Ocean County , NJ History

New Egypt Press, 31 Mar 1905: A party of friends were entertained on Monday evening by Walter Bell and wife, it being their first evening in their new home. Those present spent a very pleasant evening playing bingo, Jenkins up Copenhagen, and various other games. Refreshments were served at a late hour. There were about forty people present. There have been many moving here during the past week. Walter Bell moved his family on the farm at the schoolhouse corner, lately vacated by Thomas Riley whom moved on the Davis farm. Alfred Southard moved on the old Henry Moore place; George Horner moved from the corner house formerly occupied by Jackson Southard, on the road to the Hopkins place; Alfred Bell moved in the house vacated by Walter Bell, and Ellis Hopkins moved where Albert moved from. Nearly everyone of Archertown's inhabitants have moved in new homes. Edward Ivins whose birthday was on Wednesday of this week, had the misfortune to be sick all day. He is twelve years old, and...

New Egypt Press 31 Mar 1905: Lewis Reed and family moved to New Egypt on Saturday. Mrs. Wm. Reed visited friends at New Egypt on Saturday.br> Elmer Errickson and wife spent Sunday at the home of Harry Devinney. Miss Hannah Potts of Asbury Park has returned home after spending a few weeks here. Irving Chafey and wife have returned home after visiting friends here. John Green will help Joseph Southard of near Recklesstown with his farm work the coming year. Mrs. Wm. Hagerman and daughter Helen have returned home after a visit at Mt. Holly. The committees were appointed on Sunday morning at the Baptist church to make arrangements for the Easter Services to be held on Easter Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. H.E. Garrison are spending a few days with friends at Pitman Grove and Philadelphia. Frank Ridgeway was in Philadelphia last week where he purchased five horses for his customers here, but horses being in such demand he sold two of them before reaching home. These were sent to their new...

New Egypt Press, 31 Mar 1905: Rev. W.A. Lilley preached a very fine sermon Sunday afternoon. Many came out to hear him and received much good from the sermon. A.J. Durand druggist of Moorestown has been spending a few days at the home of James Buckalew. John Southard is moving this week near Cranbury where he will go do bookkeeping with his daughter Katie.

New Egypt Press 31 Mar 1905: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davis entertained Martha Evans on Sunday. Miss Helen Wallace spent Sunday and part of last week with Dr. and Mrs. John Forsythe. Miss Reba Evans spent Sunday with her parents in Mt. Holly. We are glad to note that George Forsythe is quite recovered from his recent illness enough to take his accustomed walk to the post office. George Van Wess is quite in demand now among the young ladies in town as he purchased a new buggy last week. A party was given by Elizabeth Tilton on Friday evening at her home near Jacobstown. Young people from Crosswicks, Chesterfield, Allentown, and Jacobstown were present. The company was entertained a large part of the evening by Percy Borden with his up to date graphphone.

New Egypt Press 31 Mar 1905: There were no quarterly nor public collections taken during the entire year at the M.E. Church. It is rumored that Wm. NASH the Shoe dealer has just purchased the property occupied by Dr. J. Wm. BICHLER, and will take possession soon. Another rumor is that Dr. BICHLER will move on the Allen place lately vacated by James LARKIN. Harry COMPTON has been quite ill during the past few days. Dr. MOODY moved in the house formerly occupied by Chas. GREEN on Wednesday. Signs of Spring are growing more evident every day. Robins are plentiful this week. Walter LUKE who is in the employment of Geo. MILLISLAGLE picked up a rare specimen of an Indian arrow while walking across the Richard HARRISON farm on Friday. The specimen is about 2 inches across and upon scraping the dirt away he found a metal which has very much the same appearance as gold. It is on exhibition at the Central Hotel. Ward ERRICKSON moved to Allentown on Thursday. W.C. MOORE moved in the hous...

from the New Jersey Courier 30 Mar 1911 Jesse Sprague, Jr has joined the navy and gone to training quarters at Newport, RI A daughter was born last week to Mr. and Mrs. Allen. Capt A.B. Stratton was about the first to start the flounder fishing succesfully. Mumps are sweeping this part of the beach. Wm. L. Butler has contracts for two new cottages, one on Second street, the other on Bay avenue, for MA Todd and Mrs. Jopsom of Philadelpia. R.F. Engle of Engleside was here last week and will soon be overhauling for the summer business. Eight geese and 23 ducks was the bag of Carrol Stratton and Jim Sprague on windy day in March. Charles Brewer has moved here from Manahawkin in one of the James Welsh houses. Thomas K. Lane has moved into the James Sprague house at North Beach Haven. Charles Beck of Philadelphia is a frequent visitor at his farm here.

