​Friday the 13th.
Armistice day is over.
Another rainy Sunday.
New moon next Monday.
Yes, there was an election!
No school on Armistice day.
Freeholders meet next Tuesday.
Thanksgiving day is the next holiday.
And now the cry is for Indian summer.
Auto license tests at courthouse yesterday.
The County Library Commission met here last Friday.
Soon be Christmas. Look at the calendar and see for yourself.
Quite a number from here were in the Republican parade Friday night.
Armistice day was the finest weather we have had on November 11, since the first Armistice day, in 1918.
The Ocean County Title Company has erected a large sign on its Main street lot, formerly the Widmaier property, stating that it will build a home for itself there soon. It is understood that it will put more stock out for this purpose.
Mrs. Huntley, of Dayton ave., has bought the Mrs. Marion Beach beauty parlor business.

​Fire Company No. 1 will hold a benefit show at the Traco on Monday and Tuesday, November 23, 24.
When is a land turtle supposed to hole away for the winter? Roy Goble picked one up on Lakehurst road, last week, and gave it to Kenneth Jennings.
Reports say there will soon be something doing in the Toms River dam project.
Sun rise tomorrow at 6:43, sunset, 4:45, making ten hours and two minutes of sunshine. From now on to the end of the year, the sun rises later and later, losing forty minutes in all; but sunset at its earliest is but ten minutes earlier than tomorrow.
The Dover Township School Board is working out plans for a cafeteria. The equipment will probably cost about $5000, as it must be sufficient to feed 600 pupils, or thereabouts. It is planned to equip it for 300, and run it in two shifts. The committee which is working on the plan are Mrs. Crabbe, Principal Finck, and District Chief Fischer.
Sunday evening, after the clouds cleared away, the northern horizon was all aglow with northern lights--a cloudy, milky white light.
The yearly Red Cross roll call is held from Armistice day to Thanksgiving day. At Toms River it is planned to do most of the work tomorrow and Sunday. So have your dollar ready when the canvasser calls.
Piling have been driven for the foundation of the ice plant on the Main Shore road, in Berkeley, opposite Frank Polhemus's garage. This building will be of heavy concrete foundation, starting with solid concrete walls, two feet thick, and higher up of concrete blocks.
Mr. VanKirk, of Island Heights, on Wednesday, showed the Courier man a picture of the Ocean House, taken after the north end had been added, but before the older south end had been raised to the full three stories to correspond with the south end. The picture must be more than fifty years old. On the porch of the old house are a number of bewhiskered lodgers, the sight of which carries an ol'timer back to boyhood days.
Venus and Jupiter both show in the early evening sky, in the southwest. By the way Jupiter has chased across the whole sky this summer and fall to get where Venus is, I should think it would make Juno rather jealous.
Isaac Richtmeyer, veteran fireman has retired from Fire Company No. 1. Mr. Richtmeyer, as fireman and as member of the Fire Commission, has been prominent for years in fire protection affairs in this town, and has had a great deal to do in getting the department up to its present efficiency.

​After a little the swamps and the springs ought to be filled up, if it keeps on raining two to three days each week.
Some job to keep the leaves raked up these windy days.
Lots of red fire and music Friday evening.
Wild cherry trees now take their turn to show bright colored leaves.
Football has taken a firm hold on the imagination of the youth of the town. Five and six year old boys run, tackle and kick, just as in spring and summer they throw, catch and bat.
The Senior Class of T.R.H.S., with their teachers, spent Armistice Day on a picnic outing at Schenck's Mills. The weather was fine and all enjoyed a day of sport.

​Cold winds.
Windy weather.
Moonlit nights comings.
New moon last Monday.
Only 41 days left of 1925.
Football season is closing.
Roses bloom out of doors.
Most of the trees are bare.
Coal is scarce, scarcer, scarcest!
Freeholders met here Thursday.
See golden dandelions in the grass.
Christmas five weeks from today.
Thanksgiving Day next Thursday.
Well, we see some green grass yet.
No school next Thursday and Friday.
Chrysanthemum is the season's flower.
We do not brag much of the weather this fall.
Red Cross drive this week--have you paid your dollar?
Notice the brilliancy of Venus in the southwest these evenings.
Big demand for oak wood--and most of it for sale is green, just cut down.
Coke and soft coal are being sold in town--no hard coal except buckwheat.

