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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

March 1922 Part II
March 1922 Part I
February 17th, 1922
February 10th, 1922
February 3rd, 1922
January 27th, 1922
January 20th, 1922
January 13th, 1922
January 6th, 1922
December 30th, 1921​
December 23rd, 1921
December 16th, 1921
​December 9th, 1921
December 2nd, 1921
November 25th, 1921
November 18th, 1921​
November 11th, 1921​
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October 21st, 1921
​October 14th, 1921
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September 30th, 1921
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Welcome back to another era in the Toms River area's past, one century ago this week!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LAKEHURST
The boys have been playing baseball these warm days.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Welcome to a special Wooden Boat Wednesday!

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

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

Official show website: acboatshow.com

Welcome to another Wooden Boat Wednesday!

This week we look back 150 years to the second operating year of the Toms River Yacht Club, and its first race of the season.

The New York Herald
May 18, 1872

The Tom's River Regatta.
The Tom's River Yacht Club held its first regatta of the season of 1872 on Wednesday. This is one of the most popular clubs in New Jersey, and although the club owns only small boats the members are all thorough yachtsmen, and have a good time at their annual gatherings. The weather was beautiful, and a large number of ladies weer present, watching with interest the doings of the different competing yachts. The course was from a stakeboat anchored at the mouth of Tom's River to a stakeboat in Barnegat Bay and return, a distance of about twenty miles.

The following yachts competed in the race:--

Name—Captain—Length Ft. In.
Chary Hooper—John Grant—28.8
Legal Tender—S.N. Gibenon [possibly misspelled Giberson]—26.4
Maggie—C.W. Potter—25.6 ½
Lulie—Amos Birdsall—24.8
Lizzie Hopkins—Joe Townsend—24.8
Oscar Robinson—H.C. Gulick—24.7
Vapor—J.H. Valkenburgh [possibly misspelled Falkenburg]—23.9 ½
Sarah and May—Isaac P. Fraser—20.6

The boats were all started together at eleven A.M., and got away well together. The race was a very pretty one, as nearly the whole of the course was visible to the spectators at the starting point. The Chary Hooper, however, appeared to have the best of it from the first, as she soon took the lead and kept it.

The yachts arrived as follows:--

Name—Arrived
Chary Hooper—2:10:15
Lulie—2:10:49
Oscar Robinson—2:19:58
Maggie—2:20:34
Vapor—2:21:56
Lizzie Hopkins—2:34:20
Legal Tender—2:48:00

The first prize, a handsome silver cup, was won by the Chary Hooper. A dozen silver spoons were awarded to the second boat and a ten-dollar bill [about $230 in 2022 dollars] to the third. The next regatta of this club will take place in the month of August.

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

Let your mind wander as you consider life around February 17th, 1922, courtesy the New Jersey Courier weekly newspaper and Ocean County Library archives, and peppered with items of maritime interest (around a 15 minute read).

February's on the run.
Rather muddy last week end.
That li'l ol' groun' hog's no fool, is he?
George Alsheimer's block of three stores on Main Street is going up rapidly now.
Ice has been in and out of the bay several times this winter, but did no harm to the bridges.
Sun rises tomorrow at 6:51 and sets at 5:38, making the day ten hours and forty-seven minutes long.
Enlargements to the Toms River Yacht Club house will be started soon. The plans have been drawn by P.P. Elkinton.
A number of other local men have decided they want to join in the local poultry farm development plan which appears to offer big opportunities to this neighborhood.
Shooting match at Beachwood [on] Lincoln's Birthday.
Skip Cowdrick is again employed at the Naval Air Station.
Pine Beach has had an epidemic of bad colds, almost every winter resident there having an attack.
Mrs. Widmaier of Brooklyn, has had P.P. Elkinton prepare plans for a new bungalow in Beachwood, her second venture in building in that resort. The plans are being bid on by L.J. Hutchinson of Pine Beach and Herman Fuhr of Toms River.
In the old days the first order of business after a heavy snow fall was to clear the gutters, so that when a thaw came the snow could run off without flooding the streets. Now the state highway workers scrape all the snow into the gutters. Every change is not for the better.

FIRST SNEAKBOX RACING FLEET FEATURED BY PERRINE IN NEW YORK
POLYHUE YACHT CLUB (BEACHWOOD) LEADS THE WAY
One of the 15-foot sail boats made so conspicuous by the Polyhue Yacht Club, of Beachwood, will be exhibited by the builder, J. Howard Perrine, of Barnegat, a the seventeenth annual motor-boat ship and engine show, at the Grand Central Palace, New York, February 17 to 25.
Mr. Perrine will also show a picture of the Beachwood fleet.

HOWLAND TO BUILD JETTY TO SAVE BARNEGAT LIGHT
According to an interview in the Asbury Park Press last Saturday with Jesse A. Howland, the Sea Bright jetty and bulkhead builder, the Lighthouse Bureau engineers, at Washington, have come to an agreement with B.F. Cresson, Jr., chief engineer of the New Jersey Board of Commerce and Navigation, and with Howland, as to the type and size of stone jetties that are to be built around the point of land at Barnegat City on which Barnegat Light is holding its precarious tenure. At a meeting with Commissioner Putnam, of the Bureau; Congressman Appleby, Engineer Cresson and Contractor Howland, last summer, it was arranged that Howland was to meet with Cresson and the bureau engineers, and that Cresson was to combine his own plans for a jetty with Howland's and the bureau's plan for a sea wall. This, from Howland's interview in the Press, has apparently been done, and it is now up to the federal government's O.K. In the form of an appropriation.
Howland says the plan is to build a massive wall of heavy stone, starting at the point of land north of the light, and circling around to the southeast, running a considerable distance to the south of the light, but off from the shore at an angle. This is the old sea wall, put in two summers ago by the government engineers, but in exactly the opposite direction; that had the southeast end tied to shore and the northwest  end was the flying or loose end. It is now proposed, according to statements of Howland, to put a short jetty out from the sea wall in an easterly direction at each end of the wall.
Howland has built some effective bulkheads of stone at Sea Bright, and is considering one at Asbury Park for that city.

