​Burning leaves.
Rain on Friday.
Hallowe'em a week off.
Rain again yesterday.
How the days shorten?
Candidates are hustling.
Gorgeous autumn colors.
Moonlit evenings are due.
Fallen leaves cover the ground.
Good black walnut crop this year.
Wildfowl shooting is not much to brag about.
October seems a cloudy and rather cold month.
Many plans are being made for All Halloweve.
The political campaign has only ten days to go.
Sweet butter has come back into favor. For years it could not be had.
Dover Township School Board has ordered an International six cylinder truck chassis and body as a school truck.
Toms River High School plays football with Leonardo High School at Leonardo this afternoon.

​Sunrise tomorrow at 6:19; sunset at 5:09, making the day ten hours and fifty minutes long.
Last Sunday at the Presbyterian Sunday-school [the church location/building today being part of the Ocean County Library complex, downtown, on Washington Street], Gen. John Visser related a second chapter of the story of his life. Gen. Visser fought in the Boer War, and has seen many stirring times. Next Sunday, October 25, will be harvest home Sunday at the Presbyterian Sunday-school, the provisions, vegetables and fruits that are gathered in, to be given to the American Legion Convalescent Home, on Washington street [today the location of the Elks Lodge #1875].
I. Meyer has bought the store he occupies on Main street from Charles Shull of Seaside Heights. Mr. Shull started the five and ten cent business there shortly after he bought the property some years ago, and later sold the business to Mr. Meyer, who now takes the building also. Report places the price paid at upwards of $50,000. The property runs from Main to Robbins st.
The Poultrymen's Service Corporation is doubling the capacity of its bins at the storehouse and mills on South Main st. It is also putting in new corn machinery. The bins are of heavy wooden construction.

​Tuesday next, October 27, will be Navy Day, and will be celebrated at the Naval Air Station with flights of various kinds, to which the public have been invited by Commander Steele.
Next Tuesday will be Theodore Roosevelt's birthday.
The fire at Carl Eckhard's home Thursday night of last week, burnt out the kitchen and summer kitchen, causing a loss of $400, which was settled by the insurance adjuster on Monday of this week. Carl says he has reason to be very grateful to the two fire companies which arrived so soon and saved his home, when he thought it must surely be a total loss.
A Hallowe'en supper will be given according to the custom of the A.F. Burnside Women's Relief Corps on Saturday evening, October 31--Hallowe'en--at the G.A.R. post room.
Don't boast too loudly about what you refused to take for your property--somebody might run and tell the assessor.
Nester Grenander recently broke his wrist, and is carrying it in a sling.
The winter birds are coming, beside the wildfowl. Chickadees are now about the houses, and so are the bluejays. The "snowbirds" are here too.
Col. Norman Schwartzkopf [World War I veteran, first superintendent of the New Jersey State Police and father to the famed Gulf War general] gave a talk on the State Police at the meeting of Kiwanis on Monday night last, and everybody had a better idea of the purpose of that force when he got through. Troopers Bading and Smith were guests at the dinner, and listened to their chief.

​John P. Kirk has just signed the contract to build a 26 foot new design high speed seaskiff for William Schoettle, of Phila., to be kept at his summer home, Island Heights. The craft will be finished in mahogany and will have a high powered engine.
Plans are being made for a brick and concrete addition, 30x40 feet, to the laboratory of the H. Clay Glover Company, on Robbins St., between Water and Washington streets. Steel columns and girders will be used to carry the walls. P.P. Elkinton is the architect. Bids will be asked for next week.

