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Newspaper
Plainfield Record
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1917
Page
3
A military unit reports fifty movable base hospitals fully equipped with top physicians surgeons and nurses ready for deployment. The organization emphasizes rapid setup in combat zones and standardized medical care for troops.
John Duffy of Liberty street is confined at home with pleurisy and bronchitis under Dr A H Dundon care. Engagement announced for Miss Alice Lindsley to Leon T Richards of New York City. Many local residents reported illnesses travels and military assignments with Robins and veterans notes and a fatal case of Mr Drayton at Muhlenberg Hospital.
Grace Protestant Episcopal church thronged for the funeral of James Winwall Drayton a Plainfield youth who died Tuesday after a brief illness Funeral services were led by the rector Vicars Stevenson and were followed by burial in Hillside cemetery The bearers included Gilbert Pletcher W L Perrin Jr George Alcorn Albert Wall Andrew McClellan and John McClellan.
Mayor Calkins appoints A. W. Ransom to the Home Defense Rescue Commission expanding it to five members. Ransom, captain of the league, joins Ackerman Hunteman Fullerton and Lofburrow on the panel. The council promoted J Whitney Baker to captain and Charles Langdon to first lieutenant after a regular meeting.
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