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 3, 1881 VINTON Wm. Amerine, living in Swan township, this county, while recently engaged in chopping down a tree it commenced falling, and before he could get clear of it fell upon him, mashing his leg badly just below the knee. Measels seems to have taken the form of an epidemic in the vicinity of McArthur. There were last week about twenty-five cases at Eagle Furnace, a few miles south of that place and there were also a number of cases reported in the town. A bastardy case which had been agitating the community of McArthur for some time, last week culminated by the plaintiff, a blooming lass of forty-two summers, an inmate of the County Infirmary, named Catherine Matheny, getting out a warrant against Robert Lyons, a young farmer of Elk township, charging him with being the father of her unborn child. The case was settled by Lyons paying her $25 and giving bond to maintain the child. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson