Board Plans to Take Over Fire Alarm System
The Fire Board and Councilman L Ryder Jr. plan to assume maintenance of the city fire alarm system from Ryder & Graves. James Pearsall, long-time lineman, will be listed as official electrician under Fire Chief Andrew Jennings, earning 1500 dollars annually. Ryder offered advisory help and potential on-call service, with the switch likely effective in September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ryder & Graves
James Pearsall
City Electrician
Andrew D. Jennings
Councilmanic
Les L. Ryder, Jr
Nance
Gamewell
Wallace Place
Ryder & Gray
Fire Board
Ryder
Pearsall
New York and New Jersey Telephone Company
Herbert Chamberlain
Allan B. Laing
Change In Traffic Law At City Conference
At a Business Men's Association meeting with Mayor Cal king this morning, a proposal to permit parking on Front street after 7 p m except Saturdays was approved. The rule will also apply to Park avenue between Front and Second streets with possible later prohibitions on parking on multiple sides of Park and Madison avenues. Streets are narrow. the Police Board will issue traffic regulations in a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Business Men's Association
Calking
Front Street
Park Avenue
Madison Avenue
Ttme
Local Boys Involved In Disappearances And Robbery Case
East Fourth Street resident Revillo age seventeen and another boy aged nineteen vanished from home after a confrontation with two men believed to be local wages workers. Police link the men to a wheat harvest trip and a cash return of about $500, suggesting a motive and possible abduction. Revillo’s mother seeks any information on her son's whereabouts. He was last seen wearing a blue coat gray trousers and cap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Farm
Revillo
East Fourth Street
Stane
Vastaip
Ansas
Reviglio
Shipmates recount Carey 1, N.C. voyages across waves
A fragment notes a ship and its crew including Carey 1 of North Carolina. It mentions multiple crossings and trips made since the previous period, hinting at ongoing sea activity and voyages completed by the crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carey 1
N.C
Gers Hag
Coming Home for Visit by Local Lieutenant
Lieut J ate Giddings from Le Land Avenue borough returns from Camp Bick Texas after seven months. He plans to move to another duty post. Clarence Wyckoff visiting Dr Smalley in Central precinct for a short stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.ate Giddings
Leland Avenue
Camp Bick
Texas
Plainfield
Clarence Wyckoff
and Smalley
Central
Y M C A Worker’s Field Outfit Displayed in Window
William H. Olmsted of 331 Watchung avenue showcased a near forty item field outfit for YMCA workers bound for foreign service. The display includes a sleeping bag poncho helmet folding stool writing materials and more highlighting the transport burden of field assignments. Insurance rejection due to past pneumonia blocked overseas posting despite early acceptance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Olmsted
Watchung Avenue
Mr. Olmsted
Olmsted
Olmstead
YM. C. A
France
Last of Original Registrants Sent to Camp Mead
The Plainfield Exemption Board sends the final group of June 1917 registrants to Camp Mead Maryland on a special train arriving in city at 11 30 a m Tuesday August 27. Fifteen men head a contingent including seven farmers plus two additional inductees Nathan Gillman and Theodore Mendle. Also ten colored men are sent to Camp Dix this day after a farewell at Mt Olive Baptist church and North Avenue station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainfield
Camp Mead
Maryland
Freeman
Nathan Gillman
Theodore L. Mendle
Somerville
Camp Dix
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
North Avenue
Samuel Robinson
Hansin Duffin
Clarence Jeter
Perry Wright
Pete Moore
Alexander Armstrong
Doc Reese
Walter E. Horton
John J. C. Roach
Alinton Walker
Miss Mary Line Arrives Overseas with Army Nurse Corps
Plainfield friends report the safe arrival overseas of Miss Mary L. Line 248 East Front with the U S Army Nurse Corps Base Hospital No 48 Amer E F France. She is the daughter of A M Line who recently moved to Providence Rhode Island. Line enlisted last winter and served at a Texas camp before deployment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainfield
Mary L. Line
East Front Street
U. S. Army Nurse Corps
Base Hospital
No. 48
E. F
France
Line
A. M. Line
Providence
R. I
Charles H. Line
Texas
Draft Call Orders Three Limited Men
The local Draft Board announced calls for three limited service men to report to Camp Greene North Carolina on August 31. Names will be released soon. A separate call went to a photographer or blueprint worker for Madison Barracks Sacketts Harbor Lake Ontario on August 29. Joshua T. Loizeaux is named as a potential volunteer for overseas photography division duty unless others come forward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Greene
N. C
Madison Barracks
Sacketts Harbor
Lake Ontario
Freeman
Joshua T. Loizeaux
Photography Division
Military Aeronautics
