There was a very interesting meeting of Moler’s Alliance at Moler’s Cross Roads last Friday, the occasion being a dinner given by the Alliance to visiting brethren and friends. The ladies of that section are famous for their big dinners, and this one was no exception. All the seasonable substantials and delicacies were provided in the usual abundance, and the large crowd enjoyed the repeat greatly. After dinner, President J. M. Hendricks called the meeting to order, and Col. W. A. Morgan made a speech of welcome. Then Hon. C. T. Butler was called upon for an address, and responded in a very earnest talk to the farmers, holding their closest attention for a half hour or more. Taken all in all, the meeting was a thoroughly enjoyable as well as a beneficial one, and we are sure that the Moler’s Alliance will continue to grow in popularity as long as it is the means of combining pleasure and profit so admirably. The order is very strong there, and has in its membership most of the prominent farmers of that section.
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Baltimore County Commissioners visit Lime Quarry
The commissioners of Baltimore county visited the quarries of the Washington Building Lime and Stone Company at Keller, this county, last week, with a view of obtaining the limestone found there for use in piking the roads of Baltimore county.
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Duncan shot by Goodman in Baltimore
Charles Goodman shot and instantly killed John T. Duncan in Baltimore on Monday last. Both were well known men about town, and had quarreled over money matters. Goodman is not unknown in Jefferson county. About twenty years ago he was arrested in Cincinnati, whither he had fled after shooting a man in Washington. He was charge by a detective, who was bringing him east over the B. & O. Railroad, when he jumped from the train near what is now Engle’s Station. One leg and his shoulder-bone were broken, but he crawled to the house of Mr. Raleigh Moler, near by, where he remained for a long time. Although a bad man in some respects, he at the same time had many good traits, and Mr. Moler and his family grew to like him. He sent them many presents after he had returned to the city.
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BAKERTON, W. VA.,
December 15, 1891.DEAR EDITOR:– As we have not been represented in your columns for some time, we again beg recognition, as we think we justly deserve. But owing to business matters, your correspondent has been compelled to neglect this important duty. That which would be of interest to most of your readers, could be more interesting by paying a visit to this busy place.
The damage done by the fire last spring has been repaired. Immense buildings that were burned to the ground have been replaced by far better ones, and again the busy village of Bakerton, is as it was, and to be rightly appreciated should be seen.
As Christmas approaches, the people here, not hindered by the town authorities, as in our larger towns, have fun and lots of it, and to one who is not used to such, an evening of enjoyment can be assured. Indeed, Mr. Editor, were you here at night your imagination would carry you back to your boyhood days, especially were you as fond of sport as the Bakerton boys. They may seem a little rude at times, but that fault can be readily overlooked when one knows that pure fun and only fun is meant by anything they may do.
Our school is full to overflowing, and the long-needed addition to the school-room here has been begun, and soon a second teacher will be added. The heaviest hogs of the season, as reported, was one killed by Mr. Frank M. Moler– net weight 354 pounds; one by Mr. W. J. Moler, 352 pounds. We suppose you can find many to beat us, but we are glad to hear of them. Bakerton will not be discouraged because her citizens are enterprising, and a failure only means renewed exertions at a future opportunity.
Jesse A. Engle, Jr., was in Baltimore last week on business.
Thanking you in advance for admitting us, I am
Yours, &c., X. -
Boteler weather theory.
Col. Boteler suggests the theory that the unusual qauntity of rain that has fallen in this section the present summer is caused by the heavy blasting– morning, noon and night– at the stone crusher at Shepherdstown. In view of the fact that a party of scientific gentlemen from the department of Agriculture are now experimenting in Texas to produce rain by explosions of dynamite, there is probably more in the Colonel’s theory than appears at first sight.
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Flanagan successful harvest; Duke bull attack.
The Harper’s Ferry Sentinel says that Mr. John Flanagan, one of Jefferson’s successful farmers, harvested this year from 16 acres of ground 467 bushels of wheat, an average yield per acre of over 29 bushels.
Sunday morning of last week a bull belonging to Mr. Robert M. Duke, near Bakerton, gored to death one of his horses– a valuable mare. A little son of Mr. Duke had a narrow escape, as the bull also attacked him.
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Will Run Three Stores Now
Messrs. Strider & Engle, an enterprising firm who conduct stores at Unionville and Bakerton, in this county, have purchased the store of the late R. M. Billmyer in Shepherdstown. Mr. Jesse A. Engle will continue at Bakerton, Mr. J. S. Engle will come in from Unionville to Shepherdstown. Mr. Harry Show will go from Shepherdstown to Unionville, and for the present Mr. Strider will put in his services wherever they are most needed. The new firm took charge on Tueday.
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Italians Dig Up Likely Cholera Victims
While filling in a break at Dam No. 4 last week the Italians dug up three human skeletons, the entire frames being perfectly preserved. After examination by the bystanders, the bones were pitched on the piles of dirt and were afterward shoveled in the break. The skeletons are supposed to be the remains of three cholera victims, which epidemic had been raging with ful force in that vicinity at the time of the building of the canal.
