Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger July 26, 1888 GALLIA Mr. Reuben Graham, of Gallipolis, who is 82 and who seems to have kept run of the matter, says the locusts are due here next season. The dates of the Gallia County Fair, this year very nearly coincide with those of the Athens County Fair, being Aug. 30th and 31st, and Sept. 1st. The soldiers' reunion that comes on August 8 and 9 at Gallipolis promises to be a grand success. There will be the largest crowd there, at that time ever seen in that city, unless all prognostications fail. The programme (sic) will be an excellent one, and will be as extensive and magnificent as the ability of the united forces can make it, several prominent speakers from a distance will be there. Speaking of the approaching Soldiers' reunion at Gallipolis, the Meigs County Telegraph says: The Gallipolis people never do anything by halves. They run under high pressure, and when they start out to have a soldiers' reunion it will undoubtedly be the biggest and best one within reach. The hospitality will be unbounded, and the enthusiasm will be immense. When, the Galliputs take hold of a movement they go in unanimously, work with all their might, and all deserters are shot at daybreak. It will be a big affair. At the Gallipolis and vicinity there are twenty-eight old veterans who voted for General W. H. Harrison in 1840, and will vote for General Ben Harrison, if spared until November. Their names are: Asa Bradbury, Isaac Fitch, John Adkinson, T. P. Magnet, Jacob Gross, Wm. Waddell, Thomas Brown, D. C. Cowden, Caleb Moon, A. R. Martindale, Andrew Brown, Emory Bailey, Wm. Symes, Wm. S. Summers, Joseph Druillard, Wm. T. Stegar, John Varney, Jesse Ingles, Wm. Nash, W. D. Rose, J. M. McCormick, James Gatewood, Reuben Graham, Samuel Huff, George Harrison, George Seui(l)er?, James Harker and J. G. Damron. These old veterans propose to organize under the name of "The Silver Grays."

I would say that holds true today! The Meigs County Telegraph says: The Gallipolis people never do anything by halves. They run under high pressure, and when they start out to have a soldiers' reunion it will undoubtedly be the biggest and best one within reach. The hospitality will be unbounded, and the enthusiasm will be immense. When, the Galliputs take hold of a movement they go in unanimously, work with all their might, and all deserters are shot at daybreak. It will be a big affair.