Swiss immigrant Louis Michel traveled along the west bank of the Potomac River searching for land for a Swiss colony. He reported that Indians covered the area.
A report that the railroad would soon be run from the Old Furnace up the river to the old Adams stone quarry, thence to the Virginia Ore Bank, and probably on to Shepherdstown, is current, and much discussed among the people in the Eastern half of Jefferson County.
The Shepherdstown Register reports on speculation that a matrimonial boom will soon strike Keller and Bakerton areas.
A reunion is held for veterans and their families at Moler Crossroads. Although the day was cold and cloudy, the newspaper reports that about four or five hundred people were present.
It is reported that the limestone business in the Eastern section of Jefferson County is once again booming.
With one heavy rainfall, the drought of 1900 was broken.
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