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 7, 1881 VINTON Frank Lowry, aged 15, while bathing in Raceoon (sic) Creek, near Vales Mill on Sunday afternoon of last week, was drowned. It is sought to have David Gregory, pardoned who was sent to the Penitentiary from this county, for the killing of Dalton. A sheep owned by John Turner and David Turner, of Knox township yielded a fleece this season weighing nearly twenty-six pounds. Charles Cline, son of Jamison Cline, of Knox township, recently accidentally shot himself with a rifle and very nearly escaped fatal injuries. An old man named John Loving, residing a short distance north-west of Hamden, was found dead by the roadside, Thursday. Supposed heart disease. A son, 21 months old, of a Mr. Wing, in Vinton township is officiated with a strange ailment. About 6 months ago a blotch or discoloration of the skin, appeared on the child, and the blotch has since moved from the calf of the leg to the nap of the neck, and downward again to its present location, just below the hip. The physicians were not long in determining it a worm --- something similar to the Guinea worm, which frequently afflicts inhabitants of that hot country. It lies curled, crossed and curved in different directions in the tissues of the skin, and takes up a space of three or four inches diameter. The length of the worm is many feet, and about the thickness of the smallest string of a violin. It has been known to move a distance of six inches in a single night. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson