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VOL. XXI
WARRENTON, N. CX, FRIDAY MAY 7 1915
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A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Intersts of Warrenton and Warren County,
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ft TPCf CU A ft jrush 0f large fish Within the Some of them used to be slaves, and James C. Johnston, his son,
(iRbAliid 1 0 II i U crescent of the seine other men and nearly, all are the children the latter having no heir, never
u ... Uva, mcu wmi tnree-ior grandchildren oi former sla- having married.lt was hisheart's
FISHERY IN THE
WORLD.
By COL. FRED A OLDS
tinea gigs or grams, which they ves, who stood lovai'.v bv the desire that Chis heir, should be
throw at the sturgeons, whicn Capeharts, whose lish mansion James Johnston Petti grew, his
attain a great size and which stands on a little bhi'f somewhat namesake, an officer of the regu
are wanted for their eggs and back from the beach, overlook- ;lr armv and a member of a
DT A PTf IIT A 'DTVnUT1 " tnat n wo ther bureaus.
I)Lit'lVuUAKUlINvj pl,800,000 was saved last year.
j MAlV !'ie cos makm& powder has
1 llA'-V I been reduced to 2.7 cents a lb.
and $150,000 saved on that one
i m. Based upon former prices
In 1863, Gideon Welles, Fres- for guns, there is saving m thac
also for their flesh; both being ing manv ? noble acre of farm Wat family with branches in !ident Lincoln's Secretary of the 0f $208,425.33.
J. i mi 1 & '-T JJ i j: XI X .
1800 William in sreat request.There is a desire land and many a mil- of broad North and South Carolina, and Navy, recorded in his diary that : Yet the Secretary of the Nay
About the yeai livimrito km them not only for this water, as yellow as gold. To the lVhen the civil war was at hand When the first turret yes- ig stm abused like a pickpocket,
Capeiian, fe-;- - - purpose out to prevent tnem negroes- the handsome y u 'ig he begged Pettigrew to; abandon
what has become the
Neatest shad . fishery-;: in the
world, which is "now -'operated by
gl'eat grandson of - thes same
" & rri, is niptlires-
que in the extreme ana in a sec
ViJcrtrvhas been made
tion wiiej-c '"
. fhp nast 250 years, ior very
-om breaking the seine. Some- owner of the estate and fishery his military career, not to enter
times the excited blacks, alter is always "Marse . Willi-m", as the Confederate army, never to
sinking their grains or gigs deep he is devoted to these black peo- take up arms against the United
into a sturgeon, will jump' upon pie and they o hjni. - On the States and1 tomTie the care
him and have a great struggle beams inside the fish house from of the great estate of Hayes,
in the bloody water! which a shelter, supported by Johnston had 4 3,000 slvies and
As the seire is drawn in and great beams reaches as far out, j nore than 50,000 acresv;oi land
the space within it contracted, i ly to the water's edgehave and was by farthie riclekt man
nterest is at the highest Ditch, heen mnrVpH Vi
,- m -11 I ' v w a-wxa v.. vvy. VUlVit I XX LiiVy IJUb ktfUUUt Jimxuv J
neartne w -p water is m:e a gigantic wmn for each season for more mong the richestjirt the United
islature or couftcil of North Car- pooI thig beinr due t6 the my. than & hundrd years Qf ghad . states but PettiSriv was adam.
olina met in lfbO under a wiae rads of fish which dart from , . . f . ' ?.nt itself and declared that he
reading tree, which stm stanas the water and, leap in-all direc- Lne iarge5t naui was
This ereat. nsnery is at ineitions. so that thev look like ail- 'u-w, . nx aaxms
f Albemarle sound, a wide in iV)Q QiVniTo-v. : t-v. oc 220,000. Of sturgeon
IlCaU V- " - l niu uuiluglllK i 1 lily KJJC, LO
Wretch of yellow water, nowhere
deep, and is known as the Avo-
nr." nSncI V. J-1 13 V1U"" oxfexxt,,
VH I 1 . - .
ormss Edenton bay, of the quamc ' crews have rushed to one of the mana x0r tms nsn ana w.roe
W-w - 1 IC-(.A-VKX-.
