The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-09-01
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS.
Opportunities to Qualify for Federal
Government Positions.

lowing examinations will be held II
New Orleans and other cities on the
dates stated:
/ Sept. 4-Superintendent Of forge
shop, $40 to S12 per diem, Navy
Yard, Boston, Mass.
! Sept. Laboratory aid in agri'
cultural technology, $3.50 to $108d
per annum, Bureau Of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture, Wash
ington.
Laboratorian, qualified in chemistry
and physics, $1,000, Naval Academy,
Annapolis, Md.
/ Sept. 11-Timber inspector, S4.24
to $4.72 per diem, Navy Yard, Nor
folk, Va.
Assistant testing engineer, $1,000
to $4,000, Office of public roads and
rural engineering, Department of Ag-
riculture, Washington.
Expert electrical and mechanical
aid, SIS per diem, Navy Aeronautic
Station, Pensacola, Fla.
Statistician, $500 and expenses
while absent from headquarters on Of
fetal business, War Department.
Designing engineer, armor plant
and steel mill; designing engineer,
heavy steel mill construction; design
ing and constructing engineer, open
| hearth furnace plant; hydraulic and
sanitary engineer, all at $40 to SIG
| per diem, Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Navy Department.
Sept. 18-Mechanical and electri-
cal engineer, construction engineer,
civil engineer, all at $3.50 to $4,000,
Philippine Service.
Inspector, child labor division, men
and women, $500 to $4,000; experts
in the prevention of infant mortality,
men and women, $4,000 to $4,000; as
sistants in the prevention of infant
mortality, women only, $1,000 to
s24O0; experts in child welfare, $500
to $4,000, men and women; assistant
director, child labor division, men and
women, $2400 to $500, Children's
Bureau, Department of Labor.
Investigator in accounting and Of
flee management, $4,000 to $4,000, Blu
[reau of Efficiency, Washington.
Senior expert electrical and me-
chanical aid, $12 per diem, Navy De-
partment, Washington.
Sept. 19-Fireman, $500 to $720,
Bureau of Standards, Washington.
Laboratory aid in foreign seed and
plant introduction, $500 to 5000, Blu
reau Of Plant Industry, Department
of Agriculture, Washington.
Assistant in crop physiology, $1,000
to $500, Bureau Of Plant Industry,
Department of Agriculture, for duty
at Sacaton, Arizona.
Junior assistant in marketing dairy
products, $1,000 to $500, Bureau of
Markets, Department of Agriculture,
with headquarters in Washington.
Assistant inspectors, child labor
division, men and women, $1,000 to
.$168O, Children's Bureau, Depart
ment Of Labor.
Bookkeeper, women only, $1,000,
Departmental Service, Washington.
Sept. 19-2O-Law clerk, steno-
grapher and typewriter, men and wo-
men, $1,000 to $14O0, Bureau of
Naturalization, Department of Labor,
for duty in Washington or in the field.
Special agents and research assist
ants, men and women, $1,000 to
1880, Children's Bureau, Depart
ment Of Labor.
Sept. 25-Assistant in marketing
dairy products, $1,000 to $4,000, Blu
reau Of Markets, Department Of Agri-
culture, with headquarters in Wash
ington.
Applications for the following po-
sitions will be received at any time,
and certifcation made as the needs
Of the service require:
Land classifer, $2400 and expenses
when on field duty, Geological Sur
vey.
Subinspector, electrical, 81 to Sc
per diem, to fill vacancies in the office
Of Inspector of engineering material
at Boston, Brooklyn, Schenectady,
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and other
places.
Toolmaker, $1,000 to $1,000, Bureau
of Standards, Department Of Com
merce.
Inspector of cloth, $4,000 to $4,000,
War Department.
Subinspector of ordnance, $4.48I
per diem, at any navy yard or other
naval establishment of the United |
States.
Qualified stenographers and type |
writers are urged to enter the exami-
nations held every Tuesday to fill va
cancies in the departmental service |
at Washington. The entrance sala-
ries are from 5000 to $1,000 per an
mum.
Machinists are wanted for the
navy yard, and other
classes of skilled mechanics for other
yards.
Teacher, men and women, Indian
Service.
A first grade clerk examination will
be held at Alexandria, Baton Rouge,
Lake Charles, Monroe, New Orleans
and Shreveport Sept. 26 to provide
eligibles for filling positions in the
1uartermaster, customs, internal rev.
enue, and other services.
Application blanks and necessary
Information concerning any of these
examinations may be secured from
he Civil Service Commission at
D. Co. or from the Sec
,etary, Tenth Civil Service District,
1ustoanhouse, New Orleans, La. Cir
uiars descriptive of the examinations
md places to be filled may be seen at
he Office of the Chief. II
FEW KILLED IN BATTLE. !