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​Court this week.
October half gone.
Columbus Day is over.
Froze ice Sunday morning.
No school on Monday last.
Rainy days now and then.
Potatoes scarce and high.
The October haze is in the air.
Dandelions bloom in the grass.
Fall wild flowers stay with us.
Frost has not yet got all the flowers.
October has given us cooler weather.
Election day is the next legal holiday.
Hallowe'en two weeks from tomorrow.
Several people report apple blossoms.
Autumn leaves set the swamps aflame.
Chamber of Commerce met last Friday night.
The smell of burning leaves is everywhere.
Rambler rose blooms are seen in many places.
Political campaigners and candidates are on the go.
Lawns are losing some of their green in spite of rains.
Assessor Longstreet is getting his fieldbook in shape.
Last week was fire prevention week, but just as many cigarettes were smokes, just as many buts and matches dropped, as if there had been no such week.
The Royal Class of the M.E. Sunday-school held a food sale on Saturday last at Elwell's store.
A chicken salad supper is to be given by the Service class of the M.E. Sunday-school on Thursday, October 29, at the church.
Hiawatha Council, D. of P., will give a card party at the opera house on Friday evening next, October 23.
Sam Taylor, of Barnegat, more recently of Asbury Park, is working at Theodore Fischer's barber shop.
E.S. VanNostrand has bought a lot 25 foot front on Hyers street, just off Washington street, from Charles Knox, and will put himself up a plumbing shop.
Dr. H.H. Davis is building a new garage in the rear of his home on Main street.
Jack Costa arrived home Saturday, after spending the summer in New England, with a group of flyers, and doing wing-walking and other stunts in the air. Jack said it got pretty cool before he left.
Gorgeous autumn leaves add to the beauty of the scenery now. Even some of the oaks, usually the last to turn, are showing color.
Assistant Postmaster S.B. Pierce has been on the sicklist this week.

Flags were out for Columbus day, and again on Tuesday, when Senator Whitney and the Republican candidates reached town.
Low tides last Saturday and Sunday, even up in the river, flats being bare that are not seen more than once in several years.
Sam Pierce boasts a bartlett pear tree, with its leaves all blown off, but with several blossoms, coming out Tuesday of this week.
Court Toms River Foresters of America, have taken the room over the Purpuri shoe store on lower Main st., for a lodge room. The first meeting was held there last night.
William Johnstone, of Toms River, talked before the State Poultrymen's Association in Atlantic City last week upon, "Feeding for High Egg Production." Bill knows.
Max Leet, who is giving up business, says he intends to go on the farm, presumably a chicken farm. Max says he was brought up on a large farm of some 680 acres, belonging to his father, in Lithuania, and he has always had the urge to get back to the soil.
Saturday, October 31, will be Hallowe'en.
The season for wildfowl shooting opens today.
J.K. Allardice has been on the sicklist this week.
Yesterday was the first real October weather we have had. But it was one glorious day.
Raymond Keisel, of Ocean Gate, is operating the Toms River dairy and milk route, formerly owned and run by August Hartbrecht. The latter had to sell out because of illness, and is now in Vermont with his family.
South River high school plays football at Toms River with the village high school team tomorrow afternoon, October 17.
The Women's Relief Corps will hold its yearly supper on Hallowe'en, Oct. 31, at the G.A.R. post room.

​Leroy Tilton is working on the Lakewood Times and Journal.
Work of rebuilding and moving the Hensler Building on Water street is now in progress. The Chinese laundry, which had moved upstairs, continued business as usual during the jobs.
Ben Novins is moving his pool room from the Hensler building, adjoining his restaurant, to the former feed store on the north side of West Water st.
Baseball by radio spread out the game to millions, touching every part of the county. Toms River fans got it, you may be sure.
Some farmers are husking corn--a little.
The rains now occasion a big drop on leaves.
A letter to the Courier from Mrs. Annie B. Newbury says that she had intended coming from California, to Toms River this summer, but that something happened to keep her away. She is expecting to reach Toms River next summer. She asks to be remembered by her friends in Ocean County.
Boo, but can't you still hear that wind b-l-o-w-i-n-g early on Saturday morning last, when the cold clearup came.
From the large supplies of acorns and walnuts, we may presume that the squirrels are looking forward to a hard winter.
Cranberry men are about through picking, except some of the smaller growers. The crop is rather small, take it for all of New Jersey, and the prices start off pretty well, at $8.00 per barrel.
On Monday afternoon last, some of the baseball fans, listening in on the game, heard the announcer say that his old friend "Gus Waldron, of Trenton," was standing beside him. Gus is well known at Toms River and on the beach, having a home at Seaside Heights in the summer. He was in Toms River on Tuesday.

