During the past summer Mr. J.P. Harris, cashier of the Union bank of Oxford, caught a 9 ½-pound open mouth black bass at Davis’ Mill on Roanoke River near the North Carolina State line. The publishers of Field and Stream makes an annual offering of $70 to the one who catches the largest black bass in the inland streams of North Carolina and Virginia. The fish caught by Mr. Harris was the largest one of the year taken from the inland waters of the two states. Mr. Harris has been notified that the prize of $70 will be paid to him on receipt of a short story as to how he caught the fish.
From the front page of the Oxford Public Ledger, March 4, 1924
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