(often 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)

​Autumn leaves.
Moon is on the wane.
Wild fowl season is on.
Ten days left in October.
Chrysanthemum time now.
It was a glorious full moon.
Elections two weeks from Tuesday next.
Most of the cranberries are harvested.
Did you see the eclipse Sunday evening?
Sewer coming up Main Street business block.
Republican dinner at the Ocean House.
This is one year when the Kiefer pear is scarce.
One of the dryest summers on record from the middle of May to the middle of October.
Remington & Vosbury are at work drawing a building line for the business part of town.
Take a tramp or a ride through the woods and fields and see the bright colors these autumn days.
Fire Company will have a big mardi gras and costume parade on Hallowe'en, as they have for two years past.
Home grown apples are sold from $1.50 to $2 per basket. While not at all plentiful, apples were of fine size and condition this year, being but few on the ordinary tree.
The library has a nice new lot of books, some on the pay shelf and others on the free shelf. The boys and girls were specially remembered in buying books this time.
Toms River High School went to Point Pleasant on Saturday last and weer beaten at football by the high school there, score 20-0. The boys put up a game play, but were not in it with their opponents.
Toms River Yacht Club will hold a Hallowe'en affair on Friday evening, October 28. The committee is arranging the program is Frank Buchanan, John Hensler and Dr. Loveman, which is a guaranty that something novel will be staged.
The firemen are looking forward to the big Hallowe'en parade.
A big gathering of poultrymen at the court house on Wednesday night.
Sunrise tomorrow, 6:15; sunset, 5:10. 10 hours and 12 minutes of sunlight.
Main street business men are up against it till the street can be cleared.
Yesterday morning for awhile the wind blew a gale out of the west, and it was followed by showers.
Charles R. Applegate is building a house on Thomas Street, in the rear of his Dayton Avenue home.
We must depend on California and Florida for fruit this fall and winter, as few housewives have any canned this summer.
J.P. Evernham last Friday started to excavate the site of the store he will build on Main Street on the Sheriff Frank Aumack front.
James Hurley is rather proud of the fact that he picked two quarts of strawberries last week, and revelled in a strawberry shortcake supper.
M.L. Cranmer had his Chevrolet showroom opened in the Veeder Building, in charge of his son, Adolphus, who reports the sale of [series] 490 Chevrolets to Albert G. Johnson and C. Ellenberger.
Several people of late have captured specimens of that curious insect, the praying mantis, a native of the West Indies. It has been found several times on cranberry bogs. In some respects it resembles the katydid, but in others is very unlike that insect.
Professor Hervey, of the Poultry Department of the State College, at New Brunswick, addressed the Ocean County Poultry Association, at the court house on Wednesday evening upon poultry breeding. This association is having monthly lectures on poultry raising by the best experts of the country. These lectures are attended by hard-headed, practical poultrymen, who come to get the latest discoveries in the poultry game.
Gas and kerosene are both up for the winter.
Pupils of the high school gave a dance at the Ocean House last Saturday evening.
Sugar can now be bought at one-fifth its price two years or so ago. This week local stores advertise five pounds for 27 cents, and not long ago the profiteers were gouging us at 28 cents for a pound [approximately during the First World War].
Farmers mostly cut their stalks early, and are now husking out the corn; sweet potatoes have been dug and pumpkins harvested. There's not much left on the ground or in it. Cranberries are mostly picked.
Samuel Kaufman has bought the Hobbs house property on Hooper avenue from the Hurry estate. There is a large house and a considerable tract of land. He is planning to remodel the Hobbs house into a three-family apartment, make another house out of the barn and perhaps build several bungalows on the Hooper Avenue front. His present idea is to make the rest of the big lot into chicken farm, as there are six or seven acre there.
The frost last week blackened sweet potato vines and on Saturday many people harvested their crop. The potatoes are fine this year.
The Double Trouble Company finished picking their bogs on Monday. They had upwards of 12,000 bushels. Italian scoopers did the work.
The Toms River Yacht Club holds a special meeting tonight.
The sewer contractor blocked off Main street Tuesday, from Washington to Water streets.

YES, HE GOT HIS COW
Last week County Agent E.H. Waite bought from John A. Maguire, of the Bay-lea farm, a young cow that was delivered to Mr. Borgi, the one-legged man, told of in last week's Courier, who was unfortunate enough to lose his cow. Mr. Borgi wishes to thank all who helped so generously. It came as a complete surprise to him, but now that he has had the cow a week he says, “Oh, but you ought to see my babies now that they are getting plenty of milk.”
It seemed as if quite a number wanted a hand in buying this cow. Maguire, the seller, threw off $25 on the price of his cow, selling it for $50. Oscar Hodgkinson, of Cedar Grove, will send over a lot of fodder for the cow. Those who gave money suggested that if there was a balance, it be used for feed for the cow. There is a balance and it will be so used...

HALLOWE'EN PARADE TO BE GIVEN BY FIRE COMPANY
For the third time the Toms River Fire Company is planning a Hallowe'en parade for Monday, October 31, in the evening. As in the past two years, it now looks as if, with favorable weather, all roads would lead to Toms River that night. There will be music, it is expected, by the Boy Scout Band, of Paterson. Lots of red fire will illumine the parade, as Hallowe'en this year comes in the dark of the moon.
The business men of the town have arranged for a score or more of prizes which will be given to the best costumed couple, best group (four or more), best costumed lady, man, boy and girl, under 16 years; best comedy couple, best comedy group (four or more), best comedy lady, man, boy and girl, under 16; most original fancy costume, most original comedy costume, most original comedy costume and most original costumed group. Entries are made with Sid Harris, at his cigar store.
Following the parade will come a dance at the Boy Scout Hall, when three prizes will be given away—$20, $10 and $5 [$306, $153 and $76 in 2021 dollars]. 

PICK TOMS RIVER BOY TO REBUILD WAR-TORN FRANCE
Announcement was made in the New York papers of Monday that Henry C. Irons, of the firm of Todd and Irons, builders of many huge structures in that city, had been asked to come to France by the French Government, and take entire charge of rebuilding the war-swept portion of northeastern France. The New York papers stated that Mr. Irons admitted he had been asked to go to France on this rebuilding work and was considering the matter.
Henry C. Irons, while now living in Plainfield, and doing business in New York, is a Toms River boy. He is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William G. Irons, and a brother to Miss Kate Irons, of Main Street and Seward Avenue. As a lad he worked his way through Princeton college, and studied law in New York city. With another friend he formed the firm Todd and Irons, and in the nineties [1890s] plunged into the real estate game in New York City with nothing but their brains and their nerve as capital. He is now rated a millionaire [$1 million in 1921 makes about $15 million in 2021 dollars, for reference].
Both New York and Philadelphia papers, and, in fact, papers all over the country, take it as a signal honor to this country that France should send over here for the man to boss this big job. They also see a big export trade in building materials as the result of such a choice. And if the country at large is honored, then Toms River surely is, to have one of its boys thus chosen.

JACK FROST HAS COLORED SWAMPS AND UPLAND, TOO
Old Jack Frost the past week got out his paint brushes and colors, and spread color around with a lavish hand. The high lights were put in the swamps, where maple and bilsted [American sweetgum] and sumac are aflame with yellow, orange and red. On the uplands the oaks are turning, and some of them rival the swamp maples for bright red tints. The upland sumac are a wine red, and the sassafras are gold, and orange, tipped with flame red.
Some of the trees will not be so handsome this year as on other occasions. The foliage this summer was nipped by the frosts that came after its unusually early start, and was also hindered by the droughts of June and early July. So that the leaves on many trees are not many nor so perfect as in the average year. The very dry fall also caused the leaves to drop from the trees before they had a chance to color up. But nevertheless he is hard to suit who cannot find color enough in the Jersey woods just now to feast his soul upon.

GAME WARDENS ARE ACTIVE
Game Wardens are active and it hardly pays to take a chance breaking game laws, and then paying a big fine. Warden J.H. Evernham, of Toms River, had six men fined $20 each [$306 in 2021 dollars] the past week for running counter to the laws. Up at Point Pleasant four men were netting striped bass, and it cost them $20 each. They were Harry, Elmer and Stephen Ortley and Harry Letts. Out on Good Luck meadows last Sunday night, J.E. Hannaway, of Long Branch, accompanied by an Italian named Steruko, was shooting at ducks. They were also fined $20 each.

FUND FOR OLD GRAVEYARD
An unnamed correspondent sends the Courier a dollar bill [$15 in 2021 dollars] as the start of a fund for keeping the old Methodist Graveyard, at Washington Street and Hooper Avenue in better shape. The writer says that there are many who have loved ones buried there who might be willing to give a little something each year to keep this “God's Acre” free from weeds and looking nicely. The matter is well worth consideration. The dollar is a start.

PERSONAL
R.J. Bump, of Binghamton, N.Y., owner of the Bump Building, at Main and Washington Streets, has been spending a few days at Silverton gunning for wild fowl. Mr. Bump could see possibilities in Toms River real estate when the residents here could not, and probably would not unload for less than three or four times what he put in property here.
Mrs. George Alsheimer and Mrs. Harold Murphy walked from Toms River to Lakehurst one day this week. They have several longer hikes in prospect.

FISH AND GAME
The wild fowl season opened on Monday morning, with scores of gunners on the points and islands of the bays. Scores more in the upper bay were out after crow chickens, while others haunted the tide ponds and swamp holes on the beaches and meadows for black ducks.
During the week prior to the opening of the gunning season there were large flocks of duck arriving in both upper and lower bay waters. Geese also arrived and are still arriving, with the ducks, in goodly numbers. The crow ducks were at their usual feeding places in Applegate's Cove, Kettle Creek, etc. The other ducks were largely black ducks, which were raised about the bays this summer, widgeon, broadbills and rednecks.
In the lower bay the geese and ducks were well out in the water and very few were killed. Black duck suffered a heavy casualty list, chiefly among this year's birds, it is said. For, while the gunners have a saying, “as wary as a black duck,” still the young birds, that had never been shot at before, and weer used to seeing men around all the time, were ready victims to the gunners.
The crow ducks were mostly got in the good old way of chasing them up into the coves' heads with rowboats, and shooting them when, unable to retreat any further, because driven up to the land, the ducks rose to fly over the boats.
Reports say that for a week or two past there had been a slaughter of black ducks at night, or in the early evening dusk in some places along the upper bay. Game wardens were pretty busy up that way, at any rate.
Game wardens have their eyes on some folks who have been shooting quail since early October. They say they know their men, and may make arrests any time.
Fishing is about over for the season. There were fewer fishing parties out this week and, there are more fish caught any December or January night in Joe Grover's store, at Toms River, or any afternoon in the winter, in Conrad's store, at Barnegat, than all that were landed this week end on the Jersey coast [the writer is joking about the “fish tales” that abound among gathered men in the town general stores mid-winter evenings].
Anglers say that the striped bass are about the inlets seeking fresh water for the winter. Seabass are still found, and also flounders. It is now about time for the winter flounder to come in the inlets, replacing the summer flounders that have been very plentiful since early spring this year.
The winter fish are appearing on the coast, and tomcods, ling and whiting can b e looked for any time. Some fishermen say they have caught tomcod.
Gus Meisselbach, of Newark, has been fishing New Inlet for striped bass and channel bass both, and with his friends has made a number of fine catches, says the Newark Sunday Call. This paper also tells of a visit paid to Forked River last week of a party of ten Prudential Insurance Co. employees, who motored down in two cars, leaving Newark at 3 A.M. They went out with Capt. Adam Hebeler, after first getting breakfast, and caught two big weakfish, some flounders, blackfish, seabass and several baskets of crabs before starting back to Newark.
Baymen say there is much feed for the wild fowl in the bays this fall, and they should fatten up at once after their flight.
When a Central Railroad train reached Elizabethport from the shore one day last week, a cock pheasant was found wedged in the cowcatcher.
The new Bradley Beach fishing club proposes to make itself popular with its members. It announces that it will have as star attraction  a clubhouse on the shore of Barnegat Bay, somewhere close to fishing grounds, and another at New Inlet.
Buck deer have their horns full sized now, though partly in velvet. They will be hard and bony in a short time, with cool weather.
Reports from back in the pines say that there are some folks who are enjoying fresh killed “pork” that once wore horns. Game Warden Charlie Morton, of Mt. Holly, will know all about that “pork” if the killers are not careful. He has a way of learning things that the piners do not like.

RECENT DEATHS
Mrs. John C. Post, Sr.
Mrs. Mary Post, widow of the late John C. Post, Sr., of this place, died suddenly on Monday night, from heart trouble, aged 82 years. She had been in good health and spirits up to within a short time of her death. She leaves two sons, John C. Post and Elbert T. Post; three grandchildren, Walter Davis, and the Misses Hazel and Helen Post also one great granddaughter. Her maiden name was Pendleton. She was a sister to Mrs. Henrietta Thatcher, of Water Street. She came here with her husband and family about thirty years ago. Mr. Post, Sr., was a Grand Army veteran [a Union soldier in the Civil War] and also a veteran New York fireman, and moved here on retiring from the department, buying a small farm on the north side of town. He died some years ago. Mrs. Post was remarkable for her cheery disposition and high spirits, always trying to make other folks happy, and she had a host of friends... Burial at Riverside Cemetery.

BARNEGAT
How blessed we are who live at the seaside where fish, oysters, clams, ducks and other bay foods are right at our door. At least that is what our city friends think; but the city friends need only step out to a market and get these things just when they want them, while we, who live at the edge of the bay are fortunate to be able to get them at any price. Gunning season is here now, and many sportsmen are here also. Some of our baymen complain that private parties are buying all the islands and meadow points where the best shooting is. These islands and points have been here many years, and so have some of our baymen, but they failed to see that the steady march of advancement was steadily encroaching on their privileges. They have enjoyed these bay privileges all these years without molestation, or cost to themselves. If these islands and points are so valuable, why not get together and buy some of them? Then on the other hand, where do they make the most money—out of the sharpshooters, or by gunning for themselves? Many days they cannot get a feather and if they do they cannot sell the same. But when they gun for the stranger they are sure of their pay. So, if they owned the islands where would they be any better off, as the owners usually hire some one to take them out, and very few of them object to others gunning from their meadows when they are not there.
The railroads are waking up to the fact that they must cut rates, especially on freights, as vast amounts of freight carried by truck is making inroads in their profits. Most all roads are dependent on their freight traffic for their main revenue, and with their large expenses, cannot let this trade slip away from them. How this railroad problem will pan out is hard to tell, as the roads say they cannot reduce rates without a cut in wages, and the employees say they cannot live if their wages are cut, and the public cannot live with such high freight rates. So what will be the outcome; we can only wait to see. Railroads are very expensive affairs to operate, taking the first cost and the daily expenses. For instance, suppose we want to go to Waretown, a distance of three miles. We go to the depot, and there is a building that cost several thousand dollars with an agent at a good salary. He will sell us a ticket at 15 cents. You go out and there stands an engine and three cars, the cost of which may be $50,000; then there is an engineer, fireman, conductor and two brakemen to help you on your way. You run over three miles of track that cost several thousand dollars per mile, and at the end of your trip you find another depot for you to get off at. And you may be the only passenger on the train—all for fifteen cents.
The jitney has no depot, no agents, no tracks to keep up, but ask the jitneyman to take you to Waretown for fifteen cents. But the roads get some of it back when they have a circus train or a special that must get there in a certain time—there is no fifteen-cent rate then.

