| By Alvin Engelke
 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The Creston Community Adopt-a-Highway cleanup had to be postponed because of rain. It will be rescheduled soon. The first auction of the season will be held Saturday Sept 4 and the regular meeting will be Tuesday, September 7 to plan for the poker run on Sept 25.
The old song that Theresa used to sing was about someone who burned the little roadside tavern down. Well the details were not quite the same but someone took a track hoe and shoved what was known as either "Rader's Place" or the "Rail" over the hill and set it afire.
Many years ago the popular Annamoriah establishment was run by the late Howard Rader. The gendarmes at Grantsville liked to come down and round up all the patrons and lodge them in the Calhoun County Jail. One day they made two raids. In the first raid they took one brother and in the second they other one was hauled off. When they saw each other in the pokey the one asked the other, "What are you doing in here? Who is going to milk the cow this evening; you know mom isn't able to get her in and milk her?"
Some folks are building a new home up in Honey Run.
Rev. Juanita Lockhart filled her regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church. Rev. Carlos Nutter will come next week and there will be communion.
The Elizabeth gendarmes had a traffic stop in Elizabeth the other day and apprehended two Detroit gentlemen and a stripper from Huntington. Seems their destination was a trailer just down W. Va. 5 from Creston that was rented by a man who was a star witness in Tattoo Vice's murder trial in Roane County. [He was there at the time.]
At least one stolen gun was recovered as well as crack cocaine, cocaine and other drugs. One would hope that the powers that be down at the Mouth of the Elk River would take law enforcement seriously. Folks who live over at Ovapa in Clay County are now subjected to regular gun battles among some of the folks associated with Tattoo Vince and since these folks have bad aim likely those killed would likely be innocent bystanders. There have been numerous reports concerning various of these items in several local newspapers.
Some of the folks down at the Mouth of Elk River are being kept busy with "ethics complaints". One of the gentlemen decided to go out of state for a few days (he was sick) after it was said that he had a state employee back date a letter. Another has a little problem after it was noted he voted to send $750,000 of taxpayer money to a golf course that he had loaned a few $million. Mr. Graham the senior citizen man who had to scrape by on $400,000 plus benefits has his own private State Senator (that he has on the payroll) and his man is up for reelection so that the good times can continue to roll. "The Boys" want to make sure that the decades long uninterrupted reign of power not be modified or broken.
The boys down at the Mouth of the Elk River had weight limits raised to 80,000 (plus 10%) or actually 88,000 everywhere as well as the 120,000 loads for the poor coal companies that might have to join the Rockefeller family and move to Columbia.
However, someone decided to drop the hammer on local loggers (and even Wally World) by enforcing and lowering the limits on local bridges. The bridge at Annamoriah now has a limit for small trucks (the ones the local small operations have). Of course the bridge across Slate has been bad for several years but replacement (since it was let deteriorate) had to be postponed because of political reasons.
Mr. & Mrs. Glen E. Arthur and Mr. & Mrs. Ricky Tucker were among those calling on C. Glen Arthur.
It seems that the Catsup Boy is very upset that anyone would question his word about his deeds of daring do and he wants someone to make those nasty boys stop. A family member from Pittsburgh was in for a reunion and she did not have anything positive to add either for him or his super-rich widow wife.
The mystery of the card in Alvin Engelke's gum boot was solved. Seems Kathy Collins dropped off a planter full of "Old Hen & Chickens" for Jane's shower. While the card is "lost forever" the planter is now located on Jane's patio much to Jane's delight.
Mr. & Mrs. Dale J. Schrader, Angie Grimmett and sons Ethan & Austin were calling on Dorothy and P. E. Graham on Sunday. Last week Steve Graham who works for the City of Parkersburg was calling as was his son Jason and his wife and two children Rylee, aged 2 ½ and
Tara, aged 3 months. Jason just finished up a hitch in the Navy and now works for 84 Lumber. This was the first time Dorothy had seen little Tara.
Alvin Engelke attended the Hopkins reunion in Vienna and on the way home he stopped to see cousin Doris Webb Hertz. She recalled when her father took her to see Red Roy Hildreth.
Mary Reno held a birthday party for Amy N. Ferrell at her house in Ravenswood.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude (the best) fell to $44.50/bbl. over the weekend. Recent natural gas prices ranged from 20 cents (Allegheny Power), $3.30 (Columbia) to $6.95 (Riley). The first two prices are per MCF (volume) while the third is DTH (quality). Much of the gas sold by the domestic gas utilities operated by Dominion and Columbia come from old wells that do not have percentage royalties paid so there should be plenty of good questions to ask at the rate hearings. Historically the PSC has taken a view that they are to protect the out of state companies from West Virginia customers or, restated, money talks. Columbia declines to meter their old wells saying it would take too many meters and cost too much.
The last day to file for farm use will be August 31 which is also the last day for the discount on first half taxes.
The last day to file for farm use will be August 31 which is also the last day for the discount on first half taxes.
Noble & Betty Rae McFarland, Steve & Mitzi McFarland, Dave McFarland & Libby Jordan, Rick, Kathy & Nick Pullins, Travis, Kerry Locie & Brayden Lucas, Josh & Darby McFarland were all at the residence of Denver & Tammy McFarland Sunday for a cookout. All enjoyed a great visit & yummy food.
Danny, the Roane miniature stud horse that lives out on the ridge at Hur, got word that there was a filly needing him and he jumped into a trailer and went off for a few days to visit. Of course his humans thought he had been stolen as he did not leave a note that he was leaving for the business that he would do best. They were relieved to find out that he had a trailer backed up so he could be unloaded back into his own field. It was noted that he seemed very glad to be back home.
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