Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger August 16, 1888 GALLIA Mrs. Mary Ball, of Cheshire, aged 92 years, 7 months and 8 days, died last week in the Athens Asylum. The Gallipolis creamery has again gone into operation, and is now turning out about 1,200 pounds of choice butter per week. A party of Gallipolis wheelmen made a trip to Niagara Falls, wheeling most of the way up, but were content to come back by railroad. Measles have been let loose again over in Gallia county, and some of the people of Cheshire and Morgan townships have been suffering from that disease. At Cheshire last Sunday night a wind and hail-storm broke window glass in nearly every house in the village. It was rumored that a woman was killed, although the statement has not been verified. Last Friday evening about 6 o'clock W. T. Bayes, of Winfield, W. Va., late a member of Company D, Seventh West Virginia Cavalry, who had been attending the soldiers' reunion at Gallipolis, went into a saloon there bought a sandwich and sat down to eat it. The barkeeper paid no attention to him for some time, but noticing that he was very still, went to him and found him dead in his chair. It is supposed that he died of heart disease.