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.

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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 3rd, 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).

(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)

February.
Second month.
28 days in February.
Moonlit evenings now.
Yesterday was Ground Hog day.
Lincoln's birthday Sunday, 12th last.
Hooray, you can see the days get longer.
Last-week was the wintriest of the winter.
How bright the stars were after the storm Sunday night.
Put chains on the hind wheels and the motor car doesn't mind snow and ice.
Carl Wainwright ended the gunning season Tuesday by bagging two black ducks.
The United Feed Co. is planning a new building next the Central Railroad and the Main Shore Road.
The Ground Hog is a canny beastie. Like the oracles of old, you can generally read his weather prediction either way. Yesterday it was cloudy all the morning, but broke away enough in the noon hour for some light to filter through—enough to cast a faint shadow. Later the sun came out bright.
The Courier 1922 Almanac is in this issue.
Howard Tice drove into town from Pine Beach this week in a cutter of the vintage of 1880, bells and all. Some boy, some rig!
Freeholders meet on Tuesday of next week and take up the County budget for 1922.
Louis Davis has bought the old Lawrence house at the corner of Lakehurst road and Irons street from the Toms River Amusement Co. Since he bought it he has had a chance to sell it at an advanced price.
A heavy sea on the beach after the big storm. The surf's roar could be heard in Toms River both Sunday and Monday nights.
Adolph Anderson, who for several years has lived in Merchantville, has returned to Bayville and is now working for J.P. Evernham on his new Main street store building.
The Girl Scouts held a cake sale in the Red Cross room on Saturday and garnered some $33 [$548 in 2022 dollars] toward the maintenance fund for the car used by the Child Welfare Nurse, Miss Bergen.
The State Highway Department kept Route 4 open in spite of the snow. Scrapers, tractor drawn, were used on Saturday and again on Sunday to break the road.
Boys and girls had a lot of fun coasting and snowballing this week. But they couldn't do it as we used to—“cut behind”—for there were no sleighs to “hitch onto.”
The boy who had a sleigh and rubber boots for Christmas, since this week has decided that all things comes to him who waits.
As the days lengthen, yachtsmen begin to talk and plan for summer.
School meeting on Tuesday, February 14. The terms of Mrs. Crabbe and judge W.H. Jeffrey expire. If the voters wish, both these members will serve another term. Leonard Clark is announced to be a candidate also. There may be more by the 14th.
A Main street young woman is wearing a handsome diamond ring.
The Toms River Motor Co., with quick discernment, utilized the snow storm as a good advertising opportunity. They sent out a snow plow, drawn by a Fordson tractor, and opened the streets around town on Sunday afternoon.
Sun rises tomorrow at 7:08, and sets at 5:21, making the day ten hours and 18 minutes long.

