Welsh of Harpers Ferry

Evidence Category: The Shepherdstown Register

  • Bakerton News [Personals]

    On Monday morning, October 9th, while Mrs. Dora M. Eaton was preparing breakfast, she was taken suddenly ill and was assisted to bed by her son, where her condition grew rapidly worse until in a very short time she passed out of life. Her age was 53 years. The funeral services were held at her home on Tuesday, the interment being in the cemetery at Bolivar. Mrs. Eaton leaves four sons and four daughters: Mrs. Carrie Oden, near Zoar; Mrs. Flora M. Miller and Mrs. Nettie Jones, at Bakerton, and Edith at home; while William, Carrol and Albert are of the Bakerton vicinity, Clarence of Burnwell, W. Va. Mrs. Eaton was a much respected resident of this vicinity and this paper expresses sympathy to the bereaved family.

    Mr. “Pet” Moler is spending the week with his daughter, Mrs. Watson, in Brunswick, Md.

    Rev. James Atkins, of Fairfield, W. Va., is in charge of the revival services which are being held each night at the M. E. Church South, assisted by the pastor, Rev. C. E. Brandt. Musical solos and duets have been ably rendered by Mrs. Robert Gibson, of Shepherdstown; Mrs. C. A. Moler, Rev. C. E. Brandt and Miss Genevieve Carter. Rev. Atkins preaches forceful, appealing sermons that hold the attention of the audience from night to night.

    Born, October 1st, to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kidwiler, near town, a fine daughter.

    Clarence Eaton, of Burnwell, W. Va., was called home on account of the death of his mother.

    Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Houser, of Shenandoah Junction, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Houser.

    Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Maisel, of Martinsburg, and Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Maisel, of Frederick, spent some time recently with Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Maisel and son, Milton, Jr.

    Mrs. Robert Gibson, of Shepherdstown, spent the week-end with Miss Genevieve Carter.

    Miss Elizabeth Houser, of Wardensville, W. Va., spent the week-end with the home-folks, Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Houser.

    Superintendent of the W. B. L Co’s plant, D. R. Houser, was returned from a ten-day visit with relatives in the West.

    Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lewis, of Dargan, Md., and Mr. and Mrs. James Lewis and children, of Philadelphia, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. D. W. [M. D.] Welsh and son.

    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carter and children and Mr. and Mrs. James W. Myers, all of Shepherdstown, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Bowman.

    Mrs. Samuel Potts is convalescing from a recent attack of lumbago.

    Mr. and Mrs. Walter O. Moler and interesting son, Woodrow, and Miss Virginia Moler, all of Washington, spent Sunday and Monday with Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Moler and daughter.

  • Annie Welsh; Favored Child in Will

    By her will dated August 28, 1917, Mrs. Annie M. Welsh, who died at her home at Bakerton November 18, left one dollar to each of her children. Then in addition to the dollar left to her son, W. Franklin Welsh, she left to him her home and all of its furnishings. The will stated the son favored with most of the property had cared for her in her declining years, and it was to recompense him that he was given more than the other children. J. S. Reinhart and C. D. Carter signed the will as witnesses.

  • P.S. Millard; Purchases New Property

    P. S. Millard, the Bakerton merchant, has bought from the Hopkins heirs a lot fronting 160 feet on the Harper’s Ferry pike, just east of Charles Town, paying $2,000 for it. Mr. Millard, who some time ago sold his dwelling-house at Bakerton to the Washington Building Lime Company will build himself a handsome new residence on the lot he has just acquired.

  • B. Houser Returns To Bakerton; Clabaugh to Tyrone.

    Bryan Houser, who has been employed at Woodville, Ohio, for the past several years, has returned to his home at Bakerton, this county, having been recalled to take a place in the office of the Washington Building Lime Company. He succeeds Norman Clabaugh, who has gone to Tyrone, Pa., where he has a position with a big lime plant, of which his father is superintendent.

  • Moler/Rice & Maisel/Houser Marriages

    On December 29th, at Shenandoah Junction, Mr. Carlton Arthur Moler and Miss Nellie Rebecca Rice, both of Bakerton, W. Va., were united in marriage by Rev. Ernest W. Aaron, pastor of the M. E. Church South. The bride is the daughter of Mr. A. G. Rice, connected with the Washington Building Lime Company. The groom is a popular young man of this county and is also with the Washington Building Lime Company. Mr. and Mrs. Moler will make their future home in Bakerton.

    Mr. Milton G. Maisel and Miss Catherine May Houser, both of Bakerton, were married last Wednesday at the Presbyterian manse at Duffields by Rev. John C. Siler. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Houser and one of Bakerton’s most attractive girls, while the groom is the popular young time-keeper at the lime works at that place, formerly of Catonsville, Md.

  • Moler Sells 12 Acres to Washington Building Lime

    Albert T. Moler has sold twelve acres from his farm at Bakerton to the Washington Building Lime Company on private terms. The land adjoins the big lime buring plant of this company and contains quantities of valuable limestone.

  • Railroad to Erect Poles from Millville to Bakerton

    By far the most interesting part of the day’s proceedings on Monday was the hearing of an application of the Winchester and Washington City Railway Company for a franchise to erect its poles and string its power wires along the public road from Millville to the quarries of the Washington Building Lime Company at Bakerton. A franchise was granted for a period of fifty years, though with many restrictions to protect people who travel the road along which the wires are to run and to save the county from liability for damages resulting from accident or injury to abutting property. In addition to such restrictions, the court requires the company to pay to the county an annual tax of ten cents on every pole erected for the support of the wires, and reserved the right to annul the franchise at any time the wires become dangerous to travel along the road.

  • Assessment of Railroad Property in Jefferson County

    On Wednesday Judge Faulkner decided the assessment made by the Board of Public Works on the property in Jefferson county of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Winchester and Potomac and the Baker branch, the latter road being operated by the Washington Building Lime Company, to be valid, with the exception of a reduction for the Baltimore and Ohio station at Harper’s Ferry, which he reduced from $40,000 to $4,000. The valuation intended by the assessors was in reality $4,000, but a clerical error made it $40,000. The Baltimore and Ohio assessment amount to $1,904,536, Winchester and Potomac $757,772, and the Baker branch at $70,048.

  • Wm. Link, Removing to Martinsburg to Superintend Lime Plant

    Mr. Wm. H. Link, of Duffields, who has been a subscriber to the REGISTER for a good many years, called to see us on Monday. Mr. Link expects to move with his family to Martinsburg, where he will superintend a new lime plant just completed by the Washington Building Lime Company. We are sorry to lose him and his family from Jefferson county, but we have the satisfaction of knowing that Berkeley will probably go Democratic.

  • Bakerton Lime Awarded Gold Medal

    We are informed by a Bakerton correspondent that the Washington Building Lime Company of Bakerton, this county, received at the World’s Fair the highest award, a gold medal, for the best quality of lime– superior points of excellence and the highest tribute paid to any lime exhibited at the fair.