Morris Abrams Expands Seventh Street Property Projects
Morris Abrams has begun extensive building work on the former Doctor Boone property at West Seventh and Laberty streets after purchasing it from Miss Lillie Brooks. The old corner residence will be moved to Liberty street and remodeled into a two family house, while a new residence on Seventh street is planned at about $12,000. The Boone property originally spanned from Liberty to Division streets, with Abbott later purchasing much of it. The Abrams plot fronts West Seventh street 127 feet and extends 150 feet deep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Abrams
Lillie Brooks
Doctor Boone
West Seventh
Laberty Streets
Seventh Street
Liberty Street
Abrams
Boone
Division Street
William H. Abbott
West Seventh Street
Young Men Must Register Tomorrow
A third draft age registration will occur nationwide tomorrow for men who turned twenty one since June 5. In Plainfield the Exemption Board at the Babycock building opens from 7 AM to 9 PM for registration and numbering. About twenty five to thirty local men are expected to register, while North Plainfield residents must go to Somerville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exemption Board
Babycock
Plainfield
North Plainfield
Somerville
Higgins Family Heads to Groton New England Trip
Mr and Mrs Charles A Higgins and their children of West Fourth street left by car yesterday morning for Groton Connecticut to stay with Mrs Higgins relatives until after Labor Day They planned a stop in Norwalk Connecticut as Groton near New London is a long day trip from their home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Charles A. Higgins
West Fourth Street
Groton
Conn
Patrolman Worth Returns From Vacation
Patrolman John Worth of the city police force resumes duty after a two week vacation spent visiting relatives in Long Island City and Secaucus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Worth
Long Island City
Secaucus
Mr and Mrs Gilbert Johnson Travel to Ocean Grove
Mr and Mrs Gilbert Johnson of 925 West Fourth Street left Monday for Ocean Grove to stay until after Labor Day. They occupy a bungalow on New York Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Johnson
West Fourth Street
Ocean Grove
New York Avenue
Women Fill Local Factory Roles In Shift To Equality
Women workers new to Plainfield machine shops arrive after long manpower gaps. About twenty five at National Motor and fifty at Spicer’s in South Plainfield, many married to foreign born husbands at the same plants. Wages run about 2.96 daily at National Motor with ten hour days and eleven and a half hours pay. Spicer’s payments average 15 dollars weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Motor Plant
Spicer’s
South Plainfield
Spicer
Plainfield
Loizeaux to Represent New York Firm in Japan
Edward M. Loizeaux, a Plainfielder by trade, sails from San Francisco aboard the Venezuela for Yokohama and Tokyo where he will serve three years as buyer and general representative for a New York importing concern. The firm, once focused on linens, now trades flax and button materials as factories in Bel These were seized and repurposed by Germans. Mrs. Loizeaux, formerly Miss Ella Case, plans to join him in Tokyo after leasing the Berkeley avenue home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward M. Loizeaux
Berkeley Avenue
San Francisco
Pacific Mail
Venezuela
Japan
Yokohama
Tokio
New York
Edward Case Loizeaux
L .E. McVoy
East Front — Street
City Council Appoints Three Officials in One Night
Plainfield voters see Dr. Raphael Wood named city physician to fill Norman Currie’s vacancy as he joins the Army. Dr. Frank C. Ard joins the Board of Health replacing Charles Lufburrow who resigned to enter service. Arthur E. Smith is named to the Advisory Commission succeeding Samuel Rothery now in Atlanta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raphael Wood
Grant Avenue
Plainfield
Norman W. Currie
Wood
Frank C. Ard
Board of Health
Charles B. Lufburrow
Arthur E. Smith
Samu Rothery
Atlanta
New Fire Department Notes Include New Hires and Boat Test
City fire headquarters welcomes two new members Arthur Erber and William Reinman both stationed at HQ. Vincent Carroll and William Gaub return from two weeks leave. Stephen Staats praises Newark fire boat tested during vacation trip noting its four water streams and river front burn fighting potential. Captain Feiring leads No 3 company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Staats
Newark
Staats
Arthur Erber
William Reinman
North Plainfield
Common Council
Mc Inight
Vincent Carroll
William Gaub
No.1
Feiring
No. 3
Comhead
Kennedy's letter predicts quick end to fight in France
Sergeant Joseph J. Kennedy of Plainfield writes Mae Kennedy that the big fight in France will end soon and the boys will sail home. He describes movements, demoralized enemy ranks, frequent air battles, and a good ride to England, assuring he is healthy and hopeful to be back home soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Joseph Kennedy
Mae Kennedy
Fourth
Monroe Avenue
Germany
Kennedy
England