BEACH HAVEN
Mr. and Mrs. Guhle, of Tuckerton, have moved here and are living on Second Street.
Gunners were busy from Monday all this week.
Mr. Dougherty is building a new and large bungalow.
It is stated that during January and February the railroad bridge over the bay from Manahawkin to Long Beach is to be repaired, the draw particularly. Passengers and freight will use the state bridge and travel by autoes while the railroad bridge is closed, the report goes.

BEACHWOOD
Mr. and Mrs. G. Siffert came down for the week end with Mr. R. Swanson and Miss K. Thomas, of New York. [Mrs. Siffert was the heiress of the Thomas English Muffin “fortune,” and a popular old Beachwood story is that she would wash her money and dry it out on the clothesline at their home on the southwest corner of Compass and Harpoon, which still stands today.]
Mr. and Mrs. N.T. Pulsifer have closed their house. [Their house later was donated by Mr. Pulsifer to become what is today the Beachwood Library, still housed in the original bungalow on Beachwood Boulevard.]

CEDAR GROVE
Woodie Applegate has moved from the Cattus farm to the Wm. Miller house on Vaughn avenue. A family from Staten Island has moved in his place.
The people of Cedar Grove are justly proud of their new hall, and wish to express their gratitude to all who in any way helped by giving money or labor. Special thanks are due to Mr. Freeman of Island Heights, Rev. Ira Hicks and Mr. Dave Marion for their liberal contributions.

CEDAR RUN [section of Stafford Township]
All the sportsmen at the Hub went duck shooting on Monday. Gunning stories are now all the go. We are looking, however, for the game.
Jack Peer, who some time ago started to walk around the world, has not been heard from in a long time.
Capt. Samuel B. Conkling, who spent the summer on the beach, is now at his home here, gathering his vegetables and fruit. The rest of the family are expected to return here for the winter in a few days.
One of our busiest men is Robert Hampton, who is making many changes in the W.S. Cranmer store, of which he is now manager.

FORKED RIVER
Capt. Joe Smires has just built a new sneakbox for Jess Miller, of Toms River and started two more for the High Bar Gunning Club.
Wesley Craw sold his motorcycle and is driving a new Ford. He has also built a garage. He is the guard at the gate at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst.
Some of our citizens claim they came across a bear track in the southwest part of Lacey Township.
Outside fishing is good our fishermen say.
Watson Penn caught a barrel of fish with hook and rod line outside last Friday.
Joel Barkalow recently sold his place to George Kenfield, of Rockfield, Mass., and has moved into the house on Bay Avenue, he bought from the heirs of Robert Andrews. He is making a big change, clearing up the underbrush. The Kenfields also moved here last Friday, with cow, chickens, etc.
Capt. F. Brouwer had a party out gunning and got over thirty ducks for the opening day.
John Horner has a new house-boat for his gunning parties.
Gray & Rutter have opened a meat market at Forked River in Al Grant's store.

ISLAND HEIGHTS
Harvey Stanwood's new house is going to have some cellar. We are eagerly looking for Captain Kidd's treasure to turn up.
Ed Dilley motored down from Philadelphia to inspect the work on his cat boat, which is being turned into a sloop.
Charles K. Haddon's new yawl boat is progressing well at Rote's yard.

LAKEHURST
The schoolhouse fence is looking better for the application of several coats of paint.
With one good-sized store and restaurant and two stands at the entrance to the Naval Air Station, it looks like a little Wrightstown there. The entrance to the station is now closed off with a gate, and you must have a pass to get through. Some of the men are being laid off at the station.

LANOKA
The curve at Lanoka, on the C.R.R., running from the bridge to the side track has been raised about three feet. A gang of about fifty men have been working two weeks and will take another week to finish it. Several other places will be raised along the line, which ought to have been done years ago.

LAVALLETTE
Our new school teacher is getting along nicely with the pupils. They all like her and that seems to be half of the success of the teacher in a public school.
Mr. George Jones is going to build a bungalow on his lot on President Avenue and Bay Boulevard.
Some people think they have the right to cart sand off the beach front for grading, etc. There is no sand to spare and no one will be allowed to take any away.
There are many people thinking of building here. It is quite a job to keep track of them. We welcome all who come to buy lots or build on them. It is hard to keep pace with them which all helps to promote the growth of the borough.
The Lakewood & Coast Electric Co. will put in the extension from Reese Avenue to Brown Avenue.
Osborn Bros., of Osbornville, have closed their store for the winter.
The duck gunners had quite a good day's sport on Monday. Percey Johnson and his brother Enis got thirteen ducks; Oliver Osborn and his partner got eleven; and several others got quite a few between them.
We only heard of three wild geese being shot on the first day.

MANAHAWKIN
The public school has been closed during the past week owing to several cases of scarletina.
Conductor James V. Jones, of the Long Beach Railroad, is building himself a bungalow at Beachview section of Manahawkin. William Manlove is doing the work.

PINE BEACH
Several new families are expected to become all-year residents of Pine Beach. Some new houses are to be built this fall and winter.
Recently, when a bungalow was bring moved from one street to another, a young lady was seen sitting on the porch of the house quietly knitting, while one of the movers was perched on the roof.
Victor Dittmann is attending a class in commercial law, and account in the Wharton School of Finance at the University. Jas. Pentoney, his cousin, is taking a course in salesmanship in the same institution.
Mr. Victor Donahue, who is a teacher in West Philadelphia High School for Boys and teaches night school in the same building, was held up recently near his home on his return from night school. Having served in the A.E.F. [American Expeditionary Forces, American soldiers in the first world war] he was not as much afraid of a gun as the robber thought he would be. Mr. Donahue thought it was a joke at first, but when he heard the voice back of him saying, “Hands up,” and turned to look, he saw a man with a black mask on holding a revolver pointed at him. His army experience made him tell the burglar to go to a warmer climate, while he took to his heels and fled, zigzagging as he went. He reached his home safely.

SEASIDE PARK
William Burdge is building a bungalow on Island avenue.
At the pinochle and euchre party held Friday evening at the Manahassett for the benefit of the Board of Trade several prizes were donated. The first prize, a half ton of coal, donated by Frank Hewitt, was won by William Bates. For highest score at pinochle, a ten pound roast of beef, donated by Wm. Gregor, was won by C.W. Mathis. Refreshments were served and dancing followed.
Mrs. H.S. Lippencott is enlarging her store.

SILVERTON
Game Warden Evernham was on the job early last Sunday A.M., but nothing doing. Our sportsmen would not break the Sabbath, so the warden had things all to himself. Look out you boys, though, for the new deputy warden who lives here.
Those who watched the moon rise eclipsed last Sunday evening thought it worth looking at.
Birds of various kinds were heard singing like in the springtime last week on those fine days we had. The sweet notes of the blackbirds, that came in large flocks particularly attracted attention. Must have been their farewell visits, for they haven't been heard since.
Ill luck came to Watson Irons last Tuesday, when he fell twelve feet from his barn roof while putting on shingles. Dr. E.C. Disbrow was called and he found him in bad enough shape, but could have been worse. No bones broken, but he was sent to bed. We all hope to see him around and O.K. very soon.
County Agent Waite spent Tuesday afternoon with Hamilton Tilton and his sweet potato patch, looking for prize sweet potatoes. Ham's sweet potatoes were a success this year.

TUCKERTON
Tuckerton Borough Council will take electric lights from the Atlantic City company, which will run wires to Tuckerton, having also furnished the current for the wireless plant below Tuckerton.
Reuben A. Gerber has opened a new dry goods store at Tuckerton. Nathan Gerber's Sons have remodeled the original Gerber store and are running it as a department store.

WEST CREEK
Our cranberry growers are shipping their berries at very good prices to city markets. Owing to the absence of frost until most of the harvests were gathered the berries are in abundance and excellent condition.

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Welcome to another Wooden Boat Wednesday!
 
Enjoy this 1921 piece by Seaside Park Yacht Club member, William Shewell Ellis, a known photographer and sailor who first had this published in the August 1921 issue of Yachting. It was later reproduced in full by the New Jersey Courier, Toms River's weekly newspaper.

​There is a stretch of inland waterway on the New Jersey coast, starting from Bay Head and extending through the most varied and picturesque sailing waters over a distance of 100 miles to Cape May, that is but little known to the average cruising yachtsmen, unless he is lucky enough to have summered down those waters.

An indescribable charm pervades these waterways. While summer colonies are becoming more and more numerous, yet the larger part of this stretch of beach that separates the bay from the ocean is as wild and rugged as in the days of Captain Kidd. It is an ideal cruising ground for a boat, either power or sail, drawing not over four feet. The government has completed a well-marked channel of six feet depth and is dredging a canal through from Bay Head to Point Pleasant, which will give an outlet into the Manasquan River and open Manasquan Inlet for the use of pleasure and fishing boats. At the present time, boats can get into the bay from the ocean through Barnegat Inlet.

In their delightful story called Cruises, Robert and George Barrie pay a just tribute to these waters: “If the Englishman had Barnegat,” they say, “he would have painted it, and written books about it, and gloated over it as he has the Norfolk Broads. But in our great wealth of cruising grounds, it is almost entirely overlooked.”

As a small boy, I was initiated by my father into this greatest of “Fraternal Orders,” cruising, my first cruise being in a sneak-box which leaked so badly that I woke in the night soaked to the skin—but little did that matter out in that great bay with the sky full of stars, where I could dream dreams. I could almost see those ships of Captain Kidd coming over the bar at Barnegat and sailing up old Toms River. Even to this day, it is held that some of Kidd's loot is buried on Money Island.

If one starts his crews at Bay Head, at the north end of Barnegat Bay, he will find good stores to supply his needs and excellent water to fill his tanks, while at the Bay Head Yacht Club every courtesy will be extended to him. This is the logical place to start from if coming from the northward.

My cruising on the bay is done in the Savola, a 40-foot yawl with auxiliary engine, drawing four feet of water. This is the easiest type of one-man boat, on my crew usually consisting of “Snooks,” who is not only a good Frau but a splendid cook, and “Babs,” who has had her first year at college. With a small sailing dory which we tow when under way, we explore the narrow winding creeks and coves which make the shores of the bay so attractive.

A pleasant day can be spent sailing up the Metedeconk River. As the river is quite shallow, it is necessary to navigate most of the way in the dory. Well-kept farms run down to the river banks. Milk and fresh vegetables are always available at most moderate prices. We were caught there without food one holiday when stores were closed. I found a farmer enjoying a siesta in a hammock, and when he heard our plight, he obligingly supplied us out of his truck garden and hen house.

Following the coast channel down through the drawbridge at Mantoloking, the bay gradually widens into a fine expanse of sailing water. Summer colonies are spread along the narrow stretch of beach—Chadwicks, Lavallette, Ortley and Seaside Park. Before the War of 1812, Old Cranberry Inlet penetrated this beach somewhere between Seaside Park and Ortley. A great deal of shipping then came into the inlet and sailed up to the town of Toms River, using the northern course around Island Heights, which is now almost entirely dry. This inlet also made a good anchorage and afforded a safe harbor for American privateers on the lookout for British ships during the Revolution. In one of the old histories of the Jersey coast we find that when cranberry inlet closed, Michael Ortley attempted to cut a new inlet near the head of Barnegat Bay. This work had no sooner been completed than a storm came and closed it again.

After leaving Mantoloking the channel lies toward the west shore. The green meadow land runs back to the pine woods; Kettle Creek and Mosquito Cove are quite wild. During the autumn and winter, this is a favorite feeding ground for black duck, and there is splendid crabbing in the summer.

Passing through a jack-knife drawbridge one comes to the mouth of Toms River. With five to eight feet of water you can sail from shore to shore, avoiding Long Point, a narrow sandbar jutting out just before you come into view of Island Heights. This is an ideal harbor and is a delightful place to spend as much time as one can spare. The Island Heights Yacht Club always has a hearty welcome and there are good stores in the village. If you are fortunate enough to be there on race day, you will also see some good racing.

Sailing on up through the drawbridge, there is plenty of water into what is called the “town dock” of Toms River, one of the most delightful old towns in this part of the country. In the days before the inlet at Berkeley was closed, large sailing craft came into this port with shipments of coal and other merchandise. This is what is known as the Jersey Health Belt, and many of the houses are occupied both winter and summer.

Following the channel on the west shore, you pass through Barnegat drawbridge, keeping well to the main shore. If you want a quiet harbor for lunch or a swim, run into Cedar Creek. It is an easy sail from here to Barnegat Inlet, where a harbor for the night can be made in back of Sedge Island. One may anchor a few hundred yards from the sand dunes and old gnarled cedars, which separate the bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and can hear the break of the surf and see faithful old Barnegat Light flashing its rays many miles out to sea. Before it is too dark, go over on the sand flats in hip boots, or,better still, no boots at all, dig a pailful of soft clams, and steam them for supper with fried fish and bacon. The next day, take an early mornings swim, breakfast, and then go for a few hours fishing in the Inlet—weakfish, bluefish and bass are abundant here in season and you will usually get good sport.

The Coast Guards here are always glad to see you, and a finer type of men it is hard to find. In one way they are different from most men one meets—for they are happy when you are in trouble, for then they can be of service to you. Just get caught in the Inlet in a heavy sea, and have your dory come aboard over your stern on a following wave and smash your jigger mast to bits, as happened to us last summer! Before we had dropped anchor in the inner harbor, the Guards were alongside in their big powerboat, ready to render aid. And if you want to read thrillers, don't buy fiction, but just get a copy of the Annual Report of the U.S. Coast Guard Service issued by the government.

If you want an exciting sail, run out of Barnegat Inlet at flood tide. The black buoys mark the way over the bar. There is always a sea running on the bar and you are pretty nearly sure of picking up a bluefish or two on the way, if you troll with a squid.

Sailing back again toward the mainland, the hotel at Waretown will soon be picked up. In the “good old days” before the 18th Amendment, this was the starting point for many a fishing party when fishing was not the sole object in view. But this is now but a memory, and, bidding farewell to this good old landmark, we steer a zig-zag course for Harvey Cedars. This is a good place to spend the night, especially if one is acquainted with any of the big political guns who have a most delightful clubhouse at this point.

On leaving Harvey Cedars, follow a narrow, well-marked channel through what is known as “the Bonnet.” The channel passes through two drawbridges and soon enters Little Egg Harbor Bay. Beach Haven is a well-known summer resort, and the surrounding waters are well filled with fish and crabs. Clams or soft crabs are used for bait and can be bought from baitmen on the fishing grounds.

A sail almost directly across the Bay will bring you to the mouth of the Tuckerton Creek. This is a very deep channel cut through the meadows and leads to the wharf of the old town at Tuckerton. This town is much like Gloucester and the fishing villages of Cape Cod.

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(often 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)

Mid-October.
Fine weather.
Moonlit nights.
Full moon Sunday next.
Autumn coloring shows.
Many boats still being used.
First frost Sunday morning.
Wednesday was Columbus Day.
Hallowe'en Monday, October 31.
Rain on Saturday afternoon last.
Three weeks left for the political campaigns.
Road scrapers were busy after the rains last week.
Warm in the middle of the day, cool at night, has been the rule.
Days get appreciably shorter. You need artificial light now by 5:30 P.M.
Russel Harned is working for the Double Trouble Company at Double Trouble.
The High School has its first football game next Saturday (tomorrow) at Point Pleasant.
Mr. Taylor, the moving spirit in the new band, expects to have it out in the Firemen's Hallowe'en parade.
Edward Crabbe started on Wednesday to pick the cranberry bog in Berkeley on the Main Shore road at Jake's branch.
As high as fourteen deer have been seen in one herd between Toms River and Double Trouble by people who travel that road in autos, this fall.
Sam Lefferson, of Lakehurst road, has a covey of quail so tame that they come around his yard where his chickens feed. He counted fifteen quail crossing the road in front of his house one day recently.
Sunday morning was the coolest of the fall up to that time, with frosts that blackened the sweet potato vines here and there. Sweet potato growers say that the nice weather saved the crop, as an early frost would have killed the vines with potatoes half grown.
Gasoline has gone up two cents this week, a cent Monday and another on Tuesday. This makes the retail price 26 cents a gallon [$3.98 in 2021 dollars]. The lowest it has been in several years was 24 cents [$3.68 in 2021 dollars], for the two or three weeks prior to last Monday. When Standard Oil goes up, Gulf is right with it, as close as a shadow.
The frosty Sunday did the cranberries no harm.
Wednesday was a holiday for banks and public officials.
The firemen are planning a big parade for Hallowe'en.
Rumor says that the Moderna farm has been sold to a party from Yonkers, N.Y.
Mrs. Mary E. Ingraham is planning to build a house on South Main Street, not far from the Pennsylvania station.
The Toms River Amusement Co. is building its sixth house this summer on Irons Street. I.J. Westervelt, who bought the other five, will buy this one too.
One of the houses at Double Trouble occupied by Italian cranberry pickers, caught fire last Friday night from an outside cooking fire and was burned. The Italians were able to save the other near-by buildings.
Eclipse of the moon Sunday evening.
The High School will soon issue another number of the Cedar Chest [prior to an annual yearbook, the school put out semi-regular digest magazines of school activities, with the last one of the school year containing the traditional yearbook photos and features].
Sunrise to-morrow, 6:10; sunset, 5:22, making a day 11 hours and 12 minutes long.
Evan Hicks, of Cedar Grove, son of Rev. and Mrs. I.E. Hicks, a member of the Toms River Poultry Club now forming, has a record in poultry raising. From January 1 to October 1, 1921, his nine old hens Rhode Island reds, produced 1663 eggs; he has 58 pullets hatched since March 8, and has sold enough eggs to raise the pullets to date.
C.E. Payne reports that he has sold the big McClenahan house on the Parkway to one of the superintendents of construction on the ZR-1 [airship, later named U.S.S. Shenandoah] at Lakehurst, who will make it his home; the Charles Ptacek place on the South Lakewood road, to Mr. O'Connor, of Newark; the Moderna farm, on Hooper avenue, to Mr. Troop, of New York; Harry Tice farm, on Cedar Grove road, to Mr. Corrigan, of the Panama Canal Zone.
The trees along the streets of Toms River are entitled to more consideration and care than they have been getting. When electric wires were first strung, linemen slashed trees unmercifully and without regard to necessity. Since then many trees have had limbs, large and small killed by insulation rubbing from light wires, and short circuiting when the branches were wet. The Electric Company, trying to obviate this latter difficulty, has at last obtained what Superintendent Case thinks is an effective tree insulator, which consists of a screw to go into the limb, holding a porcelain insulator to keep the wire at least three inches from the limb. These are being placed on trees by the company wherever they know they are needed. If you know of such a tree where wires rub the branches let Superintendent Case know.
Mat Cranmer, of Mayetta, the Chevrolet dealer, is opening a show room in the Veeder building on Main Street.
H.J. Samuelson has bought out the interest of his father-in-law, Samuel Kaufman, in the United Feed Company, and will continue in its management.
Barnegat must buy potatoes out of town for this winter, the local crop being short.
Samuel Kaufman has bought from the Toms River Amusement Co. a tract on West Water Street, adjoining the Ocean House property, with an eight-foot front and running north some 300 feet.
Dr. Paul Goble, who is spending some time at the Lister cottage, Seaside Park, said that on Wednesday morning, as the sun came up, and the shower broke in the west, one of the most beautiful and brilliant rainbows he had ever seen spanned the western sky.
Cranberry growers, as well as other growers of fruits and vegetables, have their own troubles with certain class of city folks who spend the summer in the country, and who think themselves privileged to help themselves to whatever they may find growing, no matter what, where or whose it is.
Automobile parties are even worse offenders, as they take things in many instances from fields or orchards, grab sacks of potatoes or baskets of tomatoes or fruit from the fields, and now have a new trick of stopping at the little wayside markets which so many farms have along the road, helping themselves to what may be setting out there and speeding away. Farmers are demanding special legislation to meet these evils. To hit the automobile thief, the coming legislature will be asked to pass a law so that the Motor Vehicle Commissioner will have power to revoke the car's license.

LET'S GET ANOTHER COW
Last week the Courier told the story of a one-legged man's brave struggle to support his wife and two babies, and how he had been robbed of his crops and swindled by a cowdealer who had sold him a sick cow, which is now dead. Some of the Courier readers think that we ought to buy this man another cow. The Courier had the same idea, and last week arranged with County Agent Waite to look out for a cow for him, Mr. Waite entering heartily into the plan, and agreeing with the Courier to guarantee the cost of the cow.
One day this week I received a letter from Mr. E.P. Taddiken, secretary of the J.E. Linde Paper Co., one of the largest wholesale paper houses in New York, who had the same idea. He sent the Courier a check for $5 [$76 in 2021 dollars], saying he had read the item last week, and it seemed to him the public ought to be enough interested in a man like that to buy him another cow. Mr. Taddiken, by the way, began to come to Toms River as a boy in the eighties [1880s], when H.H. Luhrs ran the Riverside house, and he still makes visits here and reads the Courier weekly.
So to date there is $40 offered to help buy this cow: E.H. Waite, $5; Charles W. Herflicker, $5; E.P. Taddiken, $5; the Courier, $25. You may send yours to the Courier, or hand it to Waite or Herflicker as you choose. But that man must have another cow.

HALLOWE'EN CELEBRATION
Toms River Fire Company No. 1, following the custom established two years ago, will hold its Hallowe'en Mardi Gras again this year. The other two affairs were so successful, both financially and otherwise, that the company is encouraged to try it once more. Prizes for fancy costumes will again be given by the fire laddies, and as an extra added attraction prizes will be given away. The parade will be in charge of Edward Dempsey, as chairman of the Parade Committee. Charles W. Ludlow will handle the Prize Committee, while Roland L. Buckwalter will be in charge of the Dance Committee.

TYPHOID EPIDEMIC ABATING
Reports from New Egypt, Jacobstown and other centers of typhoid infection, that apparently started with the church supper in Jacobstown last July is that the sick ones are recovering. Many of them were near death's door for weeks, and are nothing but skin and bones, but are beginning to mend. It was one of the most virulent outbreaks of typhoid known in many years, and, coming as close to Camp Dix as it did, gives rise to the impression that the germs may have been brought from the other side by some returning soldier or soldiers, who were themselves inoculated against typhoid, and thus had it too lightly to be noticed.

CRANBERRIES AT $10 TO $12 PER BRL. FOR PACIFIC COAST
The Pacific coast is taking most of the early shipments of Jersey cranberries and paying $10 to $12 per barrel for them [$153 to $183 in 2021 dollars], F.O.B., the starting point. Local growers have shipped several carloads to Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other Pacific coast cities. The prices range from $10.50, the opening price on early blacks, to about $12 for Howes, per barrel. The cranberry barrel is of a special standard size, and holds 100 pounds. The old Jersey crate, still largely in use, holds 28 quarts; the new box used this season by some shippers, holds just half a barrel. It takes at present schedule ten days to roll a carload of berries from Toms River, or any eastern shipping point, to the Pacific coast, as berries, like Pacific coast fruits coming east are allowed special routing. They are shipped in refrigerator cars, carrying from 225 to 240 barrels, the smaller number being what the shippers are allowed to pack this fall in one car most of the time.
Some of the local growers are getting larger yields than they looked for. They say the berries this fall are mainly underneath the vines and could not be seen, but the scoopers find them. George H. Holman, of Toms River, says he is picking twice as many berries as he expected to when he started. The Double Trouble Company is another instance in point, as they will get many more berries than they were counting on. They have picked 11,000 bushels now, and have another 1000 to pick. They ship two carloads this week and another next week to the Pacific coast...

EXTRA DRY MAN ARRESTED AS BEING SELLER OF WET
John T. Fortman, of Atlantic City, one of the proprietors of the Extra Dry Cafe, on Atlantic Avenue, was arrested Saturday on charge of selling wet goods. Fortman and Andrew Grob, who had the bottled whiskey buried at Barnegat, and was under arrest in this county, are partners in the Extra Dry, according to reports. Fortman went Grob's bail at Toms River; Emanuel Katz, caught with another truckload of booze last summer, in Cape May County, went Fortman's bail.

H.A. DOAN COMMODORE OF TOMS RIVER YACHT CLUB
At the annual meeting of the Toms River Yacht Club, held last Friday evening at the club house, Horace A. Doan was elected commodore, to succeed Edward Crabbe, who declined renomination in favor of Mr. Doan. The other officers include John A. Hensler, vice-commodore; John H. Stoutenburgh, who is rear commodore for life; Percy L. Grover, secretary, and Edward Crabbe, Dr. George T. Crook, Clarence Birdsall, Henry A. Low and William H. Fischer, trustees. The trustee chose the treasurer, who is Henry A. Low.
Plans were talked over for putting a heating plant in the club house and having the club open in the winter as well as summer. To raise funds for that purpose an entertainment committee was appointed... They will start off with a costume dance, accompanied by an entertainment for Friday, October 28, a Hallowe'en affair.
The past summer has been one of the most successful seasons the club has had, and it was able to make a substantial payment upon its small debt.
It was voted to ask the township committee to name the street on the west side of Robbins Park in honor of Commodore John H. Stoutenburgh, by calling it Stoutenburgh Place, recalling the fact that it was from Mr. Stoutenburgh that the township purchased the little park running from Water Street to the river.

FOR CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND
The mothers of Toms River village have decided that they want a village playground for the children. The location is already at hand at the school house, and the Home and School Association is planning a tag day to raise money for swings, slides, seesaws and rings and simple playground paraphernalia. The bringing of all the children in from the outside districts has entirely changed problems at the school house also, or rather raised new problems. The children are dumped out on the school ground and kept there during the noon hour, and the teachers say they should have something to do. The older boys have baseball, football, and outdoor basket ball, but the little shavers can only look on. You can be sure of one thing—if the mothers want the playground, they'll get it.

$25,000 WORTH OF EGGS HANDLED FIRST MONTH
The first month's business of the New Jersey Poultry Producers Association amounted to about $25,000, which is looked upon as a fine start. These eggs were shipped to New York from two stations, Toms River and Vineland, and the period covered by the $25,000 is from September 9 to October 8. Next Monday the third shipping station will be opened at Somerville. It is possible that others will be established.

U.T. CO. WILL TRY OUT AUTOMOBILE RAILROAD CAR
New Egypt, Oct. 12.—The Union Transportation Company has ordered a gasoline propelled car with a capacity of 48 passengers, to be operated by the railroad, to take the place of the usual locomotive and passenger cars. The new car has been operated at much less cost and is said to be quite as comfortable and speedy as the train service.

T.R.H.S. FOOTBALL TEAM
The Toms River High School has put a football team in the field this fall, and will play Point Pleasant, at Point Pleasant, tomorrow, October 15. Friday of next week, October 21, they expect to go to Princeton to play the high school there, and stay over for the big game at Princeton University next day. Another game is expected to be played with Clinton High School, of which Prof. E.L. Heilman, formerly of the Toms River School, is principal. A game with Lakewood and one with Point Pleasant, both at Toms River, are also expected, but the dates are not determined.

PERSONAL
Sunday's New York papers had a long story about an old-time Toms River boy, Cassius W. Seymour, of Paterson, who is known in all the lower end of Manhattan as “the blind stationer.” The story said that Mr. Seymour had been found wandering about New York, suffering from a severe attack of amnesia, being unable to remember who he was or where he belonged. Cassius as a boy, lived on Lein Street, Toms River, learned the printer's game at the Courier's shop and went to New York to work at the printer's trade. He afterward got in the jewelry business and had built up a nice trade when he lost his eyesight. Not by any means discouraged he started in life all over again in the stationary business, which he has carried on for years.
Jon Harrop, of Gibbstown, a former Toms River man, was here for the week end. John is now pensioned by the DuPont interests and has retired from active work. He was formerly in the dynamite making game at Toms River and when the DuPonts bought out the plants here and wrecked them, he went with the bigger DuPont plants on the banks of the Delaware.

FISH AND GAME
The open season for wild fowl is from October 16 to January 31, inclusive. The opening day coming on Sunday next, ducks or geese cannot lawfully be shot until next Monday. The chief shooting on our bays next Monday is expected to be the black duck, which were raised in these parts this summer, and have never been shot, and accordingly have not yet learned the danger of being near to man. Those who escape the first day's shooting will probably be shyer and wilder...
The Fish and Game Commission have a series of motion pictures taken at the State Game Farm at Forked River, at different periods covering a year in all, to show the raising of game birds and their various states of development. They have another series taken at the State Fish Hatchery at Hackettstown. When the Toms Rive r school gets its motion picture machine these films will be loaned it by the state without doubt.
Vreeland Risden, at Point Pleasant Beach, landed a 21-pound striped bass fishing with a squid off the flats at the south end of the boardwalk. This fish was 36 inches long and measured 23 inches in greatest girth. Joe Forsyth caught one weighing nine pounds, and a number of smaller bass were hooked.
Cool weather last week end made fishermen rather scarce for the first time in several months.
Some weakfish have been caught up Toms River. They seem to follow the small fish on which they feed.
Striped bass are coming inside the inlets for the winter. There ought to be some reports of good-sized bass being caught in the bay before the anglers quit for the winter.
The eel sickness is on the eels this year and men who usually make a business of catching eels have done little of it. The eel breaks out in sores or “blisters” as the fishermen call them. Ordinarily the eel fishermen would be setting pots now and shipping eels to the city. The eel is a great delicacy for many foreign-born people in the big cities.
Ducks are beginning to show up in the bay. With the cool days of mid-October the crow ducks are due in Kettle Creek, Applegate's Cove, and similar feeding grounds in the upper Barnegat Bay. While really gallinules, or rails, instead of ducks, these “crow chickens” are listed as ducks in the game law, and cannot be shot until the duck and goose season opens. Other rails are now lawfully shot. As told last week in the Courier, there has been a flock of fat railbirds in the grasses of Toms River where it loops south of the Central Railroad, and some fine bags have been gathered.
William H. Eddy, of Philadelphia, Charlie Grover, of Toms River, and crew, are planning their yearly November trip to the inlet in their houseboat. Sampson is putting the houseboat in shape for the voyage.

BARNEGAT
We noticed in the editor's column last week about Ocean County being a sight-seeing place for tourists going through. We might suggest a few more things for which it is famous: We have as much or more pine barren or scrub land than any other county; we have the finest streams with the most ideal locations on either side along the coast. Why, the editor forgot to mention his own Toms River. Where is there a finer body of water for pleasure or profit than our bay.
On our beach the first life-saving station was erected in 1848, at Harvey Cedars, and it was called a volunteer station until 1869. The first crew was put on at Barnegat Inlet in 1871, when the government appropriated $200,000 and erected a few stations on the coast. There were salt works at Barnegat, Waretown, Forked River and Toms River during the Revolution. There was a salt works at Toms River owned by the State of Pennsylvania, and on November 2, 1776, an officer and twenty-five men were sent there to guard the works. Ocean County is also noted for the historical wrecks along its beaches. In Ocean County the Barnegat pirates gained their reputation. It was on the beach at what is now Surf City, the first whaling station on the Jersey coast was operated. Some of the greatest cranberry bogs in the state are here. Last, but not least, we have more bottled booze in our county jail than any other county in the state—at least 1300 quarts was taken there, unless by the contraction and expansion, caused by change in temperature, loss may take place...
To show that it pays to advertise you should see the inquiries received by J.H. Perrine, our boatbuilder. He doesn't believe in doing business altogether with those who live so near the shop they can hear the sound of his hammer, but he reaches out and takes in the town, county and state, and the whole wide world knows of Perrine's famous Barnegat sneakboxes. Here are the starting points of a few of the letters he showed us recently: Glasgow, Scotland; Mobile, Ala.; Portuguese East Africa; Halifax, N.S.; Honolulu, H.T.; Cairo, Egypt; Montreal, Canada, and from all the states on the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts.