old town ot tne latter name, anu buildings to get their "dram of ."-- " k y "f - i for the sake of every association
also in sight of the United Sta- grog", by which is meant so stiff ,,lke ny. other fish hauled uPto stand by the old flag. Petti
tes shad hatchery, which occu- a drink of corn whiskeyasto floor ?.n lhe f arms and used f ur iertl i grew rose to be a brigadier gen-
must and would" resign his com
ate army, saying ne saw omy sue
sel, the Monitor, was build
ing, many naval men and
men in the shipping inter
est sneered at her as a hunt-"
bug and at me as no sailor
or judge, until she vindicat
ed her power; and worth in
.that .; first remarkable c6n
.flict. :
Then I was abused by par
ty men because L- had not
made preparations for and
built more.. There5 is con
stant caprice in regard to
the navy.
and, is-., virtually charged with
murder by-, both. Representative
Gardner and former Secretary
Meyer,
When Admiral Fiske in a fit of
pique resigned as Chief of Oper
ations, the critics of the Secre
tary unanimously insisted that
the wreck of the navy was com
plete. Secretary Daniels has
now made Capt. Benson Chief of
Naval Operations under the new
'act, and nobody can be found
to deny that Capt- Benson is one
0"f t.Tie oKlest: finr? mr rrmro
Secretary Welles's experience ,.ra . ...
was not unlike Secretary Ean-ertheless, the campaingn against
m m , . m. - . riM li U ff 1 1 V 1 f"Vf Mini I IT! "J VUT VIII
wmch "shot" the seme have " " cess ahead of the South. John-
come into the beach on either over tnreejnousana ana .many, wHh tears fa hig told iels's. Everything is wrong and Secretar; Daniels proceeds with
mc aim uieir naru worKing - r ' , . , , him that the south s aetence was
a barren hope, and implored him
, the more it succeeds the worse
i is
lizer, as there wras no demand
for them.
14- V.
I . U1U ""f1"'" I where his men went further into
mat country to use tne nsn just ,he FederariirieS than others of
men in gray,
pies ine uuiiuiii& mc coucuc an o.ainary man m a jmy. men
known a century and a half ago they lend a hand. On the beach
as "Buncombe Hall" which was ; hegresses, with flaming turbans,
the home of that Edward Bun- skirts tucked ud. and sharn kniv-
combe who gave rise to the now es in hand, are ready for busi-las.tney are lor leryllzer ana athe fiercejughting-.
familiar phrase "talking now lor ness. Suddenly the drums cease
Buncombe". This upper part ( to revolve, for the seine, looking
of Albemarle sound forms a wide - like a gigantic sausage, is on the
sweep and into it pours the wa- j verge of the sloped planking. In
ters of the Cashie, the Roanoke, jto the water dash a score of nen
arlPungo rivers. It was up the and with a mighty heave, to vn
No other member of President
cans
eral, and was killed in one of the
the best Secretary of the Navy
he country has ever known, i he
United States under his admin-
stration built up the largest and
nost efficient navy it has ever
1 ad, a navy that revolutionized
narin'e warfare and has never
jet received full credit, fpr all its
markable achievements in the
ivil War or for its vast contri-
phrase often heard in that com-;at high water mark of the
xxxcixxxvj xo , w lxic Confederacy
of corn. Now the sturgeon are ! ' Yearg pa;ged; the ciyil war.
sent to market, the eggs taken ' almost pnded : : of the John-
from them are packed in special L i; 0,no;nflj rsra
with a certain amount qfioil !and nigHfkiitile before Rob Oivi
as much virulence as did the cam
paign r. gainst Secretary Welles.
Not R.ntisfrpr! witVi uccoilinrr irVta
ncoln's Cabinet was so habit- Secretary PersonalIy,there seems
lally and vanously assailed as to be n well orffanized Droffram
ideon Welles,who was probably -xv,- ., .
. . 0 . i! i.i XT to 111C3te tne navy itself to revolt
against the civil authority that
conrols it, "or against any civil
authority to control it.
