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 March 4m 1880 VINTON John Bethel, an esteemed farmer of Harrison township, recently died of neuralgia of the heart. Mr. Frank Strong, an esteemed citizen of McArthur, has gone to prospect for a new house in Kansas. Harvey Dozer, a Justice of the Peace, of Harrison township, has sold his farm and is about to remove west. Samuel Hill, a coal miner, was seriously injured Saturday morning by the falling of slate in a coal bank at Zaleski, in which he was employed. Mrs. Bishop, wife of Harvey Bishop, of Jackson township, died Sunday morning of last week, of typhoid fever and rheumatism of the heart. On Thursday evening last in the Court House Hall in McArthur, Rev. C. D. Barbour began a series of five lectures, the subject of the first one being: "Struggles and Triumphs of Temper-perance." (sic) A building used for storage and belonging to Dr. Wolf, of McArthur, was burned early Wednesday morning of last week and from which the Dr.'s residence, adjoining, narrowly escaped destruction. A new frame dwelling built and occupied by the family of Dr. J. C. Pendergrass, in Knox township, was undermined by the late protracted wet weather and the family in consequence were compelled to vacate and the house torn down. George Miller, aged fourteen, was caught by a revolving shaft Saturday morning in Cozzens & Faulkner's flouring-mill at Hamden, tearing nearly all the clothes from from (sic) his body, breaking the bones in one foot and bruising both badly. The McArthur Journal asks: Can't McArthur and Richland township persuade the M. & C. R. R., to change the track from a point south- west of Zaleski and run directly through McArthur to Richland Furnace, Raysville or Londonberry? It would save some eight or nine miles of track, open a new field and be of great benefit to McArthur and Vinton county. The Hamden Enterprise prefaces the report of an interview which a representative of that paper had with a female resident of this county who is 108 years old: Vinton county has living within her limits an old lady named Nancy Moore, who is, we think, the oldest woman in the State of Ohio. She lives four miles south-west of Wilkesville. Our reporter visited her last Friday afternoon at her home and onterviewed her as to her age. He found her domiciled in a little log house about twelve by fourteen. He rapped, and a voice within, clear and distinct, told him to enter and he soon had the pleasure of grasping the hand of a woman who had witnessed the rise and progress of our country from the Revolution down to the present time. She was born in May, 1773. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson