[Based on materials by Nellie Hendricks Moler] Delving into old records of early land grants, you will find that tracts of land were taken up in this ection along the Potomac River just as early as […]
Mr. Walter Winks, of Sharpsburg, Md., has been here this week visiting his neice and nephew, while butchering. Mr. Martin Welsh has butchered one of the largest hogs here, one weighing 559 pounds. The total weight […]
Delving into old records of early land grants, you will find that tracts of land were taken up in this section along the Potomac River just as early as those nearer the tiny village of Mecklenburg […]
UNDERSIZE PIGS COST OWNER FOR FATTENING Winchester, Va., Sept. 18 – These little pigs went to market, but they might as well have stayed home. Carl Moler, Bakerton farmer, wanted to do his part in the […]
FIRE DESTROYS BARN.Special Dispatch to the Herald. BAKERTON, W. Va., August. 20. A large barn, with its contents, on the farm of A. A. Lamon, well-to-do farmer, was burned to the ground near here early yesterday […]
PIG WITH SIX FEET, ALL IN ACTIVE USE, IS BORN IN W. VA.CHARLES TOWN, W. Va., July 16.– Charles Melvin, who farms at the edge of Bakerton, has a pig born with six perfect feet and […]
Md. Farmer Killed When Kicked By Horse HAGERSTOWN, Md., Sept. 9. Frank Kidwiler, 55, a farmer living near Bakerton, died from injuries received by being kicked in the stomach by a horse yesterday afternoon. He was […]
Some of the many big lambs shipped last week by C. F. Wall: John Welsh’s lot, averaged over 93 pounds; Walter Caton’s, averaged over 93 pounds; David Myers, averaged over 88 pounds. They say that Kirk […]
OLD STONE CO. SELLS OUT.New Concern Takes Over Plant At Bakerton, W. Va.Charles Town, W. Va., May 20.– The Harpers Ferry Stone and Lime Company, who have been operating a plant at Millville, near this town, […]
Public Sale. The undersigned Administrators of the estate of James S. Flanagan, deceased, will sell at public sale, at the late residence of said deceased, a half mile from Bakerton on Friday, December 22, 1916, the […]
Our friend James Flanagan, of Bakerton, killed some unusually big porkers last week, the largest weighing 468 pounds and another 452. He presented the editor of the Register with a generous supply of very nice sausage, […]
Items From Bakerton. I see through your columns news from other places, and I thought that I would give you some from our little town. Bakerton is growing and is now about a mile long. It […]
A. A. Lamon, who has been chief clerk at the Hotel Evans in Winchester for several years, has resigned in order to take charge of the management of Mrs. Bertha Flanagan’s farms at Bakerton, this county.
County Assessor Sells Fine Horse J. W. Dodd Disposes of His Gray Stallion, Jouter, to Jefferson County Company. Friday County Assessor John W. Dodd sold his fine imported percheron gray stallion, Jouter, to a number of […]
Eggs For Sale. We have for sale eggs of pure bred White and Golden Wyandottes and White Plymouth Rocks. Also baby chick at 20 cents each. Eggs at 50 cents per setting of 15. We are […]
