Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger July 22, 1875 GALLIA Smeltzer Mill, on Raccoon creek, ground its first grist of new wheat on the 8th. Grasshoppers are uncommonly numerous in the neighborhood of Gallia Furnace. Subscription papers were last week in circulation to uniform the Gallipolis military company. Commissioner John E. Mills, of this county, was thrown from his carriage, recently, and somewhat bruised about his face and head. A large and enthusiastic Hayes' Club has been organized in Gallipolis and similar organizations are to organize in every township in the county. Stephen M. Neal's store at the lower end of Gallipolis, was burglarized recently and $500 in notes and accounts and about twenty dollars in money taken. A female child was born in Walnut township, on Wednesday, the 7th inst., without legs and with but one arm. Otherwise the child is perfect and in good health. The Tabernacle services at Gallipolis continued last week to be attended to the full seating capacity of the tent. Good order and warm interest has all along characterized the meeting. On Monday evening, of last week, a Mrs. Grubb, living just below the Thomason House, Gallipolis, shot and wounded Mr. John West, clerk, for, as she alleged, talking about her.

On 4/7/2005, "JAR422@aol.com" <JAR422@aol.com> wrote: >Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. >Transcribed by Joyce Robinson > >Athens Messenger >July 22, 1875 > >GALLIA > >Smeltzer Mill, on Raccoon creek, ground its first grist of new wheat >on the 8th. This "Smeltzer" is probably an ancestor to Melvin Smeltzer who owned a landscaping business in Gallipolis for many years, some of you might remember his children, Bob and JoAnn.......and others I cannot remember.