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 23, 1881 VINTON A class of one lone student, Mr. Negley Jones, son of Hon. H. C. Jones, graduated at the late commencement of the McArthur Public Schools. One thousand two hundred and fifty dollars worth of prizes will be distributed among the lucky ticket holders in the Masonic Fair distribution at Zelaski which begins to-morrow. John Werle, who broke his leg about six weeks ago, had so far recovered as to be able to be out. While walking near an ore drift, recently, he slipped and fell, breaking the fracture anew. Sunday of last week, a saloon keeper, of Hamden, by the name of Ish, hit one McMannus on the head with a beer mallet, fracturing the skull, and from the effects of which it was thought he would die. A number of miscreants who have for a long time been engaged in the villainous practice of stoning passenger trains on the M. & C. road at Raysville have been caught and will doubtless be made to realize the legal punishment which their dastardly crime merits. A community of nomads numbering nineteen members, ranging in ages from the patriarch of four-score and two years, to the infant of but a few days, encamped at a point in Madison township where they managed to invest several farmers with the wrong end of the bargain in a number of horse trades. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson