License to celebrate the rites of marriage in this State is granted to Rev’d A. Van DeVyver (Catholic Priest) within this State on complying with the Law. Whereupon the said A. Van DeVyver with Edw. Tearney, […]
[..] June 12, 1904 recorded the marriage of Mr. [James Karl] Grubb and Miss Agnes O’Brien, who was born at Halltown, this county, and who is a daughter of Patrick and Sally (Reid) O’Brien. Her paternal […]
Church Improvement.St. Peter’s Catholic Church at Harper’s Ferry, which has been closed for the past four months while extensive improvements have been made, was reopened for public worship last Sunday, when appropriate services were held. The […]
Camp Meeting.A camp meeting will be held in Duke’s woods at Bakerton, W. Va., commencing August 11th and continuing ten days. The meeting will be in charge of Rev. T. C. Jones. The following ministers are […]
The M. E. Sunday school picnic will be held at the river, near Mr. “Pet” Moler’s farm, on Saturday, August 26. These guests are spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Trundle: Mrs. Sarah […]
The State of West Virginia,County of Jefferson, To-wit: In the Clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of said County, August 21, 1916. C. D. Carter and other Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church South at Bakerton, […]
A letter from Harper’s Ferry, Va., states that the new church near Jefferson’s rock was consumed by fire on the night of the 7th inst. The flames originated in a school room.
The Order of the American Union At Work.The hatred of the Northern Republican for a Catholic church is only matched by the hatred of the carpet-bagger for the county jail. It is well-known that some years […]
From the Wheeling Register.Bishop Kain and the Incendiary Press. “Bishop Kain has prohibited the West Virginia Catholics from taking the Irish World.” The above paragraph has been floating around in the papers for several days without […]
Messrs. Armentrout and Siford have completed the brickwork on the new St. Peter’s Catholic Church at Harper’s Ferry, and the building is about ready for the slate roof.
The Ladies’ Catholic Fair at Harper’s Ferry.MR. EDITOR: — The fair, which was refer[r]ed to in my last article, given by the Catholic Ladies in this vicinity, closed on Monday night last, after having been conducted […]
MR. EDITOR: As I have promised to drop you an occasional letter, when anything occurs in this vicinity worthy of special notice, to make good my word, I must take up a fair subject. The Fair, […]
The Temperance Cause still flourishes in this county. At Harpers-Ferry, on Sunday last, twenty-three more persons took the Total Abstinence pledge at the Catholic Church. And the procession of the several Societies, to take place at […]
Messrs. Editors– It affords me much pleasure to give you and your readers some account of the great and glorious Temperance Reform at Harpers-Ferry, Va., which place has “lang syne,” like too many other towns, stood […]
On Saturday last, the Harpers-Ferry Total Abstinence Society, joined by other societies, had their procession through the village, and attracted deep interest and attention. At about 10 o’clock, the societies came forth from their respective places […]