New Jersey Courier 30 Mar 1911 Capt. Joel Van Sant and his mate, Morgan Morris, two mariners, both of this place, were compelled to abandon the yacht Edithanna at sea off Jupiter Inlet, Florida recently and were picked up by the French cruiser Gloire, which landed them at Annapolis, MD. They had been cruising in Florida waters and visited Havana, Cuba whence they sailed for Tuckerton on March 13. They ran into a storm that was too much for their craft were blown off shore, and would probably have gone down with their schooner had not the French cruiser come along. The Edithanna was owned by Thomas Henderson of Philadelphia and had a crew of four men. J.H. Bartlett and wife have gone on a trip to California via the Sunset route, New Orleans and the Grand Canyon of the Rio Colorado. A local debating club has decided that drunkenness is a greater curse to humanity than war. Well, you can neither compel a man to pull a trigger or take a drink if he makes up his mind ot to, and that woul...

New Jersey Courier 30 Mar 1911 Jesse Sprague, Jr has joined the navy and gone to training quarters at Newport, RI A daughter was born last week to Mr. and Mrs. Allen. Capt A.B. Stratton was about the first to start the flounder fishing succesfully. Mumps are sweeping this part of the beach. Wm. L. Butler has contracts for two new cottages, one on Second street, the other on Bay avenue, for MA Todd and Mrs. Jopsom of Philadelpia. R.F. Engle of Engleside was here last week and will soon be overhauling for the summer business. Eight geese and 23 ducks was the bag of Carrol Stratton and Jim Sprague on windy day in March. Charles Brewer has moved here from Manahawkin in one of the James Welsh houses. Thomas K. Lane has moved into the James Sprague house at North Beach Haven. Charles Beck of Philadelphia is a frequent visitor at his farm here.

New Jersey Courier 30 Mar 1911 The Harvey Cedars Realty Company will run a free excursion down from Camden and Philadelphia on Sunday to sell lots here. It is understood these excursions will be continued to and through the summer on Sundays. Samuel Gaskill of Barnegat is overhauling Howlett's motorboat at High Point. D.P. Schramm spent Saturday in Barnegat. The new High Point Yacht Clubhouse is completed and ready for the yachtmen when they come down for the summer. The Harvey Cedars Realty Company is planning to start on a big dredging project about April 15. This will deepen the channel and fill in a large space for building lots. Raymond Palmer of Conrad's station was at Barnegat Monday night. Walter Ridgway was another Barnegat visitor Monday. L.A. deZano of Philadelphia, while here gunning, got tenducks the last day of the season and was well pleased with his trip. Mr. and Mrs. John Schramm of High Point are visiting New York. Joseph Bounds of this place went ba...

from the New Jersey Courier 30 Mar 1911 Edward Crabbe on Saturday last let the water off the big mill pond which he partially set out in cranberry vines last summer. He has two hundred barrels of vines which he will now set out on the bottom of the pond. During the winter sand was carted out on the ice and dumped over the muddy spots, and is now in the places where it is wanted to be spread. The water that was run off the pond was run on the east bog of 200 acres, which was flooded last summer. This will be ready for setting out after another summer under water. When Mr. Crabbe gets through with bog building he will have about 500 acres of vines. The mill is busy on cedar lumber. A neat bungalow is being built on the shore of the lake. Some say the builder expects to have a bride to occupy it with him. From the New Jersey Courier 29 Feb 1912 Jesse Taylor [ of Forked River] and family spent Sunday at Double Trouble.

I've never heard of this name for what appears to be a section of South Toms River, on South Main Street, but the 1920 census enumerator referred to it that way in the Berkeley census. It's listed as an 'unincorporated village' Eventually I plan to transcribe the census for this 'town', but for now here are the names of some of the families who resided there in 1920: Gardner and Sarah Smith Job Hand Gustave Hockaway Howard Hans Leslie Smith Charles P. Horner Jefferson and Anna Thompson Brazilla Luker Leroy and Lydia Evernham Mary Cotten Edith and Arthur O'Hare William A. Chamberlain Harvey and Rose Irons Joseph and Mary A. Walton Bessie Borden Several of the older children of these families worked at a shirt factory, presumably somewhere nearby. The census lists about 2 1/2 pages of names, about fifty homes, in this village in 1920.

