted -
indicated:
Subjects. Weights.
!. Spelling twenty words OF aver b
age difficulty in common use).. 10
2. Arithmetic (simple tests in ad-
dition, subtraction, multiplica-
ton, and division of whole num-
bers, common and decimal frac.
tons and decimal fractions, and
United States money! ......... 20
8. Letter writing "a letter OF OF
less than 125 words, on some
subject Of general interest.
Competitors may select either
of two subjects given) ......... 70
A, Penmanship (the handwriting
of the competitor In the subject
of copying from plain copy will
be considered with special ref
erence to the elements of legi-
bility, rapidity, neatness, gen.
eral appearance, etc., ......... 20
s. Copying from plain copy
simple test in copying accurate
~ a few printed lines in the
competitors handwriting) -. 10
6. United States geography (rela-
tive to the boundaries of states,
and to capitals, largest cities.
rivers, and other bodies OF
water. and the location by
states Of prominent cities, etc). 10
Z. Reading addresses (test In not
ing with pen or pencil, on
printed sheet of addresses, diff
ferences between the printed
addresses and the written
addresses of which they are q
copy. ................. IL
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Age Limit Is Forty-five.
Applicants must have reached their
eighteenth but net their forty.fifth
birthday on the date Of the examina-
tion. The age limits are waived, how
ever. In the cases of persons honorably
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