Ocean County , NJ History

New Jersey Courier 16 Oct 1916 Mrs. E.A. Lamson attended the WCTU convention in Barnegat on Thursday last. Capt. and Mrs. H.A. Smith and granddaughter of Barnegat spent Wednesday with Capt. and Mrs. S.Lamson. Nellie Giberson was an over Sunday guest of Mrs. C. Van Vorst at Ship Bottom. Mrs. Levi Cranmer and son, Hiram, visited Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Delatush in Red Bank on Sunday last. We are sorry to report Mrs. Madeline Salmons in very poor health. She is under the care of Dr. Bunnell. Leonard Giberson is employed in John Wannamaker's store for the winter. Walter Perrine was in town for the week end. Marvin Cranmer is over from Ship Bottom visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Cranmer. Mott Cranmer returned to his business in Philadelphia on Monday after a serious attack of illness. Miss Jennie Cranmer was a guest of Mrs. W.s. Cranmer on Monday afternoon.

years ago, I sent away for my grandfather's birth certificate. Somehow they sent me someone else's---Ruth Berger, born 1919. Still don't know who this person is, but she definitely isn't my grandfather.

New Jersey Mirror 14 Oct 1868 The elite of Timbuctoo were alive on Monday evening, in consequence of a wedding among the "fust circles" of that famed and fashionable locality. The ceremonies were performed at the brown stone residence of the groom, and there was a gay and festive time. The venerable JOHN SANDERS, well known to our citizens, is the happy individual, but he name of the blooming young bride, we have not learned. No cards--but lots of home-made gingerbread. The bridal tour will be to the Mineral Spring.

NEW JERSEY COURIER 13 OCT 1916: A hand car is not a very delicate looking instrument, but it was proven to be no match for a Ford on Saturday last, when at the Main street crossing over the C.R.R. Joe Alsheimer ran down a handcar and put it out of business with a Ford car. At least that is what the railroad men say. Joe tells it different. He says the crossing bell wasn't ringing, and he had a right to expect a clear crossing; that as he made the track the car shot out from the back of the Newbury building, and he hit the handcar and the handcar hit the Ford. But the Ford was made of sterner stuff, and was practically unhurt, while the handcar had to be taken to the shops by freight for repairs. Ashbrook Cranmer of Mayetta and Oscar Parker, of West Creek, the firm of Cranmer and Parker, on Friday afternoon last signed up the contract to build a stone road on Main street, Toms River, between Washington Street and Water Streets. Director Otis and Clerk Parker signed the contract fo...

This was spray painted on the abandoned bar last summer. I drove past again this week, and it's been demolished. Glad I got this picture.

New Jersey Mirror 11 Oct 1871 Died-At Timbuctoo on the 9th instant, WILLIAM NOLAN.

New Jersey Courier 10 Oct 1930 Mrs. Ethel Clayton of this place, through her attorney, William J. Blair of Point Pleasant, has started suit for divorce against Capt. Arthur P. Clayton, member of a well known Silverton family. She claims they were married Sep 11, 1905 and had lived together till about a year ago, when he drove her from their home by his cruelty. He denies they were ever married.

New Jersey Courier 10 Oct 1930 Mrs. Ethel Clayton of this place, through her attorney, William J. Blair of Point Pleasant, has started suit for divorce against Capt. Arthur P. Clayton, member of a well known Silverton family. She claims they were married Sep 11, 1905 and had lived together till about a year ago, when he drove her from their home by his cruelty. He denies they were ever married.

From the New Jersey Mirror 9 Oct 1935: County detectives and state troopers report that robbery was the motive for the murder of Herman Eilers, 62, who was found shot to death at his poultry farm on Cedar lane, between Jacksonville and Bustleton, in Florence township, on Monday night. Arthur Thieren, a neighbor, discovered the crime when he stopped at the farm that night to buy eggs. Eilers' body was lying near the kitchen door. Two men, who have been arrested and committed to jail, have admitted the crime, police report. They are George Hildebrand, 35, a farmhand living near Columbus, and Jacob J. Ceimingo, 16, of the Burlington-Columbus road, near Burlington. Ceimingo, troopers report, confessed shooting Eilers in the presence of Hildebrand. Arrested on complaint of Seargeant Carlson of Columbus barracks, the prisoners were given a hearing before Justice of the Peace William H. Grady, Vincentown, yesterday and committed to jail. They pleaded guilty to murder. Death resulted f...

New Jersey Courier 6 Oct 1910 Channel bass bit for 3 Asbury Park fishermen at Sea Side Park Sunday. Each got a dandy fish. Joe Clayton's weighted 37 pounds; Winfield Scott and Richard Anderson each got a 32 pounder. They fished a mile up the coast from Sea Side Park and got into such a mess of weak fish that they had considerable trouble keeping them off their lines long enough to get to the bass. They brought home 60 of the best of the weak fish taken. The three channel bass put up brave fights and it required from three quarter hours to one and one quarter hours to land them. The three fishermen went down Saturday night and returned Sunday night.

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.

5 Oct 1876 -New Jersey Courier: "Bass River has changed very little, during the last decade; yet increased attention to agriculture is manifest on every hand. Pretty farms, neat residences, and school houses that will compare favorably with localities much more pretentious, give evidence that the population is at once intelligent and industrious. The school house, associated with which are so many tender memories of lessons conned, and extreme elementary ideas worked in by the aid of old fashioned licking stimulators, seemed as of old, though, wearing a more modern appearance and a more euphoneous name thatn "Frogtown Schoolhouse." Miss Eva Robinson, a lady of desirable properties, is the present teacher, and I understand is doing a good work educationally. "Mr. Mark Adams has charge of the New Gretna school. Of course, we can say nothing about what he will accomplish until he has been at work for some time, but we know that his intelligence is sufficient to bring ...

Tuckerton Beacon 4 Oct 1917 Joseph WARE of Tuckerton married Sadie UPDIKE of Wading River on 29 Sep

New Jersey Courier 4 Oct 1900 Erskin HOPKINS, who has been working at Asbury Park all summer, returned Saturday evening. William QUICKSILL, J. HARKER, Geo. W. HOPKINS and Charles MATTHEWS all of whom own cranberry bogs in the neighborhood, are busy harvesting their berries. John G. MEIRS, who has been very ill is slowly improving so he is able to be about once more.

New Jersey Courier 4 Oct 1900: The seven year old daughter of Alfred Southard has been very sick with the whooping cough and pneumonia, but is somewhat better now. There are one hundred twenty five Italians picking cranberries at this place. Mrs. Caroline Smith of Trenton has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Jennie Reynolds the past week. Henry Lewis is suffering with a boil on his nose. Wiliam Cawley expects to get done picking cranberries this week. He will not have more than one hundred and fifty boxes, where he generally has five to eight hundred boxes. James Buckalew, George Vannote, and Benjamin Buckalew killed nine wood duck Saturday last.

(From the New Jersey Mirror, 4 Oct 1893) A horrible tragedy was recalled when Lena Brown was brought into court yesterday to be tried for the murder of three innocent little children in September of last year. One of the children was her own five-year old son. The other two were boys aged respectively 1 1/2 and 3 years, children of William Harvey, who out of pity had taken Lena and her child off the street, where they were wandering homeless and without friends. Lena had been sheltered in Mr. Harvey's home but a short time when with his wife he visited the Inter-State Fair, at Trenton, leaving his two boys in Lena's charge for the day. About 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Lena suddenly became possessed of a murderous hallucination and took the lives of her own infant and her benefactor's two little boys. She then went out upon the street and meeting an officer said she wanted to be arrested and told him the story of her awful crime. He was horribly shocked at the recit...

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.