| By Alvin Engelke
 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The Creston Adopt-a-Highway will be held Saturday, September 18. Willing workers should show up at 8 A. M. at the Creston Community Building for breakfast and then the pickup will happen.
The Creston ATV poker run will be held Saturday, September 25 starting at the Creston Community Building. The earlier in the morning one gets there the earlier one can start the route. It should be a fun route. Rod Lynch mailed out post cards to those who had been at earlier Creston poker runs.
Bernstein Cooper, age 91, who lived down at Pineville passed away. The son of the late Howard & Jane Cooper of Little Creek was a retired employee of Godfrey L. Cabot.
Chester Fluharty, age 80, passed away as a result of complications of Alzheimer's disease. Before going to the extended care unit of Minnie Hamilton he had made his home with his son & wife at Annamoriah.
Margie Hall of Burning Springs has been on the sick list.
Rev. Juanita Lockhart filled her regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church.
Mr. & Mrs. Carl Ferrell & family were visiting Mary Reno at Ravenswood.
Marlene Vineyard who lives near Arnoldsburg did a good thing the other day and killed one of the coyotes that someone fetched in on us. It was watching her cattle.
At the regular Creston Community Building meeting the officers were reelected and routine business was discussed. It was learned that the hardware for the swing set was not in the box and the vendor was going to resolve matters. Chances are being sold on a "Poker Run Pig" which is really cute.
Don Runyan of Albany Ohio is logging on Honey Run. He is hauling fine logs out every day. He was surprised to find out that the W. Va. Division of Forestry caught up with him. He has a reputation for only taking butt logs and once stated, "I wouldn't buy a gallon of diesel fuel or even a Twinkie in West Virginia." Likely another logger will do well cleaning up and the landowner may get more for the blocking than he did for the high dollar logs.
Local residents have been trying to keep track of their relatives and friends in Florida and other sections struck by hurricanes and the storms spawned by them. Because of downed telephone lines and such in Florida several folks lost contact with loved ones for several long days. Now, the new storm the big Russian, Ivan, may head for this area. One would have thought that he'd have stayed with his big commie friend "Fido" down in Cuba.
Elliot White received word from a poor damsel in Vero Beach Florida that Frances came through with wind gusts of 105 mph and her husband and brother-in-law both slept through the storm and were of no help to her at all. Now the reason they were of no help is unknown but some of the buddies from West Virginia have a pretty good idea what the problem was.
The Grim family held their reunion on 9/11 at the Creston Community Building. Some family members could not make it back from Florida as they were cleaning up from the last storm and getting ready for the next one. Those who were there reported a good crowd and a great time.
Mr. & Mrs. Arlan Edmundson who now live in Arizona and Mr. & Mrs. George Engelke of Tennessee were visiting at the Engelke residence on the occasion of Jane Engelke's wedding party. Others visiting were Anna Engelke, Keith Collins, Matt Enders, of Virginia, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Martin, Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Martin and children Mr. & Mrs. David Welch and Mr. & Mrs. Rick Rogy from Peoria Illinois, and Mr. and Mrs. Todd Rhodes, Mr. and Mrs. Tim Rhodes and children of North Carolina. Jane missed her own party as she came down with the flu.
Euell Russell, Mr. & Mrs. Glen Edward Arthur and Mr. & Mrs. Don Rhodes were among those calling on C. Glen Arthur.
Mr. & Mrs. Randy Miller motored to Pennsylvania to purchase a log truck but the selection was thin, as no end of trucks had been sent south for cleanup in Florida. While up in he Keystone State they did see porcupines and elk, which was a treat for the whole family.
A number of local residents saw the president when he spoke recently in Parkersburg. It was said that there were 18,000 on hand for the speech. On leaving the stadium there were some rag tag protesters who looked like, as grandmother Cottrill used to say, "members of Coxey's Army", a 19th century group that wanted government handouts, which apparently went ("marched") through the area where she grew up. Many of them claimed to be Civil War veterans who said they were "needy".
One protester had a sign about leaving no billionaires behind. He came unglued when advised that the Catsup Boy's wife is the only billionaire in the race. He said, "All oil men were billionaires". Of course, there is another billionaire deeply involved in the campaign and that is George Soros who has spent over $25 million on '527' groups including MoveOn. which is the outfit that did the Hitler comparison. While Soros is known as a currency manipulator he is also spending a lot of money to increase public acceptance of heroin and cocaine use.
Speaking of drugs, the annual crop harvesting program has been in force again as helicopters and ground crews of big strong men go out and about and harvest patches of wacky terbaccy that are grown in the open.
Dan Blather seems to have stepped in it when he announced that documents written in word on a computer using times new roman type (just like this) were alleged to have been written on a typewriter in 1973 to a fellow who had retired in 1972, etc bad mouthing the president. Some in the big media will stoop and do anything to advance their cause. With the internet and cable networks, though, their monopoly is broken. Likely their stock will soon be worth as much that in Ace Buggy Whip Co. One can log on to the CPUSA site and find that they and Mr. Blather both are backing the same man for president. That, of course, speaks volumes.
It was learned that both the Sassy Storekeeper and the Shaffer feller took off work last week. It had been reported earlier that he was cleaning out his house, perhaps for a new bride. Time will tell.
The Funchester Group went down to Virginia Beach the other day for an outing. They were dining on Pizza in Winchester, VA this weekend.
Billy Butler noted that, contrary to earlier reports, he was not in the hospital.
Linda Ferrell was visiting area relatives and friends recently.
Nancy Engelke was consulting with Dr. Seen in Spencer.
The Rev. S. E. Cooper, Jr. took his new lawnmower and went up the Richardsonville Road to check on a haymaking operation. Jim Bush and Dean Miller teamed up to put up a whole bunch of hay before Frances soaked the local area. The rain made area fields green and, unlike elsewhere, there was no flooding.
Fearful of being blocked in, Creston postmaster Ida Wager was an overnight guest of Mr. & Mrs. Dexter Wager of Brohard.
The price of local Penn grade crude fell over the weekend to $39.25/bbl while July gas fetched $6.34/dth [dekatherm]. Terry Pegula's East Resources received $9.96/mcf [thousand cubic feet] for gas produced in May out on Clover Ridge in Roane County. Lease activity has become intense in certain areas with lots of players looking for acreage to drill and to peddle to others.
The Wirt County Farm Bureau will hold its regular monthly meeting Tuesday, September 21 at 8 P. M. at the road garage in Elizabeth. Plans for the annual meeting in October will be discussed as well as resolutions for the resolutions committee meeting at Jackson's Mill.
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