Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger May 17, 1888 GALLIA Mrs. John Ecker, aged 62, recently died at her late home in Green township. If a bill now before Congress is passed, Gallipolis will be entitled to a public building for post-office purposes. The Directors of the Gallia Agricultural Association met, one day last week, and arranged the premium list for the next Fair. A handsome gold charm, the badge of the American League of Wheelmen, valued at $50, will be offered as a premium for the best bicycling. One day last week Capt. Alfred Kinder died at his residence near Clipper Mill, very suddenly, of heart disease. he had been fishing and was in the yard adjoining the house, cleaning the fish he had caught, when he complained of a pain in his back, straightened up and fell backwards, expiring immediately. He was 68 years old. About four years since Mr. Adam Ruble, of Cheshire, had some money stolen from his home, and could never obtain any trace of it. One of the coins taken was an old copper cent, coined the year he was born, and worn by him as a charm for a long time. A week or two ago the same piece was taken in over Mr. Ruble's counter, but during his temporary absence from the store. He registered the money by certain marks he had put on it years since, and thinks it has never been far from home during the time intervening since it was stolen.