OCEAN COUNTY DINNER IN PHILADELPHIA
If you were one of the two hundred or so Ocean Countians and former Ocean Countians at the dinner given by the recently formed Ocean County Society of Philadelphia, you are jolly well glad that you went, to use the expression that is charged up to our English cousins; and if you were not there, to copy this time from the American boy, you don't know what you missed. For it was a big affair for the society and for those Ocean County folk, not actually members, who were among those invited to the affair. There were people present from the north end, the middle end and the south end of the county—though, as the society was begun by former residents of old Stafford, the bulk of guests were from Barnegat, Manahawkin, Cedar Run, West Creek, Tuckerton and Beach Haven.
The dinner was given in the gold banquet room of the Adelphia Hotel... The menu had most folks, except those who had helped get it up, puzzled till the dishes came. On the front page was a handsome picture of Barnegat Light, and the bill of fare followed on the second page. Read it and see what you make of it:
Edge Cove cocktail; sedge; mixed pine cones and beach nuts; bay berries; Staffordville soup; skates fried in polarine, with toadstools; roast Ocean County sea gull, stuffed with Egg Harbor mussels; salt meadow sauce; Eagleswood marsh fruit; 'Hawkin yams; Burrsville beans, Metedeconk style; seaweed with High Point dressing; frozen sea water; lighthouse cookies; green brier tonic...

LAKEWOOD RAINMAKER ASKS APPROPRIATION FROM STATE
Claiming that it was his efforts that broke the disastrous drought of last summer, and also his efforts that furnished the plentiful rains of the summer of 1920, Charles F. Rath, of Massachusetts Avenue and Locust Streets, Lakewood, has asked Alva Agee, of the State Board of Agriculture, for an appropriation to enable him to make rain as needed the coming summer, and thus save the farm crops of the state from destruction by drought. He has also called on Senator Hagaman and Assemblyman Parker to aid him in getting financial help for his rainmaking operations.
Rath says that for the coming summer he will produce rainfall during the months of June or July at the rate of $1000 per inch of rainfall [$16,735 in 2022 dollars], but would make a lump sum price of $10,000 for those two months [$167,350 in 2022 dollars]; or a lump sum of $15,000 for the four months of May, June, July and August, to make doubly sure of good crops in 1922. Rath predicts that this coming summer there will be less rain than last year. He says scientists have it figured out that this is a drought period and this scarcity of rains will last for a long number of years. He says he has experimented in rain-making for ten years past, and at his own expense in that length of time has put millions of dollars in the pockets of Jersey farmers. In order to demonstrate to the Board of Agriculture, what he could do, he brought down the copious showers in the summer of 1920, which made an enormous potato crop. Last year he says he was in communication with the State Board, and hoped to get some aid from them. The correspondence took up so much time that the drought had got in its bad work for several weeks; then, taking another chance on the generosity of the state, Rath got busy and produced the rains in midsummer that broke the drought, according to his statements.
Trenton folk, as usual, are rather skeptical of Rath's claims, and suggest that he must give the state authorities a demonstration before the legislature puts up the money.

MORE HONORED FOLK OF 90 AND MORE IN COUNTY
...Mrs. Mary J. McKaig, than whom there is no more esteemed resident of Island Heights, was born January 17, 1827, at New Egypt, and is now 95 years of age. She has lived at Island Heights since that resort was started a little more than forty years ago.

60 ACRES SEED SWEET POTATOES (Certified) PLEDGED HERE
Sixty acres of sweet potatoes, to be grown under conditions so that they can be certified by the State Department of Agriculture as disease free seed, was pledged at a meeting held at the Court House on Thursday, February 7. The growers pledging these sixty acres are all from Toms River and vicinity, though Jackson Township and other neighborhoods are now ready to come into the plan. It carries with it the necessity of finding a storage house capable of holding 10,000 bushels of sweet potatoes next winter. This is one of the activities of County Agent Waite, who has, by calling attention to the fact that the soil of Ocean County is so far free from sweet potato diseases, and that it will grow sweet potatoes with any other county in the state, created a big demand for Ocean County grown sweets for seed purposes. The recent farmers' week show at Trenton, where Ocean County carried off the first prize for sweet potatoes, the potatoes afterward being sent to President Harding, has advertised the Ocean County sweet potato all over the sweet potato growing area of the east and south, and the department at Trenton seem to think that any quantity of seed can be sold, provided our people raise it under conditions that keep it free from disease as at present...
Sweet potatoes are one of the most profitable crops in South Jersey, and it is readily seen that a seed crop will be more profitable than a food crop if it can be developed. Right now there is a big demand for Ocean County sweets for seed, which cannot be filled, as the tubers grown last fall recently were sold for food, there being no storage house here. It is considered probable that if the farmers of this section will go into sweet potato growing as a business that the business men of Toms River, who stood ready to back the egg-packing plant here with their money, will also back the sweet potato storage house.

RECENT WEDDINGS
Hecht-Woerner
At 6:30 on Saturday evening, February 4, in the Lakewood Presbyterian church, Miss May Woerner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Woerner, became the bride of Mr. Eugene Hecht of the Cox Cro Poultry Farm, Toms River. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Courtlandt P. Butler. The bride was attired in a beautiful white satin gown. After the wedding, a buffet luncheon was held at the Princeton hotel at 10 o'clock. The couple are spending a few weeks on a honeymoon trip to Florida after which they will reside at the home of the groom on River Avenue.