RECALLING LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS, LIFE-SAVING SURFMEN, SHIPWRECKS AND THEIR COLLECTORS
As we look across the bay our attention is centered on Barnegat Light, the faithful old beacon that has never failed since 1859 to warn “Ships that pass in the night.” Of all the keepers—Fuller, Brown, Kelly, Yates, Reeves, Bills, Woodmansee and Cranmer, all are dead except Joshua Reeves and Clarence Cranmer. When we read of the bill to pension old Life Savers, we find there are but few of the old members left. The old crew years ago were Sam Perrine, Joel Ridgway, Stephen Inman, Solomon and John Soper, Furman Perrine, Alexander Chandler, William Inman and some others we cannot call to mind, but they are all gone, and very few of the men are left who were then under the old Life Saving Department. As to the early settlers and builders of Barnegat City [today Barnegat Light Borough], which started about 1878 or 79 we hardly think there is one living today. They were Buzby, Wm. Bailey, Ben Archer, Enoch Boice, Charles Elmer Smith, Mr. Sparks, Lloyd Butterworth, William Kroger, Isaac Peckworth, Enoch Jones, Caleb Parker, always known as “Dad”; Warner Kinsey, Frank Fennimore, Mr. Girard, Richard Whetstone, Mr. Whitney, and perhaps one or two more, but we feel sure there is not one of those above living today who were the original founders of these places. One of the later ones to make it his home was John W. Haddock, well known as a collector of marine relics and had them displayed around his home. Now the home, Mr. Haddock and the relics are all gone, the house moved to higher ground, the site and relics swept away by the encroaching sea, and Mr. Haddock was removed by the all-devouring hand of time and his remains now rest in the quiet little graveyard at Waretown, overlooking the bay and Barnegat City, the place he was so much interested in.
In his yard was the large wooden image of St. Patrick taken from the bow of the old ship of that name wrecked about two miles below the Inlet, December, 1854, and buried in the sand until a few years ago, when it was dug out and placed in his yard. Some of the more superstitious say there has not been a snake or toad on that part of the beach since the old Saint was put there. Mr. Haddock's place was a memorial to most of the old ships that left their bones on that part of the beach, as he had anchors, chains, boats, blocks, steering wheels, images, names and most everything to be found on the beach after a wreck had broken up. Among the names were J. & C. Meritt, Samuel C. Holmes, Oliver G. Colbly, J.H. Trusty, Sinbad, C.S. Edwards, Cultivator, Alert, Imperial, Mary Moses, Madeline, Louis Burke, J. Sherwood, Sultana, City of Aberdeen, Mattie E. Tabor, Ella, L. & A. Babcock, John A. McKie, and others we have forgotten, but there are many of these who have interesting and thrilling stories connected with them, but all the old men are gone who knew the circumstances.
It used to be said among the old timers that the spirit of the departed sailors could be seen on the beach at night hovering around the old wrecks, and even after Mr. Haddock resurrected some of the old relics, it was said on dark, stormy nights these gruesome figures could be seen around these images of the ships that bore them to their doom. Some of these old names are old enough to have belonged to some of the ships that were lured ashore in the days when Barnegat pirates held sway along the coast and made false beacons to mislead the mariner in steering for the light which drove him on the treacherous sands when the pirate as once confiscated ship and cargo, the crew barely escaping with their lives. This, long ago has passed, and the Coast Guards are ever on the alert to save life and property.
Years ago one could not spend a more interesting hour than that of visiting the old-time Life Saving Station, and listening to the tales of the sea from actual experience at the times when wrecks were common and the Life Saving crews were old men who had seen real service at sea and resembled an old mariner with his sou'wester and canvas-patched clothes. But today our Coast Guards are the exact counterpart of a West Point Cadet, and many of them with about as much experience with the sea, as the Cadet has up the Hudson River, but it matters little as the days of wrecks are past, and the main thing the present, up-to-date, fine-looking young military man is for is to look after the ladies during bathing hours, and from all accounts our Harvey Cedars crew fitly filled the bill last summer. [the above was originally written by the Barnegat reporter under that section of this issue, but is of such interest as to be promoted to the top of our page's interests, today]

BIGGEST SNOW IN TWO YEARS CAME SATURDAY
The biggest snow we had since February 4, 1920, came on Saturday last, January 28, and lasted well into Sunday. The snow was one of the continental storms, and came up the coast from the gulf, and swung out to sea. About a foot of snow fell here, but further south it was much heavier, thirty inches being reported from Washington, D.C.
The snow began shortly before noon on Saturday, though there had been occasional spurts of snow before that in the morning. The wind blew a gale out of the northeast, and kept it up all night. During the night the snow, part of the time, turned to sleet and rain. The storm cleared up with an east wind and by no means cold weather, about noon on Sunday. At this place little damage was done. Electric light wires went down here and there, and that was about all...

ESCAPED IN NIGHT CLOTHES FROM BURNING HOME IN STORM
The home of Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Rice, on the old Freehold road, opposite the cemetery, burnt to the ground on Sunday morning, at the height of the storm. Mrs. Rice, her brother, Hubert Dougherty, and her nephew, Charles Dougherty, who lived with her, escaped from the burning house in their night clothing and barefooted. Mr. Rice, who is employed in New York, was not at home.
Mrs. Rice heard a noise, and called her brother, saying there must be some one in the house. He laughed at the idea, but she was sure she heard it, and went down stairs to investigate. As she opened the dining room door, the room was all ablaze. She had just time to run up the stairs and get her brother and nephew out of bed, and they escaped into the snow and storm. Dougherty ran in his bare feet through the snow to Winnie Applegate's home, below the cemetery, and Applegate ran down town and gave the alarm. The firemen were quickly on the job, but the house was a total loss when they got there. The home of Lewis Irons was threatened, but between the snow and sleet and the firemen, and the neighbors, it was saved.
The house belonged to Mrs. James Britton, of this place, and was insured for $1000 [$16,595 in 2022 dollars]. Her loss will be $1500 or more beyond the insurance. Rice had $500 on his furniture, and he also lost heavily. He had started work on a new house at the northeast corner of Walnut Street and Freehold Road, and had several hundred dollars worth of material for that house in the house that was burnt, and this was also a total loss.

