Welsh of Harpers Ferry

Evidence Category: Spirit of Jefferson

  • Canal Load & Navigation Data

    CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL.

    The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was navigable, during the past year, only about six months, yet the descending tonnage reached 151,369 tons, and the ascending tonnage to 16,226 tons– total tonnage 167,595 tons. The tolls collected for the year amounted to $92,248,90. The National Intelligencer says the following are some of the leading articles transported upon the canal during the year:

    Descending– Flour: 267,550 bbls; wheat 382,200 bushels; corn 190,200 do.; coal 63,289 do.; coke 2,346 do.; whiskey 2,700 bbls.; mill offal 83,200 bushels; lumber 2,640 tons; fire wood 4,308 cords; tanner’s bark 679 do.; limestone 10,260 perch; rough stone 20,136 do.

    Ascending– Fish 455 tons; hardware 199 do.; groceries 402 do.; salt 2,851 do.; lumber 1,484 do.; plaster 5,489 do; manures, as guano, &c., 1,325 do.

  • Copper on the Potomac

    COPPER ON THE POTOMAC.– It is stated that the Potomac Copper Company is working some valuable mines on the immediate neighborhood of the Potomac river. At thirty feet it obtains ore yielding 30 per cent of the metal, which is far greater than the yield of ore from the English mines. It can send the metal at the low cost of $1 50 per ton to Baltimore market. The capital of the company is $1,000,000 in 100,000 shares of $10 each.

  • Lightning Strikes Home of Sleeping Welsh Family

    Lightning struck the dwelling of Mr. John M. Welsh, at Bakerton, Sunday night, cut the top off the chimney at one end of the house and the cornice off the other, lifted the pump out of the cistern, run down into the parlor and burnt the lambrequin on the parlor mantel, and, to crown all, jumped from a stovepipe hole in the ceiling to a wooden partition ten feet away and cut a new stove pipe hole there almost as neatly as if done by a small saw. All this, strange to say, without burning the house down or injuring one of its inmates.

  • Roy Welsh; Discharged From Army Ambulance Service.

    Mr. Roy Welsh, has been discharged from the army, and has reached his home at Bakerton. He was in the Ambulance service, and during the fighting was right up with the infantry and assisted in carrying the wounded off the battlefields of France. He relates one instance of helping to carry a certain former resident of Charles Town and Winchester, whom he recognized, off the field badly wounded in the arm and leg. He never saw him again and didn’t know whether he lived to reach home or not.

  • Oak Grove Voting Officers

    HARPERS FERRY DISTRICT.
    Precinct No. 1– Voting Place, White School House, Oak Grove.

    Democratic:
    Receiving Board– Dudley Moler, Arnold Moler, Commissioners; Martin Welsh, Clerk. Counting Board– Olin Knott, W. J. B. Houser, Commissioners; Robert Nichols, Clerk.

    Republican:
    Receiving Board– William Garey [Geary], Commissioner; P. S. Millard, Clerk. Counting Board– Aaron Kidwiler, Commissioner; J. C. Hoffmaster, Clerk.

  • Petition for Bakerton Road Change Notice

    NOTICE.
    In the matter of the petition of Washington Building Lime Company for change of road at Bakerton.

    This petition filed on the 4th day of May 1920, for the alteration of the public road at Bakerton at the point where it passes by the present quarry of Washington Building Lime Company by closing a portion of the said road, and opening in lieu thereof a new road on the lands of said Company as designated on plat filed with petition in the Clerk’s Office of this Court, it is ordered that notice of the filing of this petition for the change of said road and discontinuance thereof and that the same will be heard on the 10th day of August, the first day of the next regular term of this Court be published for two weeks in the Shepherdstown Independent and in the Spirit of Jefferson, two newspapers of general circulation and of different politics in Jefferson County, and by posting at three public places in the District of Harpers Ferry, as required by law, before said date.

    A copy test.
    CHAS. A. JOHNSON,
    Clerk of County Court
    of Jefferson Co, W. Va.
    July 13, 1920–2t.

  • Lime Company Petitions for Road Change

    The Washington Building Lime Company at Bakerton petitioned the court for a change in the location of the county road there. The company’s stone quarries at Bakerton have been gradually extended to the county road at one point. A change in the location is desired to safeguard travel on the road. Members of the court will view the proposed new location and will report their finding at the next term when appropriate action will be taken.

  • Real Estate Transfers; Washington Building Lime Adds Two Parcels

    The Washington Building Lime Company has added two small parcels of real estate to its holdings at Bakerton by purchase. One parcel containing one acre was bought of Hattie Moler and others; the other containing about the same area was bought of Tilmond Carter, Guardian of Strorther and Geo. W. Moler. Deeds for the foregoing have been filed for record along with the following: C. D. Carter and P. S. Millard to David Roy Hoffmaster, lot 2 in block C., at Bakerton; Frank Beckwith, Trustee, to Edward Newman, house and lot at Mt. Pleasant, near Summit Point, for $200; Annie L. Banks and Mary R. Needy to M. K. Hendricks and Charles M. Hendricks, 80 acres on the Potomac river, three miles east of Shepherdstown, consideration $2700; Sarah Hopkins, widow of William Hopkins, to Perry T. Dunn, two lots on Washington Heights, near Charles Town, for $300.

  • Mrs. D. R. Houser, daughters, visit son in OH.

    Mrs. D. R. Houser and her daughters, Charlotte and Eleanor, of Bakerton, left on Thursday for Woodville, Ohio, where they will visit Mrs. Houser’s son, Bryan, who is connected with the Washington Building Lime Company at that place.

  • Bakerton Methodist Church Sells Church Lot

    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, Jefferson County, W. Va.

    Having filed at May erm of Circuit Court of said county their petition asking for a decree authorizing the sale of a Church lot at Bakerton conveyed to said trustees by the Washington Building Lime Company, by deed dated November 22nd, 1894, and recorded in the Clerk’s office of County Court of said County, the sale desired because said trustees have purchased another lot for a Church more eligibily situated:

    Notice as required by order of said Court is hereby given to all concerned to appeals on the 1st day of next regular session of the said Court or at any special session that may be held after 10 days from this date at Court House in Charles Town, in said County and reaist such application if they so desire,
    C. W. CONRAD,
    Clerk of the Circuit Court.