​Harry Irons has purchased a Nash Six sedan from the M.M. Motor Co.
They tell there were over six hundred visitors at Pinewald last Sunday.
This is the time of year when shooting stars are supposed to be more numerous.
Sunrise tomorrow at 6:51, sunset at 4:40, leaving 9 hours and 49 minutes of sunshine.
Mornings are getting darker and darker--or, at any rate, Mr. Sun he gets himself up later and later.
Owing to the Thursday holiday next week, Courier forms must close on Wednesday. News and advertisements must be in earlier than usual.
Numerous complaints have been received regarding the nailing of posters on the poles and trees along the streets. It is indeed unsightly to travel along through the town and see signs nailed up on every available spot. The electric light company and phone companies forbid this. It is requested that some action be taken.
Toms River Kiwanis Club held Ladies Night in the form of a "bucolic festival, at the Novins hall, West Water street, Monday night. A turkey dinner was served by the Novins restaurant. The Kiwanians and their ladies came dressed in overalls, sunbonnets, any kind of old-fashioned clothes. Prizes were awarded Mrs. Theodore Moore, Miss Marie Snyder and Miss Mary Costello.
The Courier yesterday received a letter from George Wissmach, who is at Woodmen Colorado. The letter came by air mail, costing 32 cents to send it, and got into New York at 11:30 P.M., November 18, the day it started from Woodmen. In fact it was just 24 hours from Colorado to Toms River. George's letter will be printed next week.
They make up family parties to come down to the barbershop, ice cream parlors and movies now, on Saturday nights. Pop gets a shave and a haircut, Mom has her hair bobbed, and the children all get a haircut around. Then they all hotfoot it for the movies. After the show it is the ice cream parlor and then motor back home.

​George C. VanHise has bought the string of cranberry bogs on Quail Run. Some are in good shape and some are pretty well grown up, but he expects to put them all in condition soon.
Harry Harris is building a warehouse on the Robbins street end of his Main street property. With his restaurant here and one in Point Pleasant, he finds he needs more storage room for supplies.
Ted Horner, station agent at Pine Beach, had both hands badly poisoned with ivy, climbing a fence on the opening day of the hunting season.
Leonard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Asa Francis Salvador, was badly scalded by upsetting a kettle of hot water, Thursday of last week. While his condition has been serious, recovery is expected. He is five years old, but has stood the pain without a whimper.
Jack Costa this week took the place of policeman Walter Irons.
One of our young men tells us that times have changed and the girl buys the man the engagement ring now!
Weather stays cool--if not cold--for the time of year.
Monday and Tuesday next are the dates of the benefit of Fire Co. No. 1, at the Traco. Sid Chaplin, in "The Man on the Box," and four acts of vaudeville are promised.
Several new houses going up on Whitesville road and more on Hooper avenue. Most anywhere you go you can see new houses, started or just completed.
Fire Company No. 2 was called out twice last week. On Thursday night, there was a fire on the Rosenkranz house, on Church road, Pleasant Plains, damaging hallway, stairs and attic. They were also at Ocean Gate Saturday afternoon when the Frey cottage burnt.
The Double Trouble Co., gave their employees a Turkey dinner on Monday last. The dinner was served in the sorting room by the lady employees. Thirty were seated at the long table. All enjoyed the bountiful meal after dinner music and dancing was enjoyed by all.
Newell Harker smashed up his sedan Saturday night, when, coming down Dover road, he failed to make the turn into South Main street, and hit a tree across that street.

