The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-11
is H.ERM { N ARE
HAVING C00O LUCK
Great Shipments Made Every
Day and Market Con-
tinues Active.
Especial 10 The Times. pispatch.l

Lancaster, Va, April 10,--The Usher
men operating along the western
shores OF the Chesapeake Bay arc now
catching all the fish they can handle.
Up to one week ago the catch had
been small, but the recent rains and
winds have brought good luck to the
fishermen. 1t is estimated that there
arc nearly 1000 large nots. In tho
tidal waters of Virginia, and nearly
all of them arc reported to be making
big catches. 1t is thought that about
10000 shad are shipped every day
from the average wharf along the
naik. In spite Of the large shipments
of shad and herring during the past
week the market Is active and prices
in this section are said to have been
made in the lower waters of the Great
Wicomico River. AS soon as the sea-
son for catcnng edible fish with nets
factories that convert inferior fish into
fertilizers VIII begin operations. There
ere many of these establishments IN TINS
section, which run all summer and far
into the autumn. giving employment
to many people. The laborers In these
fish factories come Very largely from
the larger cities, from which they are
shipped by employment agencies. Some
of these laborers nave ALREADY DesuH
10 arrive.
Many Forest Fires.
During the recent dry weather for
est fires ragged in parts of this ana
the adjoining counties of Richmond
and Northumberland, doing mucE dam
heaviest losers from forest fires Is
Judge John G. Ewcll who lives near
Bertrand, in the Corotoman region:
Judge Ewell is grand commando or
the Virginia Grand Camp of Contede-
rate Veterans.
Scientific road building has created
a general spirit of Improvement IN
Lancaster. The public square or com
mon in the village OF Lancaster Court
house on which the clerks office and
the Confederate Monument now stands,
and on which the old courthouse used
to stand, is now undergoing thor
rough renovation. The Board of Su-
pervlsors is having it plowed up, grad
and when the work is completed and
the grass covers the surface this Will
be one of the prettiest open spaces
to be seen in any Virginia village or
town 1t will resemble the pretty
commons to be seen in the villages
and towns of Massachusetts and other
New England states. This work will
doubtless cause every householder in
the village TO do something towards
improving his own premises. POST
master Philip Gresham has already
begun the erection of handsome res
idence on his lot fronting the village
common, and along the new road that
runs through the village an excellent
walkway has been built for the use of
pedestrians.
Death OF William Brent.
Intelligence has reached here of the
death of William II. Brent at his home
near Monaskon, on the Rappahannock
River. in the seventy fourth year of
his age. He was native of Lancas-
ter county, where he resided till after
the civil War. when he went West and
settled in Illinois. Here he engaged
in agricultural pursuits and succeed
ed in amassing a comfortable compe-
tency. Three or four years ago he
returned with his sons to Lancaster
and purchased fine farm on The Ran
pahannock River, wnere he resided till
his death, loved and honored by his
neighbors.
The Rev. Wayland +. Dunaway, d.
D., who represented Lancaster In the
Constitutional Convention OF 10000.
has accepted an Invitation TO preach
the annual sermon at the closing eHer-
cises of the Wcomico High School, IN
North berland county.
The Lawson-Ball Camp of Confede-
rate Veterans, met here yesterday and
appointed five delegates and five alter
mates to tho approaching meeting of
the United Grand Camp OF Confederate
Veterans.
The Rev. Robert w. Williamson, who
for many years conducted a private
academy for boys at Farmham Church,
in Richmond county. and was for sew
erQl terms superintendent of the pub
lie schools of that county, is reported
10 be very III. and as he is very old
and feeble mis- recovery is regarded as
very doubtful.
Captain John Fl. Whealton, founder
of the town of Wheaton, in mis- coun-
ty, and prominent as a business man,
took his friends by surprise last week
by going to Baltimore and there mar
rying Miss Elizabeth Bosnian. Cap
tair Wheaton is hfty-one; his bride
thirty-one on returning here they
VIII reside at Wheaton
The primary and grammar schools
OF this and the adjoining counties have
begun to close. but the High School
will run for eight months.
steamers are bringing large Quanti
ties of bacon, corn. flo:;r and hay TO
every wharf in this section of Vir-
glnia. Meat is fabulously high corn
Is selling at 81 per barrel, and but few
people have any to sell. and hay is
bringing from s25 to $40 per ton, and
rot ton Is to be purchased from any
farmer here. This ought not to be SO.
SCHOLARS PREPARING