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 August 12, 1880 VINTON Hamden Furnace is now making an average of about ten tons of pig iron per day. The next Annual Session of the Vinton county Teachers' Institute will be held in McArthur, commencing Monday, August 30th, and continuing one week. William Stevens, of McArthur, died July 25th, he being past his eighty- seventh year. About a week prior to his death he fell from top of a fence and broke his leg in two places. The first through passenger train on the Ohio & West Virginia Railroad consisting of an engine, baggage car and one coach that ever catered in the incorporated limits of McArthur, passed through the village on Monday of last week. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson