Ocean County , NJ History

New Jersey Courier 1 Sep 1904

New Jersey Courier 25 May 1905

From the New Jersey Courier 20 Jan 1911 Mrs. Ralph Cummings and daughter were recent visitors from Double Trouble. ( to Forked River)

New Jersey Courier 18 Jan 1918 Sugar and condensed milk are high in price and hard to get; so is corn meal. High prices is one way our small villages feel the effects of the war. Another way is that so many of our men have gone away to work, and now the young women are leaving to take jobs in the industiral centers. Miss Bertha Eno is out of town. Eugene Bunnell has gone home to New York, having been here to the funeral of Mrs. Tillie Bunnell. Joseph Collins, while in New York one of these slippery mornings, had a bad fall on Broadway. Amos Lewis and son are working on the hydroplane job at League Island navy yard, Philadelphia. Lloyd Reeves is now coastguard at Forked River station. Edward Cranmer of Double Trouble drove here to Hollywood farm Tuesday for a load of hay. The oxteam is quite a curiosity these days. Saturday morning's gale did considerable damage. Daniel Wilbert had a building blown down. Almost a flood Tuesday, with heavy rain on ice covered ground. The inf...

From the New Jersey Courier, 24 Nov 1910 Austin "Dayton spent Sunday evening at Bayville. Miss Elsie Worth is visiting in Bayville. Mrs. Westbrook and daughter of Cambridge, MD and Miss Clara Worth of Bayville spent the weeks end with Mrs. George H. Wainwright and family. William Platt has moved into the Phillips cottage. Miss Mabel Worth is home from Toms River for Thanksgiving week. Mrs. Joseph Platt has been visiting in Mt. Holly. Edward Crabbe and Reed Tilton have returned from a week's gunning down the bay. Fred Wilbert the night watchman of this place is laid up with an abcess on the arm. George Wainwright is filling the vacancy. Frank Keegan, who has been laid up with a very bad foot is slowly improving. Miss Lucy Hulse has been visiting Mrs. Ralph Cummings.

From the New Jersey Courier, 23 Oct 1908 Charles Tilton [ of Forked River] has taken a job a the Double Trouble Mill.

from the New Jersey Courier 6 Oct 1910 Clarence and Eugene Phillips and wife, and John Newman and family have moved to Bayville. Mr. Crabbe has had his men and teams repairing the road out to Toms River and it is now a fine gravel road, good as can be found most anywhere. A party from here who spent Sunday at Forked River were: George Wainwright and wife, Miss Mabel Worth, Frank Kegle and Fred Wilbert. Mr. Crabbe picked about a thousand bushels of fine cranberries this fall and is about finished up. John Plummer and family have moved to Pleasantville.

New Jersey Courier 2 Oct 1958 Drag racing has gone about as big time as it can go in Berkeley township, despite frequent raids by Berkeley township Police chief Samuel Britton and State Police. Chief Britton, who recommended the Berkeley Township Committee notify the state Division of Motor Vehicles, said the drag races have been going on all summer on two "strips" in the township. One strip is on the Keswick Road near Double Trouble, and the other is on Bayview Avenue between Holly Park and Ocean Gate.

From the New Jersey Courier 28 Sep 1905 Mr. Crabbe made a trip to New York this week. Mr. Porter has returned to this place. Dr. Jones gave us a call last Monday. Howard Lee was over to Toms River on Saturday last. Bennie Havens has been on the sick list but is slowly recovering. Samuel Estlow and family are visiting relatives in Waretown. Mr. Richmond of Forked River was here Friday, with a load of fruit and vegetables. Mrs. Crabbe and family drove from Toms River on Wednesday. Messrs. Crabbe and Porter are continually making improvements in their Double Trouble property. Quite an exciting time here last Tuesday night when one of the iron gray horses deliberately walked out of the barn and gave the men quite a long chase before he would allow them to catch him. N. Herbert spent Saturday evening in Toms River.

