The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-11-24
ELLIS
HAS TROUBLES
UscI5 SANS PENSIONERS sUs
PfCiOOS OF EXAMINER
SseH % euity Espe-eoeed - Per
Hon tHs-iner = Finding ol5
veterans


Every other man has The easiest,
Job according 70 the Way NOS, p~o
pie look ~ p Bur they u
change the.r m.nis sheu they ge,
onto rat 100 themselves No~ vie~
q from me usual standpoint the sob
o. a United states pension examiner
such a. ? p Kills. Who b. noa Ioraf
~" IN me federal building must b. q
pretty soft slap lie has nothing 20
DO olt hunt up hair a hundred o-Ao
oid veterans each day aud ask them
a te~ simple questions p-f the % X
~ their names on the pension list and
retire a The even nE With a conscious
hess % q good day b work ssiI uand
easily done
Bur not all - velvet even u the
~ork 81 he pension examiner r. NAV
b me fun to Welt Old comrades and
talk over old var times. but ther. -
som~ work connected with DO. too For
instance. yesterday Mr. Ellis made
calls a. the addresses OF exartl, a.
p~eusion~rs tie found seven. which Ir
only about L. % per cent. ami ier
Vord for the remainder 20 call Al bis
onice or the remaining 35. probably
100. 800 AH" CIV AMNALu AM ANENNM
VIII have 90 be made over again
II Is not that Mr. Ellis is ferre,ing
out irregularities and hunting for
chances TO cur Of the income Of old
soldiers who have been on Uncle
Sans bounty FOR years that max q,
80 hard n Is simply because. OF all
things an old soldier guards ieAous
lF. his pension is most carefully cared
for he has an idea thar What h.
nov has he has. but 10 "a. examiner
would inquire into 10 he might NOT
have 90 for long Hence the longer
he avoids the examiner the better Tor
him and none the worse Tor NJ Ellis
Now. az Mr. Ellis explained y-s,er
day 20 the Intelligence. Do is nor his
object 90 on pension
Why. bless YOU. he Is a veteran him
self and Wears % g. A r PIN Noth
INK on earth is farther. but az be said
20 a veteran Who visited him the
other day and wanted 90 know what
30 vas All about. suppose you we're
"a thousand miles away from here and
would lose your discharge Suppose
someone would nud b. tfhis is sun
posed to have happened .o wears aeo
when pensions Mere easy 20 get. and
had qualified IN your name Now
~heu ] ask hat follow quest ons
about the war and kindred subjects.
such as ! have asked YOU. be ius- gets
an hai-u up D get suspicious. and
an estigaton shows that he has
no right TO the pension. but gives 10
70 you az the riEhtful person 20 70
ceirc a. n ne had been entitled 20
The pension he would have swrr.
the questions which proved so simple
Tor you w ave found a good many
iust such as that and they are now
awaiting trial for d~efrauding the 20,
eminent But there is no danger 10
YOU are entitled TO your pension In
TACT, rot should enjoy talking over
the old war times with a man Who
went through 70 himself and knows
all about &c."
Owing TO the difficulty he IL having
IN hrliue pensioners in Wheeling and
The adjacent territory. Mir Ellis *
poets that he Will require until Al
least the first Of March before No. can
compl"t" his work. here However 10
veterans would show themselves more
Wiling to help him IN Dis work 10 would
require considerably less time b.
Tor" leaving this territory Nfr BILLS
HiI aim 90 visit every Veteran III
Ohio. Brooke and Hancock c1unt...
900 West Virginia. and in 0lGmbiaus
Jefferson and Belmont Counties t,
Ohio.