Ralph Rankins, employed at the Bakerton quarries, experienced a severe injury today when his hand became caught in some machinery. The man was brought to the City hospital, where it was found that one finger had […]
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 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 […]
D. Raleigh Houser, who for a number of years has been the efficient superintendent of the Washington Building Lime Company’s plant at Bakerton, this county, has been obliged to give up his work temporarily on account […]
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, […]
GOT BY FOE PRISON, KILLED IN ACCIDENT.HAGERSTOWN, Md., May 9. — William M. Smith, recently returned from Germany, where he had been held a prisoner for two years, met an instant death in an accident at […]
Killed at the Bakerton Quarries.- William M. Smith, engineer in charge of the dinkey engine, at the limestone quarries at Bakerton, this county, was killed last Monday by a collision of the engine and a string […]
Ex-Soldier Engineer Killed in Crash.Special to The Washington Post.Hagerstown, Md., May 7.– William M. Smith, locomotive engineer at the Bakerton quarries, near Williamsport, Md., misinterpreting a signal, ran his engine into an open switch and was […]
Killed by Train in QuarriesSpecial to The Washington Post. Harpers Ferry, W. Va., May 5– William Smith, of Samples Manor, Maryland, was killed today at the quarries in Bakerton. While running a dinky engine in the […]
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, […]
Amos Brosser, a boy about fifteen years old, was struck by a truck and fatally injured at the quarries near Engle’s one day last week. He was taken to the Hospital in Charles Town, but died […]
The heirs of Wm. J. Moler have sold to the Washington Building Lime Company their farm of 79 acres at Bakerton, this county. This tract adjoins the property of the company, which will, it is said, […]
