Painter’s Secret.The living worth of good work is always recognized, even in small things. Sign-painters do not usually achieve wealth or fame, yet the Chicago News declares that fortune awaits the man who painted a station […]
Workmen, while digging in the hill at the Virginia ore bank along the Potomac River, near Shepherdstown, W. Va., unearthed the skeleton of a giant. The body had been buried in a box, which had decayed, […]
Mr. William Foreman, who has charge of the Virginia ore bank below Shepherdstown, unearthed the skeleton of a human being some days ago. Men were at work making an excavation in the hillside when they uncovered […]
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 […]
The biggest carp we have ever heard of in this section was captured last Monday below Shepherdstown, near Flanagan’s quarries, by Mr. A. M. Hopper and his sons. The fish had gone into a shallow place, […]
INTERSTATE COCKING MAIN.Frederick Birds Do Well, but Virginians Have Little Money to Bet– Forty Birds Fought.[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.] POINT OF ROCKS, MD., March 24.– The second cocking main of the season between Maryland […]
Bakerton, W. Va. – Aug. 16. This section was visited by a very pleasant rain fall, which was a great benefit to the growing crops. Geo. Trundle has been on the sick list since Friday. We […]
Capt. John Howard, mineralogist for the Charlestown M., M. & I. Co., and who during the late war was an officer in the 7th Md. Regiment, U. S. army, has shown us a pocket bible which […]
Letter from Bakerton.Bakerton, Jan. 7, 1891. Miss Mary Moler, ho is attending school in Winchester, was home on a visit during Christmas week. Miss Addie Cather came with her to spend the short holiday given them […]
Charles Stouffer and Charles Bowers couldn’t catch fish fast enough last summer in the usual way, so they killed them wholesale with dynamite n Antietam creek. They paid for their violation of the law on Monday, […]
Miss Nannie V. Daniels, who lives near Bakerton, knows how to make delicious pies, that’s certain. Aware of the fact that the printers have a sweet tooth, she sent them a lemon custard on Tuesday that […]
Mr. B. F. Harrison and Mr. William Graham went down to Mr. J. S. Moler’s place last Thursday, and together with Mr. Moler opened up the Indian mound, or, more properly, cairn. It contained nothing but […]
Bridget Doody, who lives at Mineral Point, Wis., and is one hundred and eighteen years old, is believed to be the oldest woman in the United States. Her baptismal record in the County Wexford, Ireland, states […]
Trespass Notice.—THE undersigned hereby warns all persons from trespassing upon his lands, (either upon the farm occupied, by Mr. Joseph L. Eichelberger, near Unionville, or upon the farm upon which I reside,) in any way whatever, […]