Oes
Alki
Otto Ke
Dover
Ten Million Jump In County Ratables Now Seems Certain
Plainfield officials project a large rise in the county ratables after an $1,031,405 assessment reported for August. A major building boom is expected to raise October values with little effect on tax rate. The change in assessment timing shifts the fiscal year to align with the calendar, altering valuation periods and payment dates for property taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainfield
Notc
BAPE SPECIALIOR store victimized amid holiday break in
A disjointed report notes a burglary at Zeek Bakingay's shop on Front Street during a Wednesday holiday. Investigators say a break in occurred, with access through a storefront entrance and disruption to safe contents. No suspects or motives identified yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urs
Zeek Bakingay
Uis
Former Mayor Stewart Seeks U S Senator Nomination
Percy H. Stewart former Plainfield mayor 1912 1914 seeks Democratic U S senator nomination petitions circulated city county signers show wide support. Also Hugh Treacy Darrow avenue gains backing while other unnamed supporters await clearer public backing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy H. Stewart
U. S
Stewart
Plainfield
Union County
Hugh Treacy
Darrow Avenue
Collis Case Busy in Southern Camp
Plainfield's Collis Case, a East Front street resident, studied medicine at Columbia College while serving as local Health Board inspector. He worked as a pathologist and seromologist at General Hospital No. 12 in Hot Springs Virginia and assisted in typhoid care among German prisoners, aiding a large medical corps during the epidemic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainfield
Collis Case
East Front Street
Columbia College
Board of Health
Case
Texas
General Hospital
Hot Springs
Apc
North Carolina
Autoist Freed on Bail After Fatal Collision
Fritz Nowack of East Sixth Street, whose car fatally struck 15 year old Victor Brancatti at South Avenue and Terrill Road, was released on bail of 1500 dollars. The case, charged as manslaughter, will be heard by the Grand Jury in October. Brancatti, son of Mr and Mrs Ercole Brancatti, died at Muhlenberg Hospital from a fractured skull and internal injuries. Burial was at St Marys Cemetery following a requiem mass attended by relatives and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincent W. Nash, Jr
Fritz Howack
East Sixth Street
Victor Brancatti
South Avenue
Terrill Road
Carlton B. Pierce
Daniel F. Dugan
Wowack
Tase
Brancatti
Nowack
Muhlenberg Hospital
Ercole Brancatti
Angelo. Brancatti
West Fourth Street
Julia Brancatti
Boy Run Down By Auto On West Front Street
Edward Connors fifteen of 418 John street was struck by an automobile on West Front street opposite Exchange alley last night. The car owned by Benny Fieldman of Dunellen and driven by Bernard Ovsivitz of 229 Prescott place left Connors with severe cuts and bruises and a wrecked wheel. Police investigated but made no arrest as collision deemed partial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Connors
John Street
West Front Street
Exchange Alley
Benny Fieldman
Dunellen
Bernard Ovsivitz
Prescott Place
Connors
Pittis
Wounded Private Carney Naber Reported Among Latest
From the General’s office this morning comes word that Private Carney Naber, son of Mr. and Mrs. at 191 Grove Street, has been wounded in France. The message states he was hit by a bullet while at the firing line. further details are not available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grove Street
Tant General's
Fran
Attorney Geonery and Lyon & Sons Involved in Newark Gate Case
A muddled note indicates Attorney Geonery, based in this city, and the firm Lyon & Sons are connected to a gate dispute in Newark. The fragment hints at legal action or inclusion in a sam case, but specifics are unclear from the text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geonery
Newark
Herr
Lyon & Sons
Sam
City Fire Crews Fight Five Hour Blaze Spree
After a quiet period the city fire department answered four alarms in five hours on Wednesday. A grass fire at Monroe avenue near Fourths Lane involved Hose Company No. 2 using a hydrant. A dump fire on East Seventh Street near Leland Avenue and Terrill Road required three hours of hose lines. A blaze at Front and Washington Streets damaged a dresser and carpet, with chemicals used to extinguish and about fifty dollars in damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe Avenue
East Seventh Street
Leland Avent
Terrill Road
iFirstbrook
Washington Streets
Arrival of a Daughter
Mr and Mrs Thomas Lappin of 442 West Fourth street announce the arrival of a daughter. Mrs William Goeller of 1038 New street is also noted in connection with the birth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Lappin
West Fourth Street
William Goeller
New Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wer
Y. M
Miss Mary Line
City Council
Newsy
City Fire Department
Sergt
Joseph J. Kennedy
Collis
Boy
Carney Naber
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