SLEIGHING BELONGS TO THE PAST
We may sing “Jingle Bells,” and the older folk may tell their children of the jolly sleighing parties they enjoyed when young, but sleighing seems to belong to the past. Probably not over two or three sleighs were out during the past snow at Toms River. At Lakewood, where it is still fashionable to drive horses, liverymen put out their sleighs and did a good business over the week end taking out parties of city visitors. Country folks, however, left the sleigh in the mow, Dobbin in the stall, the bells on the old harness rack and came to town in the flivver.

CARD OF THANKS
We desire to make public expression of our thanks to the people of Toms River, more especially to the kind-hearted neighbors and to the Fire Company for their efforts in our behalf at the time of the fire on Sunday morning, and the kindness of neighbors since the loss of our home and its contents. Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Rice, Toms River, N.J., January 30, 1922.—Adv.

CAPT. GWYER OFFERS SILVER CUP FOR BEST COCKEREL
As has been his custom for a number of years, Capt. Edgar L. Gwyer, of Toms River, has offered a silver cup for the best cockerel of any breed raised by any boy or girl in the Ocean County schools. It is not necessary that the boy or girl should belong to one of the poultry raising clubs, but any boy or girl who by his own or her own raised poultry in the year 1921, can compete for this cup. All they need to do is to write to Miss Beatrice Farrall, at the County Agents' Office, Court House, Toms River, and enter their prize bird for the contest. The cup is on exhibition at Worstall's jewelry store window, at Toms River.

OLD POUND FISHERMAN DEAD
All the fishermen along the coast, and many old-time Ocean County men who used to follow fishing off shore and up the North River, will recall Capt. William W. Jeffrey, of North Long Branch, whose death occurred January 28, within a few days of his 92d year. He served with the Twenty-ninth New Jersey Volunteers during the Civil War, along with some Ocean County men, and also in the Thirty-eighth. He was the oldest living pound fisherman on our coast, and was an authority on sea fishing. He was a prominent Methodist.

LAKEHURST BALLOON ADRIFT
The captive observation balloon at Lakehurst broke loose one day last week and started for Toms River. It landed on the Gontz place. Nobody hurt, and little damage done. It was taken back to the hangar by the sailors.

BEACH BUILDING BOOM AT POINT PLEASANT EXPANDS
One hundred bungalows is the prediction of the Point Pleasant Leader, will be ready for renting when the 1922 season opens, at the beach front in that borough near Manasquan Inlet. Last summer there were a number of small houses built there, on the plan of Manasquan Beach, by Dr. Frank Deniston and Edward Griggs. This winter every available lot has been bought. Among those who are building or intend to are Messrs. Deniston and Griggs, Earl Limroth, W.H. Barton, Edward Harvey, Lee Conover, Freeman Stines, Augustus Hayes, Joseph Vetrini and others. The building of the county road a year ago along the beach made this development possible.
It is also proposed to run a new street down the river front to the beach, across the old Cook farm, now the property of the River and Ocean Front Land Co., this company offering to deed the land to the borough for a street. S. Van Wagnan, of Suffern, N.Y., is building a summer home along the proposed line of this road, and it is stated other tracts have been sold and buildings will go up, contingent on the laying out of the road.

FEDERAL HUNTING LICENSES
Passage of the new Anthony bill to provide for federal licenses to hunt migratory birds and for the establishment of game refuges and public shooting grounds for such birds would affect about 5,000,000 American sportsmen, the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture, estimates. The bill has been favorably reported by the Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys. In the House the bill is in the Committee on Agriculture.
The bill provides that each hunter of migratory birds shall obtain a Federal license, at a cost of $1 for the season, the licenses to be issued at any post office in the United States. Out of the proceeds not less than 45 per cent is to be spent by the government, through a proposed migratory bird refuge commission, in buying or renting land suitable for the establishment of migratory game bird refugees which would serve as breeding and feeding places for birds during the period of their flight north, or the closed season, and as public shooting grounds during the open season. An additional 45 per cent will be used for the enforcement of the migratory bird treaty act and the Lacey act, and the remaining 10 per cent for expenses and other administrative expenses.
The bill provides that the Secretary of Agriculture shall be chairman of the Commission, and that other members shall be the Attorney General, the Postmaster General, and two members of each House of Congress. Rules and regulations governing the administration of the proposed refuge would be placed in the hands of the Secretary of Agriculture. The proposed measure does not in any way obviate the necessity of procuring a state hunting license.

FACE VALUE HOPED FOR BY BRIDGE STOCKHOLDERS
Now that the State Highway Commission has set a price of $178,000 on the Island Heights and Seaside Park bridge across Barnegat Bay and of $96,112.83 on the Long Beach Turnpike Company bridge crossing the bay from Manahawkin to Long Beach, the stockholders in these two projects are hoping to get face value for their stock. It was the stockholders who made the bridges possible, but as is usually the case, they are the last to be considered, from the very nature of the relative position of stocks and bonds in any enterprise...
The state took over these bridges on March 1, 1921. Since that time no tolls have been charged, and the traffic on both bridges in the summer of 1921, was two or three times what it was in any previous year.