New Jersey Mirror 29 Mar 1860 On Friday morning last(March 23, 1860), Philip Lynch, convicted at the December term of the Court, of the murder of George Coulter, suffered the extreme penalty of the law, in the yard of the County Jail, in this town(Mount Holly.) The murder of Coulter was one of peculiar atrocity

Notes on Bridgeboro This town was, or maybe still is?, located in Delran Township in Burlington County. It was on the west bank of the Rancocas River, mostly on the land that had once belonged to the Rancocas Toll Bridge Company. At present, some of the only residents I have come across of this town were posted to a mailing list about 10 years ago. They were Daniel and Mary (Applegate) Vandergrift. They had a daughter, Martha Lippincott Vandergrift, born in 1852 in or near Bridgeboro. Her later married name was Hullings. There was another child of Daniel and Mary, also, by name of Mary Heaton Vandergrift. Another resident of this town is mentioned in the New Jersey Mirror on Jul 24 1889; it says:: Samuel L. Litle, of Bridgeboro,finally succeeded in committing suicide Friday by hanging himself up to a rafter in his blacksmith shop, where he was found by Smith Loyd and William Meeks early in the morning dead. Mr. Litle who has for some time shown signs of derangement and who has b...

NEW JERSEY COURIER 27 MAR 1879: The Post Office of this town was entered by burglars sometime during Sunday night and robbed of a small sum of money. Entrance was affected through a rear window, a pane of glass having been cut out for the purpose. No clue to the perpetrators yet. The watchmen saw two individuals pass down Main Street just before daybreak on Monday morning, but as he had no suspicion of the robbery he made no effort to secure them. Our town has heretofore been comparatively exempt from transactions of this kind.

Beckerville is a small section of Manchester Township in Ocean County, NJ. I don't know much about it at all...off what is now Route 70 there is a road called Beckerville Road, and if you take it all the way to the end there are some rental units. I haven't been out that way in a while, but I was recently informed that all of the old houses are being demolished to make way for new ones. The old ones, I am told (please leave a comment if you can verify this) were formerly used as army barracks. The housing was low cost, and somewhat of a joke in the county because it was in such bad shape. According to an article in the Asbury Park Press from 30 May 1999, "Beckerville Pines, located near the Manchester Wildlife Conservation Area in a rural area of the township, was built about 60 years ago as temporary sleeping quarters for men and women preparing for war. Erected in the last days of the Great Depression, the complex consists of straight rows of identically designed and ...

On the 1880 Federal Census for Bordentown Township, Burlington County, there are a handful of households that the census enumerator has indicated were on "Beddles Island". If anyone knows anything more about this place, please leave a comment The households listed in Beddles Island in 1880 were those of : Joseph Fox William Beatty E. Thomas Beatty George Armstrong James Wright

New Egypt Press 25 Mar 1910 Mrs. Alice J. Potter, aged 76 years died at the home of her son, George H. Potter, near here on Monday evening, the 21st inst. Funeral services will be held today in the M.E. Church at Bayville.

New Egypt Press 25 Mar 1910 Mrs. Mary J. Challender, aged 80 years, died at the home of her daughter-in-law, in Pemberton on Tuesday the 22nd inst. Mrs. Challender was well known in this community, being the mother of the late Richard Challender of this place. Funeral was held at Pemberton yesterday.

New Egypt Press 10 Mar 1905 What was done with the right hand of James McMullan, who was murdered near his cabin in the woods at Weymouth Siding, near May's Landing, N.J., is a question that is puzzling the detectives. They are keeping up a diligent search for the hand, although they have the self confessed murderer safely in prison. Charles Burns, who has signed a confession of his guilt, remains stolidly silent about the missing hand, although he talks freely about the other details of the murder. Mrs. McMullan wrote yesterday to a son and daughter, who are at present in Scotland, telling them of their father's unfortunate death. She is a very religious woman, and is going to be beg the New Jersey authorities for permission to ask Mr. Burns one question. This is: Did he give her husband time to offer a few words of prayer before he slew him?

