Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger December 6, 1888 GALLIA Dr. E. W. Parker, of Vinton, this county, has received the appointment of Assistant Physician at the Asylum for the Insane at Columbus, with salary of $700 a year and board for himself and family of four. Prof. Hancock, recently appointed State School Commissioner to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Dr. Tappan, delivered the annual address before the Teachers' Association in session at the Presbyterian church in Gallipolis last Friday evening.