​Hunting time.
Thanksgiving next.
New moon tomorrow.
Six weeks left of 1922.
Pretty near time for snow.
The dark of the mooon.
A little rain on Wednesday.
Red Cross roll call this week.
Christmas is only five weeks away.
Dandelions still bloom in the grass.
Days are getting shorter and shorter.
Even the Kiefer pears have been harvested.
Weather begins to feel a little more like winter now and then.
Toms River merchants say that business holds pretty well this fall.
Poultrymen are talking of widening their plants, and increasing the number of their birds.
Walter Johnson has moved his store from Washington Street to the Thomas B. Irons store on Main Street.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the American Legion is preparing Christmas boxes for disabled soldiers in the hospitals.
Many folks call this a very nice fall. For that matter the autumn generally gives us the very nicest weather in the whole year.
There is a persistent rumor, grown stronger since the election, that the state is going to change things all around at the Main Street bridge.
Now that the leaves are off the trees, the shade trees along the streets of Toms River show their deformities. It would be well to get that Shade Tree Commission going at once, and see what can be devised to save such trees as are worth saving, and replace those that are not.
Many folks about the county are going south for the winter.
Cranberries are being hurried to market to get the Thanksgiving buyer satisfied.
The Poultry Producers' Association will have a banquet next Tuesday night at Lakewood.
Election made a big flurry for a day or two, but how quick it has settled down for most folk.
Lower Main Street is ripped up, on its west edge. Next week will see the concrete laid there, presumably.
Main Street makes for poor walking—the contractor has no thought of the people who have to use its sidewalks.
Speaking of his gunning trip down the bay last week, Cap Grover remarks that it was the only time he ever spent a week gunning and came back with more shells than he had when he started.
Commodore P.L. Grover went rabbit hunting on the first day of the season, but refuses to incriminate himself by telling how many he shot. Disinterested witnesses, however, say that he brought home one.
A dozen or more boys, from 14 to 18 years of age, had a conference by personal invitation Thursday night of last week with Recorder King. This official told the boys that some, if not all of them, had been connected up with acts of malicious mischief on Hallowe'en, and that from their prank several citizens had had property damaged or destroyed. Most of the boys at the conference were accompanied by either father, mother, or both. The boys were told that if they were willing to get together and make good the loss they had occasioned the matter would be dropped. Otherwise there were several people ready to issue warrants for arrest. Here is where the matter now stands.
Saturday night crowds continue with this nice weather.
Trapping season for pelts began on Wednesday, November 15.
How the leaves dropped off the trees last week.
Sunday was a warm day, with a cool blow out of the west at night.
Flocks of hundreds of starlings are seen in the fields up Point Pleasant way.
Thanksgiving day comes as late as it ever does this year, the last day of November.
Max Leet has laid a concrete curb along his property on South Main Street, Berkeley [today South Toms River Borough].
A few motorboats were out on the bay and river last week end—summer visitors came down to get one more nice day on the water.
The Toms River High School pupils are getting out a Thanksgiving issue of the Cedar Chest [a semi-regular school journal that eventually became an annual yearbook]. Mrs. J. Lloyd Glass is the faculty advisor this year.

​Let's all be thankful.
Five weeks left of 1922.
New moon last Saturday.
One week more of November.
Weather is more like winter.
Freeholders met on Tuesday.
Thanksgiving day next Thursday.
Christmas is only a month away.
Crescent moon in the west this week.
Seward Avenue has three new homes about completed.
The roof is about on the large parish house at St. Joseph's R.C. Church.
The forehanded merchant is already advertising goods for Christmas shoppers.
Frank W. Sutton, Jr., is building a hollow tire garage on his Main Street property.
Arthur C. King killed two cock pheasants on Saturday last and is having both of them mounted.
Riverside football team came here last Saturday and played the Naval Air Station team. The score was 13-12.
A number of Toms River people are planning to attend the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia tomorrow.
“Blueberries an Inch Across” is the title of an article in the current issue of the Country Gentleman, written by Carl Woodward, of the State Experiment Station, New Brunswick, and describing the results at Whitebogs by Miss White in cultivating the swamp huckleberry.
If the summer was set, the autumn has been dry. Farmers would like more rain. Wells and springs are low.
George H. Holman, at one time about the largest holder of cranberry holdings in all this neighborhood, has sold about all his bogs.
Manager Ferris, of the Marion Inn, denies the story that has been spread around town to the effect that the Marion Inn was to close down for the winter.
Charles H. Bond will give a dance on the Scout Hall. These dances are given each Saturday evening, and are apparently enjoyed by the younger dancing set.
Most of the cranberries in this neighborhood have been shipped to market. Every freight train you have seen for the past three weeks has had one or more refrigerator cars in it.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the American Legion served dinner on Wednesday evening of this week at the home of Dr. and Mrs. George T. Crook, to about one hundred people. Beside an excellent dinner, a pleasant social time was had.
The express and freight carriers have had a real job this week delivering goods to places on Main Street. 
Mr. Craig, of the freight department of the Central Railroad, was in town on Tuesday, and said that the officials of that road were greatly pleased with the heavy increase in freight traffic to and from Toms River in the past three years.
This wasn't “Down in Grover's Store,” but across the street in the Toms River Supply Co. Store. They were talking about game, and a young lad broke in—“Say, Mr. Blank, did you ever shoot a parsonage? I was out the other day and a big bird got up ahead of me—I didn't know what it was, but they said it was a parsonage.” He later agreed that maybe it was a partridge.
Joseph Y. Murphy boasts that he had the last drink out of the fountain before it was torn down to widen the street. The fountain had stood there for almost 25 years. The Township Committee have not decided where they will put it. Widening the street also compelled the moving of the two gas tanks and pumps in front of the Toms River Supply Co., and of a number of stop boxes on water service pipes, as well as a fire hydrant.
The Toms River Co-Operative Association is planning to acquire land along the railroad, where a siding can be put in, and build a warehouse for the receipt of their supplies.
Toms River High School and Newman School, of Lakewood, tied at football Wednesday afternoon, at the Gulick Field, score being 7 to 7. Burnett was the pride of Toms River, intercepting a forward pass, circling the ends, and making a touchdown.
L.R. White, who was for some time employed at the Proving Ground, Lakehurst, and later at the Air Station, has opened a repair shop on Sheriff Street, in the new garage just built by George H. Holman. Mr. White, who is a Yale graduate, has been an automobile mechanic for twelve years.
Capt. Stephen H. Sherrill, Signal Corps, U.S. Army, was in Toms River on Tuesday and arranged to come back on Wednesday of next week, November 29, and give a radio concert in front of the Traco Theatre at 8:30 P.M. His subject is to demonstrate the army apparatus, said to be the best in the world, and also obtain recruits for the Signal Corps, at Camp Vail, near Long Branch. Captain Sherrill was a room mate of Maj. Grant Holmes, of Forked River, when they were cadets at West Point, before the war.
Thanksgiving will be the last day of November.
Won't we feel proud when Main Street is finished. We ought to have a parade and celebrate.
A pig roast will be held at the Toms River Yacht Club on Tuesday of next week, in the evening, for the male members and their friends.
Lakewood is to have a third theatre, the Rialto, having been leased by Frey and Weber, of Long Branch, and put on their circuit.
Tuckerton and West Creek and Parkertown folks say that the new electric lights at Beach Haven are easily seen from the mainland, even if Beach Haven is six miles at sea.

​December.
Twelfth month.
Moonlit evenings.
Last month in the year.
Thirty days left of 1922.
Full moon next Monday.
Shop early—shop at home.
Holidays are drawing near.
Days will soon be at their shortest.
The first snow on Monday night.
Get busy on your Christmas shopping.
Better lay in some wood—you may not get coal.
Yachts are either laid up or on their way to Florida.
Give the town merchants the benefit of your Christmas buying.
And now Toms River is to have a Legion Home for Convalescent Soldiers.
There was enough snow on Monday night to make a white showing on roofs and on grass Tuesday morning.
One of the biggest pieces of business the cranberry men ever did was to get people thinking they can't eat the big dinner without cranberry sauce for the turkey or chicken.
Very few leaves left on the trees now.
Merchants are getting in their Christmas stocks.
Main Street, once it is cleaned up, will be some street, eh?
There is talk of putting in still another siding at the Central Railroad, near the depot.
Signs of fresh eggs for sale along the Lakewood Road have dropped to eighty cents a dozen.
On Tuesday the barriers on the new concrete road were moved down to Lein Street, all the rest of the street being thrown open.
Joseph Y. Murphy bought a lot on lower Hyers Street, between the Knox blacksmith shop and the Havens building at the corner of Sheriff Street.
The cardinal bird, which kept in the thickets for the past few months, is again visiting his favorite haunts in the gardens. One has been seen the past several times about Walton Street.
An occasional robin is seen, and also an occasional blackbird. The latter are generally found, when seen in winter, in with a flock of starlings. The starling this fall are seen in flocks from a dozen or two, up to several hundred.
O.E. Payne reports the sale of his 66-acre farm, formerly known as the Woolley property, on the north side of town, extending from the Freehold Road to the Lakewood Road, to the Dinnerstein Brothers, of Brooklyn. A large poultry plant will be established at once.
The Toms River Yacht Club held Thanksgiving night dance, last evening, at the clubhouse.
The Point Pleasant Leader [newspaper] says that men with crab nets make a good haul of frost fish on the beaches at night in that section; also that a fishing crew of four caught four barrels of cod off shore in one day. The party was headed by Alonzo Asay, formerly of Toms River.

PROHIBITION
The reason it is so difficult to enforce the law against liquor-selling is inherent in the American make-up. We are all spontaneously against the enforcement of any law that interferes with us. Come along shore and hear the men sitting around the grocery store stove discussing the game laws; stop at a country club and hear the boasts how this one and that one broke the speed laws and motor regulations, and evaded arrest; go into a club of business men and listen to how they get from under the income and excess profit taxes, and use the tariff, or evade it, as it is to their interests. It makes no difference what class of society it is, a law to the American mind is something that he can change if he gets enough votes, and therefore something to be evaded when it crosses his purposes or desires. Then take foreigners coming to this country from a land where law was rigid against his (the peasant) class, let him find out the American attitude as to law, and how can you expect anything else than what we find?

DOWN IN GROVER'S STORE
The fact that “Bill-Ed” and “Sampson,” fresh from the inlet, answered the roll call on Saturday night, at Grover's Store, made it an eventful hour—for “Bill-Ed,” though a charter member, and in good standing, owing to his living in Darby, doesn't get a chance to attend an open session more than once, or at most, twice in a year.
Habits of duck were being discussed. It was the unanimous opinion that a duck is a real feeder. One said that a fat black duck, with the ponds frozen over three days, would starve so thin that he wasn't worth cooking. Another said that a wild duck in the grainfields would stuff his crop full and his neck full—“So full that he can't either bend his neck or turn his head.”
But Cap finished the argument. “The most fish I saw all this season was this fall, down the bay. We shot a shelldrake, and I noticed his neck bulged out. I shut my hand around his neck bellow the bulge and worked it toward his head. And more fish shot out of that shelldrake's bill than I had seen all summer.”
From that to fish was an easy transition, and somebody said that a bluefish would eat till it could eat no more, and then keep right on eating, or at least keep on killing. Speaking of bluefish got a rise out of “Skip,” who never does have much to say: “Franklin and I were down at the Inlet for a week's fishing this fall, and say, some of these city folks do have queer ideas of sport. There was a bunch there fishing for channel bass—the same bunch that made the biggest catch of striped bass of the summer on the whole beach, and had everybody envying 'em. 'What luck, boys?' I sung out, as we come up. 'None at all,' one answered back. 'We haven't caught a dang thing, except striped bass and blue fish!'”
The Newark Call says that Elwin Brooks of the “Four Corners Town” bagged two wild geese, several duck and snipe, while on a gunning trip at Barnegat. Also that James Thompkins and Bert Wolfe gunned three days at Pasadena, Ocean County, getting fourteen rabbits and three pheasants. They expect to return to the same camp for the deer season. Andrew Hall and Frank Kiefer, also of Newark, were at Seaside Park last Thursday and brought back six ducks, two geese and two sheldrakes apiece.
Frost fish are gathered these nights in the surf. They say that, with a flashlight, t was not necessary to wait for the moonlit evenings.
You can go raccoon hunting these nights, if you want to, as the law won't stop you.

ALWAYS AT THE FRONT
A live town, like a live man, cannot be kept down. A place located with so many natural advantages as Toms River is bound to be attractive to all who see it. Another evidence of its attractiveness is seen in the selection of a home here for disabled soldiers by the American Legion. Toms River seems destined to grow. And not only Toms River, but all Ocean County. Take a look, for instance at the growth of the Lakewood and Point Pleasant neighborhoods in the past few years.

NEW YACHTS FOR BARNEGAT BAY RACES NEXT YEAR
Reports say that there will be a number of new yachts for the Barnegat Bay races for next year. If present plans work out former Commodore Edward Crabbe, of the Toms River Yacht Club expects to have a catboat built by Morton Johnson, of Bay Head, about the size of the Mary Ann, which last summer took most of the Barnegat Bay catboat events, and carried the cups home to Island Heights. The Crabbe boys, Edward, Daniel and Birkbeck, are also making arrangements with Mort Johnson for a twenty-foot sneakbox.
Mort Johnson has two twenty-foot boxes to build, from designs by Charles D. Mower. One is for Orton G. Dale, owner of the famous old-time racing box Arran. The other is for an Island Heights yachtsman, who so far is not named. It is understood that other yachtsmen are talking over with other builders plans for several other boxes, and that the fifteen-foot fleet will be increased by next July, when the racing begins.
The Barnegat Bay Yacht Racing Association has appointed a committee to amend rules to keep out freak boats. It is understood that accepting the Mary Ann as an accomplished fact, they will try to keep her build as the extreme limit in construction of racing boats.
Toms River Yacht Club will probably sponsor the September race of the Barnegat Bay Yacht Racing Association, in 1923, off Cedar Creek Point.

RUM RUNNERS AT OUR INLETS
Reports from along shore say that fishermen are running in rum at Barnegat Inlet. The same reports come from Manasquan Inlet and from Tuckerton Bay. Reports tell of strange men harboring in gunning shacks on the meadows, generally foreigners; of strange trucks that frequent roads to the bay shore at night; of launches, some known and some unknown, that slip in and out the inlet after nightfall. The old days of the smuggler seem to have returned.

PROGRESSIVE SHORE TOWNS OBTAIN ELECTRIC LIGHTS
1922 will be remembered in a number of the progressive shore towns in lower Ocean County as the year in which they obtained electric lights. Tuckerton started off by making a contract with an Atlantic City electric plant, which has the contract to supply current to the radio station four miles below Tuckerton, and were willing to take Tuckerton on that feed wire. Barnegat, never to be outdone by Tuckerton, then installed a plant of its own. Beach Haven, heretofore dependent upon an acetylene gas plant, when it learned what Barnegat was doing, started a plant, also municipally owned, and the lights have been turned on for a week. Now West Creek has made arrangement with the same company in Atlantic City, which supplies Tuckerton with current, and as the line will be run to West Creek, Parkertown will also be served. Now it would seem to be Manahawkin's opportunity to harness the waste water power from Stafford Lake and put in its electric plant.
But down shore is not the only spot where electricity has been extended.
The Lakewood and Coast Electric Company has run wires down the beach from Bay Head to Seaside Park, which means that Lavallette was lighted by electricity this summer. The same company is now lighting Lakehurst and Whitesville. The Toms River Electric Company has extended its lines to Pine Beach, and also is putting them north in Dover Township to Pleasant Plains Church, in the rapidly growing poultry district. Ocean Gate has appointed a committee to see if either the Toms River or Lakewood Company will supply them with current.

FIRED TO HALT RUM SHIP IN CHASE OFF JERSEY COAST
Atlantic City, Nov. 17.—Ending a chase of more than an hour off coast last night, Federal coast guards, commanded by Captain John Holdskom of the Absecon Station, captured the auxiliary schooner Edwin H. Berke. A cargo of 400 cases of Nassau liquor was confiscated, and Harry Goekler, her commander, and Sidney Calmer, his crew, were arrested. A shot was fired across the schooner's bow to halt her.
When Captain Holdskom took up the patrol, he found a suspicious light beyond the bar off Absecon Inlet, which proved to be a heavily laden schooner cruising toward them. About that time, the vessel sighted them and turned about, heading up beyond Brigantine Beach.
The coast guards gave pursuit. The schooner extinguished her lights and doubled back, hoping to evade capture. When she turned again, Captain Holdskom anticipated the action and shot in toward shore, throwing a searchlight on the craft, as she darted into Brigantine Inlet.

N.J. PRODUCTS CHEAPEN THANKSGIVING DINNER
Thanksgiving dinners will cost less this year than at any time since pre-war days, the State Bureau finds, in a survey of food prices for the coming holiday and added the interesting information for Jerseymen that their own state has contributed largely to production of supplies and reduction of prices for the feast. From oysters to pie and ice cream, in fact, the bureau shows that New Jersey can supply everything needed for a sumptuous dinner...

NEW PUMPING ENGINE SHOWS ITS WORTH IN HAZARDOUS FIRE
WATER STREET LANDMARK WRECKED BY $20,000 FIRE
A fire that caused at least $20,000 damage, as estimated by the owner of the building, Samuel Kaufman, completely wrecked the United Feed Company building, on Water Street, and the W.L. DeGraw store, on Tuesday, November 28. The heavy weight of five carloads of corn on the second floor, after the roof had burnt off and fallen in crushed in the floor of the second story, and shoved out the side of the building on the west so that the building is almost a complete wreck, and is fit for little except to tear down.
When the building collapsed several firemen, members of Fire Company No. 1, were on the second floor, and went down with it. They all escaped serious injury, thought more or less painfully hurt, but were around the rest of the day. William S. DeGraw, Henry Bocock and Harry Harris went down with the floor, while Sidney R. Harris, president of the Fire Company No. 1, was in the alleyway between the burnt building and the Alonzo Hyers building, next door, and just escaped being pinned fast by the falling timbers.
The fire was a bad one to fight, as it was an old building full of inflammable dust from being used for years on its upper floors for storage of grains. Hardly more than a yard away on the west was Capt. Alonzo Hyers building, and but a short distance on the east was the Central Hotel. It was a great piece of luck for the village that the fire broke out on Tuesday, when there was almost no wind, rather than a day earlier, when a wild westerly gale raged...
Both fire companies were early on the job. Two streams were got on the front of the building from the hydrants and the new pumper was run back of Berry's stores. Its suction pipe lowered into the river, and it threw four streams of water on the burning building...
The Beachwood firemen hurried up with their apparatus and offered their aid, as soon as they heard the alarm blow...
The DeGraw grocery, which was in the west end of the building, after the collapse of the upper floor, was a mass of broken and charred timbers, with loose corn spilled everywhere.
Samuel Kaufman, of the United Feed Company said that the loss could not be less than $20,000. He figured the company's loss on corn, hay and other feeds at $10,000, besides the loss of the building and the loss of the DeGraw grocery stock. The United Feed Company has almost completed a large grain elevator, warehouse and store on the Main Shore road, in Berkeley, with a siding from the Central Railroad, and will transfer their business as soon as possible [ironically this also burned in a terrific conflagration thirty years later, the dramatic photos of which still exist in various local archives]. They were almost ready to move. Their stock in the burned building is all water soaked and damaged, if not ruined...
The building in the olden days was known for a generation as Potter's store. The eastern part of the building was built by, or at least occupied by Ed Ivins as a store in the sixties. About 1868 the late Charles W. Potter started a store there. Later he sold out to his father, Reuben Potter, who built the west part of the building and the peaked roof over it all. He carried on a store there for nearly twenty years. In 1890 Joseph Grover began business for himself in that store and staid there til 1896, when he moved to his present location. In the seventies and eighties, when there were still a few of the charcoal burners left in the pines, and the clamboats used to come up from Barnegat Bay and Egg Harbor to ship their catches from Toms River, “Potter's Store” was the headquarters of both piner and bayman, and the boys of that time can remember the interest with which they used to hang about the store and listen to these oldtimers from the bay and woods.
The feed business was started by John Hagaman, Jr., who bought the place about twenty years ago and conducted a grocery and feed store. Later William L. DeGraw bought the grocery business and Joseph Y. Murphy the feed business, the latter selling to the United Feed Company.
No one can explain how the fire stared. So far the only suggestion is that there must have been a crack in the chimney in the second floor, or else the chimney caught fire, and got hot enough to set fire to the woodwork. Being unable to get coal, Mr. DeGraw was burning wood, and the chimney was old. That may be the explanation...

KITE BALLOON IN AIR
A new kite balloon was sent up last Friday and Saturday afternoon at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst. Saturday afternoon the balloon was hauled down and deflated. The balloon was of light grey silk, or some material that was as shiny as silk, was almost spherical, but a little egg shaped, with two inflated fins at the tail end. Its cable was fast to a winch on a heavy motor truck, and in addition it took a score or more of men to handle the ropes after the balloon had been brought close to the ground to rip open the escape and let the gas out, and then to open the big valves for the same purpose. A detachment of sailors and marines handled the balloon.

BUILDING JETTY TO HEAD OFF BEACH HAVEN INLET
In an effort to stop the encroachment of the sea at the new Beach Haven inlet, below Beach Haven, on Long Beach, the Long Beach Township Committee is building a jetty out into the inlet from the north point of the beach. The jetty starts from the beach about two or three hundred feet to the west of the County road. For the past year the inlet has been cutting away the land rapidly, as it has moved, or widened, toward the north. The U.S. Government found it necessary to move its coastguard station. Many acres of beachland have gone under water. It is hoped that a jetty system may hold the beach from further scouring away.

HOME TALENT BURGALIZES SUTTON'S ICE CREAM STORE
What is unanimously believed to have been home talent burglarized the ice cream and confectionery store of Fred G. Sutton on Main Street, last Sunday night or Monday morning. When the store was opened Monday morning it was found that the rear door had been forced open, and the cash register robbed of about $25, small change to the amount of $2.65 being left. They had also taken, as near as Mr. Sutton could tell, six boxes of candy, five boxes of cigars and six cigarette holders, making his loss about fifty or sixty dollars. It will be remembered that on election night an attempt was made to unlock the front door of Meyer Williams' shoe store, and a key was broken off in the lock, so that the entrance was not gained.

APPLEBY A GOOD SPORT
The Trenton Times designates Congressman Appleby as a good sport, saying, Congressman T. Frank Appleby, who was defeated for re-election by Elmer H. Geran, by about a thousand votes, was asked whether he would contest Geran's election. “No,” was his answer, “I do not believe in contesting elections.”

“SQUIRE RAWLEY, “A MODERN DANIEL COME TO JUDGEMENT”
For destroying property in their Hallowe'en pranks, three young men at New Egypt were brought before Justice George A. Rawley. The boys were Richard Sparks, Samuel Pullen and Elmer Bechtel, and this was the sentence meted out to them after they had pleaded guilty: “Pay all damages fined five dollars and costs; learn the life of Abraham Lincoln and appear before Justice Rawley every month and recite what they had learned; and put on parole for one year with the understanding that they be in bed every night at 9 o'clock.”

WILL RECONSTRUCT BAY BRIDGE
The bridge from Seaside Heights across Barnegat Bay to the mainland will be reconstructed. Louis J. Selling, of Red Bank, was the lowest bidder at $83,718. It is intended to put an entire new floor, including new stringers and deck beams. It is not expected that the bridge will be closed while making repairs, although certain sections may be closed for short periods at various times during the progress of the work.

BOOSTING TOMS RIVER AS FOREMOST POULTRY CENTER
Toms River got a big boost as the foremost and most progressive poultry center in the state last week by the publication all over this state and in the dailies of cities in adjoining states, of the big record made by William Johnson's flock of hens, which laid an average of 198.6 eggs per bird in one year. This is a record never exceeded for so large a flock, and such successes as that keep Toms River as a poultry center and Toms River poultrymen as leaders in their methods and results, in the limelight.

SPENT 75 DAYS IN JAIL
Judge Newman, on Wednesday, released on their own bail, two Swede fishermen, Chris Johnson and George Urchin, who were arrested about September 1, on a booze charge, and had been in jail for the past 75 days. The men had a job waiting them on the beach.

OCEAN COUNTY HENS IN VINELAND EGG CONTEST
S.C. White Leghorns
Bayville Farms, Bayville, N.J. - 43
A.L Causse, Jr., Toms River, N.J. - 82
Columbia Poultry Farm, Toms River – 95
C.S. Greene, Mt. Kisco, N.Y. - 27
Michael R. Hecht, Toms River – 38
Hoehn Farm, Brooklyn – 99
Novins Poultry Farm, Toms River - 71

THE LEGION IN POLITICS
For forty years after the Civil War the question asked of every man who was nominated for high office, was, “What was his war record?” Grover Cleveland was the only man, from Grant to McKinley, elected President without being able to show that he had an honorable part in the Civil War. In the South, during that period, a war record in the Secession army was as vital to success at the polls. The last election showed the first effort of the American Legion in politics in this county. Had this been a close county, the fact that Lieut. James W. Lillie, the Democratic nominee for Assembly, was supported by the Legion, might have elected him. As it was Lillie ran well ahead of his ticket. Are we to have a Legion faction (or bloc) to add to our baymen's faction, oystermen's faction, clammers' faction, resort hotel mens' faction, as well as wet and dry [for and against prohibition], etc., in this county. And why not a cranberry mens' bloc and a poultrymen's faction also? Or, best of all, a taxpayers' bloc, to see that we get value for the dollar or tax money that is spent.

HINT BOOZE TRUCK KILLED OFFICER BEEBE AT LAKEWOOD
The killing of Policeman Richard Beebe of Lakewood, so far as the public knows, is still a mystery, after a lapse of three weeks. There is a rumor that crops in all kinds of places about Lakewood which connects up the killing of the policeman with a booze truck that supplies some of the alleged “thirty saloons or speakeasies” in Lakewood with their source of supply. Those who tell this say in all seriousness that had it been a booze truck that killed Policeman Beebe its driver would not have dared to stop, for the whole liquor trade, while in some ways open enough, is naturally allowed only so long as it can keep under cover.

TRUANCY CASE DISMISSED; DELINQUENT CHILD A BRIDE
The case brought in the truancy court against Sarah Platt, of Berkeley, Toms River, by Arthur McKelvey, attendance officer, before Judge Newman, was dismissed on Wednesday of this week, when it was reported to the court that the delinquent child is now a bride. Miss Platt was recently married to Jesse Magee, of Toms River.

“BETTER SWEETS” TRADE NAME FOR OCEAN COUNTY
The Ocean County Sweet Potato Growers' Association, at a meeting on Monday evening, at Toms River, adopted the trade name, “Better Sweets,” under which to market the Ocean County Association grown sweet potatoes. This is to be copyrighted, application having already been made.
It is probable that the next move of the sweet potato growers in this section will be to secure a storage house to take care of their potatoes during the winter. The storage house, if built for this purpose, will probably be on one railroad or the other, in order to have it act as a shipping house also.

LEGION BUYS HOME FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS AT TOMS RIVER
OLD J.G. GOWDY FARM ON EAST WASHINGTON ST.
A home for convalescent soldiers has been bought at Toms River—the former James G. Gowdy farm at Washington Street and Clifton Avenue—by the American Legion. It will be the second American Legion Convalescent Home in the United States, the first being also in South Jersey, at Wildwood, Cape May County. The farmhouse will be fitted up to receive convalescent men who are not sick enough to come under the care of the government, and yet not well enough to make their own way in the world. It is planned to turn the large and well built farm into an annex, if it is needed, for that purpose. The farm has thirty-two acres of good ground, though it has not been cultivated for some years [it was eventually purchased and converted into what today is the Toms River Elks, with the remainder of the property sold and cut up for house development]...
The farm that has been bought for this purpose, when owned by the late James G. Gowdy, was kept in a high state of cultivation, and was one of the show places of this neighborhood. Mr. Gowdy had fine asparagus beds, fruit orchards, etc. The place could once more be made into a real farm. The house sits back from the road with a spacious lawn. Seen from this place are glimpses of the river, gleaming through the trees, across the Cranmoor estate [itself since redeveloped into housing from Washington Street to the riverfront in the years since]...

OYSTERS FAT AND FANCY
Reports from the lower end of the county say that the oysters are fat and fancy in condition, and meet with a ready market at fair prices, so that the oyster planters are shipping steadily with a profitable business. The weather has been sharp enough the past month to make a demand for oysters.

$50.00 REWARD
For arrest and conviction of persons who stole six wild tame black duck and two chickens from my farm at Forked River. Thos. H. Thropp—Adv. 

TRUCK AND AUTO COLLIDE
Newly Wedded Couple Injured on Honeymoon Trip
An auto truck of the American Company, of Toms River, and a Ford sedan, driven by Percy Chadwick, of Bayhead, collided at Sumner avenue and Boulevard, Seaside Heights, and the latter's wife, a bride of a week, was badly cut about the face, her head going through the windshield. Mr. Chadwick's mother was also badly shaken up in addition to receiving a fracture of the shoulder.
The injured were taken to Wickham's Pharmacy, Seaside Park, where their injuries were temporarily treated. Later they were taken to the Spring Lake Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick were married on Wednesday of last week...

THESE HUMANS MUST STARVE—UNLESS AMERICA SENDS AID
Near East Meeting Next Sunday, 7:30 P.M., At Traco
The community meeting, in aid of the Near East Relief will be held on Sunday evening next at the Traco Theatre, at 7:30 o'clock. The meeting will be in charge of the clergy of the town, and all the churches of the town are interested, as an undenominational and village affair.
There will be a film showing some of the conditions among the orphans in the Orient. The hymns to be sung, are well known and popular tunes, will be shown on the screen. There will be an address on conditions in the Near East by Albert H. Skean, who recently returned from Smyrna [Greece]...

TO MATCH JOHN D.'S $5000
$9746.12 has been raised toward the maternity ward, at the Kimball Hospital, Lakewood. It is necessary to raise $2748.61 before January 1 to secure the John D. Rockefeller gift of $5000 which was offered on May 10 last, and conditioned on another $5000 being raised from that date to match his $5000.

ALBERT'S UNLUCKY DAY
Albert Miles, a stalwart and good-humored citizen of Whitings, is sure that Monday was his unlucky day. He started before daylight from Whitings, coming down by the railroad track, to Toms River, and got caught and soaked through by the storm that broke when he was half way here. His team [of horses] were so frightened that he had trouble with them all the rest of the day. When reaching Toms River he found the streets torn up and got caught in the mess on his way to the blacksmith shop, to have the team shod; and when he did get there the team was skittish, not having gotten over their fright from the storm, that he had another time. Then to make a most unpleasant ending of an unlucky day, he took home a gold watch from Worstall, the jeweler, for Charles Payne, of Whitings, and lost it on the road. Albert said he had it in his trouser's pocket, and driving home via Lakehurst, as he had a load on the wagon, he looked at the watch shortly after starting up the Lakehurst road, and put it back, as he supposed in his pocket. Up by Jake Miller's, he went to look at the watch again, and it was gone. He walked all the way back to town, searching both ways, but didn't find it. Yes, Albert is sure it was his unlucky day.

LOCAL EGGS HIT 94 CENTS, NOW HAVE DROPPED TO 90
The local hennery white Jersey eggs candled, climbed up to 94 cents per dozen in the New York markets on Monday, about the high water mark for this fall. Tuesday they were reported at 92 cents a dozen. Yesterday's figures in the New York Herald gave fancy Jersey hennery whites, uncandled, at 86 to 90 cents; and the same eggs candled, at 90 cents. The mild fall and heavy production of eggs is said to have resulted in the drop in the present price this week.

WELL-KNOWN LAKEWOOD MAN BURNED TO DEATH IN SHACK
Lakewood, Nov. 20.—The charred body of “Capt.” John Johnson was found in his shack, which was almost completely destroyed by fire about 9 o'clock Friday evening. Captain Johnson, as he was known by his acquaintances, was about 65 years of age. He is known to have been a heavy drinker, and a number of people are reported to have seen him in an intoxicated condition about two hours before the fire was discovered.
The deceased is survived by two sisters and three brothers. He was a skilled mechanic, both as an architect and builder. His shack was on wheels. Johnson had been a lifelong resident of the Lakewood section and was a town character, known to all the old residents. 

CRANBERRY PRICES HOLD UP TO WHERE THEY STARTED
Cranberry prices seem to be holding up to where they started or a little better, owing to the demand for the Thanksgiving market. Early blacks are given in the New York markets as $8 to $12 per barrel. Later varieties, fancy stock, at from $12.50 to $14. Lower quality berries are somewhat under these figures.

TWO MEET DEATH AS TRAIN CRUSHES AUTO
Point Pleasant, Nov. 18.—Two persons were killed and one seriously injured here last night when the New York express, due to arrive here at 9:52 struck a Ford sedan at the Forman Avenue crossing, on its return from the loop about 10:10. Albert Johnson, a local taxi driver, and driver of the Ford, was killed instantly, and Mrs. William T. Paterson, a passenger in the car, died before aid could reach her. Mrs. Pauline Regan, another passenger, is confined to the local hospital with severe bruises about the head, several teeth knocked out, a broken arm and lacerations of the right leg. It was reported this morning that she will probably recover.
All three of the occupants of the Ford were local residents. Johnson was one of the leading taxi operators in the borough. Mrs. Patterson lived with her husband and a son on Cramer Avenue. Her husband is a freight man on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Barton Regan, the husband of Mrs. Regan, is a telegraph operator at Mt. Holly. They also have a son and live on Lincoln Avenue.
The express arrived at the scheduled time last night and having stopped at the local station to discharge passengers, proceeded to the loop. It was headed north on the northbound track about a quarter of an hour later. Johnson was headed west of Forman Avenue. The Ford was struck with terrific force and carried about 150 feet, being completely wrecked. The bodies of Johnson and Mrs. Patterson were taken to the undertaking establishment of J.H. Harvey here, where preparations for burial were made... The Forman Avenue crossing is not guarded by a flagman.

PROFIT IN CRANBERRIES UNCLE SAM'S EXPERTS SAY
As followed in New Jersey, cranberry culture is recommended as a profitable industry under suitable conditions and in certain climates, by specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. At a conference of extension workers the possibilities, advantages and drawbacks in cranberry growing were discussed.
The bulk of the present cranberry crop is grown on the acid soils and peat bogs of New Jersey and Massachusetts. In New York, Wisconsin, Michigan and near the mouth of the Columbia River, in Washington and Oregon cranberries are also grown in commercial quantities. Some cranberries are also grown in the mountain districts in Virginia and West Virginia.
Preparation of the land for cranberry growing is an expensive process. All trees and roots have to be removed from the marsh and burned, and the fields graded, ditched, dyked and sanded. Before the war, swamp land could thus be cleared and prepared for about $300 to $700 per acre. At present prices of labor and materials, this work will cost anywhere from $600 to $1200.
Ordinarily the price of cranberries per barrel is from $6 to $10, although during the past year as much as $40 per barrel was obtained for small lots. The number of barrels produced per acre ranges from 15 or 20 to 100 and sometimes 200. A reasonable expectation, under good conditions and management, however, would be from 35 to 40 barrels per acre, the specialists say.

EXHIBITING “BETTASWEETS”
The Ocean County Sweet Potato Association has been holding a number of meetings lately preparatory to putting their sweet potatoes on the market. Meeting was held Monday evening, November 20, in the Toms River Chamber of Commerce rooms, at which a demonstration in grading was given by County Agent E.H. Waite. Plans were made for transportation of sweet potatoes to New York. It was decided to make no shipments until along in December. The trade name adopted is “Bettasweets.”
The association is planning to stage a large exhibition at the State Horticultural meeting in Atlantic City December 5, 6 and 7. Exhibits have been selected by each member and Ocean County will probably be represented by close to 80 bushels. Julius Wider, of Forked River, a member of the association, will take the exhibits to Atlantic City in his two-ton truck and bring them back. The association is planning to make another large exhibit at Trenton Farmers' week.

FREDERICK JONES RESIGNS AS SEASIDE HEIGHTS MAYOR
Councilman E.C. Kramer, the borough's first mayor and who served several terms, is selected successor.
Quite a surprise was created at the Seaside Heights council meeting on Tuesday evening when Mayor Jones tendered his resignation. He gave as a reason that he is going to Florida and will not return until spring and that in the meantime the borough needed a mayor. Mr. Jones further stated he is going to retire from work and will reside permanently in Seaside Heights, except during the winter months.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
The Chamber of Commerce had a busy meeting on Wednesday evening of this week, it discussing many subjects of importance to this village business. President Warner appointed a committee consisting of Dr. Frank Brouwer, Anthony Then, Daniel B. Priest, Atwood Wardell and William H. Fischer, to take up with the Board of Education plans of getting a new school house started before school should open in September, 1923.
On complaint that some merchants were at times blockading the sidewalks with their goods, Messrs. O.E. Payne and William H. Fischer were named a committee to see if the merchants could not be induced to give the pedestrians the right of way...
Other matters discussed were a possible census of Dover Township; a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the discovery of the river by Capt. William Tom, after whom it is supposedly named; a fitting opening of Main Street when the concrete road is completed; traffic post location at Main and Washington and Main and Water Streets; a traffic cop at Water and Robbins Streets; the shade tree situation, and the widening of Washington Street at Main Street. The committee on this last proposition favor the purchase of the Priest building, tearing it down and throwing that plot of ground facing Washington Street, and lying between Main and Hyers Streets, into a public plaza.

WHITESVILLE MAY LOSE P.O.
Postmaster Holman of Whitesville, being unwilling to longer run the office at that place, there is every reason to believe that the office will be closed. Inspector Harrison went over the ground on Friday last and was unable to find a person willing to take it. If no one is found by December 1st, office will be closed and Lakewood will be the nearest place for the residents of that place to go and get service.
The office paid $425 last year, and to this the $300 that is allowed for carrying the mail should be added.

PERSONAL MENTION WITH LOCAL FLAVOR
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Crabbe spent the week end at Sheffield, Mass., where Daniel and Birkbeck Crabbe are attending school.
John D. Rockefeller has been spending part of the pleasant fall weather at his home in Lakewood. He motored there from his estate in Tarrytown, N.Y.
Senator-elect Mathis, County Chairman A.W. Brown, Jr., and A.C. King spent Tuesday at Trenton.
Captain Heinan, the German expert on dirigible balloons, who is employed at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, and recently bought the Louis Arm bungalow on Seward Avenue, has his family here, newly arrived from Germany.
Rumor says that a young Berkeley girl was married this week to one of the young men among the newcomers in town.
Edward Crabbe and H.B. Scammell, of the Double Trouble Company left here on Sunday last for a trip to Cape Cod, to observe methods used here in cleaning, packing and shipping cranberries. Mr. Crabbe also plans to visit his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Starr Ballou, at Concord, N.H., before his return to Toms River.
Marvin Campbell, of Brooklyn, spent the week end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Campbell.
Mrs. Dave Marion was home over the week end. The Marion show is playing in Buffalo this week and Mr. Marion is with it.