​The handsome prizes to be given away in their popularity contest by U.S. Shenandoah Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, are on show in Worstall's window on Main street. The contest is put on to raise money for the widows and orphans of the Shenandoah's enlisted men.
Emil Then's orchestra played on Monday night at the opera house at the Odd Fellows meeting, and again on Tuesday night at the Manhasset hotel, Seaside Park, when the ladies of the Catholic church gave a card party and dance.
Toms River Water Company has begun work on the foundation of its new standpipe on Horner street, opposite the high school. The foundation will be of re-enforced concrete, 36 feet in diameter and six or seven feet deep. The standpipe will be 105 feet tall, and will hold almost 380,000 gallons, and will be erected by the Pittsburg and Des Moines Steet Works. It is hoped to complete the whole job this fall.
Fire last night damaged the Carl Eckhardt house on the north side of town slightly.

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​Leaves are falling.
A touch of fall in the air.
Columbus day next Monday.
Farmers have corn in shock.
Nights are now longer than days.
Yachtsmen are laying up their boats for the winter.
Miss Helen Sever has a new Studebaker coach.
Dover Township Committee met last Friday night.
Autumn leaves flaming at every point of the compass.
Saturday was warm and wet. It has hardly been warm since.
No school last Monday, owing to teachers' institute at Lakewood.
The J. Ziemer Co. plans a contest to obtain a slogan for its business.
All lumber yards in town report more orders than there is coal to fill them.
Rather a cool and fall looking day for that Mauch Chunk excursion on Wednesday.
Sam Cattanio is planning to build a garage on North Main Street between the Havens and Quick properties.
Heavy rains on Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon. Cooler weather too, and more or less cloudy days.
Some of those all summer bareheads are now wearing hats and caps--male bareheads, I mean.

​The frost of October 1, in most parts of the county, ended the life of sweet potato, potato, bean and tomato vines. It left them black and withered.
Sunrise tomorrow at 6:05 and sunset at 5:29, making the day 11 hours and 24 minutes long.
Chickadees are now heard around the houses, taking the place of summer birds. The blue jays stay with us.
Look for at least a foot of snow, if the old saw holds good, for the old field balsam is a foot high in fallow fields.
The moon that is now waning was that rare autumn moon, when there is nearly a week of almost full moon, rising only a little later each night.
If you want to send in a fire alarm, all you need do is to open the red box, and pull the handle down as far as it will go, then release it. That's what they tell me, and I pass it on. No, I didn't try it.
A parrot, belonging to Dan Crabbe, and a memento of the famous cruise of the Windjammer to the West Indies, escaped on Sunday, and could not be lured back to its home.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Gaskill have rented the Schwartz and Jeffrey house on Hooper avenue, pending the construction of their new home on Hadley avenue, where he and his father-in-law James Allardice, of Beach Haven, have bought lots and will build homes.

