When a New Jersey Senate committee held a hearing on the proposal two months before the vote, no one came to Trenton to speak in opposition, but the committee chairman reported receiving several letters of protest.

 Some residents of Point Pleasant Beach suggested a better course of action would be for the Beach to annex the West Point Pleasant area, according to the Toms River Courier. Thus the perennial proposition of a Beach and Boro merger was first raised: “Some of those who are trying to form the new borough, might not very strongly oppose such a consolidation but they say the time is not yet ripe for it. They say that if the new borough is formed, and things work right, it might after a few years, be possible to consolidate but that West Point Pleasant people at the present time want to go it alone.”

Nearly 200 people voted in Point Pleasant's first municipal elections, held in June. J. Holmes Harvey was elected mayor, but, citing poor health, declined to accept the office. The new Township Council then selected Melleville B. Parker from their ranks who became the first Mayor.

The next year Brick Township petitioned the legislature for financial assistance, claiming that Point Pleasant's succession had eliminated more than half of its tax ratables, which would necessitate a major tax increase if aid was not forthcoming.

The canal had been under construction, on and off,  since 1916 but had been dug only from Barnegat Bay to a few feet north of what is now Rt. 88. Funding was the problem. Engineers figured that it would take another four years to finish if the current level of $25,000 a year in funding was maintained by the New Jersey Legislature. Excavation costs were escalating and had reached a price of 27 cents per cubic yard as opposed to 15 cents during the first year of construction. (The canal was finally opened in 1926.) History of the canal

The Point Pleasant Traction company, which had never made a profit, decided to discontinue its trolley service. In the summers trolleys had run from Clarks Landing through Bay and Atlantic Avenues, into Bay Head. Plans to connect the line to trolleys in Monmouth County never materialized because the company was unable to get permission to use the railroad bridge and could not find another way to cross the Manasquan River. A project to extend the line to Lakewood also was not completed, although portions of the right-of-way can still be seen in the borough. Trolley history

As trolley service died, the first concrete highway in Ocean County, connecting Point Pleasant to Lakewood, was planned. The State Highway Commission had announced it would take over Rt. 4, now Rt. 88. Paving would be done by the county at a cost of about $40,000 per mile and the state would pay the county back in two years from the proceeds of a state road tax fund. The Courier hailed a resolution by the freeholders to get the project started as "...a new era in county road building in Ocean County — the substitution of cement or concrete for gravel, which has heretofore been practically the only road material used."

 In May there was a smallpox scare and the State Board of Health was called in. "For some time this spring and late winter there has been a kind of rash or itch prevalent in Point Pleasant, it is reported, but only in the past few days did any cases develop that caused alarm" The Courier  reported. Almost everyone was vaccinated and those who had suspected cases were quarantined. It was not clear from the article whether cases actually were confirmed, but there was fear.

“The name Point Pleasant was first applied to the fishing village which is now known as West Point Pleasant. When Capt. John Arnold and his associates in the early [eighteen] seventies started the summer resort of Point Pleasant, and it had grown big enough to warrant a postoffice, it was planned to move Point Pleasant postoffice down town, nearer the beach; and the plan was carried out. The dwellers in the older village resented this and insisted they had the first right to the title Point Pleasant, for their postoffice, and put up a strong fight. They were unable to save the name, because the moneyed men backing the beach development had the pull with the postoffice department, but they did save their postoffice, which has ever since been designated as West Point Pleasant. After more then 40 years, somebody who remembered the old fight, it would seem, is trying to score.

“Point Pleasant, the resort, was taken out of Brick township and incorporated as one of the first boroughs in the county some thirty years ago, under the title, 'Borough of Point Pleasant Beach,' but is colloquially spoken of as the 'Borough of Point Pleasant.' Now a bill has been introduced in the legislature to incorporate 'Borough of Point Pleasant.' It is difficult to see how the borough of Point Pleasant Beach can object to West Point Pleasant being known as Borough of Point Pleasant, and yet the mixups and complications that might occur are obvious to anybody.

“But of course all the worriment, if worriment there be, is in Point Pleasant Beach borough. And it would look as if somebody was having a fine laugh over the revenge that whirligig of time sometimes brings around.”