The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-23

Florida.
Place of Examination, Lakeland,
Florida.
Date. of Examination, October %,
1916.
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that on the
date and at the place named above an
open competitive examination will be
held for the positions of clerk and city
carrier in the post Office 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,
5000, $1,000, $1,100, and $1,000 per an
mum, respectively. Clerks and carri-
ers at first-class offices will be pro-
NOTED successfully, grade at time,
to $1,10O, and clerks and carriers at
second-class offices will be promoted
in the same manner to $1,000.
Promotions of both clerks and car
riers will be made at the beginning OF
the quarter following the expiration of
a years service in the next lower
grade. No promotion will be made ex-
cept upon evidence satisfactory to the
Post Office Department of the efficien-
cy and faithfulness of the employee
during the year. Clerks and carriers
of the highest grade are eligible for
promotion to the higher positions in
their respective Offices.
Competitors will be examined in the
following subjects, which will have the
relative weights indicated:
Subjects Weights.
1. Spelling twenty words of av-
erage in common use) ......... 10
2. Arithmetic (simple tests in ad-
dition, subtraction, and division
of whole numbers, common and
decimal fractions, and United
States money! ................. 20
3. Letter writing Ia letter of not
less than 1876 words on some sub
ject of general interest. Com
petitors may select either Of two
subjects given) ................ 2(
4. Penmanship (the handwriting of
the competitor in the subject of
copying from plain copy will be
considered with special reference
to the lements of legibility, ra-
pility, neatness, general appear
ance. etc. *
s. Copying from plain copy Ga sim
pie test in copying accurately
few printed lines in the competi-
tors handwriting) ............ 2(
g. Reading addresses (test in not
ing with pen or pencil, on
ten addresses of which they are
a copy OVERWHELMINGLY. II
IOtal ................... 1Ul
Applicants must have reached theil
eighteenth but not theirforty fifth
birthday on the date of the examina
ton. The age limits are waived, how
ever in the case of persons honorably
charged from the United States mil
itary or naval service by reason of dis
ability resulting from wounds or sick
ness incurred in the line of duty. Eli
gibles resulting from this examination
the date of the examination will not
be certified for filling vacancies in the
position of assistant postmaster.
Male applicants must measures not
less than 5 feet inches in height in
bare feet No male applicant who
passes the examination will be eligi-
BILE for appointment either as clerk OF
city carrier who does not weigh at
least 1875 pounds without overcoat and
hat 1t will be inadvisable for male
applicants whose normal weight is less
than 125 pounds to enter the examina
tion Female applicants are not re
quired to be of any specific height OF
weight.
The Post Office Department has ad
vised the Commission that no person
who has any of the following-named
physical defects will be appointed tc
the position of carrier in the Post OF
flee Service: Hunchback; defective
hearing, sight, or speech; blindness II
one or both eyes; asthma; loss o.
arm. hand, or leg; crippled arms Of
legs; flatfoot; hernia; congenita
weakness of the abdominal wall, o.
such weakness caused by wound o.
operation, These defects will also de
bar a person from appointment to thu
nosition of clerk in the POSt-Office Ser