Tuckerton Beacon, 25 Mar 1920: Mrs. Lewis Loveland spent the week with friends in Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. John Stackhouse and family, of Warren Grove, are spending a few days with relatives here. Mrs. Thos. Cramer and son Paul, and Alexander Maxwell, of Atlantic City, visited friends here over the week end. The Knights of Pythias will hold their annual banquet in their hall on Main Street next Saturday. The members and friends of the M.E. Church are planning a reception in the church for Rev. and Mrs. T.O. Jackson on Thursday evening this week. Mr. and Mrs. D.D. Cramer motored to Atlantic City on Tuesday. Lafayett Gerew, of Atlantic City, has purchased the property which belonged to Thomas Cramer. Mrs. Earl Cramer has been on the sick list this week. We are glad to note that she is improving at this writing. Mrs. Jos. Hickman and son, Orville, motored to Pleasantville on [must be typo here, the line is left unfinished.] Maurice Gaskill was an Atlantic City on Monday.[note...

NEW JERSEY COURIER 16 DEC 1921 The first arrest made by the newly organized state police force was in Tuckerton last week when Thomas Sandbo, a Texan, threatened to shoot up his father-in-law, Thomas Cale, and other members of his wife's family, and carried their baby from its home and left it with a neighbor across the street. State police brought Sandbo to the county jail. Cale's daughter, a girl in her teens, was visiting her sister in Colorado when she met and married Sandbo. They separated and she came home. The man came to Tuckerton last week and the events enumerated above followed in quick succession. Joseph Gilbert, of Tuckerton, a ma well along in his sixties, was tried Wednesday on the charge of rape upon Lavinia Penn, aged 13 year, daughter of Jacob Penn, of Tuckerton. Four little girls, Lavinia and her 11 year old sister Lydia,with Isabel and Sarah Miller of West Creek, also of like tender age, told their story in court and were unshaken by the cross examinatio...

New Jersey Courier 18 Jan 1918: Mrs. George Sheppard of New York spent a portion of the week here. Mrs. M.E. Sapp has gone to Welaka, Fla. to spend the remainder of the winter. Mrs. Harvey Smith is spending some time in Camden. W.V. Love of Philadelphia spent Thursday here. J.H. Wilkinson of Philadelphia was a recent visitor here. Mrs. U.S. Driscoll was called to Trenton on account of the serious illness of her daughter, Mrs. Paul Klinger. Leroy Horner of Philadelphia spent the week end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Horner. Miss Leona Salmons of Staffordville has been visiting here. A. Waldron has returned after spending several days in New York. George Mott of Camden was a recent visitor here. Miss Lydia R. Leake is spending sometime in the Quaker city. Edward B. Cooper of Atlantic City spent Monday in town. William Morris, Jr. of Washington, D.C. is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Morris, Sr. Mrs. George Grant is spending a few days in Philadelphia...

NEW JERSEY COURIER 16 DEC 1921 Commodore Horace A. Doan's drive for new members in the Toms River yacht club resulted last Friday night in the election of ten more men, as follows: Arthur R. Smock, Harold Christensen, Lakewood, John C. Sleator, Merchantville; Charles Peterson, Whitesville;Edwyn E. Levy; J Walton Grover, Charles R. Knox, John A. Hagaman, Fred Huttinger, Saunders Levy. Sixty men sat down to a beefsteak supper at the Toms River yacht club Wednesday evening, and all brought their appetites with them. It proved a real jolly affair. Harry Harris was the chef, who broiled the steaks, and the whole affair was managed by the entertainment committee, of which Frank Buchanan is chairman, and the other members being Dr. Samuel A. Loveman and John A. Hensler. The second and third prizes in the open competition for the whole state in sweet potatoes last week came to Dover Township. George Newman of Pershing (Clifton Avenue) took second prize'; Hamilton Tilton of Silverton...

NEW JERSEY COURIER 20 MAR 1879: George Grant, a lad about 14 years of age, son of the late Capt. Caleb Grant, narrowly escaped a serious accident on Tuesday afternoon. It appears that while handling a loaded shotgun in a room with other members of the family, by some means he accidentally touched the trigger with his knee, causing a discharge of the gun, the load grazing his cheek and his head. He came within an inch of losing his life.

