Thank you Joyce-This John Ward is a relative to me through my McManis side.He was the son of one of my grandpa`s sisters,Norma McManis.My grandpa was James McManis,from Dundas,Ohio,Vinton Co.,Ohio.My mother was Essie(McManis)Perry,the daughter of James and Sarah Jane(Irvin/Ervin)McManis.They lived in Clinton township(Dundas).These transcriptions are very helpful,and also very enjoyable,to everyone,to be able to see what was happening in the news back then.Please keep them coming,from all the papers,including Athens Messenger(lots of good news),.Now,Joyce,what canwe do to help you?I know that everyone on the list is as grateful as i am.Thank you so much. Dorothy Morgan!!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: <JAR422@aol.com> To: <OHVINTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 11:24 PM Subject: [OHVINTON-L] February 5, 1880 - Athens Messenger > > 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 > February 5, 1880 > > VINTON > > John Ward, aged about ninety years living in Elk township, died recently > > A protracted meeting is in progress at Pleasant Chapel, Richland township. > > Mrs. Elizabeth, wife of Martin Kinsel of this county, died of lung disease, > on the 21st ult. > > The McArthur Enquirer predicts the rapid growth of that place on the > completion of the railroad. > > A very nearly successful attempt was lately made by the prisoners in the > jail of this county to break out. > > The Grand Jury of this county recently found a bill against Henry Zartman > of Somerset for burning a house on Reuben Kings farm. > > The Allensville correspondent of the Hamden Enterprise has several > specimens of grass-hoppers which he lately captured in the fields. > > An Eagle Mills correspondent says that at the series of religious meetings > at the M. E. Church there, they have a crowded house every night, and > many old hardened sinners are coming to repentance. > > A Zaleski correspondent of the Record says: Most of the men in the shops > were placed on six hours time last week. This sounds like "panic" but is > only temporary, and will last but a short time. > > A man named Dixon, living 8 miles from Allensville, came near bleeding to > death recently by accidentally severing his brachial artery by the > misdirection > of a knife with which he was in the act of killing a superannuated horse. > > What is the use to sing of going to a country where your "summer would > last all the year?" Havn't (sic) we got what the poet wished for? We have > the > potato bugs, snakes frogs, and daises in full bloom -- do you want more? -- > [Hamden Enterprise. > > The lecture of Rev. C. D. Barbour, was, says the Vinton Record, attended > by a crowded house last Saturday evening. A committee of five was > appointed to draft a suitable petition to be presented to the General > Assembly, > praying for the passage of a suitable local option law. > > The mail carrier between Hamden and Wilkesville lately started out on his > return trip obliviously drunk, and scattered portions of the mail matter > along > the road and finally fell out of the wagon himself, and was found by the > roadside in a blissful state of unconsciousness, his team completing the > trip unattended. > > Not a fractional part of the whole has been told of the great mineral > resources of this county. That there are both coal and iron in inexhaustable > (sic) quantities, is now a known and indisputable fact, lying dead, as it > were in the hills for the proper facilities to carry the same to market, > or manufacture the same into "pigs." -- {McArthur Enquirer. > > > > > > > > > > > > > >