 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The Creston area neighborhood watch will have a litter pickup on Saturday, November 1. For details folks can contact Donna Sue. They will need some more volunteers to make the cleanup job quicker.
There was a big crowd in Creston Saturday evening on the occasion of the annual Halloween party. There were ninja, ninja turtles, butterflies, a hamburger, dinosaurs, care bears, ghoulish critters, zombies, pretty witches, cats, very ugly witches and one young lad who did an excellent presentation of the "Hulk". A meal was served after the judging and then there were hayrides. One clown won a blue ribbon.
Rev. Keith Belt filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church.
Some local folks have taken advantage of early voting. Folks are reminded that the big day is Tuesday, November 4. Creston folks in Wirt County now vote at the Community Building while Creston folks in Calhoun County must motor to Mt. Zion to cast their ballots.
Local folks who were down at the Mouth of the Elk saw Broadway Joe who apparently fetched some new marching orders from the Big Eared One to Earl Ray and his toadies in the legislature. The other U. S. Senator, the little Rockefeller boy, held a $32,400/plate fundraiser for the Big Eared One at his opulent mansion in Washington Dee Cee.
Jack Boggs continues to do well after his surgery. Edith Kittle noted that in one place it was stated that Jack had "ear surgery" which, of course, was not at all the case.
Charles Russell was attending to business in Spencer and was calling on Ray Gumm, Mr. & Mrs. Parris Parsons and brother Euell.
Several area residents are descended from the Davis family that settled in the Salem area in the late 1700s. The history & genealogy book has been reprinted and is available from the Salem & Greenbrier SDB Cemetery Association at P. O. Box 72, Salem, West Virginia 26426-0072 for $79.00.
Jacques Frost was calling in the Creston area.
Some while back the Big Eared One said, "You didn't build that!" Well now his would be successor, Madame Hillary said that businesses do not create jobs. They are both devotees of Saul Alinsky who dedicated his book "Rules for Radicals" to Lucifer.
Common Core and the lack of the availability of quality education in West Virginia continues to be a major problem. Now the state is spending lots of education money to fight lawsuits brought by Jorea Marple who would otherwise be known as Mrs. Darrell McGraw. At the recent regional Society of Petroleum Engineers meeting down at the Mouth of the Elk it was noted that all the students in the WVU program appeared to be foreign. For certain, common core math would make sure that very, very few, if any West Virginia students could master the subject matter. Of course to keep current, let alone move forward scientists, chemists and engineers are critical. The school system apparently abhors quality and promotes "self esteem, diversity and multiculturalism".
Gas produced on Chestnut Run in September fetched just $1.65/MMBTU (dekatherm). Apparently domestic gas customers do not get much benefit from this low price.
One of Noble Energy's new wells in Doddridge County is said to be making 800 bbl/day of condensate or drip gasoline. This is in addition to the natural gas and the natural gas liquids.
Local cattlemen are putting out magnesium blocks so that the cattle that are eating very watery grass will not come down with grass tetany.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude dropped to $80.01/bbl with drip fetching only $57.51, Marcellus & Utica light $74.01 and medium $80.01/bbl. Of course an increase in production [supply] has had an impact on price but the global and national financial uncertainty is said to be causing havoc in the energy and other markets. It is generally felt that the Big Eared One has created a bubble with "funny money" to fuel the stock exchange and many fear that the bubble will burst like it did with the Clinton's "dot-com" bubble.
Local residents have been having to deal with the Asiatic beetles and some of the new government stink bugs. Bill & Hillary brought us the so called ladybugs to protect the pecan crop from aphids. There are at least two pecan trees in Wirt County but neither of them bear nuts.
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