(Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson) Athens Messenger January 12, 1888 VINTON A post office was established at Bee, Vinton county, and Samuel S. Duffy appointed post master. The eighteenth birth anniversary of Miss Hattie Snyder, of McArthur, was pleasantly celebrated socially at her home on a recent night by a large assembly of her young friends.