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 June 24, 1880 VINTON Benj. F. Johnson, near McArthur lately bought about two thousand head of sheep in Athens county. Superintendent J. D. Brown of the Zaleski Schools is utilizing his vacation by topographical surveying. A little son of John W. Wilcox, a former resident of Hamden but now of Marysville, Union county, recently met his death by drinking from a cup of hot water which he reached from the stove. Mr. William McKever, a young man living in Berlin this county, received, perhaps, a fatal injury recently falling while being hoisted from the bottom of a coal shaft on the Annie McGee farm, about one mile and a half northwest of here. A small boy named Jenkins, says the Hamden Enterprise, living near Raysville, tried the foolish experiment last Sunday afternoon of seeing how near he could stand to the railroad track while the fast line cast was passing, without it striking him. He stood so close that when the engine came to him the cross-beam of the pilot struck him in the breast inflicting such severe injuries that it is hardly possible for him to recover. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson