Winners in second, third, fourth, and fifth places for Certificates of Achievement in Safety in the nonmetallic-mineral mine group: p. 831948 – Bakerton mine, Bakerton, W. Va., Standard Lime and Stone Co., 120,624 man-hours without a […]
James Franklin Myers, Dargan, died at the Guilford Convalescent Home, Boonsboro, Friday morning of complications, after a long illness, aged 76 years. He was a member of Church of God of Samples Manor. He was employed […]
Chas. D. Gross Is Victim Of Heart Attack.State Roads Quarry Foreman Drops Dead At Work Tuesday. Stricken with an acute heart attack, Charles D. Gross, 60, foreman of a State Roads Commission corps, dropped dead at […]
Roy Welsh, for years an employee of the Washington Building Lime Co., at Bakerton, died at his home there Saturday after a short illness. He was 44 years of age.
Electrocuted At Plant.Hagerstown, Aug. 5. — Elmer Giffin, 27, of Samples Manor, Md., was electrocuted today when a switch at the Washington Building and Lime Company, at Bakerton, W. Va., where he was working, was accidentally […]
Charles Flannagan, aged 22 years died suddenly while laughing and talking with fellow employees of the Washington Building Lime Co., at Bakerton, Monday. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. James Flannagan, who with one […]
A few years after Elmwood mansion house was built the stone house was erected on Cold Spring Farm– where the new barn is now being built! This was also most substantially constructed, designed to stand for […]
The first labor trouble in three years in this county came Thursday of last week, when the entire quarry force of the Southern Limestone Company at Engle quit work. About fifty men are involved. The strike […]
Mr. W. J. Bryan Houser, of Bakerton, son of Mr. D. R. Houser, has accepted a position as time keeper with the Washington Building Lime Co., at Woodville, Ohio, and is much pleased with that section […]
Smallpox At Bakerton, W. Va.Harpers Ferry, W. Va., Jan. 17.– Reports reach here of smallpox in the county, in the suburbs of Charlestown and at Bakerton, confined to the colored people. Raleigh Hauser [Houser], general manager […]
Hagerstown.– Mrs. Amanda Rouf, 32 years old, died at the home of her mother, Mrs. Thomas Delauney, Sharpsburg. She was twice married. Her first husband was killed at a quarry several years ago at Bakerton, W. […]
Thomas H. Welsh, better known as “Tam” on account of his Scotch-Irish ancestry, and well known retired local iron worker, of Hollidaysburg, marks his sixty-third birthday today. Tam was born at Harper’s Ferry, Va., on Feb. […]
Antonio Ardeli, an Italian laborer, twenty-five years of age, was brought here last night from Bakerton, W. Va., to be given hospital treatment. He was conveyed to the Casualty Hospital. His condition was serious.
NEGROES AS HIGHWAYMENTwo in Jail at Harper’s Ferry are Threatened With Lynching. [Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.]Charlestown, W. Va., July 10.– Almost at the same spot where George W. Williams, a negro, committed an assault […]
The workmen at the Bakerton quarries went on strike last week for a day of ten hours at the same price they had been getting for ten and a-half hours. The management cheerfully granted the request […]
Talk of Strike. Three hundred and eighty men are employed at the stone quarries in this city, getting out between fifty and sixty carloads of stone every day. This is not enough of stone to supply […]