FISH AND GAME
M.J. Gilroy, of Bayonne, and Charlie Long, of Jersey City, have purchased a piece of ground at Lavallette, on which they will build a cabin, as they intend to do their future fishing on Barnegat Bay. Quite a few Newark fishermen are locating down that way, among them, Joe Roller, of Wilson Avenue.
At least a dozen well-organized bodies are working to put a stop to the pollution that is rapidly ruining fishing in New Jersey waters. Pound net men, anglers, officials of municipalities and menhaden fishermen are for once united in the fight. The condition has become so rank, that ling, caught in deep water, miles from the coast, are tainted. Ling are bottom feeders and traces of oil in them shows fishermen were forced to abandon the inshore grounds for the same reason, which of course adds to the consumer's bill—Newark Call.
From the Newark Call: “Newarkers and other Jerseymen who have been in Miami or other Florida resorts where fishing is one of the major attractions, this winter have found a number of Barnegat Bay boatmen on the job. Mutual recognitions have resulted in many pleasant fishing and boating parties, some of them in nature of reunions of old friends and sportsmen. The fishermen have found that the Barnegat Bay man is at home on whatever water he sails and that the location of fishing grounds and fish and determination of the best times and places to go comes as natural to them in the South as it does in Jersey's famous bay and surf fishing resort...

PERSONAL
Capt. Mark A. Carr, of the Sandy Hook Pilots' Association, well known at Forked River, and all along shore, was caught in a storm recently and could not leave the steamer he had piloted outside the Hook, resulting in a trip to the tropics for him.
Parkinson, the classy shortstop and hard hitter of the Toms River nine in 1920, has again signed up with the Phillies for 1922, so that he and “Wid” Conroy will be together. The Phillies will soon have a real team, if they keep on taking Toms River players, eh—what?
Mrs. Charles N. Warner has been critically ill at her home in Berkeley. Tuesday she was taken to a Philadelphia hospital. She was operated upon at once and has since been in a critical condition.

FRIENDS OF YOURS and MINE
Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther Stimson, of Beachwood, after spending the winter at Miami, Fla., have lately found the hot weather too depressing and not so very interesting to them, as they had long lived in the tropics, so they are now at Tyron, N.C. He says this is warm enough to suit them, piney and hilly, with more hills than Beachwood, but without Beachwood's incomparable river and beach and river sports. Dr. Stimson says that while in Miami he met Dr. Chas. B. Austin, of Toms River, and he appeared to be very well. He adds that he looks forward to the coming of The Courier with interest weekly as there is much of interest in it beside their own town news.
“Wid” Conroy, for several years the guiding spirit in Toms River's conquering team of baseball players, has gone with the Phillies of Philadelphia as coach and trainer this summer. He is an old-time big league player, and plays with his head as well as his body. The management of the Phillies put out a statement that they thought they had made a good move and were fortunate to get “Wid.” He has been manager of the New York Shipyard team, Camden, for several years.
Word from Aberdeen, Md., says that a daughter was born recently to Mr. and Mrs. Victor Williams, formerly of Barnegat City. Mr. Williams is in the aviation service there, joining it during the war. Mrs. Williams was at one time postmaster at Barnegat City, and is the daughter of the late Chas. Elmer Smith. Her mother, Mrs. Smith, is spending the winter at Aberdeen.
Clifford J. Butler, formerly of Bayville, writes from Los Angeles, Cal., that they wait the coming of The Courier eagerly each week, and that “everything is blooming out here.” Clifford and his family went out to the land of sunshine last fall, and if they like it, they will stay. He has a year's furlough from the Coast Guard service, and, should he stay in California, may ask a transfer to the Pacific coast.

RECENT DEATHS
Mrs. John K. Green
Mrs. John K. Green, well known at Toms River and Island Heights, died Sunday, February 12, from an acute attack of the heart, at her home, in Moorestown... [she] had been ill but a few days. Mr. Green is thus left alone, as their only daughter died while still a young woman. Mr. and Mrs. Green first came to Toms River in the early eighties, soon after the Pennsylvania Railroad was opened up through this town, and he was a conductor on the road. Later he conducted the hotel at Forked River, now owned by Fred B. Gowdy. Of late years they have lived either at Toms River or Island Heights, leaving here this fall to spend the winter in Moorestown. Captain Green's many friends here will sympathize with him in his grief.

BARNEGAT
Some time ago we read an article about the service and resignation of Allen Ridgway, conductor on the C.R.R. of N.J. There are several facts that were not brought out in regards to his popularity with the traveling public, and the high esteem in which he was held by the officials of the road. He first started railroading in 1879, and in a short time his ability as a railroader was seen by those in charge of the department in which he was employed. His interest in the affairs of the company soon won him promotion and he was often called in consultation with the officials as to best policies in changing and operating certain trains. He was always looking out for the welfare of the employees and at the same time did not neglect nor forget the rights of the company, nor fail to give them his best services, which gained him the respect and confidence of the higher officials. No man on the line was better known or more popular with the traveling public than “Al.”
His obliging and accommodating way made Al's train one to be sought by all. Among his many friends was George Gould, who often came here on gunning trips with him. It was through Al that Mr. Gould bought the great gunning place, the “Clam Islands,” and put it in his charge. This has made a great gunning point for many of our people through Al's generosity in allowing them to use it. He frequently had fishing and gunning parties here, New York people, who were spending some time at Lakewood; the many presents he received from his passengers, showed the feeling they had for him. After forty-three years of faithful service the company saw fit to retire him with a competent sum, showing their appreciation of his interest in their behalf. He is a man who loves fishing and gunning, gardening and quiet home life and we heartily wish him several years more to enjoy life in his own way. As to his successor, Harry Van Note, “nuff sed,” as it would be a repetition of what we have just related.
Capt. Elmer Bennett's home, on East Bay Street, commands a good view of the bay and ocean. During the recent gale and high tide Mrs. Bennett was looking out over the storm-lashed waters of the bay, watching lest some storm-tossed mariner would meet an untimely end in the waters with no one to give aid, when through the mist there appeared what on close observation was a large house boat, tossing from wave to wave, seemingly abandoned or unmanageable, as it was coming before the gale, swinging to all points of the compass. Mrs. Bennett quickly gave the alarm, and Captain Bennett, with his two boys, at once donned oilskins and prepared to face the cutting blasts in an effort to rescue the poor souls from a watery grave. Mrs. Bennett made preparations to receive the survivors with dry clothing, etc. When Mr. Bennett was ready he called his wife to show him the derelict, that was being swiftly borne to destruction on the cruel rocks, and shading her eyes from the beating rain with her hand, she pointed across the broad expanse of raging water, and said, “There she is, go do your duty.” Mr. Bennett, after taking a second look, exclaimed, “Lord, Lide, that's a haystack, over on Humock Knoll.”
Ambrose Cox has returned from Deland, Fla., after disposing of his oranges and grape fruit. His mother, Mrs. Ezra Parker, and son, Willits, will remain for some indefinite time.

BARNEGAT CITY (today Borough of Barnegat Light)
The roads are being scraped and it is hoped will be easier running.
Some of our citizens are proposing a general clean-up week, and every one lend a hand to clearing our streets of the wood and unsightly rubbish washed there by the past storm.

BAYVILLE
Reuben Potter had two valuable dogs run over on Friday morning by the train going south.
Coast Guard George Worth, from Station 110, visited his family this week.

BEACH HAVEN
The borough is having bulkheads put in east of Atlantic Avenue, at the low places where the ocean came through in the recent storm.
It is estimated that the proposed electric lighting plant, to be owned by the borough, will cost about $65,000 [$1.087 million in 2022 dollars], and will send its wires out into Long Beach Township if other resorts on the beach wish to take lights.
The new inlet below Beach Haven seems intent on becoming a big inlet. It is eating away the sand, especially on its north shore, and has gained greatly in size this winter. [This new inlet had opened during a nor'easter on Feb. 4, 1920, and would eventually take Tucker's Island, including its lighthouse, entirely by later this decade and into the next]

BEACHWOOD
Three commissioners are to be elected for a four-year term in May, and the one receiving the highest vote will be Mayor of Beachwood. Mayor J.H. Senior, who has been a good and faithful official, has positively declined to consider another term and it is expected that commissioner Chas. H. Haring will succeed him. There has already been considerable talk concerning candidates for the other two commissioners. It is conceded that one of these should be selected from the voter of Beachwood Heights [a short-lived nickname for the area of the borough south of the railroad lines, today the Garden State Parkway access road/Route 9 and Railroad Avenue].
Never in its history have the streets of Beachwood been in as bad condition. So-called packing gravel, put on last fall, is all soft mud.

FORKED RIVER
The Riverside Hotel is being painted and got ready for the 1922 season.
F.W. Briggs is painting and decorating the Greyhound for the coming season.
Some of our folks attended a hog-killing at Seaside Park, the porker weighing 500 pounds.
Joe Smires, Jr., and Lloyd Smires were at Coast Guard Station 112 for a few days last week.
Adolph Vaughn is now 81 years of age. He and his brother Ben were both ship carpenters at a federal post in Newbern, N.C., and were captured and put in Andersonville prison by the Confederates, being barely alive when exchanged.

ISLAND HEIGHTS
Mrs. Theodore Forrester went to Philadelphia last week to attend the Ocean County banquet. She returned home on Monday evening.
Mrs. McCauley presented the public library with seventy-five books.
Ed Dilley and a party of friends visited Stokes' boatyard Saturday.

LAKEHURST
The street lights were turned on Wednesday of last week for the first time, to the great satisfaction of the borough folks.
The Lakehurst Fire Company has bought a hook and ladder truck with full equipment, from Lakewood Fire Company.

LAKEWOOD
Lakewood S.P.C.A. Is after hotel guests who ill use pony carts at that place. Louis Murray was fined $30; Edward Kershonbau, and Barnard Frank, all of New York, each $5 for racing, beating or overloading hired-out ponies.

LAVALLETTE
Building is all the talk here this winter and spring. Lots sell readily and if there was any way to borrow money, there would be a new city spring up here, so many want to build. As it is there will be a goodly number of new summer homes erected this spring.
Gus Helmuth is getting ready to move into his ice cream parlor and lunch room on the corner of Grand and Reese Avenue.
There was some excitement here on Sunday afternoon, when a cat was seen with its head in a tin can. Several persons tried to get the cat to take it off, but failed. We hope some one will be able to relieve the poor cat of its suffering.
The fishermen are getting ready to fish in the bay for perch. There has been too much ice in the bay to set their nets.
The committee on boardwalk is looking around for some piling to replace the ones the storm washed out.