GUNNING ACCIDENTS
Last Sunday's papers told of three fatal shootings by gunners in the woods and fields in two days gunning in this state, not to mention several arms and hands shot away, and one man found unconscious, who might have been a victim of a gunning accident or of a murder.

RECENT ARRESTS MADE BY COUNTY GAME WARDENS
On November 8, Warden Evernham found one Peter Egle, of Lavallette, gunning without a license. Egle was a foreigner and Evernham confiscated his gun and sent it to Trenton. Warden Howard Mathis also aided in the arrest. Bernard Gandet was arrested as an alien gunner, the arrest occurring on Tuesday. His gun was also confiscated.
Warden Evernham arrested G.W. Holloway and James Mathis for illegal gunning from a blind in Barnegat Bay last week.

FISH AND GAME
Both eels and crabs are bedding away in the bay bottom, it is said. Still, if you want them, you can spear the eels and tong the crabs with oyster tongs.
Tom cods are now in the bays along the Jersey coast. Up in North Jersey they made quite a lot of sport fishing for these fish, but it is either business or nothing with them down this way—and mostly nothing, except as for what are caught in the pounds outside the beach.
Gerald, son of Joseph Hickman, of New Gretna, just below Tuckerton, shattered his hand while gunning on Thursday morning of last week, when he picked up the gun by the muzzle, and it went off. He was sent by Dr. J. L. Lane, of Tuckerton, to the Atlantic City Hospital, where, reports say, the hand had to be cut off.
There are a good many Toms River folk who do not know about the pike fishing in our stream. Read this from the Philadelphia Record about Philadelphia anglers: “Thomas Bairy was on Toms River Sunday and brought home 24 pickerel. These were all caught below the landing. Dick Matheson, John Toner, Chris Rebman, Morris Sendler, George Thomas and Walter Kerber went to Toms River on Sunday. They caught 51 pike.
A contingent from Haddonfield, headed by Commissioner Fred Halloway and Borough Engineer J.C. Remington enjoyed a pilgrimage to Beach Haven in quest of wild fowl. They bagged chiefly ducks.
Plenty of wild fowl in the bay, or sitting out in the ocean in nice weather, the baymen all say. In fact, the fowl are sitting pretty and safe, for the gunners can't get at them, and they, with few exceptions, won't go to the gunners.
All the county papers say that rabbit are scarce in their neighborhoods, as most hunters have found them about Toms River. The papers, quoting local sportsmen, say that the rabbits are devoured by foxes, and that foxes keep gaining in number and boldness, and that soon the poultry raiser will have to start a war on the fox, or meet serious losses.
The trapping season began on November 15. There are a number of men all along the shore who make a comfortable living with their traps each winter, but they don't talk much about it, as that would mean more traps.
While cutting grass to build a duck blind Francis Sapp, of Tuckerton, stabbed himself badly just above the knee, and was weak from loss of blood by the time that Joe and Claude Smith, who were with him, could get him back to Tuckerton.
Fish pounds along the coast have been catching a few weakfish in their nets right along. These were, strange to say, not big weakfish but medium-sized fish.
Such large catches of cod have been made by the pound fishermen that they realized only two cents a pound for these fish many days at a time in the past few weeks. In fact, cod were sold in shore towns like Forked River at that low price—two cents a pound.
Market fishermen at Barnegat Inlet are still making their runs to the fishing grounds. The seabass and blackfish have staid late, and have been biting fairly well. Codfish have been so cheap that the handline men have not given much time to catching them. There are some fishermen, so rumor says, who make their highest price catches off shore, and bring it in the inlet in bottles, but all of the Barnegat Inlet fishermen are not of that type.
Deer hunters are getting ready for the season. The law that has allowed the shooting of bucks only, has during the last ten years brought fairly large herds of does, with but an occasional buck. As soon as a buck is old enough to grow horns he is a fair mark for the hunter, and must take his chances of being killed. Some of the backwoodsmen report that this summer there were herds from three to forty, all does and fawns, about their places. There will be two days' shooting in December and two in January this winter, but these four days will be a week apart.

TOMS RIVER HIGH SCHOOL [which at this time was a magnet school for a large part of Ocean County]
Toms River High School has a number of activities this year. In addition to its football team, and the boys' and girls' basketball teams, there is a debating club, glee club, spelling club, needlecraft club, radio club, library club, and the organization, or staff, which publishes the Cedar Chest [a semi-regular school digest that eventually became the annual yearbook of the same name, continuing today at Toms River High School South, original location of TRHS].

BARNEGAT
Thomas Galvin is having his house wired for electricity. John V. Lewis is doing the work.
Carlton Bros. have opened a vegetable and fruit store which was very much needed here.
Willits Parker is the proud owner of a new pony, having given his other one to Ernest Cranmer.
At 7:30 Saturday morning the fire bell rang. The Capt. Wright Predmore house was afire around the chimney. The fire company responded at once and it was soon put out.
Clarence Woodmansee and Allen Ridgway spent a few days at the Sims' place last week.

BAY HEAD
Theodore Wilbert, son of Elbert Wilbert, will build himself a bungalow on the west side.
Arthur Strickland and Charles Tilton have left for a week's gunning down the bay.
Dr. William's sea-skiff, “The Bon Homme Richard,” recently built by Hubert Johnson, was launched last week. The boat will make thirty-two miles an hour and is claimed to be one of the fastest boats at this end of the bay.
The engagement is announced of Miss Sarah Coats Forsyth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Forsyth, of this place, to Mr. Edward A. Glover, of Mr. Vernon, N.Y. The date is not yet set for the wedding. Miss Forsyth has been the active and efficient business secretary of the Bay Head Yacht Club.
After spending five days at Whitesville gunning, A.G. Spaulding and party, of Baltimore, Md., arrived here Friday to continue their trip by spending a week down the bay gunning for duck and geese.
A new concrete foundation is being placed under the local railroad station by contractor Frank Ferry, Jr., of this place. Mr. Ferry has charge of all the repair work of the stations on the Trenton division of the P.R.R.
Miss Laura Chadwick of this place has resigned her position with the New York and Long Branch railroad owing to the ill health of her mother, Mrs. B. Chadwick, who was seriously hurt in a recent auto accident.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hankins are receiving congratulations upon the arrival of a nine pound boy last week.
Carl Numemaker is one of the few local gunners who have been fortunate enough to bag a goose.
Emil Littell and wife, have closed their summer home on the beach front and have opened their winter home in New York.

BAYVILLE
Miss Eleanor Potter is living in Passaic this winter and taking a course in Drake's Business School.
Rev. Jesse Foster, of Lakehurst, is building a bungalow on the Main Shore Road beside the home of his father-in-law, Calvin Potter.
Holly strippers are beginning to bust out the nice red berries for the holiday times. It is a shameful thing the way some of these people break, chop and tear down the holly to get what they want. Already we see holly tied fast to automobiles, and the trucks will come a little later.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Philip Allen Wednesday of last week, November 15.

BEACH HAVEN
How do you like the new street lights?
There is a new home going up on Bay Avenue near the R.R. station.
A number of property owners are having their homes wired and connected for electricity.
The State Police are frequently seen here, but not because we are a disorderly town.
Beach Haven Ice and Cold Storage Company continue to be quiet busy, keeping their men on night shifts frequently.
The pleasant weather of the week end brought down a number of cottagers down for a few days.
It is reported that the Sprague property opposite the Ocean House, has been sold, and that a row of stores and apartments will be built on the corner lot.
Some of the fishermen who are employed by the Hayes Fishery, gave a farewell dance in the Fire House on Monday evening before leaving for the season. It was enjoyed by those present.
Our National Bank continues to enjoy prosperity and increasing business, there being a hundred thousand dollars increase in deposits the past year over last year.
Osborn's real estate office on Center Street, near the depot, has been moved as the lot where it stood was sold this summer and a large building will be put up there.
Beach Haven folk recall with interest that the new U.S. Senator from Delaware, Senator Bayard, is a well-known figure at Beach Haven, having for several summers occupied a cottage here with his family.
The men who have been pumping in the piling for the jetty have had a good deal of trouble to get water for their steam boiler. Several wells were sunk at the point of beach, but the water frothed and would not make steam. Last Saturday they made arrangements to cart water down from the Borough plant.
Gunning parties take the place of fishing parties.

BEACHWOOD
Mrs. Widmaier opened her attractive bungalow to the members of the Women's Club, their husbands and children, on Saturday evening, and a very pleasant time was enjoyed by all who were in Beachwood for the week end (the house still stands at 325 Ship Avenue).
Tax Collector A.D. Nickerson has started a new plan to collect taxes on many of the lots here. He is sending out a personal letter to those who bought lots in Beachwood [almost surely during the 1914-15 New York Tribune newspaper promotion that established the resort, turning into an independent borough in 1917], yet who never took the trouble to have their deeds recorded, and to some who have not as much as obtained their deeds. The letter invites the lot-owners to visit Beachwood and see if he or she does not think the lots bought a good investment; the letter also suggests that they have the deed recorded in the Ocean County Clerk's office, if the lot owner has his deed, and where the deed can be obtained, if he hasn't it. Then it, in a nice way, suggests that taxes are due on the lots. It is believed that this will bring in considerable returns.
A number of Beachwood sports expect to attend the Yale-Princeton football game tomorrow and root for the tiger.
John J. Nolze is expecting to build two handsome bungalows, one at Harpoon and Forepeak streets, for Joseph H. Green, and one on the Atlantic City Boulevard, for William A. Russell, both of whom are employed at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst. The new houses are expected to cost about $4000 each.
In order to promote good fellowship and innocent fun during the winter months in Beachwood, the Fire Company is planning to hold a dance the first Saturday evening of each month. The next one will be on Saturday of next week, December 2, in Borough Hall. The firemen promise that all who come will have a good time, and they are looking forward to having numerous couples from Toms River.
The Beachwood Rod and Gun Club has scheduled a shoot for Thanksgiving day, Thursday of next week, at its traps in Beachwood. The program calls for three classes—A, B and C. There will be first and second prizes in each class, and also a prize for high over all. The prizes will be live fowl, turkeys, geese, ducks and chickens. It is expected that there will be a large turn-out. There will also be shoots the first and third week end of each month during the winter.
In order to buy a site and build a firehouse the Borough Commissioners are to issue temporary improvement bonds to the amount of $6500. The ordinance for this bond issue has been introduced and will come up for final passage on Saturday, December 16.

FORKED RIVER
Marcus Brown has been building a new barn.
Burnet Penn and party, while out gunning, bagged the limit on rabbits, one quail and one pheasant.
A party here from Belmar went out fox hunting and killed three foxes near the old Joseph Stout place.
Ollie Boshier is looking for the party that meddled with his dog.
Joseph Parker has completed two miles of work on the Lacey road, which runs to the northwest from our river landing toward Dover and Lacey. It was built by General Lacey, the iron founder, who came here shortly after the Revolution, and had foundries in Pemberton as well as at Lacey. The roadwork has been done by the county and township, the former putting up 75 per cent, and the latter 25 per cent of the cash. Mr. Parker was at Toms River on Monday on matters connected with his work.
Frank W. Briggs, who has had carpenters and workmen making many changes at the Greyhound Inn, will give a dance as usual on the night before Thanksgiving. It will be a masquerade, with prizes for costumes and for dancing.
The talk of making Forked River a borough seems to have died down for awhile. It may pop up again when the legislature meets in January.
Mr. and Mrs. John Burlew, of South Amboy, have moved here. Mr. Burlew was for 53 years an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and is now on their pension list. His wife is a granddaughter of the late James Williams, of this place, one of a family well known along the shore.
Keeper Nelson Rogers, of Bonds Coast Guard Station, and wife, have been spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Phillips, and took them back for a stay on the beach.
The Wider Bros. have from 1500 to 2000 bushels of fine sweet potatoes, grown on their Hollywood farm.
E.W. Parker and Capt. Frank Brower have been duck shooting at the North Point of Beach and staying on E.W. Parker's houseboat, “Home Comfort.”
Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Phillips have been visiting Keeper and Mrs. Nelson Rogers at Bonds Coast Guard Station and all returned here together last Saturday. While there Mr. Phillips started to build a bungalow and garage. Saturday they all took in the Traco Theatre at Toms River and Mr. and Mrs. Philip Rogers returned from Toms River with them to spend Sunday at the Phillips home.
Cornelius Barkalow recently visited Atlantic City. He is now back at his old job at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst.

ISLAND HEIGHTS
A number of our summer folks were here for the week end. Report says that houses are being rented for next summer.
Bert Smith is doing considerable cement work, in the form of curbs, sidewalks, etc., and has expectations of more.
Miss Beck has been spending some time here. She recently bought the home of the late Miss E.G. Shreve, and is fitting it up for rental next summer.
You can see the Island Heights regulars at the Traco, Toms River, every Saturday evening, and for that matter other evenings in the week.
A.W. Atkinson, of Merchantville, a summer cottager here, is one of the exhibitors at the national horse show being held in New York City this week. His Glenaven Trixie, Aflame and Dragon Fly promise to bring his name into prominence in several events.
Island Heights friends of Mayor and Mrs. J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia, sympathize with them in the loss of their son, Richard Oellers Moore, who died at the age of 20 years on November 16. Mr. Moore had been an invalid for some time. Funeral services were held on Saturday last, at 2:30 P.M., from 1820 Chestnut Street. The burial was private. This is the second time death has invaded the family of Mayor and Mrs. Moore this year, each time taking one of their young sons, just grown to manhood.
Island Heights can boast one of the oldest people in this neighborhood, Mrs. Mary McKaig, widow of the late Henry McKaig. She is well known here as Aunt Mary, and is in her 98th year.
The recent seven-cent supper netted about $50. The library has received 75 new books, being the donations of Mrs. Pritchard, Mr. Schoettle, Mr. Wainright and Mr. Cox.
Tonight (Friday) the Boy Scouts will visit the Scouts of Seaside Heights, to give an exhibition in first aid, semaphore, etc.

LAKEHURST
Lavergne Wissner left Sunday for his new home in California. He has been employed at the Naval Air Station for two years or more.
Monday night, about 11:30 fire was discovered in the wood house on Frank Ruocco's property on Union Avenue, which was totally destroyed. The fire department was on the job and confined the fire to the one building.
While at the fire Monday night, Freddie Ridgeway stepped on a nail which penetrated his right foot, crippling him somewhat as it has been very painful.
Eli D. Wager has sold out the grocery and butcher business on Union Avenue to Harry E. Jones.
The woods are full of gunners but game is not plentiful.
The work on the large dirigible is progressing nicely according to the information given out. Everything is running like clockwork and by July the ship is expected to be finished.
At the Naval Air Station the new balloon has been seen flying high the past few days. On Saturday we were thrilled again to see the men jump out, raise the parachute and drop through space and land on the soil, safe and sound. These stunts are part of the aviator's life.

LANOKA
They have been slaughtering the rabbits in this vicinity.
Joseph Bunnell has enlisted as Coast Guard in Capt. Mart McCarthy's crew.

LAVALLETTE
There are several gunners here for wild geese and ducks, but the weather seems too warm to have good luck. They say there are lots of game farther north.
The pound fishermen are having a good catch of codfish the past week.
The post office has been moved to Gus Helmuth's store, corner Grand Central and Reese Avenues.

MANAHAWKIN
Coal is a scarce article at this place as well as other shore towns.
Mr. and Mrs. Dando, of Philadelphia, have been here at their bungalow on a gunning trip.
John Camp and Ray Reeves are sawing wood for the village.

MONEY ISLAND
Emmett Mervine is installing a wireless outfit [a radio], and is looking forward to much pleasure from it.
Miss Frances Plaag, of this place, is helping Fire Company No. 2, of Toms River, raise funds for their apparatus. Money Island has not forgotten the work these boys did at the fire on the hill last spring.

NEW EGYPT
Work in Lieobovits and Son's factory has been very scarce, owing to the firm being unable to procure the goods used in making pajamas from their own factory. Mrs. Mattie Cranmer visited the firm in New York City Thursday of last week and was assured there will be plenty of work in the future.
Chester Foulks went gunning on Friday and Saturday and shot two rabbits, an eight-pound hare, one squirrel and one quail.
Henry Horner attended a hog killing on Monday at his brother's, Harvey Horner, in Arneytown.
George Woodward and Roy Irons have completed and are now living in new bungalows at New Egypt.

OCEAN GATE
The frame work on the new addition to the fire house is well under way now.
Gunning season opened but from reports there are very few rabbits being shot this season so far.
The Borough Council held their monthly meeting at the fire house on Saturday evening last. Several matters of importance were taken up, among them the electric light proposition. The committee in charge are to find costs of placing lights throughout the Borough from the Toms River Co.; also the Lakewood Co. and report at next meeting. Also on Sunday morning last soundings were made out in the bay from Angelsea Avenue for the proposed pier [today well-known and celebrated as Ocean Gate's “second pier”]
Chris Angerer spent the week end with his family here.
Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Bissel have closed their river front home and returned to Newark for the winter.
E.P. McAllister has taken his large power boat out for the winter. We hear that he is going to enlarge it to be ready for next season.
Next Sunday, November 26, will be the last excursion train for the season and a large crowd is expected down for the day.
The Ocean Gate A.A. football team traveled to Camden on Saturday afternoon last and lost to the Penndale team, of that place, 13-0. On Sunday, they traveled to the Fortieth Ward to play that team, which is one of the hardest teams of the West Philadelphia district.
A list of those who came down on Sunday on the last excursion until the robins nest again would read like a page in the summer resort section. All the older residenters—and some of the baby members—of the colony were here to extend their greetings to the hibernators who will try to hold up the end of the borough until the return of spring.
The “holly hog” was out in number on Sunday and it kept the Town Marshal busy “shooing” him off private grounds. It is not the fact of the holly being taken, but the manner of the taking that piques one. It is the rip, slam-bang, catch-as-catch-can, knock-down-and-carry-out method that hurts the tree lover, as well as the tree, and leaves the latter looking like a veteran of the Marne—or worse—when spring comes, whereas proper use of the pruning knife, and liberal, too, would bring good results in the early months. But Town Marshall Selinger “kept them moving,” and the local vigilance committee was relieved of at least a portion of its responsibility.
E.C. Hansell was down over the week end and returned to the city on Monday. Mrs. Hansell expects to go back to town this week, having stayed till this time to give the measles epidemic a chance to peter out, as Betty Hansell is a scholar in the schools hardest hit by this malady.
Contractor Bancroft is making rapid progress on the second story of the firehouse. This building, when completed, will compare favorably with any in Ocean County used for like purpose.
Council is working hard on several propositions for the betterment of the lighting and water facilities of the borough. There is no pussy-footing, but the plans are sub-rosa, and therefore nothing definite can be given out. Those who keep both eyes open and one ear to the ground will be rewarded before strawberry time next year.

PARKERTOWN
Now that electric lights in West Creek are a certainty in the near future and the wires will go through our town, there is not any reason why we can not have the town lighted. It has been rumored that arrangements have been made to light the town, which are very much needed as we have been living in darkness long enough, and let us hope these rumors will materialize.

PERSHING [section of Toms River]
Gunners are numerous, but game is scarce.
Ralph Downs is building himself a house on Brahn Avenue.
Mr. Parvola has moved his family from William Vaughn's to the Andrew Applegate house on Clifton Avenue.
Theo. Brahn is working for William Marquis chicken ranch.
Mrs. Catherine T. Applegate has sold her house on Island Heights road and has bought from Mr. Holman some cranberry bogs near Goose Creek and will build there in the near future.
Herman Asay is having his house wired for electric lights and making other improvements to his home.

PINE BEACH
Pine Beach has suffered an irreparable loss in the death of Mrs. W. Price Davis, last Tuesday at the Homeopathic Hospital, in West Philadelphia. Mrs. Davis took a great interest in every activity in Pine Beach, and was a benefit to the community. Through her influence her aunt, Miss Wynne, lent several hundred dollars to pay off a debt on the chapel. Mrs. Davis herself lent a large sum to the Yacht Club when it was first built and it was found that no one else would accept a mortgage on the building because it was out over the river. Mr. and Mrs. Davis again stood ready to lend some thousands of dollars to pay for the enlarging of the club house and on as liberal terms as they had loaned to the chapel and the first yacht club building. Although in very poor health for some years past, Mrs. Davis was always bright and cheerful, and will be terribly missed by her family and the friends and people in Pine Beach. She was a descendant of the Hugh Wynne in Weir Mitchell's novel. Part of her aunt's farm at Bala was sold for building purposes and named Wynnefield, after Mrs. Davis' family. Her Philadelphia home was in the old farm house which stands in the part of the grounds her family still own. St. Joseph's College is to be built across the road from it.
Mrs. Davis had attended the last meeting of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Yacht Club. She was a member of the Ladies' Aid and of the Lot Owners' Association. She took a very active part in the affairs of the chapel until failing health compelled her to lessen her activities. She was a big, outstanding character and we all have lost a good friend. Pine Beach may never find any one to fill her place.
James Sheeran and Aleck McKelvey were public spirited enough to haul the old raft in and tie it up to prevent it going down the river. Neither man ever uses the raft nor has a family to use it, but they are interested in Pine Beach and believe that each one can help to care for what benefits all of us.
A new metallic raft, like the one in Beachwood has been purchased and will be ready for next summer. These were used by the U.S. Navy and were on sale at Hog Island. They are quite a good size.
Mr. Wells plans to build a bungalow on the river front up near the station at River Bank.
A Philadelphia doctor is building a bungalow on Huntington Avenue, near Mr. Schweigart's and expects to live here all year. He is coming here for his health.

PLEASANT PLAINS [section of Toms River]
Joseph F. Blackham, who bought the Fred Hagaman farm and moved here from the city, had the hard luck the first week he was here to have his cow stray. He left it out in the yard over night and next morning it had disappeared.
Harry Clayton is building a bungalow on a two-acre tract of the former Charles Clayton farm, opposite Gordon Clayton's store.

POINT PLEASANT
Ocean Fire Company, of Point Pleasant Beach, will give its thirty-eighth yearly ball on the evening before Thanksgiving.
Dog poisoners have been at work about Point Pleasant, and some who have lost pets are so enraged that they report a detective engaged to run down the pill maker.
Point Pleasant felt honored last week by the visit of one of her former summer residents, Charles Belmont Davis, a brother of the late Richard Harding Davis, and son of L. Clarke Davis, long editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, and Rebecca Harding Davis, who was also well known as a writer of fiction. There were three sons in the Davis family, all famous newspaper men. The boys were all brought up at Point Pleasant or at least spent their summers there.

SEASIDE HEIGHTS
Mrs. M.C. Koch, proprietor of the St. Charles Hotel, is making considerable improvements in beautifying the grounds around the hotel and planting cedar trees. Mrs. Koch intends to build a garage and is having the driveway constructed.
Communication was received from the Fire Company and the Ladies' Auxiliary, asking council to erect a community building, including a fire house, council chamber and community hall, to be located on the Boulevard between Webster and Sherman avenues. Messrs. Fineran, Wolff and Kramer were appointed a committee to ascertain the cost and kind of building necessary, the cost not to exceed $10,000. The Firemen and Ladies' Auxiliary offered to furnish a site for the new building. It was suggested that the cost of the building be financed by improvement certificates.
Emmett J. Ross, our newly-elected councilman, is building a barber shop and apartment house on the Boulevard. He will run the barber shop, and have apartments back of it, leaving the upper story to rent as another flat.
Dr. and Mrs. Lawyer were here recently from Philadelphia, at their summer home, the former going out on the bay and getting some ducks during his stay. William Hauser and Bert Perry were also here for the wild fowl gunning.
The preliminaries for the new Coast National Bank are being taken up by committees of the stockholders. The present plan is to erect a new bank building, none of the buildings available being considered just what is wanted for banking purposes.
A dozen or so new buildings are now going up in various parts of the borough, but that is nothing to what is expected by next spring. The local paper says that 82 contracts have now been given out for buildings here, and that number will be increased to a hundred before spring.
The Boy Scouts, always trying to be useful, undertook the job of building a coal bin in the basement of the Union Church.
There is a scarcity of coal all along the shore, the same condition existing as has existed for several years. Coal seems to be as scarce now as it was in war times.

SEASIDE PARK
(Newsy Notes Caught In Our Net On The Beach of This Breezy Borough)
Thos. H. Devlin and Wm. Bates will take the boat Valletta to Stuart, Florida, for its owner, D. Bennett. They pulled anchor on Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Arden Penn, of Island Heights, is building a home on the bay boulevard between Sixth and Seventh avenues.
Many of the townspeople attended the marriage ceremony of Frank Hewitt and Miss Tilton, at the Presbyterian church, at Point Pleasant, on Wednesday last and wished them well at the reception following, at the bride's home in Bay Head. Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt are honeymooning in the South, making Charleston their destination. They will occupy Dr. Harker's bungalow while their new home is being completed.
Borough Council will meet tomorrow, Saturday, with a bunch of business ahead of it. One thing it is considering is the cost of a thirty-foot wide concrete street, the full length of Ocean Avenue, where the winter storms make it hard to hold a gravel road. A number of streets are being graded and graveled, and curbs and sidewalks laid in cement. Property owners who have not connected up with sewers are being notified that they must do this, or the borough will do it for them and charge it as a lien against the property.
William Bates and Tom Devlin started for Florida last Wednesday, in the Valletta, owned by Dory Bennett of Manasquan.
The borough is driving piling at the edge of the boardwalk in the lower part of town to keep back the encroachment of the sea during the winter storms. Brush is being cut and placed in danger spots to hold the sand, also. Below the end of the boardwalk, running down to Fourteenth Avenue, piling is being driven to save the beach front.
Arden Penn, of Island Heights, is building a bungalow on the bay front between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.

SHIP BOTTOM
Harry Cale, of Long Branch, is building a boarding house on the bay front.
John Pharo and family have returned from a few days in Tuckerton.
Albert Hansell, of Rancocas is here looking after his bungalows.

SILVERTON
It seems there should be some way to stop gunners from trespassing more severe than at present, since they are so bold, careless or whatever you might call it. Last Saturday morning Mrs. Effie Irons had a very narrow escape from getting shot, while in her kitchen about work, when an unknown gunner shot several loads at something and evidently did not hit it for the shot came straight at Irons' house, Mrs. Irons happening to be close to an open door, but closed it just in time to fend off the shot which checked the glass in the door in many places and cracked a window pane also. She did not know the shots were coming her way when closing the door. Of course the guilty one kept hidden. Sportsmen had better be more careful.
Selah Hulse, of Mantoloking Coast Guard Station, spent Tuesday at his home here.

TUCKERTON
George W. Lynch and family are moving to Tuckerton, where they have bought a home, coming from Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. Lynch is captain of the coal and iron police of Fayette County, Pa. His son, Fred, pitched for the Syracuse team last summer and expects a try-out by Detroit next season.

WEST CREEK
A public meeting of voting portion of the town and officials representing the Atlantic City Electric Lighting Company was held in the O.U.A.M. [Order of United American Mechanics] Hall last Saturday night, resulting in the decision for electric lights in our town, much to the satisfaction of the traveling public and the sentiment of progressive people.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holloway have returned to their home here on Main Street, after spending two months in Toms River, N.J., attending to their cranberry interests in that locality. Mr. H. reports a most successful season. Mrs. Hollloway is quite ill and we hope for her speedy recovery.
Miss Pauline Shinn has accepted a position as stenographer and typist with the Theo. Presser Music Company, of Philadelphia, and Miss Helen Cox has a like position with the State Board of Health, with offices in the State House, Trenton. Our congratulations to these energetic young ladies, who are making good for themselves.
Cranberry and oyster shipments are still continuing at a steady rate. The fine weather and markets have been exceptionally favorable this fall for both industries.
J.H. Seaman, Station agent at Beach Haven, spent the week end with his parents on Division Street.
A representative of the Anti-Saloon League gave a most interesting discourse in the M.E. Church on Sabbath morning last.

Welcome to another era in the Toms River area's past, one century ago this week!

Let your mind wander as you consider life around November 10th, 1922, courtesy the New Jersey Courier weekly newspaper and Ocean County Library archives, and peppered with items of maritime interest (around a 10 minute read).

Moon is on the wane.
Armistice Day tomorrow.
New moon a week from tomorrow.
Gunners are out in the open today.
One month and twenty days left of 1922.
Thanksgiving Day three weeks from yesterday.
Christmas holidays will soon be here now.
Some of our old friends came down to the election.
Election is over, and once again the country has been saved.
The Weather Man has been good to us so far this fall.
The woods were at their best the past two weeks, for autumn foliage.
Jupiter is now morning star, and Venus will be morning star in about a fortnight.
President Harding has issued his proclamation fixing Thursday, November 30, for Thanksgiving Day.
It seems to be a race between the children and the squirrels as to which will get the black walnuts and hickory nuts.
The group of boys who did considerable damage on Hallowe'en, will, it is said, have to make good the money loss they inflicted on several property holders.
Dr. George T. Crook, Ed Schwarz and Walton Grover are spending the week down the bay on a gunning trip.
The road gang got started on upper Main Street again on Wednesday and are coming down the east side of the street with the concrete pavement.
The Toms River Poultry Development Company are putting out an issue of preferred stock, backed by mortgages on the farms that they sell.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Toms River Yacht Club met on Wednesday afternoon of this week. The auxiliary also held a card party last Friday evening.
Chrysanthemums are about the only flowers blooming out of doors except on the beaches, where Jack Frost spared the fall flowers several weeks longer than he did on the mainland.
Mr. and Mrs. Jean R.D. Hecht have named their son, born October 22, Jean Raymond Dietrich Hecht.
Hyers Street has been carrying the heavy traffic of the village the past few weeks. Not only Hyers Street, but the side streets between Main and Hyers, are sadly in need of repairs, after being used by the heavy trucks carrying supplies for the Main Street job.
The Toms River Poultry Development Association has the poultry house built on Farm No. 4, which is to belong to R.H. Tilton, and also is starting on the house and garage. Mr. Tilton's farm will face the Dover road, and will also have a frontage on the Double Trouble Road, and on Jake's Branch [where today are mostly suburban ranch-style homes of South Toms River Borough on what today is Tilton Avenue].
Those who have watched Bill Gwyer's work at the hole in the wall [the narrow Hyers Street entrance at Washington Street] say that he is a real traffic cop.
Point Pleasant has a street named Gowdy Avenue, after the late Ralph Gowdy, of Toms River, who was a large real estate owner in that resort.

ARMISTICE DAY
Tomorrow marks the fourth anniversary of the end of the great war.
The world has many years to go yet before it recovers from the effects of that bloody debauch. The United States, farther away, and with less actual participation in the war than Europe, had escaped the great losses that have afflicted Europe, losses in men, losses through disease, hunger and through bankruptcy in human faith.
But it is well that the United States should pause tomorrow and review the last four years. It will make us all in a more thankful frame of mind for our next great holiday, Thanksgiving day, if we look at what our neighbors overseas must suffer, and what we have, through no merit of our own, so far escaped.
And, as May 30 is by common consent given to the men of '61-'65, so we may well give over November 11 to the men of 1917-1918. They undertook much, accomplished much, gave much—while the rest of us sat safely at home and looked on with bated breath. Do not let us forget so soon those two years of anxiety and the boys who went overseas.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DEMANDS SCHOOL BUILDING
Adequate housing for the pupils of this community in the public schools was the unanimous demand of the Chamber of Commerce at its meeting on Wednesday evening of this week. The school problem at Toms River was threshed over from various angles and at length. Supervisor E.M. Finck, who was present, was questioned and queried, and his knowledge of the situation was probed to the bottom, to get out all the facts in the case. It was the general impression of the C. of C. members in the meeting that the public in general wanted a new school house, but had been staggered with the cost of the one proposed last spring, which meant a $200,000 bond issue. It seemed to be the opinion of many that the taxpayers would ratify a school proposition costing half that sum, or as near as might be. A unanimous vote directed President Charles N. Warner to appoint a committee on educational affairs, which should at once get in touch with the Board of Education, to see what could be done to have the revised school plans submitted to another vote, and also to bring before the public in general the needs of the school, and the value to the community of adequate school housing.
Would Widen Washington Street
Another matter discussed was the widening of Washington Street, where that the records show Washington Street to have been encroached on, at its north side, on the Main Street corner, the lines of the laid out road being a straight extension of the line from the Sunnyside to the Traco Theatre, where the bend now begins. The idea advanced was that if the present Priest Building could in some way be acquired and torn down completely the problem of the “hole in the wall” [the narrow Hyers Street entrance between buildings] would also be solved at the same time. A committee was appointed to bring the matter before the Board of Freeholders, as Washington Street is now a county road. This committee consisted of Capt. C.M. Elwell, Edward Crabbe, Dr. Frank Brouwer, E.M. Finck and H.A. Hansen.

DEMOCRATIC WAVE SWEEPS COUNTRY, PULLS JERSEY WITH IT
The never-expected, but almost-sure-to-happen defeat to the party in power at the election for Congress in the second year of the Presidential Administration, hit the Republicans hard on Tuesday. It swept across the country, and the papers are now calling it a backwash from the Harding tidal wave of two years ago, which is at least a convenient and expressive phrase. Nowhere did it sweep more cleanly than in New Jersey, where it buried Senator Frelinghuysen under an 80,000 majority for Edward I. Edwards, and gave George S. Silzer half at least of that majority for Governor over William N. Runyon. In the Third Congressional District it also swept out T. Frank Appleby, and swept in Elmer Geran, as Congressman, by a small majority. Ocean gave Appleby the usual majority, but it could not overcome both Monmouth and Middlesex.
This county went Republican, electing Thomas A. Mathis, of Toms River, Senator; Ezra Parker, of Barnegat, Assemblyman; William H. Savage, of Lakewood, Freeholder.

FINED $10 AND COSTS FOR REFUSING TO FIGHT FIRES
The final outcome of the refusal of three young men in Chatsworth to come to the aid of Division Fire Warden Joseph E. Abbott, of Toms River, and fight forest fires near their home village last spring, is that they have each been fined $10 and costs by Justice Lawrence G. Mingin, of Medford. The law gives the fire warden power to call on anyone for help, and makes a penalty for refusal. The fire they refused to help fight was a bad one, burning over a wide area, and lasting several hours.

LAUREL HOUSE OPENS
The Laurel House, Lakewood's pioneer hotel, was opened for the season last Saturday, under the management of Frank F. Shute, who for many years was manager of the Laurel-in-the-Pines. With Mr. Shute's hotel following, augmented by regular Laurel House patrons, a good season is expected. It is stated that nearly 200 guests were at the Laurel House over Sunday.

SELLING EGGS IN LAKEWOOD
Hotels and retail dealers in Lakewood will be served  with “Jer-Z-Layd” eggs during the winter season this year, from Toms River packing house of the New Jersey Poultry Producers' Association.
A new Ford delivery car, attractively painted, is attracting much attention on Lakewood streets. Quick deliveries will be made at all times, and hotel proprietors will be given the opportunity to serve day old eggs to guests. Most of the hotel men have been interviewed, and expressed satisfaction over the plan for giving them better eggs and better service.
If the Lakewood service proves as satisfactory and profitable as is now indicated, the same kind of service will be installed along the entire New Jersey coast next summer.

DUCK BANDED IN ONTARIO SHOT AT BARNEGAT INLET
Point Pleasant, Nov. 4.—Willis T. Johnson, of Lakewood, formerly of this place, while on a gunning trip to Barnegat Inlet last week, shot a black duck that had been banded in Ontario, Canada. The band was of aluminum, and was of course on the duck's leg. The legend on the band said, “Write Box 48, Kingsville, Ont.” There was also an inscription on the inside of the band, reading, “As for God, His way is perfect.” 

PERSONAL
Capt. Charles H. McLellan, who is the senior captain of the Coast Guard Service, retired, came home for election day, and spent some time here. He had spent the summer at Boothbay Harbor, Me., and visited his daughter at Newburyport, Mass. and for the present is at New York City most of the time. Captain McLellan said that of the men who were active in business in Toms River in 1882, when he was first assigned here as Inspector of the Life-Saving Service on the New Jersey coast, he could find but three still alive—Charles B. Mathis, former Assemblyman Adolph Ernst, and Chairman of the Township Committee, David O. Parker. The men whom he then met as leaders in the town's activities had all, he said, passed off the stage of action, to be replaced by younger men. Captain McLellan also said he was grieved to read in The Courier of the death of Capt. Collins Hyers, at Tampa. Fla. He said that while he was stationed at Mobile, Ala., in the 90's, he became acquainted with Captain Hyers, then a tugboat master, and saw him frequently. During the Spanish-American War, when Captain McLellan was in the West Indies as executive officer of one of Uncle Sam's ships, Captain Hyers' tug was then chartered by the New York Sun for its correspondent and he again frequently met him. Knowing him to be a Toms River boy, the acquaintance became a friendship and Captian McLellan said he had a high regard for Captain Hyers.
Capt. Henry Ware, of the Coast Guard Service, and Mrs. Ware, have moved from Island Heights to Toms River for the winter, and have taken apartments in the brick building adjoining the Economy store.
John V. Matthews, who years ago had a livery stable and blacksmith shop at Toms River, was in town on Tuesday, driving his car from his home in Farmingdale. It looks strange to see almost every oldtime horseman exchanging the reins for a steering wheel.
Mr. and Mrs. Saunders Levy and family are moving back to Philadelphia from Queensbury Farm, where they have made their home for some time past. Mr. Levy will commute back and forth to his business here in the F. Lipscheutz Company's store. Mr. and Mrs. Edwyn Levy will occupy Queensbury Farm.
Herbert E. Williams, of Brooklyn, owner of the Reckless sawmill tract, on the south side of the river, on Davenport Branch [today the site of the Holiday City South retirement development], was in town on election day. He reports that he hopes in the near future to get where he can develop that property, rebuild the dam higher than it ever was before, and make a lake a mile long where the old mill pond was. The plans are being prepared by Arthur C. King, of Toms River. Such a development would mean considerable horsepower, beside making many valuable waterfront building estates.
Capt. Clifford M. Elwell, U.S. Army, returned home from Pittsburgh, Pa., Friday last. Captain Elwell has decided to retire from the army, and has made application for his retirement, to take effect on January 1. He expects to continue as a member of the Reserve Corps.

