 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
Keith Belt, who is to study for the ministry, gave the message Sunday evening at the Burning Springs M. E. church. Mr. & Mrs. Steve Lockhart also provided special singing.
Rain continues to be the rule in the Creston area. Earlier some hay got "well washed" and then hay harvest came to another halt. On Saturday Elizabeth had a bad storm blowing roofs from commercial buildings, placing trees on homes, campers and automobiles, etc. On Sunday afternoon a storm hit up Burning Springs Run doing the same with power outages, trees on houses and such.
W. Harrison Schenerlein IV and his parents were visiting at the Engelke residence in Creston and the youngster got his first experience holding a snake. When his other grandmother saw the picture she was terrified, fearing that the serpent would choke the youngster.
Anna Engelke and friends Adam, Jess & Kevin went hiking and picnicking along the Skyline Drive.
Don Rhodes was calling on Charles & Euell Russell the other day.
The state wide oil and gas leasing frenzy continues with lease bonuses and royalties going up but Chesapeake had a contract leaseman contact a local fellow and offered $5/acre for a ten year lease with a 1/8th net lease (after unspecified expenses, taxes, etc.). Mr. McClendon apparently is one who believes what that famous circus owner P. T. Barnum was want to often state that, "There's a sucker born every minute."
The price of July natural gas was set at $13.15 while the price of local Penn grade crude rose to $132.50/bbl. The August price on the NYMEX rose to $140.00.
Ohio Oil Gathering, one of the local oil haulers, and the owner of the former Eureka station at Brooksville, announced new prices for hauling oil and brine. For Wirt County the oil hauling price will be about $5/bbl with the price for Calhoun being $6.50/bbl. Brine hauling in Wirt will be $5.50 with Calhoun brine disposal costing $6.00.
It was learned that two spectacular wells have been drilled in Pendleton County and that the Marcellus shale is said to be at least 400' thick down where John D. Rockefeller IV has his Pocahontas County hideaway.
Those who have been out west report that the flooding there has destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of crops and corn has already gone above $8/bushel. This means that the days of cheap food are over for chickens, hogs and cattle eat corn and the price of feed has now gone up 3 fold and still the environmental "feel good" mandate for corn likker (ethanol) for a motor fuel remains in place.
The global warming charlatans have been saying that the polar ice cap has been getting thinner. Now it has been determined why as it was learned that there were some powerful volcanic eruptions in that section that would have, as they say, "stirred things up a little". Also the Antarctic ice sheet was the thickest this year since measurements have been taken.
The Creston correspondent is looking for a building contractor to build an addition to an office. Materials are already on site.
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