Ocean County , NJ History

from New Jersey Courier 26 Jul 1929 Mrs. Margaret Jackson, colored, of Point Pleasant, was fined $1 and costs of court by Justice of the Peace James Irons on Thursday of last week for driving her car without a driver's license. She explained the case to the judge, telling him that she left her home in a hurry and had forgotten her license. Officer Smythe made the arrest.

NJC 26 JUL 1929 Mrs. Margaret Jackson, colored, of Point Pleasant, was fined $1 and costs of court by Justice of the Peace James Irons on Thursday of last week for driving her car without a driver's license. She explained the case to the judge, telling him that she left her home in a hurry and had forgotten her license. Officer Smythe made the arrest.

From New Jersey Courier 3 Jan 1919 Miss Ella Mae Loveland of Asbury Park spent a few days last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Loveland. Miss Gertrude Fleming spent her Christmas vacation from her duties as teacher in the Camden public school home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Flemming. Private Lewis Herbert of Weehawkin spent Christmas Day with his parents on Osborn Avenue. Misses Virginia and Maude Van Note spent Friday in Seaside Park. Miss Edna Brower spent the latter part of the week at her home on Main Avenue. Mrs. F. Clark returned to her home Sunday in Philadelphia, after spending a few days with her parents on Lake avenue. Thomas Timberman of Jamesburg visited Mr. and Mrs.J.F. Morton Friday. Mr. Golden of Roebling visited Miss Helen Stout over the week end. Frank Ferry and Lloyd Johnson are spending a short vacation down the bay gunning at Barnegat. Miss Florence Worth is ill at her home with the scarletina P. Herley and family have moved from the Be

From New Jersey Courier 19 Oct 1923 Richard Pryor, colored, of Bay Head, ought to thank his lucky stars that he was in Ocean County instead of some southern state when on Wednesday of this week he was sentenced by Judge Newman to thirty days in the county jail, the term to begin at the time of his arrest. Pryor's wife worked for Lawrence Boggs, of Newark, who has a summer home at Bay Head. Mrs. Boggs was awakened by a noise one night recently to find a naked negro by her bedside. She screamed, and her husband ran in and grappled him. The negro escaped at the time but it was afterward found to have been Pryor. He was tried and convicted, his plea was that he broke into the house to find his wife. The wife, at the trial, said that earlier in the night he had been drunk and abusive and she had to sneak away from him.

from the New Jersey Courier 6 Sep 1929 The high powered cruising sea skiff Audrey, from Bay Head, coming thru the draw on the county bridge last Sunday afternoon, crashed into a rwoboat in which were a man and a woman crabbing. The Audrey had aboard her owner, C.A. Nicklas of No. 6 Church Street, New York and Spring Lake, with a party of Spring Lake friends. Her sailing master is Capt. Charles G.I. Gifford They seemed to be in a hurry and had blown repeatedly for the draw to open, while still some distance off. They had just come through the draw when they hit the rowboat. In the small boat were Mr. and Mrs. John G. Duner of New Brunswick, and a dog. Mrs. Duner clung to the wrecked rowboat; the dog was killed and Duner was aided by a sailor who plunged overboard from the San-Cath-Ann, of Allenhurst, which moors at Mantaloking. The San-Cath-Ann crew took both the D uners aboard and ran them ashore at the Dutch's Inn dock. It is understood that Nicklas settled the damages. Dr. Fra