 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
Robert Lynch, age 74, passed away after a protracted illness. The son of Seaward and Emma Blankenship Lynch he had worked in a steel mill in Ohio. Until he became sick he was an avid hunter and fisherman.
Keith Belt brought the message at the Burning Springs M. E. church.
Mr. & Mrs. Joe Pennington returned from camping up near Neola.
Next week is the Wirt County Fair and then on August 10 it is the Creston homecoming in the afternoon at the old school house. Everyone is welcome.
W. Harrison Schenerlein IV spent the weekend with his Aunt Anna at the home place in Creston as his mother and grandmother are attending to business in Chicago and his father was at Presque Isle.
Otis Leeland Shroyer III was indicted for breaking into the Wirt County High School. Before being forced to take up residence over in Doddridge County he and some of his friends were regular callers in Creston.
John Grey and his comely assistant were in Creston Saturday working on an internet satellite receiver.
Roger Godfrey was attending to business in Creston. Roger had been on the sick list.
Local residents, like many elsewhere, would consider the world wide presidential campaign great circus if it weren't serious. Who had ever heard of putting campaign slogans on the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem to impress voters in America? Then another Moslem half brother shows up in China selling trinkets to America as part of the movement to close down all American manufacturing. The cartoon on the elite magazine cover was supposed to show just how ignorant all us rednecks are supposed to be but the glib "would be Messiah who is bringing change" took offense at being dressed up like his Moslem relatives when he says he isn't even though many of his friends are active in the Nation of Islam. Someone said it seems that only Moslems and especially radical Moslems take offense at cartoons. It seems, especially now that "Silky Pony" Edwards was outed by the National Enquirer, that Her Thighness is just biding her time to "come to the rescue" because B. Hussein has yet to come up with proof that he was even born in America and thus could be disqualified. As they always say, "Truth is stranger than fiction and no one could have made all this up."
One of the U. S. Senators from Washington State said that her party was not about to allow drilling for oil offshore or in Alaska because it was the plan "to wean Americans off oil". One the problems those elitists have is that they have no concept of the problems ordinary citizens have when energy costs get out of kilter. They do not buy fertilizer which is now $1,000/ton nor do they have to worry about driving long distances for low wage jobs nor do they have to worry about the cost of corn for animal feed nor do they have to be concerned about increasing food prices or any such matter. They were the same folks who did away with the streetcars and passenger trains and now most cities and towns are just like Creston where there is, never was and never will be public transport. Back when Creston had excellent river transportation but someone, back in the new deal days, decided to let the locks & dams wash out as "everything here was worthless anyway."
The price of local Penn grade crude is now $118.50 and gasoline in Parkersburg could be purchased for $3.74/gallon.
It was learned that the 12" gas pipeline that Equitable said they were laying from Jackson County to Columbia's Cobb Station near Clendenin is actually going to go to the Tennessee Gas Transmission line (Tenneco).
Acadia/J. Howard Bass/ Winn Exploration sold their leases in Wirt County to Crown Appalachia Partners and TSAR-WV, LLC, whoever they are. The leasing companies have been picking up cheap acreage which they can sell for top dollar. Different folks have been driving up to the Wetzel County area to see the wells that brought lease bonus prices there to the $2,500/acre figure. The best well is said to be across the river from Proctor and has 2,800 lb rock pressure.
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