Plainfield Obituaries for Ethel Johnson Viola Fox and Robert Pollock
Obituaries report Ethel Collyer Johnson of Plainfield died in Newark. funeral held at Runyon's Park Ave parlors with burial in Hillside. Viola Apgar Fox, daughter of Mrs Frederick Chenck and the late Edward Fox, died after a long illness. services at Cole & High near Second Street with burial in Flemington Presbyterian cemetery. Corporal Robert H. Pollock Jr. of Philadelphia dies in France from pneumonia during WWI service. survived by parents Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Pollock, with siblings and local ties to Plainfield through Hillsite Avenue.
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Ethel Collyer Johnson
Fort
Plainfield
Lhomis
John Kirkner
West Elight Street
Kirkner
Runyon
Park Avenue
Viola Apgar
Viola Apgar Fox
Frederick @chenck
Edward Fox
Ronnie Burn
Newark
Cole &High
Second Street
Mooney
Elizaeth
Presbyterian Cemetery
Flemwington
CORP
H. Pol Lock
Obert H. Pollock
Powelton Avenue
Philadelphia
Robert
Pollock
Gladys
Garret Shepherd Rites Held at Higgins Chapel
Garret Shepherd of Harmony Borough died recently and his funeral was set for Wednesday at Higgins Chapel on Seventh Street with Rev. J O McJofi of Watchung Avenue Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial will follow in the Somerville cemetery. He was born in the borough 36 years ago and served as a carpenter, working for various local contractors.
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Garret Shepherd
Eral
Harmony
H Borouch
Higgins’ Chapel
7Th Street
J. O
Jofi
Watchung Avenue Presbyterian Church
Somerville
Mr. Shepherd
Borough
Somerset Street
Tad
Aerial Mail Service to Run New York Chicago Route
Captain B. B. Lipsner announced December start for the New York to Chicago air mail line. Twelve army fliers will begin training at Elizabeth to fly Handley Page planes over the route carrying one and a half tons per flight. The service will shorten mail transmission time between the two cities by seven to twelve days.
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New York
Chicago
B. B. Lipsner
Aerial
Th Post Office Department
Lipsner
Army
Elizabeth
New York-Chicago
White Star Losses in War Include Ten Vessels Totalling 180211 Tons
An official report lists ten White Star Line ships lost in wartime totaling 180,379 gross tons. Among them is the Britannic sunk in 1916 in the Aegean while in British hospital service. Also named are Oceanic Laurentic Cymric Afric Georgic Cevic Delphic and others, with Red Line ships noted as well. Miss Gertrude Sharp, recently abroad as Red Cross accountant, now in Paris.
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White Star Line
Aegean Sea
Oceanic
Laurentic
Cymric
Afric
Georgic
Cevic
Delphic
Atlantic Transport Line
Red’ Line
Southland
Gertrude Sharp
East Second Street
The
Red Cross
Paris
Death of Private Donald Gaston in Camp Hancock
Private Donald Gaston son of Dr and Mrs Gaston of Lordsburg California died last week at Camp Hancock Georgia from pneumonia after scarlet fever. He was 25, born in Plainfield New Jersey, educated at Plainfield High, lived on Fifth and New Streets then West Front Street. Survived by parents a sister at Lordsburg and brother William Gaston of Fruitland Park Florida.
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Donald Gaston
Eh Gaston
Lordsburg
California
Camp Hancock
Pasadena
Donald
Plainfield
William' Gaston
Fruitland Park
Florida
Clarence Woodcock
West ‘Seventh Street
Eleanor Woodcock
Wright Babcock Former Fanwood Mayor Dead at Seventy
Wright Babcock of Fanwood died at his home Saturday at age seventy. He served as Fanwood mayor in 1911 and long served on the Common Council. Burial was private at Trinity Cemetery New York. He left a wife a daughter and two sons one in New York and another in France. He was retired from the oil business after leading Babcock Cox as senior member.
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Wright Babcock
Fanwood
E. Vicars Stevenson
Trinity Cemetery
New York
Babcock & Cox
Babcock
Bessie Babcock
Dudley
Henry
France
Christmas Gift Restrictions Lifted by City Mayor
Mayor Leighton Calkins announced that the National and State Councils of Defense have lifted the ban on Christmas gift sales. The move, deemed essential to end the war and restore normal conditions, encourages reemployment of workers in holiday production and trade. Everything should be done to return workers to ordinary pursuits and spur recovery.
