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 February 10, 1881 VINTON John Galigher a resident of Jackson township recently sustained a broken thigh by a fall on the ice. David Cooper, of McArthur, has fallen heir to between $40,000 and $50,000 by the death of an uncle in Ireland. Tommy Padden, brakeman on the O. & W. Va. railway recently had his hand crushed in coupling cars at Union Furnace this county. Joseph Butt, an old resident of Wilkesonville township, recently went to Pittsburgh on business and soon after his arrival there, died, suddenly, of disease of the stomach. Mrs. Foreaker, of Jackson township, while attempting to cross Salt Creek, on a recent day, three miles above Eagle Mills, missed her footing and was carried under the ice and drowned. James Josephs, of this county, recently had his betrothed "go back on him" after he obtained the license to marry her. Nothing daunted, he returned the document to the Probate Court. Had it exchanged for a license to marry another girl and departed seemingly happy. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson