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NEW JERSEY MIRROR 30 MAY 1844 A Camp Meeting for Toms River Circuit to commence on Thursday June 27, 1844 and to conclude the Tuesday following, will be held on the lands of Mr. Rogers, near Forked River, Dover Township, Monmouth County. We earnestly invite the Preachers and people on adjoining Circuits and Stations to come to our help. James Long. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 11 AUG 1864 Our Village Never presented a livelier or more animated appearance than it does just now. We are in the height of "dog days" now, and the hot, sultry weather is driving thousands of men, women and children from the cities into the country, and to the various watering places. Hundreds find their way during the season to our village, and large numbers are daily conveyed to the various boarding houses on the beach. Here they have the sport bathing in the surf, gunning, sailing, etc. We learn that the houses have as many boarders as they can accommodate. Our beautiful river and bay is alive with pleasure parties. Large numbers go fishing and are generally well rewarded. The hotels and boarding houses in the village are well filled. A great many families in town are entertaining their "city cousins"- the visitors ranging from two to eleven in number, and extending their visit anywhere between one and six weeks. (Isn't it nice to have relatvies living in the country).Tom's River [note from Brian--note the spelling of the town at this time included the apostrophe, which is now absent from the 'official' spelling.] certainly is a charming place at this season of the year, and we do not recollect of ever hearing of a stranger's leaving the place with an unfavorable opinion. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 31 MAY 1866 Peter Ficangie, son of Mr. Henry Ficangie, met with a sad fall while swinging on Sabbath afternoon last. His left thigh was broken, and other severe injuries were received. Dr. Disbrow was promptly on hand, and gave surgical assistance. The patient was doing well at last accounts. S.W. Bogardus, the discoverer of coal at Matawan Point, was in town on Saturday last. He promises us much valuable information in regard to coal. The prospect is for the completion of the Branch Railroad to this village, this week or next. "All aboard." The Episcopalians have leased a room of Mr. Thos. Hooper, where they propose to hold services in the future. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 17 OCT 1878: Revs. Nicholas and Isaac Van Sant were in town Monday for the purpose of accompanying their brother, Rev. S. Van Sant, on a visit to their venerable parents, who reside in Lowerbank, Burlington County. The three brothers sailed from here on Tuesday in the yacht "George Russell". Their father, Rev. Nicholas Van Sant, who is a local preacher in the M.E. Church, is now in his 94th year and their mother is in her 93rd year. They have been married 74 years and have seven sons, four of whom are in the regular ministry of the M.E. Church and the other three are local preachers-- a rather remarkable family. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 31 OCT 1878: We regret to learn that Mr. Samuel Bareford's promising son, Arthur, has been suffering for several days past from membranous croup and is now lying at the point of death. The family have the warmest sympathy of the whole community. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 12 DEC 1878: J.R. Schenck, Esq., editor of the Democrat, received the sad intelligence one day last week of the death of the wife of his brother, Dr. Wm. H. Schenck, of Flemington, which occurred very suddenly and unexpectedly from heart disease. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 27 FEB 1879: Two runaways occurred here on Friday, both the result of upsetting sleighs in a snowbank on Hooper Avenue. The damage in either case was the confined to smashing up of the sleighs and breaking of the harness. The occupants of the sleighs escaped uninjured. |
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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. |
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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 comparitively exempt from transactions of this kind. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 3 APR 1879: Mr. Franklin Harris met with an accident one day last week which has temporarily disabled him. In unloading bags of feed, he lost his balance and fell from the wagon to the ground, striking his back and hip against the hub of one of the hind wheels before reaching terra firma. Fortunately no bnes were broken but he sustained such serious bruises as to compel him to keep his room four or five days. |
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NEW JERSEY MIRROR 2 FEB 1881 A dispatch from Toms River says of this case: "The announcement that Sheriff Holman, of this County, had arrived with Gustave Heinrich in his custody brings to mind afresh the sad story of the affair which has caused the arrest. In last August all this County was thrown into a state of excitement by the announcement that Heinrich had eloped with a young lady named Wilbert and had gone to parts unknown. Heinrich had lived in Tuckerton for many years, had emigrated from Germany and came into this County, married a lady residing at Tuckerton, and was the father of four children, the youngest less than one year, the eldest eight years. He was a music teacher and had pupils at most of the villages on the shore from Tuckerton to Toms River. He was well thought of by many persons, among whom was Captain Wilbert, the father of the young lady with whom he ran away. Captain Wilbert lived at Forked River, a watering place about eight miles south of this place. He was a retired sea Captain, and reported to be a person of some wealth. He had given his children every advantage that could be had in the neighborhood. He had a large family, and, as the mother was dead, much of the care devolved on his daughter Anna, one of the oldest children. She was quite pretty and a very good talker, and had much to do with entertaining her father's guests. Heinrich was always invited to stop at the house