People sometimes do the darndest things, even in Warren.
Township employees removed the dummy early Sunday morning and later in the day the figure was found in the driveway of the Municipal Building. A Republican, Pierson had endorsed Albin Ehrhardt, a Democrat, for election to the open seat on the 3-member Township Committee. Ehrhardt's Republican opponent, Harold Mundy, refused to support the township's proposed Master Plan, a stance Pierson had found unacceptable. For his efforts, Pierson was expelled from the Republican Club along with Mrs. James Higgens, a reporter for the local paper. Then, on Election Day, township voters further confounded Mayor Pierson by electing Mundy over Ehrhardt by a margin of 1290 to 1263.