Ocean County: 100 Years Ago This Week! (October 30-November 6, 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

​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.

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