whenever he came to the village, which was very often, as he had pupils in the vicinity. He was always treated as a welcome guest. "Nothing, however, had ever been thought of any intimacy existing between Heinrich and the daughter, and when it was announced that the guilty lovers had fled it came like a thunder-clap to the Captain and all his friends. Anna had taken her things and what money she had. After tracing them to New York all clue seemed to be lost, but the Captain did not neglect anything to secure the arrest of the guilty ones. Detectives were employed, and after several months it was discovered that they were in California. Detectives were immediately sent to find them out there, and in a few weeks a message was received that they had been found. The Captain immediately procured the necessary papers, and Sheriff Holman, of Ocean County, went to San Francisco and captured Heinreich. On arriving there the father, who had accompanied the Sheriff, took his daughter in charge. "Captain Wilbert and his daughter arrived at Toms River on Friday. He gave bail for the appearance of the girl at next Court and took her to his home. The poor girl says before Heinrich and herself had arrived at Manchester, about 20 miles from home, he got all her money--about $75--from her and on arriving at New York they stayed there a few days as obscurely as possible. Then they took a steerage passage in one of the Panama steamers for California. While on the Pacific steamer she gave birth to a babe, and on her arrival at San Francisco had to be removed on a stretcher to her lodging-house in Mission street, where she was found by the detectives and afterward by her father. She states that they were without funds soon after arrival and he obtained employment in a piano factory and saved some money, but aht he treated her badly and she was only too glad to be taken back by her father. The father is reconciled to her and says he has forgiven her, but his feelings toward heinrich can only be imagined. The public excitement was intense here, but the Sheriff took precaution to come unannounced, and had his prisoner in jail before it was knwon that he had arrived." |
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NEW JERSEY MIRROR 6 JAN 1892 Report says that Elson K. Rockwell, the Toms River murderer, has not yet been released from State Prison and that so far Keeper John H. Patterson has refused to sign the parole. His signature was withheld, it was said, in deference to the earnest protest of Justice Van Syckel, before whom the case was tried. It was also said that two of the principal witnesses in the case ex-Sheriff Clayton Bobbins and Capt. John Beatty, had asked leave to petition that Rockwell be not released, as they were fearful that the prisoner might seek revenge upon them if he should be set free. The main facts may be correct, but there is evidently one mistake in the report. The law granting a parole to prisoners makes no provision for the signature of the Keeper of the State Prison. The release must be signed by the Governor and must be deposited with the Keeper as his warrant for allowing the prisoners to depart. |
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NEW JERSEY MIRROR 17 MAY 1893 Since Tuesday last forest fires have raged between Toms River and Barnegat, destroying large tracts of timber land. At Quail Run Tollgate, on Toms River and Forked River Turnpike, the toll-house was destroyed, and the toll-keeper, Mrs. Abdel Imlay, was forced to flee for her life. The house owned by Henry Bird was next reached, and that too was destroyed. The house owned by Mrs. Abbie Chamberlain and occupied by her son-in-law, Nathan Moore, and his family, was next to burn. Moore was away from home fighting the fire at another place and did not know of the danger his home was in. His family had to run for their lives. |
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NEW JERSEY MIRROR 30 MAY 1906 At Toms River on Wednesday the Ocean county Grand Jury found a true bill of indictment against Dr. Frank Brouwer, a well-known physician of that town, for the willful murder of his wife by administering arsenic and powered(sic.) glass. The action of the Grand Jury had been anticipated and little surprise was occasioned when news of the indictment of the physician for first degree murder was received. For months the case has been a subject of interest and discussion in Ocean county, public sentiment, it is said, being divided as to the guilt of the accused man. When Mrs. Brouwer died on September 12, 1905, there were ugly stories afloat and it is said that two physicians refused to give a certificate of the cause of her death. Dr. Cate, of Lakewood, however, consented to supply the necessary certificate, assigning Bright's disease as the cause.--Shortly afterward Dr. Cate disappeared, and it was some weeks after that before he was located in a sanitarium in the State of New York. In the meantime, the circumstances surrounding the case warranted the authorities in having the body of Mrs. Brouwer exhumed, and Prosecutor Brown took that step, submitting the stomach and other organs to an expert for a chemical analysis. It was upon his testimony and other evidence deemed corroborative that the indictment was found. As soon as the report of the Grand Jury was received Supreme Court Justice Hendrickson directed the Prosecutor to issue a bench warrant for the arrest of the defendant. This was already drawn and was placed in the hands of Sheriff Jeffrey. The latter, with former Sheriff John Hagaman, drove up to Brouwer's home. Dr. Brouwer had been notified by 'phone that they were coming, and he was ready to go with them. Sheriff Jeffrey drove into the jail yard, going up the court house stairs the back way. The defendant was in court while the crowd was still waiting in front of the court house for him to drive up. Dr. Brouwer rose when the prosecutor called his name and read the indictment, charging him with causing the death of his wife. The defendant in a steady voice replied, "Not guilty." The prosecutor asked that the prisoner be remanded for trial, at a date to be set by the court. The court suggested that a day be fixed now, and prosecutor agreed upon the first day of the