BEACH HAVEN
The older folk in Beach Haven were interested in reading in last Sunday's papers the account of a bronze statue, erected in the city of Duluth, Minn., by the city, of Jay Cooke, the Philadelphia banker, who for a lifetime was a summer visitor at Beach Haven. Duluth honored Cooke with a statue because he was practically the founder of that city and built up that section of the country by a railroad he pushed through and other enterprises he backed there. It was Cooke who floated the Civil War bonds for Abe Lincoln to get the money to run the war, and his plan of appealing directly to the people instead of financiers and big capitalists only, was followed in the recent war. Cooke was very fond of the bay and of fishing. He was also extremely fond of his family, and was usually accompanied here by quite a group, including his own children and grandchildren.
Fishing parties are thinning out and gunning parties are looked for next week.
It is reported here that the government has decided to build the stone jetties at Barnegat lighthouse, and that there will be work for all on Long Beach who may need it this fall and winter. At least several of our men are counting on it.

BEACHWOOD
G.G. Mayo, son and executor of the late B.C. Mayo, has been on East from his home in Los Angeles, Cal., looking after his father's estate. The real estate interests at Beachwood and Browns Mills come in for a large share of his attention. He arranged with agents to dispose of the Mayo holdings in this borough which are mostly the desirable lots between the boulevard and the river in the most thickly built-up section. It is understood that the agents are finding a ready sale for these lots at good prices.

CEDAR RUN
The movies at Manahawkin are well patronized by the people of our shore towns. The theatre was recently enlarged to accommodate the crowds.

FORKED RIVER
Roger Wilbert, a C.R.R. employee, is located at Lakehurst.
The first frost here Sunday morning, but it did no damage.
The Forked River ball team beat a team from Toms River last week.
Leroy Frazee, assistant cashier of the Barnegat Bank, was in New York to see the world series ball games.
George Gravatt, of Forked River, died at the Kimball Hospital, Lakewood, after an operation for appendicitis, and was buried on Friday last, October 7, at Good Luck Cemetery. George was a Toms River boy, son of Capt. James Gravatt, a well-known sailor of party boats in years past. About seven years ago he married Gertrude Taylor, of this place and was father of four small children. Five years ago he moved to Bordentown, but afterward returned to Forked River. He leaves beside his own family, a brother, Jame Gravatt, also a sister, both living at Long Branch. He was well thought of here. George was taken with acute appendicitis while huckstering [selling items probably door to door] in Toms River village and was hurried to the hospital for the operation which was however too late.
There was quite a good-sized crowd at the hotels for the week-end fishing. Those caught were large, weighing as high as ten pounds.

ISLAND HEIGHTS
Mrs. Harris is about to leave us again and will spend the winter at her art store in Lakewood. Her many friends wish her a prosperous winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee, who recently purchased the Burroughs cottage, at Oak and Ocean avenue, are making some much needed improvements to the property.
Mr. Leo Mamp, our lone fisherman, one day last week caught a king fish, a porgie and a perch, which were presented to your correspondent for her breakfast this being the last catch of the season there being nothing left to catch. Mr. Mamp returned home to Philadelphia after spending the season on the water-front with an occasional visit home to sleep.
Miss M.V. Cook, of Maple Inn, having closed that boarding house, has returned to Mt. Airy, Pa., for the winter.
Benjamin Adams, one of our well-known yachtsmen has gone to Philadelphia for the winter.
Delbert H. Penn is working third trick at the Browns Mills Station on the P.R.R. this winter.
Thomas Wallace, Sr. is building a new greenhouse. Roy Staples is doing the work.

LANOKA
William East, while looking after Capt. Daniel Wilbert's horses last Monday morning, was severely kicked in the breast by a horse with both feet and will have to lie in bed six weeks. It is said that some bones are broken. This happened while he was about to water the horses. They started to run, kicking their heels up, and Will happened to be behind one. Both feet landed in his breast, knocking him down. Hearing his cries, help came, and they took him home. Dr. Bunnell, of Barnegat, is attending him.
The stork visited the home of Capt. George Chamberlain on last Tuesday morning and left two baby girls.

LAVALLETTE
There are several families staying here, enjoying the beautiful fall weather.
Mrs. Pettit's bungalow, on Reese Avenue, is getting along nicely. When completed will make a very good appearance.
Mr. F. Gregor, the butcher from Seaside Park is going to build a large store on the corner of Vance and Grand Central Avenue.
Mr. Charles Hankins, the boat builder, has a new car.
The work on the electric light system is going along nicely and the borough will be lighted up very shortly with electric lights.
At the last Council meeting a petition was presented for a water system to be put into the borough.
L.B. Osborn has been gathering cranberries the last week and will have quite a good crop. Berries are quite large and well colored.
Lavallette has her share of weekend visitors. Many can be seen on the boardwalk enjoying the fine balmy weather.

MANTOLOKING
Theodore Peters closed his ocean front cottage on Monday and returned to his New York home.
Mr. John Norcross is in Lakewood hospital on account of being injured from falling off a load of hay recently.

POINT PLEASANT
Up at Point Pleasant Beach, a hardware store had on its outside wall a sample rural delivery mailbox. It was put up last spring, and a short time ago it was taken down to show a prospective customer. In it were found 165 postcards and four letters, placed there by summer visitors, in the thought that it was a mail box visited by the carrier daily.

SEASIDE HEIGHTS
The Colonial Theatre, which is open twice a week, is drawing a large crowd from other towns nearby.
The latest report is the contract has been given out for an American Store to be built in the near future.

SEASIDE PARK
Col. Charles S. Gaskill, son of Judge Joseph H. Gaskill, who spent part of the summer here while in the States for a couple of months, sailed again on Wednesday of last week on the Aquitania. He goes this time to Russia, to have charge of railroad transportation for the American Relief Expedition, under Secretary Hoover.
A card party has been planned by the Board of Trade, to be held at the Manhasset Hotel on Friday evening, 14th.
Proprietor H. Ross Turner is planning extensive improvements in the way of enlarging the dining room of the Manhasset Hotel.

WEST CREEK
Henry Cowperthwaite and family closed their cottage in Beach Haven and returned home here for the winter.
Mr. Grey was very fortunate in having his cranberry crop gathered before the frost arrived. He reports a very good season.
Mr. VanDuersen, a Civil War veteran, died at his home on the Forge Road on Tuesday evening, from a paralytic stroke.

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October.
Tenth month.
Nights gain on the days.
Time for moonlit nights.
Freeholders met Tuesday.
New moon last Saturday.
Boys are playing football.
1921 is three-fourths gone.
Autumn colors are not very profuse yet.
Rain on Friday and again on Monday.
Judge Wells, of Burlington County, set here in court on Monday.
A summer with two droughts is rare, but that was the record this year.
Many Toms River and Ocean County people visited the Trenton Fair last week.
Hallowe'en will come on Sunday, October 30. Quite likely the celebration will be on Saturday night.
“Skip” Cowdrick, “Cap” Grover and “Lakehurst” Bryden, of Toms River, caught four big fellows at Oyster Creek Channel last week end.
C.C. Engle has moved his family to Trenton, where he will give all his time to the selling end of the Crossley Clay Mining Co. This company is developing some new clay mines in other sections. He has for some time past been the resident manager at Crossley Station mines.
Jesse P. Evernham is about to break ground for another store and apartment building on the west side of Main Street, next to the Evernham and Mathews' Building. It will be two stories, with a large store on the ground floor and apartment on the floor above.
Delos Thomas, the flyer, with the seaplane, was at Toms River again on Saturday and Sunday, taking up passengers. He made several trips from here to Barnegat Inlet and return. J.E.C. Brown, the publicity man with the plane, says the company expects to have several boats on Barnegat Bay next summer—perhaps two in the Toms River-Seaside Park section, one at Bay Head and one for Beach Haven and Barnegat Station.
Toms River High School football team is booked to play Point Pleasant on October 15.
Last Saturday night showed up so cold that cranberry men who had a head of water flooded their bogs. It turned out, however, that the mercury went only to 30 degrees on the bogs, the same point it reached on the bogs the night before. No frost is reported from it on the uplands, and berries are now so well ripened that they can stand a little freeze.
Oscar Hodgkinson, of Cedar Grove, brought into The Courier office from his farm on Tuesday, appleblooms, cherry blooms and a cluster of green apples about hickory nut size.
Large gatherings of swallows, millions of them if you go by the looks, on Long Beach these days. On Squan Beach there are hundreds of starlings in flocks.
Mrs. Jannet John took over the Sunnyside October 1, and is continuing it as a boarding house, which is a great public convenience. There is room and need for several good boarding houses in Toms River.
A.E. Adam, who has followed the oil game from Texas to India, and thence to Jackson Mills, is now occupying the Miss Amalie Franco farm at Pleasant Plains. Adam says he has been in the oil game all his life and is now settling down to raise a few chickens and run a small farm. He is still interested in oil, however.
Henry, the twelve year old son of Farm Demonstrator Waite, has had a flock of chickens and belonged to the Junior Poultry Club for a year and a half, and in that time clearing $106 [$1600 in 2021 dollars] from his flock. Henry's idea is to run a poultry farm when he gets big enough.
Overcoats and wraps were all right this week, at nights.
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THE MEANEST OF THE MEAN
On the outskirts of Toms River village is a man who some time ago, through misfortune, lost a leg near the hip. He has never whimpered or whined, but has met fate face to face and tried to make a living for himself, his wife and little ones. With one leg he farms his little place and makes out the best he can. This fall he had a few watermelons. There were some people, the meanest of the mean, who stole those melons from that hard-working, one-legged man. I hope that it was thoughtlessness rather than meanness that led to this despicable trick, for I would hate to believe that anyone could descend to such low estate. I also hope that if the persons who did it read this article, as they very likely will, it will show them how small a thing it was to do, and will arouse in their breasts the determination to in some way to pay back the loss to this hard-working but unfortunate man.
Since the above took place another piece of hard luck has befallen this family. A few weeks ago this man bought a cow that he might have milk for his little family and perhaps some to sell as a source of a little income in the winter. Monday the cow died, and that hope is gone.

KITE BALLOON WENT TO SEA
TWO MEN IN IT ESCAPED
The big kite balloon used as an observing station and practice balloon at the Naval Air Station, in Lakehurst, broke loose from her moorings in the heavy west wind on Wednesday and went to sea. Two men were up in the balloon when the cable snapped; they let out enough gas to get it to the ground, and then jumped. Relieved of their weight the balloon shot up again in the air. It was seen Wednesday morning passing over the south edge of Toms River village toward the sea. Later reports said the east wind to seaward drove it back to shore, and it had been seen near Atlantic City. It was a big fish-shaped balloon, with three-fin tail to steady it, and carried an observation basket. A cable and winch let it out and brought it back to the ground.

SCHOOL TO HAVE MOVIE MACHINE
The Toms River Home and School Association voted last Wednesday at its first meeting this school year, to buy a motion picture machine for school use. The opera house, used as assembly room for the school, has a booth and the state supplies educational films.

50,000 BUSHEL HARVEST AT WHITESBOGS THIS SEASON
A Mt. Holly paper says that the Joseph J. White Company, owners of Whitesbogs, near New Lisbon, will pick 50,000 bushels of cranberries this fall and have a small army of 500 Italians from Philadelphia doing the picking. Up to last week they had already shipped more than twenty carloads to the middle and far west, some going to California.
The same paper says that County Clerk William H. Reebes, of New Lisbon, and Mr. Warner Hargrove, of Brown's Mills, have harvested good-sized crops of cranberries.

LOST DRILL at 2000 FEET
Reports from the Jackson Mills oil field via Lakewood Citizen, is that the oil well there is down 2000 feet, and at that depth a drill was lost and so far they have not been able to recover it. That means the 2000 feet is lost. A new well is to be started at once.

HANGAR A BIG ATTRACTION
The past summer the approved thing to do for all visitors in this section of the shore was to motor to Lakehurst and look over the hangar. As the Lakewood season opens up visitors at that resort are making the hangar one of the points they will want to see.

THE COURIER'S 72nd BIRTHDAY TODAY
Today the Courier starts its seventy-second year. It is the oldest paper in the county, having started its career in 1850, the year Ocean county was set off from Monmouth. It is new, as it has always been, looked upon as the paper identified with the interests, the welfare and advancement of the county as a whole, and it is accordingly rewarded by a wide and ever-growing family of readers. It is prouder however of the confidence of its readers in fairmindedness and honesty of purpose than it is of growth in columns or in circulation. It is this confidence it has striven to deserve, and will endeavor to retain. 

FISH AND GAME
Gus Meisellbach and party from Newark, while fishing at New Inlet recently brought in ten large channel bass, the largest weighing 42 pounds, and being caught by Al Hunt.
If the federal government builds a big stone pile at Barnegat Inlet to save the lighthouse, it would be a good place to stock with baby lobsters.
The Fish and Game Commission late this summer have put out in the woods and fields of the state 1406 pheasant, grown at the Forked River Game Farm. Earlier in the spring there were several thousand put out. Only the cock pheasant can be shot lawfully, and the commission is hoping in this way to get the state well stocked with these birds.
The commission also announces that it has been putting out wild turkeys from the game farm in places that seem to make a natural cover for these big game birds. There is a closed season on them, and already in parts of the state they have been fairly well established. These flocks are found by wardens in fairly wooded sections.
Big fish have been running this past week. The bay is full of small mossbunkers and the big fish have chased them up Toms River into fresh water where numerous schools of the mossbunkers have been seen, and where some of the big weakfish have been caught.
Pound nets are said to be catching great quantities of albacore, a fish that resembles both the bonito and the mackerel. They are caught off the coast of late in large schools running from six to thirty pounds. Anglers have gone off shore after these fish with light tackle and have had great sport.

PERSONAL
Capt. Clifford M. Elwell, U.S. Army, left Toms River last Friday afternoon for Pittsburgh, where he is to be one of the instructors of military science in the Pittsburgh University.
Mrs. Helene Klienhans and family have closed Sunset Farm on Hooper Avenue and returned to her home in Newark for the winter.
Edward Crabbe has returned to Princeton University for his sophomore year.
McEwan and Birkbeck Crabbe have returned to the Berkshire School at Sheffield, Mass.
Andrew Applegate, assistant keeper of Barnegat Lighthouse, has been spending several days this week at his former home in Cedar Grove.
Miss Ida Robinson, is now in Alhambra, Cal., having left Los Angeles, after a long stay there. She is now staying at an orange ranch and tells of a trip into the Sierra Madre Mountains, and camping there. When she returns East she expects to live near New York, having sold her home at Toms River.
Henry Edwards and family of Beachwood, sail on Tuesday next, from Philadelphia to Jacksonville, en route for a winter at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Jack Birdsall, son of Capt. And Mrs. Clarence Birdsall, has entered Princeton university.
Franklin Doan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace A. Doan, has gone to Princeton, preparing to enter the university next year.

