Ocean County: 100 Years Ago This Week! (October 23-29, 1925) Life & Seasons

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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LIFE & SEASONS

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

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

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

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

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