September term, which date was set. The prisoner was remanded to the jail, where he was taken by the sheriff. Dr. Brouwer, except for a flush on his naturally florid face, and a nervous twitch to his eye, seemed thoroughly composed. Sheriff Jeffrey, who made the arrest, is a distant rel-relative(sic.) of Dr. Brouwer, by marriage. Sheriff Jeffrey's wife and Dr. Brouwer's mother, Mrs. Calverly, who has been living with him since the death of Mrs. Brouwer, are half-sisters. Notwithstanding that, it will be the sheriff's unpleasant duty to keep the prisoner in custody in the miserable apology for a jail till next September at the best. Another arrest in connection with the mysterious death of Mrs. Brouwer is expected. The authorities believe now that he had aid. The more they have investigated the case the more they become satisfied that there are persons who, at least, know more about the crime than they are willing to tell. Mrs. Calverly, the aged mother of the prisoner, is ill as a result of the arrest. The prisoner's two little boys, Allen Brouwer and Evan Brouwer, have wept almost continuously since the arrest of their father. Lawyers Carmichael, of Toms River, and Edmund Wilson, of Red Bank, have been retained by Dr. Brouwer, and former assistant District Attorney Osborne, of New York, will assist Prosecutor Brown. The trial bids fair to be a hard-fought legal battle |
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NEW JERSEY MIRROR 17 OCT 1906 No phase of the Brouwer murder case(the victim being Dr. Brouwer's wife) now in process of trial at Toms River, presents itself so forcibly to the public mind as the utter unreliability of much so-called "expert" testimony. Witnesses employed by the State frequently swear one way and experts called by the defense as positively testify to the contrary. It has been largely so in the case of the Toms River doctor who is on trial for his life charged with the fiendish murder of his wife by administering poison while she was ill. There is a growing feeling that no man shoudl be sent to the gallows, or cleared of a charge, on the unsupported testimony of "experts" and there is much to justify the public in its stand. |
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NEW JERSEY MIRROR 24 OCT 1906 Nothing new is contained in the suggestion that the State should remunerate those accused of crime, who have been adjudged innocent. There is however, justice in the proposition and sooner or later the problem may have to be met by by legislative enactment.-- The Brouwer murder trial(the victim being Dr. Brouwer's wife) which resulted in the acquittal of the accused at Toms River last week, affords an instance of the great injury that may be done to those accused of grave crimes and who are subsequently adjudged guiltless in the eyes of the law. The prosecution failed signally to make out a case against the prisoner and, it is said, on the first ballot and within fifteen minutes after leaving the court room the jury agreed upon a verdict of "not guilty." Notwithstanding this termination of the case the discharged prisoner goes out into the world practically penniless, his savings having been consumed in his fight for vindication from the charge which was hanging over him. There is a stigma which no monetary consideration will ever be able to wipe out, but when a man's private fortune is swept away from him in demonstrating his innocence of criminal charges preferred against him simple justice demands that so far as possible the damage done by the State should be repaired. After more than a week's duration the Brouwer murder trial(the victim being Dr. Brouwer's wife) at Toms River terminated on Wednesday and, as had been predicted by those who had watched the course of the celebrated case, it was quickly followed by the acquittal of the physician who had been accused of deliberately poisoning his wife. The case did not furnish the sensational features that had been expected, but there were several highly dramatic scenes enacted, one of which occurred at the very last of the proceedings in the court room when Supreme Court Justice Hendrickson was publicly thanked by the late prisoner for his impartial conduct of the trial, and the Justice permitted the physician to thank the jury which had just freed him from the dreadful charge that had been hanging over him for many months. The trial and its termination showed nothing quite so much as that there is a growing disposition to place less and less credence in so-called "expert" testimony in criminal cases | <
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NEW JERSEY MIRROR 23 OCT 1907 Captain Frederick Grant, of Toms River, the Barnegat Bay yachtsman who was drowned on Monday in Toms River near the wharf in front of Edgemore Hotel, was well known by many Burlington countians who have lived or visited in that section. Grant had just completed the rescue of Curlis Applegate, a friend, who had fallen overboard from the wharf and was unable to swim, when he became exhausted, threw up his hands and sank to the bottom. The body was recovered. Captain Grant had an interesting career as an expert yachtsman on Barnegat bay, and he was highly respected by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in New Jersey and adjoining States. |
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NEW JERSEY MIRROR 24 JUN 1908 Captain Frederick Grant, of Toms River, the Barnegat Bay yachtsman who was drowned on Monday in Toms River near the wharf in front of Edgemore Hotel, was well known by many Burlington countians who have lived or visited in that section. Grant had just completed the rescue of Curlis Applegate, a friend, who had fallen overboard from the wharf and was unable to swim, when he became exhausted, threw up his hands and sank to the bottom. The body was recovered. Captain Grant had an interesting career as an expert yachtsman on Barnegat bay, and he was highly respected by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in New Jersey and adjoining States. |
