| By Alvin Engelke
 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The Creston area neighborhood watch meeting will be held Monday, October 16 at 6 P. M. at the Creston Community Building. There will be some lawmen there as well as some folks who have help organize watches in other communities. All local residents should try to attend.
Keith Belt brought the message for Rev. Juanita Lockhart at the Burning Springs M. E. church.
Pam Menefee, mother of Mia Rhodes and Charley Menefee, passed away at the home of her daughter Rebecca up in Ohio. Services and burial were there.
Tom Bell. who had not been doing well, passed away up in Ohio. Tom always wanted to move back to Creston but his wife wanted to stay up in the Buckeye state.
There was a good turnout for the Grim reunion which was held Saturday at the Creston Community Building. There was lots of good food and fellowship and some special hotdogs from Pennsylvania were served to attendees. Rev. Gladson Grim was among those who were able to attend and he sat by Charles Russell who won a door prize.
Jacob Donley was an overnight guest of Tammy & Denver McFarland and they all attended the Grim reunion. Afterwards they attended Braydon Lucas' 4th birthday party.
Vera White, Jerry Campbell, Whistle McIntyre, Lewis Jones, Pearl Bollinger, Elmer Mills, Casper Shuman, Bernard Nicholas, Delbert & Mike Bunner, Duane Carper and James C. Tucker were among those attending to business in Creston over the weekend including the Creston auction. Those at the auction stocked up on cheese & pepperoni as well as getting to partake of local desserts, beans & cornbread, etc.
Several area residents participated in the Pioneer Day celebration in Elizabeth. Some folks even ran onto relatives they didn't know about. The food was good, the sun shone brightly, there was fine music and all sorts of displays, etc. and those who were there considered the activity a success.
The United States Department of Agriculture's Asiatic beetles have returned to plague are residents again. Considering that Jimmy Carter has such a big reputation as a humanitarian, one would think that he would get his buddy Hugo Chavez and gather the pests up that he had introduced.
Since this is political season and some feel that all the world's problems, including America's lowest unemployment rate are the president's fault, it is worthwhile to note that on October 7, 1571, the forces of Christendom in Europe destroyed the Islamic navy at the Battle of Lepanto and killed 25,000 Moslem warriors. While the Europeans lost 8,000 men they were able to free 12,000 Christians that had been used by the Mohammedans as galley slaves. America certainly wasn't the reason the Moslems were fighting the west back then.
A FWD crew cab decided to turn around in Jack Nutter's yard the other day and then, when a neighbor was spotted on his porch a car that had come out to his house quickly shifted into reverse and backed all the way back to W. Va. 5 at the top of the Creston hill. It was noted that mixing a few armor piercing shells in one's magazine will deal effectively with engine blocks and if someone decides to get real fancy, one can always use a little tracer ammo to light up those "dark of night operations".
The other evening someone ran their four-wheeler through Joe Miller's lawn and wrecked but before he could get out with the immobilizer they set their chariot up and high tailed it for safer environs.
One of the "brighter bulbs" in the US Postal Service decided that the empty mail containers should not be sent back to the big post offices each day but all should be returned on Saturday. Of course there was a shortage of containers and several of the mail carriers didn't have vehicles large enough to haul such large amounts of material. Whoever this is puts one to mind of Abernathy the postal "wizard" who decided that it was only safe to deliver rural mail on roads that had painted center lines that didn't go up steep hills, etc.
John Bingman fetched back some fine potatoes from over on the other side of the Ohio River.
Steve Graham was calling on P. E. Graham who had been consulting with his physician.
Underwood and the Heavy Maintenance Crew, along with the Wirt road crew were fixing the bad place just up Right Reedy from the Rover bridge. They wanted it duly noted that they were working for the taxpayers. When they were advised that Jimmy Matheny and the Calhoun crew were working up the Richardsonville road they wondered just what the Hooner's were doing and there were even suggestions about a fall harvest.
Speaking of harvest, a significant number of bushytails were harvested on opening day of squirrel season. There will be lots of squirrel gravy to go over biscuits and baked sweet potatoes.
The Creston correspondent was on his way to see the high sheriff in Elizabeth when he found himself in a line of traffic waiting for a vehicle to make a left turn. All of a sudden he felt a bump in the back. He discovered that when Glen Merrill tried to stop his Buick the brakes failed and hit the truck's rear bumper. Sheriff A. C. Cheuvront was obliged to come and fill out paperwork while passersby gawked at the activity.
Those who follow events that could reflect end times might note that it has apparently been determined that descendents of the Tribe of Manasseh were found living in India and are now getting to return to Israel. The ten northern tribes were carried away by the Assyrians and have been referred to as the lost tribes ever since [for 2,700 years or so]
It was understood that Artex is to start drilling in Dooleyville this month although it is not known if there will be free gas. The fall in the wholesale price of natural gas has caused some new wells to be shut in.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude oil fell to $55.50/bbl.
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