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 […]
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 […]
Mr. Clinton Harwood fell from a building he was erecting for Mr. Jesse Cook, near Bakerton, and sustained painful injuries. Dr. S. T. Knott rendered the necessary attention.
Passing through the busy little settlement of Bakerton last Thursday, we stopped for a few minutes chat with Mr. D. R. Houser, the efficient superintendent of the outside men engaged upon the works of the Washington […]
Mr. Benjamin F. Daniels, an old citizen of Shepherdstown, died very suddenly in Sangamon county, Illinois, February 10th, 1896, aged about 66 years. On Monday before his death he was out hunting and on Tuesday was […]
A man calling himself James H. Carter has been arrested and placed in jail here charged with stealing a horse from Mr. R. D. Houser, at Bakerton. He is also wanted in Virginia and Maryland for […]
We had the occasion to visit the Bakerton neighborhood last week, and were pleased to find it full of life and energy. The large lime works there were running in full blast, and quite a thriving […]
Last Sunday was a big day for the Southern Methodist Church at Bakerton. In the morning Rev. J. P. Stump preached the sermon and Rev. Dr. J. P. Hyde preached at night. The dedicatory services were […]
The new Southern Methodist church at Bakerton will be dedicated the fourth Sunday in this month.– Arrangements are being made for a grand church re-union there on the Saturday previous.
The farm of John Moler, sold by Geo. M. Beltzhoover, special commissioner, last Saturday, was bought by Michael Brown, of the cement mill vicinity. He paid $30 per acre for it. The farm contains 83 acres, […]
Mr. Samuel W. Brett, superintendent of the Bakerton Lime Works, and Miss Fannie B. Moore, attractive daughter of County Commissioner T. B. Moore, were married at the residence of the bride’s parents, at Halltown in this […]
In Martinsburg, September 27, 1893, by Rev. C. S. Trump, Mr. J. Frank Harmon, of Martinsburg, and Miss Emma A. Kidwiler, of Bakerton, Jefferson county.
Work on the B. & O. tunnel at Harper’s Ferry is being rapidly pushed forward by Messrs. Thorne & Co., contractors. The report of the heavy dynamite blast is heard for miles around. The flock of […]
Our enterprising young countyman Mr. Chas. E. Jones has purchased eight hundred acres of land in Morgan county, opposite Hancock. One hundred and fifty acres of it is good river bottom, and the remainder in timber, […]
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 […]
Our Iron Ores.Under the caption of “West Virginia Iron,” the Wheeling Intelligencer says:In the eastern part of the State the greatest possibilities at present are in the vicinity of Charlestown and Martinsburg, where large territories have […]
A train of empty cars, in charge of conductor Rodrick, with John McAbee engineer, Charles Rosenberg fireman, and William Caton brakesman, was thrown from the track near Edinburg, on the Valley Branch of the B. & […]
