Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1917 — United States Civil- Service Examination [ARTICLE]

United States CivilService Examination

Clerks, post-office service. (men only.) Place of employment, Rensselaer, Indiana. Place of examination, Rensselaer, Indiana. Date of examination, January 12, 1918. 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 position of clerk in the post office at the place first specified. Clerks if offices of the first and second classes are divided into five grades, the salaries of which are SBOO, S9OO, SI,OOO, $l,lOO, and $1,200 per annum, respectively. Clerks at fist-class offices will be promoted successively, a grade at a time, to $l,lOO, and lerks at secondclass offices will be promoted in the same manner to SI,OOO. Competitors will be examined in the following subjects, which will have the relative weights indicated: average difficulty in common Subjects. Weights. 1. Spelling, (twenty words of average difficulty in common use) 10 2. Arithmetic (simple tests in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole nurpbers, common - and decimal frictions, and the ordinary weights and measures) ! 20 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 4. Penmanship (the handwriting of the competitor in the subject of copying from plain copy will be considered with special reference to the elements of legibility, rapidly, neatness general appearence, etc.) : 20 5. Copying from plain copy (a simple test in copying accurately a few printed lines in the competitor’s handwriting) 20 6. Reading addresses (test in noting with pen or pencil, on a printed., sheet or addresses, difference between the printed addresses and the written of which they are a copy.) 10 Total 100 Applicants must submit to the examiner on the day of the examination their photographs, taken within two years, securely pasted in the space provided on the admission cards sent them after applications are filed. Tintvpes, proofs or group photograph.. .ot be accepted. This examination is open to all citizens of the United States who meet the requirements. For application Form 1371 and “Instructions to Applicants,” address Miss Fame Haas, secretary at the Rensselaer, Indiana post office.