Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-06-02
STATE NEWS
Aged Man Arrested for Pension Fraud.


On an Indictment charging him with
attempting to defraud the government
out of sum of money by posing as
man who has been dead many years
and thus securing the latter's pension,
Elliott. of Wardsboro, has been arrest
ed in SALISBURY. 1t is probable that
Parker. who is 80 years old, will plead
guilty. for he has admitted that he had
attempted the pension fraud, claiming
that he was partially aided by pen
sion agent. who said cit would be all
right for him to get the money due to
George N. Elliott 1t is alleged that
Parker on November "a, 1914, pre-
sented a claim to the pension depart
ment in Washingt ton, swearing that
his name was George M. Elliott. The
government records showed that Mr..
Elliott has been dead a number of
years.
Vermont Man Wins High Marks at 3. u.
Charles William MuIcahy, a Hard.
wick man, has attained for general
average. in completing the three
years course in the Boston University
Law school in two years, a mark of
3d. 5-the highest attained by any
student in the institution in the last ten
years-it is announced by Dean Albers
Also he is the winner of the Ordro-
naux prize of SIS, derived from fund
of $4,000 bequeathed by DR.. John
Ordronaux a former lecturer in the
school-an award, not only for exam
nation marks, but also for work done
in class and court rooms. and for
general character and conduct. In
several courses Mr.. Mulcahy earned
the mark of 100. The most note
worthy of these was Conflict of
Laws" wherein no student was ever
before in the history of the school
known to reach such grade
Crockett Press Agent for u. v. M.
Walter H. Crockett, longtime editor
of Vermont newspapers, favorably
known to every newspaper in the state
and to all sorts and conditions of Yer
monters, has been appointed by the
trustees of the state university to the
newly created position of "editor OF
university publications. In his new
capacity he will edit and publish tine
catalog and the bulletins of the severa
colleges of the university, as we'll as
the bulletins. circulars, briefets, etc.
of the experiment station and of the
agricultural extension service, and will
endeavor to a greater extent than has
hitherto been possible to relate the
university activities to the people o:
the state through the agency of thu
press. 1t would be an act of superero
cation to introduce Mr.. Crockett or t.
tell what he has done, but it may b.
/ remarked that the class of work he ha
done in the past is an earnest Of wha
/ he will do in the future. He will con
tinue to bear relationship to the offic
of the secretary of state in his capacit
as publicity agent.
) Cancer Meeting in St Johnsbury June Ii
The state medical society is wagin
war on cancer everywhere and in Ver
mont in particular by conducting
: campaign of publicity. Meetings ar
l to be held at Rutland. Burlington
Montpelier and St. Johnsbury. The s.
> Johnsbury meeting will be held June /
= and it is designed to serve the peopl
: of Caledonia, Orleans and Essex cour
ties. In the morning there will
consulting and operating clinics a
Brightlook and st. Johnsbury hospitals
!. Any person with cancer or who is sus
= pected of having cancer may come an
y consult free of charge. some of tn
. most eminent cancer specialists in thi
> country, and they may have them ope1
ated upon if they so desire. In the a.
: ternoon at Pytbian hall there will b
:, addresses to physicians only. DR.. Da
l ton of the state board of health wi
speak on 1.-The Cancer Situation
Vermont" DR.. William Siaman BalI
. bridge will give an address on cancer
' illustrated by the stereopticon. D.
= Jonathan Wainwright of Scranton. Pa
Will also address the physicians as wi
L DR.. Francis Carter Wood of Columb
Il university. In the evening at the Coli
: NAL will be held the popular meeting
to which everyone is invited. D
cambridge will deliver an address {
: danger Signals" These meeting
are purely edu cational and are d.
f signed to give instruction in the pr