23 Mar 1876 -New Jersey Courier: Bass River beats the world on rats. A mother and daughter killed thirty-seven one day last week, the largest of which weighed six pounds and three quarter.

New Jersey Mirror 23 Mar 1865 SUICIDE.--About two weeks since, a boy named Josiah Mason, committed suicide by hanging himself, near Crosswicks. The deceased was a mere lad, only twelve years of age, and was hired out by his widowed mother, living in this city, to Mr. Robert E. Woodward, a highly respectable farmer, residing near Crosswicks, for a term of four years. He was in the employ of Mr. W. only a few months, during which time, we are assured by his employer, he conducted himself very properly, always obeying in whatever was required of him. About the time the deed was committed, at his request, he was allowed to go home for a short time.--Upon leaving home to return to his employer, he remarked that it was the last time they would see him. The same remark was made to a negro boy upon the farm, but no attention was paid it in either case. On the morning of the occurrence, he was discovered in the wood-house arranging some horse lines about a beam, but this also elicited no mark...

New Jersery Mirror 22 Mar 1882 STEWART--BORTON.--At Medford, March 13, by Rev. G. R. Snyder, David S. Stewart, of Almonesson, Gloucester County, and Miss Lavinia W. Borton, of Medford.

from the New Jersey Courier, 21 Mar 1965 MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP-- Mrs. Madeline Badovinac, 40, of Aberdeen, died Saturday in Riverview hospital, Red Bank, after a short illness. She was born in Red Bank. She was a communicant of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, New Monmouth. She also belonged to the Croatian Fraternal Union. Mrs. Badovinac is survived by her husband, Nicholas, two daughters, Genevieve L. and Joann, and two sons, John A. and Michael P., all at home; her mother, Mrs. Christine G. Abbatemarco, Red Bank; two brothers, Frank Abbatermarco, Red Bank, and John Abbatemarco, Eatontown, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Bedford, Highlands, and Mrs. Mildred Warnock, Matawan. The Worden Funeral Home, Red Bank, is in charge of arrangements

from New Jersey Mirror 20 Mar 1936: The Court of Errors and Appeals, in a decision handed down in Trenton on Thursday, refused to grant a new trial to Jacob Ciemiengo, 16, and George A. Hildebrand, 26, convicted of first degree murder of Herman Eiler, Florence township poultry farmer. A Burlington county jury brough(t) in the verdict that was appealed to the high court. The upholding of the conviction of Ciemiengo and Hildebrand leaves only one avenue of escape from electrocution. That is the Court of Pardons. The decision affirming the conviction of the pair was written by Supreme Court Justice Joseph L. Bodine. The court refused to uphold the contention of the defense that the examination of two witnesses by the state, Arthur Therien and John Malseed, was improper. The court said there was abundant evidence to uphold the ruling of the trial court that the confessions made were voluntary. It was stated in the decision that both confessed they had gone to Eiler's home to rob him ...

TUCKERTON BEACON 18 Mar 1920 Miss Ruth Parker spent several days last week as the guest of Mrs. George Parker at Beach Haven Terrace. Mr. and Mrs. H. Lamson, of Bordentown, recently spent several days at the home of the former's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Parker. Norwood Parker was a Monday visitor at Toms River. Mr. and Mrs. James Ayer Parker and son, Melvin, have returned to their home after spending the winter in Trenton at the home of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.L. Shourds. Jas. A. Parker, of the C.G.s. at Deal Beach, spent several days with his family here recently. Mrs. Micajah Holman is seriously ill at the home of her son, Atmore. Ayer Parker, Harvey Parker and Silas Cummings, who are employed at Beach Haven, spent the week end at their homes here. Russel Parker , of C.g.s., Avon-By-The-Sea, spent Monday and Tuesday with his parents, Postmaster and Mrs. Norwood Parker. Mr. and Mrs. Atmore Holman were recent Philadelphia visitors. Mrs. Kirkbrid...

NEW JERSEY COURIER 15 MAR 1918 Henry Parker and family spent the week end at the home of his brothers, William and Charles Parker at Beach Haven. Mr. and Mrs. William Reeves and son Elbert of Barnegat were recent visitors at the home of the latter's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Parker. Wm. Cramer and wife, Mrs. Cheeseman and William D. Wright, spent Sunday at New Gretna. The Ladies Aid met at the home of Mrs. Norwood Parker Wednesday evening this week. Harvey Parker is working at Elwood on the new munition plant.