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Shepherdstown Designated As Canal/Railroad Transfer Point
The people of Virginia, and especially those living in the Shenandoah Valley, are anxiously looking forward to the restoration of the C. & O. Canal as a means of securing to them cheap bituminous coal. Shepherdstown, W. Va., is the point designated for the transfer of Cumberland coal from canal-boats to cars on the Norfolk and Western Railroad and thence down the Valley. This, once accomplished, will create a boom for Shepherdstown, and those people will then realize what a blessing the C. & O. Canal is to the consumer of soft coal. Williamsport merchants will have to look to their laurels or they will not hold the position of the next heaviest coal shippers on the entire line of the canal. — Williamsport Leader.
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The Doings of the Railroads
Last Saturday night, while every body slept except the railroaders, the little town of Brunswick, which used to be called Berlin, became the end of the first division of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and the great freight yards there were opened for business.
The work began at one minute after midnight of Saturday and was practically completed by sundown Sunday. Everything worked as smoothly as a well-oiled piece of machinery. There were no delays and no friction. Under the direction of Mr. Thomas Fitzgerald, superintendent of the first and second sections of the road, the entire freight system of Martinsburg and Sandy Hook was moved bodily to Brunswick, and the headquarters of sixty-five railroad crews were changed as well. Under this arrangement Sandy Hook becomes a way station, but Martinsburg retains the division repair shops. Everything else in connection with the system is located at Brunswick, which is destined to become one of the most important places on the road.
The big freight blockade on the B. and O. two years ago was the town’s salvation. The blockade showed the railroad that its facilities for handling an immense amount of freight were inadequate, and the management sought to better them. The result was the purchase of about 400 acres of land to the east of Berlin, upon which was laid out one of the most complete, as well as extensive railroad freight-yards in America. The price paid for the land is said to have been $33 per acre.
The railroad company has platted 250 acres into town lots. Thomas Cannon has platted 100 acres, adjoining the company’s property, and, with two other “additions,” Brunswick has about 500 acres of land about it laid off into about 2,000 town lots. A handsome natural park on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad property has been reserved and will be kept as a park. One of the land companies announces that it will give a town lot to the widow of any railroad man killed about the town, and it will also give a lot to any employee of the road who may be injured in the neighborhood.
Making Brunswick the terminus of the first section of the road and the beginning of the second section will bring about 2,000 people– railroad men and their families– to the town in the next six months. Others will follow, and it is predicted by railroad officials that Brunswick will contain between 4,000 and 5,000 inhabitants in the next two years. A great many new and tasteful houses have already been erected and occupied and more are in course of construction.
The new railroad yard begins at Brunswick and extends eastward about two and a-quarter miles. It is about 325 feet wide, extending from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal on the south to a range of hills on the north. On these hills the new portion of the town will be built. The main passenger tracks have been separated, the west-bound track running along the north side of the yard and the east-bound track running on the south side. Parallel with these is a main freight track and a switch track. No switches are in the passenger or freight tracks except at the extreme eastern and western ends. The sidings will be parallel and will extend diagonally across the yard from one switch track to another. At present but 16 diagonals are completed, giving a capacity of 800 cars. By autumn 26 more will be completed, and then, as they are needed, the whole number contemplated, 60, will be laid. This will give a capacity of 3,000 cars. Here all mixed freight trains will be taken, and cars for various points will be made up, so that solid trains ma be sent to their destinations. Over 1,000 feet of culverts of eight feet inside diameter have been built to drain the yards, and over 300,000 cubic yards of earth have been moved.
Besides the laying of the track, a transfer shed 1,400 feet long, a storage ice-house 110 feet long and a number of other buildings have been erected for the company’s use. When completed the work will have cost $250,000.
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At the meeting of the stockholders of the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company, held at Roanoke, last week, resolutions were passed reaffirming the authority to extend the road to Richmond and Washington; also to convert the common into preferred stock, so as to have but on denomination of stock. The old board of directors were re-elected.
A corps of engineers has been at work for some days past making the preliminary survey for a railroad from Shenandoah City to Harrisonburg, tapping the Norfolk and Western system at the former point.
The B. & O. Railroad bridge at Harper’s Ferry is to be remodeled, the change being designed to do away with the curve in the bridge on the Virginia side. The Contractor for the new piers required was in Harper’s Ferry last week arranging to do the work.
The new schedule of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad went into effect last Sunday. There are some important changes in the passenger trains stopping at Shenandoah Junction. The correct schedule will be found in another column of the REGISTER.
The Norfolk & Western Railroad has purchased a lot at Berryville from Marshall McCormick, Esq., and it is said that a depot to cost $20,000 is to be built upon it.
Dr. J. F. Tearney, of Harper’s Ferry, has been appointed medical examiner in the B. & O. Relief Department for District No. 4, composed of the main stem west of Relay Station to, but not including Harper’s Ferry. The doctor is to have his headquarters at Brunswick.
One day last week an express train on the Norfolk & Western Railroad, while running very rapidly in the vicinity of White Post, Va., ran into a flock of sheep, killing thirteen of them. When the train stopped at the water-tank for water, a lamb was seen perched on the steam chest, and it did not have a scratch upon it, the only mark visible being some scorched wool, where it came in contact with the hot boiler.