Student Decline Closes Bakerton School CHARLES TOWN, W. Va. — The Jefferson County Board of Education has decided to close the Bakerton Elementary School. Bakerton students will be sent to Harpers Ferry Elementary School. Reportedly this […]
Funds Voted.M. D. WELSH, JR.Tri-State Correspondent CHARLES TOWN, W. Va. — Authorization of expenses incurred by the special school bond election Tuesday and funds for remodeling the Page Jackson school building were voted Wednesday night by […]
Bakerton, West VirginiaApril 12, 1948 Dear Sir: I am a student at Harper’s Ferry High School, Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia. As you are a Professor in a higher institution of learning, I would like to ask […]
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 […]
Mr. and Mrs. M.S.R. Moler, who for a number of years have lived at Engle Station, this county, where Mr. Moler conducted a store, have moved into their new home, just completed along the Charles Town […]
A comfortable new public school building of three rooms is being constructed at Bakerton, and the contractors hope to have it completed by the first of October. It is being built of hollow tiles, and is […]
HARPERS FERRY NEWSHarpers Ferry, W. Va., Nov. 8 — The community exhibit which took place at the colored school house Thursday and Friday of last week was quite a success. Everything available was displayed, such as […]
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 […]
The pupils from the Bakerton school who were neither absent nor tardy during the term are Martha Welsh, Essie Welsh, Laura Hopper, Janie Moore, Edith Geary, William Link, Strauther Moler, and Harvey Kidwiler. Those who deserve […]
Among those who took the recent county examination and took a diploma were Martha Welsh, Nellie Mills, Martin Welsh and Essie Welsh, of the Bakerton school, taught by Miss Rose Cockrell.
School Affairs. The board of education of Harper’s Ferry district has fixed the levy at ten cents on the hundred dollars for the building fund and eighteen cents for the teachers’ fund. The salaries of teachers […]
We had the occasion to visit the Bakerton neighborhood last week, and were pleased to find it full of life and energy. The large lime works there were running in full blast, and quite a thriving […]
The last enumeration of children between 6 and 16 years of age in Shepherdstown school district, which includes seven sub-districts, was 604. There were enrolled in September in the seven schools of this district 415 out […]
Mr. John H. Hill, principal of the colored public school in Shepherdstown, has been appointed assistant principal of the West Virginia State Colored School located near Charleston. The appointment is an excellent one, as Mr. Hill […]
Bakerton, W. VA.,March 10th, 1891, DEAR EDITOR– While all is quiet and serene at this place, yet there is one topic daily discussed with interest, viz: the C. & O. Canal. As many of our citizen […]
COMMUNICATED. DEAR REGISTER.– The large and flourishing school so ably taught by that popular teacher Mr. Jesse A. Engle, gave their friends a rare and intellectual and literary treat at the close of their school. This […]
Delightful Entertainment at Oak Grove School House, Near Harper’s Ferry.The recent closing exercises of the Oak Grove public school, so efficiently and satisfactorily taught by Mr. Jesse A. Engle the past three years, were of an […]
