Now, however, it is announced that the cry of our navy for a real naval base--something we have never had, though all other important navies have them, Britain alone having three--has been heard in Washington, and that Norfolk has been selected as the site for a base.

This is an important event not only for the Virginia seaport, but for the United States.
Farmers who think they are in a poor business will do well to investigate Norfolk's recent history.

The "trucking" industry of Norfolk is said to amount in the aggregate to twelve or fourteen million dollars annually, and many fortunes have been made from it.

The pioneer "trucker" of the region was Mr.Richard Cox.

A good many years ago Mr.
Cox employed a German boy, a blacksmith by trade, named Henry Kern.