How mucr of this is party pol
itic's and how much of it is armor-plate,
fighting . for swollen
profits nobody knows, but the
auu.rungu xivcxa. n vvo up uic aim vviui a migxity iit;ave, lu c : " - - ana une nignc a niue ueiore xoo - responsible for it
Eoanoke river in a corn field that old tune, lustily sung,' roll in the ; to the victory of the v . V- '
ori,nfpHprWh,TUf.-thfii TirTt-!QA.nA 'ax fiaii.if TirlHe Th a rotably, to' Russia. v . ! Ao-Vho w"hif aC Mptitnn. tnn North. ; tJ ; 1 nis is a poor . time to
egade whites from .Edenton too North.
campaign reflects -Jittfle credit
upon the patriotism of the men
.
This is a poor. time, to -black-'
edram,the "Albemarle" which woodengates on the outside flash -F""" axyung; me C0WardIv to be in either armv The United States now has the f."" ova mv
ii j'z 4.-L 'it' 1 j xt. I- i.i' errand seicreurs'fti that 'noble sen- t .tt::j.m i . ; ; ;
''ii ' V, 1 V , 1 crvnnH cpiorpnrc in T-iof YirvKlo . , . . . J ' j j , , nr. - i r rom an ii.dltorifll in PnHnv'ct
came down the. stream with oniy up with a snap and there be- v.xc --i broke into imyes and actually .greatest ana most -emcienx navy , "
l V. : j j .-ix. x xt i x-L. j? xl tion of North Carolina: - In the i "Vx" j xi. i - i :xi , rpr,. iiMew York World.
one sxae iuiiy armoreu anu wilxi iween. uiera anci tne xioor oivtne ,. - - - - ; assauiieu.-ine paraiyzea genue- -nctb iu . cvci r.iix.u. j.hc cj-
the blacksmiths working upbn itlold xsh house are perhaps 200,-oia Wvn 01 -cientpn, which isman who sat in. his chair, look- propriatiohs. made for it-by the
and at the quaint old town -'of 000 fish. The- "spawriers pass now almost like it was in the ing mournfully at the great men Sixty-third Congress were the
Plymouth co-operated with the instantly into the, hands of - the rtimP Defore the Revolution, ev- 0f America, who had been .'.the, largest ever made for naval pUr-
A BUSY FIRST MONDAY.
Monday was a busy day in War
Confederate' land f orcesT which ' United States fish commission ery house of any pretensions has j ds. of his father and of him- "poses. - In, his- recent: :Ietter" to rmt on: The Cbmmissioners.the
Bad been rushed there from the men, who takvthe: eggsin tray's1': do9?.i:.k-?Iocer- In the cort self, which adorned the walls. President Garfield of Williams j Board of Education, the Town-
feat of war in Northern Virgin-'and then haridlethe'milters were after mon- College, Secretary. Daniels show! ship Road Commission, the Co.
'k the, place with its garrison j Then ' tHe sh'ad9are .hustred . into "S 9r a "- 1 "j King Wil- !tey; nd the-.rare liquors in the d that there are now: thirty-six Road1 Supervisfers;' the County
if 8,000 federals being captured. ; packing, boxes, where they are ,T vaance.wnen an Ingush , cellar, some a century old. Eden
fhe ram 'keening one'side 'always iced, fixed ; for shiumeiit to. themi?Pnlan' and har4 by is the.; ton, fortunately, 'was' like Mt.
'cwardthe federal fleet, the ves-; 'great northern markets hurried reat-estate known as "Hayei" ;: Vernon, the . home of Washing-
sole 'A which it sunk or disabled
The beacn at the fishery is
more ships in commission
when he took, office,, with seven-
Assessors met.ahd were busy
all day, and His Honor, Judge
ty-seven vessels, including nine i Rodwell presided over his usual
to a waiting steamer belonging :'';wnere tiie 'mansion is one of the ; ton, a place respected by both dreadnoughts and - thirty-eight iriumber of Monday morning dock
to the fishery, and taken to'Eden most beautiful and noted m the armies, and never plundered, and submarines, under construction et. . .
whole United States. It was tri
s-P O 1 Tl J XI
and the next day are on the table 11U111C UL omuei-donusLoii, me
Qlnno- "hp in mnn n WpI mfp o iih room ,XX1C11U UJ- oKjyn xievves, oi n,aen
AiVA CAWAX VAAW .Jil 11WJ . 11VWVJ I
is a vast low house. like;and home, tor these nsn, ironv"' " UVV4W,"J WA-
ow, flat and rather narrow,and ton and loaded into express cars
the yellow- water breaks in rip
ples upon it.
snore
for Johnston the greatest re
spect was shown by both sides.