From the New Jersey Courier 21 Sep 1905 The public school opened September 11th, with Leona Applegate as teacher. The bicycle path from Toms River to Double Trouble is about to be completed--all credit to Messrs. Crabbe and Potter. Now we are looking forward to the time (which we hope is near at hand) when the county road will come through. Ralph Shaw has resumed duty after spending a short vacation in Forked River. J. Porter is spending a fortnight in Yonkers, NY. Mr. Foster and son were over town on Friday last. Mrs. John Havens has a little daughter. About fifty pounds of pike have been caught in the Double Trouble pond recently.

New Jersey Courier 14 Jun 1918 Double Trouble, NJ- June 1: Good news from Double Trouble! The Board of Fish and Game Commissioners has discovered a really fine but neglected trout stream and stocked it. The stream rises in Mount Misery, threads its wasy across the State to Double Trouble, passes Good Luck and empties into the Atlantic between Toms River and Forked River. The trout brook is Cedar Creek and was discovered by Ernest Napier, president of the commission. Such a find was it that he put in last year 500 two year old trout, observed that they made good and this year had a carload (2,500) of two year old brown trout put in and now the sport is open to all anglers for bait or fly casting. Double Trouble may cause a chuckle and some doubt, but just as sure as there is a Hell-For-Sartin creek in Kentucky, there is a Double Trouble in New Jersey. Indeed, Edward Crabbe and H.B. Scammell are in business there and have had good luck, so much so that Mr. Crabbe saw no reason why t...

From the New Jersey Courier 13 Jun 1912 Lester Hulit of this place [Forked River], who works at Double Trouble, has had a piece of music that he wrote published, and he is at work on more.

From the New Jersey Courier 25 May 1905 Out little town looks very pretty in its spring dress of green. John Newman and family spent Sunday with Mrs. Havens. Job Doxsey spent a few days in Merchantville and Camden this week. Mrs. Estlow and daughter are visiting relatives in Waretown. Willis Saulsman and Ralph Shaw spent Sunday in Forked River. Mrs. Doxsey spent Monday in Toms River. J.L. Madison spent sunday at Forked River with his mother. E. Foster went to Toms River Tuesday last.

From the New Jersey Courier 18 May 1905 Hot, with plenty of mosquitoes. W. Dayton moved his family to New Gretna last week. Machinist Smith of Elmer, is with us again for a few days. We are glad to notice the improvements being made on the Double Trouble road. Howard Lee is off duty on account of sickness. E.E. Thompson received an ugly gash on his left hand while working on the bench saw. It is rumored that Berkeley Township intends building a new school house. We are anxiously awaiting to hear the carpenter's hammer. Gertrude Estlow is sick with the measles. Dr. Jones was a Monday visitor here. Clarence Saulsman and Ralph Shaw spent Sunday with relatives in Forked River. Mrs. Johnston of Whitesville came in last Tuesday with a load of pigs. Fred Applegate spent a fortnight in Toms River. Mac McKenney is building an addition to his cottage. Warren Van Brunt is spending a short time at Forked River with his parents. J.L. Madison spent Sunday in Toms River.

From the New Jersey Courier 11 May 1905: Mr. Orter and N. Herbert spent Monday in the Quaker City. W. Dayton made a flying trip to New Gretna last week. Warren Van Brunt and Clarence Saulsman have returned to duty after spending the past week in Forked River on the sick list. Mrs. J. Doxey spent Saturday and Sunday in Toms River with her mother, Mrs. Reynolds. Little Emma Foster is quite ill with tonsilitis. E. Foster has his peas three inches above the ground. Reba Dayton is sick with the measles. J.L. Madison spent Sunday with his parents at Bayville. Mr. Crabbe spent Wednesday in New York. A number of our school children are on the sick list which gives us a small attendance. A party of our young folks attended the circus at Toms River last Wednesday. Mrs. Platt and daughter Lydia of Bayville spent Friday with Mrs. Doxsey. John Havens has built a new hennery.

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.