Get 10,000 Pounds of Fish

1920

Two Men Using Seine Make Record Catch, Mostly Carp

ST. LOUIS, Missouri — Edward and Joseph Larbey, fishermen, caught 10,000 pounds of fish with a seine at Grafton, Illinois, thirteen miles above Alton on the Mississippi near the mouth of the Illinois River.

The fish, mostly carp, were driven out of the Illinois by the breaking up of the ice, it is believed, and took refuge behind a dyke, where the Larbeys placed their seine.

The haul is valued at $600, and is said to have been sold in the St. Louis market.


"Dead" Soldier Returns Home Finds Wife Remarried and Is Granted Divorce by Court

NEW YORK, N.Y. — John C. Ries, an American soldier, who had been officially listed as killed and who later turned from overseas to find his wife had married again, was granted a decree of divorce today in the Brooklyn Supreme Court.

Ries served with a machine gun company of the 27th Division. He was gassed, wounded and left for dead upon the battlefield, but later he was picked up and sent to a hospital.