BAKERTON NEWS. With two steam shovels in operation at Bakerton, a great deal of excavation work is in progress. Much excitement prevailed the other day by the rumor, which quickly spread over the entire plant, that […]
The Old River Road to Shepherdstown.By J. O. Knott The Potomac is one of the most picturesque rivers in the world. When I heard as a child, the words: “Oh Jordan’s stormy banks I stand, and […]
The quarries of the Standard Lime and Stone Company at Kearneysville have closed down, and the horses, mules and carts used there have been sent away. The workmen have dispersed to various sections– some going to […]
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 […]
The relating of one interesting event in Shepherdstown’s history calls out another. The recent article in the Register concerning the old mill east of town brought to the remembrance of Mr. Beltzhoover that some years ago […]
Walter J. Flanagan, who has been manager for the Standard Lime and Stone Co., at Strasburg, Va., for the past nine years, has taken charge of the plant of the Washington Building Lime Company at Bakerton, […]
Martinsburg.– Slackening in the demand for lime at war time prices has resulted in a serious slow down of work at the Bakerton plant of the Washington Building Lime Co. The latter part of the week […]
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 […]
Bryan Houser, who has been employed at Woodville, Ohio, for the past several years, has returned to his home at Bakerton, this county, having been recalled to take a place in the office of the Washington […]
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, […]
Preston S. Millard, the Bakerton merchant who was burned out a couple of months ago, and who has since been doing business in the hall in that village, has bought out Amos R. Kibler, who had […]
Bakerton, W. Va., December 12, 1917 Washington, Alexander & Cooke, Charles Town, W. Va. Gentleman–My furniture was burned in the fire that destroyed the P. S. Millard store at Bakerton on December 1, 1917, and same […]
ELEVEN BLASTS AROUND HIM.Quarry Foreman Feels As Though Barrage Had Hit Him. Winchester, Va., Nov. 25.– Howard Hetzel, a foreman at the Bakerton (W. Va.) stone quarries, feels confident he could withstand a German barrage fire […]
The Washington Building Lime Company has added two small parcels of real estate to its holdings at Bakerton by purchase. One parcel containing one acre was bought of Hattie Moler and others; the other containing about […]
THE BUSINESS MEN’S ASSOCIATION, OF BRUNSWICK, MD. WM. L. GROSS,President. G. H. HOGAN,Secretary. Brunswick, Md., October. 18. 17,. 190 Mr. W. S. Adams,Lander, Md. My Dear Mr. Clint:;,I am returning you Mr. Fawleys, check which you […]