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NEW JERSEY MIRROR 2 DEC 1908 William Steigert, 16 years old, on Tuesday shot Andrew W. Tilton, about the same age. Tilton died that night from rifle bullet wounds in the groin. Steigert is in the Toms River jail. Tilton was a fish peddler and was driving about the country with his father, Jackson Tilton, a cripple, when they stopped at the Steigert farm and young Tilton went around the house to see if they wanted any fish. When he returned Mrs. Steigert and the young Steiger(sic.) appeared, the latter with a small Winchester repeating rifle. Tilton clambered in the wagon and sat down on the fish box and the father started up the horse, when a rifle cracked and the Tilton boy cried out, "I'm shot, pop! I'm shot! He's shot me!" Tilton drove up to the next farm occupied by M. T. Rhoades. Rhoades and his man took the wounded boy into the house and sent for a doctor. The physician had to come from Toms River, and after trying a half hour to locate the bullet, decided to take the boy back into town and get assistance. The boy was brought to the home of his brother, Jacob Tilton, in Toms River, where he died. Steigert at first denied the deed, but later, after being jailed, admitted his guilt, his only excuse being that young Tilton had struck at him and cursed him, making him feel "bad and mad." Steigert is small for his age and is regarded as a degenerate. When told that his victim was dead he evinced no interest at all and did not change the expression on his face. |
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NEW JERSEY MIRROR 9 DEC 1908 The Coroner's Jury at Toms River last week held 17-year-old Willie Steigert for the killing of Andrew J. Tilton, another boy, the week before. Steigher(sic.) is now in jail, and the Grand Jury, which first met yesterday, will presumable(sic.) find a bill against him. It is now alleged that the youthful prisoner is an incompetent mentally and morally, and that this fact will save him from the electric chair. His parents have retained County Solicitor R. Ten-Broeck Stout to defend him. |
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NEW JERSEY MIRROR 20 OCT 1909 David L. Webb, of Webbsville, after killing his brother, John Webb, in a quarrel, walked 16 miles to Toms River on Saturday(presumably a reference to October 16, 1909) and gave himself up to the Sheriff after confessing murder. Search revealed the dead body of his brother in his home. The man is believed to be insane. |
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NEW JERSEY MIRROR 10 AUG 1910 John Eckman, a farmer who lived between Toms River and Lakewood, met his death in a peculiar way on Monday night. While driving along the new county gravel road between Toms River and Lakewood, his horse in the darkness lost its bearings and together with the wagon went over a steep embankment. Eckman was pinioned by the wagon against a barbed wire fence, his throat being caught on the sharp prongs and so badly cut that he soon bled to death. The horse was fastened in the wreckage but escaped unhurt |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 9 MAR 1911 C. Leland Haslett is spending some days at his home here from Boston Mrs. W.F.Simmons entertained the Toms River orchestra on Friday evening. Freeholder W.s. Jackson has been quite sick in Philadelphia at Jefferson hospital. Miss Beatrice Bunnell spent the weekend home from Trenton where she attends school. Mrs. J.C.P. MacWalter returned last week after spending the winter in New York and vicinity. George McKaig of Island Heights brought F.G. Stanwood and S.E. Leming to town in his car Sunday. Rev. and Mrs. Leon Chamberlain on Monday entertained the former's brother, Jesse Chamberlain of Providence, RI. Miss Alfred Smythe returned to Long Branch last week after spending several months with Mrs. George Wissmach. The young folks gave Rowland Buckwalter, Jr a surprise party on Thursday evening last and had a jolly time, too. C.A. Morris Monday went to Trenton to attend the funeral of a cousin; Tuesday and Wednesday he inspected the New Egypt schools. Miss Eloise Sherman of this place has left the Model school at Trenton and is now attending a business college, the Rider-Moore and Stewart school. Mrs. A.J. Irons, who was operated upon about ten days ago at Jefferson hospital, Philadelphia, for appendicitis, is reported as getting along nicely. Daniel Becker, a Toms River boy and graduate of the Courier office, is holding down the chair of Linotype-typography and composition in the Scranton, PA Correspondence school Mr. and Mrs. G. Rowland Munroe of Newark spent several days here last week, where Mrs. Munroe is better known under her maiden name of Miss Flora Teeter. She renewed many old friendships while here. Miss Lulu Robbins underwent an operation for appendicitis at her Broad street home, Wednesday of last week. Holmes Birdsall was home for a brief stay yesterday. Miss Helena Hurley is visiting her aunt, Mrs. E.B. Irons. Mrs. Ada Marshall visited here this week after a trip through the west. Rev. Leon Chamberlain leaves for Conference on Tuesday of next week. Leonard Clark is a visitor here this week and will mae his residence here. Mrs. Margaret Harrington has been spending several days in Lakewood this week. Mrs. Perry and her son Frank of Millville are visiting her sister, Mrs. Harry Sayres. Misses Eleanor and Amelia Clute of Lakewood visited the Misses Crook on Saturday. Editor H.T. Hagaman of Lakewood was in town Sunday is his new Chalmer's car. Mrs. Charles H. Cox of West Creek, has been spending some time here with her husband, Sheriff Cox. Mrs. Russell returned to Leesburg yesterday after several weeks with her daughter, Mrs. John Grover. Commodore and Mrs. J.H. Stoutenburgh spent from Thursday to Saturday here last week from New York. Dr. Rem L. Disbrow, who has been quite sick, seems to be getting stronger and is expected to be out again soon. M.F. Rhoads of Manlius, NY a former resident here was in town this week and was greeted by many old friends. The Misses Blute of Oyster Bay, Long Island, who have just returned from several months in Florida, are guests of Miss Mary Gwyer. James I. McKelvey has just returned from a trip to Washington, DC where he saw the last Congress die, visited Mt. Vernon, and other interesting points. St. Paul's church, Trenton, has asked for Rev. Henry M. Lawrence of Meford M.E. Church son of Rev. A. Lawrence, now of Island Heights, formerly of Toms River. Henry Fuller of St. Louis, MO is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bird. He came east to see his sister, Mrs. Cornelia Hurley of Pleasant Plains, who is critically sick at Ridgefield Park, Bergen County. Longstreet Irons of New Haven has been here this week and today started for Florida with his mo ther, Mrs. Lydia Irons. They will visit with Mrs. M.E. Beatty at Leesburg and then look over the country there. Prosecutor T.J.R. Brown lately dismantled three slot machines picked up down shore. One was a nickel a throw, and in this was found 741 nickels, or $37.05, said to have been the pickup of one weeks business in a small town. The other two machines were penny ones and contained a dollar or two a piece. The county will be forty dollars or so richer as the money will be turned over to the county treasury. |