​Fall flowers, like the asters and goldenrod, make the countryside well worth looking at, while the autumn leaves are a joy to every one who beholds them.
Maple leaves in the swamps, all yellow gold and flaming scarlet; sassafras, orange, tipped with red; wine red sumac--take a walk or a ride out in the country and see them in all their autumn glory.
Navy Day, October 27, is also the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt. The Naval Air Station will have doings that day, and invite everybody to come and see them.
The Kiwanis Club on Monday evening had a demonstration with liquid air, so interesting that the boys wanted to know if Mr. Snyder, who gave it, could not come again.
October will twice have the moon full--last Friday, October 2, and Saturday, October 31. This last will come just right, as it comes on Hallowe'en.
Just 433 years ago next Monday, Christopher Columbus and his three ship's crews found the Bahama Islands, after a cruise lasting from August 3.
Look at the concrete at the corner of Washington and Main street the next time you pass. You'll be surprised at the wear it shows. No wonder dirt roads tear up so easily.
A Beachwood man just back from a trip to Lake George says the worst piece of road on the whole trip was between Toms River and Beachwood.
Fire Prevention Week was well noted here with a nasty store fire that might have destroyed the whole building. Let's look over our places today and see if everything is O.K. and be careful of fire when starting up the ol' furnace for winter.
The Toms River Athletic Club gave its first dance of the fall season on Friday night last at the St. Josephs parish hall, and a good number of young people attended. Music was by Galipoli's orchestra, from New Brunswick.
Ralph Chamberlain and his orchestra played at a dance and dinner at the Sunset hotel, Barnegat City, on Saturday evening last. The affair was given by a fishing club, spending some time at the inlet.

​Toms River seems to be a storm center the state over, and Barnegat Light is getting almost as much prominence in the state papers as Toms River bridge.
One man you see on the street wears an overcoat, and very likely the next has neither coat nor vest over his shirt.
Last Saturday Mr. Henry A. Low, president of the First National, Frank W. Sutton Jr., and Vernon Sutton, having bought Pierce-Arrow cars from Kenneth Lillie, went to Buffalo, N.Y., to drive them home. With them went Mr. Lillie, Roy Tilton, Clayton C. Wills and George H. Alsheimer. The Sutton Bros. reached home Wednesday night after a leisurely drive, starting at noon on Monday. Mr. Low took a little more time for his drive.

​Mrs. Nathan Disbrow was given a surprise party on Monday evening, October 5, by a number of her friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Asay, of Washington street. The evening was spent in music, games and cards and at a late hour, a chicken salad supper was presented with a number of useful presents.
Dick Benson and Pete Cowdrick see to it that the American Stores downtown live up to the clean sidewalk ordinance.
P.P. Elkinton is architect and has prepared plans for the ice making plant of the Barnegat Power and Cold Storage Company, a branch of their Seaside Heights plant. Mr. Elkinton is also supervising remodeling of the Hensler building, on Water street, which is to be moved by Harty Poland, of Bradley Beach.
The roof of the new Wells Memorial Church, in Berkeley, is now being put on, the concrete block walls being finished some time ago. Rev. J.E. George, the pastor, and Alexander Wells, the senior steward, say that they have been aided materially by the white folks of the village, and that they are very grateful for this aid.
The morning train down on Wednesday from New York, went off the track a couple miles west of town, and it mixed up the train service and the mails for that day. Much of the mail matter due that morning got here on Thursday morning.
Two stores sold the same week, and the same day--Sanders Levy's and Max Leet's.
The Boy Scouts take their tests tonight at the M.E. Church. There are a number of applicants for badges.
Under Sheriff Walter Brower purchased a Chrysler coach this week from Miss Garrison, agent of Ocean Gate.
In this issue of the Courier appear the statements of the Toms River banks. The First National shows deposits of $2,171,696.84 and assets of $2,696,456.91. The Trust Company has deposits of $1,422,741.70, and assets of $1,613,512.88. A very creditable showing for a town the size of Toms River, with a bank in every town of size nearby.

Sanders Levy, because of ill health, has retired from business, having sold the business to M. Klinghoffer and Brother, of Asbury Park, who have stores in that city, Lakewood, Atlantic Highlands and other places.
Toms River high school plays Freehold at Freehold this afternoon: and South River at Toms River, Saturday, October 7.
Prosecutor Jayne, Sheriff Grant, and the Prosecutor's force spent most of yesterday investigating the Cedar Run muddle.
E.S. VanNostrand has the heating contract for the Riverview house on Water street.