This weekend we offer a new feature that presents a bit of our local maritime history alongside contemporary internet links to more insight, information and photos.

The Mount Holly News
August 23rd, 1898
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Sea Side Park.
The week just passed has marked the high water of seashore travel and seashore life and it is probable that with the exception of the coming Labor Day and the Saturday and Sunday that precede it nowhere along the shore will there be so many guests as there have been on the past two Saturdays and to-day. While there have been crowds all along the beach Sea Side Park has had its share. For three Saturdays and Sundays there has not been room for all the guests at the Manhasset, and during the week the hotel has been filled completely.

LINK: Jersey Shore Land Speculation (featuring Seaside Park) - from DiscoverSeasideHeights

Bathing seems to be indulged in by almost everyone here, the few who do not take the daily dip accompanying their friends to the beach, and by their bright costumes adding to the gayety of the scene. Bathing costumes are rarely gay here, mostly of the conventional black and blue. One lady was noticed this week garbed in a bloomer costume, of unpretentious black brilliantine, and so full in its folds that it looked almost as a skirt.

Judge E.T.R. Applegate, of Hightstown, was high hook of the entire bay last week. With his two sons, Thomas and Edward, he made a day's catch of 425 weakfish.

LINK: Edward Taylor Riggs Applegate @ FindAGrave

John Gray, of Forest Grove, Pa., made three catches of weakfish on three successive days last week of 100, 110 and 135. Another good catch was by Charles Webber, E. Totten and F.C. Manners, of Newark, who caught 152 in one day, and 235 in two days.

LINK: John Gray @ Bucks County PA GenWeb

R.G. Ferguson, a Lakewood inventive genius, claims to have perfected a scheme by which a yacht can sail into the eye of the wind without tacking, by a simple arrangement of her sales. When he gets his idea on the market, every Sea Side Park and Barnegat Bay Yacht will have it, if it works.

The Great Sedge Island, at Barnegat Inlet, formerly owned by Dr. L.W. Warner, of Herrick's liniment fame, has been purchased by Captain R. B. Gowdy, of Toms River. The island is a favorite resort for gunners.

LINK: Herrick's 1894 Almanac @ Ol' Tales of Barnegat NJ Facebook Page by Giovanni Rawley
LINK: Sedge Island Trip @ Berkeley Striper Club
LINK: Tale End: Sedge Island Magic @ The Fisherman
LINK: Sedge Island: A Trip Back in Time @ Herb Segars Photography Blog

A guest who is spending a pleasant vacation at the Manhasset is A.L. Horner, of Dublin, Ireland, who is a prosperous barrister, and the Queens attorney.

Down at Forked River, where Tammany politicians gather to catch fish and discuss New York's political situation, the "croaker" has been rechristened the "Tammany fish," in honor of the apparently invincible Sachem, Richard Croaker.

LINK: Tammany Hall @ Smithsonian Institution Libraries
LINK: Richard Croaker @ American Aristocracy

The lover of a quiet day's salt water fishing, who doesn't care for the motion of a boat - though they are few who get sick in a Barnegat Bay Yacht - can get what he wants at Barnegat Pier, fishing from one of the little platforms which the Pennsylvania Railroad has built on the east side of the draw for that very purpose. Perch bite voraciously, and some big weakfish have been caught there even within the past week. Once in a great while someone is lucky enough to hook a sheepshead, but that gamy fish, once so plentiful in Barnegat Bay that dozens of families were supported by hook and line fishermen in the sheepshead fisheries, was almost completely annihilated by net fishermen a few years ago.
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LINK: Barnegat Pier/Pennsylvania Railroad @ OCTrainGuy

Captain R.C. VanVliet, a regular army officer, wounded at Santiago, and home on sick leave, has been enjoying Barnegat Bay fishing from Forked River.

LINK: Robert Campbell Van Vliet @ Wikipedia

​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.

​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.

Read and experience these long-ago people with their celebrations, tragedies and seasons lived through the same shores, streets and towns we inhabit today.

Presented here is this week's New Jersey Courier Brevities column (we’ve taken a bit of editorial license and renamed it Life & Seasons), written by NJ Courier editor, William H. Fischer, as he sat at his desk above Main Street near Washington Street. Next week begins more news and features from this newspaper plus the Ocean County Review and Tuckerton Beacon.

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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.

After several years' absence, the Barnegat Bay Maritime Museum is proud to return this popular feature to our members and readers, inviting all to gaze through a window to exactly 100 years back from our present moment in time.

Read and experience these long-ago people with their celebrations, tragedies and seasons lived through the same shores, streets and towns we inhabit today.

We begin this new version of our feature with the New Jersey Courier's Brevities column (we’ve taken a bit of editorial license and renamed it Life & Seasons), written by NJ Courier editor, William H. Fischer, as he sat at his desk above Main Street near Washington Street. More highlights will follow in the coming week from this newspaper plus the Ocean County Review and Tuckerton Beacon to present a more complete picture of our area in 1925.

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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.

SAILING ON METEDECONK RIVER DELIGHTFUL
The Brooklyn Citizen - Sept. 17th, 1911

Stream Emptying into Barnegat Bay Ideal for Canoeing.
PLACE FOR NATURE-LOVER

Gray Hummocks of Sand with Background of Cedars Silhouetted Against the Sunset Form Pictures to Delight an Artist

When the warm days dawn again and the cheerful chug-chug of the motor launch is heard or the gentle dip of the paddles, the writer's memory hies back to a hundred happy days spent on the tranquil bosom of a pretty little river of South Jersey, with a name of Indian origin, the Metedeconk, which empties into Barnegat Bay.

