 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
Euell Russell has been a patient for the past week at Minnie Hamilton Health System in Grantsville. He is much improved.
Last Sunday evening someone took his or her chariot and rearranged the guardrail where one turns into Creston. The automobile was hauled off on a rollback but several parts were left next to the modified guardrail.
W. Harrison Schenerlein IV spent a few days visiting the grandparents in Creston.
Margie Boggs who had been down with the influenza was able to return to her employment with the postal service. Several people have been very ill with the new strain that was not impacted by the vaccine. Some years back "a health care expert" now a presidential wannabees, instituted new rules that shut down the production of flu vaccine in America. In political speak that would be called "providing jobs". Of course since the vaccine had to be prepared overseas, the jobs were elsewhere.
Teddy Parsons noted that with the cold weather the cattle were eating lots of hay. Now it has warmed again, the snow melted and there is more mud. Robins & some buzzards have returned. There have been lots of hay bales hauled up and down Route 5 & round bales now often fetch $65 each.
Lionel L. Smith, age 95, was laid to rest at Uler on Sunday. He had been in a truck wreck earlier in February [He was driving] & he died of complications from the wreck.
There was no Creston auction Saturday evening as Bobby Ray Starcher was blocked in his driveway in Oil City with the latest snowstorm. They have a real problem there believing Al Gore's "Global Warming" hocus pocus.
Mr. & Mrs. Carl Ferrell, Jeremy and Alvin were attending to business in Grantsville. They also dined in a famous eatery there and visited with F. B. Barr and the comely Melinda Wolverton.
Some military aircraft flew over Creston recently.
Several local residents are concerned that the debating society down at the Mouth of the Elk will ban four wheelers from state roads thus shutting down ATV poker runs and other groups & individuals who use local roadways for recreation. The bill passed the senate and is to be taken up in the house this week.
The folks down at the Mouth of the Elk decided that the "Surface Owner's bill" needed additional study and held it off until next year. It was learned that the state County Commissioners group voted unanimously to oppose the bill which would give landowners some input as to the location of well sites, roads, pits and tanks. They had listened to a presentation by the folks who are spending millions to "promote the good works of the Slippery Oil & Gas Company."
The owners of Lear Jets and similar luxury craft have apparently been granted a personal property tax break and others have said it would be good for the "little people" in the state to help the "poor out of state firms" who are forced to pay on their personal property taxes.
Chesapeake has purchased the land at the head of Bee Lick where their basement test in Roane County is to be drilled. The well will be horizontal below the Trenton/Black River & will extend out past the Nichols Rocks at the head of Little Left Hand. A Chesapeake spokesperson said they did not want to agree to pay royalties based on an arm's length sale of the natural gas produced from their wells.
While the world price of crude oil rose to over $103 the price of local crude dropped 75 cents over the weekend to $95.75/bbl. Mark Rich who purchased a pardon a few years ago is a bulk commodities trader in addition to being the former owner of Ravenswood Aluminum & George Soros the currency manipulator who promoted the McCain-Feingold law is or has financed all the current presidential candidates. Both, of course, have interests in the current election.
Electile dysfunction continues to plague local residents. Sen. McVain gave a Republican "what for" because he mentioned the word Hussein which is the middle name of "articulate candidate" who won 10 straight Democrat primaries.
Her Thighness released a picture of Obama in tribal warrior dress, including a turban, taken when he was visiting his relatives over in the African jungle and the "articulate candidate", after slamming NAFTA to blue collar workers in Ohio, called up folks in Canada and reassured them that he was just pandering to folks who didn't know any better & that he meant the Canadians no harm.
On the local political scene the sheriff's race has become hot between the two undertakers who, someone pointed out should be the likely candidates since "they both know how to dispose of bodies." Another pointed out that another is in the well business and he knows where to put bodies so that they, never again, will see the light of day. In a more serious vein, well-placed individuals in Elizabeth have echoed the local folks who wonder why the others in the Brent Butler murder case are not being charged.
Anna Engelke, Paul Geibler, "Scheny" Schenerlein & wife Jane Engelke spent a few days in Las Vegas this week. It was an R & R for Scheny after a successful state wrestling championship for Parkersburg High School and his win of the state coach of the year award.
They stayed in "Paris", visited Jane's friend Danielle Welling, Scheny's brother Bob and his Aunt Beta and did not encounter any of the ricin that has made the news there.
Paul won 5th place in a poker tournament & Anna won a big $40 on the penny slots. Jane & Anna had facials and they all enjoyed food, glitz, glamour & "stars" that are part of the Vegas scene.
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