FISH AND GAME
The 1922 season opens today, Friday, November 10, and closes December 15. It is known as the upland game season which takes in quail, rabbit, squirrel, pheasant and partridge. At the same time, woodcock will be in season until the last day of this month. The open season is still on for ducks, geese, brant, Wilson snipe, black bellied and golden plover...
The daily bag limit includes twenty-five ducks, eight geese, eight brant, twenty-five rails, fifteen plover, twenty-five Wilson snipe, six woodcock, ten quail, three English pheasants, three ruffed grouse or partridge, and ten rabbits. Game may be possessed for a period of ten days after the season closes.
The trapping season begins on November 15, and the taking of the furring animals in the lower part of the state has become a very profitable business.
The first game refuges established in South Jersey by the State Fish and Game Commission were recently located in Salem County. They are being stocked with pheasants, quail and rabbits, and no one will be permitted to gun on the premises.
Flounder fishermen, who set tykes for winter flounders in and around the inlet are getting their nets ready for their winter's work.

BARNEGAT CITY [today Barnegat Light Borough]
Mr. J. France, with a friend, spent a few days gunning here this week.
Mr. and Mrs. D.B. Johnson are rejoicing over the birth of a son.

BAY HEAD
Dr. William F. Donovan, a summer resident here, has closed his office and moved to his winter home at Brielle.
The Home and School Association gave a social at the school house Friday afternoon and realized about $18. The money will be placed in the victrola fund.

BAYVILLE
Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Stott have closed their summer home at the farm and the family have returned to Brooklyn for the winter.
Election day was a big day here, but quiet and orderly.

BEACH HAVEN
At the Central Market a large new showcase has been installed, fitted with a full line of patent medicines and remedies of all kinds, which will be a great convenience to our people as all the drug stores are closed here during the winter.
Colmer and Cranmer have moved the moving picture machinery back into the small movie theatre for the winter months and had steam heat installed therein. Last Saturday night for the first since the return and everybody seemed pleased to be there.
Mr. William Harvey is spending sometime at his cottage here and enjoying the gunning.
Cranmer and Cranmer are doing considerable rebuilding at the Little Beach Coast Guard Station. J.W. Berry was awarded the contract to furnish the material for this work, and last week put the last load on the ground.
The electric lights were turned on for the first on Monday evening. Representatives of the Pangborne Company are in town for a few days, attending to the final details of the contract.
The Cale family and Capt. Joe Sprague and family have moved off to their Tuckerton homes for the witner season.
Capt. John Cranmer has the contract to take up the yacht club dock.
Gunning for ducks is very poor, gunners not getting many.

BEACHWOOD
Mayor Collins and family were here over the week end for the election. The mayor had just returned from a motor trip through New York State.
Several new buildings are to go up right away in this borough.
George Arway, who had the lodge and club house, as well as the bathhouses the past season, expects to buy a home here.
William A. Justice, of the Naval Air Station, is occupying one of Dr. Slonaker's houses.
A large number of our voters were here for election day.
The firemen's dance at the Borough Hall on Saturday evening last, November 4, was even more successful than the dance given last August. There were 140 people out, and all had a jolly time. These dances will be held at the same place on the first Saturday of each month throughout the winter.
The Beachwood Rod and Gun Club is planning for a clay-bird shoot on Thanksgiving Day. The prize will be live fowls. A large attendance is promised, and the shooters are looking forward to considerable sport. It is likely that there will be a week-end shoot every other week during the winter.

FORKED RIVER
Capt. John Horner is caretaker of Sedge Island.
It is reported that Bird Taylor will sell his place and buy the Joseph Cranmer property.
Mr. Rudolph is building a fine bungalow on the Lacey road.
William Spencer, who has several times in the past—ten years ago and also four years ago—had charge of putting up fences for the state game farm, is here again on a similar errand.
Cornelius Barkalow has been adding to his property by buying some adjoining lots from John Horner.
Roger and Oscar Wilbert killed 25 wild fowls while gunning last week.
Flounders are running good and numbers of them are caught.
William H. Penn has been getting out stuff for Fred Brown's boat, which will be built by Amos Lewis, the veteran boat builder, and his son John.

ISLAND HEIGHTS
Clifford Gaw has closed his cottage and returned to Philadelphia.
Sunday was so nice there were a number of summer cottagers down for the day.
Our fishermen are setting their gill nets for perch in the bay.
Capt. Lish Hyers is making fine progress with his new home in Windsor Park.
Everybody down this way who wants to be is busy, though there seems to be much more going on in the building line in the way of alterations and repairs than in new buildings.

LAVALLETTE
Mrs. J.W. Hingley will close her cottage for the winter and will return to Philadelphia.
Jack Gant, Life Guard, returned to his home on election day.
The curbs and sidewalks look very nice that have been put down on Reese and Vance Avenues.

MANTOLOKING
The railroad station here is being repaired by Frank Ferry, of Bay Head.
Mr. E.W. Stillwell is driving a new Hudson coach.

MONEY ISLAND
It is said that Harry VanBelle, whose home on the hill burnt down last spring, has sold his property to Mr. Buck. We are sorry to learn that we are to lose the VanBelles, but at the same time pleased because Mr. Buck has bought a place here.
Mr. Crouch, of Plainfield, recently stopped at Money Island, on his way to Lavallette, where he was going gunning with a party of friends, on Wednesday night. He also stopped on his return trip, Thursday night.
About all the cottages are now closed for the winter.
Mr. Huntington has had a small house built for him by Contractor Plaag. He will use it as an engine house and wash house.

PERSHING [section of Toms River, to the west of today's Vaughn Avenue]
Mr. T.J. Murray has sold his farm, “Murrey Lodge,” and will soon sail for Italy where he will join Mrs. Murrey and tour Europe.
A.L. Causse is building several more chicken houses and intends to go in the poultry business on a larger scale.
R.B. McKelvey is harvesting a bumper crop of sweet potatoes.
Herman Asay and wife and Everett Seaman will soon start for Florida via auto and spend the winter in Jacksonville.
Some of the radio fans listened to the first wedding that was ever performed over radio Sunday evening. The bridge and groom were in Pittsburgh and the preacher in a distant city.

PLEASANT PLAINS
On Thursday evening, November 2, a party was given to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Clayton, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ivins Clayton, of Pleasant Plains. There was thirty-four guests present. A very enjoyable time was spent in games and singing. Later in the evening the bride and groom were presented with a miscellaneous shower of many lovely gifts for their new home. Refreshments were then served. This shower was a great surprise to the young couple.

SEASIDE PARK
William L. Flood and family were about the last cottagers to leave, going to their home in Germantown on Sunday.
Capt. Eph Brower having spent considerable time this summer feeding a large body of perch in a certain hole known only to himself, decided to thin out the fattest and largest, that the rest could have more. He started out on Thursday last with a couple of trusties and brought in several barrels. Eph says that was just a small portion of them.
The dance and masquerade held by the Girl Scouts on Hallowe'en was a jolly affair with many out-of-town visitors and many of them masked. The first prize, a $2.50 gold piece, was won by Joseph Ulrick, of Seaside Heights; second prize, a box of candy, by Mrs. John Hill.

WEST CREEK
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Whildin have moved from their home on West Street, to a residence at “The Forge.”
Chester W. Kelly has purchased a motorcycle with side car attachment.

​November.
Eleventh month.
Nights grow longer.
Some rain last night.
Full moon tomorrow.
Beautiful moonlit nights.
Chrysanthemums in bloom.
Election day next Tuesday.
Wonderful autumn weather.
Some pretty frosty mornings.
Sample ballots out this week.
Autumn leaves are at their best.
Cranberries are going to market.
Less than two months left of 1922.
Lots of gay times for Hallowe'en.
Most of our summer birds have gone.
The oaks make a brave show of color these days.
Most of the pleasure boats are laid up for the winter.
Hyers Street finds its last state worse than its first.
One side of Main Street has the concrete pavement nearly done.
The Toms River Realty Company has opened an office at 21 Washington Street.
After election day comes Thanksgiving day, with Armistice day tucked in between.
Toms River High School will get out a Thanksgiving number of the Cedar Chest, the high school journal.
Over on Berkeley Heights [general area of what now is South Toms River Borough] the Toms River Poultry Development Company have about completed farms two and three, and have four well started.
The A.E. Burnside Women's Relief Corps gave their annual supper in the Grand Army Post Hall, on Tuesday evening, serving army style beans and ham, and other fixings. They had a good attendance.
James Citta has started a concrete block, and general cement and masonry business in the building on the Main Shore Road, in Berkeley, formerly used as a garage by Walter Davis. The Citta-Russo partnership has been dissolved.
An oyster and clam chowder supper was held last Friday evening at the Presbyterian church in the Men's Brotherhood, and a nice sum realized. The men were pronounced to be the real thing as cooks—that is, if they really did the cooking.
Hallowe'en was rather quiet. But there was a fresh outbreak of the malicious brand of mischief, that had died out of late years. Some of the mischief was rather costly to the victims, as when a concrete wall for George Alsheimer's new garage, on Hyers Street, was knocked partly down and two large thermometers were stolen from in front of Grover and Son's.
The Toms River Yacht Club [then located where today stands Baker's Water Street Bar & Grille] had an enjoyable Hallowe'en affair on Friday evening of last week. There were many masked and in costume. Bond's orchestra furnished the music. Frank A. Buchanan staged a pantomime that was voted a big success. In it, Miss Hazel Wissmach was Columbine; Miss Laura Sculthorpe, Pierrot; Miss Sophie Sculthorpe, Harlequin; Mrs. Buchanan, a Dancing Girl; and Miss Margaret Grant, the Doctor. The dancing lasted till the “wee sma' hours.”
Berkeley Township Committee has been re-graveling South Main Street [in what today is South Toms River Borough].
Every business place in Toms River feels the added income to this section from the rapidly growing poultry industry.
Lots of small maskers on the streets Hallowe'en, and later there were larger ones. The night was a beautiful one, with a bright moon, and a mild temperature.
Ed Moore, son of Mayor and Mrs. J.H. Moore, of Philadelphia, and John Zeimer, of Pine Beach, will conduct a wall paper business in the store on Washington Street recently bought by I.W. Richtmeyer and now occupied by Walter Johnson.
Edmund C. Kramer, the Seaside Heights builder, will, it is said, build a plant on the outskirts of Toms River, to make cement block for his building operations on the beach. It is understood that he has bought a tract of several acres to make sure of sand and gravel.
The Hathaway Hatchery, Inc., reports that they have almost a whole hatching season's work for their 90,000 egg incubator spoken for already. The baby chick hatchery in which Messrs. Rayner, Levy and Lyle are interested, have bought a tract of land at the Queensbury Farms, have the contract signed for the buildings and for two 40,000-egg incubators, to be used this winter and spring.
Max Leet this week bought what is generally called the Steiner building, at the corner of Washington and Robbins Streets, from the Toms River Building Company. This probably means that Leet intends to have a store on this side of the river sooner or later. It is understood that the day after he made the bargain, Leet could have sold out and made $2000 clean cash. The sale price was $30,000, which gives an idea of how real estate values have gone up as an aftermath of the war. Beside the Steiner building, the property includes a two-apartment house on Robbins Street, next to the Town Hall.
There was a Hallowe'en dance given Tuesday night, in Scout Hall. Dances are held there each Saturday evening.
The cement roadway has progressed down the west half of Main Street to midway between Messenger and Walton streets.
Report says that the Naval Air Station football team is planning to play Riverside at Toms River, on Saturday afternoon.
A nine-pound son was born on Thursday of this week to Mr. and Mrs. James Purpuri. Mother and son are doing nicely.
While George McDaniels was in Bayville yesteday morning, with a passenger truck to bring up the operatives for the Steiner mill, he had a collision with a car driven by Capt. Gus Hays, of the Ship's Bottom fish pound. The truck, driven by McDaniels, was badly wrecked, and the two women in it hurt some. The damaged car belonged to William Irons, of Lakehurst road.
The Dudley family quarrel at Point Pleasant is again in the limelight, William L. Dudley having brought action in the Chancery Court for a partition of the lands left by the late Elizabeth L. Dudley against his two brothers, James L. and George L. Dudley.

“EGGS IS EGGS”
Just now “eggs is eggs” and also ready money. With the prices eggs and cranberries are bringing Ocean County should have a lot of money in circulation this fall and winter. Business men should be on the lookout for their share of this ready cash. A live business policy, with the right kind of goods, and well advertised, will get it for them.

ON THE WING
Driving along a road through the woods one afternoon recently a cock pheasant, taking a dust bath in the road, did not notice the car's approach, till it was right alongside him. As the bird rose, it flew by the side of the car for perhaps ten to twenty yards, and then swerved off into the brush by the roadside. It was a beauty of a bird, its flight graceful and powerful and its coloring showing in the October sunlight.
A few days before that, crossing the bay bridge to Seaside Heights, a crested kingfisher sat on the bridge rail ahead. As the car approached the bird flew off in a half circle, and returned to the bridge rail again, getting there just as the car did, and only to take another half circle of flight. This he kept up for a half mile or more, when cars came from the other end of the bridge, hemming him in both ways, and he disappeared from sight. It was a mystery where he went to, till a few moments later, he was seen perched on the deck of the bridge, outside the rail instead of on the rail itself. Then as the car neared him, the bird flew just along the surface of the water, close to the bridge, lighting on the bridge deck, and kept that up nearly all the way across the bridge.
Bluebirds were seen on Sunday last. Presumably back from their summer nesting in the northland, to spend the winter with us; or maybe they were stopping off on their way further south.
One morning, a few days ago, about 7 o'clock, several flocks of robins went over the village from the northeast to the southwest, flying high. One flock contained about forty, another a dozen. Had they started south? We still see robins fat and happy, but shy, in the swamps, and an occasional one on the lawns and fields.

A TALE OF SUMMER VS. WINTER GUNNING – BARNEGAT
When some of our young men gunners get together at relate the tales of slaughter among the wild fowl, how the flocks came to them, how they up and cut to 'em, then the ducks fell like leaves from a tree in autumn, what a job they had to gather them, what poor shots some of the other fellows were, how they had to share up with some dry land gunner, who of course never hit a feather, how some fellows come to “put out” with them and had only a few poor decoys, the other fellow's shells were no good, etc., but when they come home most of these greatest of all gunners usually fall far short of their limit in number. A few nights ago some of these dry land, clay-pigeon crack shots were relating some of their tales of how near they came to exterminating the breed, when Jesse Birdsall, the oldest bayman still in active service, near 80 years old, who had been taking it all in, said, “You boys ain't cut yer eye teet yit in the gunnin' business; wait till it gets down to about zero with the bay froze over and here and there a heap of snow on the ice, and once in a while a big airhole, then come with me and I'll show you what gunnin' is, and when you come home, that is, if you don't freeze to death, you can tell what gunnin' is. This goin' out on a summer day, layin' in the boat smokin' cigarettes, with now and then a duck or two comin' along, mebbe you git one and mebbe you don't, but when you come home you have some great experiences to tell. Why I remember a few years ago, before the limit law came about, I was gunnin' on an airhole, just off the gulf a little ways, the wind was nor'west, blowin' a twister, so my stools shook up so bad they rolled over on their beam ends, but the ducks was comin' so fast I hadn't time to go out and clear' em up, and I had an old muzzle-loader; en all I had to do wuz jist shoot as fast as I could load en you know that woozent very fast when yer fingers wuz all thumbs en you had to put in caps, but I shot till I got tired, en let 'em drift in to the edge of the hole, en when I picked 'em up I had 54 redheads en 61 broadbills.” Jesse relit his pipe and puffed away, while the summer gunners stared at each other and said, “Well, that's some gunning.”

BUILDING UP LONG BEACH
There are two new developments on Long Beach, just at the junction. The Fish tract, lying at the end of the bridge and stretching to the ocean, has two new houses under construction. The Edge tract, adjoining this on the north and extending towards Surf City, has one new house started, a pavilion built on the ocean front, and the brush cut away. Lots have been sold from both tracts.

BEACH HAVEN INLET
The new inlet that opened below Beach Haven during the big storm of February 4, 1920, has been officially named the “Beach Haven Inlet” by the State Board of Commerce and Navigation. The inlet is now one of the largest on the coast.

CAR FOUND AT LANOKA RETURNED TO ITS OWNERS
Inspector Barchi last week returned a six-cylinder Paige 1919 car to its owner, Mr. Victor Hubener, of Spring Valley, N.Y. The car was stolen on May 10 from in front of the Palace Theatre, New York City. It was found in the woods about one and a half miles from Lanoka, as told in The Courier's Lanoka letter last week. After the inspector had found the owner the car was turned over to him.

DOWN IN GROVER'S STORE [being a general store and downtown Toms River hangout for some of the older townfolk]
Saturday night, and “Skip” has the floor for the time being, everything he may say being backed up to the last dot over the “i” by “Cap.”
“Yes,” says he, “that Dusty surely has the sweetest tooth of any many I ever met up with. It was while we were down the bay gunning during the war, when we were all expected to save on sugar, and Dusty put five heaping spoonfuls in his coffee cup. Doc sorter cautioned him, 'Say, Dusty, don't you know we're supposed to go light on sugar, and save all we can?'
“'Sure,' says Dusty, 'I cut my usual allowance five spoonfuls on that cup.'”

FALLING BOLT KILLED FORMER TUCKERTON BOY
Jacob L. Cowperthwaite, only son of former Mayor and Mrs. Cowperthwaite, of Tuckerton, was killed by a falling bolt while at his work in Philadelphia on Monday of last week.
He was employed by the American Bridge Company as a structural iron worker and it was reported that the job he was working on was about completed when the bolt fell from the top of the building causing his death.

NEAR EAST MEETING ON NOVEMBER 19, AT TRACO
Community meeting will be held on Sunday evening, November 19, at the Traco Theatre, in order that the village may do its share toward the relief of distress in the Near East. A speaker, who was in Smyrna [Greece] just before the burning of that city, will tell some of the things he saw before he left the Orient. A motion picture film, taken in the Near East, will show what is being done for the children in that stricken land. All the churches will close that night and the pastors will take part in the service.

CARPENTER FELL FROM ROOF SUNDAY, AND LOST HIS LIFE
Edward Taylor, a carpenter, aged 75 years, fell from a roof last Sunday, while working on a house on Massachusetts Avenue, Lakewood, and was killed by the fall. Dr. Frank Brouwer, the coroner, was called, and gave a burial permit. Taylor was an Englishman by birth.

FISH AND GAME
The seasons for upland game—rabbit, quail, pheasant, squirrel, etc.—begins a week from today, November 10, and lasts until December 15. It used to be the boast of some of the local folks that they could kill a rabbit a day during a longer season than this, but there are probably few that will make that record today. There may be as many rabbits and quail as formerly, some say there are, and some not, but it is not to be doubted that there are more gunners year after year.
Up around New Egypt they made quite a todo about squirrel hunting. It takes a good shot to drop a squirrel from a tall tree, they say. Grey squirrels are fairly plentiful up that way, with somewhat of pheasants, and a few of those English hares that Pierre Lorrilard stocked his Rancacas farm with thirty years ago.
Crow ducks have been the chief game in the upper bay in the past week or so. They are killed by “driving,” that is, a fleet of rowboats get outside a flock of crow chickens, as they sit in the mouth of a cove, and by rowing up the cove, drive the birds ahead of them. When the birds are cornered by the shore, they will rise and fly back to the bay, and must pass over the line of boats to do this. Then is when the gunners blaze away. When the chickens are in full force, and the hunters also, it becomes almost a slaughter.
 A few geese have been bagged in favorable conditions, but not many. It is said that there are cubheads, rednecks, broadbills and other early ducks in the bay, but mostly they sit out in the middle of the bay during the daytime and feed at night.
Pike fishing is good if the water is cold. The pike, for food, is at his best just now, firm and dry-fleshed. Lots of perch to be had, too, if you like perch fishing.
The bluefish, weakfish, croakers, kingfish and drum have pretty well left our bays and gone south, or wherever they spend the winter. Just where that is, with the weakfish, for instance, no one has yet learned.
In spite of the fact that the surf caster gets wet to the skin from head to foot, and the additional fact that seawater these days is cooling off from its summer temperature, there was a large number of surf fishermen along the beaches on the last week end. The striped bass is what most of them are looking for just now.
Net fishermen have their nets out, getting them in shape for the winter fishing in Barnegat Bay and Little Egg Harbor.
Sea bass have been biting well around the inlet if you know the right spots. An old wreck, a stonepile, or anything that will grow barnacles is where you will find these fish.
Another summer gone by and the sheepshead are still among the missing. Who can tell where they are, why they went, and whether or not they will come back?

PERSONAL
William Farr, who left Toms River about twenty years ago, and is now living at Long Island City, has been spending a few days at his old home here this week. While living here, he had a home and a monument yard where the Central House now stands, on Water Street, and he was prominent as a Red Man. He said Toms River and vicinity had grown so that he hardly knew where he was.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Clayton, of Pine Beach, left on Monday for a two months' tour of the west, stopping off at Chicago for a few days, also visiting the Grand Canyon. Their destination is Oakland, Cal. They will return home by the southern route, stopping at El Paso, Texas, and Jacksonville, Fla., also spending a few days visiting friends in Washington, D.C.
Capt. and Mrs. Ira C. Lambert leave Toms River Wednesday of next week to spend the winter in Rockledge, Fla.
Hugo Harms is preparing to make a trip to Florida in the yacht James Monroe.
Mr. and Mrs. Fanning have returned to Cambridge, Mass., for the winter, Mr. Fanning having been assistant manager of the Marion Inn the past summer.
Mr. and Mrs. William Linkey, of Montray Park, entertained their friends at a Hallowe'en party.
Mr. James Mackin and son, George, have gone home for a gunning trip.

RECENT DEATHS
Cornelius Firman Lemon
Firman Lemon, a well-known resident of Bayville, died October 23, after some time of sickness, aged 74 years. He was buried in Bayville Cemetery, the funeral in charge of C.P. Anderson; services conducted by Rev. Jesse Foster, of Lakehurst, at the Bayville M.E. Church. He was the son of Isaiah and Rachel (Clayton) Lemon, was a bayman, and had lived all his life in this region.

BARNEGAT
A beautiful drive just now is to go west of Barnegat on the Buddtown road [today Route 72]. The oaks are all shades of dull red, from wine to brown, and some have a mixture of gold and orange. Over the high rolling gravel hills it makes a wonderful ride on a golden October day. From the first hill back of the town, the bay, the beach and the ocean can be seen on a nice day.
The little girls and boys had a good time Hallowe'end night, all dressed up. I guess some of the older ones had fun going from home to home; and I guess a good time also.
The friends of J. Howard Perrine are very glad to see him out again if it is only for a little while after his two weeks' sickness.
Carlton Bros. are having an ice house built at the lower landing, ready for next season's fishing. With the condition of our creek they are likely to get most of the business as it is quite difficult to get the upper landing at ordinary tide. At the rate our creek is filling up, it's only a matter of a short time before we will have to abandon the upper landing except for very small boats, and a few more docks built out at the lower landing, that, too, will soon be impassable. If the bay business should go there it would soon fill up the entire front, but no one seems to care just so he can get in and out today.

BAY HEAD
Thirteen Swede fishermen employed at the pounds of the Bay Head Fish Co. struck on Saturday last. They had been working for $70 a month, and when their demand for $80 was refused, they all quit. The fishery has four pounds, and the company managers stated that they would likely close out two of them and work only two for the balance of the season, which will not now last much longer.
Bay Head school is one of the Junior Red Cross schools, and the pupils have been packing Christmas boxes for the poor children of Europe.
Today will be the yearly meeting of the local Home and School Association, when officers for the year will be chosen. This association has been active. It has bought a fine victrola for the local school, and recently made a payment of $50 on its cost. The remainder they expect to clean up soon. The children of the school raised $25 toward the victrola fund with the sale of flower bulbs.
Frank Ferry, the Bay Head builder, has taken the contract to repair all the stations on the Trenton division of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

BAYVILLE
Yesterday morning, as the children were gathering at school, a truck went by with a rope trailing behind, and in the rope was a loop. Elmer, the 11-year-old son of Clarence Worth, boy-like, jumped on the rope, caught his foot in the loop and was dragged a considerable distance before the driver of the truck found out what was the matter. Dr. Brouwer found the lad scratched and bruised, the skin off in many and large spots, but no bones broken, and no serious injuries.

BEACH HAVEN
The Misses Atkins, who have spent the summer touring through Europe, could not finish up the vacation season without a visit to Beach Haven. They have been at their Atlantic Avenue cottage with a jolly house party of friends, but returned home last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hanson have moved from Beach Haven to their Tuckerton home for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Hanson have charge of the Little Egg Harbor Yacht Club House during the summer.

BEACHWOOD
The Hallowe'en party held at the club house on Saturday evening, by the Beachwood Women's Club, was a delightful affair, and a merry group gathered around the high fireplace, partook of cider and doughnuts, while another merry group played pinochle and enjoyed it immensely.
The Jack O'Lantern on Atlantic City Boulevard will be open all winter.

FORKED RIVER
Senator Frelinghuysen, Governor Runyon, Congressman Appleby and party took dinner at the Greyhound Inn, on their trip through Ocean County last week, and also spoke in the big hall at this hotel. The dinner was a revelation to the visitors as to what a Forked River shore dinner is, and they enjoyed it hugely. They held an enthusiastic meeting here.
Mrs. Charles Mason this week received a cable from her husband overseas.
The Wider Bros., on Hollywood farm, have a fine crop of sweet potatoes.
One of the sons of George Gould, of Lakewood, has engaged John Horner's houseboat for a gunning trip after wild fowl.
Capt. Joe Smires is enclosing the porch at his home, and building a summer kitchen.
Capt. Joe Smires is building two sneakboxes for Dr. Cladek, of Rahway.

ISLAND HEIGHTS
Gunners are in evidence now, and a few ducks are seen carried home by them. Our net fishermen are getting ready for the fall fishing. Not so many interested in this as there were a few years ago, the boys say. Too much other work.
Many of our building mechanics are busy making alterations and repairs at various homes about the borough.
Boatbuilding, just now, also seems to consist chiefly of repairs and alterations to craft already built rather than building new yachts.
Mrs. Peto had a full house for the week end.

LAKEHURST
The Lakehurst Fire Company held a dance in Red Men's Hall Thursday evening, of last week, which was well attended and a financial success.
Oscar W.F. Hicks, of the Naval Air Station, and Miss Sarah Herrick, of Lakehurst, were married at the Presbyterian parsonage in Lakehurst Saturday.

LANOKA
George Mason had strawberries ripening from early spring up till frost.
The young folks celebrated Hallowe'en on Saturday night, ahead of time and thus took folks by surprise.
When you drive through Lanoka stop and go down Bayway to Lanoka Beach and see what a fine location it is. Some fine houses are to go up there soon. We are destined to have a considerable settlement there, we firmly believe.

MANAHAWKIN
The recent sale of the Predmore hall and store, at Manahawkin, has made it necessary to change the voting place for Stafford Township to C.H. Cranmer's office, just a few doors from the Predmore building.

OCEAN GATE
A Hallowe'en party was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Throckmorten, Jr., on Tuesday evening of this week. The evening was spent in games and dancing. At a late hour refreshments were served. All had a fine time.
Work on the new addition to the fire house was started this week.

SEASIDE HEIGHTS
The masquerade held in the basement of the church last Friday was a great success, the young people enjoying the games which Rev. Mr. Hampton had prepared. Cake and lemonade was served to all.
A Hallowe'en social and masquerade was held on Monday evening by the school children in Holland Hall. Several prizes were given out.
George Applegate, of Coast Guard Station 109, was home in Toms River on Wednesday.

SEASIDE PARK
On Tuesday morning a goodly crowd gathered to meet Governor Edwards, James W. Lille, Addison U. Moore and Mr. Geran, and to hear the addresses. The fire siren was blown and a band of several pieces preceded the party to call the people.
Henry La Fetra has stared a bungalow on Farragut Avenue, expecting to occupy it this winter.
The Boy Scouts had a large attendance at their dance at the Manhasset Hotel. Many out -of-town visitors.
William Bates is making preparations to go to Florida for the winter. Fred Penn will superintend the milk business.
Current talk is that there will be as much building this winter and spring as there was last year.
A new platform has been built at the P.R.R. freight station.
The Girl Scouts held a masquerade ball on Hallowe'en at Firemen's Hall.
Quite a number of our people motor to Toms River Saturday evening for shopping and the motion pictures.

SILVERTON
The postman left a number of invitations in Silverton last week for relatives and friends of Miss Alda Tilton, of Bay Head, whose marriage to Frank Hewitt, of Seaside Park, will take place Wednesday, November 8.
The Hallowe'en merrymakers were out in quite a large body Tuesday evening. The processional, in coming into the writer's home, was led by a couple wearing bridal attire, bearing a sign, “Just Married.” When questioned who did it, they answered we just left the parsonage. This was pronounced at this stop, first prize costume; all the others, masks and costumes, were funny, and we must give them credit for excellent behavior. Doesn't that sound good for a bunch of boys and girls on Hallowe'en?

WEST CREEK
Our oyster shippers are making good use of the good weather and disposing of their stock in city markets in large quantities.
Miss Blanche Cranmer has accepted the position of “Hello” girl in the Central office, in Tuckerton.
The political pot is simmering, getting ready for the spill over in the near future. Messrs. Runyon, Frelinghuysen, Appleby and several of the lesser lights stopped in our town on their way along the shore route, and told us the same old story, though perhaps more modernized by necessity of recent laws to be enforced. Of course each faction expected to be elected, but let us hope that while right is right, we will exercise the best there is in us to see the right man in the right place.

Miss us? We missed you! Here are some news briefs to catch us all up and bring us back to our normal weekly schedule. Enjoy!

Let your mind wander as you consider life around summer and autumn 1922, courtesy the New Jersey Courier weekly newspaper and Ocean County Library archives, and peppered with items of maritime interest (around an 8 minute read).

Airship Construction Begins!
Construction of the U.S.S. Shenandoah airship began at Naval Air Station Lakehurst.

Surf City Sells 1218 Building Lots
One of the largest lot sales on the shore in recent years happened when Surf City sold off 1218 50x100 ft lots on July 3rd. The lots were taken back by the municipality due to outstanding taxes. The lots mostly belonged to the old Wright and Culver estates.

Fire!
Late springtime fires continued to do damage to area lands, including cranberry bogs.

Five Escape Stalled Car on Railroad Tracks
Death was dodged by five individuals who bolted from their stalled car on the Pennsylvania Railroad line near Beachwood station in late June. When the train struck, it cut off the back end and a door went flying, striking one former passenger, who was cut on mouth and chin.

Baseball Fever
The great American pasttime enjoyed a renaissance in the area, with many towns and organizations forming nine-player teams to compete.

Save Barnegat Light
The battle to save Ol' Barney continued, with area Congressmen battling a largely indifferent Washington, D.C.

Toms River High School Seniors Graduate
A total of 22 seniors from area towns up and down Ocean County graduated in mid-June.

Smashing Independence Day Records
Crowds visiting from the cities and elsewhere shattered tourism records to date for the shore area over the July 4th holiday.

Oyster Planters
Large quantities of oysters were planted in Barnegat Bay from the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge (which carried passengers across between Good Luck Point and Seaside Park) to Cedar Creek. Many other areas were also staked out and received new plantings.

Prohibition
Continued as the law of the land, though rumrunners (on land and water) and illicit liquor sales carried on, with area authorities sometimes making lucky busts that likely didn't put much of a dent in the overall trade.

Machine Planting
A new machine was used to plant sweet potatoes as an experiment that proved much faster than by hand.

First New Cruiser Built Since World War
The first new locally-built cruiser, a 55 ft. keel with 16 ft. beam craft, was launched out of Island Heights, built by Mayor William D. Rote from his shop there, for Charles K. Haddon of Haddonfield. It was christened Mary D.

Sneakbox Racing Hitting Its Stride
Starting with the purchase of the first fleet of 15-foot racing sneakboxes by Polyhue Yacht Club, Beachwood, other clubs in the Barnegat Bay Yacht Racing Association had been following suit with orders all spring, leading to many new races of the design on the river and bay.

Circus Train Held for Stealing by Employees
The train of the Walter L. Main Circus was halted at Lakehurst in early August upon accusations that its employees had been stealing and eating produce from roadside farm stands in Toms River. The show the night before had been a smashing success but a torrential downpour ended the night, with most of the 2,500 spectators leaving drenched.

West Virginians Visit Toms River Poultrymen
Farmers from that state arrived to look at how our area chicken farmers handled their industry.

Return of Horse Disease Feared
Inoculations for hundreds of horses between Toms River and Burlington County took place to try and dodge the dreaded sickness, botalinus, that had taken so many animal lives in recent prior years and had started up again.

All Night Regatta
Toms River Yacht Club held an all-night sailing regatta with race course running from the Crabbe Boathouse on Toms River (still there, 2022) to a stakeboat off Barnegat Lighthouse (also still there!). The sloop Viking, sailed by the Schofield boys of Island Heights, took the win. Race started at 10:30 pm (delayed due to a storm) Saturday, August 18th and Viking crossed the finish line at 6:28 am the following morning. Gem, a catboat owned by the Crabbes, took second at 6:56 am, with Hawk, a sneakbox owned by the Doan family, in third at 7:14 am.

A-Cat Mary Ann Sweeping Bay Races
The biggest yachting trophy events of the summer went to the Mary Ann, the new catboat that resulted in the dawn of the A-Cat fleet.

Highway Robberies
Authorities warned the public not to stop on the highways (faster roads running through wooded and farm areas, of the time) to pick up stray tires, as they were often bait for thieves to hold up motorists and rob them, steal their cars or both.

Pennsylvania Railroad Wants Off LBI
The company, in mid-September, asked permission from the state to abandon the line from the bridge at Barnegat City Junction, below Surf City, to Barnegat City [now Barnegat Light]. The proliferation of passenger cars and trucks had cut into its bottom line too much on the largely summer island.

United Feed Company Builds New Plant Below Toms River
A new plant was constructed on the Central Railroad line in Berkeley Township, in what would eventually become South Toms River borough, in an area roughly across from what today is Mathis Plaza. Its features included a grain elevator, bins and mill.

Frost Damages Cranberry Harvest
Regional growers of the crop were upset to find that early autumn frosts had ruined about 20 percent of their unpicked crop. Picking continued at a fast pace to beat the weather.

Railroad Sparks Burn Mantoloking Lumber Yard
The coal, lumber yards and ice house of the Stillwell's at Mantoloking were damaged by a fire that began from sparks of a passing Pennsylvania Railroad train headed to that city. Damage was estimated to be $15,000 [$265,000 in 2022 dollars].

Halloween Parade Canceled
The annual Toms River Halloween Parade, put on by the volunteer fire department, was canceled for the year as the organization was too busy raising funds for its new La France pumper truck and the parade was too large an expense to carry at the time. Another literal roadblock to the parade was that much of downtown was torn up as part of a project to pave its main thoroughfares for the first time.

Seaside Park Amusement Properties Sold at Auction
In early October, the Casino and bath house property on the beach front at North Avenue, Seaside Park, were sold by the county sheriff for $6900 [$122,000 in 2022 dollars] to V. Claude Palmer, a Mount Holly lawyer. The buildings had been owned by Amos K. Dubell, Margaret E. Dubell and Charles J. McCready, who bought them two years earlier and attempted to start an amusement center there.

Jersey Cranberries Open at $10 to $13 Per Barrel
The Jersey cranberries were put on the market for the first on Wednesday, October 25. The opening prices quoted in New York Market were $5 for the ordinary Jerseys and $6.50 for the Howes, for the half barrel box or from $10 to $13 per barrel [$177 to $230 in 2022 dollars]. Early blacks were still selling from $8 to $10.50 per barrel [$141 to $186 in 2022 dollars].

Tickets are $100 each and limited to 100 tickets sold. Once they sell out - no more will be sold.
Drawing will take place on the deck of the A-Cat Spy in its museum shed located at 78 East Water Street, Toms River, on Saturday, December 17th at 2 pm. Winner need not be present. No substitution of offered prize will be made. Total of prize monies equal to 50% of all proceeds collected.
All proceeds will benefit the Toms River Seaport Society's ongoing mission to preserve and celebrate Toms River and Barnegat Bay's rich maritime history.

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Toms River, N.J. 08754

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Welcome back to another era in the Toms River area's past, one century ago this week!

Let your mind wander as you consider life around May & June 1922, courtesy the New Jersey Courier weekly newspaper and Ocean County Library archives, and peppered with items of maritime interest (around a 25 minute read).