THANKS OF PRESIDENT FOR SWEETS SENT BY MRS. JOHN
Mrs. Jannett John, of Toms River, has a letter sent from the White House, conveying the thanks of President Warren G. Harding, for the basket of prize Jersey sweet potatoes sent to him a fortnight ago, from the Farmers' Week Exhibit, at Trenton. Part of the prize hamper of sweets were taken from the exhibit of Mrs. John, which helped Ocean County to win the silver cup as the best exhibit in the state. Mrs. John has had many commendations of her premium sweet potatoes last year and this, but the letter from the White House is one of the most highly prized of them all.

LAKEWOOD MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH IN [RAILROAD] CARLOAD OF COAL
Charles Cookie, an employee of the Lakewood and Coast Electric Company, of Lakewood, was crushed to death or suffocated in a carload of coal, at the Lakewood plant of the company on January 26. He was unloading a [railroad] car of coal, and got in the car, presumably to break up the frozen bunches of coal. He was caught in the rush of coal as it ran out of the bottom of the car into the coal chute, and was dragged under. He was working alone and no one knew of the trouble till night when he did not show up and search was made. It took a half hour to dig him out of the coal. He was then dead. Dr. Frank Brouwer, of Toms River, gave a certificate of death from accidental suffocation. He was 35 years of age and leaves a widow and two small children.

SEC'Y DENBY WOULD BUY AIR STATION LANDS AT LAKEHURST
Washington, Jan. 27.—Authority was sought from Congress yesterday by Secretary Denby to acquire, out of funds appropriated tot he Navy Department for the current fiscal year, title to tracts used for naval aviation purposes at Chatham, Mass.; Lakehurst, N.J.; and Galveston, Tex., and for a marine corps flying field at Quantico, Va.
For construction of a dirigible station at Lakehurst, $6,000,000 has been spent, Mr. Denby said, but an allotment of $18,000, made several years ago for the purchase of the site was turned back to the Treasury.

RAILROAD MAN'S BODY FOUND IN SURF AT PT. PLEASANT
Point Pleasant, Jan. 30.—Funeral services for Joseph M. Pickel, aged 65 years, whose body was found on the beach here Friday, were conducted from his residence Monday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Mr. Pickel was a retired railroad conductor, having been in the employ of the Pennsylvania Company for many years. Inactivity since he retired from active service, about six weeks ago, is believed to be by his friends to have caused his mental derangement and ill health.
It is supposed he jumped in the sea from the fishing pier, as he had been walking up and down the pier just a short time before the body was found. Every effort was made to revive him but without avail. Mr. Pickel was well known along the Jersey coast and was a member of the railroad brotherhood as well as the Masonic fraternity. Internment in Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, N.J. His wife, Mrs. Louise M. Pickel, survives.

CHARGED WITH SELLING LIQUOR
Lakewood, Jan. 30.—Constables McDonald, of Beachwood, and Riley, of Lakewood, made two arrests here Saturday, taking Mr. Lipps, of the Lakewood Hotel bar, and Mr. Markus, of Fourth Street, for selling liquor. They were apprehended on a bench warrant issued by Judge Jeffrey and were taken to Toms River.

WOULD TAKE AUTO LICENSE FROM FARM CROP PILFERERS
New Jersey farmers and market gardeners who have suffered heavy losses from raids on their fruit and vegetable crops by thieving automobile parties would welcome the enactment by the New Jersey Legislature of a bill similar to one that has been introduced in the New York Assembly. This authorizes revocation of the license of any automobilist convicted of stealing any kind of farm produce. Many men who will now take a chance of being compelled to pay a small fine if detected in their marauding raids, would think twice before risking the loss of their license.

BARNEGAT PARK AGAIN
Rumor is busy down around Bayville and Pinewald, and even in Toms River, that Barnegat Park, or Pinewald, is again to be put on the map. It is now thirty years ago since Barnegat Park bloomed forth as a new winter resort and made rapid progress, only to flicker out in a succession of lawsuits. The firm of Baker Bros., of Wildwood, now hold title to much of the tract, and as it is again possible now to sell real estate, rumor says that things about Barnegat Park will again show activity. Major Edward S. Farrow, the founder of the resort, is a frequent visitor again, and that adds to the local interest.