​November.
Eleventh month.
Armistice day next Wednesday.
October 30 brought our first snow.
Less than two months left of 1925.
Today is the 310th day of the year.
A card party and dance will be held next Wednesday, November 11, at St. Joseph's parish hall. Snyder's orchestra will furnish the music.
Rudolph Rogers and family on Friday last moved from the Schwarz and Jeffrey building on Main street, to Sandy Hook, where he is in the Coast Guard crew.
The Gilbert Conk houses on Lein street--three bungalows in a row--have had new shingle roofs put on.
November 1 was a bright, warm, pleasant day.
Hallowe'en furnished much fun for the little folks and big folks too.
Fred Gaskill has started work on two houses on Hadley avenue, between Dr. Paul Goble's and Charles B. Grover's residences. Both will be two story houses. One is for himself, and one for his father-in-law, James Allardice, now of Beach Haven. This about builds up the west side of Hadley avenue, between Washington street and Grand avenue.
There was a good attendance on Thursday last at the chicken salad supper in the M.E. Church, held by the Service Class of the Sunday-school. A nice sum was the result, the money to go toward improvements made on the church property the past summer.
A large crowd of town folks as well as out of town folks attended the mask dance Saturday evening at Cedar Grove.

​Howard Britton's new home in Montray Park is nearing completion.
Court Toms River, Foresters of America, held a district meeting last evening, in their new lodge room, the second floor of the C.B. Mathis building on lower Main street. There were visiting delegations from the Courts at Toms River and Freehold.
Under date of November 1 the Traco Theatre Company sent out semi-annual dividend checks on its outstanding preferred stock at the rate of three and a half per cent.
Some trees have lost all their leaves; some are partly stripped, and some are still clothed in green.
The Toms River Water Company has completed the concrete foundation for its new 380,000 gallon water tower on Horner street, across from the high school. As told before, this foundation is some 36 feet in diameter and six feet thick, re-enforced with iron rods, and holds the huge foundation bolts for the big standpipe.
Going up and down the Lakewood road you can see "fresh eggs" listed at any price from 75 cents to 90 cents. The explanation is that the low prices are for small eggs.

​Lieut. Chadwick, Jack Costa, and crew, had an airplane show on Saturday and Sunday, reaching here last week after a summer in New England, and striking a snow storm, Friday, the day their show was advertised to start. They took up a nice lot of passengers from the field at the corner of Hooper avenue and Cedar Grove road.
Somebody or something hit the big and heavy cement foundation to the traffic signal at Washington and Main streets on election day, moving one corner about fifteen inches. While nobody knew who did it, there was a suspicion that it was sideswiped by the Mathis Majority, coming up the shore, bound for Lakewood and Point Pleasant.
Ben Johnson says that the coal famine has increased the sale of heating outfits, and wants to know why?
John Gaskill was awarded a decree of divorce on Monday by Vice Chancelor Berry, sitting at Long Branch, from his wife, formerly Catherine Applegate, now of Trenton. Gaskill was represented by R.T. Stout.
November starts off cold and stormy, like October, but colder.
A son was born on October 15, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thompson and has been named Rodney George.
The Toms River Kiwanis Club coasts 100 per cent attendance for this week, the first perfect week in its history.
There are now forty pupils in the high school taking the commercial course. They keep nineteen typewriting machines busy.
Capt. Lewis Mitchell, of Island Beach Coastguard station, has his new house on Washington street all done except the interior trimmings.
Former Sheriff A.W. Brown, Jr., on Saturday last turned in his badge as a prohibition officer, and is now working for the Monmouth Title Company, and will conduct their Toms River branch.
Wells Chapel, in Berkeley, had a corner stone laying on Sunday afternoon last.
Mrs. Henry King, of Lexington avenue, boasts of violets blooming out of doors.

​Farmers have most of their corn shockend [stalks tied together] and some husked. They don't raise much of it these days.
Vice Chancellor Berry has had the storm doors put up on his big yacht Wilanida, at her dock on the riverfront. The upper works of the yacht are entirely enclosed in a wooden covering.
J.R. Hensler has had new slips built out in the river in front of his home to accommodate his yachts.
The entire year showing a deficiency in rainfall, many farmers complain of dry well, or nearly dry, in spite of the recent rains. They say if the old saw is true, and cold weather doesn't come till the springs and swamps are full of water, we are due for a good deal of rain in pretty short order.
Poultrymen are turning the lights on their newly housed birds.

​Moonlit evenings.
Gunning is good.
Hallowe'en tomorrow.
Fishing has fallen off.
Two months left in 1925.
One day left in October.
Chrysanthemums now due.
Full moon tomorrow night.
Election day next Tuesday.
Dandelions cling low in the grass.
The woods are still gay with color.
Most of the flower are frost killed.
Some rain last Saturday and Sunday.
Next Tuesday is the day which decides.
Coal scarce--burn wood, if you can get it.
Many trees were stripped of leaves by the recent gales.

