St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-02-17

| the next lower grade. No promotion
will be made except upon evidence
| satisfactory to the Post Office De-
partment of the efficiency and faith
fulness of the employee during the
preceding year. When a clerk fails
of promotion because of unsatisfac-
tory service he may be promoted at
the beginning of the second quarter
thereafter, or of any subsequent
quarter, on evidence that his record
has been satisfactory during the in
tervening period. Clerks of the high
est grade are eligible for appoint
ment to the higher positions in their
respective offices.
Auxiliary employees are paid for
actual service at the rate of thirty
cents an hour. Such auxiliary en-
ployees, however, are required to
work not less than two hours daily,
and may serve as substitutes. They
are eligible for appointement as
clerks of the first grade.
Substitutes are paid at the rate of
thirty cents an hour when serving
for absent clerks, and they are eli
gible for appointment as auxiliary en-
plOyees and as clerks of the first
grade.
The examination will consist of the
subjects mentioned below, weighted
as indicated:
Subjects. Weights
1. Spelling twenty words of
average difficulty in common use) Is
2. Arithmetic (simple tests in
addition, subtraction, multiplied
srs 80 ~
common and decimal fractions,
and United States money! 20
3. Letter Writing "a letter of
not less than 125 words ON some
subject of general interest. Com
petitors may select either of two
subjects given) ............... 20
4. Penmanship (the handwrit-
ing of the competitor in the sub
ject of copying from plain copy
will be considered with special ref
erence to the elements of legibili-
ty, rapidity, neatness, general ap-
pearance, etc. 30
5. Copying from plain copy "a
simple test in copying accurately
few printed lines in the COM
petitors handwriting) .......... Is
6. Reading Addresses (test in
noting with pen or pencil. on
sheet of addresses, differences be-
tween the printed addresses and
the written addresses of which they
are a copy ......... 10
IOtal 1OO
Applicants must have reached
their eighteenth but not their forty
ninth birthday on the date of the ex-
animation. The age limits are
waived, however, in the. cases of per-
sons honorably discharged from the
United States military or, naval SER
vice by reason of disability result
ing from wounds or sickness incurred
in the line of duty.
Male applicants for the Post Of
flee service must be at least five feet
four inches in height in bare feet.
and 125 pounds in weight without
overcoat and hat; otherwise their ap-
ulications will be cancelled. Female
applicants are not required to be of
any specific height or weight.
Applicants for the Post Office ser
vice are required to be physically
sound and in good health. The Post
Office Department has advised tn<
Commission that no person who is
defective in any of the follow g
named particulars will be appointed
to the position of clerk in the Post
Office service: Hunchbacks, persons
having defective hearing, sight, Or
speech; persons blind in one eye; one
armed, one handed, OR one legged
persons, or those having crippled
arms or legs, or those suffering from
asthma or hernia, except that deaf
mutes and persons with defective
speech or hearing may be appointed
to the positions of mail clerk, dis
tributer, and directory and forward
ing clerk. Applications from persons
not entitled to examination on ac-
count of physical defects will be can
celed. Other physical defects may
debar persons from this examination
when in the Judgement of the Com
mission such defects would render
them unfit to perform the duties OF
the position for which the examina-
ton is held.
Married women will not be admit
ted to this examination. This pro-
hibition. however, does not apply to
divorced women or women VINO are
separated from their husbands and
support themselves.
This examination is open to all
citizens of the United States who COM
ply with the requirements.
From the eligibles resulting from
this examination it is. expected that
certification will be made to exist
jnp and fntl1re vacancies
For application form 1871 and In
structions to Applicants" address the
Postmaster at Covington, La. or the
District Secretary, Tenth District,
Custom House, New Orleans, La.
No application will be accepted un-
less properly executed and filed with
the District Secretary prior to the
hour of closing business on Feb. ~,
1912.