(written by NJ Courier editor, William H. Fischer, as he sat at his desk above Main Street near Washington Street; it was much like a collection of online social media updates seen today)

May.
Flowers.
Forest fires.
More rain needed.
May day was a beauty.
Dry and dusty weather.
Purple wisteria blooms.
Lilacs show regal purple.
Frost have been frequent.
Street sprinkler out this week.
Tulip and daffodils still stay with us.
Swallows and martins have come back.
Wild beach plum bushes are white with bloom.
The sound of the lawnmower is heard once more.
Purple violets border the roads through the woods.
A dance will be given by Toms River Fire Company No. 2, at the new Novins garage on Water Street on Friday, May 19.
Growers are giving cranberry bogs a little rest period, drawing the water off for awhile, and will flood them again before the vines start to bud.
Cephas Johnson has bought the “old Potter house” at the corner of Irons Road and Lakehurst Road, and will tear it down for the timber and bricks in it. With its fireplace and brickpanes, there are enough bricks to build several frame houses these days.
The sisters who have charge of the “fresh air home” out Pleasant Plains way, make frequent visits there these spring days, getting things ready for the sick children and their mothers, when the hot days come.
Mr. Christansen, an employee at the Naval Air Station, has moved from Beachwood into the Alsheimer building apartments. The other apartment is also rented to an officer at the Air station.
Saunders Levy is building a bungalow on the Cornelius Johnson farm at Pleasant Plains. He will subdivide the 80 odd acres in this farm, and make chicken farms of it.
Yesterday afternoon a demonstration in planting sweet potatoes, cabbages and similar plants by machine was given at the farm of Borman and Schimel, Laurelton, under direction of County Agent Waite.
Maples are almost full leaved; oaks are commencing to show leaf and blossom; swamp maples are aflame with red seedvanes; sassafras shows its yellow bloom; elms look like dainty lace against the sky.
John P. Kirk has started a boatshop on the Hensler property above the Main street bridge. Mr. Kirk is an old time yacht builder, known all along the coast.
Campbell's circus, which was in winter quarters at Bamber the past winter, showed here on Tuesday. A very creditable little show was the general verdict.
A good many seem to be gathering dandelions.
Moonlit evenings.
Blossom time is about gone.
Lillies of the valley are in bloom.
Warm days bring up the garden truck and potatoes.
In spite of the reports that the strawberries were all killed, one sees many beds white with bloom.
The Ocean County Feed Company has been building a large feed store on the north side of West Water street, on the lot they bought recently. The building is one story high, 30x86 feet on the ground plan, and will hold several hundred tons of feed.
The playground apparatus, bought by the Home and School Association, has been set up at the school grounds. It includes swings, ladders, seesaws, and similar play things.
At a sale of boats for storage at the Irons boat storage yards, by Hadley Woolley last Saturday, the old time yacht Spider was bought by Win Snyder and Vern Sutton. They plan rigging her up in racing trim again this summer, to see if she has kept her swiftness. Ed. E. Snyder bought a sneak-box at the same sale.
Charles L. Barney is building himself a home and chicken plant on Stanton avenue, near Quail Run in Berkeley.
Edward J. Kelly is planning to build himself a home on South Main street, near the Pennsylvania railroad station, this summer.
Catbirds, kingbirds and thrashers came from the south last week end.
Butterflies are frequently seen, also moths and millers.
A large number of Toms River people motored to Lakewood last Friday and Saturday to see Sheldon Lewis and Virginia Pearson in vaudeville at the Strand theatre.
Joseph Roy, captain of the rumrunning schooner Pocomoke, seized in Atlantic City last summer, has just been released after being in jail eight months for smuggling liquor. Part of this liquor was buried at Barnegat and spent the fall and winter in Toms River jail.
Roses in bloom.
May is slipping by.
Daisies dot the fields.
Wildcherries are in bloom.
The white oaks are in bloom.
The laurel is bursting its pink buds.
Gasoline has jumped to 29 cents a gallon retail.
Large spikes of white flowers decorate the horse chestnuts now.
Whippoorwill's shoes, or lady slipper, or moccasin flower, whichever you like to call it, are blooming in the oakwoods.
Automobile drivers say that there should be a traffic post at the corner of Washington street and Hooper avenue, where a number of accidents have happened. The danger is greater now that through traffic is to be diverted from Main street that way.
A restaurant is being built opposite the Central Railroad Station and next to Max Leet's store.
Traveling about the county there are two things that hit the observer between the eyes in every section—new chicken houses, and aerials for radio receivers.
Roses blooming.
New moon today.
Field daisies abound.
Most trees in full leaf.
A little rain on Sunday.
School will close June 16.
June comes next Thursday.
Building mechanics are on the rush.
Heavy showers last Friday morning.
When we get Main Street paved—oh boy!
Pleasure boats are coming back into favor.
Housewives struggle with spring cleaning.
Business competition grows keener in this old town.
Now and then an early magnolia bud—fragrant as ever.
Bluefish, weakfish, kingfish, croakers have been caught in the bay.
The playground apparatus has been working overtime at the schoolground. Children have been swinging as early as 7.00 A.M. And late as 9.00 P.M.
Tulip polars are covered with their green and yellow flowers.
The ayringa bushes are starry white with blossoms.
County Agent E.H. Waite yesterday moved from the Court House to the Traco Theatre building. The office he has had at the Court House will be used by Prosecutor W.H. Jayne.
Capt. Ben Asay says he celebrated his 65th birthday on Saturday last, but he promises never to do it again.
A fourteen-passenger airplane is now making trips between Atlantic City and New York, and people in the shore towns watch her go by.
A.H. Willard. M.D., has bought twenty-two acres of the old Rayner place, on the old Freehold road, and has engaged P.P. Elkinton to prepare plans for a home, to cost about $6000 [$105,825 in 2022 dollars]. Dr. Willard also has visions of a private hospital at Toms River in the future.
Fire Company No. 2 had a fine dance at the Novins hall on Friday evening of last week, with a large gathering of young people, all of whom seemed to enjoy the evening. The dance was held in the large new feed storage house that the Novins boys had just completed, and it was prettily decorated for the occasion. One of the most active figures at the dance was the president of the company, Joseph Novins, whose untimely death a few days later had caused a pall of sadness to settle over the whole community.
Two flying machines were here on Monday and Tuesday afternoons, making the Capt. Caleb Grant field, on the Cedar Grove road their flying field, and taking up passengers at $3.50 a ride. They did quite a business both afternoons. They called themselves “The Aerial Hobos,” and said they had taken up passengers in every state in the Union. They come here from Philadelphia. One machine was piloted by Robert Jefferson, of Philadelphia, and one by Merrill Riddick, son of Congressman Riddick, of Montana. Bill Jefferson, Bob's brother, was the ground man. They said they would come back again.
Judge Berry has had his big yacht brought here from New York, and it is anchored off the Doan property.
Capt. Lambert, of the Lambert boat line, is tuning up the engines in Ariella and Dorianna, in preparation for the summer season.
Jack Costa snapped some bird's eye views of Toms River village this week while in the air, and they gave us an altogether different idea of how our town looks.
Louis Davis, of the American Market, has moved his family here from Sunapee, N.H., to the house he recently bought on Messenger Street, formerly the Roy Tilton house. Mr. Davis is very proud of her family, which consists of himself, wife and eleven children.
Snyder & Sutton have started work on the bungalow of the first poultry farm, to be built for the Toms River Poultry Development Co., south of the P.R.R. on the Dover road. The location is a beautiful one, commanding the best view of Toms River village to be found anywhere.
During the easterly weather last week dwellers on the beach gathered up great quantities of driftwood and also fruit and vegetable in eatable state.
An 11-year-old boy was found in the woods near Cassville last week, and proved to be the son of Fred Spring, of Rahway. It was said by his brother, who came after him, that the boy had run away from home thirty times.

AND “GAS” GOES UP
The cost of gasoline has been rising for several weeks past, till now it is 26 cents a gallon wholesale [$4.59 in 2022 dollars]. Ordinarily when gas goes up the explanation from the refiners and distributors is that there is not enough gasoline to meet the demand. This time the assertion is made that there are larger stocks stored than ever before, and that the production is in excess of the demand. The United States Senate has designated a committee to investigate why gas should enhance in value under those circumstances...

TOO MANY WOODS FIRES
There are altogether too many woods fires.
Most of them start from criminal carelessness or criminal ignorance.
When your carelessness or your ignorance lend you to destroy many thousands of dollars worth of other folks' property, it is rightly characterized as criminal.
In the old days, every forest fire was charged up to the nearest railroad, but railroads are no longer the chief offenders. There are three other fire-starters that apparently line up even with the railroad. They are: The newcomer in the country who starts burning off grass or brush on a windy day; the careless auto camper, who starts a fire to cook his dinner along the road in the edge of a wood or field; the cigarette smoker who flings the burning paper tip out into leaves, brush or grass.
Thousands of dollars worth of damage in the past few weeks have been caused by these four offenders, and of the four, only one, the railroad, ever pays for the loss caused by its acts. The brush burner is generally too poor, and the camper or cigarette thrower are both unknown in most instances.
Bad as the fires have been, they would have been worse were it not for the organized fire warden system, with deputy wardens in every locality, with power to call on men to fight fire and pay them for their services.

NATURE SPOILS A THEORY
Nature thinks nothing of spoiling a perfectly good theory that man may make for himself and hug to himself in glee.
For the past two years the lighthouse authorities in Washington have again and again stated that nothing could be done to save Barnegat Light “because inlets on the Jersey coast work to the south,” and therefore Barnegat Lighthouse was, in their opinion and by their theory, doomed.
It availed nothing to show them that Atlantic City and Ocean City are both building up by their inlets working to the north.
Now the newest of all inlets on the coast, the Little Egg Harbor Inlet, below Beach Haven, not only broke through several miles north of the other inlet, but is continually working to the north. The government last winter had to move the coast guard station from its clutches, and it is still cutting to the north.
Nature thinks nothing of spoiling our pet theories and then laughing at us.

THE AGE OF MACHINERY
To the New Jersey Courier:
A short time ago, while walking through our park I asked a friend if he had noticed the scarcity of sparrows during the last few years. He was much amazed to find that I was right, but when I told him that the automobile was the cause he thought I was a fit candidate for that institution for the sequestration of the mentally deficient. The fact is, as I have observed, that the auto spreads so much oil and grease around that the birds get it on their feet and feathers and transfer some of it to the eggs, which then refuse to hatch. This fact was first learned by reading  that crude oil put on perches of henhouses would kill the lice. It did, and also the germs in perfectly fertile eggs.
New Jersey may have more than their share of sparrows, as The Courier recently intimated, but in Philadelphia they are certainly much fewer than they were a few years ago. Now that machines are so numerous on the farms, care must be taken in the disposition of waste oil and grease. What effect refuse oil from ships is going to have on aquatic fowls remains to be learned, but I fear it will not be good. When oil is struck in Ocean County, keep the chickens away.
H.I.P.
Germantown, Pa.

HEAD OF TOMS RIVER FIRE CO. NO. 2 DIES AS RESULT OF MYSTERIOUS FIRE
KEROSENE SOAKED, HANKINS HOUSE BURNED TO GROUND
The home of James Hankins, on upper Main Street, or Lakewood road, was burned to the ground late on Saturday night, May 20, the fire being without doubt set with malicious intent, but what was worse than the loss of the house was the fact that the fire was directly or indirectly the cause of the death of Joseph Novins, a young business man of Toms River, and president of Fire Company No. 2. Young Novins was found unconscious on the ground after he had been in the burning house, and died on Tuesday, at Kimball Hospital, Lakewood, without having regained consciousness.
The illness and death of Mr. Novins accentuated the rumors about the fire, and have resulted in an inquiry being made by Prosecutor Jayne in an effort to learn who set fire to the house. The fire was discovered by a driver of a passing automobile, who stopped at the home of T.L. Corwell, across the way and told him. The two started to the burned house and found the door locked. John Page, another neighbor, going out to care for some small chicks, also saw the fire and reached there just after them.
They broke the door in, went up stairs and found there was no one in the house and very little furniture. The fire was burning merrily upstairs and the smell of kerosene was everywhere. In fact those who were in the burning building, including the firemen who soon arrived, said that there was kerosene on the floor, on the stairs, and on the walls. There was no water in the neighborhood, and all the firemen and neighbors could do was to watch the house burn down, from the roof to the ground, and, as there was no wind, it was about an hour doing so.
The fire was discovered shortly after 11 P.M.
The house and land are in the name of Mrs. James Hankins. The house was insured for $1500 [$26,456 in 2022 dollars] and the furniture for $500 [$8,818.78 in 2022 dollars], in the P.L. Grover Agency. About three weeks before the fire, marital troubles between husband and wife resulted in the wife packing up her goods and moving to Bradley Beach, leaving but a few pieces of furniture in the house. James Hankins continued to make his home there. The quarrel between the two was over another woman. Harry Hankins, a son of James Hankins, with his wife and child, went to Bradley Beach with Mrs. Hankins.
James Hankins for some time has been driving a taxicab, and was at the Main Street stand at the time the fire alarm was given. He says that while he had been sleeping in the house he had no fire there. The house was two-story and attic, and was built a few years ago to take the place of another that had burned down.
Joseph Novins, whose death resulted from the fire, was the son of Mr. Hyman Novoselsky, who lives on the north side of town. When Joe and his brothers started the Ocean County Feed Company, finding the name Novoselsky long and cumbersome, they shortened it to Novins. Deceased was one of six brothers, the others being Abram, Benjamin, Robert and Louis, the sixth brother, Samuel, being killed in action on September 27, 1918, in France.
He was keen and energetic in business matters, pleasant and affable and was well liked in town. He was one of the organizers of the Fire Company No. 2, and its president. The physicians say that he had serious kidney trouble, and hard work he had been doing, the excitement of the firemens' ball on Friday night, the rush to the fire, and the work he did there, with the possibility that he may have fallen a considerable distance, resulted in the breaking down of the power of the kidneys to rid his body of poison, and that he died of acute uraemic poison.
Novins was one of the first firemen at the fire, and was upstairs in the stifling smoke, going up a second time with a fire extinguisher. Some thought he fell from a porch roof, others that he fell from a ladder, but no one has been found who saw him fall. He was taken to the hospital shortly after the fire, and physicians from New York were called in, but he died on Tuesday. Funeral services were held in the Jewish Synagogue, in Lakewood Wednesday afternoon, and burial made in the Jewish Cemetery there. The members of Fire Company No. 2 went in a body, and almost every taxi on the jitney stand was sent voluntarily by its owner in the funeral, showing in what esteem he was held. He was 24 years old.

MUST ACT TO SAVE LONG BEACH FROM TIDE EROSION
With the tides of Barnegat eating away at the north end of Long Beach, the ocean currents cutting in here and there along the beach front, and the new inlet below Beach Haven widening its channel every day, property owners on Long Beach feel that some definite and concerted action must be taken to preserve that island from this continuous whittling away by the tides. To that end a meeting has been called to discuss the situation...

NAVY TO GET BIG ZEP, TO BE “MADE IN GERMANY”
In addition to the huge airship that is now being assembled at the huge hangar, in the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, from materials fabricated at League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, in the past two years, it is understood that the Navy is to have another big Zeppelin, to take the place of the ZR-2, which was bought from England, but which collapsed in a trial flight, just before an American crew were to leave England with it for Lakehurst last August. The new No. 2, if she is to bear that name, is to be “made in Germany,” from the original Zeppelin plans...
The Navy Department expects to determine decisively through experiments with the ZR-1, now building at Lakehurst, whether rigid airships are practical, either for war or commercial purposes...

GYPSIES CAUSE TROUBLE
A hurry-up call for aid against a band of thieving gypsies reached the county seat from Tuckerton yesterday and aid was sent down. $20 had been taken from Ephraim Berry [$352 in 2022 dollars], an aged Tuckertonian. Brought to Toms River before Justice King, the Gypsies refunded the money and paid the costs and left via the Bay Bridge. There were two cars in the band and they said they were from Massachusetts.

CONKLIN'S BOAT STUCK ON WAYS
Warren Conklin started on Saturday last to launch his big power boat that he has been two years in building, on the sandspit in the river; but the boat stuck on her ways, and is still on the sandspit. The craft is the only boat of size built at Toms River in the past six or seven years. It has a 60 foot keel and 18 foot beam, 72 feet over all, and was modeled and built by Conklin himself, from white oak timbers and cedar planking, cut in nearby swamps. The timbers are on the old-fashioned order, natural growth knees, cut from crooked material. Twin engines of twenty horsepower are to drive her. She will carry fifty or more people, and has a cabin and pilot house. She was built for passenger carrying. Conklin talks of running her between Bay Head and Atlantic City, stopping at way ports.

BIG BEACH HAVEN PICNIC ON OCEAN COUNTY DAY, JULY 15
The Ocean County Society of Philadelphia have another big stunt that they expect to pull off Saturday, July 15, when they propose an Ocean County Day, in the form of a beach picnic, at Beach Haven. The Society, according to the plans as outlined by its president, Lafayette Taylor, of Philadelphia, will run a special train from that city, with a big band, in approved excursion and picnic style. All their friends in the county are expected to motor to the beach to meet them and shake hands, and have an old home day reception and renewal of friendships. The matter will be taken up by a joint committee from the Ocean County Society of Philadelphia, and one from Long Beach Board of Trade, so one of the biggest days in the history of the county may be confidently looked forward to.
The Society now has about 650 members, though it was only organized last winter. A week or so ago it gave a theatre party in Philadelphia, at which some 300 attended. They will guarantee 300 on the special train next July, and hope to bring twice that number. It is quite likely that Ocean County Day will be made an annual affair each summer, meeting at various resorts on the shore.

HEAVY TRUCK CRUSHES LIFE FROM SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY
Point Pleasant, May 24—Howard Morton, 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morton of Bay and Trenton avenues, here, died last evening in the Ann May hospital at Spring Lake from injuries sustained when he was run down by a 5-ton truck of the Harrison Construction company of Passaic, which is working on the bridge over the Manasquan river here. It was said young Morton, with other children was playing in the street at Bay and Arnold avenues, when the truck knocked him down. At the hospital this morning it was stated his leg was broken, he had sustained many lacerations and suffered from loss of blood. 

BOOZE PEDDLER FINED $500
Tom Donofrio of Egg Harbor City, who has been supplying certain resorts and individuals in the lower part of the county with hooch, was caught last Saturday by Constable Edward Kelley of Toms River, and on Wednesday pleaded guilty. He was fined $500 [$8,818 in 2022 dollars], and told a second offence would mean a jail sentence. He traveled in a motor truck, distributing his stuff.

TO BUILD LACEY ROAD
Joseph Parker, of Forked River, has been selected to build Lacey road for the Board of Freeholders and Lacey Township. The township has appropriated $500 [$8,818 in 2022 dollars] and the county $1500 [$26,456 in 2022 dollars]. Mr. Parker figures that this may build four miles of road, as there is good gravel most of the way right along the line of the road.
The Lacey road was named after General Lacey, an officer in the Revolutionary War, who after that war came from Pennsylvania to this part of New Jersey, and built the iron furnace, or forge, at Lacey. The road runs in a straight line from the Lacey Forge to the landing on Forked River, whence the iron was shipped by water after being manufactured. As in all old forges of South Jersey, bog iron was smelted with charcoal fires, and the huge forests of pinewood furnished the charcoal. The South Jersey pines in the primeval forests were not the scrubby weaklings of today, but were from one to two feet in diameter at the butt, and appropriately tall. After the forges shut down from lack of iron ore, Lacey road was used to cart charcoal and cordwood to the landing to ship to New York in schooners.

MILES OF COUNTRY BURNT OVER BY MANY FIERCE FOREST FIRES
WOODS FIRE SWEEP WIDE TRACTS AND THREATEN HOMES
Woods fires have continued to do great damage, sweeping wide tracts and threatening homes in various parts of the county.
Last week the worst fire in this county this spring was on the county line between Monmouth and Ocean, threatening at various times Greenville, Herbertsville and Laurelton. Houses and barns in all these sections were saved only by the hardest kind of fighting.
The Lakewood, Point Pleasant and Naval Air Station firemen joined with the firewardens under District Warden Joseph E. Abbott of Toms River, and the men from all the countryside, to save the threatened villages...
Last Friday afternoon, April 28, Toms River had a fire scare again, when brush and grass in the meadow between Lakehurst road and the Central Railroad got on fire and threatened the Toms River Electric Co., the Ocean County Gas Co. plants, and the American Supply lumber yards. It was conquered with no loss to speak of.
Saturday and Sunday a fire raged to the south of Whitings, and on Sunday one in Jackson township at Webbsville.
Tuesday a fire was alleged to have been started at Pinewald by the C.R.R. midday freight, and with a strong southwest wind back of it, rushed toward Bayville. It swept almost the whole of the rear of Bayville on the western edge, and must have burned a number of homes, but for the firefighters...
During the fire at Bayville Tuesday, two deer were trapped by the flames, and did not seem to know how to get out. Some of the fire fighters broke through a weak spot in the fire and drove them out safely.
Two bad fires burned from Friday till Monday in Burlington and Ocean counties. Both started in Burlington County, one at Hedger House, and spread to Woodmansie an then across the Plains to Cedar Bridge; the other began west of Four Mile, and burned from Ong's Hat to Lower Mill and Brown's Mill Junction. 20,000 acres were swept by these fires and 500 men were out fighting them.
The report in last week's Courier that the shed, used as a railroad station at Ortley, had been burned, was a mistake. The shed still stands. Ortley Inn and two houses was the loss at that place.

LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP MUST FIGHT SEA'S ENCROACHMENT
Long Beach Township is being seriously affected by the encroachment of the sea. The inlet that opened south of Beach Haven in the big storm on February 4, 1920, is continually moving northward, and in short time has swallowed up fifty acres of valuable beachland. Just now the inlet, which last year carried deep water, is full of sand bars, and seems to be a seething turmoil of sand and water. Some of the old-time beach and baymen think that this may possibly mean that the inlet will close itself, provided the right conditions happen along, as it did years ago, when there was a big inlet at practically the same spot. Others think they see the inlet widening till much more valuable land is lost.
A meeting was held on Saturday evening last, at Beach Haven, attended by representatives from all the boroughs on Long Beach, who came together at the request of the Long Beach Township Committee. This committee wanted the aid of the other municipalities in enlisting the interest of the county, the state and the federal authorities to help stop the erosion. The matter was talked over from every angle, and seeing the unlikeliness of getting any aid within a reasonable time from other governmental sources, it is likely that the Township Commitee will do as Barnegat City Borough did, issue bonds and build its own bulkheads. A meeting of the next Township Committee will be held next Saturday night at which this matter will be taken up by them.

TOMS RIVER CLASS OF '22, NUMBERS 22
The Class of 1922, Toms River High School, which is preparing to graduate in June, numbers twenty-two, or thirteen girls and nine boys. This will be one of the largest classes ever to be graduated from the local school...

BOATBUILDER PEARCE SICK
S. Bartley Pearce, of Brielle, better known as Bart Pierce, the boatbuilder, was taken ill last week while walking along Main Street, Asbury Park, with his wife, and was removed to the hospital. It was called acute indigestion, complicated with a heart attack. Pearce built and run the famous succession of “Dixies,” the motor boats which for a long time held the international records.

HALF OF SURF CITY GOES TO BOROUGH FOR TAXES
The Borough of Surf City has about completed the formula of taking title to nearly half the lots in that borough for unpaid taxes. The borough has in fact foreclosed a tax title against the former owners of these lots, through its counsel, Judge Maja Leon Berry, in the Chancery Court. The taxes due on these lots aggregated $20,168.45 [$355,722.24 in 2022 dollars], and the proceedings go back to 1904, when the lots in question were sold for taxes and bid in by the borough. The lots are part of the former Culver and Wright holdings, though both Culver and Wright have been dead for a long time...
The failure of these defendants to meet the amount of taxes due on April 24th last, the date set by the Chancery Court, results in George C. Low, the Master in Chancery, giving to the borough title to the land, so that they can dispose of it in fee simple. This large amount of land on which the taxes were held back has long been a drawback that has prevented the growth of Surf City, in spite of the economical government and careful administration of borough affairs, it has enjoyed, largely through the efforts of the late Thomas Callahan and his family of boys, and of William H. Donahue, son-in-law of Mr. Callahan, and the few all the year round residents in the borough.
Now that the Borough is in the position to dispose of these lots by selling them to people who will build homes on them and pay taxes, there is no reason why Surf City should not take its place along with the most progressive summer resorts on Long Beach.

APPLEBY ASKS FEDERAL AID TO PRESERVE JERSEY BEACHES
Washington, D.C., April 23.—Congressman T. Frank Appleby yesterday introduced a bill providing federal aid in the construction of sea walls, bulkheads, jetties and other appropriate devices necessary and proper to protect the island waterways, navigable rivers and waterways of the coast of the State of New Jersey from Sandy Hook to Cape May from destruction by encroachment of the Atlantic Ocean...
Mr. Appleby further stated that the gradual encroachment of the surf along the Atlantic coast had destroyed property of immense value; has caused buildings of all classes to be removed; closed many highways; has cut new channels where the land between the ocean bays is narrow, and millions could have been saved had there been organized work in the last fifty years by the state and national governments.

OCEAN COUNTY BOYS' RADIO CLUB IS FIRST IN UNITED STATES
The following story and illustrations are from the February issue of “New Jersey Agriculture,” a state publication.
To give every farmer in Ocean County a chance to hear good music, good lectures, first hand results of athletic sports, and, most important of all, market reports in plenty of time to do him some good. This is an ideal toward which the Ocean County Wireless Club, an organization of 56 members, representing 11 communities, is working at a 56 boy-power rate of speed.
We have heard of poultry clubs, calf clubs, garden clubs, gunning clubs—the United States is full of them—but it remained for Ocean County to establish the first Boys' and Girls' Agricultural Wireless Club of the country...

ASK $198,000 FOR DOVER'S NEW SCHOOL [$3.5 MILLION IN 2022 DOLLARS]
$198,000 is the amount the Dover Township School Board think is needed to build and equip a modern school at Toms River. A special school meeting has been called for Tuesday, May 16, at 4.00 P.M., to vote for or against a bond issue of $198,000, and for or against building a new school house on the hill east of the present school house—a 16-room building and large assembly hall...
The plans call for a new building on the crest of the school house hill, facing to the west, or Hyers street. Wings will run back on Sheriff street and School street ends, and between these wings will be built an auditorium, with a stage, and capable of seating about 650 pupils. The building is to be two stories high with a basement beneath it. There will be fourteen new grade rooms in this building, also a lunchroom for serving hot lunches to the children from out of town, a library, rest rooms for the teachers, etc. It is to be of fire-proof construction, as planned, and of course rules of the State Department as to space, ventilation, size of corridors and stairways, etc.

FRIEND P. KELLY HAS LEFT US
Dr. W.H. Ballou, Editor of the Science News Service, New York, writes:
“Another devotee of the art of angling striped bass, the pioneer of Barnegat Bay, one might say, has gone on his long vacation. I shall remember him as friend P. Kelly, because he was a friend to almost every angler who either went to Forked River or resided there, friend of the baymen and friends of the townspeople. He has passed on to complete the triumvirate of former great anglers of the Bay, Byron E. Eno and John B. Frazer, always together between fishing hours, grouped on the veranda of either the Riverside House or its Casino, telling laughable stories and experiences. Somewhere, like the Indians' 'happy hunting grounds,' there must be in the Great Beyond, a gathering place of anglers, and let us home that the triumvirate has already convened and reminisced on old times.
“Friend Kelly's daily habits were known to all. He went out on the bay mornings to reach the bass trolling grounds on the falling tide. Whether he returned with bass or not, he always had good-sized weakfish in his bag. In fact, he often had better luck capturing big weaks while trolling for bass, than many anglers who still fished for weaks only. He invariably returned to the wharf early in the afternoon, being the first arrival usually. His habit was fixed. Leaving his boat, he took a chair on the Casino veranda and sat there until dinner time, watching the arrival of anglers from the bay, noting their bags, and conversing with them on the day's experiences. He constantly asked and answered the sole two queries at Forked River, 'How many did you get?' and 'How much did they weigh?' When I answered how many and how much, he had only one reply: 'Fish must have been thick, if you got any!' Hundreds, perhaps thousands of men and women, anglers and summer guests knew friend Kelly during the past thirty-five years and no one who knew him will ever forget him, while many with myself, will mourn sincerely his passing.”

ROBBERY AT FORKED RIVER
The barber shop and cigar store of Oscar Wilbert, at Forked River, was robbed of about $45 in cash from the till [$793 in 2022 dollars], while he was absent from town, sometime between 1 P.M. Sunday and 5:30 on Tuesday. The thieves, presumably local talent, knowing he was away, entered through a cellar window. Other valuables were untouched.

WHAT CAUSED “THE PLAINS?”
That South Jersey mystery, “The Plains,” are to be investigated by two distinct scientific parties, to discover, if possible, their cause. The Plains lie partly in Ocean and partly in Burlington County, west of Barnegat and Manahawkin, and north of Tuckerton. They are on the height of land between the streams that flow south and west into the Mullica River system, via the Oswego and Wading River, and those that flow direct into the coast bays. For spaces of several miles on the two Plains, the Greater and the Lesser or the Big and Little Plains, there are no trees as high as a man's head. Instead the trees and shrubbery seem to be the same as that just below the snow line on a mountain—pine trees, laurel, etc., stunted, gnarled and creeping along the ground, showing that they are of great age in spite of their stunted size.
The State Department of Conservation and Development are making an investigation to see if they can find out the cause of this peculiar condition which was found by the first white men who crossed that part of the state more than 200 years ago, and which is still unchanged. The Agricultural Department at Washington also promises an investigation by a group of scientists. It is even alleged that some insects and animals found on the Plains are not found in the adjoining and surrounding territory. One of the old stories of a hundred years ago is that prairie chickens, afterward found by new settlers in all the Middle West, were so numerous on the Plains that parties used to drive up there in the fall and fill their wagon bodies with them, clubbing them to death.

FISHHAWKS MOVED YOUNG FROM PATH OF THE FLAMES
During the woods fires at Bayville recently a fishhawk's nest, containing young birds, was in the path of the flame. The fire did not burn up to the tree it was in, being stopped by a road, but the nest seemed to be in danger. Township Fire Warden J. Reed Tilton, of Toms River, saw the birds take their young in their claws, when the danger was at its worst, and fly away with them. Next morning, after the fire was over, Division Warden Joseph E. Abbott, of Toms River, and Township Warden Harry Allen, of Bayville, were going over the lines of the fire, and they saw the two fishhawks bringing the young back to the nest. Each made two trips with one bird in its claws. Where the birds secreted their young ones for safety neither of the parties saw. On the other hand, on Wardell's Neck, during the big fire in Brick Township, Division Warden Abbott saw another fishhawk stick by her nest and burn up with her eggs.

TO PAVE WASHINGTON ST. WITH ASPHALT FROM CURB TO CURB
The Board of Freeholders at their meeting on Tuesday of this week, May 2, adopted the plans for the improved concrete roadways through the villages of Toms River, Barnegat and Tuckerton...
On Friday of last week, April 26, the Freeholders awarded the contract for the mile of Route No. 4 in Point Pleasant Beach Borough to C.H. Earle of Hackensack, who already has the contract for the four mile stretch between Laurelton and Lakewood...

NEW LIFE-BOAT FOR BARNEGAT COAST GUARD STATION CREW
Through the efforts of Congressman Appleby and Senator Hagaman, who called his attention to the situation at Barnegat Inlet, a new life-boat is to be given the Coast Guard Station at Barnegat City. Keeper Raymond Palmer and crew have been using an ordinary life-boat, and have had to go out often every day, in the fishing season.

GEORGIA TO TRY OUT OCEAN COUNTY SWEETS
J.C. Stickney, Secretary of Barrow County Chamber of Commerce, Winder, Ga., has requested the Ocean County Board of Agriculture to supply some certified sweet potato plants of Big Stem Jersey, Jersey Yellow, Porto Rico, Nancy Hall, Triumph and Jersey Reds. These plants are to be in comparison with Georgia seed. County Agent E.H. Waite is now growing these plants and expects to ship them about the 20th of May.

TOWNSHIP MOVES TO WIDEN THE “HOLE IN THE WALL”
Dover Township Committee, at its meeting on Friday last, May 19, voted in favor of widening the “hole in the wall,” where Hyers Street opens from Washington Street. This is a dangerous corner, and one that should be widened. When Main Street is torn up this summer, as was shown by last summer's happenings, traffic will crowd through this narrow place, and it will be a marvel if accidents do not occur. The Committee last Friday instructed their solicitor, Judge W. H. Jeffrey, to proceed in opening this street end...

CONSUL VANSANT EXPECTED HOME IN AUGUST FROM SCOTIA
U.S. Consul Howard D. VanSant, of Dunfermline, Scotland, who has not been home in this country since 1912, is now planning to cross the ocean and see his old friends and relatives and clean up some business matters this summer. He is expected to arrive early in August, accompanied by his daughter, Miss Gretchen, now a girl of 13 years. He will sail from England on July 23.

JUSTICE KALISCH'S WARNING
Justice Kalisch, who sits in Ocean, Monmouth and Burlington counties, in his charge last week to the Burlington County Grand Jury, called their attention to carnival gambling games. The Mt. Holly Herald tells of this charge as follows:
“When Justice Kalisch delivered his charge to the grand jury at the opening of the April term of court on Tuesday morning he threw a broadside at the general plan of conducting summer carnivals, festivals and various outdoor attractions, and if the admonition he laid down is followed, and there is reason to believe that it will be, games of chance and other forms of gambling will be brought to a standstill in Burlington County. He said that games of chance are violations of the law and they must be stopped, no matter what the object, whether for religious purposes or for something else, worthy or otherwise. He further said that persons participating in such games are guilty of a misdemeanor and if the grand jury is called on to consider matters of this kind they should be handled in a strong manner, with idea of having the law respected and the practice broken up. It sounded as though this charge were intended to be a warning for the guidance of amusement purveyors in this county during the coming open-air season.”

BEACHWOOD'S NEW MAYOR
At the organization of the new Borough Commission in Beachwood Borough, E.D. Collins was chosen Director of Public Safety and Public Affairs, which carries with it the title of Mayor; George F. Middleton was made Director of Revenues and Finances; John J. Nolze is Director of Streets, Public Improvement, Parks and Public Property. W.H. Jeffrey resigned as borough solicitor, but was unanimously re-elected.

PERSONAL MENTION WITH LOCAL FLAVOR
FORMER BARNEGAT CONDUCTOR RETIRES FROM CENTRAL R.R.
Charles A. Wyatt, a conductor, whose face is familiar to every one who has traveled to any extent on the C.R.R. Of New Jersey, retired the last day of April, after a continuous service with the railroad for fifty-five years [since 1867]. Mr. Wyatt has given splendid service, but he is now 74 years old, and has decided that it is time to quit. For thirty-nine years Mr. Wyatt had been going through Lakewood, at first, on the run from New York to Barnegat, and latterly to Atlantic City. In the entire time his trains had never killed but one person, and that was Mrs. E.N. Hair, whose death occurred on the River Avenue crossing, Lakewood, some weeks ago. It was indeed unfortunate, and Mr. Wyatt was visibly affected by the accident. Mr. Wyatt is at present time living in Atlantic City, but upon his retirement he will move his family to Barnegat. He has always liked Ocean County, and has a great desire to be near the bay. The Central is losing a good man with the passing of Mr. Wyatt. He was always kind and obliging and was one of the most efficient conductors on the road. His long service is a silent reminder of his efficiency.—Lakewood Citizen.

RADIO WAVES FROM TOMS RIVER
Leo Powers, of Toms River, is constructing a crystal receiving set. His aerial is up and he expects to be in working trim in the near future.
In the near future it will be possible to talk back and forth between your home and any ship at sea by radio.
For the past year radio-telephone experiments have been going on between the Deal Beach Radio Station (2 x —) and the S.S. America (K D O W), plying across the ocean. These experiments were conducted by engineers of the American Telegraph and Telephone Co. and the Radio Corporation, to perfect a method whereby passengers on ships would be in touch with their friends, relatives or business associates anywhere on land provided they have the convenience of the ordinary telephone.
Why not be absolutely up to the instant and be married in an airship that is equipped with a radio transmitting set.

PERSONAL
A.L. Wardell, our Assessor elect, has moved his family from the farm at Cedar Grove, which he sold recently, and is living in Mrs. Frances Falkenburgh's house on Washington street.
Keeper Lewis E. Mitchell of Island Beach Coastguard station was in town Wednesday. Capt. Mitchell has the experience of being Keeper at six stations on this coast at various times, something that few Keepers can say. He has been stationed at Barnegat, Forked River, Loveladies, Cedar Creek, Island Beach and Shark River, beside being on duty in New York and Philadelphia harbors during the war.
Sheldon Lewis and Virginia Pearson appear tonight and tomorrow night at the Strand Theatre in Lakewood. Toms River is almost home for Mr. Lewis as three of his brothers, Samuel, Saunders and Henry Levy, live here. He and his wife, Virginia Pearson, are just now in vaudeville with their own company.
Alfred R. Scott of Rockville Center, Long Island, spent the week end at his Pine Beach poultry farm, with his son Harold...
William L. Liming spent the week end at his home in Pine Beach, being now connected with the office of Collector of Internal Revenues in Camden, having begun his duties on May 1. He is at present stationed in Trenton district, and is finding his work very interesting. Mr. Liming has been with the Pennsylvania railroad since 1900, beginning at South Amboy, and has since filled the following positions in that railroad's service: clerk in terminal, shipping, round house foreman, and master mechanic's offices, and was then station agent at Pine Beach from September, 1910, till the present time. In all he was with the railroad 22 years. He has also been postmaster at Pine Beach, treasurer and district clerk of the Berkeley Township Board of Education for the past six years.
Former Senator and former Sheriff C. Asa Francis, of Long Branch, stopped at Toms River on Friday last to say “Howdydo” to old-time friends, while on a motor trip to Atlantic City.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Grover have moved to Beachwood for the summer, occupying the Widmaier house. [This house had just finished construction for Mrs. Widmaier, who lived next door, and rented it out. In later years her daughter, husband and family would establish their home there for many decades, eventually passing to their daughter, Carolyn Campbell. It still stands at 325 Ship Avenue.]

FISH AND GAME
Menhaden, or mossbunkers, are reported in the bay and as being caught in nets, along with weakfish.
Croakers are reported in vast schools off Atlantic and Cape May County coasts, and taken in big hauls by the fish pounds.
The fires of the past few weeks have, it is said, killed off a great deal of game, and not only game, but also vermin that feed on game. Rabbits and birds lost their lives when bewildered by the fires. So did foxes and other animals that prey on game. Many deer coverts were burned over by the big fires south of Whitings.
Party boatmen are overhauling and rigging up for the summer traffic. Rigging up today is not what it used to be. In the old days it meant getting new cordage to replace the old, liming the canvas, or perhaps at rare interviews new deck. Now it means getting a machinist to use his stillson on the kicker. Gas is more costly than wind, but it is more reliable, and that is what the city fishermen demand these days. They come and go by auto and want to make the fishing grounds without a moment's delay, while as soon as they are tired of fishing they want to go ashore on their way home. They have lost entirely the big end of the old-time fishing trip, the restfulness of a day on old Barnegat.
Al Boshier, of Waretown, made a fine haul in his nets one night last week, as the story filters through to Toms River—four barrels of weakfish, that brought him in $60 a barrel [$1,058 in 2022 dollars] in the New York markets.
Time to bob for eels, which are seeking fresh water and going up stream. When we were boys the favorite spot for this sport was the Central Railroad bridge, just west of the Toms River depot, and the hour was just after dusk.
Warden J.H. Evernham, of Bayville, with Wardens Charles C. Morton and Zeb Mathis, of Burlington County, on Sunday, rounded up seven Italians, who were prowling about the woods armed, and hunting for game. They were taken to Chatsworth, where a justice fined them. All paid but one, who had not the money, and he was passed on to Mt. Holly jail. The men were all from Philadelphia, employed on a cranberry bog below Chatsworth.
Al Boshier, of Waretown, shipped nine barrels of bluefish one day last week. The blues were in the bay in large numbers, running about two pounds or so in weight, and were caught in nets. A few were caught by trolling with small squids. This is the first year in some time that there has been any May blue-fishing worth reporting.
Long Beach fishermen, who fish off shore, have been catching mackerel in good quantities.