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Leighton Calkins
National
State Councils of Defense
National Council of Defense
Cheaper Train Meals For Returning Soldiers
Dollar meals on railroad diners will be served for seventy five cents to soldiers mustered out and traveling home. Director General McAdoo announced the policy as part of a traveling allowance of three and one half cents a mile to cover expenses. Earlier he had cut coach fare from three to two cents a mile for returning troops.
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McAdoo
Complete Placement of New Jersey's Old National Guard
Reorganization details place New Jersey units into the Twenty-ninth Division. Headquarters, infantry, machine gun, engineers, and signals units are reassigned to division commands with specific company and battalion alignments. The text also notes Coast Artillery reorganizations and related staffing across the reorganized force.
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New Jersey
Gilkyson
Twenty Guard
National Guard
Minth
13Th Balont
104Th Engineers
Emma Division
Fouth
iBunacy
Thes
Earth
Camp Dix
110Th Machine
Ba Jon
Ifantry
114Th Infantry
Comdin
104Th Enaicompany
I Pany Pi
Neers
Secont pg.Infantry
Trenton
Bere
Sinc ‘Ohfinies
Jin Tt Hiss
Tdi
Mtd
Twent Linth
114Th Finantia Tantry
Camden
111Th Machine 104Th Engineers
Gmp
Upton
von Bet Ind L
104Th Enginéers
Hp. 114Th Infantry
104Th Headquarters
112Th Field Artillery
Twenty-ninth
Field Artillery
Thertillery
104Th
112Th Field
Engineers
Ision
Tweninth
Coast Artillery
Dela E
Coast Defense Corps
Secong
Building Material Prices Stabilize amid Construction Costs
Prices for building materials show signs of stability as investors seek assurance on costs before committing funds. A New York based Building Trades Employers' Association resolution allows renewal of existing trade agreements for one year, setting per diem wage schedules for carpenters, roofers, plasterers, and other trades, effective January 1919.
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Board of Governors
Keess of
Thait New Bedforth
Naval Officer Patrick Powers Returns from War Service
Patrick J. Powers of Jackson Avenue, this city, served as an officer aboard the steamship George Washington. He enlisted in the navy a year ago and completed a dozen round trips across the Atlantic as a troop transport during the war.
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Patrick J. Powers
Jackson Avenue
George
Women Leaders Plan Conclave in Holland
Miss Jane Addams leads a plan for a 1919 women’s peace conference in Holland under the National Central Committee on Permanent Peace. The event aims to influence world opinion on women’s role in achieving durable peace and may affect the timing of the general peace session. Secretary Baker and officials weigh American participation. German and Austrian delegates may be barred from Paris.
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Sinal
Central
Jane Addams
Beret
Louis F. Post
Labor
Post
Miss Addams
Parip
Hotland
al Ford
Ford Party
Wits
Esidant
Wilson
League of Nation
Lansing
Baker
Ind. Aed
State Departments
Woodrow Wilson
Miss. Addams
Troops Home Timeline Seen At Least Ten Months
The War Department estimates indicate it will take at least ten months to repatriate troops from overseas. Boston, New York, Norfolk, and Charleston are among key points in the plan, with careful estimates of transport and facilities needed.
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Boston
New York
Charleston
5.C
War Department
Straig
Yever
Treasury mix up looms in tax collection plan
Treasury officials warn of delays and confusion as Congress debates sweeping tax law revisions aimed at 1940 revenues. The plan seeks to cut income tax rates, modify war profits taxes, and adjust rates to about two thirds of current levels, with a committee vote and pending Senate report.
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Senata
Opporimn
Airman Simmons
Anticipated April 1 End to Anthracite Supervision
Fuel Administrator indicated price controls on coal could be lifted in weeks while winter supervision of coal production and distribution would continue. Officials noted no definite plan to end the Fuel Administration, though authority persists until coal year begins in 1919. Provisions seal government enforcement of pre termination offenses and liabilities.
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Jenkinson
Howe
Things Worth Knowing From a Bee Tree in Swantge We
A jumbled wartime excerpt notes Abe Campbell paying 130 poupys for honey, a gasoline tractor with an adjustable driver seat, water gas production, and references to telegrams about absentee ballots. It cites meat ration changes, British troop movements, racial commentary, gunner roles, and a Boys' Life mention of Patrick Vaux.
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Swantge
Abe Campbell
Patrick Vaux
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