RECENT WEDDINGS
William Gwyer of Toms River and Miss Mary Jane Harris of Camden and Island Heights were married on Saturday last at Manasquan. The groom is the son of Captain and Mrs. Edgar K. Gwyer of this place and is well known as a player on the Toms River baseball nine. The bridge is the daughter of Herbert P. Harris, a P.R.R. man.

BARNEGAT
Added facilities adds to business but there is little use trying to increase our yachting and fishing crowds as there are not enough boats to accommodate them. Nearly ever night one can see yachtsmen looking for some one to take out their parties but everyone is busy. There are many parties who would rather have the old-fashioned sail boat for a day's outing than the modern gas-propelled craft. When the new cross-state road gets through and our baymen come to realize the great amount of business it will bring, of course they will advertise in all the Burlington and West Jersey papers. They will have large signs along the road, telling of the great fishing, sailing and crabbing is in Barnegat Bay and the rates but will not keep the ordinary people away, and above all accommodating and courteous captains who will treat visitors so they will come again and bring their friends. One could make good money with a dozen row boats furnishing nets, lines and bait for crabbing parties. But like one man said when the summer was over, “you would have to take care of them during the winter.” He might find some charitable organization to do that after he had made a good summer's work with them. As we have said before it will pay the town to spend a little money at the landing in making it attractive for visitors. The money would soon come back, but if we are going to wait for outsiders to force the business on us while we doze and grieve that we have no accommodations, many parties will leave and go elsewhere and never come here again. If we want the trade we must cater to it, make the place attractive, and then when we attract them, have something for them to enjoy. A day's outing is what the people come for, not to pay us a friendly call, but to satisfy their desire for sport—sailing, fishing, crabbing, rowing, bathing or just sitting on the wharf watching the boats come and go, enjoying the salt air and then spreading out their lunch. But whatever their desire is, try to please them and they will come back again. There are other places far more attractive than this, but let's get together and make our landing as attractive as some others.
Billy Hankins has purchased a power-boat from Ezra Parker and is having her overhauled at Perrine's boat shop. He expects to burn the water when he gets his new up-to-date speed engine attached.
Not for years have we had such night fishing. Those who go mostly come back with from half dozen to thirty weakfish, weighing from four to eight pounds, which is a pretty catch. Many are salting them for winter use.
The Central Railroad will run its annual Mauch Chunk [renamed to honor Native American athlete Jim Thorpe in 1954] excursion this season. Why not make a change as nearly every one has been there, and it's too long and tedious to take a second time? Why not go up the Hudson as they use to do and give the people a view of New York City and the beautiful sights along the river which is rightly called the “Rhine of America”? Or they might take a run through the East River to Long Island Sound, down the Sound to Glen Island or any one of the many great pleasure resorts near New York.
Austen Colgate, head of the large Colgate toilet industries, who owns a large slice of ground at the mouth of Barnegat River, is a frequent visitor to Barnegat these days. He had much sport fishing there this summer and fall.
J. Howard Perrine is increasing the size of his boatshop in Barnegat. He is making a specialty of one design, sneak-boxes, and has his shop arranged to turn them out on standard specification.
Albert Petterson, who has been employed at the Toms River station all summer, is back again with C.H. Brandt.

BEACH HAVEN
Capt. Jack Henson's and Sam Hayes' homes have had a visit from the stork.

BEACHWOOD
Polyhue Yacht Club, the youngest club on the beach, feels that it has done something this year, in that it has introduced the fifteen foot sneakbox as a separate racing class. There is little doubt now that next summer there will be a fleet of forty or fifty of these craft. Beachwood, Bay Head, and Mantoloking have boats of this size now; Seaside Park has ordered some sixteen or more of them; Island Heights is getting together a bunch of people to build boats of this type; so that next year racing of these small crafts on an inter-club scale seems assured.
[The club], which recently leased from the borough three years the boathouse on the river bank, has installed a runway with skids and car for hauling out boats, and storing them.
The Borough Commission at its meeting on Saturday night last had two big problems put up to it, the development of Beachwood Heights being petitioned, and charged against Frank Turner, as clerk and marshal, being preferred, and his removal asked.
Mayor Senior being absent, Chas. H. Haring presided. The petition from residents of Beachwood Heights, was read, asking for more improved streets and street lights, also better police protection. The request was favorably received by the Commission, having been anticipated by them, and these matters having been the subject of much anxious thought on their part. Mr. Haring read a statement showing why the river front section was first developed by the borough. He said the blocks between Wave street and the river, about one-eighth the borough's total area, paid over 51% of the taxes and had only a small amount of 1920 taxes left unpaid; the part of the borough south of Wave street, some seven eighths of the total, is assessed at less than 49% of the total valuation, and a much larger proportion of its 1920 tax remains unpaid.
The area south of the railroad being largely unimproved it has been thought wise to spend the greater proportion of the taxes at first in the improved section, the benefits of which expenditure are enjoyed by all Beachwoodites in their daily visits to the water front.
Fear of what a forest fire may do is perhaps the reason that in many properties the wild shrubbery is being thinned out and the trees thinned also. It takes away from Beachwood its original look of nature in its wildness, but it may save the place from a conflagration some time if it is done with care.
A new series of Beachwood postcards, in colors, has been printed by The Albertype Company, of Brooklyn, and placed on sale. It embraces several views of the Polyhue yacht races and the different colored sails are very attractively shown. Also scenes on Bayside Avenue, the bathing beach, Indian Spring, etc. To S.D. Priest, of Toms River, belongs the credit of having brought out these most interesting and pretty cards.

CEDAR RUN
The Tuckerton Railroad is now running on standard time.
William De D'Fanti, the new owner of the Eugene Reeder Farm, has a tractor plowing up his fields and has a couple of men building new chicken houses, as he expects to enter the chicken industry on a large scale.
C.N. Taylor is assisting the delivery of coal in town, and by the looks of things, our coal bins will be well filled this winter. Last winter our citizens were forced to purchase their coal out of town and then had to pay extra for delivery.

FORKED RIVER
The cranberry crop has been pretty good and has escaped frost so far.
John Horner had one week-end party out fishing that caught 28 big weakfish, running up to ten pounds in weight; another of his parties caught 20 big yellow fins.
Capt. Jos. Smires has a contract to build a new boat for a Philadelphia party. The Captain is now driving a Ford sedan.
Mr. Rodgers, the “science man,” gave a very interesting lecture on some of his experiences in China and Japan last Monday evening, and despite the inclement weather, had a fairly good audience.

ISLAND HEIGHTS
Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Cramer, who are staying at the Hallock cottage on the water front, paid a visit to Old Barnegat last Saturday, and were shocked to see what destruction had been done since last year.
Emil Bartells and Misses Helen, Dorothy and Marguerite Bartells sailed over from Seaside Park last Saturday and called on Mrs. T.E. Wainwright, the ladies returning home via airplane. Who says we are not progressive?
Charles M. Haddon, son of Charles K. Haddon, and master of the fast catboat Zulietta, which this summer won the Morgan cup, and other races, is now a student at Philips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., where he is preparing for college.
Charles K. Haddon and family have closed their summer home, returning to Haddonfield.

LAKEWOOD
The Laurel House, Lakewood's first big hotel, and still the favorite with many Lakewood visitors, opened for the season on Saturday last, October 1. Indications point to a big year in Lakewood and an early opening of hotels.
The Strand, the new Ferber Theatre in Lakewood, will open in December. Barney Ferber is now interested in picture production, having bought stock in the Associated First National Pictures.

MANAHAWKIN
Congressman Appleby, Lighthouse Commissioner Putnam and party took dinner at Tom Cranmer's bridge house last Friday. Tom served them a shore dinner that ought to have helped save the lighthouse.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bolton Jr. of Manahawkin were among those taking flight in the seaplane at Beach Haven last Friday afternoon.
Conductor James V. Jones, of the Long Beach train, has moved back to Manahawkin, after spending the summer at Barnegat City [now Barnegat Light Borough]. Jason Fenimore, who had his family at Harvey Cedars during the summer, has also moved back to Manahawkin.

NEW EGYPT
Latest reports are that the typhoid epidemic near New Egypt, centering in Jacobstown, has apparently run its course. While there are many still very sick, it is now thought they may recover. Just now there is another typhoid outbreak in Trenton and its surroundings.

OCEAN GATE
The seaplane spent some time here taking up parties. One party consisted of Mayor William H. Newlin and Marshal Joseph F. Selinger.

PINE BEACH
There are likely to be several more winter residents here than last year. L.J. Hutchinson is living in his cottage this winter. L.T. Sacrey is occupying the Haines apartment on the water front.
The bungalow on New Jersey avenue which Miss Mulrenan purchased last spring has been moved to Huntington avenue.

POINT PLEASANT
The tin Lizzie has featured in many roles, but figured as a life preserver for Frank Hennessy, an electric light lineman here, when he fell 16 feet from a pole and hit the hood of a Ford, breaking the force of his fall and perhaps saving his life.
George T. McGirr, of Point Pleasant, is recovering from a severe attack of typhoid. He served in the Eleventh Engineers in France and was gassed.

SEASIDE PARK
Winfield Donat of Philadelphia spent the week end here and took back a good catch of fish.
Wm. C. Conover with his family is among the last to leave the resort, but he is now storing his boats to go away.
A number of houses are to be built during the winter and spring.
The State Board of Health has notified the borough that overflow of sewage into the bay must cease, and an engineer will try to see how the matter can be remedied as early as possible.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mangold are spending a couple of weeks cruising down near Barnegat City [today Barnegat Light Borough]-- a vacation marking their first wedding anniversary.
Operator Clayton Sterling, who spent the summer here as operator at the P.R.R. has returned to his home in Maryland.

SHIP BOTTOM
The pound fishery is lifting large catches of all kinds of fish.
We have fine artesian water and by next summer will have all the cottages piped.
Our old fisherman, Jake Applegate, has been taking out parties after those big fish.

SILVERTON
Marauders have been helping themselves to some of Theo. Irons' crops. About three weeks ago they picked and carried away a generous lot of his nicest apples; later, they dug some of his sweet potatoes, and have taken most of his cranberries.
Mrs. C.L. Warwick of Seaside Heights spent Monday here with her mother, Mrs. D.H. Tilton, and other relatives. Her husband has finished his summer's work at the Penn. station, Toms River, and today goes on duty at Jamesburg, where they expect to live this winter.
Bartine Clayton has his cranberries about harvested.
Watson Clayton had the misfortune to lose his hog last week, after keeping it over all winter and summer. It is quite a loss, and so near the killing time, too.

TUCKERTON
Tuckerton Borough will give up its gas street lights and put on electric street lights, using current from Atlantic City.
Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Pharo have closed their home here and gone to Philadelphia, where they will spend the winter.

WEST CREEK
Mr. Lumbreyer of Berry Lodge, is quite extensively engaged in the manufacture of candy which he retails at a very reasonable price. Another new industry started from present prospects good.
Hamilton Pharo, Joseph B. Cox and Miss Maud Cox went to Atlantic City recently to attend a surprise birthday party to Miss Adele Parsons, one of our town girls, but now residing in the City by the Sea, whee she is teaching in one of the schools. Needless to say they had a good time.
Josephus A. Seaman, station agent at Beach Haven, is spending his vacation at his home here interspersed with trips out of town.
Harry Seaman and family have returned from Beach Haven, where he has been employed during the summer. We are glad to see our people coming home again.
Several of our town's people took in the excursion to Mauch Chunk, Pa.

​I HAVE sailed at odd times on Barnegat Bay, and one summer kept a launch there, and pottering about found it more interesting than I had supposed. It is the largest of the lagoon-like sheets of water on the New Jersey coast, and a pretty good place for the small boat sailer and lover of open air life. With a land breeze on a summer's night the mosquitoes are the bugbear of the place, but then there are mosquitoes at Mt. Desert and Nantucket when the conditions are right.

The greatest length is about thirty miles; this is in a north and south direction from Bay Head to Harvey Cedars. At the lower end, opposite the Inlet, the width is about five miles; this width gradually decreases up to Bay Head, but there are quite a number of broad and deep indentations on the western shore, such as Toms River, the Metedeconk, Forked River, Cedar Creek, Kettle Creek, Oyster Creek, and others that considerably increase and add variety and interest to the cruising ground.

It seems as though these rivers must one day have emptied directly into the sea. The western shore is quite bold; for instance, the bluffs at Island Heights are eighty feet high, and it would have been a nice piece of coast, with several good harbors up these rivers, if the action of the sea had not beat up a long range of sand dunes. which commencing above Bay Head must have gradually worked down the twenty-five miles to the Inlet, as these Jersey outlets are called.

Outlets they certainly must be, for if it were not for these openings, kept clear by the surplus waters of the rivers, they would certainly have closed long ago. Proof of this is to be found in smaller bodies, such as Wreck Pond, north of here, where an easterly blow will bank up a bar ten feet high that will completely close the opening, which will remain like a dam until the pond behind it has filled up. Once filled, however, as soon as the slightest stream begins to flow over, the dam is doomed, for a rapidly increasing cut soon eats down to low tide level and the "Inlet" is again in being.

The sand dunes, more picturesque in themselves than those of Holland, are ranges of little hills covered in most places with long, bright green, wiry grass and sturdy shrubs. In parts there are wind-twisted cedars. The marshy spots are, in summer, covered with large marshmallows. Indeed, the scene on the eastern shore of the Bay -- on a morning in late summer, when after a squally night there is generally a brisk northwest wind and cloudless sky, is one seldom equaled outside the tropics. The western hills with pines of the darkest blue, the waters a slightly lighter shade, and the sky a still paler blue make fine contrasts to the almost inconceivable gayness of the other colors, no mere tints, that range from pure white of the sands through the pinks of the marshmallows to the riot of the bright yellows, greens, and vivid reds of the marshes. It is a paradise of color for painters.

The western shore is bordered with large patches of pine woods, stretching far back into the country, which give to the water in the upper reaches a coffee color, but there is no muddiness, and the water is perfectly transparent. Where the good land comes down to the Bay there are prosperous farms; these are seen at their best near Toms River. In general, however, the shores are as wild and deserted as the most violent hermit could wish. In winter these pine-strewn glades should be fine camping grounds for consumptives.

The average depth of water in the channels of the upper Bay, that is above Barnegat Pier, is about five feet; in some rivers there are stretches with thirty feet. The depths appear not to change, and the reason is found when one anywhere in a channel shoves over the bronze end of a boathook and feels the clank as it strikes the shale on the bottom. Apparently, the floor of the whole thing is glacial drift not likely to change in centuries. Out of the channels there is a mixture of mud and sand; in the lower Bay generally only the latter, perfectly clean and hard. For some reason the Bay is a great place for breezes; possibly because Barnegat, the elbow of Jersey, so sticks out into the ocean; at any rate, there are seldom calms and any are of short duration.

In addition to sailing, fishing and shooting are the great sports of the Bay. In summer when the weakfish are running they can be hauled out as fast as one can bait; down by the Inlet and outside all sorts of sea fish are to be had, with, in particular, bluefishing in season. Beach birds and duck will fill the cruiser's larder if he is a shot, so that to the man in a small, light draft boat this little world makes a pleasant little cruising ground.