RECENT DEATHS
Commander William C. de Hart
Commander William Chetwood de Hart, aged 81, son of a Mexican war veteran and grandson of an officer in the Revolution, who was a resident of Toms River in the late 70's and early 80's, died May 23, at his home, at 1081 East Jersey Street, Elizabeth, N.J. At the age of 18 Commander de Hart ran away from Williams College to go to sea. His first vessel was a clipper, the Sweepstakes. In the Civil War he entered the revenue service, which became later the United States Coast Guard Service. He retired fifteen years ago. He leaves two daughters, Miss Mary de Hart, of Elizabeth, and Mrs. Ann Middleton, of Concord, N.H., and a son, George C. de Hart, of Elizabeth.
Captain de Hart, as he then ranked, and as he was always called at Toms River, came to Toms River in 1876, as Inspector of the Life Saving Service on the New Jersey coast, and commander of the revenue cutter Alert. The Alert was a fair-sized sloop, and Captain de Hart lived in the house now occupied by Bernard Hainer, tying the cutter up to the dock in Robbins Cove alongside his home. Later the Alert was lengthened out and sent south, and the de Hart family moved to the Hobbs house, recently bought by Samuel Kaufman, on Hooper Avenue, living there for a number of years. One son of Captain de Hart, William, named after his father, was drowned from the deck of the Alert. Another son, Harry, came back to Toms River a few years ago and spent the last few months of his life here, dying from heart trouble while occupying the Brackenridge home on Magnolia Avenue. Commander de Hart was buried yesterday, in Elizabeth.

BARNEGAT
It looks as if our lighthouse is doomed. With all the promises and encouraging stories about appropriations, we have not as yet seen anything materialise in that line, and from what we hear it does not look as if we would. Assemblyman Parker has been an earnest worker for this cause, getting the high officials here, taking them over to the lighthouse and co-operating in every way and trying to get the officials in favor of it. Senator Frelinghuysen and Congressman Appleby have been indefatigable workers for this cause, and after a long, earnest hard struggle to get a bill looked on as being favorable, a certain high-up Washington puts a damper on it and leaves the case about where it was a year or more ago, so if the old beacon falls it will not be the fault of our representatives, as there are others who have to say what shall be done about it. It looks as though they want it to go; if they did not they could easily save it...
Campbell's Circus, on Monday night, was very good and was largely attended.

BARNEGAT CITY (today Barnegat Light Borough)
A.R. Myers is bringing in fair catches from his pounds.
E.E. Johnson, Fred Peterson and Tom Hansen are very busy each day the sea permits unloading and lightering [transporting] scow loads of lumber from the stranded schooner Wooten, which grounded off North Beach Station some time ago.
The Bell brothers, of Westfield, are here for a few days to get into shape again their bungalow that was partly undermined by the January northeaster. They have set up a radio-telephone receiving apparatus and a number of people have enjoyed concerts, music and speaking sent out by the Newark station.

BAY HEAD
The Bay Head Property Owners' Association recently gave Bay Head Fire Company $100 as a reward for their prompt action in stopping a brush and grass fire in the north end of the borough, which threatened much valuable property. Several owners of buildings that had been threatened sent separate sums of money to help the Fire Company secure more apparatus.

BEACH HAVEN
Saturday evening, at 8 o'clock, at the council chamber, there will be a conference of men interested in Long Beach on what to do to save the various parts of the island that are being cut away by the sea. The question has become a serious one in many parts of Long Beach.
Beach Haven expects to have electric lights by August 1. The contract has been awarded by Borough Council to Pangborn & Co., of Philadelphia, to install an up-to-date electric light equipment, the cost to be $36,500 in round figures [$643,700 in 2022 dollars]. Fuel oil burning engines will be used to develop power for the dynamos. The borough will light the streets, and will also sell light and power to the general public. This will scrap the acetylene gas plant that has been in use here for a long time. It is generally conceded that electric lights and power are part of the equipment for every up and moving community, and Beach Haven includes itself in that class.
R.F. Engle is getting the Engleside ready for the opening in about a month from now.
The Baldwin is being redecorated and will be opened for the summer in June. The Ocean House is also expected to open soon.
John W. Cranmer has given the Hotel Acme a coat of paint, and is fixing up for the summer.
The old Hotel de Crab, claimed to be the oldest house at this resort and long a summer home and business place of Capt. “Tilt” Fox, is being remodeled and a new porch built into it.
Moses Cranmer is having a very find home build for himself on the Dock Road, and it will probably be completed for the summer's use.
Quite a number of new houses are being built here and everybody is busy getting  work done for the opening of the summer. Carpenters, painters, masons and plumbers, etc., all on the jump. Fishermen are overhauling their boats and fishing parties, also.
We are glad to see William Harvey's smiling face again, after spending the winter in his home at Columbus. Mr. Harvey has opened his garage and will handle Gulf gasoline this season as well as Standard.
Mr. Engle has greatly improved the appearance of the Engleside by having the fence removed along Amber Street and Atlantic Avenue. A force is at work clearing the house and papering and painting is being done in anticipation of a busy season.
Mr. Aaron's clerk is here opening up the drug store and getting stock in shape for the summer. Mr. Aaron will come later.
With several new cottages going up, the hotels and boarding houses being renovated and cottages cleaned and put in readiness for their owners, the borough is a busy place these days. If warm weather continues the season will open early and prospects are for a prosperous summer.
Mr. Sawyer, who conducts the photograph studio on the boardwalk every summer, is advertising the place for sale.
Capt. Manas Kelly, of Bonds Coast Guard Station, has been transferred to the Terrace Station, and Captain Rogers, of the Terrace Station, has been sent down to Bonds.
Several of the icemen who have regular routes through the mainland towns and up the beach have commenced business, coming here every morning for ice.

BEACHWOOD
The election for three Commissioners takes place on Tuesday next, May 9. There are three names on the ticket: Charles Haring, one of the present Commission; E.D. Collins, who has been a cottager here and active in the Yacht Club and other matters, and George F. Middleton. Mr. Middleton, like the other two candidates, has been active in summer life here and interested in civic affairs. In addition John Nolze will run on stickers.
Mayor Senior and family have been at their summer home here.
Mrs. Wanda Lohr has opened her summer home here and is enjoying life in the Beachwood pines.
Every week end sees a greater number of summer people down to look things over and plan for the summer. Beachwood is expecting the coming summer to surpass all previous years in the number of people and the brilliance of social events.
Many of our summer folks were down for the week end and remained over to vote on Tuesday.
The fire on Sunday was near enough for comfort, too near in fact, as some kept wondering if the wind might not shift and bring it back on Beachwood. The Beachwood fire department were out with their apparatus.
George Arway, who has the concessions at the club house and bathing beach, has arrived for the summer, to get ready for business.
Three new men were elected on the Beachwood Commission, at the election on Tuesday, George F. Middleton, E.D. Collins and John J. Nolze.
What was formerly the Scoble house, on the Boulevard, will be known as the Jack o' Lantern, and will be opened soon as a stopping place for motor parties.
Every visitor at Beachwood, from the time he first came here, feels that there is about Beachwood something different from the usual run of summer resorts. This difference is perhaps intangible, and perhaps it cannot be explained, or described, but it certainly can be felt. The oldtimers in Beachwood, who were here from the beginning, and have seen its growth and development, will tell you that Beachwood was the favorite child of the late B.C. Mayo, that upon it he lavished his love and his attention, and that he planned it with care, and saw that his plans were just as carefully carried out, giving it personal planning and attention beyond any of his other varied resort promotions. Following the creation of the Borough, the first Commission was composed of men of broad outlook, capable of visualizing the Beachwood of the future as Mr. Mayo had dreamed it, and with the painstaking care to bring it about.
Mayor Senior, Mr. Haring, Mr. Price and later on Mr. Nickerson gave a great deal of time and close attention to the affairs of the Borough, which needed this attention the more in the early days, and it was a new venture and was practically a summer colony only. Through their efforts in aiding the natural charm of the place, and in careful administration of borough affairs, the borough has grown, the Commission have taken over the clubhouse and other valuable properties on the Point and have graveled miles of streets, in addition to making it possible to have a community life in summer such as can be found in few resorts.
The recent election has resulted in an entirely new Commission, who will now assume the responsibilities and duties laid down by the former members. Every love of Beachwood is wishing the new Commission the best possible results, and none will be more pleased than the retiring Mayor and Commission if the new officials succeed even better than the outgoing ones did. It is recognized by all, both by those going out and those coming in, and by the real friends of Beachwood, that there is nothing to be gained by petty bickerings over small matters, and that little jealousies and personalities must be submerged in the great desire for the advancement of the Borough, if the Beachwood of the future is to be the fulfillment of the dream of the broadminded founder and those who followed in his footsteps.

CEDAR GROVE
The building boom seems to have hit Cedar Grove and vicinity about as much as anywhere. With the houses built in the past year and those going up now, we are growing finely. The road from Hooper Avenue toward the church seems to be especially favorable with new houses.

FORKED RIVER
Many of our boys seem to feel the call to the baseball field on Sunday afternoons. We don't blame them for loving the sport, and we would help them along with it on any other day. But boys, and young men! Can you not understand the Sabbath desecration is against the Divine Law as well as against the laws of our commonwealth? We cannot think you desire to become anarchists and thus destroy the virtues of our Christian land. You boys who have good homes and Christian parents should hold yourselves above such degrading pursuits. We are sincerely hoping you will think better of these things. Let your civic pride lend you to purify rather than degrade your community. Plan evenings and play Saturdays, but don't—please do not take God's day, too.
One of our oldest summer residents, P. Kelly, who had the cottage next the Riverside House, on the River Road, and had been coming here for thirty-three years, died May 3, aged 76 years. He was engaged in the wholesale fish and oyster business, in New York City. He leaves a widow and one daughter, Miss Katherine Kelly. He was a noted striped bass angler, one of the most persistent and successful on Barnegat Bay. The body was sent to New York for burial last Friday. He will be greatly missed in Forked River, where he was highly respected.
Watson Penn and party recently caught a flour barrel full of flounders. Watson also caught five kingfish with hook and line on Saturday.
Capt. Fred L. Brouwer and son Frank have gone to Bell Harbor, L.I., to bring down their new forty-foot cruiser, the Ethel.
Auto traffic is heavy, particularly so on Sundays.
Wallace Parker last week went to the Highlands to help Wood Patten bring a yacht in Barnegat Inlet.
Amos Lewis and son are building two sinkboxes to be placed on George J. Gould's Clam Island property for gunning purposes.
The Riverside House opens for the season on Saturday of this week. It has a record of more than thirty years under the management of the Eno family, a record unsurpassed probably by any other summer hotel in the county except the Engleside, at Beach Haven.
Miss Dorothy Penn, daughter of Mrs. Mamie Penn, of the Riverside, has sailed for a summer in Europe on the steamer La France, with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur V. Wilcox and family, who have been summer guests at the Riverside for a long time. They are expected back in October.
Capt. A.C. Wilbert, Jr., arrived here the middle of the week from a winter in Florida, going both ways in his power yacht on the inside passage. He looks as if he had enjoyed it.
A State Highway truck went through here painting white and blue bands on the 'phone poles to designate a north and south route.
Randolph Phillips says the deer are destroying the crops on his land along the Lacey road.
Capt. Joe Smires has put a new Palmer engine in Capt. E.L. Holmes's boat.
Peach growers here think the crop was killed by the frosts.
Wilbert's marine railway is busy overhauling boats for the summer.
Memorial Day will be old home day at Good Luck burying grounds, as usual. The ladies of Forked River and Lanoka will serve dinner; proceeds to keep the cemetery in good shape.

ISLAND HEIGHTS
Howard Siddons has bought the Gus Pyott cottage, on the Camp Walk.
Mrs. J. Harris is at her store on Central Avenue after a winter spent in Lakewood.
Messrs. McFarland and DeRuche were week-end visitors at Stokes' boatyard.
Mrs. Abby Ayres has bought the Mainwaring house next to the Perrine's, on the water front.
Ed Dilley spent the week end on his boat, the Kit-n-Kat.
Mrs. Abbey Ayers is having a cement block wall put in front of her property on Oak Avenue.
Mr. Barnes, of Overbrook, Pa., has started his now summer home on the corner of Central and Summit Avenues.
Capt. John Page has certainly made a fine job of Charles Peck's house, at Ocean and Jayne's Avenue.
A row boat was found at bay front; owner can get same by applying to Henry Campbell.
Messrs. McFarland and De Rouch are having a self-bailing cockpit put in their cruiser Jeanette at Stokes boatyard.
Frank Hoover had the misfortune last Friday night to break his wrist while cranking a friend's auto.

LAKEHURST
Several of our people are having electric pumping outfits, bath room fixtures and septic tanks installed.
Funeral services for Richard B. Ford, for many years a resident of Lakehurst, and a veteran of the Civil War, who died May 4, at Lakewood, after an illness, of seventeen weeks, were held Sunday. Mr. Ford was 78 years of age and was born at Pemberton, in 1844. After service in the Civil War he was for thirty-eight years in the employ of the Central Railroad, living at Lakehurst. He lived with his only sister, Mrs. Thos. Truex, of Lakewood, during the past three years. Mr. Ford was a member of Pemberton Lodge No. 49, I.O.O.F. Internment was made at Lakehurst.
The guard house at the entrance of the proving grounds was burned to the ground last week. The Naval Air fire apparatus responded, but could not save the building. This was the sleeping quarters for the guards who kept the outer entrance.
Since the closing of the Pine Tree Inn we note very few strangers on our streets.
No more movies for Lakehurst until further notice. The movies have not been a paying proposition.

LAVALLETTE
We are glad there is an excursion train on Sunday morning. It brings lots of people to the shore to spend the day.
There are more new houses going up for the summer. It looks as if the town is growing with the streets lighted with electric lights.
We are in need of a good rain to keep the grass fires from burning up the whole beach, from Seaside Park to Bay Head.
There was a fire on Sunday afternoon which looked as if it was going to destroy some cottages; with hard work the buildings were saved.
There was another fire shortly after, but was put out very quickly before any damage was done.
It would be a good thing if all the men of the borough would have a meeting and organize a good fire company as it is needed very badly. Let's all get together and have a real fire company.
Charles Hankins has three more new boats to build. He is a hustler in his business.
All who are thinking of handing their houses wired for lights would be wise to have the work done right away.
There are several more new houses started this week. Lavallette is going to be a shore town, and with good wide streets, makes this a good place to spend your vacation in the summer.
The Yacht Club has had their dock put in good shape for the summer.
There has been several beach parties so far this season. There should be someone as a chaperon with them.
Mr. Strickland lost a very fine horse last week.

MONEY ISLAND
The hole on the Bluff left by the fire looks sad and forlorn.
The new bungalow of the Thompson family is now completed.
Indications point to the coming season being one of the best in the history of the island.
All the visitors to the scene of the recent fire gave expressions of delight at the indescribable marine view from the hills of the island. Many travelers have stated that it is not surpassed in any respect by any other spot in the nation.

OCEAN GATE
Charles Guttentagg [founder of the development of Ocean Gate] was down Sunday looking over his new river-front home, which is near completion. When completed this will be one of the finest up-to-date homes in this town, with all the latest improvements.
The Fire Company was called out last Sunday afternoon to a wood's fire between Anglesea and Narragansett Avenues.
At the meeting of the Fire Company on Monday evening the Chief was directed to have a signal chart made so that when the fire bell is sounded firemen will know in which direction the fire is. Also the first fireman at the Fire House will stay at Fire House to notify members in which direction the fire is.
Frank Biernbaum has started work on his new bungalow on Angelsea Avenue.
Miss Martha Barger has gone to Philadelphia for several days visiting friends.
The Dorsett Laundry Co., of Toms River, have started to make their collections and deliveries of laundry here. They collect on Monday and deliver on Saturday all through the summer months. This is the first time has in this town.
H.D. Black has started ice deliveries three days a week now; later on they will deliver every day.
We hear that one of our young ladies is going to give swimming lessons this season and says that she expects to hold swimming tournaments several times during the summer months and will issue challenges to the different resorts. This young lady we may mention is herself one of the popular swimmers, who has carried off high honors in several matches in Philadelphia.
Council meeting in the fire house on Saturday evening last.
Reports say that R. Moldovsky has traded his house on Long Branch Avenue, west of Ocean Gate Avenue, to E. Shagen, of Philadelphia, for the corner stores at the railroad and will make several improvements to the look of this place.
Raymond C. Keisel wishes to thank all his patrons for their past patronage and is now prepared to serve them again with good pure milk, both at Ocean Gate and Pine Beach—adv.
The Ocean Gate Yacht Club will hold a dance on Saturday evening, May 27, with a four-piece orchestra on hand to supply the music.
Raymond Keisel is building a large garage on Ocean Gate Avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Holt have left for Barnegat, where they will take charge of the branch of the Palm House Bakery for the summer months.
We hear the Sweet Shop, under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bertsch, will open around May 27. Mr. and Mrs. Bertsch will arrive here around May 22, after having spent the winter months with Mrs. Bertsch's parents, in Knoxville, Tenn.
Contractor Vogler is busy this week on an addition to the shop of D.L. Jones, on Ocean Gate Avenue.
Several members of the Ocean Gate A.A. [Athletic Association] spent Sunday here. They played their first game in Philadelphia on Saturday last and won from the Kaywood Club, of Philadelphia, by the score of 6 to 1. Season opens here June 4, with the American Railway Express team, from Philadelphia.
Work on the new club house has been temporarily suspended on account of contractors being unable to get some grades of lumber.
Mr. and Mrs. A.S. Webster, of Camden, spent a few days at the Swiss cottage this past week.

PINE BEACH
Mrs. E.P. Smith has sold her store to Mr. and Mrs. Halligan, who have taken possession. Mrs. Smith is now spending a few days with friends in Philadelphia.
Nothing done about the docks yet and it is already May.
After all these years of progress here why has the railroad put us so far back that our freight and express packages have to be addressed to Island Heights Station, which is so much further away. If the railroad was logical, the point on the main road, which is Pine Beach, would be the main station, and not the one on an out-of-the-way spur. During the summer it takes a large force of men to man the tower, attend to the bridge and also the station at Island Heights. Sometimes the spur train goes over or back with a single passenger, for the full crew on the train to look after. Even the children here have remarked on the waste entailed on running this spur. Pine Beach Station is on the main line and costs very little to run, yet we are now back to where we were in 1909, thirteen years ago. The pioneers here have vivid memories of goods going over to Island Heights, and the great furore made over giving people back their own household necessities. At the time it was a nightmare, for if the spirit moved the people over there to give you your things you got them, but if they did not care to be annoyed you waited until they were ready. Some men went over with row boats and carried heavy building material back in rowboats, which nearly capsized with the weight. Today we hear so much of efficiency and economy. Wasn't that efficient? To take goods across the river, about a mile out of their way, deprive the owner of the use of the goods... And after all these years we are back to having our goods marked “Via Island Heights.” This entails more handling, more bookkeeping, more delay, and is unfair to Pine Beach people. Very fortunately the automobile and the automobile truck are making people independent of the railroads, both for passengers and freight traffic.

SEASIDE HEIGHTS
The stores and dance hall which are being erected by Steidle & Freeman, on the ocean front, near the carousel are progressing, and no doubt will draw the crowd from near by towns this summer.
The movies at the Colonial Theatre as well patronized by our folks, being under the management of F.F. Beseigle. Music was furnished by Miss Lena Endres.
Charles Kropf, of Philadelphia, is stopping at his cottage and getting his boat in commission for the summer.
A number of new houses are going up in the borough.
Dr. Lord, of Mt. Holly, who was owner of the Ortley Inn, which burned to the ground recently, was a Sunday visitor.

SEASIDE PARK
Mrs. D. Parker and little Selena Gilison moved to Tuckerton last week and will occupy their home this summer, Mr. Parker being stationed in Coast Guard Station 109.
Our children made quite a showing in attending the circus held in Toms River on Tuesday.
Uncle Sam is giving many of the Coast Guard Stations a coat of paint this spring, the white buildings showing up from a distance.
Francis Sprague is building a restaurant on Fifth Avenue, and will serve lunches, etc., at all hours, which will be very convenient to the people coming in for the day.
E.W. Esham, of Mt. Holly, has been awarded the contract to build a summer home at Seaside Park for Henry B. Coles, of Moorestown, whose house on the beach was destroyed by fire on Easter Sunday. Mr. Coles has bought the Joseph T. Richards house that adjoins the Coles house and was partly burned during that destructive fire, and it is this property that Mr. Esham is to work on. It is expected that the house will be ready for Mr. Coles' occupancy close to July 1.
Miss Helen Stoup has charge of the railroad station during the absence of Agent Lippincott.
Mr. and Mrs. Hass are here and will soon open the Kittatinny Hotel.
F.W. Greger has about completed his new meat market building in Lavallette and will open the business at the beginning of the season. This will enable him to handle his extensive trade in that town much more conveniently.
Alfred Mathis has his real estate office open in the new Mathis Building, on Fifth Avenue. The post office and grocery business will be moved there from the Thompson Building about June 1.
The borough is considering a bond issue of $70,000 [$1.23 million in 2022 dollars] to replace the wooden mains of the water system with iron mains, and also build a new water tower.

STAFFORDVILLE
Arnold, a little boy, of Barnegat, walked from the home of his parents to this village, where for a few days he stopped with Mr. A. Krajicek. He was barefooted and alone.
Jacob Pear, whose home is at Poplar Neck, near here, left his home on foot, the 5th day of last July. He went west through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, his westernmost point being Los Angeles, Cal. After a few days there he returned home, arriving a few weeks ago. Can his pedestrian's experience be duplicated?

WEST CREEK
Everybody busy and prospects bright for a successful season in the oyster trade. Some of our shippers, who have oysters planted in Barnegat Bay, predict good trade in their line of work, should their stock continue to progress as at present.
Several of our oyster planters are busy on their Cedar Creek beds, bringing loads of the larger seed down here and replanting in the beds here.
Warren P. Hayes is now employed in a railway terminal in New York City as postal clerk, and J.W. Tierney, who has resigned his position in the Coast Guard Service, has recently been appointed to a like position.

April 1922
March 1922 Part II
March 1922 Part I
February 17th, 1922
February 10th, 1922
February 3rd, 1922
January 27th, 1922
January 20th, 1922
January 13th, 1922
January 6th, 1922
December 30th, 1921​
December 23rd, 1921
December 16th, 1921
​December 9th, 1921
December 2nd, 1921
November 25th, 1921
November 18th, 1921​
November 11th, 1921​
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October 21st, 1921
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September 30th, 1921
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This essay was voted the first prize in a contest held by the Toms River Chamber of Commerce, in which Toms River school pupils from the sixth grade up were allowed to enter.

All of us study the history of our state and our nation while in school, but how many of us know anything about our own town in which we live? This is not a long, detailed account, but just a story of how Toms River came into existence and its early happenings.

Perhaps the first thing to be considered in telling the history of anything is how it got its name. This town was named for the river on which it is situated. How the river received its name always has been a matter of doubt. One story is that it was named for Indian Tom, who lived at the mouth of the river. The other story, which seems to be more probable, is that it was named after Captain William Tom, who settled here with an English colony in 1665.

The first settlers of this section were a mixture, principally the people driven from other colonies on account of religious ideas. Later, a great many Mormons settled in Toms River. The old Mormon church stood for many years at the fork of the road just across the bridge.

Most of the first settlements were made on Barnegat Bay, because of the fishing and oystering. In 1740 land began to be taken up in and about Toms River and farther south. The settlements grew very fast and at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Toms River was a good-sized town.

Up until this time this country depended upon England for most of her supplies, but when the Revolution broke out, and our trade with that country was cut off, it was necessary for us to manage the best we could alone.

The new government built salt works in Ocean County around Barnegat Bay, because it was midway between the army headquarters at New York and Philadelphia. One of these salt works was located at the mouth of Toms River.

At the outbreak of the Revolution, Toms River held the only garrison in the county, and was, therefore, of great importance. This town was also a center of privateering, which was conducted on a large scale during the war.

The first attack made by the British forces in 1777, on the salt works, was unsuccessful, but on April 1, 1778, another attack was made, and all the salt works, including those of both private and government ownership, were burned to the ground. These, however, were soon rebuilt.

The third attack on Toms River, March 24, 1782, was a great deal more serious than the two previous ones. The British planned to destroy the only defense in Ocean County, and they did so. The alarm had been given by one of our men, and Captain Huddy, who was in charge of the Block House, gathered as many men of the town as possible in addition to the twenty-five men of the militia.

The British, however, numbered five or six to our one, and we soon had to surrender. Many of our men were wounded or killed, a few escaped into the woods, and the rest were taken prisoners, Huddy among them. The prisoners were exchanged or carried off, except Captain Huddy, who was deliberately hung. For this cruel murder, Washington instituted a reprisal, and a young prisoner from Yorktown was sentenced to die. Captain Charles Asgill was of noble family, and a relative of his was a member of the commission to make the treaty of peace. When the treaty was being arranged, Washington held Asgill, and to get him back, the British consented to extend the line of the treaty from the Allegheny Mountains westward to the Mississippi. Thus Huddy was, indirectly, the means of making our boundary the Mississippi River.

To return to Toms River. The British had not only taken and burned the Block House, but the whole town, with the exception of two houses.

After the war, people fell back into their old peaceful life of industry. The salt works were abandoned, as it was cheaper to import the salt than to manufacture it, but other and new industries took its place. Towards the beginning of the nineteenth century the iron industry came into prominence. The first iron works were built in 1789, at what is now Lakehurst, known then as Federal Furnace. Later, one was built at Lakewood, which for many years was called Bergen Iron Works. Others were built around the county, Dover Forge being only six miles from here.

This industry died out after a time and the charcoal and pine-wood industries took its place. Around the early fifties a cranberry growing craze came. This did not last, either, and land that was at one time valued at $100 an acre, dropped to almost nothing after the panic of 1873. Toms River was the chief shipping place for these products. Today, cranberry growing is a leading industry in Ocean County.

Toms River did its share in the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Cranberry Inlet, which was open during the Revolution, closed in 1812, and thus kept the British ships out of the river. Afterward, a great deal of money was spent trying to reopen it but the attempts were unsuccessful.

In 1850, when Ocean County was set apart from Monmouth, and Toms River made the county seat, the town took on a new and rapid growth. The first newspaper was started, new churches were organized and built, and new stores set up. The first railroad in the county was built in 1857, and extended from Manchester (Lakehurst) through Toms River and down the shore as far as Barnegat. This added greatly to the growth of the town.

Today, Toms River is a good sized town. There are two newspapers published, five churches, two banks, and the town is on two railroads, the Pennsylvania and the New Jersey Central. Toms River flourishes as a summer resort, and is the chief trading center for the smaller towns around.

In order to keep step with the onward march of things, the residents of Toms River organized a Chamber of Commerce. With this progressive and energetic body of men at the helm, the future of Toms River is assured.

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Welcome back to another era in the Toms River area's past, one century ago this week!

Let your mind wander as you consider life around April 1922, courtesy the New Jersey Courier weekly newspaper and Ocean County Library archives, and peppered with items of maritime interest (around a 25 minute read).

(written by NJ Courier editor, William H. Fischer, as he sat at his desk above Main Street near Washington Street; it was much like a collection of online social media updates seen today)

April.
Fourth month.
Spring is on its way.
Pansies are in bloom.
One quarter of 1922 is gone.
Dandelions are blooming this week.
Fruit trees in bloom.
Danger of forest fires now.
Boats are being overhauled.
Paperhangers and painters are hustling.
Housewives are deep in the mysteries of spring cleaning.
Presto, chango—One day bare limbs, next day green leaves and bright blossoms.
A number of Toms River people were at the opening of the Strand Theatre last night in Lakewood.
Fire Commissioners Grover, Crabbe, Richtmeyer and Buckwalter motored to Bridgeport, Conn, on Wednesday to see a Packard pumping engine. The Packard Company have offered the proposition for an engine here... where the amount of money on bond is considered.
Picnic parties in the woods gather maypinks and pyxie.
The Fire Commission find that there are so many apparently good automobile pumpers that it is a hard job to make a choice.
The Toms River Poultry Development Co. have begun work on their poultry farm plan in Berkeley, on the hill south of the P.R.R. [today, a sizeable portion of South Toms River Borough]
Boatbuilders are busy as bees overhauling boats, and building new ones. This is the first spring any new boats have been built, to speak of, since 1916.
The high school starts off its baseball schedule today with a game here with Manasquan. It would have been a good stunt for the boys to have fixed up the fence and grandstand before inviting visitors from out of town.
Former Judge W.H. Jeffrey was reelected president, and Mrs. Edward Crabbe, vice-president of the Dover Township Board of Education, on Monday evening, at the annual meeting. Last night a session was held with Architect Cook, of Asbury Park, on his plans for a new school house.
The American Constructing Company has started to remodel the north half of the old Union House, for Chas. Shull, the new owner. The lower floor will be made into one store with a stairway to reach apartments that are to be remodeled on the second floor. Mr. Shull, who has moved from Ambler, Pa., to Seaside Heights, where he is a member of council, will carry on business in the store.
Swamp maples are full of red blossoms.
Looked something like an old time first Tuesday of court this week, a number of prominent citizens being on hand to greet the new Judge and Prosecutor.
The weeping willows and crab apples were the first trees to leave out.
A few warm days will make the fruit buds burst.
You can hear the hammer and saw wherever you go these days.
County Agent Waite will move his office from the courthouse to the Traco building, and Prosecutor Jayne will take the room in the courthouse now occupied by the County Agent.
A 26-inch I-bear was put across the front of the Schwarz & Jeffrey Store, Tuesday, to hold the weight of the upper stories, by L.J. Hutchinson, who is remodeling the store front.
Girls are skipping rope and baseball is taking up the spare time of most of the boys.
Complaint is made that boys about the town are breaking electric street lamps with their bean-shooters.
The Ocean County Poultry Producing Association has moved its packing house from the big concrete bungalow in Berkeley to the concrete building opposite the station that was formerly the Square Deal garage.
Edward Crabbe has the old cup winner Gem up at Morton Johnson's boatyard, at Bay Head, for overhauling. Most of her timbers are sound and true. Mr. Crabbe is also having a bank skiff built at Lavallette by Chas. Hankins.
Fire Company No. 2 at its meeting in the Ocean house grille, on last Friday, had talks from Chief Buckwalter, also former Chief Kuss of New York. A committee was named to explain to the Fire Commission the purpose of the Co. and have territory assigned to respond to in case of fire. President Novins said the aim was to protect property in the outlying districts, now without protection, and act as auxiliary to Company No. 1. As soon as funds are secured, a chemical and pumper will be bought. Late subscriptions are: $10, Oldsmobile Co.; $5 – Dr. Cook, Dr. Brouwer, J. L. Yoder, Frank W. Goodrich of Beachwood. Funds now totals $354.
Some of the boys started the swimming season Monday.
Clayton C. Wills has bought the Berkeley Arms property in Berkeley. He already owned the tract to the south of it.
The firemen have been called out several times the past week. Saturday morning they went to Bayville, where Amos Falkenburgh's house was on fire, but had been put out before they got there. Tuesday afternoon they were called over to A.W. Dorsett's in Berkeley, to help fight a woods fire. Later in the afternoon, another head of this same fire, farther west, crossed the brook, jumped the Central Railroad, and threatened Gus Ireland's poultry farm on the Lakehurst road, so that the firemen had another alarm.
Kenneth Lillie has purchased a radio receiving set to be installed in the Toms River store of the Oldsmobile Co. of South Jersey.
The Strand Theatre, Ferber's and Lakewood's latest in the amusement line, opened last night. Both the Strand and the Palace will give vaudeville as well as motion pictures.
Blossom time.
Green grass everywhere.
Violets bloom in the grass.
Days grow longer all the time.
Memorial day is the next holiday.
Maple trees are uncrumpling their bronze-green leaves.
Swamp maples are coloring up with flaming seed vanes.
John P. Kirk, who started the famed Kirk boat yards at Toms River in 1885 and built many well known yachts here, tells the Courier that he will resume yacht building on the James R. Hensler property, west of Main street bridge. During and since war times he was associated with the Shipping Board's ship building program.
Ben Asay won a shooting match last Saturday at Rote's boatshops, Island Heights. Ben says he can shoot as good as most of the boys yet.
Edward Louis Crabbe, of Toms River, N.J., has been elected a member of the Cap and Gown Club, at Princeton University. Cap and Gown is one of the upper-class eating and social clubs. Mr. Crabbe is a member of the Sophomore Class. He prepared for Princeton at Berkshire School, where he was active in football, hockey, baseball and school publications, being an editor of the Class Book.
Edward Longstreet, of New Egypt, is charged with shooting a pet dog belonging to the family of Edward Tantum. The killing was reported to the Ocean County S.P.C.A., at Lakewood.
Violets are plentiful.
Ice formed the past week.
Some fruit bloom killed.
Did you see and hear the meteor?
C.H. Bond is now working at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station.
Steiners' factory this week began running five days a week instead of four. Business, it is thought, is on the mend.
Beach plum bushes white with blossoms.
Chickenpox makes its yearly spring visit.
The demand for houses keeps up—not enough to go around.
Children have been playing with the old game of ball and elastic this week.
We are to have a shade tree commission to look after our streets and parks.
Fire alarms come along pretty often. The fires must know Toms River has two companies now.
A wood's fire at Mill Creek, between Ocean Gate and Pine Beach, resulted in a fire alarm early Tuesday evening.
Lilacs are blooming.
Circus bills bloom with spring—show on May 2. It is understood that it is the show that wintered at Bamber.
Judge M.L. Berry has bought a 68 foot yacht and will bring it here from New York next week.

FLAMING VISITOR FROM OUTER SPACE PLUNGES INTO THE SEA
METEOR, EXPLODING, HEARD FIFTY MILES OR MORE
A flaming meteor passed over this section on Sunday night last, April 23, at 8:50 o'clock, and apparently exploded out to sea off Long Beach. At this place it seemed to come down almost out of the zenith, pass to the northeast and disappear. Some say they saw it explode, others that it just vanished. An explosion that followed was heard from Atlantic City on the south, to Asbury Park, on the north, or further, and as far inland as Brown's Mills.
The meteor has been the talk of the entire shore, and filled front page headlines in the city dailies. Everyone who saw it, saw it differently, in the various accounts. Some say the light was green, and some purple, and some yellow. Some say that the meteor was followed by a flaming tail; some say the tail was a stream of sparks, and some saw no tail. Others just saw the bright light, and did not see the meteor at all. Others described it as a huge ball of fire.
Investigations all along the coast by Superintendent John Cole, of the Coast Guards, brought reports that the meteor had been seen making its way southward and disappeared in the ocean, off shore, south of Little Egg Harbor Coast Guard Station, according to the coast guards stationed there...
At Toms River it was variously estimated that there was from two to five minutes between seeing the meteor burst and hearing the noise of the explosion. If it were three minutes that would put the meteor 36 miles away, or below Beach Haven, when it burst, which seems to be as close as we can locate it...

YOHO! WEAKFISH! YOHO!
Our Forked River letter says that weakfish are in the bay, and that Wats Penn, that redoubtable bayman, netted some last Friday. Get out your tackle, boys.

TWO SUMMER HOMES BURNT ON MONEY ISLAND BLUFF
Two of the finest summer homes on the top of Money Island bluff were burnt to the ground on Sunday afternoon last, April 23. The fire started in a new house, just completed last year, and owned by William Donnelly, and spread to the home of Harry Van Belle, both of which were a complete loss. The homes of Theodore Bonner, on one side of these two buildings, and that of William McNulty and Earl Ellis, on the other side, were saved by a bucket brigade, which hoisted water by the bucketful from the river up the face of the sixty-foot bluff, and kept the exposed parts of these two houses wet with water and mud.
Toms River firemen answered the alarm, and the shovels and buckets brought by No. 2 were of great value. Chief Buckwalter, of No. 1, by mutual consent of the miscellaneous groups of volunteers, was given direction of them all. Seaside Park firemen brought their Reo pumper, and Seaside Heights firemen their Ford pumper, and the former, aided by the latter's hose, ran a stream from the river at the yacht club up the hill. Much of the furniture was taken from the buildings. The Donnelly family had left their house for Philadelphia about a quarter of an hour before the fire started. Some say the fire started from the fireplace, where there had been an open fire; others say it seemed to have started in the living room, but on the opposite side of the fireplace. The loss is placed at more than $15,000.

DAYLIGHT SAVING ADOPTED
The Township Committee last Friday also put forth a proclamation, to be found in this issue of The Courier, adopting daylight saving time, beginning 2 A.M. Sunday, April 30, and continuing till the same hour of the last Sunday in September. It is understood that both the Central and Pennsylvania Railroads will run their trains on the old time, but one hour ahead of the present schedule.

FIRE COMPANY NO. 2 HAS CHARTER FROM STATE NOW
Toms River Fire Company, No. 2, is now a corporate entity, having this week been incorporated, and having received from Trenton its charter. The boys have bought from A.C. King a Packard twelve-cylinder, the chassis of which they expect to use to mount a chemical and pumping outfit, so that they can answer alarms from out in the country. The total cost of this outfit is expected to be about $5000, including $850 paid for the Packard. They now have $262.50 in cash and $206 in subscriptions, totaling to date $525.

BIG AIR SHIP ZR-1 BEGUN AT NAVAL AIR STATION
Work is progressing favorably at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, on the new rigid airship, or dirigible balloon that the navy is building from the plans of a German Zeppelin, changed somewhat by the British and American engineers. It is expected that the ship will be completed by July, 1923. It will be the biggest thing of its kind unless some other nation should in the meantime launch a bigger one.

ALLIGATORS IN CHEVROLET WINDOW STOPPED EVERYBODY
It is safe to say that everybody who has passed the Chevrolet window at Main and Washington streets, in the Veeder building, the past few days, stopped to look at the alligators there. Children have been particularly interested, but grown-up folks were held up by this curious window display. The alligators were part of a scheme to advertise the film, “A Fool's Paradise,” that will be shown at the Traco tonight and tomorrow. The window was placarded with legends telling of the show. The alligators were of the Florida variety, and one died the first day it was in the window.

BASEBALL IN THE AIR, BUT WHERE IS TOMS RIVER?
Baseball seems to be coming to its own, and the fans are asking where is the Toms River team for 1922? Well, it looks as though a good part of the old Toms River team were in the big league game. Wid Conrow is coach for the Phillies and “Park” is battling the ball heavy for the same team. J. Howard Berry is with the Giants; and Tam Brown, Bill VanKirk and Bill Gwyer are with Joe Magrath's Lakewood team, though the two Bills could be pulled back if there was talk of baseball at Toms River.
Lakewood has a good team this year and is out for blood. Word comes from Mt. Holly that these old rivals of Toms River are putting forth efforts to build up a good ball team. Baseball in fact is starting up all around. And the fans won't be satisfied without a team at T.R.

