Kinston, June 9—B.F. Gurganus, keeper of a Norfolk Southern
Railroad drawbridge near here, caught many shad during the recent season.
Every time a shad entered his net it rang a bell.
Gurganus did not have time to look after the net regularly,
so he tied a string to its center. The string was attached to a dinner bell in
his home a short distance away.
Whenever the bell rang, a member of his family would notify
Gurganus. “There’s a fish in the net,” he would be told.
“I had a good season,” he said today. “I took no few fish
from the net to augment my depression salary. You can’t down a man who uses his
head and is a Christian.”
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