On this particular night a feder-
r authorized. j a large number of citizens
The personnel of the navy -has gathered seekine relief from the
been increased by 5,824, the to- Dog tax, and all in all, the day
al gunboat lay at the wharf at tal now being 4,355 officers and was a busv one
, , ,
shed, with a slonino- front! the fisherv are famous famous united estates navy, and under Edenton a hundred yards from . ! enlisted men. With an,
f stout wooden planks, to which for their size and flavor. Mean- the roof of "Hayes" John Paul the scene of the robbery. One iincrease of 12 per cent in the
seine is drawn by steam turn ; time the herrings, caught up in Jones was a guest when he got 0f the faithful servants ran to enlisted strength, desertions
nvincllasses or drums. Out in tubs, have been tumbled out on ril commission m the newly the town, saw the gunboat and
ne
water lie two side-wheel ' the cutting boards, where, ac created navy of the United Sta- L0ld the story to an officer of the
teamers, with no upper works, cording to the size of the, fish tss Wltn mm bem bamuel John .vessel, who instantly sent a file
arm triPir SPY. thft WnTTlP.TI rrP-iOL"" "iAV- L -l-lcijco , anu
UllVi ' CXJLwAA. j ' T j
JJt with wide platforms, on each
f which is piled a mass of seine
Met quarters of a mile on each
esel. At a signal these boats
em out into the sound side by
and half a miie from tne
nore separate and steam par
cel with it, dropping or "sink
2 the seine into the water
Jen turn and make a wide cir
e for the beach. The seine is
: le and a half long and it has
1 ch end a rope. This is car
ecl trough shallow water to
P of the drums or windlasses
athen the strain begins as the
"e3t SPino i x i-i-
ii , io iciwii in. in ine
aays slave
r;Urn these drums, and also in
ftuning the
ti ' 'Ti -m fl
p'are them. The roe herrings 11UdUl-w tllt; ueauuiU1 A
are saved entire, the others be- belIa Johnston, and Wiley Jones
ing beheaded and cleaned, and jthe Patron and devoted friend of
both classes go into the building John Paul Jones: the latter hv-
and are put in a pickle or brine,
ng for love of his patron chang-
of men, who double quicked with
TOWN ELECTION.
The Town election passed off
quietly Monday.
A larfrpr vot.p than usual was
increased 244 per cent, in two , . . . . "
, . . x .cast, and we are pleased to say
years.
have decreased 17 per cent.
The number of mines has been
the black man to "Hayes". On does has been increased 90 per
reaching there they heard the ; cent., and the cost of manufac-
in what are
known as "stands" ed nis name from Jhn Paul to 'took them a few hundred yards
llldLi UUI C4. OllllVy VV1& VV CIO oiai-
ched. Warrenton, in this re
snppt. has spf. a crnorl pcamnlp to
smashing of bottles by the mis- faring torpedoes has been re- 1 c t Democracy, the Pri
l 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 x? ! A OAD 1 i 1 T0 " 7
creams in tne cellar ana running ,uuceu irum eatn lo ttlpr! thp mnttpr nnrl all
thither dragged out the fellows, ' 45.72 each the total s aving be- !good democratg abided the de.
f T t T 1 T 1 T
each holding 4.000 fish. ThenIJonn aui ones; ne ana a ncn
they go into kits or small barrels' and influential Wiley Jones and
and are shipped all over the Unit his brother Allen having ridden
ed States -through the country from Hali-
During all these operations fax county, along the Roanoke
there is the sound of singing. river, to a point near Avoca and
The wind seems to blow there .there taking boats for Edenton.
all the time, the moss-covered jAs a matter of fact Samuel John
roofs of the numerous buildings ston was the ninth earl ot Annan
-!' the place and there shot
them to death, quite near one
i flank of the long line of the then
ing $326,700 As against 12sub !cision and cagt voteg in ffie
. , , xx I Election m accordance with the
were authorized under the Taft ! .,, - . , -r, . WT
....... 0 , . -will of the Primary.