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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 for the county. Clerk Parker of the Board of Freeholders, who is also a member of the Dover Township Committee, with Freeholder Harry E. Toner h as been working since last January to get this road built. Both are well pleased to see the contract signed and teh work ready to begin. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 20 APR 1917: Mr. and Mrs. George W. Rogers, and daughter motored here from Asbury Park Monday to look over the old home town. Mrs. James Coyle of Doulgaston, L.I. has been visiting Dr. and Mrs. Crook. Edwin Berry, jr. is spending a few days in Philadelphia with Rev. H.J. Keyser, former rector of Toms River Episcopal Church. The friends of Miss Bessie Lewis gathered at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.L. Wardell at Clifton avenue and Cedar Grove Rd, on Monday evening last, it being her 21st birthday. A merry evening was spent by nearly two score people. Refreshments were served, games and music enjoyed, and it was well past midnight when the gathering broke up. Mrs. Martha Mills of Barnegat spent several days last week with her sister, Mrs. Charles Seaman. Capt. and Mrs. Clarence Birdsall reached home on Friday of last week, after a trip to the Pacific Coast. On their journey they crossed 24 states and the District of Columbia. They reached home to find their son Jack ill with mumps and spent several days with Mr. and Mrs. J. Ashley Brown at Roselle, before coming to Toms River. Mrs. Susan Bunnell returned last week from spending the winter in Vineland with her sister. Capt. and Mrs. C.H. McLellan have been spending a few days here from New York and will put their Water street home in readiness for occupancy. Frank Buchanan has been home from Philadelphia for a few days. Marvin Campbell has returned from a winter in Trenton. Carl Eckhardt was a week end visitor here. Alfred Mathis, son of Mayor Mathis of Seaside Park, was in town Tuesday. He expects to go to Westfield, where the C.W. Mathis Co. have a contract for 32,000 lineal feet of curb, and 45,000 square feet of sidewalk, etc. at a cost of $16,548.60. Miss Florence Martin of the Courier staff has been ill this week. Miss Sarah F. Irons is at Briarcliff, NY for the summer, going last week from Asbury Park, where she spent most of the winter. Clarence Ludwig, representing the State Research Bureau of the State Chamber of Commerce, spent Tuesday here, getting data and opinions upon the advantages and disadvantages of the primary election and other features of the election law. Stout R. Johnson was home from Asbury Park for the week end. Paul Fields of Philadelphia was a week end visitor at the Riverside. J. Ernest Herbert of Como spent the week end at his old home here. Charles D. Brackenridge and a party of friends came down from New York for the week end, and visited the Forked River Game Farm on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Eva Haslett has been here from Atlantic City this week, visiting friends. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 10 MAY 1918-- CLIFTON AVENUE Mrs. Grant Tiffany and son Ivins spent from Wednesday till Friday at Bennett Mills Mrs. Daniel Letts spent Saturday with her sister, Mrs. Ida Applegate. Miss Edna Brahn was a recent Asbury Park visitor. Andrew Applegate of West Bank, Staten Island, spent from Friday till Wednesday with his family. Mrs. Timothy Applegate was a Sunday visitor with Mrs. Lewis Applegate. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 14 JUN 1918: Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Harris motored from Allentown on Sunday, bringing her parents, Mr.s and Mrs. F.E. Camburn, who had been spending the week with them at the farm. Mrs. Buel and daughter on Saturday returned to Wilmington, Del. after a fortnight with Mr. and Mrs. Tyre. Kenneth Jennings was home for the week end. Mrs. Edward Crabbe entertained the Ladies Auxiliary of the Toms River Yacht Club on Wednesday afternoon. J.J. Pharo of Tuckerton was a visitor at the courthouse Saturday. C.D. Kelly of West Creek, for many years a member of the Board of Freeholders, and Director of that body, was at the courthouse last Saturday, and said there were so many changes he hardly knew the place. Tom Wilson was home Monday from Elwood. Longstreet Irons was home over the weekend. Judge Chadeayne of Newburg, NY spent the week end with Capt. E.L. Gwyer. Arthur C. King spent the week end here from Philadelphia. Mrs. A.C. King is entertaining her mother, Mrs. Maloney, at her home on Washington Street. Charles Bird, who is working at Gloucester, was home for the week end. Among the New Brunswick boys home for the week end were Robert Bartol, Carl Eckhardt, and Lloyd Applegate. Elbert T. Post, a shipyard worker at Hog Island, was home for the week end. Harry Staples has gone to Boston to work with the same contractor who employed him last winter at Hog Island. Mr. and Mrs. J.Brown Burr spent Sunday here from Brooklyn. Arthur McKelvey of Pennsylvania spent Sunday here. Winfield Snyder of Philadelphia was a Sunday visitor at his old home. Among the Elwood folks home Sunday were O.E. Payne and William Grant. Miss Frances Keller of Hoboken is the guest of her cousin, Miss Anna van Hise Mrs. Downey of Cedar Bridge is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. T.B. Irons. W. Burtis