TWO BEACH-FRONT HOUSES BURNED AT SEASIDE PARK
Coming down to Seaside Park to spend the Easter week end, the families of William C. Coles and Henry B. Coles, of Moorestown, were awakened about 2 o'clock Easter morning and managed to escape from their summer home with their lives, and not much else. Their handsome summer home, at Ocean Avenue and Seventh Avenue, was a total loss, and the cottage next door, belonging to Joseph F. Richards, of New York, was also badly damaged, the loss aggregating about $15,000.
The Coles families escaped as they did because Caldwell Van Roden, a neighbor, who had also come down to his cottage for Easter, happened to look out and see the flames. He hurried over to the Coles house, to give the alarm, battering in the door before he could wake the occupants. They were able to grab what clothing was close at hand, and grope their way out of the house through all the dense and stifling smoke, dressing after they reached the outdoor air. The house in a few moments was a mass of flames.
The Coles brothers are sons of the late C.B. Coles, the Camden lumber dealer, who was one of the Seaside Park Land Company in the late nineties. They motored down with a party of twelve, mostly young folks, to spend the holiday, reaching Seaside Park Saturday noon. After a pleasant evening, much of which was spent around a driftwood fire in the fireplace, they had gone to bed in the second and third stories of the frame cottage and were in sound slumber. They had to borrow hats and wraps from the neighbors...

KINSEY BOUGHT LUMBER ON WRECKED SCHOONER WOOTTEN
J.B. Kinsey, of High Point [now part of Harvey Cedars] last week bought from the underwriters the cargo of some 400,000 feet of lumber on the wrecked schooner Orlando B. Wootten, on the beach at Forked River Coast Guard Station, just north of the Inlet. This cargo is composed of flooring, two by fours, and box shooks. Kinsey is now engaged in getting it out and lightening it in the Inlet. The schooner was last week stripped of her sails and cordage by Capt. J.F. Wilbert, of Forked River, acting for the owners.

TOMS RIVER AND BAYVILLE WON SPELLING BEE HONORS
At the county spelling be at the Toms River Opera House, last Friday evening, March 31, at which all the high schools but one, and twenty-three grade schools were entered, the honors were taken by Toms River, in high school contest, and by Bayville in the grade school contest. Toms River also won the spelling bee portion of the grade competition. This is the second time Toms River has won in the high school contest, and for the second year it holds the J. Leonard Clark spelling trophy, offered by Mr. Clark to Ocean County high schools in annual competition. Should it win next year, the trophy will be held permanently. Toms River spelled down all comers in both spelling bees.

FLYING BOAT SERVICE FOR BARNEGAT BAY THIS YEAR
The Barnegat Bay section is promised a flying boat service again this summer, when Delos Thomas, the world record flier, and his business manager, J.E.C. Brown, are expected to be on the bay again as they were last fall. These two men were last year with the Aeromarine Airways, Inc. and have just finished a successful season in Florida for the same company. Mr. Brown was in Toms River on Wednesday making arrangements for next summer, and told The Courier that they had bought a flying boat of their own, and would operate it themselves.
While in Florida this winter Thomas carried a thousand passengers between Key West and Havana without a mishap, a record of which he is very proud. Next summer Thomas and Brown expect to operate in Barnegat Bay and Toms River resorts, also Little Egg Harbor, from Bay Head to Beach Haven.

PINE BEACH MAN IN DEPUTY REVENUE COLLECTOR JOB
William L. Liming, formerly station agent at Pine Beach, received word yesterday that he had been appointed Deputy Revenue Collector under Collector E.L. Sturgess, and that he was to report May 1, in Camden, for duty. Mr. Liming was recommended by Senator Hagaman, Congressman Appleby and County Chairman A.W. Brown, Jr. His experience in clerical work will, it is believed, be of great assistance in the new job.

COSTLY FOREST FIRES
Fred Buhell, a newcomer of Whitesville road, started his boys cleaning up and burning weeds and brush Sunday, in a young gale. 300 acres of timber was burnt over and it cost $200 to fight it. Buhells hearing is at 10 a.m. Saturday. The same day (Easter Sunday) an auto picnic party, roasting eggs by the roadside, burnt 500 acres of the finest timber in the New Egypt district near Davisville school.

RADIO WAVES OF TOMS RIVER
How many amateurs have heard the two new broadcasting stations, Philadelphia—W.F.L. Strawbridge & Clothier, and W.I.P. Gimbel Bros.
Gilbert Ebere, of Beachwood, is now building and assembling his own radio set, which is composed of a cleverly made spider web inductance, audion detector and one stage amplifier.
It is planned at the Sesquicentennial celebration in Philadelphia to tap the Liberty Bell, the sound of which will be broadcasted from a nearby transmitting station.

RESCUED BOY FROM DROWNING
Allan, the five year old son of Daniel Johnson, fell in the river at Main street last Friday. Ed Hyers, who was at the dock, selling fish, pulled the boy out, saving his life. No reporter would tell the story as well as Allan—“I was on the boat 'n' the boat rocked 'n' rocked, it did, 'n' I felled in. First I swimmed a little, 'n' then I got my arms crossed 'n' I couldn't swim any more. I tried to scream, 'n' couldn't, 'cause every time I opened my mouth, nen the river runned in. Nen I sticked up both my hands 'n' a boy he see me 'n' pulled me out 'n' my daddy carried me home, he did.”

FIRE WIPED ORTLEY INN AND TWO HOUSES FROM BEACH
Caught in a brush fire that lasted two days on the beach, the Ortley Inn and a cottage adjoining it were destroyed on Wednesday, April 26. The day before Peter Johnson's house, at Ortley and the shed at the railroad, which did duty as a station, were both burned. The fire started on Tuesday, and swept round in a circle, as the wind shifted. The beach at Ortley is covered with thickets of bayberry, wild cherry, grasses and brush, all of which was like so much tinder for the fire. A hundred people were out Wednesday morning, trying to save the Ortley Inn, but were unsuccessful.
The inn belonged to Dr. Lord, of Mt. Holly. It was of late not used as a hotel, though a few summers ago it was occupied by the Y.W.C.A. as a summer camp. The Ortley tract was bought in the eighties by a group of New Brunswick people from the Ortley family, who had lived there many years. The inn was built and a few houses, but the development was not a success financially or otherwise.

DEVELOPMENT AT WOODMANSIE
Another development is being undertaken in the Pines, near Woodmansie, something on the scale of the Cedar Crest tract at Bamber. A number of Moorestown people have formed a company, bought a large tract there, and have been setting out orchards and planning to put in various other crops on a large scale. They use the tractor for their work.

LIQUOR SMUGGLER POCOMOKE TO BE SOLD BY U.S. COURT
The schooner Pocomoke, part of whose smuggled cargo of whiskey was cached near Barnegat last summer, will be sold on April 17, by order of Judge Joseph L. Bodine, of the U.S. Courts, to satisfy claims against her. The craft was seized at Atlantic City last summer by the federal authorities. The auction will be held at Atlantic City.

SWEET POTATO CLUBS TO COMPETE FOR GWYER CUP
Capt. Edgar L. Gwyer has offered a silver cup to be competed for this summer by the boys' and girls' club members in the raising of sweet potatoes. It is expected that a number of the garden club members this year will make the sweet potato their special crop, and the one with the best display of sweets next fall, will get the Gwyer Cup. These boys and girls will have the privilege of studying the sweet potato demonstrations carried on by farmers in the county who are cooperating with County Agent Waite and the County Board of Agriculture, under the direction of specialists Schermerhorn, Poole and Nissley, of the State Agricultural College and Experiment Station.
Miss Elsie Horne, the County Club agent, is planning to take delegates from each community where sweet potato work is being carried on to visit these demonstrations.

BARNEGAT'S GRAVEL ROAD TO COST $8000 PER MILE
Costing at the rate of $8000 per mile, a stretch of two and a quarter miles of gravel road, west of Barnegat, on the cross-state road, toward Buddtown, Burlington County [today Route 72], was let on Tuesday of this week, April 4, to Albert W. Hopkins, of New Egypt, for $18,139.20. There were two other bids: C.W. Mathis & Co., Seaside Park, $19.472.85; and Oscar Parker, West Creek, $22,706.75.
Another cross-state cut-off was given a start when Lacey Township Committee presented a check for $500, and asked the county for county aid on Lacey Road, between Forked River and Cedar Crest [the area where Popcorn Park Zoo now stands]. The county will put $1500 to this and go as far as the money can be made to stretch on this nine-mile road. Next year presumably more will be done...
Hooper Avenue, Toms River, from Washington Street to the Brick Township line, at Silverton, was taken over by the Freeholders as a county road.

FIRE CLEANED UP MUCH FINE TIMBER NEAR BAY
Wednesday a fire, or rather two fires, cleaned up the timber on the Thomas B. Gilford estate, known as Holly Rest, and on the Charles D. Brackenridge property adjoining, sweeping along Washington Street [today part of which is Route 37] from the Central Avenue entrance to Island Heights, all the way to the bay meadows. It also jumped the road and burned the timber on the north side.
There was much fine white oak and other valuable timber on these tracts. All Island Heights and the countryside turned out to fight the fire, under Division Warden J.E. Abbott, of Toms River. Fire Co. No. 2, of Toms River, went down and help came over from the Beach. The fire, however, went on till it burned itself out.
The worst fire in many years raged between Lakewood and Point Pleasant and Manasquan Wednesday and Thursday. Valiant fighting, by the whole neighborhood only saved many houses, at least ten of which were on fire at times, as reported by District Warden Abbott.
The Point Pleasant, Lakewood and other fire companies with chemicals were of the greatest service in this fire. The loss is very heavy.

CAVE MAN INSANE, AND SENT TO STATE HOSPITAL
Having lived in a dugout on the outskirts of Lakewood all winter, Henry A. Nehring is now in comfortable quarters in the State Hospital, at Trenton. He was pronounced insane by Drs. E.C. Disbrow and Frank Brouwer, and on Thursday last Judge Newman signed the papers committing him to the hospital, to which he had been taken from the county jail. Nehring was brought to the county jail some weeks ago. He claims that he has considerable property in Germany and has wealthy relatives there. When picked up he had some little cash, nearly $40, in his pockets. His peculiar actions and his manner of living led people to think him demented.

FELL TWENTY FEET, BUT LIT ON HIS FEET, CATLIKE
Morgan Sickler, a bricklayer, who has been working about here for some time, had a narrow escape from death at Ocean Gate Saturday morning. He had gone down there to work for H.W. Ellis, and while wandering around, climbed a ladder to the water tank and fell off. His fall is estimated at least 20 feet. He lit on both feet. He was taken to Kimball Hospital by Dr. Brouwer, and is now declared to be O.K. again. No bones broken.

FISH AND GAME
Large quantities of herring are being caught in upper Barnegat and its tributaries. They are peddled about Toms River for two cents each. The old price used to be five cents a dozen, but, compared with other food, they are cheap at 24 cents a dozen if you don't mind the bones.
While walking through the woods on the river bank one day, recently, A.D. Nickerson, of Beachwood, saw a fish hawk rise from the water, struggling with a fish. The hawk flew over him, and either the fish was too much for it, or the sight of the man at close quarters, frightened the hawk, for it dropped its prey. Nickerson looked about a big and found an 18-inch pike.
Reports from Tuckerton and Beach Haven say that summer flounders are in the inlets and bays.
Some local anglers have been whipping Cedar Creek for trout.
There seems to be considerable demand for island and meadow points along the bays, and clubs are buying them up wherever they are for sale.
Rehearsing the old-time fishing in the waters of the northern part of the state, around Newark and Raritan Bays, and the Staten Island Kills, the Newark Call says that the pollution of these up-state waters has ended fishing there for the most part for good and all, and that the pollution is spreading. And it adds: So we must look elsewhere for our salt water fishing, and that will be Barnegat Bay.
An appropriation has recently been made by the legislature for the purpose of connecting Barnegat Bay with the Manasquan River, a connection which, when completed, will flood the upper section of the bay with rich salt water and that will aid in keeping the bay in excellent condition and will provide a larger area of spawning grounds.

PERSONALS
Mr. LeChard, of Atlantic City, who has done a great deal of dredging and filling in Barnegat Bay district, was in Toms River Monday. He said he was completing a contract for Mr. Smith, of New York, at Bay Head, where he is dredging a thousand foot channel in from Inland Waterway to Mr. Smith's dock on the bay shore below Bay Head. His son, Russell, who was shot up in the World War, is in charge of the job, having recovered sufficiently to get around on the job. When the job is done the have a sub-contract on the Main Shore road between Mullica River bridge and Atlantic City, on the new section running from the Bridge to Smithville, and saving two and a half miles by cutting out the old road through Port Republic. This will require a bridge at Smithville, but the saving of road length is expected to offset the building of a new road and bridge. This road will be of warrenite surface, as anyone familiar with Atlantic County road building might have guessed.
Andrew Applegate, assistant keeper of Barnegat lighthouse, has been spending a week at his home here.
Mr. Leeland Campbell of Toms River and Miss Harriet Widmaier of Brooklyn were married yesterday at the Widmaier home in Brooklyn by Rev. W.W. Payne of the M.E. Church of Toms River. Miss Widmaier with her mother has been a summer resident of Beachwood, and this is the culmination of a Beachwood romance.
Ferd Schoettle of Philadelphia spent the week end at the Ocean House, having just returned from a winter in Florida. Mr. Schoettle, who is a gunner and fisherman, said he had some fine quail shooting and fine freshwater angling, but that salt water fishing was poor this year, both at sea and in the surf, and in the bays.
Marcus Russell is working at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, and quite a number of the younger men, who once worked there, have applications on file for jobs there.

PERSONAL MENTION WITH LOCAL FLAVOR
Former Mayor Howard D. VanSant, of Island Heights, for nearly fifteen years past U.S. Consul at Dunfermline, Scotland, had hoped to come home for a stay this summer, but says that the cost of travel is such he may have to stay in Scotland. Before the war the passage money was $75 each way; now it is $250 each way, and as he had planned to bring his daughter, Gretchen, now a girl of thirteen years, that would mean $1000 for passage money at the start. Mr VanSant has been in the consular service some twenty years, having been stationed at Guelph and Kingston, in Canada, before going to Scotland. He has not been home since before the great war. He is looking forward to retirement when he says he hopes to live at Island Heights, keep a sneakbox, shoot a few more crow ducks, catch a few more fish, and challenge Harry H. Groshong, of East Orange, to another match at clay birds. He says snipe, bluefish and peaches are among the joys of life that Scotland cannot afford, and he hopes to enjoy them once more. Just now he is buying an electric car from Buffalo, N.Y., shipped to him at Dumfermline, to allow him to negotiate the hilly streets of that ancient Scottish capital of Robert the Bruce. Mr. VanSant says that unfortunately there seems to be no material good as yet come out of the great war. There is in Scotland more poverty, misery, distress and discontent than in the days before the war, when living cost half what it does now.

RECENT WEDDINGS
Gaskill—Bishop
George T. Gaskill, of Fort Hancock, a member of the Sandy Hook Coast Guard Station for a number of years, and a Tuckerton man, was married on March 26 at Sea Bright M.E. Church, by Rev. H.N. Amer, formerly of Beach Haven, to Miss Carrie Bishop, of Manahawkin. The groom is the son of former Oystershell Commissioner Josiah Gaskill, of Tuckerton; the bride is the daughter of Mrs. Annie Bishop, of Manahawkin.

Strickland—Leman
Arthur J. Strickland, son of former Mayor and Mrs. Alvah A. Strickland, of Bay Head, recently surprised his friends there by the announcement of his marriage last January to Mlle. Helena Leman, a young French woman. The wedding took place in Philadelphia, the bride living there as a teacher of French in the Agnes Irwin school for girls at twenty-second and Delancey Streets. She was attending school at Lille when the Germans captured that city, but her home was at Roubaix. She was inside the German lines for three years. After the war she came to this country three years ago.
The groom was a University of Pennsylvania athlete and noted as a baseball pitcher in this country. He went to France in the U. of P. Ambulance Unit, in December of 1917, with the Rainbow Division. He is associated with his father in the real estate business at Bay Head.

Campbell—Widmaier
A very pretty wedding took place at the home of Mrs. Freda Widmaier, 2537 Palmetto Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., on Thursday, April 20, when her daughter, Hattie W., became the bride of Mr. Clifford Leeland Campbell, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.M.  Campbell, of Toms River. At 11 A.M., to the strains of the wedding march rendered by Prof. Henry Braun, the ceremony was read by Rev. W.W. Payne, pastor of Toms River M.E. Church, the bride being given away by her mother. They were attended by Miss Carrie Thain, of Brooklyn, as maid of honor, and Mr. Marvin S. Campbell, the groom's brother, as best man.
The bride wore white crepe de chine beaded, and carried a bridal bouquet of sweet peas and orange blossoms. The maid of honor wore a periwinkle crepe de chine, beaded, and carried a bouquet of sweet peas. After the ceremony, luncheon was served, the table decorations being green and white. The young people left by steamer for a bridal trip to New England. They will make their home at Toms River, where the groom, a former service man, is in the Central Railroad employ. The bride has been a frequent visitor at Beachwood, where her mother has a summer home.

RECENT DEATHS
David Furman
David Furman, for forty-two years foreman of the New York and Long Branch Railroad round house, at Point Pleasant, died March 28, aged 71 years. He had been in the railroad employ fifty-two years. He was a native of New York, and was twice married. He leaves a widow, who was Mrs. Jennie Mount, of Freehold, and two sons by his first marriage—Leonard Furman, of Point Pleasant, and Noah Furman, of Jersey City. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Firemen. About four years ago he was injured at his work in the railroad switching yard, and had since failed.

Charles H. Fletcher
Dr. W.H. Ballou, Editor of the Science News Service, New York, writes:
In the death of Charles H. Fletcher, April 9th, Barnegat Bay loses one of its most famous striped bass anglers. Many of us know him affectionately and will ever remember him. In former years he arrived in the bay, usually for the summer, in a large boat, with a few small craft for rowing or sailing, trailing behind. There was a succession of larger craft under the names of Jemima I, Jemima II, then Jemima III, wide houseboats in yacht form, with square beds and home interiors. I remember the day when the last named his largest, with motor engines, sailed proudly into the bay with all her colors flying, and her whistle sounding salutes to all who were passed. Mr. Fletcher's anchorage was in the mouth of Forked River, but he spent his evenings at the Riverside House, and often slept there. He had a car in the garage at his disposal, often having friends meet him at the depot, to take them on board a Jemima for a period. I remember also when all of his smaller craft, trailers, were equipped with motors, so he could fly from channel to channel before taking to oars for trolling. In the old days his favorite ground was the “Stone Heap”— a few acres hole in the marine grass, hard to find at high tide, but plainly visible at lower water. I think if a bass got into the Stone Heap accidentally nowadays it would commit suicide, as it is well filled with decayed vegetation and new marine plants. The Stone Heap was near my own favorite ground for luring big weakfish, called “Three Point Flat. So we often hobnobbed out on the shallow waters, and one day I got a fine snap shot at him with the camera as his boat sped past at the highest speed. It was a lucky snap, too, as it took his face fine, nearly his whole little boat and his companion, seated beside him, poles in hand and lines out. He was ever a kindly, gentlemanly, lovable man, a man one was glad to know.

BARNEGAT
John Chew has purchased a plot of land near the bay and will put it in small lots suitable for out-o-town people who would like to erect small shacks for spending a week's end at our bay. Such things help to bring people here. Anyone with a little capital could make a good investment by putting up a few such places on the knolls near the landing and renting them for fishing parties who would like to spend a few days at the shore. There are several ways we could be put on the map if we had enough interested people.
It seems incredible how thoughtful the railroads of Jersey are for the public (their money). How generous and open-hearted they are. The traveling public cannot find words to express their thanks for the wonderful spell of generosity that has just been accorded them. Just think of it, a saving of fourteen cents (don't mistake the amount) provided you go to Philadelphia so as to be able to buy a return ticket from there to the shore resorts (we've just been put on that list) but one cannot get that big reduction from here—it's a straight fare.
We see that many towns fine auto owners for parking on the streets without lights. Most any night it would be a harvest here for them as several can be seen any night without a light of any kind.
A.W. Kelly has a radiophone in his home. With one of these installed one need not bother with victrolas or going to operas. Just set home, turn on the switch and you have all the things of interest brought right in your home.
Our once quaint old country villages like all other things, have passed into the beyond. Years ago everyone knew each other, a neighborly feeling existed that is not there today. The few people lived in their slow, humble way far from the ways of the large cities and towns. Their wants were few and easily satisfied. They were not striving to outdo each other; styles did not bother them; the old country store could supply their every want; the young folks had their few pleasures, but such as they were everyone joined in and everybody enjoyed themselves.
The surrounding farms were tilled, families were brought up on them with every comfort and necessity that those times seemed to want. Few young people went out of town for their mates, while it is seldom a marriage takes place today but the man or woman is not from a distant town.
The farms for several years back were deserted, but recently the land agents have been reaping a harvest selling these places to foreigners whose idea of farming is quite as much limited as is most of their means, consequently after a short sojourn here they give up and went their way back to the cities where they find employment more suitable to their talents.
Some come out to the country to make fortunes in poultry. Those who understand it can make good; those who find they don't, make a failure. There are some well-to-do people who come to the country for better homes, to get out of the crowded cities; most of these people are desirable citizens, make themselves a part of the community, take an interest in the affairs of the town, uphold churches and schools, and in every way help to make a town better.
There is another class that never become citizens, have no interest in the affairs of the town, care not whether there are churches or schools; Sunday is the same to them as all other days; they spend as little as possible, live any old way just so they stay for awhile, then they are off, and the land agent puts the farm on the market again for the fellow who has hallucinations of gold mines in these worked-out farms.
One hardly knows their neighbors these days and the streets are full of strange faces, which some years ago would have created some excitement to see a stranger. Our once quiet streets are teeming with autos, telephone and electric light poles confront us on all sides, fire plugs are along the sidewalks, department stores, shops of all kinds, banks, railroads; the once quiet Sabbath is now awakened with the shriek of the locomotive as it sweeps through our towns carrying pleasure-seekers to and fro.
Our village streets, that once were silent and dark are not brilliant with electric lights, and one has to stop, look and listen before venturing to cross a street. Like Mohammed and the mountain, we do not take our country villages to the cities but the cities send out their surplus improvements and people to us.
Some 75 or 80 years ago a man named Camburn, who lived in the suburbs of this town, brought a monkey from New York to his home. Ever since that time this little settlement has been known as “Monkeytown.” All the old settlers have been gone from that place for the last twenty or thirty years, and now and then a foreigner would settle on one of the old places, but finding rural life not what it seemed, pulled up stakes and vanished like the dew. Now some of these newcomers object to the name, but they nor several generations will never see that name removed, as it is a household word and been there too long to be easily effaced.
Some years ago most people living at Warren Grove, Brookville and other places several miles from here usually came to town with a load of wood or charcoal. Today they have good roads and a car, and slip down here in a few minutes. Charcoal burning, once a prosperous business for those living back from here, has entirely disappeared. Most of the old settlers have passed away and foreigners have, as a rule, bought the farms, and the old charcoal box that we used to see come down loaded with coal has passed into oblivion. Before the railroads come here all the coal was carried out of our inlet by schooners; after the railroads came then it was a common thing to ship a load of charcoal but today a  load of that sort of goods would be a curiosity.

BARNEGAT CITY [today Barnegat Light Borough]
The buoy tender Pine, with John Marshall, a former Barnegat City boy, in charge, is in the harbor, putting in new buoys and marking channels.
Ground has been broken for two new houses, that of Engel Hoff and P.W.W. Kelly, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth Streets. Cranmer x Cranmer, of Manahawkin, have the contract and expect to have them ready for occupancy in June.
M.V. Sutter, of South Orange, has had a charming looking little house erected close to his bungalow on the ocean front. Arne Hoff was the builder.
The mackerel fishermen will all leave for the southern fishing, following the mackerel as they come north.

BAY HEAD
The Bay Head Water Co. has laid a new main from Main Street along Strickland Street, to the bay, to supply the new houses erected on the west side of the railroad tracks.
The new street, to be known as Clayton Street, is about completed as far as the sub-grade, and is now ready for graveling. Joseph Stillwell, of Mantoloking, has the contract for grading.
Osborn Avenue has had a heavy coat of cinders, and a nice white border of sand to fill the gutters; but it will be a great improvement over the mud, at that. Bridge Avenue has had a good top dressing of cinders and gravel, and it is hoped that it will be, in another winter, better than it was last.
The Borough officials will meet with the P.R.R. officials Thursday to discuss a public crossing at Johnson Street. It is hoped that will allow the crossing, as it would be very convenient.
A number of new houses under construction are nearing completion. There are several to be built at once.
The new fire alarm, a siren, has been erected and is ready for a tryout.

BEACH HAVEN
There has been two new boats brought to our dock this week, the Sylvia, belonging to Clarence Parker, and will be run on daily trips between here and Atlantic City this summer. The second was the Agnes, belonging to Bus Hayes; it will be used by Mr. Hayes to carry fish from here to Atlantic City. The Agnes came from Bay Head.
The A.A. Thompson Contracting Company who moved Bonds' station house last winter has sent a bunch of men down to do the finishing job of putting the cement foundation under it.
Well, we have a passenger train again and it sure does sound good to hear it, for we can tell now when the mail comes in; the freight made several trips last week; the passenger train made its first Saturday morning.
John Cranmer is raising and rebuilding the Hotel De Crab, which stands on the Dock road. This building is one of the oldest on the Beach, as it was one of the old life-saving station houses. After Mr. Cranmer gets through it will be a nice dwelling house.
The Engleside is having an electric light plant installed. It will be completed by the opening of the season. Mr. Engle believes in having things up to date for his patrons.
Ground was broken last week for the new motion picture theatre on Bay Avenue and Central Street. This business is owned by Harry Colmer and Leon Cranmer. They expect to have the new theatre ready for the coming season. Contractor Firman H. Cranmer is doing the work.

BEACH HAVEN TERRACE
A recent visitor here from the West, who had never before seen the ocean, paid a visit to the beach. Going up to one of the Coast Guards, he asked him for a bucket of water. It happened to be high tide when the guard gave him the water. He asked him how much it would be, so the wondering guard charged him fifteen cents. Coming back to the same place at low tide he saw the guard again. Going up to him he remarked: “Gee—you must do an awful business here!”

BEACHWOOD
Frank J. Turner, of Beachwood, for years the borough clerk and marshal there, has resigned his offices in that borough, to take the training course for the state police. Some time ago he passed the examination for that body, and when the force was increased fifty men by the last legislature, summons were sent out for the fifty chosen ones last Saturday, and Frank was one of the fifty, the only Ocean County man on the force. They will be put through three months rigid training—at Wilburtha Station, near Trenton.
The Borough Commission has appointed Frank W. Goodrich as Borough Clerk, succeeding Frank J. Turner, who resigned to go into the State Police.
Postmaster William Brown is planning a new home and perhaps post office, too, near the railroad station.

CEDAR RUN [section of Stafford Township]
Farming and all spring enterprises are being pushed to the limit and a very successful season is expected. With the progressive new talent that we have added to our part of the state we expect nothing but success.
Farming and building are distinguishing features of this section and we are expecting this to be the most prosperous year in our history.
C. Norman Taylor is to build a new bungalow on the railroad triangle, which is getting to be the important part of town.
The tea room and ice cream parlor at the post office is in full swing.

FORKED RIVER
Forked River Public School will hold a public exhibit of school work on Thursday afternoon, April 13th, from 1 PM. Until 6 P.M. Besides the regular school work many pieces of handwork will be exhibited, such as windmills, boats, kites, autos, airplanes, dirigibles, etc., by the boys and some specimens of needlework, such as caps, aprons, tams, fancy pieces, crochet work on yoke patterns, laces, mats, doilies, etc. by the girls. Drawing and poster work will add interest to the occasion.
In spite of the cold weather gardeners are putting in seeds.
The Riverside Hotel will do some farming to supply the hotel with vegetables this summer. They have bought a Fordson tractor and other machinery, and will farm the Collins place.
The Vaughn family also have bought a tractor for working their place. They will put out another peach orchard.
A lot of our folks went over to 112 Coast Guard Station, to see the schooner ashore there. It was formerly a common sight every once in awhile, but wrecks are scarce in these days.
George W. Rurode, the Jersey City lawyer, was here the past week, and is planning for the community building, promised by the will of the late Charles A. Smith. It will be a fine building, of hollow tile, on the Main State Highway in the center of the village.
Capt. J. F. Wilbert has been stripping the schooner O.B. Wootten, ashore at station 112, for her owners; and has salvaged much sail and cordage.

ISLAND HEIGHTS
The sympathy of the entire community is with Mayor and Mrs. William T. Rote and Miss Glenna Mayer, in the sudden death of Mrs. Alice Mayer, mother of Glenna and daughter of Mrs. Rote, who passed away Sunday morning, at her mother's home, of double pneumonia. Mrs. Rote is very low with the same disease. Mrs. Mayer was born here, married here, and died here. She was a member of St. Philip's P.E. Church. Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted.
Mr. Dersinger motored down last Wednesday to Stokes' yard to see his boat.
Mrs. Allie Ayres has again very kindly given some more books to the public library, this time seventeen volumes of Boys of Liberty series, and we know the boys will be delighted.
The many friends of Mrs. William Rote will be pleased to hear that she is much better after her serious illness and her complete recovery is expected.
Charles Westcott has opened his butcher shop for the season, at the same old stand, and if his meat proves as good as his voice you will be sure of nice tender steak there.
Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Davis are down seeing to the fitting up of the drug store for the season, which we understand the doctor will run himself.
Walter Biddie and a friend were visitors to Stokes' boat yard, seeing to their boats. They are staying at Lavallette.
Edward T. Fanning is coming back to Island Heights to open his summer boarding house here. This winter he has been connected with the Winthrop Arms Hotel, near Boston, at Winthrop Highlands, Mass., and has had a pleasant winter.
Bert Diesinger and mother visited Stokes boatyard Friday to arrange to put their boat in commission.
Little Charles, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Eckhardt, is quite sick with the measles.

LAKEHURST
The Western Union Telegraph Co. is putting in new poles through the borough.

LAVALLETTE
Charles Hankins, the boat builder, has built a very fine boat for Mr. Crabbe, of Toms River. It is a dandy.
Zack Gant, Life Guard, was in town looking over his new house, which is being built on Reese Avenue.

MANTOLOKING
Contractor Joseph Stillwell is preparing to rebuild the yacht club dock here.

MONEY ISLAND
This resort is now beginning to take on its seasonal appearance, judging by the number of visitors during the past week end.
James Gegan, of Philadelphia, had quite a time shooting snakes with his B.B. It seems as if James will be going to Africa one of these days to shoot bigger game.

NEW EGYPT
Allie Horner has moved his restaurant from the store owned by Morris Himmelstein recently purchased from the Cowperthwait estate into the store owned by Edward Longstreet.
Harry Feaster, of Jacobstown, will open a blacksmith shop at the corner of New Egypt—Allentown Road and Monmouth Road, near New Egypt, and will live in the house recently vacated by Mr. and Mrs. John Robson.

OCEAN GATE
The Ocean Gate Fire Company held their monthly meeting in the Fire House on Monday evening last. Notices of the coming oyster supper have been sent around the town.
Jacob Vogler is putting the finishing touches on the large Bagot Hotel on Wildwood Avenue.
It is reported Richard Holt has rented his bungalow for the season to a family from Elizabeth, who will come here early this month for the summer season. Mr. and Mrs. Holt expect to leave soon for Barnegat for the summer, where they will have charge of the branch of the Palm House Bakery; also make candy at that place.
Some of the members of the Street Committee and firemen have been busy this past week in burning off the lots around the town, which will make quite an improvement to the place.
The Sunday excursion train starts running next Sunday, April 9, for the summer, this train being operated fully a month ahead of other years, and a large crowd is expected down for the day.
It is reported C.M. Biernbaum is getting ready to build a new bungalow on Anglesea Avenue.
Howard Bancroft has started work on the remodeling of the corner stores near the railroad.
Colonel Bacon, of Pinewald and Asbury Park, was a Saturday visitor in this town.
Looked like summer time had begun to see so many of our summer residents down this week.
H.D. Black has started work on the new club house on the Ocean Gate A.A. [Athletic Association], near the ball grounds.
Quite a large number of people came down on the Sunday excursion [train] last Sunday, but were late in getting home as this train was about one hour and twenty minutes late leaving here at night.
The oyster supper given by the firemen on Saturday evening last was largely attended, and from latest reports, a nice sum was cleared. This money is to be used for a second story for the fire house. During July they will hold a three-day carnival in order to raise enough money to carry this addition through.
The fine weather over Easter brought large crowds of people down both by train and auto. Seeing so many looked like the good old days of summer again. Well, it won't be long now.
Raymond Keisel has just had a hot-water system installed in his milk house and will be ready early to supply the town with fresh milk this summer.
Arnold Webster was down last week and opened the Swiss cottage.

PINE BEACH
Thomas Sheeran made a flying visit to Pine Beach on Tuesday, to look over his property at the river front. He came down on the morning train and left on the afternoon train.
It is rumored that a new house is to be put upon the river front next to Mr. Butts'.
Mrs. Staples, who has been occupying Mr. Cooper's home, is building a concrete house in Beachwood.
Mrs. Smith leaves us on the first of May, when she turns the store over to the purchasers, Mr. and Mrs. Halligan. Mrs. Smith will be greatly missed here. She is to spend a few days as the guest of Mrs. Prettyman, on Avon Road.
Clyde Phillips left last week for Philadelphia to arrange for the showing of his trained birds at Tenth and Luzerne Streets, in Philadelphia. Mrs. Phillips is to leave this week to join him. They are to spend ten days in Philadelphia and then tour near-by places in New Jersey. Mrs. Phillips expects to come home for Sundays for some time to come. Their engagements will last until next September. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have been spending a year's vacation at their home here, the Phillips' estate, which used to be formerly known as the Buhler House or the Burnett place.
Norman Kennedy has been spending the winter in Beachwood, but is now occupying the Mitchell house, near the western boundary of Pine Beach. He has put up a radio outfit and is much interested in it.
The new home of William Mill Butler, that is being built now, lies partly in Pine Beach. It is estimated this building will cost about fifty thousand dollars. The location is ideal and it has a beautiful view of the river. The river bank is being terraced and grass has been planted.
Mrs. John McPeak and Miss Helen Murray came down on Wednesday to Captain Jenning's bungalow on Springfield Avenue. On Saturday John McPeak came down by train, and Mr. and Mrs. John Murray motored down in their new Oldsmobile. Kenneth MacElwee came with them and another young man. On Saturday night the party went to see the moving pictures at Toms River.
The pink blossoms on the peach trees were wonderfully beautiful. Mrs. Smith, at the store, has a particularly beautiful tree.
Trailing arbutus is out and rewarded the careful seeker for it. The grass in front of the houses on the river front is very thriving and adds to the appearance of Riverside Drive.
Nothing has yet has been done about the docks at Henley Avenue, the Yacht Club, or at the Inn. The river is the chief asset of Pine Beach, and these docks are necessary in order that the river may be enjoyed and used by the residents of Pine Beach. Every one interested in Pine Beach should make it their business to see that these docks are fixed and kept in repair from now on.
Springfield Avenue was scraped and put in good condition on Saturday. Automobile traffic is heavy on this street, and it is necessary that it should be kept in good condition. It is also necessary that warning signs be put up at either end notifying speed maniacs that the laws governing the speed of automobiles will be enforced. Some days at Springfield and Midland Avenues cars come dashing along both streets at a dangerous rate. Several times accidents have been narrowly averted, but as traffic grows heavier it will be a miracle if some one is not killed. The names of several of those who come along at break-neck speed, even of those who do not live in Pine Beach, and it will be an easy matter to have them punished when the matter is laid before the proper authorities, so a word of warning should help to moderate the speed of autos through Pine Beach.
The Sunday excursions [trains] began last Sunday week ago. Last Sunday Pine Beach people who came down on the excursion did not get home until nearly 11 o'clock at night. The train was delayed at Asbury Park by the accident. The engine struck an automobile, killing three people.

SEASIDE HEIGHTS
According to the number of our people and the Park people who visit the movies, at Toms River, Saturday evenings, the Colonial Theatre here would be well patronized if open.
Mr. M.J. Casper has opened the pavilion on the ocean front and Sumner Avenue, and has a line of fancy and useful articles on sale.
The Colonial Theater opens on Saturday, May 6th, for the season; earlier than usual.
The new dance hall and range of stores now being constructed on the ocean front near the carousel will be another great attraction this summer.
Coming across the bridge the first thing that strikes the eye of the traveler is the big brick building that the Shamrock Contracting Co. is building on the bay front at Hamilton Avenue.
Frederick J. Sayles, one of the original builders at this resort was a recent visitor from Tacony, Philadelphia. A son was born recently to his granddaughter, Mrs. Frank Underwood.
Building keeps up well and the place is growing rapidly.
Work has begun on fourteen new stores on the ocean front with a large dance hall on the second floor and covering the entire stores. The stores will be open on the boardwalk and will have large display windows. The dance hall, which will be one of the largest along the Atlantic coast, will be so constructed as to be sound proof. The poreation is being financed by Anton Steidle, a well-known Philadelphia business man and a large owner of property at Seaside Heights.

SEASIDE PARK
Borough Superintendent Aaron Wilbert has been instructed by Council to proceed with the laying of water and sewer mains throughout the tract set apart for campers, which will be located on the borough property, near the pumping station; it is an ideal location, with graveled streets on both sides and situated close to the bay. Tourists no doubt will take advantage of the borough's generosity.
There were a number of visitors here on Sunday, and our real estate men say cottages are renting fast, which indicates a good season.
William Heiring, of Newark, has bought the Hopper cottage on the ocean front, and is making great improvements.
At Council meeting, held on Saturday, the Borough Council has authorized the purchase of a fire alarm signal, to be erected on the fire house; it will be a siren, and can be heard within a radius of twelve miles.
The Easter dance, held in the ballroom of the Manhasset Hotel drew a large crowd, who danced until an early hour. The $100 Victrola was won by Mrs. Julia Brower, of Seaside Park, the holder of the lucky number.

WEST CREEK
Our school teachers attended the convention at Toms River last Saturday, and continue to learn that yet there is more to be learned and done. They are willing to be convinced that there is more to be learned but don't like to think they are capable of doing more, especially as they now have so much to do. But we don't intend to lie dormant, but to expand and keep up with the procession of time.
Harry Jones has taken a position as brakesman on the Tuckerton R.R.
R.F. Rutter recently sold his yacht, the “M.S.,” to a party from Cape May.
Henry Holloway, recently appointed as traffic officer, assumed his uniform and duties on Saturday last. A very necessary action, as autoists seem to have no regard for life or law, judging from the speeding they do through this town.