PINE BEACH
The river has been frozen over the greater part of the time since Christmas. A few pedestrians went from Pine Beach to Money Island on the ice. Also several people skated over.
The youngest person to cross on the ice was Emma Jane Sacrey, who was a little more than two years old. She, however, did not walk, but was drawn on a sled. Needless to say she enjoyed the trip immensely. On Tuesday afternoon, January 3, 1922, O.S. Haines, with his two hundred pounds of avoirdupois [a system of weights totaling 200 lbs.] walked a safe distance ahead to test the strength of the ice, followed by Mrs. Haines, Mrs. L.J. Sacrey, Virginia and Emma Jane Sacrey. The ice was about one foot thick.
Rumor says we are to have a new [train] station this summer. What do you know about it?
F.A. Lanahan, the owner of the Shady Nook, visited here on Monday.
The summer residents will perhaps be glad to learn that Pine Beach has a good milk man, who served milk regularly all winter. In spite of cold weather and storms he has never missed a trip.
John Mergenthaler is making more improvements to his home on Springfield Avenue.

SEASIDE HEIGHTS
The Board of Trade wants Council to give them an appropriation to advertise the borough as a summer resort.
Seaside Heights Yacht Club is now planning for its festivities during the summer of 1922. A Fourth of July celebration will be the opening event.

SHIP BOTTOM
Herman Bennett, manager of Ship Bottom Fishery, has gone to Florida.
Calvin Falkinburg, keeper of the Coast Guard Station, spent a few days this week in Tuckerton with his family.
We are very sorry to hear of the death of Jesse B. Westcott, 7957 Medary Street, Philadelphia, Pa., who came down here Saturday night on the train and was dead before 12 o'clock midnight. It is said acute indigestion caused his death.

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

Let your mind wander as you consider life around February 10th, 1922, courtesy the New Jersey Courier weekly newspaper and Ocean County Library archives, and peppered with items of maritime interest (around a 15 minute read).

Full moon tomorrow.
Snow and rain last night.
Venus is now evening star.
School meeting next Tuesday.
Miller Chamberlain is making additions to his home at the old toll gate—Main Shore Road and Jake's Branch.
Carl Wainwright reports seeing a blue heron on January 31, the same day that our Lanoka correspondent tells of seeing one.
Henry South has built himself a shop at the Central Railroad crossing of the Main Shore Road, in Beachwood, and has moved his vulcanizing business there from Main St.
Sun rises tomorrow at 7 and sets at 5:30, making 10 hours and 30 minutes of sunshine. This is a gain of 25 minutes in the morning and of 58 minutes in the afternoon, since midwinter.
Capt. Jim Chamberlain says that one of his neighbors insists she saw two turtles sunning themselves on a log in the brook near the Central Railroad bridge. As the discharge from the water cooling system of the Toms River electric plant comes into the stream there, it may be that this warm water accounts for the active turtles.
R. Ricossi has sold the house on Messenger street, that he recently bought from Roy Tilton, to Louis Davis.
When the north face of the town clock shows 12.10, the west 11.50 and the east 11.45, and the clock strikes 12, what time is it?
The school busses, between snow and mud, have all kinds of trouble the past two weeks, and were unable to make all their trips.
John Schmi, of Tuckerton, lost a horse recently. Running over a stick in the road, it flew up and hit the horse in the stomach, piercing it and causing the horse to bleed to death. Mr. Schmi has been unfortunate in the matter of horses, having sixteen to die in about five years.

YACHTING COMING BACK AS QUEEN OF ALL SPORTS
Yachting, the queen of all sports, is coming back. The war put a crimp in yachting many ways. All the larger craft were taken over by the government for mine-sweepers and patrols; all the boat builders were taken into government jobs; the tax on new boats, added to the high cost of labor and material would have made boat-building out of the question, if the builders were to be had.
Now that boat-builders are back on private jobs, and that materials have dropped within reason, there are numerous new boats being planned or under way. At Island Heights, Mayor William T. Rote is building a fifty-foot cruiser for Charles K. Haddon, of Island Heights and Haddonfield. This will be perhaps the finest craft of her type on Barnegat Bay, and will be comfortable for outside cruising. It is about the first good-sized craft started on the coast since the war.
Morgan Lister, of Philadelphia, who learned the yachting game as a summer resident with his parents, at Seaside Park, is to have a schooner yacht built at Delanco, by the Delanco Shipbuilding Co. This craft will be known as the Elizabeth, and will be an auxiliary schooner, designed by J. Murray Watts, of Philadelphia. Her length will be 41 feet, beam 14 feet, draught 5 feet. The auxiliary power will be a Mianus 18 horsepower engine. Mr. Lister intends using the craft on Delaware River and Bay. She will be built strong for sea cruising, and will be finished in mahogany.
It is reported that Morton Johnson, of Bay Head, will build a fleet of fifteen or more 18-footers for the Little Egg Harbor Yacht Club, at Beach Haven. These small craft will be light draught, center-board craft, and sloop rigged, all of the same design, and will be used for racing this summer at Beach Haven, where the racing game had almost died out. These small craft are expected to do for the lower bay what the 20-foot sneakbox has done for yacht racing in the upper bay.
Edward Crabbe, of Toms River, who recently bought the old Barnegat Bay champion catboat Gem, and who expects to rig her up with a racing sail to see if there is still life in her hull, is also having a 24-foot power bank skiff built at Lavallette, by Charles Hankins. This builder makes a specialty of pound boats and bank skiffs.
One of the busiest yards along the coast is that of J. Howard Perrine, of Barnegat, whose Barnegat sneakboxes are now almost as widely known as the much advertised Swampscott dory, or the Oldtown canoe. He has a bunch of work on hand, so much that he hasn't room for it in his shops and has had to set up a number of small craft out in the open.
There is talk that the Island Heights and Seaside Park Yacht Clubs will join with Beachwood (Polyhue) Club this summer in racing 15-footers. Also that Bay Head will take a hand in this game. The idea is that it will break in the younger boys, and by the time they have their muscles hardened, they will be ready to take up the racing of larger craft.
The Yachtsmen's Club of Philadelphia will revive its ocean race this summer. One of the courses that has many points in its favor is from Philadelphia to Barnegat Inlet and return. The Yachtsmen's Club has elected Robert Young, commodore; Charles Ragan, vice-commodore; H.G. Gardiner, rear commodore; William Drew, financial secretary; James Connor, recording secretary; Walter Biddle, treasurer; directors, Dr. Walter E. Uffenheimer, Harry Klein, John Mackin, Gene Conway, Frank Thompson, H.G. Evans, John Talley.

CUTTER WATCHES FOR RUM RUNNERS OFF JERSEY COAST
The Coast Guard Cutter Kickapoo is said to be cruising along the Jersey coast keeping a watch for rum runners that may approach the coast from foreign ports. Coast Guard crews are said to be instructed to keep an eye open for possible smugglers. The combination of schooners from Bermuda and fast motor boats from the Jersey inlets, is said to have been at work again, as it was last summer.

TUG CAPTAIN NOT TO BLAME FOR DROWNING OF BARGEMEN
Providence, Feb. 1.—United States Steamboat Inspectors yesterday exonerated the captain and crew of the tug Watuppa, of the Staples Transportation Company, of Fall River, from all blame in connection of the sinking of the barge Havana, off Mantoloking, N.J., January 11. Two lives were lost when the Havana, coal laden, for this port, went down. The inspectors stated the loss of the barge was due to heavy winds of hurricane force. Two of the barge's crew reached shore alive at Mantoloking, and two more washed ashore there, dead.

CUSTOMS OFFICERS TOOK WHISKEY FROM COUNTY JAIL
Fearing that the whiskey in the Ocean County jail, at Toms River, part of the smuggled stuff brought to Atlantic City on the schooner Pocomoke, might be replevined [a procedure whereby seized goods may be provisionally restored to their owner pending the outcome of an action to determine the rights of the parties concerned] by its alleged owners, as a result of the Van Ness act being unconstitutional, the whiskey was removed from the jail on Sunday morning, February 5, by customs officials in Philadelphia. The claim of the customs service was that the whiskey was smuggled in and therefore was forfeited, as having paid no duty.
This whiskey was found in a tract of woodland belonging to Assemblyman Ezra Parker, west of Barnegat, on August 6, last. The whiskey was bottled, and was packed in straw in 106 burlap bags. It was estimated to be 1000 quarts, worth at current rates nearly or quite $20,000 [$334k in 2022 dollars]. The whiskey was being dug up by Andrew Grob, of Atlantic City, one of the proprietors of the Extra Dry Cafe, at 1110 Atlantic Avenue, and a number of local men whom Grob had hired to dig up the whiskey and put it aboard touring cars for transportation. Instead it was brought to the county jail and sealed up in the steel cells of the new jail.
Grob was taken before Judge Jeffrey, under the Van Ness act, and sentenced to ninety days in the county jail.
Sunday the stuff was taken away in a truck by John R. Agnew, Inspector of Customs, and carried to the Appraiser's Stores, at 134 South Second Street, Philadelphia. He gave the Sheriff's office a receipt for 106 packages of liquor. The whiskey was said to be Old Crow, a Kentucky whiskey; Five-Star Haig, and Buchanan & Co.'s Black and White, both Scotch brands.

T.R.H.S. DEBATES WITH BARNEGAT ON MARCH 24
Toms River High School will debate with Barnegat High School at Barnegat on the evening of Friday, March 24. The Toms River school took choice of subject, leaving choice of place to Barnegat. The question to be debated is: “Resolved that the world powers reduce land and naval armament to the point only of providing for policing their own territories.” Toms River took the affirmative side. Tuckerton and Point Pleasant are to debate the same night, and Lakewood will debate with a Monmouth county high school.

PARKER'S BILL WOULD STOP SETTING STEEL TRAPS IN WOODS
Assemblyman Parker has been asked to introduce a bill to make it illegal to set steel traps in the upland woods. It would not stop the trapping of muskrats in the marshes. It is urged for it that steel traps catch more rabbit, pheasant and game generally than they do foxes or fur-bearing animals, and that hound dogs are also more or less frequently caught and crippled.

DURING TUCKERTON WOMAN'S FUNERAL, HOUSE IS ROBBED
While the funeral service was being said over the dead body of Mrs. William McDaniels, formerly a Tuckerton woman, at 314 East Main Street, Millville, a thief broke into the house and rifled the second story, stealing the dead woman's clothing. Mr. McDaniels is a cripple, being badly burned some months ago while rescuing a fellow worker from a fire in the glass plant where they were employed. He goes about on crutches.

COUNTY ASSESSMENT SHOWS MILLION GAIN OVER 1921
While the County Board of Taxation is still revising the tax duplicates for the year 1922, and has a number of districts to go over, enough books have been footed up to show that there will be a gain in tax valuations over the year 1921 of at least a million dollars [$16.73 million in 2022 dollars]. Of course all the homes built since October, 1920, are exempt from taxes, and had they been assessed the increase would have been double what it is now. About 70 per cent., or more than $700,000 of the increase comes from Lakewood.

FREE MOVIES DREW BOYS AND GIRLS FROM ALL AROUND
The free movies, showing “Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp,” at the Opera House, last Friday and Saturday, was a gala event for the grade pupils of Toms river and all the nearby towns. Tickets were given out to every pupil, either in the local school or in any school within reach of Toms River, up to and including the Eighth Grade. As a consequence the children from Lakehurst, Whitings, Pine Beach, Bayville, Lanoka, Forked River, Island Heights, Seaside Heights, Seaside Park, Lavallette and Osbornville, all enjoyed the film. Nor will they object if the picnic is repeated, so good a time did they have.