Havens returned from Columbus, Ohio, Saturday night, accompanied by Mrs. Havens, their daughter Ruth and son Bartollette, who had spent the winter there. Miss Ruth was graduated last week from the Wallace school in that city. C.D. Bohannan, a YMCA worker at Camp Dix, has moved his family int Miss Hydes house on Messenger street. Capt. Guiher was home from Camp Dix for Sunday. His daughter, Miss Mary Guiher, was home from college and his son, Lieut. Guiher was here from Camp Meade. Mrs. Eleanor W. Gowdy, after a stary with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gowdy at Forked River, has been visiting Roy Gowdy and wife of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Willits Manoit of West Collingswood spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Tyre. They report that all lights were ordered out in their section , as they only live a short distance from the shipyards. Nelson Brahn of Camp Dix spent the week end with relatives at this place. Mr. and Mrs. Ivins McKelvey and two little sons and Mr. and Mrs. Grant Tiffany and little son motored to Camp Dix to see Milton McKelvey. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 20 SEP 1918: One of the results of the Toms River fight against booze in the local option election last May showed itself on Monday of this week when George W. Hallock, owner and editor of the New Jersey Tribune of Toms River, appeared in court before Judge Frank Davis of Gloucester county to answer to an indictment for criminal libel against Judge Wm. Howard Jefrey of the Ocean County Courts. In the fight that attempted to drive legalized booze from both Dover and Berkeley townships, the Tribune was the organ of the liquor interests, and printed their arguments. Anyone who had the rashness to oppose the liquor men, could look to receive a flaying in its columns. While Judge Jeffrey made no secret of the fact that personally he was opposed to the liquor trade, as a judge of the court who had to sit in license cases, he held aloof from the combat. That, however was not enough to satisfy the liquor element, whose motto was 'All that are not with us are against us'. And accordingly, the judge, along with various other citizens of the two townships, came in for a scoring more than once in this booze-supporting newspaper. The particular publication on which the indictment is based appeared after the Berkeley election, and in it the assertion was made that Judge Jeffrey had, in granting a transfer from Dover Township to Berkeley in the case of Benjamin F. Johnson, Jr., been guilty, along with Johnson, of a state prison offense. It is understood that the Judge asked a correction of that false statement, or a retraction of the charge, but so far no correction has been made. The indictment followed. Judge Davis held Hallock in $800 bail to appear for trial on November 11. |
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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 took third prize. These were the only Ocean County growers to exhibit. Atlantic County, which has been prize sweet potato county for years, took first honoers. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 23 AUG 1929 By a vote of twelve, it was deided that Dover Township schools should spend $5500 to equip the old dwelling house on the public school property in which to teach girls housekeeping. The special meeting was held last Friday, August 16. It was voted to transfer $5500 from current expense account to this special purpose. The vote stood twelve for the plan and none against. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 13 DEC 1929 Toms River and all it's surrounding is said by the telephone men and the gas and electric men to have shown the most consistent advance in the last decade of any place or vicinity on the Jersey shore-and all the shore has been growing. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 20 DEC 1929 State Troopers, as is customary in deer season, took their stand at Toms River bridge and looked over every car coming from the deer woods. Tuesday night they found a supposedly doe deer in a car, cut up in sections, to show no sex. Peter KUZINA, Caldwell, NJ, was taken before Justice KING and fined $107.50, including costs. Because he just had to see his best girl and she lives in Trenton, was the excuse given by George FALKNER, Toms River, when arrested for taking a car belonging to Mrs. John EWART on Sunday last. Falkner made his trip to Trenton, it is understood, having taken the car from Main Street where it was parked. Word was sent all along the line and on his way home he was stopped by in Lakewood. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 21 NOV 1930 A jury in Judge Gallagher's court on Tuesday gave a verdict of $650 to Mrs. Lucy A. Dorsett, wife of A.W. Dorsett in a suit growing out of an auto collission near Beach Haven. Mrs. Dorsett sued the Gehrig Motor Company of Philadelphia and John H. Cressman of that city. A non-suit as to the company was ordered by the court. Another auto accident suit resulted in a verdict of no cause for action. This was the case of Martin Pederson of Orange, against Jas. Cheneworth, of Toms River. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 30 JUL 1937 Robert W. Hayden of Toms River, who is now at the Citizens Military Training Camp at Camp Dix, was last week appointed a candidate corporal. Hayden is the son of Dr. W.G. Hayden and Mrs. Hayden of Main Street. Catherine Wissmack, Vineland, MOnday afternoon sruck a parked car belonging to James. H. Walsh, Lakewood Road, Toms River. The Walsh car was parked on Main St and was sruck by the Wissmack machine as it came ot of the alley by the Jersey Central Power and Light company building. Officer Alex Taylor investigated. No complaints or arrests were made. 2 Rooms with running water, for rent, suitable for bachelor quarters. The Jane Stanley, 512 Main St, Toms River. Mrs. Myrtle Benson-Connelly, Locust St, Toms River, was arrested and held under bail on charges of malicious mischief here this week on the complaint of Mrs. Nancy Steigerwald, proprietress of the Bayshore Club on Pelican Island, near Seaside Heights. Mrs. Steigerwald charged that Mrs. Connelly created a disturbance in the club in the early hours of Monday morning and broke several glasses. The complaint was made out before Justice of the Peace Joseph Burbol, Toms River, and constable J. Hamilton Evernham made the arrest. Mrs. Connelly was released under $500 bail for a hearing. |