The state census for Ocean Co., NJ lists a section of Manchester Township called "Bakersville". I've never heard of this place before, and there were only three occupied homes in it in 1915. The three families on the census in 1915 were as follows: GEORGE WITTERSCHEIR He was born in May of 1890, and worked as a farmer. He lived with his wife, Mary (b. Jan 1889), and son, George, Jr. (b. Nov 1908). A woman named Ada Darcy lived in the same home. She was born in May of 1900; her father was from England, her mother from New York. Charles Darcy, b. Jun 1893, also lived in the house. It's not clear how any of these people are related Charles worked as a farm laborer in 1930. IVINS COWAN He was born in Dec of 1880 in New Jersey. His father was from Massachussets, his mother from New Jersey. In 1930, he worked as a farm laborer. His wife, Olive, was born in Feb 1884. (Both of her parents were from Pennsylvania). Three children lived with them: Jennie Cowan, b. Aug...

Tuckerton Beacon, 18 Mar 1920: Mrs. A.E. Mathis is spending some time with relatives in Atlantic City. She was called there on account of the sudden death of her brother and has the sympathy of many friends. Rev. L.V. Brewin and family left for their new appointment at Imlaystown on Saturday morning. Mr. Brewin has served the M.E. Church very faithfully for four years and leaves with the best wishes of the whole community. Rev F.L. Jackson began his pastorate here last Sunday, preaching both morning and evening. We believe him to be a conscientious preacher and worker and extend our best wishes for a successful year. Mrs. Charles Pendleton and children, of Lakewood, are visiting the former's parents, Capt. and Mrs. Jos. Hickman. Miss Margaret LeMunyon, of Atlantic City, visited her brother during the week. Mr. Russell Loveland visited his family last week. Mrs. Rebecca Cramer has returned home after spending some time with friends in Manahawkin and Tuckerton. Arthur Lovelan...

Tuckerton Beacon, 18 Mar 1920: M.L. Cranmer went to Philadelphia on Sunday to see his son, Chester, who is in St. Joseph's hospital. Messrs. Ancel R. Lamson and J. F. Lamson were Monday and Tuesday visitors in Philadephia on business. Elton Cranmer, of Tuckerton, is spending a few days with his mother, Miss Eva Cranmer. Blanche Cranmer, formerly of this place, and Frank Reeder, of Cedar Run, were married on Saturday last. Miss Mary Lamson has returned home after spending two weeks with Mrs. Susie Cranmer, because her home was under quarantine. We hope there will not be a case of diptheria here again. Howard B. Cranmer, of C.G.S. 119, was a caller in town on Monday evening. Mrs. Frank Cranmer and daughter, Miss Hazel, were Barnegat visitors recently. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Muller entertained their daughter, Marion, over this week end. Miss Leona Salmons, of Staffordville, is spending some time with Mrs. M.L. Cranmer. Miss Mary Lamson is spending a few days at Barnegat City,...

Tuckerton Beacon 18 Mar 1920: Samuel LIFORD has gone to Barnegat City, where he has employment. Clayton CORLISS, of Barnegat, spent Monday with his brother, T.A. CORLIS. George LETTS, of Camden, spent a few days this week with Mr. and Mrs. William ADAMS. Luke COURTNEY and wife have returned after spending the winter in Jersey City. Mrs. Ethel JONES of Barnegat spent a day this week with her aunt, Mrs. Laura LETTS. William LOWERY of Philadephia was home for over Sunday. Miss Edna HAZELTON has been ill for a week past. William ADAMS has been on the sick list for a few days.