BEACH HAVEN TO HAVE ITS OWN ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT
The Borough of Beach Haven is to have its own electric light plant, owned by the borough. This was voted on Monday night last, at the meeting of the Borough Council. The plans in view are for a Diesel engine, burning heavy fuel oil. R.F. Engle was appointed a committee to interview engineers, that Council might select one to draw plans for the plant. Solicitor Berry was instructed to draw the necessary ordinance.

PERSONAL
Did you ever hear of a policeman putting out a fire with a snowball? Officer Johnson did that trick, when a short circuit set fire to an electric light pole on Main Street, in front of the Ocean House.

RECENT DEATHS
William R. Van Schoick
Willaim R. Van Schoick, former Postmaster and one of the best known citizens of Island Heights, died at Kimball hospital, Lakewood, Sunday, February 5, after an illness of more than two years, most of which time he had been at the hospital. He would have been 71 years of age in March, and was the son of Joseph and Annie (Cook) Van Schiock. He was a sawmill man in his younger days, and for some years past had been in the coal business. He was appointed Postmaster by President McKinley and served for sixteen years. He leaves a widow, two sons, Arthur, of Lakewood, and Howard of Island Heights, and a daughter, Mrs. Harry Sharp of Camden. Rev. H.J. Smith held funeral services at the home at 1.00 P.M., Wednesday; burial at Riverside cemetery.

George B. Barone
George B. Barone, son of Mrs. R. Ricossi of Toms River, died Tuesday, February 7, at Kimball hospital, Lakewood, following an operation. Death was caused by peritonitis, from a ruptured gall bladder. He would have been 21 years of age on February 22, and had helped his stepfather in his fruit store on Main Street...

Benjamin B. Lister
Benjamin B. Lister, a prominent real estate agent in Germantown, Pa., and for twenty years a summer cottager at Seaside Park, died Friday, January 27, and was buried at Media, Pa. He was the father of Mrs. Goble, wife of Dr. Paul E. Goble, of Toms River. He was 68 years of age, and leaves a son and three daughters and a widow. He was trustee of the Seaside Park Yacht Club, and interested in all the civic affairs at that resort, where he will be greatly missed by both the summer colony and the year-round folks.

Rev. E.H. Durell
Rev. E.H. Durell, a well-known Methodist clergyman, and also a prominent cranberry grower, died at his home, in Woodbury, Saturday, aged 93 years. He was long president of the American Cranberry Growers' Association, and on retiring, was made honorary president for life. His son, Anthony Durell, used to visit the Riverside House, at Toms River, and married Miss Olga Burchard, of Philadelphia, who was a frequent visitor at Toms River.

BARNEGAT
When the chilly blasts whistle through your whiskers, just think three weeks more we can get out our garden tools and delve in mother earth. Who said long winter!
The recent storm... lifted the ice from the creeks, carried it out on the meadows and also hundreds of bushels of oysters that had frozen in it. Many people have been reaping a harvest by gathering them...
J.H. Perrine is building another fleet of sneakboxes for different boat clubs on the bay. He is also fitting out one of his famous racing 16-foot sneakboxes for the motor boat show in New York...
The death of Capt. Garrett Lippincott, at Snug Harbor, on January 29, removed another of our oldest and well-known citizens. He was born at Forked River, in 1835, and all his younger days were spent on the sea...

BEACH HAVEN
Mrs. Ella Pharo, waitress of the Central House, is taking her vacation now while the boarders are few, and spending some time in West Creek, also visiting relatives in Mount Holly, Camden and Atlantic City.
The borough has a bunch of men at work repairing the damage done to the boardwalk during the storm.
George H. Penrod is having alterations made in his store, and having installed a large refrigerator to accommodate a line of fresh meats which he will carry for the convenience of his customers.
The storm left the county road in very bad condition where the tides came in from the bay and crossed in many places; wherever there was new gravel put last year they seemed to be the worst, and were bad as far as Manahawkin. Those who had business came over from the mainland, among them R.F. Rutter and William P. Rutter, George Kelly and Capt. Henry Cowperthwaite, of West Creek. George says he is not coming over any more no matter what happens, and Captain Henry says not to expect him over again until the Fourth of July. However, the men got to work at the roads the last of the week and if we have no more bad weather we believe these gentlemen will find our roads in good condition again before long, we are hoping so any way.
Capt. Mannas Kelly, of Bonds Coast Guard Station, spent the week end with his family, in West Creek.

BEACHWOOD
Mr. and Mrs. William Mill Butler had an exciting and strenuous time recently moving their household effects to Beachwood from the apartment which they have occupied for over nine years past, at 454 Fort Washington Avenue, New York. The first van load arrived at their new garage, just over the Pine Beach line, on January 20, and the second and third van loads motored into the borough five days later; but the fourth and fifth van loads got caught in the deep snow which fell during the blizzard, and one of the trucks broke an axle four miles this side of Freehold. The other van got through and unloaded on February 1, and then went back for the contents of the other next day. Mr. and Mrs. Butler are now permanently located in their pretty bungalow, on Bayside Avenue, which they have occupied from early spring until late in the fall, each year, since 1916. Their New York household goods are stored in their spacious garage, pending the completion of their new home, on the water front. Mr. Butler commutes to his business in New York, two or three times a week, going early in the morning and returning in the evening [via the Central Railroad of New Jersey], being the first resident of Beachwood to do this.