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NEW JERSEY MIRROR 15 DEC 1937 Stricken with heart disease in the offices of a bank in Toms River on Thursday, Harry Aumack, 47, assistant cashier of the Chase National Bank, New York, died four hours later. Mr. Aumack acted as liaison officer for the Chase bank in conducting its affairs with South Jersey banks. He had driven to Toms River and after stopping in the Ocean County Trust Co., had gone to the First National Bank and was chatting with William J. Gruler, cashier,(sic) there, when he became ill. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 5 JUN 1958 Fred Winfield, Garden Street, Toms River, and William L. Salmons, Ocean Gate, both pleaded no defense to a charge of breaking, entry and larceny in Dover Township, Deceber 21, 1957. Salmons also pleaded no defense to a similar charge in Ocean Gate April 21. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 28 AUG 1958 The Dover Township Committee acted Tuesday night to purchase the Kelly property on Horner street for $33,500 for the expansion of the township offices plus some added parking spaces. The committee introduced an ordinance authorizing purchase of the property and a public hearing will be held at the next meeting of the committee on September 9. The property is located on the west side of Horner street, adjacent to the municipal parking lot. It consists of a three-story building and is owned by Alma Kelly. It has approximatel 125 feet of frontage on Horner Street. According to Collin Applegate, Township Clerk, the house was built 45 or 50 years ago for Charles Gates by his father in law, Charles Forcanser. Mrs. Kelly is the former Alma Holmes, daughter of Captain Joe Holmes, a well known resident. Charles E. Bowcock, a 29 year old Dover township policeman, died on Thursday at his home at 214 Marian Street after a long illness. A World War II Air force veteran, Patrolman Bowcock had been on sick leave from the police department since early this year. Mr. Bowcock was born in Lakehurst and had lived there and in Toms River all his life. He attended Lakewood schools. He was a member of the Police Benevolent Association, a captain in the Fire Company No 2, and a member of the Dover Township TAM club. Mr. Bowcock is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and two sons, Charles E. and Richard K. |
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NEW JERSEY COURIER 30 JUN 1960 34 OUT OF TOWN TEENAGERS NABBED AS TWP. POLICE BREAK IN ON BEER, NECKING PART HELD IN GRAVEL PIT More Than 125 Cans of Beer Found at Site TOMS RIVER--Dover Twp. police, assisted by an Island Heights officer, swooped down on 34 out-of-town teenagers Tuesday night, broke up a necking party and confiscated more than 125 cans of beer. Capt. Richard Clement of Dover Twp. police, who led the raid, said the minors were nabbed in a gravel pit on Vaughn Avenue on the north side of Rt 37 back in the woods. The boys and girls were brought to the police headquarters where all were released in the custody of parents. Parents were notified after the raid had been concluded and the 34 youngsters questioned. Names were not released because of the ages of the boys and girls. Those questioned along with their parents face a hearing in Township Hall July 6. Major Vincent A. Grasso and Police Committeeman John J. Dalton were at headquarters when the throng was brought in. |
| ASBURY PARK PRESS 24 APR 1985 Under pressure from environmental activists, state officials are preparing a new ocean-dumping permit that will require a significant reduction in the pollutants the Ciba-Geigy Corporation discharges from its underwater pipeline, located 2,500 feet from the beach at Lavallette. State Environmental Commissioner Robert E. Hughey said yesterday the new permit should satisfy the complaints of antipollution groups like Greenpeace, which has been staging a series of protests to draw attention to Ciba-Geigy's daily dumping of 4 million gallons of industrial wastes into the ocean. Twelve Greenpeace activists were arrested last weekend after the organization's divers plunged into the Atlantic and sealed 15 of the 50 diffuser holes in Ciba-Geigy's pipeline. The company quickly sent its own divers to unplug the holes. The giant chemical and pharmaceutical firm, which manufactures dyes and resins at a plant in Toms River , several miles inland from the Ocean County shore town of Lavallette, denies that its ocean discharges pollute the water. Hughey has also said that state monitoring of the company's discharges shows that ocean bathers at Lavallette have nothing to fear. "I swim there myself," he said. Despite Hughey's promise that the new state-issued permit would result in fewer pollutants from Ciba-Geigy's pipeline, members of Greenpeace staged another protest outside the commissioner's Trenton office yesterday. They filled a child's wading pool with effluent they said they collected from Ciba-Geigy's discharge pipe and issued an invitation to Hughey. "If he says the water is safe to swim in, we invite him to take a dip," said Greenpeace spokesman Russell Wild. With six of their members wearing bathing suits from the "Ciba-Geigy swim team," the Greenpeace activists set the scene with several bags of sand, beach balls, a beach umbrella, and several dead fish. There were no arrests, and Hughey later commended the group for its peaceful and creative protest. The new ocean-dumping permit to be issued by the state in several weeks will replace a federal permit issued in 1977 that Hughey said was overly lax in its requirements. He compared the old permit to a "long letter from a friend. " He said the federal Environmental Protection Agency turned over to the states in 1980 the task of regulating ocean dumping. But Hughey said none of the states was prepared for the job. In New Jersey, he said, there was a "tremendous backlog of 200 permits" that has taken until now to resolve. "Most of the companies in this country are