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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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