FORKED RIVER
The Barkalow brothers report trapping two mink, a big muskrat and two opossums.
Some of our folks report finding maypinks almost ready to burst their buds in an old field belonging to W.B. Penn.
Tuesday morning, when the 6:16 left the depot, it struck a big buck deer at Lacey Crossing and hurt it so badly it died. It was taken to Toms River and turned over to Game Warden J.H. Evernham.

ISLAND HEIGHTS
Mr. Diesinger was a week-end visitor at Stokes' boat-yard.
Last Thursday evening a Community Social was held in Siddon's Hall. Most everyone on the Heights attended. Games were played and talk fests held, and old and young all had a good time. Refreshments of cake and ice cream were served and all went home after having spent a very happy evening.
What is it that doesn't cost much dough. And goes where other cars can't go. And fights its way through ice and snow.—The Flivver.
And when a tire flies off, by ging, it doesn't stop, but starts to sing, and takes you home on one bare rim.—The Tin Lizzie.
When the Studebaker engine stalls, and the Cadillac won't go at all, who comes to their aid and helps them all?—Why, the dear old Ford!

LAKEHURST
Lakehurst for the past five years has stood way up the line as one of the largest business producing stations on the entire Central Railroad system. That being the case, it would seem as if the village was entitled to a better depot than it has. At any rate, now that electric lights are in the village, the least the railroad company could do, would be to take out the smoky oil lamps, that only serve to show you how dark it is, and replace them with electric lights.
The Lakehurst Fire Company have bought a new Reo chassis for their fire apparatus. They have now a gasoline-driven pump, which will be set the Reo chassis, also a hose reel, and a fifty-gallon chemical tank. The new outfit costing the company $1500 [$25k in 2022 dollars]. The company will be busy for some time raising this money. One of the methods will be a barn dance at Red Men's Hall, on March 18.
Central Railroad men are proud of the record of the road in the recent snow storm. There were plenty of drifts, but no trains were blocked and no delays of any moment.

LANOKA
Harold Worth is taking out the large oak trees out of South Railroad Avenue to widen the street, which we hope will be a township road in the near future.

LAVALLETTE
Gus Helmuth has rented I.B. Osborn's store and garage.
There are several new men in town who are going to help work on the new cottages that are going up for the coming season.
Norman MacGregor has plans out for a new house, to take the place of the one that burned down a few years ago on the beach front.
I.B. Osborn is moving over to Manasquan, where he has bought a very nice place for business.
The beach road has been kept in good shape so far this winter. John Strickland keeps the scraper going over it after a rain or a thaw.
The Lakewood Coast Electric Company had some of their men down, to go over and fix up our lights. It was quite a treat to have the lights on after being in darkness for three nights.

MANAHAWKIN
George Frederickson is installing a Delco Light System in his residence on Main Street. He expects soon to open a barber shop with William Cranmer, of Barnegat, as barber.

OCEAN GATE
Council meeting Saturday P.M. At the Council room.
Harry D. Black has started work on the new Mason bungalow on the corner of Bay View and Asbury Avenues.
Mrs. Frank Biernbaum and children are spending a few days in Philadelphia with her parents.
Two of the members of the Ocean Gate A.A. [Athletic Association] were here Sunday. It is rumored they will build a club house near the ball field this spring.
People from Philadelphia were looking over the stores on Ocean Gate and Atlantic Avenues this week, which have been advertised for sale several times this winter.
Recently one of our Ford owners took a trip to the county seat, and after transacting his business, invited a couple of Ocean Gate ladies to ride back with him. After trying vainly for quite a while to start his car he finally was compelled to secure the services of a mechanic, but still the Ford refused to move. Happening to put his hand in his pocket he felt a plug he had previously removed and which was causing his trouble. After paying the mechanic he started for home.

PLEASANT PLAINS
Rev. W.B. Nobles met with an accident last week. He was in his well cleaning it; a brick fell from the top, cutting his head; he is around now and feeling some better.

SEASIDE PARK
The Seaside Park Fire Company has in the past year bought a pumping engine and 1000 feet of hose, at a cost of $5500 [$92k in 2022 dollars]. All but $1000 of this has been paid for. The Company is busy trying to raise by April 1 the remaining $1000. On Washington's birthday they will have their annual ball in the firehouse hall. Wardell's Orchestra will furnish music. The Company was organized in 1915.
At the Council meeting on Saturday last it was decided not to lease any privileges at the public dock to individuals for the present. This move is thought by some to be a bad one, taking into consideration the condition of the dock, which at present is unsafe and really requires a new one, with no borough funds available, which means another bond issue. In Mr. Kennedy's agreement a new and enlarged structure would be installed for the summer traffic and other much needed improvements were also scheduled.
Council decided to erect a public drinking fountain on the school grounds, the installation to be made as soon as the weather will permit.
Council decided to include in the 1922 appropriation, $500 [$8400 in 2022 dollars], which will be distributed by the Board of Trade for resort advertising.
Aided by public subscription the borough will erect comfort stations about the Park; the sites will be determined later...
Howard Keough was given a contract to paint fifty road signs to be placed along the highway.
The [Board of Trade] will also erect an illuminated sign at the borough line.
Emory Peck and family are again living in the Berkeley station after a short sojourn to one of the Thompson cottages.
C.W. Mathis will soon erect a new building on Fifth Avenue, and it is rumored will move his grocery business there.
Robert Disbrow, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Disbrow, of Toms River, has enlisted for one year in the Coast Guard Service, and is now stationed at Station 109.

Welcome to another Wooden Boat Wednesday!

As we look ahead to the extended forecast, it seems clear that time and opportunity for hope of any ice this winter is, once again, fast dwindling.

So!

Enjoy this video by photo and video professional extraordinaire, Peter Slack, with some good iceboating from 2015, and imagine yourself there.

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