CRANBERRY ASSOCIATION HELD ANNUAL MEETING
The American Cranberry Growers' Association held its annual meeting at the Adelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, on Saturday last, January 28. Program as previously announced, was carried out. James D. Holman, of Whitesville, the retiring president, gave a talk on scooping berries, and the effect of the practice upon the vines; C.S. Beckwith gave a report of the work done at the cranberry experiment station, at Whitesbogs; H.B. Weiss, state crop statistician, reported upon the acreage of cranberry bogs in New Jersey...

A FEW HONORED MEN AND WOMEN PAST 90 YEARS
There are a few honored men and women in the county who have passed ninety years, according to reports that come to The Courier, though there are doubtless more to be heard from here [Editor's note: meaning that when these people were born and children, there still walked among them Revolutionary War veterans]. Here is the list to date:
Mrs. Elizabeth Stephenson, of Barnegat, born July 11, 1829, and is now 92 years and 6 months. She is the mother of Miss Amelia Stephenson, of Barnegat, and of J. Fred Stephenson, of Lakewood.
Mrs. Mary Gillis, of Pleasant Plains, Dover Township, was born April 2, 1825 [editor's note: this means Mrs. Gillis, alive one century ago from 2022, was born when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were both still alive], and April 2, 1922, will be 97 years of age. She lives on her own farm (bought from the late Israel Giberson) where she has lived for the past thirty-five years, her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Tilton, living with her. She is the widow of a Civil War veteran, and a pensioner. Mrs. William Whitty, of Pleasant Plains, is also her daughter.
Capt. Richard A. Wood, of West Creek, a man of great activity and of a many-sided life, full of adventure, is rounding out his 94th year, his birthday being August 26. His health is excellent and he can read print without glasses. When he was in his late seventies and early eighties he served the state as game warden, being out in all kinds of weather.
Last weeks' Courier, in its Forked River letter, told of Mrs. Eleanor Lewis, now in her 97th year, who has lived her whole life practically at that place. She is well and around the house daily.
Mrs. Harriet Wardell, of Laurelton, mother of Assessor Atwood L. Wardell, while not yet a nonagenarian, has passed her 89th birthday. Her health is good for one of that age, and her children are hoping that she will be with them for several years yet to come.
If you know of any to add to this list, let us have them.

SEA DAMAGE AT ASBURY PARK
At the heights of the storm on the beach at Asbury Park on Sunday last, parts of a barge that went to pieces off Long Branch a few weeks before, came hurtling down the beach, and did some $40,000 damage to the piling under the Casino, the Asbury Park and Ocean Grove fishing piers and the Ocean Grove Pavilion.

CRANBERRIES AT $35 A BARREL
For several weeks past reports say that cranberries have been wholesaling at $35 per one hundred quart barrel. This accounts for retailers charging 40 cents a quart up in many places. Unfortunately for the growers, they did not come in for these high prices, as the growers all put their berries out for the Christmas trade. The sales have been made by one commission man or merchant to another.

PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Crabbe and Miss Georgiana Crabbe sail tomorrow for a three week trip to Bermuda.
Samuel L. Cohan of Philadelphia, a former Toms River boy, sails on the Aquitania on February 9, as buyer for Lit Bros. of Philadelphia. He will visit Scotland, Ireland, France and Switzerland, while gone, his special line being hosiery and underwear.
Thomas Shibe, who is well known at Toms River and Seaside Park, has been elected as president of the Athletics base ball corporation in Philadelphia, succeeding his father, Benjamin Shibe Sr., who died a few weeks ago.
Major Edward S. Farrow of Asbury Park, was in town on Tuesday.
I.W. Richtmeyer spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Newark, attending the State Retail Monument Association, and getting the latest ideas in his line. He reports that the marble industry has made a ten per cent cut in its finished product, and the granite quarries a 20 per cent cut; and that the granite cutters are on strike in some New England quarries rather than take a reduction in wages.

FISH AND GAME
Wildfowl shooting ended on Tuesday of this week, January 31. Some say it was a successful shooting season. Others—well, it depends upon the luck of the individual gunner, how he regards it. There have been huge flocks of ducks, geese and brant in the bays, and while the bay was open they were hard to get at. But with ice in the bays, and with the winds blowing, the shooting was better.
Now that the wildfowl season is over, a gunner can't trail through the woods with his gun and explain that he was going after black ducks to a near-by pond or stream. Fox hunting is the one excuse to get out with a gun now.
By the way the snow this week brought just the conditions the local fox hunters like. They say that Mr. Fox tires sooner in a snow than does man or dog, and he is easier to get when the snow is soft.
Over in Burlington County the sportsmen have organized to hunt down the fox. Already they claim to have killed more than in an ordinary year, and are going to have several organized drives in the pines sections, like the jackrabbit and wolf drives in the far west...
Eel spearing is now in season. Not much of it done these days. The eels harbor in the mud and are caught between the tines of a three-pronged fork. They are dormant this time of year. Eels are said to be worth ten cents a pound these days.

