 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
Some local folks attended Easter sunrise services although locally the skies were overcast and rainy. Charles Russell also visited with brother Euell at the Miletree center.
Parris Parsons noted that Euell celebrated his birthday with a big party including dancing girls, etc.
Josiah Carl Ferrell-McAbee arrived at 11 'til 7 on March 28. He weighed 7 lb. 11oz and was 21" long. Both mother and baby are doing fine.
It was reported that heavy equipment was being used to repair the Woodring Road after Jackson Timbering cut the Dihm place up above Mile Run along the river.
The Wirt road crew mowed and cut trees, locusts and such along the Little Creek road. They even cut down Sylvester Kirby's pear tree that had been providing pedestrians with pears for at least 75 years. Apparently there are those that prefer sun baked roads [to dry up the mudholes, they always said]. This writer remembers the worst he was ever hung up was on top of a ridge with almost no trees. Luckily there was a sapling that he could use to attach a chain and a come along to winch out.
Bessie Arthur reported that she now has new windows upstairs in her home.
The Creston auction will be held Saturday, April 6, starting at 6 P. M. at the Creston Community Building. Come and tell about all the gobblers you have been listening to, tell of the big muskies you drug out of the river and if the ramps are up in your neighborhood, etc.
Local residents & those who work in Creston report being stopped by a member of the Department of Public Safety who "has an attitude". There is a song "Attitude Adjustment". Some years back the town cop in Grantsville had one of those and afterwards he was lots friendlier.
I. J. Lynch, Sr. was attending to business in Elizabeth.
There have been lots of squirrels out on the highways recently, some of which had bad accidents. Many hope they would stay in the woods so they could be harvested in the fall to go with sweet 'taters, biscuits and squirrel gravy.
Many who had money in banks in Cyprus lost 60% of their money in the grab demanded by the U. S. funded IMF. With more of U. S. rules being turned over to the United Nations and other international groups, such gets much more likely here each day. Hillary worked hard to get the UN to ban gun ownership and such was/is to be enforced in America. Certainly we live in scary times ruled by those who, as they say, march to different drummers. The new educational core programs are scary with the federals "data mining" young children in public schools. Certainly it is long past time for the federal government being put out of the "education" business.
Some local natural gas fetched all of $2.73 for February production. The liquids recovered in the fractionation plant would yield more than that so, to the buyers, the natural gas was actually free.
Former state road summer employee Craig "Sleepy" Mills came back to West Virginia after a 10 year stint in Gotham and now works for Jan Dils.
Missy Ferrell who now lives in Pittsburgh was visiting Mr. & Mrs. Carl Ferrell and family.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude oil rose o $97.63 with drip [Appalachian light sweet] fetching $86.54 with Marcellus & Utica light at $92.19 and medium $99.13/bbl.
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