For the racing man there is plenty of fun; the sneakbox and cat classes show some clever sailing. The Barnegat gunning sneakbox has been so often described that it seems unnecessary to do so again here; the boats used in racing are a development of the same idea, twenty-one feet over all, nine feet beam, eight inches draft; the crack boats being fitted with hollow spars and silk sails. Morton Johnson, the boat builder at Bay Head, seems to be the most successful designer and builder of these; at any rate, owners of his boats seem to win the most prizes, and the Bay Head Yacht Club, where many of his boats are owned, appears to be at the head in this class. The catboats, generally about twice the size of the "boxes," are from the boards of well-known designers, such as Cary Smith and C.D. Mower. William P. Kirk, of Toms River, is the most successful builder in this class, and in this the clubs at Seaside Park and at Island Heights generally come off best.

These little yacht clubs on the Bay are wonders; they all have a good membership of live men who take an active interest in sailing. Their initiation ($10 and dues ($5) are as modest as in the English clubs. They have surprisingly good houses and the members get remarkable service; for example, the care of a boat costs but five dollars for the season; this means pumping out, drying sails, bringing in to the landing stage for owner and taking back again to mooring every day in the four months of the season if he wishes it. A good mooring, made of cement, can be rented for two dollars per season; so the man without a bulging purse does very well. The weak point is that sleeping accommodations and restaurants are not, but where the clubs are there are hotels. These clubs are at Bay Head, Mantoloking, Toms River, Island Heights, and Seaside Park, the two latter have the largest clubhouses and best anchorages, and are the most convenient as to trains for Philadelphians. Bay Head can be reached in two hours from almost any part of north Jersey. Seaside Park itself is a Godforsaken looking place, without a bush or blade of grass, on the sand dunes between the Bay and ocean, with buildings of an unutterable ugliness; but a fine healthy spot that might be made as green as the New Yorkers have made Seabright, where the conditions are precisely the same. Seaside Park has the great advantage to Philadelphians that there one has saltwater within ninety minutes of Broad Street.

If there was a yacht club station with bed and board and a shipkeeper at the little harbor at the western end of Barnegat Pier it would be a fine spot to keep a little boat, for from there there is ample sailing ground, and a short run of twelve miles would take one down to the Inlet, where there is a good harbor, the dike behind the Sunset House, and plenty of salt, and fishing, and bathing. As there is good train service up in the morning and cheap commutation, it would be a boon to the business man who wants to get into old clothes and a boat and have a sniff of the sea, but does not care for Atlantic City with all its silly caravansaries and the summer boardwalk rabble. An ideal spot for a sailing headquarters could be made at the deep cove known as Winter Anchorage at the lower end of the long stretch of land that runs down from Bay Head. It is at the north side of the Inlet, protected on the south and southwest by a small island and on the north and northeast by the hook of the land, has ten to fourteen feet of water at low tide, with sticky bottom.

The twelve miles of this land below the Pier all belong to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which could create a fine cottage colony there if a good road were built down to the point. It would be practically an island, as it would be surrounded by water in every direction; the ocean on the outside and the Bay on the inside would make the nearest land five miles away and practically no breeze could be a land breeze. A lot of Japanese could turn it into a garden spot; today, within a couple of hours of the two largest cities in the country it is absolutely deserted except for a couple of lifesaving stations.

If the new places like Seaside Park are appalling in their rawness, the villages of old Barnegat, Waretown, and Toms River on the western shore, with their overhanging elms and oldtime flavor more than compensate. The best of these to my mind is Toms River, of revolutionary date, which has a little the air of Nantucket village about it. It is at the head of navigation on the Toms River, seven miles from Seaside Park, the longest east and west stretch to be had on the Bay. Here Kirk has his shop and seems to do a good business, both in building and laying up. Faunce Brothers are also here, but further down stream at the deeper water, so they get the larger craft. Still further down, at Island Heights, are shops and hauling out yards; so that, bearing in mind those at Bay Head and old Barnegat one sees that this little sheet of water is the best supplied in this respect of any of its size and depth in this country. Indeed, there are few bits of water, cut off as it were by themselves, that can equal Barnegat in turnout of small sailing craft, and some of them are high sided, able seagoing vessels that surprise one until he sees what they have to face down at the Inlet.

Engines are being put into lots of old boats and all the new cruisers have them. There is a horror of grass, but this terror can be got rid of by a quick reverse. The engines take the place of poling as a means of getting home on quiet nights; before they came, when the wind died out, the plan used to be to work over into shoal water and then one could pole along on the sand as fast as a man could walk along the deck; some tall stories are told at Bay Head about this sort of work.

The people about the Bay appear to have all the good qualities that we are in the habit of attributing to Anglo-Saxon water folk all the world over; their records on the lifesaving stations are equal to any, and if there was wrecking and robbing by decoying vessels ashore in the old days, as historians and romancers claim, the habit does not descend to the present generation, for prices are no worse here than at other sailing centers. Barnegat men make good sailors; I have known several yacht hands who have become masters. They are spunky too; one man when a boy of thirteen used to make regular trips from Toms River to New York in his father's trading schooner in the days before the railroad. Rough runs outside they of course sometimes had; they risked it once too often, and one night the schooner went ashore just above Sea Girt and broke up, and all the father saved was his boy, whom he managed to bring ashore on his back through the surf.

It must have been a ticklish run, for although the Inlet is over a mile wide and the channel is deep, yet it is crooked and shifting, and the two outside entrances north and south of the Shoals are not easy to pick up. The Shoals themselves, stretching out almost a mile to sea, are nasty. I have seen them on a moonlight autumn night in a dying southeaster twisting and boiling, like the rapids at the whirlpool below Niagara, in an awe inspiring way. I was on shore, I am thankful to say. Struggling along against the wind I passed down to the beach near the lifesaving station; here the wind was driving along the sand about a foot above the beach in a never ending stream that produced the same feeling of dizziness that one gets in looking closely at the road from a fast motorcar. Nearby, as I went back awed and cheerfully gloomy, I passed gruesome reminders of the Shoals' work in the shape of over a dozen figureheads of wrecked ships decorating the grounds of a bungalow.

In the Bay the small boat cruiser, the fisherman, the gunner, and the lover of wild life in general, has pasturages which may not be the greenest and best in the outdoor world, but which are far from being the worst by a long shot. If he thinks he can better them he can go south inside through the various bays and sounds almost to Cape May, but will come back sadder and wiser and assured that, in Jersey at least, there is no better place for the purpose to be found. If the Englishman had Barnegat he would have painted it, and written books about it, and gloated over it as he has the Norfolk Broads, but in our great wealth of cruising grounds it is almost entirely overlooked.

(often 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)

Autumn.
Last Day of September.
Three months left of 1921.
School is now fairly underway.
Did you go up in the sea plane?
Nights are a little longer than days.
We surely have had some fine days.
The clock was set back last Sunday.
Fields are still gay with wild flowers.
September weather has averaged warm.
Jury will come back second week in October.
September was the finest month of the summer.
Cranberry men have a large part of their crop off the vines.
The sewer was put up Horner street to the school house Monday.
Tuesday was primary day—all aboard for the general election, now!
Night comes pretty early, since the clock went back to standard time.
Net fishermen will soon be overhauling their gear for the winter's fishing.
A flock of quail were seen feeding on the J. Brown Burr lawn on Allen street Wednesday.
Somewhat of lightning, and not much rain, Sunday evening, followed by a baby gale that afternoon.
Now that the rush is over, is the project of widening Main street to go over till next August.
Flocks of starling are seen on the beaches, much smaller in numbers, but much in the same nature as flocks of swallows.
Huddy Park has been used more this summer than ever before. It has been common to see people sitting there this year, while heretofore it was rarely done.
Days are now less than twelve hours long.
Main street was too narrow again on Saturday night.
Cranberry men are sending berries to the middle west.
Thrashers and catbirds are seen in the thickets, and the robins have also taken to the swamps.
Quite a number of folks went flying the first of the week; it was too good a chance to miss.
Lee Dunton is working with manager M.R. Hecht at the Poultry Producers' Association egg shipping plant. Eggs are coming in pretty fast for this season which is a dull season for eggs.
Lima beans and sweet corn stay by us. Lots of late sweet corn, but the corn worm did riddle it.
The first party to go up in the sea plan Monday consisted of William C. Nolte, Joseph Y. Murphy, Hans A. Hanson, Jesse Woolley and William H. Fischer.
While all the rest is going on, we must not forget that the entrance to Hyers street, at Washington street, must be widened and the sky parlor removed.
The mild September, with no frosts, leaves most of the trees still green as summer. Gums, sumac and sassafras are the chief exceptions. Here and there a maple has turned yellow or crimson.
The Pennsylvania Railroad winter schedule went into effect on Sunday last. Trains will leave Toms River during the winter for Camden and Philadelphia at 8.12 a.m. and 3.56 p.m.; arrive here from Philadelphia at 10.09 a.m. and 5.41 p.m. This week only there has been an extra train up in the morning and back at night.
The yacht club house is closed for the summer.
Many reports come in of apple and pear trees in bloom. Charles W. Herflicker reported three apple trees in his orchard blooming last week, former Assemblyman Adolph Ernst has a pear tree in bloom.
A fire to the southwest of town was last Saturday headed off from the Wyckoff bogs, owned by George H. Holman, on Sunken Branch. It did burn an old bog, which was once owned by “Billy” Irons, a well known cranberry man, forty years ago. Edward Crabbe and other fire wardens from Berkeley township aided Mr. Holman's men in fighting the fire.
The biggest asset Toms River has is first, the river; second, the trees. Both are shamefully neglected. The town is losing on both everyday, and nobody does anything to stop the loss.

BUREAU CHIEF HOLDS FATE OF LIGHT HOUSE
WANT UNCLE SAM TO SPEND $100,000 ON BARNEGAT LIGHT
Making his second trip to Barnegat Light this summer, Commissioner George R. Putnam, head of the Lighthouse Bureau, conferred with Congressman Appleby, the engineers of the State Department of Commerce and Navigation, and Jesse Howland, of Seabright, a well-known practical builder of jetties and bulkheads on the north Jersey coast, with an idea of reaching some plan by which Barnegat Light can be saved. It is believed that the federal government is willing to spend as much as $100,000 on saving the lighthouse, partly as a matter of business, partly in deference to sentiment; but that the administration does not feel like going any farther than that sum.
Two plans were presented  on Friday last at the lighthouse. One was suggested by Mr. Howland, as the outcome of conferences with Lighthouse Bureau engineers: It is to build a wall of stone, eighteen feet above mean low water, starting from the sand hill inside the lighthouse, and curving around it on the lines of the present partly destroyed timber jetties, and leaving an opening at the east end, into which the sand may wash. This stone pile, or wall would be higher by several feet than the ground at the base of the lighthouse. The second proposition was presented by B.F. Cresson, Jr., Consulting Engineer of the State Department of Commerce and Navigation, with Henry Sherman, Assistant Engineer, and Robert F. Engle, of Beach Haven, one of the commissioners of that department. It would be to build jetties of timber piling, with a row of sheet piling between two rows of piles, all cross braced and strengthened with a rip-rap of stone on each side. These jetties would take somewhat the same shape as the Haupt jetties that were not completed.
It is estimated that the Howland plan would cost $100,000; Messrs. Cresson and Sherman think that their plan could be worked out for half that, but the stone piles would not be so massive. It is understood that Howland is to meet this week with the State Department engineers to go over a modification of the two plans...
This is Commissioner Putnam's third visit to Barnegat Light since the Courier began its fight to save the lighthouse early in 1919. He was at Barnegat City [now Barnegat Light Borough] in the summer of 1920, when it was decided to proceed with the jetties the borough had started under plans of Prof. Lewis M. Haupt; he was here again last June with Congressman Appleby. While not willing to admit that Barnegat is the most important of the 14,000 or so lights on the coasts of the United States, the commission cheerfully admitted that it is easily the most widely known and has the most friends of them all. The commissioner feels that navigation would be best served by a lightship off Barnegat Shoals, and there is little doubt that one will be placed there soon, no matter what may or may not happen to the lighthouse. Mr. Putnam, like Secretary Herbert Hoover [later, president], on his visit to Barnegat Light, tells the Courier that had the light been built with a deep foundation it might be saved by surrounding its base with a heavy rock pile or cement casing, down into the sand, but the records of the department say it was built on a timber crib, which is not very deep in the ground...

FLYING BOAT TAKES RIDERS AT BAY AND RIVER TOWNS
A flying boat of the Aeromarine Airways, Inc., whose headquarters are at the Times Building, New York, has been for the past two weeks taking out passengers (as reported in the Courier last week) from the bay and river resorts. After having spent ten days at Bay Head, Mantoloking, Seaside Park, Island Heights, Ocean Gate and similar towns, the boat arrived at Toms River on Monday and flew from here that afternoon and the next day.
The pilot of this craft is Delos Smith, who holds the world record for sustained flying in a flying boat when in 1919 he was in the air 20 hours and 10 minutes in navy plane F-5-L, from Hampton Roads. The men with him were George Walker, mechanic, and J.E.C. Brown, publicity agent. Mr. Brown said they were visiting the seashore resorts in a publicity campaign. In the summer these planes fly from the northern summer resorts, and in the winter from southern resorts such as Palm Beach, St. Petersburg, Miami, Key West, Bimini, Tampa, New Orleans and from Cuban resorts. Thursday of last week, at 5 P.M., one of the larger planes belonging to this company left the Columbia Yacht Club, on Riverside Drive, New York, and Sunday arrived in Havana, Cuba, carrying two passengers. The company runs excursion trips to seacoast cities and resorts all around New York, as far as Newport to the east and Atlantic City to the south. They also have an American Cuban mail contract. Some of their large boats are fitted up with a cabin containing six chairs. The boat in use here was a naval coast patrol plane, altered so that it had an open cockpit seating five beside the pilot.

[CLICK HERE for the Aeromarine Airways history website, with many interesting large photos and further information]

HANGAR STICKS OUT LIKE WART ON A MAN'S NOSE
Wherever you go in this section the big hangar at Lakehurst, on its cleared hill, sticks out like a wart on a man's nose. At Barnegat Light, the keepers say it is plainly visible on a clear day, and when the searchlights at each end are lighted up, as was the case Thursday night of last week, the lighthouse keepers almost thought that the twin lights of Navesink had been moved to Lakehurst.
From an airplane it is just as conspicuous. What would happen in event of war if enemy planes got within eye-range of it? Perhaps it might be camouflaged in case of war. But if it is built as it is so that its own birds will be able to locate the home nest, it looks as if they might in ordinary weather without much trouble.

AMERICAN LEGION BAND
American Legion Band is the name adopted by the new band organization in Toms River, and the band will be affiliated with the Legion, many of the boys in Vanderveer Post joining the band. Organization was completed at a meeting on Wednesday night of this week. Lester Yoder is president; Arthur C. Taylor, vice-president, Charles R. Berrien, Secretary; Richard Garland, treasurer; Edward E. Snyder, librarian. It was voted to incorporate the band, and E.E. Snyder, was named a committee to have the body incorporated. Dues were fixed at 25 cents a month [$3,82 in 2021 dollars], and initiation fee at $5 [$76.42 in 2021 dollars]. It is the plan to give band concerts next summer at Huddy Park. Thirty pieces, with a reserve force of thirty more is the strength proposed. The band will also accept honorary paying members.

BEEN SELLING FARMS
H.J. Faby reports the following farms changing ownership through his agency: W.C. Pinkerton farm, Pleasant Plains, to Brooklyn people; Warren Applegate homestead, Cedar Grover, to Lester Fellner, of Toms River; Albert Sanders farm, Washington street, to Arlington people; Capt. Oscar Bull farm, Pleasant Plains, to New Yorkers; Walker Rushton farm, Pleasant Plains, to Hoboken people.

