Evidence

November 29, 1898

New Kilns to Be Built at Bakerton

Several new lime kilns are to be built at Bakerton, greatly increasing the large plant of the Washington Building Lime Company and correspondingly adding to the business of that thriving village.
November 27, 1898

Birth: Pearl Welsh

Register of Births Within the District of Harpers Ferry, J.W. [?] Assessor, For the County of Jefferson In the Year Ending 31st December, 1898. Lines Numbered 71 Date of Birth Nov. 27, 1898 Full Name of […]
November 24, 1898

Rank Garry, Lime Employee on Crutches

Mr. Rank Garry, who works at the Bakerton lime quarries, had his foot painfully mashed and a bone broken in it last week, and he has to go about on crutches. A horse fell on him.
November 18, 1898

Giant Found At Ore Bank

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, […]
November 12, 1898

Engle, Hendricks, married at Uvilla

A pretty wedding took place at the M. E. church at Uvilla, on Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock. The contracting parties were Mr. Jesse A. Engle, of Bakerton, and Miss Essie Hendricks, daughter of Mr. D. […]
November 10, 1898

The Ore Bank Giant

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 […]
September 15, 1898

Huggins, McCormick, Kaldenback visit Walsh’s.

Miss Mary Huggins, of Harper’s Ferry, Miss Gussie McCorkmick, of Brunswick, Md., and Miss Mamie Kaldenback, of Washington, D. C., visited Mrs. Thomas B. Walsh at Bakerton the past week. Miss Mamie Kaldenback, of Washington, D. C., […]
July 9, 1898

Willie Flanagan visits Middleway

Mr. Willie Flanagan, of Bakerton, was in this vicinity [Middleway] last week.
June 9, 1898

John G. Flanagan son born

The cause of the large and continuous smile on the face of Mr. John G. Flanagan, of Bakerton, is the recent arrival of a fine boy at his home.
June 7, 1898

Lady (Houser) Dragged to Death

A Lady Dragged to Death.A most shocking and horrible accident occurred Sunday in Washington county, Md., opposite Knott’s quarry, below this place. Miss Bettie Houser, in her 22nd year, living near Sample’s Manor Church, was out […]
May 19, 1898

Birth: John Griggs Flanagan, Jr.

Lines Numbered 1498 Name of Child J G. Flanagan, Jr. Sex Male No. of Child of This Mother. 1 Stillborn No Period of Uterogestation 275 days Race or Color White Date of Birth May 19th, 1898 […]
May 10, 1898

Decker, Harpers Ferrian, Liberator, and Patentee.

The Harper’s Ferry correspondent of the Shepherdstown Independent says:“Carl” Decker, the New York Journal Cuban correspondent, and the liberator of Miss Cisneros from the Spanish dungeon, Cuba, is a Harper’s Ferrian by birth and ancestry. His […]