New Jersey Mirror 18 Mar 1936 Argument on the appeal of Jacob J. Ciemiengo and George Hildebrand for a new trial in the murder of Herman Eiler, Florence township poultryman, will be heard before the Court of Errors tomorrow. They both were convicted in the Burlington county courts of first degree murder. The defendants are represented by Stanley K. Heilbron, of Mount Holly, and Jay B. Tomlinson, of Bordentown. Prosecutor Howard Eastwood is representing the state and will argue that no errors were committed at the trial. Because of this hearing to-morrow, the weekly session of criminal court, at the court house will be postponed until Friday.

from the New Jersey Courier 18 May 1905 Miss Louisa Falkenburgh has been spending the past week in Bayville. Rev. and Mrs. Litsinger were out of town Tuesday. Mrs. James Lee, Jr. and son Basil have been visiting at Toms River. Oliver Osborn spent some time at Island Heights last week. Wilson Havens left Wednesday for New York, where he will be employed on one of the big pleasure craft for the summer. Mrs. Joshua Polhemus and Mrs. Hulse were among the week's visitors at the county seat. Mrs. Grace Duryea of Elizabeth is visiting Mrs. Forman Clayton at Silverton. Mrs. Phoebe Havens, Mrs. Elwood Rogers and daughter were Monday visitors at Toms River. Jackson Worth has gone to New York for the summer.

New Jersey Courier 16 Dec 1921 While looking for deer meat at the home of Lewis Parker, near Manahawkin, Game Warden J. H. Evernham and Constable Joseph K. Johnson, of Toms River, found not venison, but a still in full operation. The still was seized and brought to the county jail. Parker was afterward arrested and brought here. Warden Evernham had received a tip saying that Parker had killed two deer and had them in his house. Parker lives at the Oxycocus plantation, at one time a famous cranberry bog, back in the woods from Manahawkin. The two officers went there and found Parker, demanding that he bring out the meat. He insisted that he had no venison and they proceeded to search the house. When he tried tos teer them away from a certain door all the time, they went into that room and found a still running. It sat on a three burner oil stove, and was steaming. They seized it, and it was still warm when it reached the Sheriff's office and a quart of white mule was in the worm, ...

New Jersey Courier 20 Jan 1876 The ladies of the M.E. Church held a fair on Christmas evening, to raise funds for paying the debt off. Towards the close some rowdies, under the influence of rum drank elsewhere, came in and broke up the fair for that night. Warrants are out for their apprehension. .....On New Year's Eve, the ladies continued the fair at the church. The tables were tastefully arranged, and waited upon by beautiful ladies. Mr. Sankey's hymns were sung, and a tree was decorated for the occasion.

New Jersey Mirror 16 Mar 1881 Pursuant to an order of the Orphans' court of the county of Burlington, made at the December term, A. D., 1880, the subscribers, administrators of Livingston B. French, deceased, will sell at public vendue, between the hours of 12 and 5 o'clock, to wit, at 2 o'clock, P. M. On SATURDAY, March 19, 1881, At the hotel of Franklin Adams, New Gretna, the following Real Estate of said deceased, to wit: No. 1. A tract of Brush land near the Lemunyon place in Little Egg Harbor township, containing 93 12-100 acres. No. 2. A Building Lot on Main street, Tuckerton, near Charcoal landing, containing 1 11-100 acres. No. 3. A piece of meadow on Dan'st thoroughfare, adjoining William W. Cramer, containing 8 acres. No. 4. A tract of upland, lying on Bass River, adjoining James M. Darby, other lands of Livingston B. French, deceased, Adolphus H. Lamson and others, containing 11 acres. This lot has a landing upon it and will sold in two or more lots. Pa...

from the New Jersey Courier 16 Mar 1905 Mrs. Heber R. Bishop, widow of a well known New York Millionaire, died Monday. She was a sister in law to the late Nathaniel Holmes Bishop of Toms River.

New Jersey Mirror: Mar 14 1827 Marriage -At Bass River, on Thursday evening, March 1, 1827, by George W. Tucker, Esq., Mr. Stacy Mathis, merchant, to Miss Julia S. Cramer, daughter of Caleb Cramer, Esq., all of Burlington County

from the Trenton Evening Times 14 Mar 1911 BOWEN - In this city, on the 14th inst., Robert John, infant son of Frank J. and A. Marie Danz Bowen, aged 2 days. Funeral private. Interment at Lumberton, NJ cemetery.