March 1922 Part II
March 1922 Part I
February 17th, 1922
February 10th, 1922
February 3rd, 1922
January 27th, 1922
January 20th, 1922
January 13th, 1922
January 6th, 1922
December 30th, 1921​
December 23rd, 1921
December 16th, 1921
​December 9th, 1921
December 2nd, 1921
November 25th, 1921
November 18th, 1921​
November 11th, 1921​
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October 21st, 1921
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September 30th, 1921
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Welcome back to another era in the Toms River area's past, one century ago this week!

Let your mind wander as you consider life around the second half of March 1922, courtesy the New Jersey Courier weekly newspaper and Ocean County Library archives, and peppered with items of maritime interest (around a 25 minute read).

(written by NJ Courier editor, William H. Fischer, as he sat at his desk above Main Street near Washington Street; it was much like a collection of online social media updates seen today)

Folks are planning gardens.
All Fools' Day will soon be with us.
Fish hawks and herring due next week.
Wasps and bugs flying about every warm day.
Colds and grippy colds, at that, are still about the town and countryside.
Robins are seen now and then, and the song sparrow and cardinal bird are heard early in the mornings.
Time for boys to fly kites and girls to jump rope, under the old schedule; but they make schedules of their own, now.
The apparatus at the sewage disposal plant, by which bacteria are killed by chlorine gas, is being set up this week.
F. Lipscheutz Co. have decided to give up their grocery business and confine their attention to the other lines in their department store.
On April 1 the American Stores will take the Lipscheutz grocery store on Washington Street, as a branch of their Main Street store.
Fire Commissioners Edward Crabbe, I. W. Richtmeyer and R.C. Buckwalter, with a dozen firemen, went to Trenton and White Horse on Saturday last to see the work of a Stutz pumper at the latter place. They also got some ideas on how to keep up a fire company from the Trenton firemen.
Charles Potter has built himself a barn on the property he recently bought from Mrs. Abby Irons, on Dayton Avenue.
Some of the young men about town have organized another fire company, and will make application to the Fire Commissioners and to Township Committee for recognition. There is also talk that the American Legionaires may do the same. The fifteen young men in the company who signed up this week were: Abe and Joe Novins, George Alsheimer, Lloyd Applegate, Allen Sever, Walter Applegate, Allen Atterson, John Gaskill, Jack Costa, Ed Cornelius, Roy Goble, J.J Donnelly, Mike Shine, George Brahn, John Mason [this marked the formation of Toms River Fire Company No. 2, still active today, one century later].
Green grass is coming through the ground.
Auto sales are picking up as auto prices drop down.
Bluebirds, robins, song sparrows and blackbirds are reported.
Ed Applegate had his house on Hooper Avenue enclosed. It stands in the field between Cedar Grove road and the Davitt house, one of the fine locations on the outskirts of town [approximately the location of the Ocean County Mall, today].
Herman Fuhr has the contract for a $4500 house in Beachwood, to be built for Mrs. Widmaier, of Brooklyn, who is thinking of making Beachwood her permanent home [today 325 Ship Avenue, for years the home residence of her daughter's family, and eventually, granddaughter, Carolyn Campbell].
The yachting fever, like the gardening fever, is breaking out, and men who want boats for the coming summer are scurrying around the boatyards to see what they can buy.
P.P. Elkinton has drawn plans for a new front, with two bulk windows, for the A.A. Brant Lumber Co. store on Water Street, and also plans to turn the second floor of the Bump building, at Main and Washington Streets, into two apartments.
The wind has taken liberties with the board fence around Gulick field, and flattened out a section or two.
We had a few snow flakes on the first day of spring.
County Agent E.H. Waite is proudly exhibiting the handsome silver cup won by Ocean County sweet potato exhibits at Farmers Week in Trenton in a state-wide competition, last January.
One of the most successful dances of the winter was given on Friday evening last, St. Patrick's day, at the Toms River Yacht Club house. It was the last social affair before tearing out the house for enlargement, which probably means til next June or thereabouts.
If Ralph B. Gowdy's shade [ghost] were to visit Toms River today it would at once get a man and a team, give the man a rake, and start him to cleaning up paper, branches and other rubbish from the streets. When he was on the committee streets were kept clean of all rubbish and gutters were for water to run in not to hold rubbish. [Capt. Gowdy was a Civil War captain also linked with Double Trouble Village, being one of the first to develop the cranberry industry here on a large scale. He died in 1911.]
A good number of Toms River people attended the opening of the new Palace theatre last night in Lakewood. Some theatre is the verdict. [It closed sometime in the 1950s and became home to the American Vitamin Co. The building was lost to a fire in 1979.]
While digging in the riverbank near Bert Dorsett's boatshop last week, Paul Cranmer unearthed an Indian lancehead of chipped flint. It is perfect in shape and looks as if it had just been made. It measured seven and a half inches in length [the lance head likely was attached to the end of a wooden pole and used to spear fish in the river].
If you want to do business with the Pennsylvania Railroad in the middle of the day, you are stuck. Business hours mean nothing to a railroad just now in their present spasm of operation economy. For many years the agent at the Toms River depot has had a clerk to spell him through the day. The clerk has been laid off, and Agent W.A. Sever has been ordered to post a notice that the station is closed after the 10:30 train arrives, and will not be reopened till nearly time for the 3.57, so as to get his day's work inside of eight hours. [The station, located at the end of South Main Street in what today is South Toms River Borough, was closed with the rail spur in the mid-20th century. The station building itself was purchased and moved to Beachwood and is still a private home today].
A delegation from Fire Company No. 2 appeared before the Township Committee on Friday last and asked that the township supply them with quarters. The committee said they had no funds for that purpose and no room at their disposal in the town hall.
Spring.
Sap running.
Birds calling.
Spring showers.
Moon is on the wane.
Roads are settling down.
Days longer than nights.
Summer will soon be here.
Red-winged blackbirds have come north.
Snyder & Sutton have started remodeling the Toms River Yacht Club house, on the river front [located where today is Baker's Water Street Bar & Grille, the yacht club having moved down river to Money Island in the 1960s, where it stands today].
Did you see the northern lights on Friday night last? While low down, near the horizon, the light was very distinct against an absolutely clear sky.
The Locust Farm, two miles out of Lakewood, on the north, has been bought by the Lightning Film Co., of New York, and motion pictures studios are to be erected there at once, according to the Times and Journal. The film company has twenty acres to work on.
Robins galore.
Birds are singing.
Hyacinths in bloom.
Elm trees are in bud.
1922 one-quarter gone.
Goodbye to old winter.
Lightning Tuesday night.
Lawns are emerald green.
Fruit buds almost at bursting point.
Boatshops are busy overhauling craft for the summer.
Green leaves show on rosebushes, lilacs and early shrubbery.
Willets Manolt's new home in Montray Park is ready for the plastering.
I.P. Evernham has sold the classy looking bungalow which he built in Montray Park to Mariano Russo.
Farms have much of their plowing done in the past two weeks. Potatoes did not get in on St. Patrick's day this year, however.
Complaints about bootleggers are heard frequently; also charges that moonshiners are growing bolder.
Mrs. Christopher Sprague of Beach Haven, with W.H. Jayne as her attorney, has brought suit for divorce from her husband. She is a granddaughter of the late Capt. Joseph Wainwright of Toms River.
The baseball grandstand and fence at the Gulick Field are looking pretty poorly. Carpenters and painters both should be put on the job before it is too late. The high school boys ought to see to it that the place is not misused, at least during school time.
David O. Parker has had electric lights installed at his home at Main and Messenger streets.
The Swedish Consul from New York came to the county jail on Saturday last to confer with the Swedes in the pound fisheries crews who were locked up there to await the action of the grant jury, on the charge of burning the Erthal fishery and ice plant, at lower Seaside Park Monday night of last week.
Sales of lots in Montray Park are said to take place now and then, and a number of people are talking of new houses in that tract. It is suggested that the Township Committee now have a chance to keep one part of the town looking ship-shape, by making building lines, grades, etc., and not let this tract, like the rest of the town, straggle along according to individual whim.

140 YEARS AGO
Thursday of next week [March 23rd] will be the 140th anniversary of the burning of Toms River by the British and Tories in the closing days of the American Revolution, after the capture of the block house. It was an act of purely wanton destruction, and but two small houses in all the hamlet grouped about what is now Toms River, were left standing. Non-combatants, as well as fighting men, who were captured, were taken prisoners to New York by the British force, and the women and children left to provide their own shelter as best they could.
Which goes to show that war then, and war now, except that now it has more wealth, more men and more destructive weapons, are very much the same.

ZR-1 TO START SOON AT LAKEHURST
With the destruction of the Italian built semi rigid, the Roma, the United States is left without lighter-than-air craft larger than non-rigid blimps.
Within a month, however, the actual erection of the ZR-1, an American designed dirigible, will be begun in the large hangar at Lakehurst, N.J., and in a year it is expected that this ship will be ready to take the air. About a third of the structural members or frame of the ZR-1 have been fabricated, and a large percentage of the gas cells have been made.
The ZR-1 in name only is a sister ship to the ill fated ZR-2, built in England. ZR is the designation given by the navy to all dirigibles. The ZR-2, or R-38 as she was called by the English, was built according to a new design and was distinctly a British creation.
The ZR-1 [later becoming the U.S.S. Shenandoah] is modeled after the L-49, the German Zeppelin, that came down in France during the war practically intact. This airship was closely studied by the French, who sent our government the result of the observations. Lessons were also learned from the L-72, the latest German large rigid airship.
The ZR-1 will be 675 feet long and 78 ½ feet in diameter. It will contain gas cells that are about 33 feet long and will contain one large cell in the center of the ship that, taken alone, will contain about 200,000 cubic feet and be larger than the non-rigid ships now in this country. The gas volume of the ZR-1 will be 2,130,000 cubic feet. It will have six engines, and is designed to normally operate with one or two engines idle. A speed of 70 miles an hour under best conditions is expected.
The ZR-1 is, however, primarily a war craft, intended to operate at high altitudes, and in this respect it differs from the airship that will probably be built in Germany for the United States government. It is hoped that this ship will be built on commercial lines for high speed at low elevations and designed after the latest German type.

ATLANTIC CITY MEN MAY BUY PINE BEACH INN FOR SCHOOL
An offer has been made to the owners of the Pine Beach Inn to purchase that hotel, with the purpose of turning it into a boys' school. The people back of the plan are some of the leading men of Atlantic City, who are interested in the school that Prof. Douglas Adams has been maintaining in that city for several years. His quarters in Atlantic City he cannot longer retain, and Adams, who spent many summers on Toms River and Barnegat Bay, would like to come here. His Atlantic City backers are willing to put up what money he may need. At present there is a little difference between offered price and asked price. The inn has not been open for several summers.

CULTIVATING BLUEBERRIES NOW A BIG UNDERTAKING
The Double Trouble Company, at Double Trouble, are putting in forty cold frames and will plant 15,000 blueberry (swamp huckleberry) cuttings this spring for transplanting later. They expect this fall to have at least three acres in blueberries. But Mr. Scammell says this is a small acreage compared with that at Whitesbogs, where Miss Elizabeth White has made a study of the blueberries for some years. There about thirty acres are in cultivation, with at least 200,000 cuttings. Last year Miss White sold her large crop of blueberries at thirty cents a cup [about $5 in 2022 dollars; this would make a pint of blueberries cost $10 today]. It is understood that last year the blueberry plantation paid its own way at Whitesbogs. [Elizabeth Coleman White {1871-1954) is credited with being the “mother” of the modern blueberry industry. An easy search online will reveal many articles describing her outstanding accomplishments].

EROSION AND POLLUTION
Representatives of numerous shore municipalities conferred with the State Board of Commerce and Navigation last week on the problem of protecting the beaches from damage by erosion. This is a vital matter to many of these communities, especially those situated along the northern part of the coast. A number of these have already been put to heavy expense in the construction of jetties and bulkheads to save not only the beaches but much more valuable shore front and real estate. The claim that the state should assist in preserving its shores from inroads of the sea is based on a substantial foundation since the development of the ocean front has added many millions to the State's ratables.
There is little use, however, in either State or municipalities spending money to save the beaches from erosion unless something is speedily done to protect them from pollution. Oil and garbage are so fouling the New Jersey beaches that people are driven away, the food fish supply is being reduced, and if the evil continues to grow the oyster industry will be ruined. Today man, not nature, is the greatest menace to the New Jersey Coast.—Newark Call.

ADDITIONS TO CLUB HOUSE
Additions to the Toms River Yacht Club house on the river front are to go forward at once, at a cost of about $4,000. The house will be extended toward the street line, making a considerable addition the main room, either for use as a dance floor or assembly room. On the southwest corner, taking up the width of the plaza, will be a cellar, for a furnace and boiler, and over it a kitchenette. The enlargement will allow a pool and billiard room on the second floor. Steam heat will be installed before next winter. Snyder & Sutton have the contract for the addition, and plans were drawn by P.P. Elkinton. The architectural design of the club house will not be disturbed. The tennis court will also be rebuilt this spring for use this summer.

STEAMER AND SCHOONER COLLIDE
On Thursday night of last week the steamer Metapan and the schooner Charles A. Dean were in collision off Barnegat light. The schooner filled with water, but kept afloat, and the steamer, which was uninjured, stood by till a revenue cutter arrived, summoned by the steamer's wireless. The cutter escorted the schooner to Sandy Hook.

WILL START BUILDING FARMS FOR POULTRYMEN AT ONCE
The Toms River Poultry Development Association will start at once building poultry farms on its 400-acre tract that it now owns in fee on the south side of the Pennsylvania Railroad tract [where today is much of South Toms River Borough, approximately Center Homes, part of today's Garden State Parkway, the business plazas and buildings along Dover Road, a large portion of the housing development throughout, plus the Jakes Branch area that remains wooded today.]. Three farms are expected to be the starting unit, and others will follow. Each of the first three farms will contain a six-room bungalow, with electric lights, running water, bath and heat; accommodations for five hundred pullets, and the pullets themselves stocked on the place, so that the buyer has a going concern from the day he takes it over; all necessary fencing, clearing, etc. and a garage and feed storage house. Each farm will contain ten acres. Where a prospective buyer wishes a larger farm than the ten-acre, five-hundred-bird farm, 1000-bird farms will be constructed. Real estate men in this section say that a dozen such farms as this could have been disposed of in the month of February had they then been in existence.
The Poultry Development Tract consists of what was formerly the Toms River Chemical Company tract, of nearly 200 acres, and with a mile frontage on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and with almost as much frontage on the Dover road; also the Mayo tract, running on the opposite side of the Dover road to Jake's branch, and extending to within a few hundred feet of the Holman cranberry bogs; and the Crowell, or gravel pit tract, right across the way from the P.R.R. Depot. It is proposed that the first farms will be built on the Chemical Co. tract, on the north side of the Dover road and on the northwest slope of the hill. Farms will then be built on both sides of the Dover road, facing one another. A.S. Tilton is laying out the tract in ten-acre plots.
The men who are backing this enterprise, with the hope of increasing the importance of Toms River as a poultry center, are: Charles N. Warner, Frank W. Sutton, Jr., Jesse P. Evernham, Samuel Kaufman, David C. Brewer, William H. Fischer, Edward Crabbe, Martin Schwarz, Daniel S. Priest, J.N. Mathews, David A. Veeder.

HOUSES AT SEASIDE PARK RIFLED BY YOUNG BANDITS
Three young men are being held in Philadelphia to await extradition to Toms River, on the charge of burglary at Seaside Park. From confessions that some of them have made, they drove to and from Seaside Park for the week ends in stolen cars, while there put up in houses that they afterward rifled, and had a gay time generally at other folks' expense. It was through Chief Souder, of the Philadelphia detective force, that they were caught.
The three men are Howard Morgan, alias Peter Duffy, who has been stopping at Seaside Park off and on all winter, and who was arrested last December, on the charge of blackjacking and robbing Shoemaker Henry Jones, at that place, but who succeeded in convincing the authorities that they had made a mistake in arresting him; Joseph Pelasco, alias John Mehan, alias John Dubac, and a lad, known as William F. Townsend or Thomas Townsend. The homes known to have been robbed are those of Judge Frank T. Lloyd, George G. Parry and Mr. Baker. It is believed that investigation will show that others have been ransacked.
Last Monday Frank Sprague, Marshal of Seaside Park Borough, received word from Captain Souder that there were some young men under arrest in the city that he ought to be interested in. With Aaron Wilbert, Borough Clerk, Sprague went to Philadelphia and found these lads. They admitted stealing a Cadillac and afterward a Peerless sedan, and driving to Seaside Park, and taking back loot from the houses they robbed. They also robbed the Lexington Garage, as was reported recently in The Courier.
On their last trip Captain Souder put a stool pigeon on them in the shape of a mechanic, when they broke their car, the mechanic coming down to repair it, and thus Souder got the inside of the story. The Philadelphia police have a long list of articles taken from these young men, and so far unidentified, besides these articles that are known to have come from three houses named. In one house they left a saucy note, saying they had used the beds, etc., and hoping that the next time they would find something worth stealing.
A lot of plunder was found hidden in one of these houses when the officers examined them. The county officials are also busy, and Lieutenant McDonald visited Philadelphia Wednesday for the Sheriff's office. When here they put their car in Parry's garage.

RADIO WAVES FROM THE TOMS RIVER ETHER
Beginning with this issue a space will be devoted to radio news items of interest to the readers of The Courier.
Commander Weyerbacher has installed a radio-telephone receiving set in his home on the Atlantic City Boulevard. Welcome to our radio midst, Commander.
Bartolette Havens (2AWJ) is contemplating increasing his C.W. Set so he will be able to talk and broadcast music.
Burton Hall (2BGB), one of Toms River's old amateurs at the game, has recently sold his set. Burton has had very good results with his apparatus, regularly receiving concerts from stations up to four hundred miles away.
Toms River is wide-awake and up-to-date, as evidenced by a number of persons asking for radio books of Miss Chambers in the Public Library.
Mr. Finck has ordered a complete radio receiving set to be installed in the Toms River School.
Hurrah! Fred Milford has his aerial up. Atta boy.
We understand that Henry Forcanser, of Pershing, is installing a radio receiving set.
It will interest radio followers to know that at 8:30 P.M. Saturday evening, the opera “Martha” by Flotow, will be given in its entirety by the Bijou Opera Co. and broadcasted from the Westinghouse Station at Newark.
Will answer questions pertaining to radio if addressed care of Toms River Courier. Please enclose stamped envelope. FRANK M. KENNEDY.
Mayor Senior, of Beachwood, will install a receiving set when he returns for the summer.
Radio manufacturers are working night and day trying to catch up on back orders and meet the enormous demand for apparatus as there is an approximate estimate of over a half a million receiving stations.
A number of tugs in New York harbor are installing radio phones and amplifiers to pick up concerts for the benefit of their crews.
Agent Waite is receiving music from his radio set that can be heard all over the first floor. He is using a portable umbrella aerial.

TO WATCH FOR FOREST FIRES FROM ROOF OF HUGE HANGAR
The Navy Department having given its O.K. To the plan, the Department of Conservation and Development will arrange to have a watch man stationed on the top of the big hangar at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, to keep an eye on the pine woods in every direction, watching for the tell-tale smoke that proclaims a fire in the woods. North Jersey, where there are mountains, has a number of such lookouts. South Jersey has but few.

REAL ESTATE BOOMERS PUT LAKEWOOD TRACTS ON MARKET
Encouraged by the success of the Carasaljo Land Company, in putting the tract between the lakes over last year, there are several more real estate booms in the very edges of Lakewood that are putting fine tracts of land on the market in building lot form. The tract just west of Georgian Court (George J. Gould's estate) and running down to Lake Carasaljo is one of the finest parts of Lakewood. It is now wooded with oak, chiefly. Streets have been cut through, and water mains are being laid in some of them. Two houses have been started near the Gould property on the northeast corner of the tract, not far from the road to Hope Chapel, which is now labeled Fourteenth Street. On the opposite side of Fourteenth Street, north of Georgian Court, another nicely situated and well wooded tract is being put out in building lots, on a community or club plan. Streets have also been cut through this tract. These two locations would give Lakewood room to grow at least fifty per cent, of its present size, if they were built up. Building in Lakewood is keeping all the contractors busy.
The first of these tracts is being promoted by I.B. Thompson of Lakewood, as the Oak Knoll Section; the second is called the Pine Chalet development and is backed by a New York concern.

JAIL STRIKING FISHERMEN AFTER ICE PLANT BURNS
Last Saturday, the fishing crews at the four fisheries, just below Seaside Park, went on strike for higher wages. Monday night, March 20, the ice plant storage house and packing platform of the former Bennett & Wilson Fishery, now owned by Julius L. Erthal, were burnt to the ground, the other three fisheries in that locality, the Seaside Park Fishery, the Seaside Heights Fishery and James R. Hensler Fishery having, it is said, by their owners, a narrow escape. Early next morning the bunk house that striking fishermen had rented and were living in, after quitting their jobs on Saturday, was visited by the Sheriff's posse, and sixteen fishermen brought to the county jail, along with another man, suspected of furnishing them with hooch. Tuesday afternoon a hearing was held by Justice of the Peace Arthur C. King, conducted by Prosecutor Wilfred H. Jayne, and the sixteen fishermen were held in the county jail without bail for grant jury investigation.
The sixteen men are all foreigners, some Swedes, an occasional Russian and Portuguese...
The fire was discovered a little after 9 o'clock on Monday night. The alarm was phoned to Seaside Park, to A.C. Heiring, by the cook at his fishery, who thought it was that fishery which was burning. [Gilbert] Grable [manager of the Erthal Fishery] also lives at Seaside Park, and hurried down with about all the population of the Park and the Heights who went to see the fire. Hensler saw the fire from his home on the river front in Toms River, and hurried over. It was decided among them that the fire must have been set purposely, and the Sheriff's office was called on, and arrests made...
A quantity of liquor was seized and brought to the Court House at the time the arrests were made. City papers have been running lurid accounts of riot and battle, terrorized citizenry and all that. So far nobody around here seems to know anything about riot or fight; as for the fire, if it was incendiary, as believed, it was set in a sneaking manner, and not boldly by rioters.

BARNEGAT NOW A “RESORT”
Thanks to the efforts of Assemblyman Parker, Barnegat is now classed as a “resort” by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and not only Barnegat, but also Manahawkin and West Creek, getting what advantage there is from that classification.
Excursion tickets, good for 17 days, are sold in the cities to resort stations, but to no others; at present return trip fare from Philadelphia is double the single fare... Beginning May 1 excursion tickets will be sold to these towns from Philadelphia [for] the same price that Tuckerton and Beach Haven now have. These return tickets are not sold from resorts to the cities.

WELL-KNOWN LAKEWOOD MAN NABBED IN PHONE BOOTH
Freehold, March 14.—Hearing the burglar alarm on the New York Telephone Company booth in the Pennsylvania Station ring about 11:30 yesterday morning as he was writing a report on the police blotter in the municipal building, adjoining the station, Officer Edwin C. Sloat captured Walter Holman, 37 years, of Lakewood, in the booth apparently endeavoring to repair the lock on the door in the money receptacle. In Holman's overcoat pockets was found a screw driver and $50.56 [$853 in 2022 dollars], all in nickels, dimes and quarter dollars. Holman was arraigned before Recorder McDermott and held in $3000 bail [$50,663 in 2022 dollars] for grand jury action. In default of bail bonds he was committed to the county jail.
Holman comes from a family that has been prominent in Ocean County for several generations. He is a native of Whitesville, and formerly kept a garage at Lakewood. There have been many stories afloat about him since the arrest last Monday.
It is alleged that this particular booth, as well as similar ones, had been robbed several times, and a trap was set, the booth being wired with an electric burglar alarm. Holman is married and has a family of his own. 

HERRING, PERCH, FLOUNDERS
Island Heights fishermen report big catches of perch and herring in their barrels Monday of this week, and other large catches have been made. J. Ed Johnson says he had the first dozen herring caught. Winter flounders are caught up the bay as far as the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, where a barrel of them were caught in one day this week. This is unusual for them to come so far up the bay in large numbers.

FOREST FIRE TOWERS TO OVERLOOK SOUTH JERSEY
Watch towers to overlook the South Jersey woods have been arranged for by the Department of Conservation and Development, out of an addition to its appropriations, furnished by the recent legislature. Senator Hagaman, being on the Appropriation Committee, and knowing the danger and the losses from forest fires, was able to help get this needed money. In addition to the ten-foot tower that will be put on Lakehurst hangar, there will be a number of steel towers erected on hills in the South Jersey woods, each with its telephone by which to call up Fire Wardens.

C.A. BRANT ADDS MANASQUAN TO STRING OF LUMBER YARDS
Clifford A. Brant, of Toms River, has added another lumber yard to his string, the newest addition being at Manasquan. Starting with the A.A. Brant Lumber Yard, which Mr. Brant assumed the management of at Toms River, a few years ago, after the death of his grandfather, Amos A. Brant, the Manasquan plant will make a string of six plants, three in Ocean County and three in Monmouth, located at Toms River, Lakehurst, Lakewood, Freehold, Farmingdale and Manasquan. The Toms River and Lakewood yards are managed by William C. Nolte, with offices at Toms River. The other yards are managed by C.A. Brant, with the main office in Lakewood.
The late A.A. Brant established the Toms River business in 1870. The yard at Lakewood was opened in 1918, that at Farmingdale in 1920, and the business of A. Brewer, at Freehold, was bought in 1921. The yard at Manasquan will be located along the Freehold branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad and will extend from Broad St. to Osborne Ave. Construction of an office building will begin in the near future and the yard stocked within the next month. The office will be at the Broad Street end of the lot.

CROSS-STATE ROAD FROM BARNEGAT NOW SEEMS SURE
After a ten-year fight it looks now as if Barnegat was (before a great while) to get its cross-state road through the pines to Burlington County, via Buddtown [today: Route 72]. The Board of Freeholders have been informed by the State Highway Department that Burlington County has at last taken over the west end of the Barnegat-Buddtown Road as a county road. About eight years ago, when Senator David G. Conrad was on the Board of Freeholders, the county built six miles of the Ocean County end of this road, directly west from Barnegat. This year, on the assurance that Burlington County is contemplating action, the Freeholders are advertising for another two-mile section, the bids to come in April 4. Burlington County now has its improved road as far as “The Four Mile,” and the Pines district is clamoring for an extension.

TUCKERTON GIRL GIVES UP FARM FOR MARRIED LIFE
Miss Minnie Mullen, who, for some time past, had managed the George Mott farm, at Tuckerton, carrying on a dairy and running a milk route in Tuckerton Borough, has given up the farm for duties of married life. Last week, after Rev. Daniel Johnson, of the Tuckerton M.E. Church, had gone to Atlantic City to Conference, the girl farmer decided to marry her suitor, George A. Dawson, of Akron, Ohio. So the couple followed Mr. Johnson to Atlantic City, where they were married. Mrs. Dawson is reported as saying that she is through with the farm.

CRIMINAL COURT MATTERS
Judge Jeffrey will hear criminal cases on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, March 22-23.
Howard Stillwell, William W. Walker and George Fleckstein, employees of Mike Cella, accused of stealing from Cella Market, and John Martin, of the Ocean Avenue Inn, accused of receiving stolen goods, will be tried on Thursday.
Other cases set for next week are the charges of receiving stolen goods against Edward Huss, of Lakewood, who is alleged to have had parts from a stolen flivver; an indictment against Fisher Blesky, of Lakewood, alleged to have rented a Ford from Samuel Grover, of that town, and failed to return it, the car having been found in the woods, stripped of all valuables; Louis Hyman, Lakewood, indicted for assault; Curtis and Marvin Newman, of Berkeley Township, indicted for stealing cranberries; Lester Cranmer, of Cookstown, charged with having stolen a deer, the kill of another hunter; Willard O. Stout, of Lanoka, indicted for deserting his wife and family...

BIG DROP IN EGG PRICES
The past week has seen a big drop in the price of eggs. Local stores have been taking in eggs at 21 cents a dozen [$3.55 in 2022 dollars] and selling them at 24 cents [$4.05 in 2022 dollars], the lowest price since “before the war.” The Poultry Producers' Association has been getting from 33 to 36 cents a dozen [$5.40 to $6.08 in 2022 dollars]. Carton packed eggs for special trade have brought 45 cents a dozen [$7.60 in 2022 dollars].
The general belief is that the cause of the drop was that the advent of spring caught the big egg speculators with storage houses still loaded with last summer's eggs. More eggs were put in cold storage than usual last summer. The winter was fairly open, and egg production not only in commercial plants, but also on the farms of the Middle West, was greater than had been looked for. The speculators held on all winter, thinking that after the break of early January they might get prices up again, but at last had to unload. Last December eggs were as high as $1.05 a dozen [$17.73 in 2022 dollars].

SCHOOL TEACHER WANTED
The Borough of Ocean Gate wants a school teacher beginning April 1 for the balance of the school year, ending in June. One room school, first to eighth grades to be taught. Board can be had at reasonable rates near school house. Good salary. Address Wm. H. Newlin, District Clerk, Ocean Gate, N.J.—Adv.

FISH AND GAME
Well, the gunning is all over, fox-hunting is a thing of the past, and the legislature has adjourned, so that the hunter can only think things over. The only excuse he can have now for getting his gun out is to oil or clean it, unless he joins one of the numerous clay bird clubs.
Capt. Ben Asay says that the geese in the upper bay every night at dusk start off in a westerly direction up Toms River. He thinks they go to the cranberry bogs near Lakehurst, probably to the Stillman bogs on Sunken Branch, after fresh water and gravel. In the morning they come back. They have been trading back and forth this way for some time.

PERSONAL MENTION WITH LOCAL FLAVOR
Thomas R. Wilkinson, of Toms River and Trenton, makes the assertion that the radio craze is only in its infancy. Most of us will agree with that, but Tom has a reason for it, not just a hunch, like the rest of us. He says that the one thing which has kept back the radio bug from spreading over the face of this fair land, like a boll weevil through a cotton patch, has been the lack of suitable battery. Dry cells have been used heretofore, and have not been satisfactory because they soon played out and were costly. Mr. Wilkinson says that a storage battery has now been invented to operate radio outfits that will mark a distinct advance in the amateur radio work.
A son was born recently to Mr. and Mrs. Wallis Jaquith of East Orange, and has been named John Sleator Jaquith, after his maternal grandfather, John C. Sleator, of Merchantville, who is a frequent visitor at Toms River and Seaside Park. Mr. Sleator is now treasurer and was formerly commodore of the Island Beach Yacht Club, and this is the first grandchild belonging to any member of this club. Accordingly it has been awarded a silver loving cup, which was offered by Commodore Charles J. Maxwell to the first grandchild born to a member of the club. The cup is of sterling silver, and is inscribed: “Boys' race, won by John Sleator Jaquith, March, 1922.” The club members have also sent the little fellow each a “birthday” gift.

PERSONAL
Mrs. A.A. Brant, one of the best-known residents of Toms River, celebrates her 93d birthday this week at the Brooklyn home of her son, Henry L. Brant, where she is spending the winter. Mrs. Brant keeps her faculties and is bright and keen. She comes of an old Colonial family in Rhode Island—but has made Toms River her home since about 1870. She is a Daughter of the Revolution, one of her ancestors having been a major in Washington's army.
Mrs. Richard J. Benson and Mrs. Barbara King, of Weehawkin, N.J., are spending a few days at the Marion Inn this week. Mrs. Benson is a summer resident of Beachwood, owning a bungalow in that resort.
Capt. and Mrs. Clarence Birdsall arrived home on Friday evening, after a trip to Cuba. They spent some time at Miami, Fla., on their way home.
Miss Harriet Widmaier, of Brooklyn, spent the week end with her sister, Mrs. Paul Grover.
William Herflicker is home from Trenton, where he has been employed for several years, and is now bookkeeper at the American Supply Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schofield, of Philadelphia, spent the week end at the Marion Inn, while looking for a summer home at Island Heights or Seaside Park for the coming season.
Dave Marion spent the week end at his home here, dividing his time between his farm and the Marion Inn.
Steelman Mathis, of Philadelphia, spent the week end with his parents, Capt. and Mrs. Thomas Mathis.
Mrs. Edward Crabbe arrived home this week after an absence of almost two months, having spent February in Bermuda, and March with her daughter, Mrs. Starr Ballou, of Concord, N.H.

RECENT WEDDINGS
Crowell—Cranmer
Trenton, March 18.— Miss Amelia S. Cranmer, of Trenton, daughter of Keeper Clarence Cranmer, of Barnegat Lighthouse, Barnegat City, and his late Edith Cranmer, was married Tuesday, March 14, to Mr. Charles Morton Crowell, of Hammonton... The bride is well known in Toms River, where she was graduated from the high school, also in Barnegat and other shore towns. She also is a graduate of the Rider College, Trenton.

RECENT DEATHS
Mrs. Ellen Lewis
Forked River, March 22.— The hand of time has thus removed from our midst another precious landmark in the person of Mrs. Ellen Lewis from the home of her son, Amos Lewis, Forked River, March 15, 1922. When Mrs. Lewis was born, July 6, 1825, the Hon. J.Q. Adams, our sixth president, was just taking his chair; the Erie Canal had just been opened for commerce of the West, and the first line of railroad in America had just been completed. What a span of life she has covered. Her sweet, useful life, presents a rare standard that our young women will do well to follow. Her memory will always recall a rich fragrance to bless the lives of those who knew her best. Among the many friends and loved ones who gathered to pay their last tribute to her mortal remains weer Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Lewis and Mrs. Sylvia Heisler of Moorestown, N.J.

BARNEGAT
According to the long series of rains the last few weeks we will come to the conclusion that the Rainmaker of Lakewood is bound to convince us he can do it, but we would humbly ask him to reserve a part of it for some of those July and August days we usually get when life is miserable by heat and dust.
The bids were awarded last week for the electric light system for our town. Emmor Mick furnishes the poles, John Lewis the wiring, Howard Gaskill the engine part of it. We will hail its coming with pleasure as our town has resembled a graveyard with a light here and there like the moon shining on tombstones. Nothing puts a town on the map more than a good lighting system, water, fire company and schools. Now we've got 'em all, let's call the outside people's attention to it.

BAYVILLE
What was formerly known as the Harrison House, owned by the late Benjamin F. Butler, burnt to the ground about 7 A.M. Monday. The fire seemed to start from the roof, presumably from the chimney. The house was occupied by Lester Newman. An alarm was sent to Toms River and the firemen came down from there, but it was too late to do much, even if there had been water to fight fire with. The old part of the house was the old Anderson family homestead.
A.S. Tilton is more than busy with his surveying, having so much to do that he is unable to catch up. He is now laying out the Toms River Poultry Development Association's poultry farms at Toms River.
Our baymen need a good road to the bay, a big sign on the Main Shore road, telling auto parties about it, and a lunch room or restaurant at the dock if they want their share of the fishing parties that formerly came to Barnegat Pier, but now travel the main road by auto. Why not get busy? Why let all the business go somewhere else?

BEACH HAVEN
Mrs. E. A. Dease has opened her boarding house, “The St. Rita.” This season's guests will find several worthy improvements since last summer, as Mrs. Dease has added a garage, with chauffeur's quarters, concrete driveways and a sun parlor to her comfortable hostelry.
R.F. Engle has contracted with a Philadelphia firm to have The Engleside wired for electricity. The gang came down Monday and began work, and are making their headquarters at The St. Rita. Every room will be lighted with this modern and convenient light and other electrical conveniences added to the house.
William Potter, Jr., has received announcement of his appointment as engineer on the buoy tender, “Pine.”
Contractor Cranmer has the contract for the cottage now going up for Dr. Sharpless, at the corner of Norwood and Beach avenues. This makes four new cottages now under construction in that section of the town.
Elmer King has the old ice plant building on South Street, completely razed. It is rumored he will build a bungalow there to rent. It is easily seen that there is a need for more houses in this town to rent to workmen as it is hard to find a vacant house at a reasonable rental. But the prevalent rate of taxes are discouraging to builders.
Such progress has been made at installing the new draw in the P.R.R. Bridge at the Bonnet that the new parts are now in place and it is expected that the regular traffic will be resumed on March 25.
The first train to come over the new drawbridge arrived Saturday afternoon. We hope the regular schedule will soon be resumed. The first freight train came in on Monday afternoon.
The lighthouse tender Pine was docked at the wharf for the past few days.

BEACHWOOD
The second annual Beachwood Borough Day dinner, which was held on Tuesday, March 7, at Hotel Astor, New York City, was pronounced a greater success than the previous one held at the Robert Treat, in Newark, in 1921. O. Frederick Rost, president of the Property Owners' Association, under whose auspices the dinner was given, acted as toastmaster. Among the speakers were T.E. Maxfield, of the New York Tribune, who told of the origin of Beachwood, through the combined efforts of the late B.C. Mayo and of the Tribune. Mayor Joseph H. Senior [the first mayor of Beachwood Borough] was the second speaker, who announced that at the end of his term as Commissioner, coming in a few weeks, he would not be a candidate for re-election, and would withdraw from official connection with the borough. This confirmed the statement that had been heard for some weeks, as to his intentions, much to the regret of the Beachwood people assembled at the dinner, who had hoped he might be persuaded to reconsider his determination to withdraw...
The Beachwood Woman's Club held a special meeting at the Sherman Square Hotel, New York, on last Thursday afternoon, Mrs. George Siffert presiding... Mrs. W.H. Talmadge, secretary, read a communication from a member who has spent the winter in Beachwood, deploring the pitiful condition of the cats that are abandoned and left to suffer each fall. It was voted that an effort be made to have Mrs. Jasper Lynch, president of the Ocean County S.P.C.A. Address the members at one of the meetings next summer, with a view to forming a branch of the chapter in Beachwood...
O. Fred Rost, before he sailed for Europe a week ago, bought a fast motor boat, of the hydroplane type, in Baltimore, and has had it shipped to Toms River. It is stated that the new craft is expected to make forty miles an hour. Buck Woolley will put the boat in shape, and Chris Ellenberger will tune up the engine.