SOME BIG CRANBERRIES
Harry Holloway, who is picking the Applegate and Austin bogs at Dover, last week brought to the Courier office a cranberry that was seven-eights of an inch long, and the same size in diameter, or 2 an 3-4 inches round it. It was a handsome, red berry.
W. Scott Jackson brought to the Courier office a box of one of his fancy varieties of bell shaped berries, nicely colored, and each berry a full inch long, or longer. They were a handsome lot of fruit, and Mr. Jackson is lucky enough to have quite a lot of them.

WHO IS THE BEST SCOOPER?
Some of the cranberry harvesters want to know who is the champion scooper. For two years past “Young Saul” Applegate had the record in this locality with forty bushels scooped in six hours. Last Friday on Freeman bogs at Goose Creek, Myron Wilbert scooped 25 bushels, starting after eleven in the morning and ending so that he was home at three P.M. The same day and on the same bog, in about the same time, Clifford Applegate and Ed Tice, working as a team, scooped 64 bushels. These boys think they have the record. Some of the growers are paying fifty cents a bushel to scoopers; others are getting by with thirty cents. Some are paying 50 cents for hand picked berries and some eighty cents.
But, if any scooper can beat these achievements, these men would like to hear of it through the Courier.

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​Countless vessels have been lost along our shores for hundreds of years, each one a fingerprint: similar in concept, original in design.

Today's tragedy involves the fishing smack Red Dragon, sailing out of Atlantic City and lost in a nor'easter off Long Beach Island, as recounted by Toms River weekly newspaper, the New Jersey Courier. Times and tides may be renewed daily, but the dangers faced by shore fishermen remain ever the same.

OFF BEACH HAVEN IN BIG GALE
Sept. 24th, 1903

Five lives were lost off Long Beach on Wednesday of last week by the terrible gale. The fishing smack Red Dragon of Atlantic City, went down with all on board.

Thursday, the hull of the smack was swept ashore at Harvey Cedars. Lashed fast was the body of her captain, DeWitt Clark. Frank DuCasse, mate, and Danial Murdock, sailor, came ashore not far distant. Two other seamen, John Elms and Louis Swanson, were also drowned.

The Red Dragon was owned by Captain John Young and John Tallman. She was about sixty feet keel, schooner rigged and a well equipped fishing smack.

She left Atlantic City Tuesday for the fishing grounds off Beach Haven. She was weighted down with tons of ice, used for keeping the fish fresh.

It is supposed that the schooner was anchored to ride out the gale; but the storm was much fiercer than her crew had expected. They cut away the mast and rigging, but still she was submerged by the seas. All except the captain seem to have washed overboard, and he came ashore with the wreck when the cable parted.

On the other hand, the surfmen on Long Beach, as reported by David S. White of Harvey Cedars, have a theory that the schooner was headed for Delaware Breakwater or else for Little Egg Harbor Inlet, when struck by the fiercest of the northeast blow. They say the mast was broken off at the partners, and not chopped away, and that the sails had been first three-reefed, and then tied down. The clock in the cabin and a watch on one of the bodies both stopped at 24 minutes past seven. They hold that the smack put for harbor, and was scudding under bare poles when her mast went by the board and overturned her. After that the shift of wind brought her up the coast and beached her and the crew at Long Beach.

Three of the drowned men, Clark, Ducasse and Swanson, left widows and families, Clark having five children surviving him.

Murdock's body was taken to North Long Branch and buried from the home of his adopted parents, John S. West and wife.

Saturday, surfman Abe Dothaday of Love Ladies Island station, found another body in the surf. It was that of John Elms of 318 Beech street, Philadelphia. Coroner J. Clarence Cranmer of West Creek, took charge of all the bodies found and gave a burial permit.

In the same edition of the New Jersey Courier was a report on the storm itself and its effect along Ocean County's shore communities, highlighting boats damaged and lost, built and owned by names familiar to our maritime history.

​Reports of the damage wrought by last Wednesday's gale are still coming in, and mark it as the most destructive gale along this coast in a half century.

At Bay Head, pieces of the board walk were picked up bodily and hurled against the nearby cottages, in some instances as high as the roof. The Verplanck, Hawley, Barker and Cameron cottages were injured in this way. Nearly every cottage there bears some mark of the gale. Only three yachts were left at their moorings in the protected basin, but only a few were badly injured, including Hazard's launch Curlew, J.M. Chadwick's Minerva, and Mr. Wells' Rex.

Verandas were blown off at the Bluffs and the Ocean View hotels, windows were blown in and chimneys torn down.

At Point Pleasant, the beach board walk was blown about the beach, trees were torn up, electric wires went down, and chimneys were blown over. The frames for the new Episcopal rectory and for VanNote's new barn went down.

At Mantoloking, in addition to other damage, the yacht Whisper, owned by Louis deF. Downer, went into the bridge and was damaged.

All along the beach, board walks, houses and outbuildings, as well as boats at anchor, suffered much.

The sloop in the draw at Barnegat Pier, that blocked the P.R.R. Trains on Wednesday, was the Arthur L. Fling, built a few years ago at Atlantic City for Eugene Longstreet. She was sailed this summer by a Norfolk, Va., man, and had just reached the Pier a day or two before. The most of the fleet broke loose while the gale was still northeast, and landed on the meadows, but the Fling held till the wind shifted and then went back into the draw.

The power yacht Mattie, one of the larger craft at Sea Side Park, owned by Mr. Schibe, the Philadelphia base ball man, went onto the bridge and is a total loss. Others of the Sea Side Park fleet are being straightened up, having been brought back from different points along the upper bay where they stranded or sunk. Few were badly hurt.

At Island Heights, the hull of Guy Luburg's launch is a total loss, only the engine being saved. The Maraquita, built by W.L. Force of Keyport, for W.A. Burnett, now owned by Messrs. Merrihew and Scott, has her sides and deck smashed, cabin gone, and looks a wreck.

Webster's auxiliary yacht Myra, the Schoettle brothers' Hobo and Scat, W.K. Smith's Ruby, are among the worst damaged. Nearly every craft in the fleet was dismasted, and the total damage is estimated now at $15,000 [$446, 033 in 2021 dollars]. The sneakbox racers and other small craft did not escape, Carpenter's box Rose being a total loss, and others damaged.

At Tuckerton, thirty big trees went down, the telephone service was crippled, boat houses and barns collapsed, and a new house being built for Nicholas Shepherd, is racked and twisted.

The yacht Merry Thought, owned by John P. Crozer at Beach Haven, was blown five miles across the bay, going ashore at Jesse's Point, near Parkertown.

The large schooner yacht Mattie W. porter also went ashore below Tuckerton.

The sloop Vigilant of Tuckerton, was blown ashore near edge cove.

Two weeks later, the October 8th edition of the New Jersey Courier, reported a sad epilogue to the Red Dragon tragedy.

​One of the men drowned in the wreck of the Atlantic City fishing smack Red Dragon off Long Beach on September 16th, was Louis Swanson, a Swede, and his body was the only one not recovered. Last week his sister, who had left her home in Sweden to join him in Atlantic City, reached this country and was greeted with the sad news of his death.

One month later, the Courier reported that his widow received $1,000 compensation in life insurance [$39,735 in 2021 dollars] for his death.

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Equinox today.
Corn is in the shock.
Primaries next Tuesday.
Wonderfully fine weather.
One week left of September.
Pumpkins are being gathered.
Schools are making a good start.
Baseball season is over, they say.
Many yachts are in commission still.
Summer people are motoring home.
Summer ends and fall begins today.
Water street is one rough road just now.
Oystermen are shipping to the cities now.
The year is almost three-quarters gone.
Many fishing parties motor through town.
Set the clock back next Saturday night.
More bright colored leaves show in the swamps.
An epidemic of colds seems going around the village.
Mercury was above eighty in the shade last Sunday.
This is the time for the motor tourists, finest of all the year.
Main street continues to keep busy on Saturdays at any rate.
Boys fish daily for pike—men do too—in the grass on the river flats.
The clusters of berries on the upland sumacs have turned wine red.
Pears and apples are rather scarce, though some folks have plenty of apples.
Pumpkins seem to have grown in large numbers and size, and in fact most late crops did well.
Jitneys are looking up although the summer is over. Ed Kelly has a Buick light six and Jack Costa a Cleveland six.
The Lambert line boats are off for the summer, except a few special trips. They made a Barnegat City trip Sunday and Wednesday.
If there were only a market for old field balsam, goldenrod and wild carrot, how soon some of our farmers would get rich.
Judge Lloyd has kept court moving at schedule time. He is a busy, an upright, and a capable judge, we'll tell the world.
Strangers in town say that Toms River is a busy little village. Most of them say it is a beautiful one too. That's the difference from old days, of twenty years ago—they used to say it was beautiful, but sleepy.
Rumor says a new dentist is coming to town.
All the public schools of the county are now open.
A change in the railroad time table will take place next Sunday.
Basketball would come next, if there was a place in town to play it.
Robins are mostly flocking to the woods before going south for the winter.
Most of the swallows have disappeared from the beaches and the bay shore.
The Traco theatre has sold its Delco plant [an electric generator] to Mr. Maguire of the Bay-Lea farm.
William VanKirk has sold the yacht Ida May to Edward B. Garrigues of Philadelphia and Ocean City.
Roy King, who was badly burned a few weeks ago by the explosion of gasoline, was allowed out of bed on Monday, and is improving.
In towns which have been on a daylight saving schedule during the past summer, the clocks will be set back an hour at midnight on Saturday next.
Starling are seen and heard about again this week. Query—where were they during late July, August and early September? If you can tell, let us know.
George Newman of Pershing [a section of Toms River mostly forgotten today] has a fine exhibition plot of sweet potatoes that were grown this year from selected seed. A demonstration will be given there in October by sweet potato specialists from the State Experiment station.
Capt. Lambert stopped running the Lambert boat line on Sunday of this week for regular trips. He says that this year was behind last year 1137 passengers; probably due to the free bridge and to the busses that have been running to and from the beach this summer.
The recent full moon was that known to the old folks as the harvest moon—for about a week the moon rose very nearly the same time, and was almost a full round disk the whole time.
Miss Magee, teacher of the Cedar Grove school, was married on Sunday last, and wants to give up the school. Whether to close the school and bring the pupils in to town, or hunt around for another teacher, is bothering the school authorities.

CARNIVAL GAMBLING GRAFT
That carnival company, with its gambling graft as the real show, and the shows as a side attraction, seems to have cut a wide swath through New Jersey this summer, and everywhere to have aroused protest. Wherever they have been heard from it is the same story: the town demoralized by open gambling, large amounts of money taken from the town by the crooked games, little or nothing left for the fire company (they seem to make a specialty of fire companies) or other organization which sponsored them. Toms River, Lakewood, Freehold and now Woodbury and Wenonah. It will probably be a long time before they play a return in this territory and fool another organization into taking them up and giving them a standing in any of these towns visited this summer.

GLAD YOU'RE LIVING, EH!
Glad you're living these days? You bet! Anyone who wouldn't like to live in New Jersey, especially along the Ocean county shore, in September, October and November, must be hard to suit. Anyone who can be a grouch in the weather we get in the fall, must be ailing somewhere in his makeup, either in body or mind.
An old Englishman, still retaining his love for the homeland, though a thorough going American, used to say he had traveled over much of the world, but he had found no climate anywhere to equal the autumn days in this section, with their inspiring and invigorating conditions.

WHERE SUFFRAGE IS A BOON
Suffrage is the biggest boon the small seashore boroughs ever had—meaning of course, woman's suffrage. Before the 19th amendment was passed it was very difficult to get competent men to fill the borough offices in these small places. Now women are taking the jobs of clerk, assessor and collector, clerk of the school board, and members of school board, etc., in ever increasing numbers. It has about doubled the amount of available office-holding material.

LOST HIS LIFE BATTLING THE TIDES OF BARNEGAT
Jules Bell, aged 26 years, a Philadelphian who summers at Island Heights, lost his life in the bay near Barnegat Inlet on Sunday. The body was recovered, taken to Barnegat, and Coroner Job Smith of Tuckerton was called. He brought the body to the summer home of the Bells in Island Heights. Undertaker C.P. Anderson of Toms River shipped it to Philadelphia, where it was buried on Wednesday at Ivy Hill cemetery. Bell was married, and leaves a wife and two small children. He was a brother to Walter Bell and Garfield Bell, and had been with his brothers and sisters, coming to Island Heights for a long time.
On Sunday Bell with John McFarland and a party of friends went down the bay on a yachting trip. Bell is said to have donned his bathing suit and jumped over. Some of his friends say that he was warm when he went into the cold water, and the shock was too much for his heart; others say that he was caught in the run of a strong tide, and trying to swim against it, the struggle was too much for his heart. All agree that death was caused by heart failure, rather than by drowning. He was picked up by another boat and taken to Barnegat.

SCHLINGLOGG ARRESTED BY FEDERAL MEN AT ATLANTIC
Julius Schlingloff, who has a home at Beachview, near Barnegat, was arrested last Saturday at Atlantic City, where he is a restaurant chef, on the charge of being implicated in smuggling liquors from the schooner Pocomoke at that place last summer. Schlingloff was one of the men who were arrested with Andy Grob of the Extra Dry cafe, Atlantic City, when digging up $20,000 worth of bottled goods, which is now locked up in Toms River jail, waiting for its disposition by the Supreme Court of the state. Several other arrests were made last Saturday by the federal officers in Atlantic City.
At the time the bottled stuff was located at Barnegat, and Grob, John Maxwell and a number of other men were arrested, a small memorandum book was found on the running board of the big Packard car which Maxwell was in when he was arrested. It is assumed that somebody, presumably Maxwell, thought he had thrown the book away, to keep it from getting into the hands of the officers when he was searched, but that it struck the running board and staid there till the car reached Toms River, when it was picked up. In this book were entries giving names of a number of men suspected to be implicated in the Pocomoke job, with figures opposite the names, as if it were an account of moneys paid out. This book was turned over to the federal authorities, and is probably the link in the chain that has run down a number of men at Atlantic City and brought about their arrest.

RECENT DEATHS
RADCLIFFE B. MILLS
Radcliffe B. Mills, for many years one of the most enthusiastic boosters of Island Heights, and of the whole Barnegat Bay section, died on Friday last, September 16, from chronic valvular disease of the heart. He had had a stroke of paralysis some years ago, but had to a large degree recovered from it. With Mrs. Mills he was spending the summer at the Heights. The body was taken to Philadelphia, and burial made at Cedar Hill cemetery, Germantown, Pa. Mr. Mills was the son of William and Martha (Bridge) Mills. He was in the dye and woollen business in Germantown for many years, and for a generation had been coming to Barnegat Pier [the station and settlement area at what is now Good Luck Point, the Pennsylvania Railroad then going across to Seaside Park and the barrier island – the area today (2021) is the site of the Martell's Water's Edge restaurant], Island Heights and Toms River.
He was the organizer and one of the chief boosters in the Island Heights Board of Trade some years ago, and was also one of the originators of the celebrated Labor day sports now held yearly in Island Heights.
In his younger days he was a yachtsman and interested in the races of the old Toms River yacht club, when it was almost the only club on the coast.
His wife, Luzetta Caldwell Mills, survives him; there are no children. He belonged to Mitchell lodge, F. and A.M. In Philadelphia.

