The returns from the big porkers at Bakerton show that some good-sized pigs have been killed there this year. Thomas B. Welsh had five, the weights of which were 422, 407, 355, 335 and 313 pounds. […]
SHEPHERDSTOWN, VA. SEPT. 12– We understand by a gentleman directly from Harper’s Ferry, that the disease which has been so malignant at that place, continues to rage with unabating violence. Never was it known to have […]
PUBLIC SALE.WILL be sold, at public auction, on Wednesday the 28th instant, at Hazelfield, one mile north of David Moore’s blacksmith shop, and 2 miles south of Walper’s Cross-Roads, Several Horses and Brood Mares,Eight Milch Cows, […]
NOTICE.Purchasers at my sale are reminded that their notes will become due on the 1st of October next. I will attend at Mr. Gorrell’s Tavern in Charlestown on the first and second Fridays in October, and […]
OLD STONE CO. SELLS OUT.New Concern Takes Over Plant At Bakerton, W. Va.Charles Town, W. Va., May 20.– The Harpers Ferry Stone and Lime Company, who have been operating a plant at Millville, near this town, […]
JEFFERSON COUNTYOne Of The Most Productive In The Valley Of Virginia.LIVE TOWNS AND VILLAGESCharlestown, The County Seat– Growth In Population And Manufactures– Railroad Facilities. [Special Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.]CHARLESTOWN, W. VA., Oct. 8.– Jefferson county […]
FARMERS FARED WELL.West Virginians Report A Year of Much Prosperity.MOST ABUNDANT APPLE CROP.Lands Held Their Own In Price And Farmers Had Little Difficulty In Getting Loans At 6 Per Cent. [Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.]CHARLESTOWN, […]
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 […]
Wm. J. Moler raised this year on his farm at Bakerton 897 bushels of wheat from 33 acres of land, an average of over 27 bushels. This was an unusually heavy yield, and Mr. Moler attributes […]
Md. Farmer Killed When Kicked By Horse HAGERSTOWN, Md., Sept. 9. Frank Kidwiler, 55, a farmer living near Bakerton, died from injuries received by being kicked in the stomach by a horse yesterday afternoon. He was […]
FIRE DESTROYS BARN.Special Dispatch to the Herald. BAKERTON, W. Va., August. 20. A large barn, with its contents, on the farm of A. A. Lamon, well-to-do farmer, was burned to the ground near here early yesterday […]
PIG WITH SIX FEET, ALL IN ACTIVE USE, IS BORN IN W. VA.CHARLES TOWN, W. Va., July 16.– Charles Melvin, who farms at the edge of Bakerton, has a pig born with six perfect feet and […]
UNDERSIZE PIGS COST OWNER FOR FATTENING Winchester, Va., Sept. 18 – These little pigs went to market, but they might as well have stayed home. Carl Moler, Bakerton farmer, wanted to do his part in the […]
County Assessor Sells Fine Horse J. W. Dodd Disposes of His Gray Stallion, Jouter, to Jefferson County Company. Friday County Assessor John W. Dodd sold his fine imported percheron gray stallion, Jouter, to a number of […]
BIG HOGS AT BOLIVAR. — One of our patrons and old friends at Bolivar, (we will not mention his name because he is a very modest man, as well as very handsome,) gives us the following […]
Our town, says the Georgetown Gazette, already begins to reap some of the advantages to be derived from that splendid and great undertaking, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. Last week there was received here in one […]
Big Hogs.The following are some of the weights of big porkers killed in the town and county: Geo. W. Duke a 400-pounder ; Alex Freeman, two at 385 and 382 ; H. M. Loyns one at […]