RECENT DEATHS
Capt. Garrett L. Lippincott
Capt. Garrett L. Lippincott, an old-time mariner, died Monday, January 30, at Sailors' Snug Harbor, West New Brighton, Staten Island, N.Y. He was the father of Mrs. Parker, of Beachwood, and of Mrs. A.J. Newbury, of Porterville, Cal. He was 86 years of age and was well known to all the older generation along shore. Funeral service will be held at the Barnegat M.E. Church this (Friday) afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Burial at Barnegat Masonic Cemetery, with Masonic ritual.

Mrs. Augustus Chamberlain
Mrs. Sarah E., wife of Augustus Chamberlain, died at her home on Lakehurst road, Toms River, Monday, January 30, aged 71 years. A short time ago she ran a splinter in her right hand, resulting in death from blood poison. Rev. W.W. Payne conducted the funeral services at the M.E. Church yesterday, at 1 P.M. Burial in charge of Undertaker C.P. Anderson, at Riverside Cemetery. She was the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Grant) Horner, and had lived here many years. Beside her husband she leaves two sons, Howard and Harry Chamberlain.

John Norton Frese, the 10-day-old child of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Frese, died January 19, and was buried at Riverside the day following. Services by Rev. W.W. Payne.
Harry Nolze, the day-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Nolze, of Beachwood, died January 27, and was buried at Riverside Cemetery.

COLD DAYS IN FLORIDA
Hotel Belmont, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Jan. 28, 1922
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Editor New Jersey Courier:
We hear you are having some real-for-sure winter back in old New Jersey. Well, we are not using fans here in Florida. Fifty miles north of us they had a snow squall, but down here on this Pinellas peninsula we have escaped with nothing worse than very chilly breezes. Wood fires are in order, but a cold wave seldom lasts here longer than four days, and we'll be donning our bathing suits for a dip in the Gulf ere long.
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Holman, from Toms River, are registered here, at the Huntington Hotel. The Huntington is one of our largest and best hotels, and is beautifully located right in the midst of a grape fruit grove, with a fine view of the bay. Many Jersey people are in St. Petersburg, including Miss Addie Rogers, from your city, also Jonathan P. Smith, of Trenton, and Miss Lillian Rusling, of Asbury Park. These two latter Jerseyites are working in the interest of the Government Conference for Limitation of Armaments. Their speeches have instructed and delighted many large audiences in this city and county.
Hoping for an early spring, so we all return to Jersey—God's country.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Matilda C. Polk.

BARNEGAT
A number attended the movies at Manahawkin Monday night to see “The Sheik.”
The little girls and boys are having a good time coasting with their sleds in the snow. We certainly have plenty of it down here.

BAYVILLE
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Falkinburg, of Barnegat Pier, have taken rooms for the remainder of the winter with Mrs. Laura Brockway.

BEACH HAVEN
Colds and hoarseness seem to be epidemic in this town just now; nearly every person you meet either has it or is just recovering.
Mrs. E.A. Dease is adding to the further comfort of her boarding house “The St. Rita,” by having a sun parlor built on the south and east sides.
Mr. Thompson, of Red Bank, of the A.A. Thompson Company, which has the contract for moving Bond's Coast Guard Station, was down here last week inspecting the work. About one-third of the distance was accomplished; the station now standing on the new road which route it will follow for a short distance. The storm tides of Saturday and Sunday washed around it but did no damage.
The foreman, William Layton, with Mrs. Layton and the gang who return to Red Bank every week end, started home on Saturday afternoon, as usual, but found facing the storm too hard, and stopped in Manahawkin, from where they made the rest of the trip by train, returning here Monday afternoon and resuming work Tuesday.
The high winds and blizzard of evening train was unable to get over here from Manahawkin. But our heroic 'busman, Leon Cranmer, with the able assistance of Tommy Crane and dependable Premier, faced the gale and went to the rescue of the twenty-three passengers and the mail, patiently and hopefully waiting at Manahawkin. Although arriving home late, he brought them all safely into the home port, sound and dry. It is safe to wager that none of them ever before had such a memorable trip across the bridge, and does not want the experience again.
The high winds and blizzard of Saturday and Sunday did considerable damage on different parts of the island. Three approaches to the boardwalk were washed out or so weakened they are unsafe for travel, and the lower end of the boardwalk was ripped up and undermined. The high tide from the bay came in over the meadows around the Little Egg Harbor Yacht Club property, and flooded Bay Avenue as far as Amber Street. The ocean tides came through and crossed Atlantic Avenue at Norwood, Belvoir and Chatsworth, washing in much trash, but receded, leaving a few lakes on the lowest lots, but doing no damage to the cottages near there, although it washed entirely around several of them. Several feet were taken off the end of the island at the Inlet, and some of the gravel was washed off the new road. The cistern which had been left where Bond's Coast Guard Station was moved from, was caved in, and a great deal of trash and some wreckage washed ashore near there.