operating on extensions of the permits which the EPA turned over to the states," Hughey said. "The only exception is New Jersey, which has been redoing each of the permits to meet the state's strict standards. " A spokesman for Ciba-Geigy, Thomas Chizmadia, said the company was prepared to comply with whatever requirements were contained in the new ocean-dumping permit it expects the state to issue. "The permit they will issue will be much more stringent than the one we have now," he said. "We are not surprised to see that. It reflects improvements in science and technology over the last several years. We are prepared for that. " But he denied that the company's current discharges threatened the quality of the water off the Jersey shore. He said 99.5 percent of the effluent released into the ocean is water. The rest, he said, is made up of salts and organic chemicals that are allowed under the permit: copper, chromium, mercury, iron, magnesium, aluminum, zinc, and lead. "We're talking very minute quantities," he said. In a related matter, Hughey said the state is pursuing civil and criminal actions against Ciba-Geigy after discovering last summer that the firm had improperly placed 14,000 barrels of chemical wastes in its Toms River landfill. Hughey said the company is expected to sign a consent order within the next several weeks agreeing to clean up the toxic dump. |
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ASBURY PARK PRESS 21 DEC 2006 Dec. 21--Just a few hundred feet down a slight hill from Elaine Sgambati's Island Heights home, the Toms River rolls steadily along. The bright winter sun beams on the water, dazzling the viewer with its reflection. A sea gull stands sentry on a piling. On the far shore, sailboat masts pop up amid the tree trunks, denuded of their leaves by the cold weather. It's a picture-perfect setting. Luckily, Sgambati runs a business that uses such images as its raw material. "We teach people who never thought they could paint or draw," said Sgambati, who has been teaching art for 35 years and who has run Riverview Art School on the ground floor of her home for the past 11 years. "It's amazing what students can do after a few months of training." Besides herself, she employs six art teachers, who teach classes on various artistic mediums -- oil paint, charcoal, colored pencils, etc. -- to about 30 to 35 adults and about 50 to 60 children, some as young as 5 years old. In the summer, up to 120 children take classes at the school. Classes usually cost $80 to $100 for one two-hour session a week for four weeks. While many people like art but lack the self-confidence to try painting or drawing, Sgambati stresses that those are skills that anyone can learn. "I'm just showing the students what I know," she said. "I don't keep any secrets." Sgambati's own interest in art goes as far back as she can remember. "As soon as I could hold a pencil in my hand, all I did was draw on every available surface," she said. But she did not have any formal art-school training until she was about 21, when she started taking classes at Ridgewood Art Institute in Bergen County, where she grew up. It was a big step for her. "I was really intimidated," Sgambati said. "I thought, 'Oh, I could never do that.'" But she could, and she did, and in 1971, after a few years at the school, she was hired as a teacher there. Over the years, she honed her skills, painting still-lifes, landscapes and skylines. Many times she would enlist her children or friends and relatives to pose for her paintings. She also grew to love the Jersey Shore. She and her husband, Bill, had a summer house in Lavallette. By 1982, they decided to move to the Shore permanently, buying a house in Seaside Park. In time, she started teaching at the Ocean County Artists' Guild in Island Heights, a town she loved; in fact, she had initially planned to move to Island Heights when she moved to the Shore, but couldn't find what she was looking for. In 1995, an 1880 Victorian-style house on Central Avenue came up for sale. "I found out it was zoned commercial and the wheels started spinning," Sgambati said. It needed a lot of work -- her husband, an electrical contractor, would ultimately do much of that himself -- but she felt it was worth it. They bought the house, moved in to the top two floors and turned the bottom floor into the Riverview Art School. Opening a school of her own hadn't been a lifelong vision, but once the opportunity was there, it was irresistible. "I never knew it was my dream until it was in front of me," Sgambati said. Sgambati brought over some of her students from the Artists' Guild, but finding new students wasn't easy at first -- she started her first class with just one child student. But with time and advertisements, she built up the business. (She would not disclose revenue.) The most important part of teaching art is training students to develop a painter's eye. For example, faced with a still-life of a jug and flowers, novices immediately try to work on the details, rather than getting down the shapes and the sense of where the light falls on the objects. "You paint what you know, not what you're seeing," Sgambati said. "I teach them to paint what they see." Judy Giordano of Toms River started learning under Sgambati's tutelage in 1992, and has since then become one of Sgambati's teachers herself. "She's taken people who always had that love of art and allowed them to express it," Giordano said. The school, where the walls and shelves are covered with paintings by the teachers and students, has become a comfortable place for her, Giordano said. "It's a home away from home," she said. "I enjoy the lessons, and I enjoy the camaraderie in the classroom." For the future, Sgambati is thinking about expanding her definition of art. One of her teachers, Christine Dolinich-Matuska, is an accomplished pianist and is offering music lessons to students at the school. Sgambati is thinking about turning the school into a music conservatory as well, if the interest is there. For now, she's happy to continue painting and teaching the skill to her students, even those who come in claiming they can't draw a straight line. "Good," Sgambati said. "There are no straight lines in nature." |