Ocean County , NJ History

from the New Jersey Courier 13 Jul 1911 Asbury Park, July 8 Two more arrests on a charge of illegal liquor selling were made by the police here today. The accused are Robert E. Ryno, a son of J.E. Ryno, a restaurant keeper on Cookman avenue who himself was arrested a week ago on a similar charge and is out on bail, and Jacob Hannaford, an employee of Ryno. Both prisoners were taken to the county jail at Freehold in default of bail. Ryno is a Lakewood man and has a restaurant there.

saw this ad in the New Jersey Courier of 12 Jul 1918: "WANTED - Neat young white girls for waitresses. Apply at Hotel Albion, 107 Second Ave, Asbury Park, NJ"

New Jersey Courier 14 Jul 1916 Benjamin Evernham, a Toms River man, who is lifeguard at Asbury Park, got his name in all the papers the past week during the shark scare, a newspaper reporter writing a glowing tale about a battle Evernham had with a shark, while patrolling outside the bathing beach in a lifeboat--according to the story, he beat the shark off with his oars.

from the New Jersey Courier 25 Oct 1900 Mrs. Edward Havens of Asbury Park, a relative of Mrs. John Hagaman of this town [Toms River], died on last Thursday night. She was also a relative of Mrs. Belle Worden of Forked River.

From the Tuckerton Beacon, June 12, 1914 CHARGES SHE WAS A WHITE SLAVE Asbury Park, June 6 --- A rather good looking young woman who says she is Mrs. Raymond Miller, colored, but who the police say is a white girl from a Forked River family, was sentenced to 60 days in the county jail in the city court this morning as a disorderly person. Detective Sergeant Broderick told Judge Borden the girl had been supporting Raymond Miller, a west side negro, by the money she made on the streets. Miller did no work, and lived with the girl in a three room bungalow on Borden Avenue. The girl said she had been married to Miller last June in Belmar by a Hamilton justice whose name she could not remember. She said she was colored because her father had been a Cuban. She declared that she had left Miller when he tried to force her to a life of shame in order to support him. She had obeyed him, she declared, until she sickened of it. Beside Miller, there was a second man in the Borden Avenue ho

from New Jersey Courier 7 Nov 1878 A dispatch to the New York Herald says that two men in a light wagon drove up to the Halfway House, a hotel situated about eight miles southwest of Asbury Park on Monday last, and inquired the way to the Shark River Southern Railroad. They were told the route and drove on. In a little while, the horse came running back, dragging the wagon which was upset. Several men started in search of the strangers, fearing they were injured. About a half mile from the hotel they found one of them lying in the edge of the woods in an unconscious condition and with a dangerous stab wound in the right side of his neck, near the shoulder. It was later ascertained that his name was Cook and that he belonged in Long Branch. There being no physicians in the neighborhood, he was conveyed to Long Branch while still insensible. His companion had disappeared and foul play is suspected. It was noticed that a gun which had been seen in the possession of the missing man was a

Found this story in the Tuckerton Beacon of 12 Jun 1914. Asbury Park, June 6 --- A rather good looking young woman who says she is Mrs. Raymond Miller, colored, but who the police say is a white girl from a Forked River family, was sentenced to 60 days in the county jail in the city court this morning as a disorderly person. Detective Sergeant Broderick told Judge Borden the girl had been supporting Raymond Miller, a west side negro, by the money she made on the streets. Miller did no work, and lived with the girl in a three room bungalow on Borden Avenue. The girl said she had been married to Miller last June in Belmar by a Hamilton justice whose name she could not remember. She said she was colored because her father had been a Cuban. She declared that she had left Miller when he tried to force her to a life of shame in order to suupport him. She had obeyed him, she declared, until she sickened of it. Beside Miller, there was a second man in the Borden Avenue house whom the