Four Bakerton youths and two men from Millville in Jeferson county were injured in a head-on collision near Millville, the group included Walter Manuel, jr., William Moler, Clarence Mills, and Deneen Welsh.
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 […]
NEW POTOMAC BRIDGE CONTRACT DUE SOONB. & O. Expected to Ask for Bids on Span at Harpers Ferry Within Week. Special Dispatch to The Star.CHARLES TOWN, W. Va., October 4. — Unofficial but apparently authritative information […]
With further reference to the roads, the “hog wallow,” miscalled the road between Bakerton and Duffields, is in truly deplorable condition. This road reminds us of the train service on the old Frog Hollow branch. It […]
NOTICE.In the matter of the petition of Washington Building Lime Company for change of road at Bakerton. This petition filed on the 4th day of May 1920, for the alteration of the public road at Bakerton […]
The Washington Building Lime Company at Bakerton petitioned the court for a change in the location of the county road there. The company’s stone quarries at Bakerton have been gradually extended to the county road at […]
THREE DROWN IN POTOMACThey Were Crossing River When Ice Upset The Boat. Hagerstown, Md. – Jan. 24.— William Grimm, aged forty-three, his son, Raymond, twenty, and Richard Shipwe, forty, all of Dargan, Washington county, were drowned […]
The National Highway Garage has sold automobiles to the following during the past week: Maxwell touring cars to W. L. Manuel, Bakerton, and Joseph Williams, colored, west of town; Ford touring car to E. T. Licklider […]
BIG BRIDGE SHIPPED AWAY.Huge Structure Will Be Used By Baltimore and Ohio at Bakerton. Superintendent Z. T. Brantner, of the Baltimore and Ohio shops, has just completed the work of shipping the big iron bridge that […]
THEIR WORK COMPLETED. Civil Engineers who Have Been Making Preliminary Survey for the Freight Cut-off Return to Baltimore. Major Goldsborough, civil engineer, and his corps, some 15, have just completed their work to Harper’s Ferry and […]
A new iron bridge is to be built across Rattlesnake run at the old Hoffman mill, along the river road, below Shepherdstown, and the contract has been let to Walker Bros., of Charles Town, at $380. […]
Boating on the canal is reported by the Sharpsburg Record as very discouraging. Some have only made one trip and hardly realized enough to pay their expenses.
The REGISTER man took a drive the other evening down to Bakerton by way of Moler’s Cross Roads, and he has thought that what he noticed might not be uninteresting in print. The first impression is […]
Canal Boat Sunk. The canal boat Fannie Flanagan, of Harper’s Ferry, ran on a rock in Big Slack Water, on Saturday, knocking a hole in the bottom. The boat filled with water and sank. Navigation was […]
Four carloads of crushed limestone were received today from Bakerton, W. Va., and have been placed on the streets of Brunswick, which were lately graded. The work of street improvement is being pushed rapidly along, and […]
At the May term of the County Court of Jefferson county, in the matter of the petition of Charles H. Knott and others for the opening or changing a county road from Teague’s run up the […]
CORRESPONDENCEWe publish the following request of several of our readers: Shepherdstown, W. Va.To the Honorable County Court of Jefferson County– We, the citizens of said county, living southeast of the Shepherdstown and Halltown turnpike, and entering […]
News. County Court Proceeding. Road Orders Harpers Ferry District. Approved By Samuel W. Strider R. S. : James McGraw, Sam. W. Strider, Jas. Flanagan, Jacob S. Moler, Jacob H. Engle, Mrs. Eliz. M. Cockrell, Martin Smith, Jas. […]
