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 31, 1881 VINTON A new hotel is this season to be built near the railroad junction at Hamden. Miss Netti Wadsworth, an estimable young lady, of Mt. Pleasant, Swan township, is reported to be in the final stage of consumption. Nancy Jane McCarty has filed a petition in the common pleas of this county praying to be divorced from her husband, Samuel McCarty. Amos Strausbaug recently died very suddenly of measles, at his home near Wilkesville. His wife had died about three months before. He leaves four small orphan children. The net expenses of the Vinton county Infirmary for the past six months was $4,280. 47. The number of inmates in the institution is fifty-six, thirty-two males and twenty-four females. The McArthur Journal says: Oliver Hammond, of Richland township, who was arrested some time since charged with obtaining goods on false pretenses, was released last week, the evidence not sustaining the charge. Silas McKibbon lately arrested at Zaleski on a charge of bastardy preferenced by a Miss Jones, broke away from the Squire's office and mounting a horse that had been put in convenient waiting for him made a successful dash for liberty. The Vinton Record says: A farmer, residing about two miles from this town, came to McArthur on Saturday last and hurriedly inquired for a physician, whom he found, requesting him to come at once, that his daughter had been suddenly taken with a severe case of measles. The doctor went, but by the time he reached the bed side of the sufferer, the crisis of the "disease" had passed. The measles had developed into a first class big baby. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson