The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-02-17
CIVIL SERVICE ExAN|N-....'s...s
ATOMS TO Be HELD
HERE March Is

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The united States. Civil Service
commission announces that on
march IL in Lakeland an open com
petitive examination will be held fol
the positions Of clerk and city car
rier In the postoffice at the place
first specified.
Clerks in Offices of the first and
second classes, and carriers in the
city delivery service, are divided
into five grades. the salaries of
which are $500, $500, $1,000. 81
100 and $1,000 per annum, respec
lively. Clerks and carriers at first
class offices will be promoted sue
cessively, grade at a time, to ST.
100, and clerks and carriers at sec
ond-class offices will be promoted in
the same manner to $1,000.
Promotions of both clerks and
carriers will be made at the begin
ming Of the quarter following the ex-
piration of a years service in the
next lower grade.
No promotion will be made ex-
cept upon evidence satisfactory to
the postoffice department of the eff
cheney and faithfulness of the EN-
ployee during the year. Clerks and
carriers of the highest gcade are
eligible for promotion to the higher
positions in their respective offices
Competitors will be examined in
the following subjects: Spelling,
arithmetic, letter writing. penman
ship, copying from plain copy, read
ing addresses.
Applicants must have reached
their eighteenth but not their forty
fifth birthday on the date of the ex :
animation. The age limits are
waived, however, in the case of per
sons honorably discharged from the
United States military or naval SER
vice by reason of disability result
ing from wounds or sickness in :
Cured in the line of duty. Eligibles
resulting from this examination who
were under 81 years of age on the
date of the examination will not be
certified for filling vacancies in the
position Of assistant postmaster.
Male applicants must measure not
less than feet 4 inches in height in
bare feet. No male applicant who
passes the examination will be eligi-
BILE for appointment either as clerk
or city carrier who does not weigh
at least 1875 pounds without over
coat and hat. 1t will be inadvisable
for male applicants whose normal
weight is less than 125 pounds to
enter the examination. Female ap-
plicants are not required to be Of
any specific height or weight.
The postoffice department has ad
vised the commission that no person
who has any Of the following-named
physical defects gill be appointed to
the position Of carrier in the post
|!office service: Hunchback: defective
hearing, sight, or speech; blindness
in one or both eyes; asthma; loss Of
arm, hand, or leg; crippled arms or
legs; fiatfoot; hernia; congenitai
weakness Of the abdominal wall, or
such weakness caused by wound or
operation. These defects will also
debar a person from appointment to
the position Of clerk in the postoffice
service. except that deaf mutes and
persons with defective speech or
hearing may be appointed to the po.
sitions of mail clerk, distributor, ant
directory and forwarding clerk, az.
persons suffering from flatfoot or
weakness Of the abdominal wall may
be appointed to any position Of clerk
the duties of which they are physi :
cally capable Of performing. Appli :
cations from persons who are not en-
titled to appointment on account Of
physical defects will be Cancelled.
other physical defects may debar
persons from appointment when in
the judgment of the commission
such defects would render them un-
At to perform the duties Of the pc :
sition for which the examination is
held.
Married women will not be admit
ted 70 this examination. This pro-
hibition, however. does not apply to
divorced women or to women who
are separated from their husbands
and support themselves.
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