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1949 Indexed Records Spanning 1730 to 1977 Database Info

September 2, 1919

2 Sep 1919

Flanagan Takes Over Bakerton Plant

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, […]

July 22, 1919

22 Jul 1919

Marriage: Grove–Kern

Grove–Kern Nuptials.Special to The Washington Post. Harpers Ferry, W. Va., July 21.— Lyle W. Grove, of Bakerton, and Miss Katherine Kern, of Harpers Ferry, were married yesterday at the Mehtodist Episcopal parsonage by the Rev. A. […]

July 17, 1919

17 Jul 1919

Geo. Houser, Returned From France

George S. Houser, Jr., of Bakerton, who as a member of Company B, 28th Engineers, has been with the American Army in France for the past eleven months, has gotten back home again. He landed at […]

June 24, 1919

24 Jun 1919

Roy Welsh; Discharged From Army Ambulance Service.

Mr. Roy Welsh, has been discharged from the army, and has reached his home at Bakerton. He was in the Ambulance service, and during the fighting was right up with the infantry and assisted in carrying […]

June 19, 1919

19 Jun 1919

Flanagan and Welsh Honorably Discharged

Messrs. Oscar Flanagan and Roy Welsh, two well-known Bakerton men, have been honorably discharged from the army and got back home last week.

May 20, 1919

20 May 1919

U.S.S. Mobile Passenger List Abstract

Name of Organization Company “C” 315th Machine Gun Battalion Name of Vessel U.S.S. Mobile Port of Sailing Brest, France Date of Sailing May 20, 1919 Date of Arrival May 30, 1919, Camp Dix, Hoboken N-J. ** […]

May 20, 1919

20 May 1919

Roy M. Welsh, WWI Return Passenger List

May 18, 1919

18 May 1919

Glassford must answer charge of non-support.

Husband Must Answer Charge of Non-SupportJustic Hitz of the District Supreme Court issued a summons yesterday on Charles B. Glassford, employed in a local ice cream plant, to show cause on May 23 why he should […]

May 9, 1919

9 May 1919

Smith, Killed At Quarries Shortly After Release From German Prison

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 […]

May 8, 1919

8 May 1919

Smith Killed at the Bakerton Quarries

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 […]

May 8, 1919

8 May 1919

Smith, Ex-Soldier Engineer Killed

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 […]

May 6, 1919

6 May 1919

Smith, Killed By Train In Quarry

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 […]

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