CEDAR RUN [section of Manahawkin]
W.S. Cranmer last week sold the following farms: L.B. Holloway, West Creek, to J.H. Batcher, New York; Edith Fafflock, Barnegat, to Orest Caselli, New York; Nina Taylor, Forked River, to Joseph Weiss, Brooklyn; Peter Glenn, Barnegat, to W.S. McKinley, Pleasantville, N.Y.; George W. Kenfield, Forked River, to John Fabian, Jersey City; John Cranmer, Cedar Run, to Joseph Levy, Dover, N.J.
G.C. Giberson is very busy with his mill.
Properties in Cedar Run are being repaired and brightened up and look better than in years, all bespeaking a brilliant future and maintaining its record as being the “Hub” of the “Hub” of the county.
Fred Cranmer, Coast Guard, was home several days this week. Always glad to see his smiling face.
Our town was stirred with excitement one day last week when the tragical news was officially announced that a famous mule belonging to one of our important citizens was lost. A search was instituted and his “White Honor” was discovered on the automobile bridge, where he had evidently gone for enjoyment of the good, clear crisp salt air that our real estate dealer dotes on. “Tony,” however, had a hair-raising tale to tell that the mule attacked him on the bridge while on his truck, and momentarily expected to be tossed or kicked into the bay, but fortunately escaped. Her name should be Maud. A liberal award will be given to anyone hereafter finding Maud astray.

FORKED RIVER
Watson Penn had a Lakewood party out flounder fishing on both Saturday and Sunday. Wats reports a catch of 200 Saturday and 250 on Sunday—whether that many flounders or that many pounds we are not sure, which.
Capt. Joe Smires will rebuild a large boat for Joshua Shreve, of Barnegat, the craft having been damaged badly.
Both tom cod and herring have been caught in the bay by our fishermen.

ISLAND HEIGHTS
The old stork is not dead yet. He was seen hovering over Windsor Park last week, and left a twelve-pound boy at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Wheelen. The young man is named Charles Francis.
The library is well patronized these days. There are now 91 who take out books, and there were 242 books in circulation during February. Besides fiction, the library is accumulating historical and reference books.

LAKEHURST
Barney Bradley has bought the Ralph H. Wilbur properties on Union Avenue, formerly occupied by Harry Excel, has removed the buildings and is excavating for a larger building on the site.

LANOKA
Capt. M.V. Bunnell, one of our old baymen, always has a joke for every one when he meets them. It is quite interesting to sit and listen to some of his stories on a rainy day, and he is always sure to chase away the blues. Captain still follows oystering down the river, just adding a few more bushels to the thousands he has already caught. He is in good health, works every day and tells some good jokes as he goes along.

LAVALLETTE
Frank Faulkenburg had the mishap to run off the road at Ortley, last week, when his car turned turtle and he was pinned under the car for over three hours before he was found. He was hurt quite badly.
We will soon have our boardwalk on the beach front and public dock on the bay ready for the summer.

MONEY ISLAND
Things are beginning to look pleasant around here now and visitors are expected to arrive every clear week end until the final arrival of the summer colony.
Visitors to this place are requested by the constable to use a little more care in throwing away burning matches, lighted cigarettes, or cigar stumps. During the past week at least two fires were caused by such carelessness, and might have been disastrous, had not the constable and one or two others been within call.

OCEAN GATE
Charles Guttentagg [founder of the Ocean Gate resort that eventually became a borough] and Mrs. Chas. Harmon, of Philadelphia, were Tuesday visitors here.
H.D. Black left on Thursday for Philadelphia, to sign up the contract for the new club house of the Ocean Gate A.A. [Athletic Association].
The Toms River Ford Agency, it is reported, have sold a new tractor to John Madden, one to Chris Angerer and a new Ford tractor to the borough.
It is reported D.H. Black will have two trucks on the job this season to give better service in the ice business.
The owners of the Ocean Gate Inn, formerly owned by William Branson are here this week giving the place a new spring cost of paint.
It is expected the new train from New York to Toms River, which starts running next Sunday, will bring quite a lot of people down for the day.
Charles Gutentagg, of Philadelphia, was a Tuesday visitor here, looking over his new home, which is under construction on Naragansett Avenue.

PINE BEACH
Those who were in this place the summer that Willard Wilson, proprietor of the Remington Hotel, New York City, was managing the Pine Beach Inn may recall the dashing “Lord Gray.” He drove a big green racing car, ardently courted Mr. Wilson's daughter, Marjorie, and in the fall eloped with her. He posed as a British army officer, and while in New York and Newport, previous to his arrival in Pine Beach, was welcomed into some of the homes of the “400.” Society girls lionized him as a dancer, especially a tangoer,” and he gave dancing lessons to members of some of the most exclusive families. New comes from England that his love of leisure, together with his capacity for borrowing money which he failed to return, has led to his arrest. Investigation has shown that instead of belonging to the British peerage, he was the son of very humble though honorable parents, his father being a cab driver in Glasgow, and his mother kept a boarding house. Like all those who borrow and fail to pay there comes a day of reckoning. Now he is serving a prison term in England.
The latest rumor about the Inn is that it is to be a boy's preparatory school. The rumors about the Inn would fill a book. Hotelkeepers from the Adirondacks, New York, the Pocanos, Toms River, Florida and many other places have been mentioned as possible buyers. Other rumors have been that it was to be bought as an army or navy hospital; it was to be taken over by the government; it was to be turned into an apartment house; it was to be used as a sanitarium, or it was to be bought for a monastery. It has a beautiful location, is well furnished and well built and there is no reason why it should not be a success if properly handled. When it was open it was a big asset to Pine Beach [it lingered until 1933 when it was purchased to become Admiral Farragut Academy, operating until 1994. The original Inn, used as Farragut Hall, along with many of the other main campus buildings were demolished in the early 2000s. Large single family homes occupy part of the site; a municipal park covers the other, including Farragut Field].
With the exception of the New Jersey Avenue pier, the docks in Pine Beach are in a disgraceful condition. The New Jersey Avenue dock, built by Mr. Abbott, the county engineer, is in just as good condition as when first put up. Of the Inn dock only a few jagged posts, sticking out of the water, remain. The “T” end of the yacht club pier was carried away by the ice, and the rest of it is in a dangerous condition. It will cost quite a sum to fix it in time for the summer. The Henley Avenue dock, as usual, has been wrecked by the ice and cannot be used until repaired. The river is the chief asset to Pine Beach. It is the attraction that has drawn people here to buy and build. To use and enjoy the river it is necessary to have docks in order to get in and out of boats, and to make the swimming more enjoyable. But every year we have the same experience of the docks being carried away, and then temporarily patched up by the middle of the summer.
Some of the people here who have their own docks, save them by dismantling them in the fall and putting away the timbers. No other place along the river acts in such a stupid and heedless way about the docks. Other resorts along here build their docks properly and then watch them.
Every year Pine Beach, from the river, looks disreputable and shiftless because of the wrecked docks. Many of us watched the building of the New Jersey Avenue pier with great interest, wondering whether it would last. The piles weer put in much more carefully, and justify the money spent.
Mrs. E.P. Smith, who keeps a general store here, has sold out to Mr. and Mrs. Halligan, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Smith has kept store for over ten years and has always been obliging and anxious to please her customers. She will be greatly missed by many who summer here. Mr. Halligan is in business in Philadelphia, and plans to put an addition to the store here and install a large refrigerator. He expects to run a truck down from Philadelphia with supplies for this place. Smoked meats and delicatessen supplies are among the articles he expects to sell this summer.
It has been rumored that we are to lose our station agent, William L. Liming, on April 1, and that he has been granted a furlough of two years by the railroad.
When Pine Beach was first opened we had neither station nor agent here, and our goods, baggage and freight were all dumped off to lie exposed to the weather or to be stolen, or else they were left in the freight cars until we dragged them out, or worst of all, they were carried over to the Heights, and we had to get them back the best we could. We well remember the day word was passed around that we had a station agent and we all appreciated his efforts to get our goods for us with as little trouble as possible. It was customary to walk over to the station, tell Mr. Liming what we were expecting, and then to be attended to courteously and expeditiously. If we wanted information about trips, rates, etc., or had complaints to make about goods damaged in transit, Mr. Liming was there to supply the needed information. He was instrumental in having school in the chapel instead of having Pine Beach children go over in the train to the Heights, hang around in the cold at noon and perhaps have to come home in the late train, while their parents were worried about them.
When he came here first he certainly brought order out of chaos as regards freight and baggage conditions.

SEASIDE HEIGHTS
Paul Denner has a wireless receiving outfit at the Bridge cafe, and is setting the broadcast message nightly. [mid-1922 saw a “radio craze” for the nascent technology, and by year's end over 500 of the first radio stations were established]
Seaside Heights borough school has its playground equipped with swings, see-saws, bars, etc.

SEASIDE PARK
Never in the history of Seaside Park has there been so many houses building in one winter as this year. Borough Clerk Aaron Wilbert is authority for the statement that some thirty-three building permits have been issued since last summer, on which the work has either been completed or at least started, and that enough more have been issued, on which work has not started, to make the total number fifty. He further says that every indication points to it being seventy-five before June 1.
Fire broke out in the freezer of the Seaside Park Fishery, on Monday night, and a call for the fire company was sent in, and although they responded promptly the fire had gotten under such headway they could only save the buildings surrounding it. The crews of the several pounds at the lower end had struck for more wages and as the owners and crews could not agree on the amount asked the latter were discharged. It was thought the fire was started by one of the men. The plant was a total loss.
Hutch Faunce is building forty new boats to add to his fleet of thirty-five that he had to hire out last summer. Hutch expects to have enough to go round next summer. Last year he couldn't supply the demand on busy days.

SILVERTON
Somethings that have been seen and heard this week that are harbingers of spring, wild geese flying north Monday, blackbirds warbling, flies buzzing, ants creeping around, and thunder and lightning on Tuesday, but Wednesday A.M. a flurry of snow and a strong gale of cold wind all day made it seem that winter had not lost its grip much. The first sweet note of the bluebird were heard Thursday A.M., when the sun shone lovely and warm and everything around us was more like gentle spring again.
Bart Clayton has a gang of men at work setting out cranberry vines for another large bog. Cranberries are well worth cultivating; the prices they have brought the last few years, especially this year, when they are retailing in some places at 35 cents per quart [nearly $6 in 2022 dollars].

WEST CREEK
Capt. Herbert Stiles has gone to Philadelphia to pilot the pleasure yacht Sylvia to Beach Haven for Capt. Clarence Parker.
The warm weather is bringing out the wasps, an occasional mosquito, the frogs, baby chicks and garden implements.
Those who have survived the grip [flu] and can navigate at all, are planning for an active campaign in their gardens and on their oyster beds. Oyster seed purchase is the topic among the men now. Captain Meirs, of Hampton, Va., brought a schooner load of three thousand bushels of these bivalves to Capt. Henry Cowperthwaite this week and more will follow soon.
Wadsworth Shinn is the proud possessor of a radio outfit which is capable of receiving air messages as far distant as Detroit, Mich. This lad gives exhibitions of this wonderful invention whenever requested and can give public chronometer time daily. Wadsworth is a young lad and an expert in this work. He is also a member of the Amateur Radio Club.

[Originally penned in this issue by the aged columnist for the Barnegat town news section.]
During the busy season when we see the many railroad trains bearing thousands of pleasure-seekers from distant parts of the country to our beaches, the highways thronged with automobiles, all seeking rest or recreation at the many resorts scattered along the New Jersey coast, our thoughts revert to the time when this coast was but a barren waste of sand dunes, with occasionally a fisherman's shanty or some old settler who enjoyed the peace and quiet afforded by a home on the beach, where he could get the greater part of his living from the ocean and bay. In those days their wants were few, as they were not bothered by autos nor movies. On Manasquan Beach, about five miles above Cranberry Inlet was Chadwick's, commonly called Shadick's, an old-fashioned building, where many fishermen and gunners found every convenience suitable to their wants in that line. At the inlet was the old Ashley House, kept by John Brown, Charles Martin and Warner Kinsley. This also was a noted resort for lovers of aquatic sports. Here gathered people from New York, Philadelphia, and many other places to seek pleasure, come for a rest from the busy cities, and to gather around the old bar-room stove fed with wreck wood, and renew old acquaintances and swap stories of previous visits to these resorts.
At this time Dad Parker was the only person living there except the lighthouse keeper, and now not a vestige remains to mark the spots where the old Ashley House and Dad's house stood. The people are all gone and this generation know of these old places only as they hear the stories related by some of the older people.
The next place was what we today know as the “Club House,” opposite Barnegat. Years ago it was known as “Double Jimmie's,” James James being the man who kept this old resort for the same purpose as the other old boarding houses, as they were called at that day, hotels being hardly known along the shore.
When Long Branch was in its infancy it was known to seafaring men as “The Tavern House.” Capt. Charles Cox succeeded James, then Joseph K. Ridgway, George Vannote, after which for several years it stood alone and deserted until last year J.B. Kinsey bought and moved it to High Point. When these houses were flourishing beach parties were very fashionable during the summer months. There were not so many classes as there are today, and 25 or 30 young people would make up a party, go to Sammy Perrine's, at Harvey Cedars, take a fiddler along with them (they were not called musicians at that time), stay several days, have a good time, pay the bill and come home, and nothing thought of it.
That wouldn't do today. As we ride along the shore roads today we see numerous signs, telling us that certain hotels are noted for shore dinners, composed of roast beef, chicken and perhaps occasionally a fish. These old beach resorts didn't advertise such dinners but they delivered the goods; one thing, especially, you don't often see at our shore palace hotels, baked or boiled sheepshead. We will state for the benefit of the many readers, that sheepshead is a fish that inhabited our bay several years ago, but today is a thing unheard of. Old-fashioned dinners, table groaning with the best that could be had, cooked by old-fashioned people who knew just how to make everything appetizing. They didn't have one of Mrs. Rorer's cook books nor the pure food laws that govern them.
The sea nymph of that time did not appear with a one-piece bathing suit. They couldn't drive over in a car, take a dip and be home in a few minutes, neither could they slip across the bay in a power boat, very few yachts were in vogue, but a class of old-fashioned craft called “sail boats,” built on the skiff order.
Further down the bay was Sammy Perrine's, at Harvey Cedars; this was afterwards kept by Joel Horner, Warner Kinsey, Charles Martin, Charles Bennett, James Hazelton, Isaac Jennings and Dave White, after which it was rebuilt by Billy Thompson, known as “Duke of Gloucester,” but since being rebuilt proved a failure. Here in olden times was the headquarters for the beach parties as there was a large building just to the south of the old hotel, known as the dance house, with an elevated platform in the south end for the fiddler (now orchestra). The original hotel burned down several years ago, but was rebuilt and the present one is built around the newer one.
This was one of the best resorts for gunning parties along the shore. It was here the first life saving station was built, the crew being volunteers, under the captaincy of Sammy Perrine, there being no paid crews until about 1871.
The next place, further down, was the old “Mansion of Health,” a well-known resort for sportsmen and pleasure-seekers. The came from the cities and West Jersey towns in wagons to Manahawkin, some of them stopping at the “Old Ferry House.” The Old Mansion, as it was commonly called, stood at the south end of Great Swamp, now Surf City. At that time there was quite a big swamp there where ship timber was cut and there were also fields of grain. Today hardly a sign of the swamp remains except a few stumps along the sand hills that have made up the past half century. There were a few families living there years ago whose chief occupation was whaling. We have one of the old harpoons used at that time by Aaron Inman, one of the old residents of that time.
The Old Mansion was abandoned nearly fifty years ago and a few years afterward burned down. Further down, opposite West Creek, was another old-time resort, not so well known as some of the others, but more of a private party place. This was Pehala, an old-fashioned building, like many on the main years ago, with one part two-story and a kitchen and low bed room over that. This has been torn down since the railroad was put on the beach, and another larger and more up-to-date building erected near the old site.
Some years ago an old house stood near what is now known as Ship Bottom. This was owned by Wesley Truex, an old captain of that life saving station. Then down toward what is now Beach Haven was Tommy Jones'. Many years ago people from this side would take cattle over to the beach in the spring and let them run on the wild during the summer.
Beach Haven, one of our modern, up-to-date fashionable resorts, was started about 1874, and was reached by the steamer Barclay Haines, from Edge Cove, Tuckerton, where it connected with the trains. Bonds was another old-time place. Atlantic City, the last word in resorts, truly the world's greatest summer resort, the show place of America. This was started about 1853, on a barren beach, but today the roar of the sea is outdone by the roar of the busy throngs that inhabit the greatest thorofare in the world, “The Boardwalk.” What you can't see down to “Atlantic” you needn't go elsewhere to look for.
Years ago mariners seldom saw a light on the Jersey coast except the friendly lighthouse that guided them past the dangerous shoals, but now from Sandy Hook to Cape May there is hardly a dark spot, just one glitter of electric lights marking the entire coast line. We have mentioned a few of the old-time resorts, but no use saying anything about the present state of our coast as to its pleasure resorts. Jersey is noted for skeeters, justice, barren pine lands, bootleggers, etc., but when you mention summer resorts we've got 'em skinned a mile.

March 1922 Part I
February 17th, 1922
February 10th, 1922
February 3rd, 1922
January 27th, 1922
January 20th, 1922
January 13th, 1922
January 6th, 1922
December 30th, 1921​
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December 16th, 1921
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Welcome back to another era in the Toms River area's past, one century ago this week!

Let your mind wander as you consider life around early March 1922, courtesy the New Jersey Courier weekly newspaper and Ocean County Library archives, and peppered with items of maritime interest (around a 15 minute read).

Builders are planning for a busy spring and summer.
Soon be time to talk baseball, gardens and daylight saving time.
The bottoms drop out of many of our roads every time of thaw.
The bay has closed and opened more times this winter than most of us have kept track of.
A.P. Greims, of Birdville, is busy as a bee these days filling orders for rustic bird houses.
Pound fishermen are getting ready to put in their nets as soon as the weather will allow.
Frogs were heard Thursday night of last week...
P.P. Elkington has prepared plans and specifications for the addition to the Toms River Yacht Club house, and they are in the hands of builders. The bids will be in by March 15.
The cardinal bird is seen once in awhile around Hyers, Union and Walton streets.
Wasps, moths and other insects were brought out by the warm spell last week, only to be sorry for it later.
Sutton & Snyder, the contractors, have bought twenty lots in Montray Park, and figure on building some houses there as a business venture.
Guess folks who failed to fill their ice houses up till this time will use artificial ice this summer.
Reports from Double Trouble say that turkey buzzards and kingfishers have both been seen inside the past week. Up Pleasant Plains way they report having earthworms to the top of ground during the warm spell last week. Caterpillars have waked up and were crawling, in time to be caught by the freeze.
Some maples are blooming.
Boys are playing baseball.
Some bright moonlit nights.
They tell us that this will be a big summer along the shore.
A song sparrow was heard Tuesday morning. He is the jolliest little beggar of them all.
C.W. Pilch, who some years ago built the chicken farm in Berkeley, now managed by Hermon Sonder, is building a house near the Main Shore Road entrance to Pine Beach, and will start another chicken farm there, it is reported.
Just think—next winter we will have hard paved roads on Main and Washington streets both. Can it be possible?
Some of the Florida contingent are coming north.
Fruit growers are fearful of another warm spring like last year, that started the buds too early.

OPPORTUNITY
...Opportunity in Ocean County runs chiefly to palatable produce. Already we have heard him call Eggs, Sweet Potatoes, Cranberries, but he is not through. Go down along the bay shore, and you will hear him voice another shout—Oysters! The oyster may be a little more risky than some land crops, bu twhen you strike it right, you get big returns...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Philadelphia, March 4, 1922
My dear Mr. Fischer:
Enclosed find check to cover my subscription for Courier for 1922. Your interesting and breezy little sheet has become a companion to me, and I hope you live long, longer than myself, to give me the news of the several little towns in and around Barnegat bay. Every Saturday morning in this large city of Philadelphia when I receive the Courier, I go fishing, enter into the politics of Ocean county; and get real close with a number of good folks I know. Success to you and the Courier and hoping to see  you this summer, I am
Sincerely yours,
G. Clifton Guest

POLYHUE YACHT A SENSATION AT N.Y. MOTOR BOAT SHOW
Beachwood, March 6.—According to the New York daily papers the exhibit of J. Howard Perrine, of Barnegat, at the New York Motor Boat Show, was most interesting and successful. The Herald stated that the largest crowds, on the opening night, were observed around the graceful 15-foot sample yacht, representing the fleet of the Polyhue Yacht Club, of Beachwood. To cap the climax, the Herreshoffs, famous builders of America's Cup defenders, purchased the model, saying that they did not see how Mr. Perrine could do it, meaning to build craft of this quality at his price. The fact of the sale was announced in the show and also published in the daily press. Before the close of the exhibition the beautiful orange sail of Commodore Robinson, of the Polyhue Yacht Club, was displayed on the boat and attracted still greater attention. A great many people expressed a desire to go to Beachwood this coming season and see the fleet with the many colored sails.
Mr. Perrine received quite a number of orders for boats and introduced the model to more than a score of yacht clubs. The New London (Conn.) Yacht Club's secretary reported that his club was much interested in the Polyhue's color scheme, and had already made some experiments in dying sails. During the show moving pictures of a race between the Perrine 15-footers were shown and some of the members of the Detroit Yacht Club took the film home for an exhibition there. Many Beachwood people visited the show.
Barnegat, the home of Mr. Perrine, is justly proud of its boat-builder, who, when a boy, built his own boat for his first race, which he won, and this led him to devote his life to the boat-building industry.

MONMOUTH SPORTS BUY BIG AND LITTLE SANDY ISLANDS
J.B. Kinsey, of High Point, has sold the Big and Little Sandy Islands, near Harvey Cedars, to a group of Monmouth County sportsmen, who will use them as gunning points and build a club house on Big Sandy.
The Big and Little Sandy Islands in Barnegat Bay, popular rendezvous for duck and geese hunters, have been purchased by several local men who have organized the Big and Little Sandy Island Gun Club. The islands have an area of about two square miles, and the coves and shallows afford some of the best opportunities for ducking in this section of the country...

LAKEWOOD RAINMAKER WILL SEND RAIN LAST OF MARCH
In order to demonstrate his power to bring down rain when needed, Charles F. Rath, the Lakewood Rainmaker, has offered to give the State of New Jersey a demonstration of his powers. He writes Assemblyman Parker that to convince the Legislature and State Board of Agriculture that he actually did break the drought last summer, and that he has the knowledge how to do it again, he will let them select any date between March 22 and March 30, and he will cause a rain within five days of any date they choose. He says that in March he cannot be sure the rain will not be snow, and for that reason he sets his date as late in the month as possible, to avoid if he can, another snowstorm.
Mr. Rath insists that if he saves the millions invested in crops in the state, he ought to be paid for what it costs him to do it, which is about $4000 for each inch of rainfall [$67,551 in 2022 dollars], though he is willing to make special rates, such as a lump sum of $10,000 [$168,878 in 2022 dollars] for three to four inches of rainfall. He says he takes all the risk, as he does not ask for the money in advance, and if he does not produce the rain, the state pays him nothing.

FALLING HOUSE ON LAKEHURST RANGE KILLS CASSVILLE MAN
While a gang of men were tearing down an observation house or tower at the farther end of the range at the war-time Lakehurst Proving Ground, on Tuesday, February 28, Emery Lane, of Cassville, was caught under the falling timbers, and was crushed to death. The observatory was used by officers to watch the results of exploding shells, and was built of heavy timbers upon puncehons or stilts, which were strongly braced. The braces had been knocked off the stilts and the men were planning to let the house fall against the wind which was sweeping side and saw that the house was swaying the other way. He called to Lane, but before the latter could get out from under the heavy structure crashed down on him. Dr. Frank Brouwer, as Coroner, was sent for, and examined the circumstances surrounding the death, giving a burial permit.
The accident was at the upper end of the range, near Cassville. Lane was about 50 years of age and had lived his life mostly at Cassville, being well known in that section. He married a daughter of Hugh Donald, of that place...

SIGNS OF COMING SPRING
March is here, the sun rises farther north and earlier every morning, and we have other unmistakable signs that Spring is on the way. Silverton reports turkey buzzards; Pleasant Plains has seen angleworms; Lanoka is killing black snakes; kingfishers and turkey buzzards have been at Double Trouble; blue herons have been picked out along the bay; Toms River has had piping frogs and sunning mud turtles, and wasps, flies, moths and caterpillars have been seen most everywhere. But old March will give us some cold days and nights yet. In fact this little paragraph was put in type during a snow storm.

WALKED THIRTY MILES A DAY AND TAUGHT SCHOOL
Down in Grover's store, where they can tell you anything you want to know, from how far it is from Barnegat to Betelgeuse, to who killed Cock Robin, or who struck Billy Paterson, last Saturday afternoon, someone brought up the tale of the man who taught school at Cedar Grove, lived at Cassville, and used to “commute,” part of the time at least, via “Shank's Mare.” Later that evening, down in Fischer's barber shop, Cap'n Ben Asay tried to elaborate a little on the story by saying he had heard it when he was a boy, from the older folks, and they said the old man used to walk home for his dinner also in the middle of the day recess, or nooning. Barzilial P. Irons says that somebody must have been joshing Cap'n Ben when they told him about the old man going home for dinner, but it was the fact that he footed in from Cassville to Cedar Grove, taught school and footed back at night, part of the time, and part of the time boarded at Cedar Grove. His name was Joshua Brown, and Mr. Irons says he was “well schooled” for his day. He also says that he could jog along the road as fast as a horse would want to travel, and he was nicknamed “The Trotting Nag of Goshen.” Ben Pierce says he heard him talked of, and perhaps saw him when he (Pierce) was a small boy. He says that Brown always wore the old-fashioned swallow-tail coat of Revolutionary days, such as Uncle Sam is depicted as wearing, and that he never wore an overcoat, no matter how cold it was. He would clasp his hands across the small of his back, underneath his coat tails, and light out along the road, often singing as he went. Ben says that he used to make up ballads and sing them, and when a newcomer in Goshen (Cassville we call the place these days) stole his wife away from him, he got his revenge by making up a ballad, giving all the weak points in the family of his enemy, and going around singing it for everybody to hear. (Better get Ben to sing it for you.) Messrs. Pierce and Irons agree that Joshua Brown was tall and spare, Irons saying that he was six feet four tall, but that he was powerful wiry, or withy. The round trip from Cassville to Cedar Grove in these days makes thirty miles. Brown probably took the short cut by Ridgway, but the roads were nothing but sand.

CAMP DIX IS TO STAY
The latest reports about the retention of Camp Dix as an active military post are to the effect that the plans recently announced for a change have been suspended. This fresh news came this week when Major General Harry C. Hale took over command of the First Division, his office confirming the riumors that the proposed plans had been reconsidered.
Some time ago it was officially announced from Washington that the First Division would be transferred to Camp Meade and that the movement would be started this month and completed during April. The reports even went so far as to inform the public that if funds were not available for the transfer of the men they would hike it and show that they were willing to assist the military service, without being asked, in the execution of its plans.
Army engineers are said to have reported that this camp is better fitted by location and terrain for a healthy army post than any other war cantonment. Its selection as a permanent training camp has been recommended to the War Department by General Pershing.
General Hale brought the First Division here on its return from duty in Europe. He was transferred to the General Staff and assigned to special duties in Germany. He returned recently from a tour of Europe and was reassigned to command of his old organization.

FISH AND GAME
The only thing the Jersey sportsman can do this time of year is to polish up his guns and fishing tackle, read the proposed game laws, and wait.
Farmers and people who live on the edges of the villages tell of seeing coveys of quail last week during and after the storm, oft times coming in to feed with the farmyard flocks. They say that they find quite a number of birds were left after the shooting season, and this winter has not yet been very hard on them.
Keeper Fred Bailey, of Mantoloking Coast Guard Station, was in Toms River one day last week, and he gave The Courier the viewpoint of the pound fishermen, as he has gathered it from them, on sea fishing. First, Keeper Bailey says that he favors pound net fishing, because otherwise the cost of fish would be prohibitive to the ordinary person. Eliminate the pounds, and depend only on handline catches, as the sportsmen and anglers keep demanding, said Captain Fred, would be to cut the supply of food fish to practically nothing, and then the price of meats and other foods would go up, and the poor man would be hit doubly, losing his fish and having to pay more for the substitute. This is a strong argument in favor of the pound, and cannot be well answered—at least I have never heard it met. It would be much stronger were it not that the combination of fish wholesalers, and the extremely high cost of handling food fish, coupled with the waste in distribution and marketing from spoilage, keep the retail price of fish to such a high figure. Once a system of marketing fish at a reasonable profit to the distributor is found, fish should be a comparatively cheap food, as the catching of fish is not a heavy expense compared with the retail cost of the food.
Keeper Bailey went on to say that there are just as many fish in the seas now as ever. He instanced the large catches of bluefish made at Mantoloking last summer as an argument that there has been no dimunition of bluefish as is so often reported, but that it all depends upon where the fish happen to strike inshore, and whether there are people there to fish for them at the time they are to be had. He said that in his lifetime on the beach he had known no other summer when there were so many blues caught as were caught at Mantoloking from the beach last summer.
His theory as to the poor fishing in Barnegat Bay is that held by the late Charles J. Smith, of Forked River; Dr. William H. Ballou, of New York and Forked River, and others—namely, that the continuous explosions of the motor-boat engines alarm the fish and drive them away from the boats, and thus end the luck of the fishermen. Captain Bailey says that when one boat has laid at a good fishing spot awhile, the fish will gather and begin to bite. Men on another boat, seeing that this party is hauling in fish, will motor over, swing around the first boat, and anchor. Then there will be no fish because they have been scared away by the second boat. If the boats went back to sails and setting poles, and discarded their explosive engines there would be good fishing in Barnegat Bay, once more, pounds or no pounds on the beaches, says Keeper Fred...
Every day one hears the complaints of the folks along shore over the oil nuisance in the sea and on the beaches. Between oil and garbage the big city of New York will lose its own playground, the beaches of New Jersey and Long Island, and will also lose its supply of fresh fish, oysters, clams, etc., if the big city and its commerce-bearing ships do not reform their habits. New Yorkers think they have the right to dump anything in the sea or rivers or bays that border New York City. No one else ought to expect any consideration from New York. As the English say, “It is n't done.” New York never considers any other spot except New York.
The lower end of the Jersey coast has the same oil nuisance from Philadelphia-bound ships that we get from Long Beach north from the New York-bound steamers, throwing over their waste oil. First there ought to be value enough in that oil to pay to keep it till the dock is reached, and it can be put where it can be utilized. Second, there should be an international agreement, subject to a stiff fine penalty against the ship for throwing this stuff into the sea within a hundred miles of any coast...
Swede fishermen along our beaches, who work at the fish pounds in the summer, often go to sea when the fishing season is over, or take up some other job. This winter the James R. Hensler crew, at Seaside Park, have staid at the fishery and have been setting trawls off shore for codfish. Last Sunday they brought in 300 pounds of large cod.

PERSONAL
Congressman T. Frank Appleby has named Orris Shute, of the Class of 1922, Toms River High School, as second alternate for Annapolis Naval Academy. The examination will be held in April. It is a three to 1 shot, as the first two men must fail and Shuts must pass the examination to gain the prize. Shuts is the son of the late Owen Shuts, well known as a baseball player years ago in Toms River. He is himself on the high school baseball and football teams and much interested in all sports.
Arthur G. Rogers, of Asbury Park, son of “Captain” Rogers, who formerly lived on the Rogers farm, Freehold road, and also ran the packet “Josie Rogers” between Toms River and Seaside Park, is to build a three-story steel and concrete storage warehouse at Asbury Park, at Asbury Avenue and Langford Street.
When Mr. and Mrs. Edward Crabbe arrived in New York last Friday from a three weeks' trip to Bermuda, they were greeted with the pleasing news that they had a little granddaughter, in Concord, N.H., just born to Mr. and Mrs. Starr Ballou. Mrs. Crabbe went immediately to Concord. Mr. Crabbe and Miss Georgiana returned to Toms River Friday.

BARNEGAT
The many friends of J. Howard Perrine, the boat builder, who had one of his sail boats on exhibition at the Motor Boat Show in New York, last week, are very much pleased to hear that he has a number of orders to be filled right away. You may travel far and near, but you won't find another boat builder like J.H. Perrine.
J.H. Perrine's exhibit at the boat show in New York was a big success. He sold several of his famous “Barnegat Sneak Boxes” to Herreshoff, the famous boat builder, and has orders enough to keep an extra lot of men busy for some time. He just received an order from Florida. He wil build a large power boat for Capt. Oscar Eayre. With all the work ahead of him his boat shop will be a busy place for some time.

BAY HEAD
The Bay and Yacht Club's new dock, now about completed, is a big advance over the former dock, and it will be much appreciated by the yachting crowd.
Hubert Johnson, who has a machine shop and boat works here, has taken one of his new boats to enter it in the motor-boat show in New York.

BEACH HAVEN
The stormy weather interfered with the progress of the A.A. Thompson Company, who are moving the Bonds Coast Guard Station. Evidently discouraged by the continued stormy weather, the foreman and gang returned to their homes in Red Bank on Friday and did not return except in time to resume work on Tuesday. The station has now been moved most of the distance required down the island and across the road and about two more weeks of good weather will see the job completed.
The stork seems to be making a specialty of girl babies, at least in Beach Haven, as two were left here within the past week, and he is not traveling in circles, either, for these sets of parents live side by side. One baby came to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pharo, the other to Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Dowel. Congratulations all around.
Capt. and Mrs. Jeremiah Sprague returned home last week from a winter's trip with Mrs. Sprague's parents and other relatives at Cullen Castle, Ireland. They report a very pleasant visit with interesting sightseeing trips. They brought back with them two children, a boy and a girl, fourteen and fifteen years, whom they will adopt and raise as American citizens.

BEACHWOOD
Beachwood had a visit one day recently from a deer, that was evidently chased by hounds, and took to the river to escape. The ice was thin, and it broke through a short distance from shore, and exhausted itself in its efforts to return to the land. Beachwood people summoned Warren J.H. Evernham, who, with the aid of some of our folks, went out in a boat and brought the deer to shore. At first it seemed frightened and struggled, but afterward appeared to know that it was being treated kindly, and became quite tame. After several pictures were taken of it, the deer bounded off through the resort into the pine woods.

FORKED RIVER
George Morehouse was Sunday visitor in Whitings, and spent Monday in Toms River. George never misses Sunday school, whether at home or abroad, and attended the session in Whitings, getting a certificate from that school to show his perfect attendance record at the home school. George went to Whitings in the way he likes best, walking. He went via Pasadena, stopping to call on David Webb and other friends, and at Whitings was the guest of James Estlow.
When the days get longer our boatmen begin to talk overhauling their craft.
There is considerable talk here and at Waretown about repealing the present oyster law, and making Barnegat Bay free oyster ground for all tongers again. The baymen have never fully been reconciled to having the bay leased. They wouldn't lease it themselves, and accordingly it is now largely occupied by West Creek and Tuckerton men, who saw the possibilities of Barnegat Bay as a seed producing ground. It would pay the baymen along the shore still to take up the ground that is left, plant it with shells, and sell the seed produced. A good living could be made by most any bayman in that way, some say, and some say he could make a competence, if he wanted to.
The baseball season opened in Forked River on Sunday afternoon last at the north end of the village.

ISLAND HEIGHTS
The stork, after traveling fast all Sunday night, stopped to rest on the roof of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Stanwood's new home, leaving them a fine fat eight-pound boy, the image of his dad. The two “granpops” are doing as well as can be expected. The baby is named Harvey Steele, Jr.
George Ellis is building a double garage on his property, corner of Ocean and Jayne's Avenue.
Charles Grafly, the Philadelphia sculptor, who in his struggling days and before he had arrived at fame, had a studio at this resort, has created the memorial to Gen. George Gordon Meade, of Gettysburg fame, which is to be placed at the head of the Mall, Third Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, in what was formerly the Botanical Gardens, Washington, D.C. Ground will be broken for the pedestal on March 28. The group is allegorical.

LAKEHURST
The boys have been playing baseball these warm days.

LANOKA
Oysters in our creek are fine, fat as butter. Harry Worth went out one day last week and obtained fish bushels and had no trouble in selling them. Anyone who wants fine oysters wants to visit Lanoka.

LAVALLETTE
Charles Hankins, the boat builder, was a visitor to Ship Bottom on Monday.
There is strong talk among the Councilmen of offering $25.00 reward [$422 in 2022 dollars] for the arrest and conviction of any person destroying electric lights or other borough property.
There are lots of wild geese and ducks in the bay. Since the ice is gone, it gives them better feeding grounds.

OCEAN GATE
Oh boy! That was some masquerade dance at the Fire House last Saturday evening. The stormy night kept very few away. The costumes were all fine and the judges had quite a hard job in selecting the masqueraders for the prizes, which were awarded as follows: Best Dressed, Misses Mabel Spencer and Grace Glenn, as school girls; Comic, Misses Martha Barger and Lillian Page, as the Gold Dust Twins, and Mrs. Carl Schwindt as the clown; Original, Mrs. Ed Shane, as the old maid (sorry to say only had one tooth which put her in bad shape); William Pagem as “Old Doc Kill 'Em All;” “The Bum,” Raymond Keisel (and it's a good thing our town marshal did not see him on the streets or probably he would have taken him to the new up-to-date hotel in back of the Court House, at Toms River); Mammy was represented by Mrs. Harry D. Black, and Mrs. Alvin Black received a special prize for her services, at the piano. Numerous other costumes were to be seen. The music was furnished by the Ocean Gate Symphony Orchestra.

PINE BEACH
Howard Hutchinson is building himself a bungalow on Midland Avenue, near his former home.
The Pine Beach Yacht Club gave a card party at Buzby Hall on Wednesday evening.
William Liming is recovering from a severe illness. A clerk from Island Heights has been attending to the Pine Beach [Railroad] Station. Mr. Liming has been in charge of the station here ever since we had an agent here and has done all in his power to assist wherever he could in matters pertaining to the railroad.
It is still rumored that we are to have a new station.

SEASIDE PARK
The Lexington Garage was broken into on Monday night; license tags were taken from one car and oil and gas was also taken. Entrance was made by breaking a window. It is thought the work was done by inexperienced thieves, from the way they went about their work.

TUCKERTON
Tuckerton Borough has signed a contract for electric street lights with the Atlantic City Electric Company, and it is promised the lights will be on April 15. The contract price is $65 a light [$1,097 in 2022 dollars]. The company is now furnishing the “juice” for the radio station four miles below Tuckerton.

Welcome to a special Wooden Boat Wednesday!

All week and weekend the Toms River Seaport Society will be at the Atlantic City Boat Show, March 2nd - 6th, at the Atlantic City Convention Center!

Come down and say hi, buy a ticket for a chance to win a brand-new STAND UP PADDLEBOARD (retail: $950), and enjoy the show!

Official show website: acboatshow.com