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.
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 […]
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.
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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., […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