FISH AND GAME
Last Saturday afternoon, between Mantoloking and Chadwicks, there were forty or more automobiles parked along the beach road, while the parties coming in them were surf fishing on the beach. Between Chadwick and Lavallette was a smaller group, while south of Seaside Park were more surf anglers. Sunday there was another string of cars along the beach road. Long Beach also had its surf fishermen. Barnegat City [now Barnegat Light] and New Inlet are the favored spots, with Surf City, High Point [section of now Harvey Cedars], and Beach Haven, as second best. Surf fishing had a bad setback last summer and in the early part of this summer, due to continued east winds and heavy seas, making it impossible for the average fisherman to keep his line out; but this fall there have been more fishing in the surf than ever before.
The bay is full of small blue fish, or “snapping mackerel.” Many of them are caught. They are called by their local name because of the bluefish way of snapping at bait or food. They make lively fishing, though running from a half pound to a pound generally.
Oyster Creek Channel has been the favored spot by Forked River party boatmen this month, and other anglers have been going there too.
A.D. Nickerson, Joe Miller, Mr. Carley, all Beachwoodites, with Herman Fuhr and Harry Grover, tried Oyster Creek Channel Saturday night and got eight big weakfish.

TRYING TO FORM A BAND
An effort is being made to organize a band at Toms River, the old Reliance band having failed to survive the war. The new band has been christened the Toms River Military Band. The Courier is in receipt of a communication saying that there will be a meeting next Wednesday evening at the American Legion rooms, when the band will be organized and plans laid for its future. This communication says that an effort will be made to build up a band of forty pieces, and that any and all interested in the band should be out at this meeting. A band is a big asset to the town, and it would be fine to have band concerts in Huddy Park on summer evenings once more.

APPLEBY VISITS BARNEGAT LIGHT WITH ENGINEERS
In his efforts to save Barnegat Lighthouse from the seas, Congressman Appleby again today visits Barnegat City [today Barnegat Light Borough] with federal engineers from the Lighthouse Bureau. The contention of the Bureau that a stone seawall is needed around the end of the island, at the inlet to save the lighthouse is being opposed by the Congressman, who favors the plan that has been partly successful of placing jetties of piling at right angles tot he set of the tide. The Lighthouse Bureau engineers have variously estimated from $150,000 to $1,000,000 needed to save the lighthouse by the seawall plan. Mr. Appleby believes that $50,000 spent on jetties would do the work just as well, or, rather, better. In fact the stone seawall that the government built two years ago went into deep water that winter, while the piling jetty that Barnegat City borough built at its own expense in the sand west of the lighthouse still stands and has built up considerable beach.

CRANBERRY HARVEST HALF OVER BIGGER AND BETTER
The cranberry harvest is now half over, and for the most part the Ocean county growers have found their yield bigger and better than they had anticipated. The fancy varieties turned out especially fine, large and well colored. Most growers are getting more off their bogs than they had estimated.
The cost of picking the bogs is a little lower this year. Italian pickers, who demanded seventy cents a bushel [$10.70 in 2021 dollars] during the labor shortage, are glad this year to work for fifty cents [$7.64 in 2021 dollars]. Scoopers are taking thirty cents [$4.58 in 2021 dollars] and seem to be able to make big money at that.
Some of the growers are shipping berries west. The Double Trouble Company sent a carload to Chicago last week, all in the new half barrel crate, made from Double Trouble cedar. The railroads give an extra low rate on the box package, as compared to the barrel, as it will store more in a car and is easier to handle.

SEA PLANE RUNNING PASSENGERS
One of the passenger sea planes, that operate at Atlantic City in summer and at Miami or Palm Beach in winter, has been in this county the past week. The latter end of last week the machine was located at Bay Head. Monday and Tuesday it was at Island Heights, and took up parties of five or six for a seven minute flight at $5 a head. It made a trip up the river to Toms River village, turning over the business part of the town, and going back to the Island Heights public dock.

DEMAND FOR POULTRY FARMS
This fall sees a brisk demand for poultry farms in this section. A well laid out and established farm is what most of the newcomers want, but barring that (which cannot be had, as the owners of such places will not sell very often) they are willing to take small farms and build their own poultry plants. Some of the newcomers are figuring on buying wild land and putting it into a poultry plant in the rough. Cultivated land is better than wild land in one respect, in that it is always well to raise all the green food needed for the chickens right on the range when possible. Wild land, however, is said to possess some other qualities in its favor that cultivated land has not got.
There has been considerable talk of a building company to put up small poultry farms and sell them on the part cash down, part installment plan. A good many new poultry farms could be established here if such a plan were worked out, as the Toms River-Lakewood section of Ocean county is now looked upon as the most favorable location in the east for chicken raising.

BROOKLYN GIANTS' HOME HITS TOOK GAME FROM TOMS RIVER
Two home runs in the early part of the game, made by the Brooklyn Giants, proved the undoing of Toms river in the “last game of the season” on Thursday, September 15. The Giants were a real team, and played real ball. Toms River was just a little behind them—not much, but enough to lose. Score was 6 to 3.

JUDGE LLOYD CLEANING UP CIVIL COURT CALENDARS
BUCK WOOLLEY WON CASE
Hadley Woolley (better known as “Buck”), who manages the Anthony Irons boat storage and repair shops, won a verdict of $59.53 [$909 in 2021 dollars] against Walter Godfrey, a Beachwood summer resident, on Friday. Woolley had done some repairs to Godfrey's boat. The owner had paid him $100, and there was a dispute as to the balance owed. The jury settled it as above.
DAVID HARUM WAS REVERSED
In the horse trade suit of Minnie A. Mullen, a youthful Tuckerton farmer and dairywoman, vs. Michael Farkas, a Hammonton horse dealer, the decision in the celebrated David Harum court for horse dealers was reversed, and the fair young plaintiff was awarded a cash verdict of $140 as the outcome of her being stuck in a horse trade. Judge David A. Veeder represented Miss Mullen; Judge Maja Leon Berry was counsel for Farkas.
The story of the plaintiff was that she traded a horse and cow and gave $25 to boot to Farkas for a horse last spring, he guaranteeing it would be a suitable horse for her farmwork and for delivering milk in Tuckerton, where she runs a milk route. During the summer, it developed that the horse had the runaway habit, and she could not drive it in her milk delivery. She sued to recover what she had given for the horse. Farkas denied he had sold the plaintiff a horse, saying the deal was with her father, and that he was stuck bad by Papa Mullen, the cow he got being almost worthless and the horse such a poor creature that he sold it for $5.
He said he had wanted to trade back and the Mullens refused. The jury decided that the horse and cow and $25 boot brought the value of what Mullen gave for the Farkas horse up to $140, and gave a verdict accordingly, adding that Farkas should get his horse back. That case was tried before Judge Lloyd on Monday.

POULTRYMEN START LECTURE COURSE FOR THE WINTER
The Ocean County Poultry Association will hold a lecture course this winter, having lectures on practical subjects by the leading experts and investigators in poultry raising. The first of the series was held last Wednesday evening at the courthouse, when about fifty poultrymen gathered to hear Dr. O.B. Kent of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., tell of culling the flocks and keeping the best breeders. Dr. Kent also gave lantern slides to illustrate his talk. In the afternoon at the George S. Raynor farm, he gave a practical illustration in culling and selecting breeders. This was watched with interest by a gathering of thirty poultry raisers.

FORKED RIVER GAME FARM EXHIBIT AT TRENTON FAIR
Duncan Dunn, head keeper of the Forked River Game Farm, is arranging an exhibit of game for the Trenton fair next week, similar to the one at the Mt. Holly fair held last week. In the exhibit will be deer, rabbit, wild turkeys, wild geese, wild ducks, quail and pheasant, including a number of varieties of the latter game birds.

RUSHING WORK AT NAVAL AIR STATION, LAKEHURST
The past week a large number of men have been put on the job at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, and the work there is being rushed. It is stated that it is hoped to complete the plant by the end of October, cleaning up practically all the construction work at the station.
The work of building the ZR-1 [later named Shenandoah] is a separate operation, and is being begun. The big hangar is being got ready for assembling the airship, parts of which have been made at League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, and are being shipped to Lakehurst.

BEACHWOOD WOMAN DRIVES 6000 MILES IN LIZZIE
Mrs. Anita G. Busch of Beachwood recently completed a 6000 mile drive in her tin Lizzie. She drove the whole 6000 miles herself, and is quite proud of that fact. She left Galveston, Tex., in the middle of May, drove up through Colorado and Wyoming, through Glacier Park, to the Pacific coast, and down that coast to Los Angeles, Cal. From the latter city, on September 13, she [sent] the Courier... the story of her trip.

ANOTHER TYPHOID VICTIM
Jacobstown, Sept. 20.—Oliver E. Britton, 23-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Britton of this place, died at his home Saturday, Sept. 17, a victim of the typhoid epidemic which had its origin at a church supper. Britton was badly gored by a bull August 25 and was about on crutches on the day of the church supper. He did not attend the supper, but his parents brought the meal to him. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Jacobstown home.

ISLAND HEIGHTS
60 new desks and seats were installed in the schoolhouse last week and with our new principal we think we have as nice as school as there is in Ocean county.
George Blessing, our barber, has bought the Miller Wilbur house at Windsor Park, and with Mrs. Blessing and little Sara intend to make it their permanent home.
We have had a very busy and prosperous summer here. Now nearly all the summer residents have returned to their city homes and we winter people must return to our same old grind. Have to take a jitney to get our castor oil and our soup bone at Toms River, but there is one blessing, our men won't have to wear raincatchers, and even if our streets are full of holes, why so are a good many of people's stockings.
The seaplane is doing a rushing business. 35 have already gone as high as they ever expect to go.

MANTOLOKING
The following cottages here have been vacated by their summer tenants—Joseph Stillwell, S.C. Shadinger, Rev. Mr. Booth, Mrs. Thompson, H.W. Polhemus and E.K. Stillwell.
Mrs. J.R. Albertson has closed her hotel and will soon go to Asbury Park for the winter.
Mrs. L.M. Runkle of Adamston is having a portion of her store remodeled so she can live there during the winter.
Theodore Sculthorp of the Coastguard station here, spent a day with his family at West Mantoloking this week.

WARETOWN
The land company has started a street from the Main road to the bay, running parallel to Bayview avenue, and across the meadows. The Main street end is graded and partly travelled, and two bungalows are being built on it. An office building is also being put up on the land company tract opposite the postoffice on the Main Shore road. This tract of land, lying open to the bay, directly opposite the inlet, is one of the finest locations on the east coast if it could be properly developed.

BEACH HAVEN
Day fishing is rather poor, but the night fishing has been excellent. Many parties go down to the inlet for the night and come back with big catches of weakfish running up to 8, 9 and 10 pounds in weight.
The Engleside hotel closed on Tuesday of this week. The hotel put on a sale of a lot of secondhand furniture, which went at a comparatively fair price.
Hotel Acme will not close till October 1. The hotel will be painted and other repairs made before next summer rolls round.
P.R.R. Will take off its summer trains on September 25, and the local beach train will be our schedule for the winter months.
Cottagers are thinning out and going back to the city. Sorry to see them leave and they seem equally sorry to go.
School has resumed with Prof. McCabe of Toms River, Mrs. Hannah Stratton (a former teacher) of Beach Haven, and Mrs. Samuel Soper of Barnegat City, who taught last year, as the three teachers. This is an addition of one teacher, showing the growth of the town. Surf City pupils are brought here now, and also our high school pupils are transported to the mainland.

TUCKERTON
A bunch of the young people from here enjoyed a marshmallow toast and doggie roast on the beach at Ship Bottom on Friday night. Those in the party included: Mrs. Fannye Allen, Mrs. W. Buckingham, Misses Leona Mott, Ada Andrews, Sara Mathis, Elizabeth Smith, Linda Andrews and Marian Leake, Messrs. Harry Rochesky, Julius Honer, Francis Parker, Allan Graf, C.A. Sharp, Walter Parsons and Elton Mathis.

BEACHWOOD
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Edwards and family arrived here on Saturday, having spent much of the summer in Canada. They will stay here till ready for their fall migration to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where they have a winter home.
Dr. Martin Luther Stimson arrived last week and spent a short time here. He and Mrs. Stimson will visit their daughter in Canada this fall, and then spend the winter in the south. Last winter they spent in Japan and China.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank O. Price motored home to Brooklyn on Monday after a delightful summer here.
Dr. Lyons and Miss R.B. Holmes are spending the month of September in the bungalow, as usual. Mrs. Synclair McKelway, wife of the famous editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, and her niece Miss Foster, were their weekend guests. Mr. McKelway was greatly impressed with the natural beauty of Beachwood.

BAYVILLE
Capt. Frank Worth is home for the winter from New York, where he has been sailing one of the Coney Island boats all summer.
Coastguard Jesse Rogers spent Tuesday with his family.

OCEAN GATE
Commodore William Exall is attending the session of the State Firemen's Association this week at Atlantic City, having been secretary of that body for many years.
Summer folks are pretty well cleaned out, but we have a good many weekend visitors.

SEASIDE PARK
C.W. Mathis and Co. recently received three carloads of lumber from the south.
There were many surf fishermen around the past week end, and in fact all of this month.
Almost all the yacht club fleet is still at the moorings, showing that our people still come down for the week ends at least.
The clubhouse will remain open all of this month.
The Manhassat had quite a number of guests over the last week end.
A seaplane belonging to the Aero Marine company came down the coast on Monday and circling dropped in the bay near the public dock. The operator announced that he would give anyone desiring to go a five minute trip for $5, or doubling the price, would take passengers to Barnegat City, alighting for a 15 minute stay and back again. Several of our citizens were glad of the opportunity and made the trip to the lighthouse.
Proprietor H. Ross Turner is still giving late vacationists and tourists the chance to spend the good fall days by the sea at the Manhasset hotel. Over the week end the register showed near a hundred guests and reservations are made for much later dates.

WEST CREEK
Miss Anna Carter of Camden has been visiting relatives here for the past week. As this is her first visit after a lapse of a few years, she expresses herself as surprised and pleased with the improvements and advancement of our town and we are glad to say the good work still goes on.
Edwd. L. Shinn has purchased the large lot on the boulevard on Main st, owned by G.B. Parsons of Atlantic City, a most desirable location for a home which he intends to build later on, thus adding to that already attractive portion of our village.
Oyster markets are fair. Shipments are made every day and promises of more trade in the near future.

BARNEGAT
Summer is over, schools are opened, summer visitors have gone, potato crops are short, prices are going up, gunning season will soon be here, lodges are open for the winter season, we begin to look at our coal bins and woodpile, frost is due most any time, and according to some prophets we are to have a hard winter. The north temperate zone can give us both torrid and frigid weather.

SEASIDE HEIGHTS
There are still a good number of summer homes open in this resort.
E.C. Kramer and Co. are laying the foundation for a dwelling on Stockton avenue.
Charles Homer is now serving the people with milk, Earl Newman having closed his business and returned up the beach.

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ADVERTISE JOBS SWAMP BOGS
Sheriff Chafey is advertising the Jobs Swamp cranberry bogs for sale on October 18. These bogs belong to Mrs. William L. Wilbur of Hightstown who was the daughter of the late Judge Ephraim P. Emson of Collier Mills. The sale is under an order of the Chancery Court, in a suit brought by her brother, Christian D. Emson, and growing out of the settlement of their father's estate. The advertisement appears in this issue of the Courier.

Welcome to another Wooden Boat Wednesday!

This week, we turn the clock back to 1976 with a New York Times feature that profiled shore boatbuilder Dave Beaton and the quirks and culture of his locally-famous boatyard, still in operation today.

CLICK HERE for Artistry in Wood: The Beaton Path - New York Times, March 21st, 1976
The full text is available to the public; subscribers to the New York Times can see the original digitized newsprint pages.

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