Pages

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Shad Ring Bell to Call B.F. Gurganus, 1934

“Drawbridge Keeper Employed Unique Plan for Catching Fish,” from the Rocky Mount Herald, Friday, June 15, 1934

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.”

No comments:

Post a Comment