In its widest part it is a picturesque stream with pine-clothed shores, suitable for the launch and sailboat, and where, becoming smaller, it winds beneath the overhanging branches of queer old twisted trees and under rustic bridges. Near the highway leading from Lakewood to Point Pleasant it is idea for canoeing.

Along its banks the brilliant cardinal-flower gleams with intensity from its green setting, reflected in the ripple of the tide. It is said that the early French Canadians were particularly impressed with the beauty of this wild flower of the new world and sent specimens of it back to France. From its semblance to the gorgeously attired dignitaries of the Roman Church, its name is supposed to be derived.

The great blue lobelia, related to the cardinal flower, also enhances with its vivid coloring the grass marshes of the Metedeconk, lifting its tall spires of bright blue blossoms in the midst of the calamus and cat-tails.

Great flocks of blue jays inhabit the piney tracts on either side of the little river, filling the daytime with their harsh, unmusical clamor; yet one appreciates this as a sort of friendly sound in that quiet, lonesome wilderness where at evening is heard the melancholy voices of the various owls and the whippoorwill calls plaintively in the soft rays of the morn.

There is a pretty cover around the bend of the Metedeconk below a steep bank covered thickly over with the scrub oak and the pine where thousands of water lilies, gemming the surface of the streams in all directions, hold in their pink and white and golden cups all the fragrant essences of full-blown summer. A rowboat or canoe is here a requisite and a hand or two free to pluck from their oozy bed these lovely lilies. Perhaps there is needed, too, a deep love of the beautiful in nature to appreciate most fully the cool, crisp, odorous blossoms, trailing their long stems upward to the light from the dark, mysterious depths where the water snake and turtle make their home.

Gray hummocks of sand warmed by the first flush of sunrise, low-lying swamps with a background of ragged cedars, flecked with rose and azure, Tyrian purple, red or orange, as the varying flowers unfold, giant pine trees, in the tops of which are nests of hawks or osprey, silhouetted against the sunset or the moon. These are only a few of the pictures which the artist may obtain in those solitudes near the sea.

The A.J. Meerwald, now docked at Island Heights Yacht Club on the Toms River through Sunday, July 13th, hosted education stations with the ship’s crew plus area organizations participating, including the Barnegat Bay Maritime Museum and two of its trustees, Jack Heacock and Mark James.

Many junior sailors from the Island Heights, Ocean Gate and Beachwood yacht clubs plus the STEAM camp run by Save Barnegat Bay visited the ship and its learning resources on Thursday, July 10th, when these photos were taken. There they learned about the A.J. Meerwald’s operation and history as well as maritime ecology and the sailing history of the Barnegat Bay. More juniors sailors visited the following day from around the river and bay.

Tomorrow, Sunday, July 13th will be the last opportunity for the public to visit the tall ship when it hosts Coffee with Captain Fern Hoffmann & Open Boat at its dock from 10 am to noon. For more information, visit bayshorecenter.org.

The A.J. Meerwald will be docked at Island Heights Yacht Club on the Toms River from Wednesday, July 9th through Sunday, July 13th and offer events to bring together passionate sailing, history and maritime enthusiasts.

Dockside tours for the public will be offered Wednesday evening and Sunday morning. Due to the shallow depth of the river, public sails will not be offered but can be enjoyed in later July port visits to Atlantic Highlands and Jersey City.

TOMS RIVER PORT SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Wednesday - July 9th
12 pm - Parade of Sail in Toms River to Island Heights Yacht Club (est. time; watch from along the shore!)
1 pm - Arrive Island Heights Yacht Club (IHYC)
5 pm - Dockside Reception & Public Open Boat Tours at IHYC (OPEN TO PUBLIC)

Thursday - July 10th
9 am - 3 pm - Youth Education Programs (BBYRA Members & Education Outreach Partners)
7 - 8 pm - “Maritime Career & Leadership Pathways” Panel at IHYC (2nd Floor) (OPEN TO PUBLIC)
Panelists: Jane Millman, Magenta Project; Capt. Fern Hoffmann, AJM; Billy de Rouville, de Rouville’s Boat Shop

Friday - July 11th
9 am - 3 pm - Youth Education Programming (BBYRA & Education Outreach Partners)

Saturday - July 12th
TBD - A.J. Meerwald will be the finish Boat at the Toms River “Challenge Cup,” the 2nd oldest American sailing trophy, hosted by Toms River Yacht Club. Watch party at TRYC for club members; the public can view the race from public spaces along the shores near the course

Sunday - July 13th
10 am - 12 pm -  Coffee with Captain Fern Hoffmann & Open Boat at IHYC (OPEN TO PUBLIC)
4 - 6 pm - Evening Farewell Beach Party (for Bayshore Center (BCB) Members at Save Barnegat Bay.)
Members at the Bosun Level ($100) or higher are invited with a guest. Youth are free and are invited to sail their small boats over. If you live or sail on Barnegat Bay, join BCB as a Barnegat Bay Society Member (bayshorecenter.org)

THANK YOU
Toms River Port Sponsors: Silent Maid, Coastal Queen, Mission Spirits, Ward Wight Sotheby’s International Realty, Bivalve Packing & de Rouville’s Boat Shop

Education & Outreach Partners: Save Barnegat Bay & Barnegat Bay Maritime Museum