FORKED RIVER
The snow tied up things here pretty well, but the state scraped the Main Shore road, and J.B. Haines made a path along the sidewalks.
Parents, do you indulge your children in late rising in the morning? If so, you are sowing the seeds of tardiness in the child that may ruin his whole career. One girl was heard to say, “I was eating my breakfast when the first bell rang” (referring to the 8:45 school bell) whereupon another spoke up and said, “Well, I was in bed and it woke me up.” Yes, and their eyes showed plainly they were telling the truth. Would it not be far better to send them to bed earlier that they might rise the earlier? Bright morning hours are the best. Teach them to be alive and punctual.

ISLAND HEIGHTS
Charles K. Haddon, and son Will, were down last week to inspect the new boat being built by William T. Rote.
We are sorry to say that the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Applegate is down with pneumonia.
Oh the snow, the beautiful snow, we all call it that, but we're lying, we know! There's not a road broke so we walk on the top, when without the least warning, we go through, kerflop! Then your tin Lizzie balks and refuses to go, till you get out and dig in the — — — snow!
The Island Heights Library is doing splendidly, 150 books having been in circulation in the month of January. Young and old seem to find it a nice, cosy place on Monday and Thursday evenings. We are all wondering how we all did without it so long. Rev. Mr. Smith has a vote of thanks for starting it.

LAKEHURST
The Lakewood and Coast Electric Co. are somewhat behind their schedule on the street lights of the borough, which were supposed to be in operation a month ago.

LAVALLETTE
The snow storm did quite some damage to the boardwalk. It took several pilings out and tore some of the electric light poles out on the beach front.
There was lots of wood washed in from the storm. Some of the people carted seven to eight loads on Monday.
The snow here was only about three inches in depth; quite a contrast to other places.

LANOKA
A blue heron was seen at Lanoka on the last day of January. You know they are warm weather birds, but he did not say we were to have warm weather yet.

NEW EGYPT
Work on the part of our townspeople made traffic possible through the snow in our village on Sunday. George Halpin, as usual, brought out his tractor and broke the roads. Several followed him in automobiles. On Monday, George R.A. Brown, Township Committeeman, who has charge of the roads in the village of New Egypt, hired men, who dug through the deepest drifts in the road leading in the village. The road between Edward Applegate's tenant house, occupied by Charles Reynolds, and the residence of Mr. Applegate was impassible until Tuesday, all vehicles going through the fields. The drifts in and near the road leading from Jacobstown to Harry Borden's farm are from two to six feet high. Mr. Brown, who sends milk to Bordentown, got as far as Mr. Borden's, on Monday, and left his milk there, where it was taken on Tuesday to Bordentown after the roads were opened. No church services were held in the Catholic, Methodist, or Presbyterian churches as none of the pastors were able to get here...
No trains arrived all day from Philadelphia. One train, the 7:45, came in from Hightstown at 5 P.M. This train had gotten as far as Cream Ridge, and workmen had to clear the drifts before it could get to New Egypt. On Monday, the 6:30 train to the city left, but no school train ran. On Tuesday, most of the school children, who attend school at Pemberton, left here on the 6:30.
The quarantine has been lifted from the home of Harry Worth. Little Salome had scarlitina. We are glad to be able to report that through the carefulness of Mrs. Worth and her sister, Miss Salome Klopp, the illness was confined to the one child.

PLEASANT PLAINS
School 'bus got along Monday at 11 o'clock; mail arrived about 3:30 o'clock. Both did well to get along at that time considering the condition of the roads.

SEASIDE PARK
Both wind and sea caused considerable damage to our town during the storm. Electric wire were torn down which plunged the town into darkness for a couple of nights and caused the old discarded oil lamp to be pressed into service. Railings and lattice work around some of the cottages were tornaway from their fastenings, and along the ocean front sand was heaped up so as to make some of the streets impassable. At the lower end of the boardwalk wreckage hammered away at the jetty until a hole was started which gave the sea a clean sweep, cutting through into the avenues and cutting sidewalks and water mains at the junction of Twelfth and Ocean Avenues. No damage was done to the boardwalk except to cut out the sand from several of the approaches.
Mrs. Edward Mangold has resigned as primary teacher of the public school, and Miss Margaret Vetter, of Long Branch, a Normal graduate, has been elected to fill her place.
Ice boating is held up at present owing to the bay opening up in places.

