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 July 8, 1880 VINTON The Army worm is reported to have widely infested the Raccoon Creek region in this county. Clinton township, this county, has a population of sixteen hundred, and the town of Hamden about six hundred and fifty. Rev. R. G. Lewis, the Presbyterian minister at Hamden Junction, has resigned his charge at the place and moved to Chillicothe. Ida Petty, a daughter of the late George L. Petty, of Hamden, died in a fit at the residence of Mrs. Paine, near this town, on Thursday night last week. Mr. Ira Bell, recent editor of the McArthur Journal, has severed his connection with that paper, to accept a position in the Vinton Record office. The McArthur Enquirer says, that during the storm last Friday forenoon lightning struck four of the poles of the Hamden and McArthur telegraph line and came rushing along the wires into this office, knocking the operator, G. W. Dalton, off a high stool to the floor, in the middle of the room Transcribed by Joyce Robinson