Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-03
EXAMINATIONS
FOR POSTAL CLERKS
TO Be Held HERE

The United States Civil Service
commission announces that on Aug
ust 10 at Bismarck an examination
will be held for the positions of clerk
and city carrier in the post office serv-
ice.
Clerks in Offices of the first and Sec
ond classes and carriers in the city
delivery service are divided into six
grades, as follows: First grad, salary
$500; second grade, salary $500; third
grade, salary 5000; foruth grade, sal
airy $1,000; fifth grade, salary $1,1O0;
sixth grade, salary, $1,000; clerks and
carriers at first class offices will be
promoted successfully to the sixth
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
post Office department of the efficiency
and faithfulness of the employee dur
ing the preceding year. When a 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 SUBJ
sequent quarter, on evidence that his
record has been satisfactory during
the intervening period. Clerks and
carriers of the highest grade are
eligible for promotion to the higher
positions of their respective offices.
Any clerk IS eligible to transfer to
the service of carrier, and any car
rier is eligible for transfer to the SER
vice of clerk.
Auxiliary employees are paid for
actual service at the rate of thirty
cents an hour Such auxiliary employ
ees, however, are required to work
not less than two hours daily, and
may serve as substitutes. They are
eligible as clerks and carriers of
the first grade.
Substitutes are paid at the rate of
thirty cents an hour when serving
for absent clerks and carriers, and
they are eligible for appointment as
auxiliary employees and as clerks and
carriers of the first grade.
The examination will consist of the
seubjects mentioned below, weighted
as Indicated:
1. Spelling GO words of average
difficulty in common use) 10.
e. Arithmetic (simple tests in ad-
dition, subtraction, multiplication, and
division of whole numbers, common
and decimal fractions, and United
States money! 20.
3. Letter writing "a letter of not
less than 1926 words on some subject
of general interest. Competitors may
select either of two subjects given) 20
4. Penmanship (the handwriting of
the competitor in the subject of copy
ing from plain copy will be considered
with special reference to the elements
of legibility, rapidity, neatness, gener-
al appearance, etc., 20
5. Copying from plain copy "a sim
pie test in copying accurately few
printed lines in the competitors hand
writing) 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.
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. addresses of which they are
a copy 10.
Total 100.
Applicants must have reached their
eighteenth but not their forty-fifth
birthday on the date of the examin-
alton. The age limits are waived,
however in the cases of persons hon.
orably discharged from the military
Or naval service by reason of disabil.
ty resulting from wounds or sickness
incurred in the line of duty.
Male applicants for the postoftice
service must be at least feet 4 inches
n height in bare feet, and 125 pounds
n weight without overcoat or hat;
otherwise their applications will be
Female applicants are not
'equired to be of any specific height
n weight.
Applicants for the postoffice service
ire required to be physically sound
md in good health. The postof1ice (
department. has advised the commits
ion that no person who is defective in (
my of the following named particu- |
ars will be appointed to the position
# carrier in the post office service:
Iunchbacks; persons having defective ,
earring, sight, or speech; persons =
lind in one eye; one aremd; one =
or one legged persons, or
hose having crippled arms or legs,
r those suffering from asthma or {
ernia. These defects will also debar q
person from appointment to the po- Il
ition of clerk in the postoffice service 4
kept that deaf mutes and persons T
18th defective speech or hearing may
e appointed to the positions of mail A
Jerk, distributor. and directory and
,rwarding clerk. Applications from T
ersons who are not entitled to ex- -.
mination on account of physical de- :
,cts will be Cancelled. Other physi-
IL defects may bar persons from this U
when in the judgment of
le commission such defects would '
,nder them unfit to perform the dut- b
s of the position for which the ex- r
mination Is held.
Married women will not he admitted n