New Jersey Courier 13 Dec 1929 Mrs. Horace R. Wemple and daughter Miss Frances of Elizabeth and Beachwood returned recently from a visit of ten days in Great Barrington, Mass., where they were called by the death of Mr. Ralph Wainwright Pope, Mrs. Wemple's father. Mr. and Mrs. John Peterson of Cable Avenue spent a few days with their son in West Orange. Mrs. Melbourne Camillier, Jr. and Mrs. Frank Hill spent Tuesday in Asbury Park on a shopping trip. Arthur O'Dare of Brooklyn stopped at his cottage on Cable Avenue for the week end. He is having his front porch glassed in, Albert Neilson doing the work. Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Rheinhardt motored from Orange to spend a few days at their home here. Mr. Rheinhardt is goin gto build a house on Cable Avenue. Albert Ober of Oak St. motored to Trenton on business last Thursday. Richard Stern motored from Irvington to spend the week end at his home on Barnegat Blvd. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Koelihoffer have returned after a visit of sev...

NEW JERSERY COURIER 16 OCT 1916 William Reeves and wife and son Elbert have returned to their home here after spending the summer at Barnegat where Mr. Reeves has been employed. Miss Julia Price returned to her home in Atlantic City after spending several days here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mason Price. She also visited Seaside Park as the guest of Albert Mathis. Merrett Price and Wm. Fithian spent several days in Trenton as representatives to state council O.U.A.M. and also attended the Trenton fair. Mrs. Jas. A. Parker and children spent the week end at Manahawkin. Miss Helen Parker was a recent guest of Mrs. G. Grover of Atlantic City. Mrs. Chas. A. Mathis is entertaining Mrs. Chas. Shannon and Mrs. Edna Mayhew and daughter Alice of Atlantic City. Wm. E. Horner, Jr. and wife spent Wednesday of last week at Atlantic City.

13 Mar 1822 - New Jersey Mirror: Marriage-At Philadelphia, on Monday evening, March 4, 1822, by George Bartram, Esq., Mr. John R. Mulliner, of Tuckerton, NJ, to Miss Emeline P. Mathews, of Bass River, NJ.

Wanamaker Hall in Island Heights, ca. 2000

From the New Egypt Press 10 Mar 1905: Moses Cranmer, overseer of the poor has adopted a new method with the applicants for public funds. He keeps a large pile of wood and w hen an applicant presents himself for help he is given a job cutting wood, which saves the town's money and gives them employment. There are very few who really want work but can get it this way. June Ridgway has sold his barber shop at Forked River and returned here, looking for a new opening. He says it is a poor climate for whiskers up there. A number of New York Evening Journal reporters spent Sunday at Pine Bluff Inn, Point Pleasant. A Box Social was held at the Presbyterian Church at Toms River on Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Applegate of Toms River have just returned from an extended visit in California.

New Jersey Courier 9 Mar 1911 Miss Matilda Collins of Bamber, Ocean County, died of paralysis at the home of her niece, Mrs. Charles Asselin of Red Bank, yesterday. Miss Collins was in her 85th year. The body will be removed to Barnegat where the funeral will be held.

Press of Atlantic City 5 Mar 1990 "It's going to take more than vandals and the state bureaucracy to force Jane Gardner and Earl Hawk to move from the concrete block building that has been their home in the Pinelands for 25 years. The couple and a neighbor are the three remaining residents of Caruso Village, once a cluster of 10 homes, a hunting cabin and garage complex located in the Pinelands near the Bamber Lake section. The state Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife, which had purchased the area from the Caruso family, ordered most of the remaining village residents to move at the end of October. But like their neighbor, the couple holds a long-term lease on their tin-roofed home, and the feisty pair have refused to move. They are not bothered that vandals recently set fire to two of the abandoned homes nearby. They also don't worry that anyone will harass them in their lonely enclave. Four people, including two juveniles, have been arrested and charged with setting...

from the New Jersey Mirror Mar 4 1908 Angered at his wife because she refused to leave her parents and go home with him to Atco, this State, Jacob Kobler shot and instantly killed her on Thursday afternoon at her parents home, on Kensington avenue, Philadelphia, and during the struggle which followed, shot and wounded Rudolph A. Ferber and Elizabeth Ferber, his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and then made a bluff at committing suicide by shooting himself in the head. He then jumped out of a second-story window and tried to make his escape across the fields to a small creek into which he plunged. The icy water soon chilled his heated blood and he crawled back and surrendered to his pursuers.

New Jersey Courier 2 Mar 1911 An old time Ocean County industry can be seen here [Forked River] just now as Zeb Britton has started fires in his five charcoal pits for Dr. G.E. Wallace. Time was when such sights were common, but many people have never seen a coaling.