Boats Move Freight On Canal Amid Small Loads
A fleet of 28 boats traversed the canal last Wednesday with light coal loads averaging about 75 tons, some stopping at Williamsport. Reported higher loads elsewhere and complaints of light freight moved.
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
4
A fleet of 28 boats traversed the canal last Wednesday with light coal loads averaging about 75 tons, some stopping at Williamsport. Reported higher loads elsewhere and complaints of light freight moved.
Veteran Oli Contey the black mare owned by the late Governor Hamilton was killed at Stafford Hall and laid to rest, praised for gentleness and intelligence. Obsequies attended by AW. Chas. A. Hyde. Also report of Mr. Chas. BH. Neikirk's accident while quarrying stone on Mr. AJM Bewner's farm. Brief notes on Pennsylvania politics, a Literary Society organized at Roonshero school, and local notices including a Toled o burial and a health ad for Chamberlain's tablets.
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