SHIP BOTTOM
The storm Saturday and Sunday swept the coast, and the high tides ran across the beach so that bay and ocean came together in many places. It washed across two of our streets, taking everything with it. No train service Saturday or Sunday, not until Monday morning.

SILVERTON
The first blizzard of the season struck us with full force on last Saturday afternoon, the wind blowing from the northeast at the velocity of a hurricane for more than twenty-four hours and the snow that fell during the gale was a foot deep on the level, and any number of drifts from two to three feet deep, but we can't kick, for January was a pretty decent month. We wonder if—February will be. Not if the ground hog sees his shadow.
Asbury Park friends report that wreckage from a barge that washed ashore there during the storm damaged the beach front to the extent of $40,000 [$664,000 in 2022 dollars]. It was feared that the entire beach front would be destroyed at one time, but the debris submerged and did not return.
Harry Pitcher, of Red Bank, and Bartine Clayton, of this place, made a farewell gunning trip for the season down to Barnegat Inlet last Monday. They bagged 4 geese and 20 ducks.

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Welcome to another Wooden Boat Wednesday!

Today we spin the time dial back to a balmy summer weekend at the end of August 1939, with boats and high season celebrants lining the ocean beaches and bay shorelines in joyful competition and fun. As published in the Sunday Times of New Brunswick, Middlesex County, lifestyle reporter Mary P. Elliot filled her “Beach Combing” column with details of that day, the 27th, taking place in a small peaceful window between the end of the Great Depression and outbreak of what would become World War II, just five days later, with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland.

​Classes, courses, starting and finishing lines, handicaps, crews and rules will be the topic of many conversations this week-end all the way from Bay Head to Toms River.
Today at Bay Head, the Bay Head Yacht Club is sponsoring the first annual handicap ocean race ever to be held off the Jersey coast. The course will be from the ocean front at Bay Head to Barnegat Lightship and return.
Dr. E.L. Loblein, formerly of this city, who has spent many years at this resort with his family, is Commodore of the yacht club and chairman of the racing committee. His committee has planned a reception and dinner dance for the visiting yachtsmen during the week-end. Dr. Loblein recently sold his home at 177 Livingston avenue and will now make his winter home in Point Pleasant on the Manasquan river.

Governor Moore Officiates
At 8 this morning Governor A. Harry Moore officiated at the starting gun before the Bluffs Hotel on the Bay Head boardwalk.
About 25 boats, sloop, schooner and yawl classes from clubs along the seaboard are entered in the race. Club represented include the New York Yacht Club, Gibson Island Yacht Squadron, the Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia, Little Egg Harbor and many others from Chesapeake Bay to Long Island Sound.

Toms River Event Yesterday
The Barnegat Bay Yacht Racing Association sponsored the 11th race held yesterday under the auspices of the Toms River Yacht Club, when all the clubs on the bay were represented. The races were held on the Cedarcreek course off Pinewald near Forked River.

Race Moth and Sneakbox
In the morning when the moths, comets and sneakboxes raced, a representative from this area was Tommy King, son of Dr. and Mrs. V.L. King of Middlebrook road, Bound Brook, who, with his family, spends the summer at Lavallette. Tommy with his sneakbox “Barnegat Belle” is one of the contenders for the Lavallette Yacht Club championship for this year.
Warren Law of Dunellen, who is also at Lavallette for the summer, raced his moth “Lotta Work” in the morning events.

Will Sail the “Applejack”
Sunday afternoon races are held each week at every yacht club along the bay. Today will find Francis Howley at Lavallette in the thick of the club race in his sneakbox “Applejack,” starting at 10:30 a.m. Francis is the son of Dr. and Mrs. B.M. Howley of 15 North Sixth avenue, Highland Park. The Howley family have been spending their summers at this resort for about 15 years.

“Bobcat” trails “Windbeam”
Last week during this club race Miss Catherine Nafey won in her comet “Windbeam,” and her brother, Robert, also racing his comet “Bobcat” came in second. This pair usually races in the Saturday races, too, but only Bob raced at Toms River yesterday. Their father and mother, Dr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Nafey of 133 Benner street, Highland Park, who summer at Lavallette, can always be seen at the Saturday and Sunday races in their motor cruiser the “Esquire.” They follow the sailors about on their course with many racing enthusiasts on board during the events.

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