Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: August 7, 1880 LOCAL and PERSONAL Miss MATTIE DUDUIT is visiting in Ironton. Miss LUCY MILLER, daughter of JOHN T. MILLER, is visiting relatives at Piketon. Misses CH?TTIE LEWIS FAWN are visiting friends in Cincinnati. J. H. ROADS leaves for the east next week; Mrs. Roads is already visiting there. LOUIS BAUM has disposed of his saloon, on Chillicothe street, to DAVID STRAHM. JOHN BRANDLE is engaged in business at Hamilton, having left for that place Monday. Mrs. JACOB COLE left Monday on the Bonanza to spend a few weeks in Cincinnati among friends. Miss ELLA MORRIS, of the West Side, is visiting her sister, Mrs. THOS. G. CALVERT, on Fifth street. Miss MOLLIE MORRIS, of neville, Ohio, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. THOS. G. CALVERT, on Fifth street. Miss DELLA LAWSON, of Portsmouth, is visiting Miss ALICE CARNER, of Russell. ---Ironton Register. Ex-Councilman THOS. H. COLLINS has returned from an extended tour west, and looks hale and hearty. ALEX WARNER went to Covington, Ky., Monday, where he will spend a week of ten days visiting friends. JOHN T. MILLER, of the Portsmouth Correspondent, was in the city Tuesday. John is one of the jolly Germans of the Scioto Valley. -- Chillicothe Advertiser. Miss ELLA RIDENOUR, who has been visiting Miss WILIA MOLSTER of East Third street, for the past four weeks, left for home last Friday. HENRY VINCENT and daughter, Miss MARY, are visiting in Cleveland, and expect to go to TORONTO, before returning home. Mrs. JOS. G. REED returned Wednesday from a visit to relatives in Ross county, where her daughter Miss SALLIE is still rusticating. Miss BELLE HUTTON, of Ashland, has been visiting Mrs. BROOKS, near Walker's Landing, on the West Side, during the past week. Rev. J. R. GATH, of Hamilton, will preach at 11 A.M., and at the usual hour, to-morrow, at the Christian Church, corner of Third and Gay streets. FRANK KEHRER has resigned as assistant operator at the Western Union Telegraph office, and the vacancy is filled by H. WARREN, of Milford Center. Miss MARY DAMARIN and sister, Mrs. GEO. D. SCUDDER, of Trenton, N. J., left last Thursday for Des Moines, Iowa, on a visit to the Misses SHACKLEFORD, formerly of our city. CHAS. WILHELM has become tired of life in the River City, and will seek his fortune in the southwest. He leaves in a few weeks for Morrilton, Ark., where he goes into the grocery business with Christ Geisler. Mr. and Mrs. Col. O. F. MOORE, accompanied by Miss KATIE NEWMAN, after a few weeks tour through Colorado, are expected home to-morrow. Mrs. C. P. TRACY and daughter, who have been of this party, leave them at St. Louis and will spend several weeks in Minnesota.