​Tuesday last was Navy Day, also Theodore Roosevelt's birthday.
Heavy white frost last Saturday morning and again Wednesday morning.
Sunrise tomorrow at 6:27; sunset at 5:00 making the day ten hours and 33 minutes long.
Most of our October weather has been the kind we usually do not expect (or get) till November.
That was a real gust of wind last Sunday, but oldtimers will tell you they have known harder.
Politicians are putting in their last licks--and have been on the go this past week, almost day and night.
Grover and Son on Saturday sold an Overland sedan to Mrs. Zach Hankins, of Pershing [a section of Dover Township, now Toms River Township]; and a Willys-Knight sedan to Charles W. Herflicker, Township Committeeman.

​Capt. John R. Horner, of Forked River, has bought George Alsheimer's bungalow on Grant street, off Hooper avenue, on the former Grant farm. He expects to make it his home. Vernon and Frank W. Sutton, Jr., are building a house on Grant street, opposite the Horner dwelling.
Former Sheriff Alfred W. Brown Jr. announces that he has resigned as a member of the Prohibition Enforcement squad, at Newark, and last Monday began his work with the Monmouth Title Company. He will spend some time in Freehold, to get the run of the work, and will open an office in the Senator A.C.B. Havens dwelling, next door to the courthouse, recently bought by the Title company, and will soon engage an office force.
The Ladies Aid of the Baptist Church hold a cake sale tomorrow at Elwell's.
The yearly Hallowe'en supper will be given Saturday evening at the Burnside Post room by the Women's Relief Corps, attached to the G.A.R.
Wells Chapel, in Berkeley, has invited all the political leaders and candidates to a chicken supper tomorrow night.
The Fire Commissioners try out fire alarm signals at 7:30 tonight--it seems to be a regular thing, and you can listen for the signal each Friday night till further notice.
You can see the smoke of burning leaves most anywhere.
Toms River Water Company has about completed the big concrete foundation for its new water tower on Horner st. The foundation is a solid block of re-inforced concrete, six feet thick and 36 feet in diameter. It had to have some size to hold a tank containing 380,000 gallons of water.

The Goble-Brownell house on Main street, boasts a new front porch.
Myrtle Council Sons and Daughters of Liberty, give a Hallowe'en party tonight (Friday) at the opera house, to which the Junior Mechanics have been invited.
James Citta is building a new cement block plant on the Freehold road, just as it branches off from Main street, at the cemetery. Rumor says Citta has sold his plant on Main Shore road, in Berkeley, to be used for a garage.
Election places in Dover township will be: East or third, district, the Kilpatrick barn, Hooper avenue; middle or second, district, Town hall; west, or first, district, Alsheimer building, Chamber of Commerce building.
William Furman has enclosed the porch at his restaurant in Berkeley, on the Main Shore road.
The American Construction Company is installing an Arcola heating system for the Poultry Producers Association at their plant on South Main street.
Gravel roads went all into holes with the storm on Saturday and Sunday. Roads that were oiled stood the wear well.
Persimmons are now ripe. Some trees are full of them.
When the Hole in the Wall [known at the time to be the Hyers Street entrance at Washington Street, where the buildings once linked overhead a narrower right of way] is torn out "Dog Corner" will be no more. Ol' timers please take notice. The young generation won't understand.
Rudolph Rogers, of Main street, a Sandy Hook Coastguard, went gunning yesterday morning and killed fourteen blackducks.
While A.M. Brown Sr., janitor at the courthouse, was crossing Washington street in front of Priest's pharmacy last Saturday evening, he was struck by a car driven by two ladies. He managed to keep hold of the fender, and was dragged a short distance, till the car was stopped, but thus kept himself from more serious injury. He was badly shaken up and lamed somewhat. The car carried the license tag 106,270, which belongs to Dr. Wm. A. Brady, of Union Hill, N.J.
November will bring us election day--Armistice day--Thanksgiving day.
The Dover Township Board of Education are considering oil burners for the heating plant in the schools, owing to the scarcity of coal.