Administration, 26 submarines, T, w . A wna ,p .
empty slave cottages, known as costing $16,280,000 have been !ed and ti game Commi3
T.. A , . . . ,. sioners hereto serving the Town,
bodies under the drooping bran- of the Wilson Administration, i We congratulate the town on a
ches of the great live oaks, drap- In addition .$1,000,000 was ap- ressive Board and with Con
ed in gray moss and on the very propnated for aviation purposes. jcerted effort to advance the
shore ot one oi tne deep ana lviucn oi tnis increase nas oeen
or
Trkwn'a Tnap-rial wplfarP. Wft see
and the long and pendulous moss jdale, but he preferred to be an black streams which thread that obtained without cost to the coun reag(m , Warrenton should
or tillandsia waves in the breeze, ; American gentleman rather than (region. The officer in charge of ,try. Mr. Daniels shows that $1,- nQt coniimie to improve in every
and if the wTeather be cool there a Scotch Earl. So there, in sight the men from the gunboat sim- 110,084 has been saved in the
are roaring fires on the beach.
of Avoca and the wide reach of
each was 30
ret lono- tm,tij i
k.x. ij""t:u Dy iour men,
u timed the stroke tn i"Vip ennrr
T Chov.4- - n v 6
oi a negro who walked
v thes
med
ply made a verbal report as to
ThP work never stops. It re-'Albemarle sound; of Edenton at
quires four hours to shoot and hand, and the further southern
haul the seine, so that there are shore, the health of John Paul
six of these operations every 24 Jones was drunk by the company
Singers hPino- rP. linnve Tn huts. VerV StOUtly jrumig.iwvdi unicci iuuc
as vm- , ' x , I, xir xc-u i,oc lawav to New York to becrin a life vears been the manager of -the
rd y ""poriant men ount, near me great n&n nwoo, j - x J . ,. .T x. .,
v ii nr l . .. i i i ki -c o tjx laiuc. uaiiiii: anu ucvutiuu Kicat couiiC xww - xcxcjr
. iai privileges, are tires oi uunus, aim m uov, - . r . . . , 1
named for the home of Sir Wal-
purchase of armor-plate alone,
what he had done and that was
the last of it. A little while
later Mr. Jonhston died, and in 1y Albemarle wir.d. which has
his will left his property to a n so much American his-
tdry m the -ms. King, lor at its
nan who had for a number of
s the
it
eine is dmum Uim ;-Vif n-ram r-f Vpar"hmen and
jj l ill, XXXCll V7 J U11C Ulgll t vivii uj. ;
On ei, x --koxvic ui it, anu uoaLineii anu ncn w uiu
CK it 1, x. ucoiguCU LU
it i aVs t0 reinfJ-ce it in
mouth there Jies Roanoke Island,
whpre the first settlement of En
glishmen upon this continsnt
daring the day. soundly amid all ter Raleigh, in England, wasfor
the noise. Since babyhood they c - " , ,7 .?
. .1 . ITT TO C TVI O in 1 ll'TlriP' "HlO flliQ
on a viaduct over nve miies iongf ic"v
;iasa d -..klv incfrohf of "the man-' Pes" of Sir Walter Raleigh, the
sion at Hayes, and betweeir it tfort built by the colonists yet
" i x xli
. - tu remiorce it in the noise. Since oaoynoou uiey - - - - . ' ivmainincr clear as to outline
should be broken by the 'have lived in this atmosphere. Samuel Johnston, who built it, l and the shining waters of state- remaining clear as to oat-ine.
WHOLE FAMILY DEPENDENT.
Mr. E. Williams, Hamilton, Ohio,
writes: "Our whole family depend
on Pine-Tar-Honey." Maybe some
one in your family has a severe cold
perhaps it is the baby. The original
Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey is an ever
eady household Temedy-'it gives im
mediate relief. Pine-Tar-Honey pen
etrates the linings of the Throat and
Lungs, destroys the Germs, and al
lows Nature to act. At your Drug
gist, 25c.