The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-03-10
VACANCY In PosToFFIcE.
Connective Examination for Clerk
TO Be Held March "a.

Competitive Examination for Clerk
to Be Held March "a.
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that an open
competitive examination for the posi-
ton of clerk in the Donaldsonvllle
nostofice will be held here Saturday,
March "a.
Clerks in offices of the first and
second classes are divided into hve
grades, the salaries of which are $500,
5000, $1,000, $11G0 and $1,000, per
annum, respectively. Clerks at first
class Offices will be promoted success
iyely, a grade at a time, to $l10O,
and clerks at second-class offices Will
be promoted in the same manner TO
$1,000 Promotions will be made at
the beginning of the quarter fol
lowing the expiration of years
service in the next lower grade.
And no promotion will be made
except upon evidence satisfactory to
the postoffice department Of the eff
fciency and faithfulness of the en-
ployee during the preceding year.
Clerks of the highest grade are eligl-
BILE for promotion to the higher posi-
tions in their respective offices.
Competitors will be examined in
the following subjects, which will
have the relative weights indicated:
/. Spelling twenty words of aver
age difficulty in common use), 10
points.
2. Arithmetic (simple tests in adj
dition, subtraction, multiplication,
and division of whole numbers, com
mon and decimal fractions, and Uni
ted States money!, 20 points.
3. Letter writing "a letter OF not
less than 125 words on some subject
of general interest. Competitors may
select either of two subjects given),
20 points.
A. Penmanship (the handwriting of
the competitor in the subject Of copy
ing from plain copy will be consider
ed with special reference to the ele
ments of legibility, rapidity, neatness,
general appearance, etc., 20 points.
5. Copying from plain copy "a SIM
pie test in copying accurately few
printed lines in the competitors hand
writing), 20 points.
6. Reading addresses (test in no
ting 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 points.
Applicants must have reached their
eighteenth but not their forty-ffth
birthday on the date of the examina-
ton. The age limits are waived,
however, in the case of persons hon
orably discharged from the United
States military or naval service by
reason of disability resulting from
wounds or sickness incurred in the
line of duty. A person under 81
years of age on the day Of the exam
ination will not be eligible for ap-
pointment as assistant postmaster.
Male applicants must measure not
less than 5 feet 4 inches in height in
bare feet. No male applicant who
passes the examination will be eligible
for appointment who does not weigh
at least 1875 pounds without overcoat
and hat. It will be inadvisable for
male applicants whose normal weight
is less than 1875 pounds to enter the
examination. Female applicants are
not required to be of any specific
height or weight.
No person who has any of the fol-
lowing-named physical defects will be
to the position of clerk in
Che postoffice 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; con-
genital weakness of the abdominal
wall, or such weakness caused by
wound or operation; except that
deaf-mutes and persons with de-
fective speech or hearing may be APP
pointed to the positions of mail clerk,
and directory and for
clerk; and persons suffering |
from fatfoot or weakness Of the alb |
dominal wall may be appointed to any
position of clerk the duties of which |
they are physically capable of per-
forming. Applications of persons
who are not entitled to examination
on account of physical defects will be !
cancelled. Other physical defects
may debar persons from this exami- |
nation when in the judgment of the |
Commission such defects would rem
der them unfit to perform the duties |
nation is held.
Married women will not be admit |
led to this examination. This pro-
aibition, however, does not apply to
divorced women.
Each applicant will be required to |
submit to the examiner on the day of |
he examination an unmounted photo
graph OF himself taken within two
years. An applicant who fails to pre-
'ent such photograph will not be ad-
nitted to the examination Tintypes
will not be accepted.
This examination is open to all citi-
sens Of the United States who meet
he requirements
From the eligibles resulting from
his examination it is expected that
ratification will be made to fill exist
ng and future vacancies.
For application Form 1871 and 'In-
tructions to Applicants" address the