These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other persons or organizations. They are for individual research ONLY. They will remain the property of the OHVINTON list serve and may NOT be FORWARDED on to any second party or group. Persons or organizations desiring to forward or use this material must obtain written consent from me or my legal representative and contact the archivist of the OHVINTON list serve with proof of consent. I have given permission for these files to be stored permanently for free access in the archives of the OHVINTON list serve. [This article was transcribed without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Athens Messenger April 8, 1880 VINTON McArthur is to have a banquet on the completion of the railroad. The new Town Hall at Zaleski was formally dedicated recently. A company has been organized in McArthur for the purpose of optioning (sic) mineral land adjacent to the Ohio & West Virginia Vailway (sic) in Vinton and Wilkesville townships, this county. Wm. Chesser, a married man, living near Prattsville, eloped with Mary Painter, a young unmarried woman, one night recently. Chesser leaves his wife and several children in destitute circumstances. Mr. Schlegel, a farmer living in Eagle township, was recently swindled out of a respectable sum of money on a Missouri railroad train by the venerable confidence "lay" of giving him a worthless check for security. The McArthur Enquirer of last week makes mention of the recent elope- ment from that place of Mrs. Mary M. wife of J. C. Cooney, the clerk of the court, with one H. E. Radfern. The eloping woman left a husband and four small children. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson