A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Ohio > Meigs http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=2524 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=34438 Submitted by: Barbara Article Title: Athens Messenger Article Date: January 16 1879 Article Description: News from Meigs Article Text: Meigs Alex. Steele, of Salem township, was lately found lying in his barn, suffering from an apoleptic fit. Mr. Roman Darst, for a long time the miller of the Pomeroy Flour Company died one day last week. Mr. James W. Allen, of Lebanon township, and Miss Julia O. Cooper of Pomeroy, were recently married. Mr. John Gorsuch 1st, an old citizen of the Pomeroy Precinct, who lived in the vicinity of the County Infirmary, died on Tuesday of last week, of lung fever. The ladies of Pomeroy were to have met in the Opera House at that place on Tuesday to effect an organization for charitable purposes. The 20th birthday of Miss Emma Day, of Orange, was recently made the occasion of a large social gathering at her home and an enjoyable time. Reuben Walburn a middle aged resident of Salem township, died recently, from the effects of a cancer, from which he has been suffering for about twenty-five years. Stephen Va********. * ****** w**** home is near Mt. Gilead, and who escaped from the Columbus Insane Asylum about a year ago and has been supposed dead, has been discovered at Pomeroy. W. Hart, aged 22, of Bedford township, has had his left hand amputated as the result of an injury by the premature explosion of a toy cannon while he was engaged in loading it on New Year's Eve. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ OH-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com