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1949 Indexed Records Spanning 1730 to 1977 Database Info

June 18, 1914

18 Jun 1914

Catholic Church Reopened

Catholic Church Reopened St. Agnes Catholic Church, of this place, after repairs and decorations was reopened […] The rededication of the church calls to mind that sometime between the Revolutionary War and 1800 a Catholic chapel […]

June 18, 1914

18 Jun 1914

Maggie Welsh visits Gardner near Shepherdstown

Mrs. Margaret Welsh, of Bakerton, is spending this week with Miss Edith Gardner near Shepherdstown.

June 4, 1914

4 Jun 1914

Obituary: Fanny Spickler

Mrs. Fannie Eyer Spickler died last Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bertha Flanagan, aged 82 years and 6 months. Mrs. Spickler had been in failing health for a long time, as the burden […]

May 28, 1914

28 May 1914

Bertha Flanagan Receives Visitors

Mr. and Mrs. Brown O. Lefevre, from Bunker Hill, and Roscoe Rau and Miss Severence, from Martinsburg, spent Sunday with Mrs. Bertha D. Flanagan at her home at Rock Hill.

May 7, 1914

7 May 1914

Engine made first trip over new track

The first engine to go over the new piece of railroad which was built to carry the output of the Flanagan quarries to Bakerton made its run last Saturday. D. R. Houser, James Flanagan, Daniel Lee […]

May 7, 1914

7 May 1914

Real Estate – Flanagan to Knott

Real Estate Transfers. Bertha D. Flanagan to S. O. Knott, a lot containing one acre at Bakerton, consideration, $900.

April 16, 1914

16 Apr 1914

S.O. Knott Runs Store From Flanagan Building

Mr. S. O. Knott, who is now in business in Bakerton, was a caller at the Register office a few days ago. Mr. Knott has bought from Mrs. Flanagan the building in which the store is […]

April 2, 1914

2 Apr 1914

Brashears Better After Quarry Accident

We hear that Richard Brashears, who was so badly broken up at the Bakerton lime quarries, is getting along nicely.

March 19, 1914

19 Mar 1914

Spickler Seriously Ill at Flanagan’s

Mrs. Laura D. Ross, of Salina, Kansas, is with her sister, Mrs. Bertha D. Flanagan, at Rock Hill, this county, having been called here by the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. Fannie E. Spickler. Mrs. […]

March 19, 1914

19 Mar 1914

Accident at Bakerton

Accident at Bakerton. A bad accident occurred yesterday morning at the limestone quarries of the Washington Building Lime Company at Bakerton, when Richard Brashears, of Sharpsburg, and John Hetzel, of Antietam, were painfully hurt. The two […]

February 19, 1914

19 Feb 1914

Washington Lime Lay Tramway

County Court.[…]Permission was given the Washington Building Lime Company, of Bakerton, to lay a tramway across the Harper’s Ferry and Shepherdstown road at Flanagan’s quarry, the company agreeing to protect the county from any damages that […]

February 16, 1914

16 Feb 1914

Married: Duke & Hendricks

Leslie Daniels Duke and Miss Mabel Neuton Hendricks were married at the manse in Duffield, near Bakerton, W. Va., by the Rev. John C. Siler.

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