Ocean County , NJ History

New Jersey Courier 23 Oct 1908 One of the good results of the warden new warden law was seen at Bamber last week, when deputy warden Alfred Larrabee called out a lot of citizens to help put out a fire that had started nearby. It was a hard fight and they succeeded after somewhat of territory had been burned, but no valuable timber destroyed.

Allentown Messenger 14 May 1908: Peter Layton, Adam Lewis and others are making repairs on their properties this week. Oxel Holmlund and Harrison Reed are engaged in doing the carpenter work. Frank Briggs purchased a horse of James K. Hart the past week. Miss Edith Kester was the guest of her cousin, Miss Ethel Borden on Monday. The painters who are painting the Methodist Church on the inside are being entertained at the home of Mrs. Josephine Shaw. Samuel Emley, of New Egypt visited Mrs. Mary Sagers on Saturday. Harry Luke, our tonsorial artist, has moved his barber shop from the Sexton shop to that of Frank Ridgway. Michael Cullen recently killed almost one hundred capons, for which he received 26 1/2 cents per pound. Michael is one of those farmers who gets there all the time. Howard Borden, who has been suffering from appendicitis, is much improved. Parties from the Henry Keeler farm purchased a young stock bull of M. K. Ivins last week.

Allentown Messenger 14 May 1908: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Emley, of Ellisdale visited the former's mother, Mrs. Lydia Havens on Monday. Richard Bussom has moved to the California house. Thomas Cawley was given one year in State Prison for stealing chickens. There was no bill found against Walter Greenwood. Harold Woodward returned to Peddie Institute at Hightstown on Monday. He has been home for two months suffering with an abscess on the knee. Miss Mary Harker, of Wrightstown, visited her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Harker on Saturday. Howard Bird, of Princeton and his bride, formerly Miss Delia McCabe of New York, spent a few days last week with the former's sisters, the Misses Maud and Lillie Hamilton. While Frank Emery was driving down the road with Harry Dutcher's team Saturday, near John Meaney's, the bolt came out of the sword, which let the front of the wagon strike the horses' heels. They were badly frightened and ran away. When they came into town t

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.

from the Industrial Directory of New Jersey , 1901, p. 2 ATCO, Camden County: On the Atlantic City Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, and the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad. Station of each road in the town. Population 500. Banking town, Camden. Money order post office and telegraph station. Express service, Adams, United States, and West Jersey Companies. Tax rate, $ 2.38 Land for factory purposes bordering directly upon the line of the railroads ma y be had in any size plots, free of charge or at nominal prices. Water is pure and plentiful, the climate is healthful and free from malaria, and there is a good supply of labor, either male or female. One small factory building, floor area of 600 feet, with steam engine and boiler, will be rented for $ 10 per month or sold outright for $ 1500. These industries are now in operation E.H. Flood, manufacturers of window glass; employs 47 persons. John E. Hand, manufacturers of ship's compasses; employs 8 persons

from New Jersey Mirror 15 Jul 1908 After swallowing carbolic acid in a drug store at Franklinville on Saturday night, Amos Green, a negro bartender, of Atlantic City, rushed upstairs with a club, and chased the proprietor of the store over chairs, tables, boxes and barrels, upsetting a lamp and making the place look as if a cyclone had struck it. The druggist escaped injury. Then the negro fell unconscious to the floor. He was hurried to Clayton, three miles distant, but doctors were unable to save the man's life.