 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The Creston auction with Col. Dave Dobbins will he held Friday, November 7, starting t 6 P. M. at the Creston Community Building. Please note that this is a change of date. Come and check out the special Creston hot dog sauce , catch up on all the local gossip, get some good deals and find out where all the trophy bucks are to be found.
There will be a Veterans Day event at the Creston Community Building on Sunday, November 9 starting at 2 P. M. All veterans, their friends and family are invited to attend. America is a free nation because of the brave that served and all veterans deserve to be honored & be respected. Some of the "leaders" down in the swamps of the lower Potomac loathe the military.
The regular business meeting of the Creston Community Building will be held Tuesday, November 11 at 7 P. M. at the Creston Community Building. The meeting was moved because the community building is being used as a polling place on Tuesday, November 4, the regular meeting day.
Folks are reminded that Tuesday, November 4 is election day and folks need to get out and vote as our state and nation face serious problems and with the spread of disease one might say that one should vote because it is a matter of life and death.
Enterovirus EV-D68 is now nationwide and has killed 9 children and left 50 paralyzed. Hundreds of children have been in ICU and it is believed that the virus came across the Mexican border and was spread when the Big Eared One disbursed "the children" throughout the nation without them being checked for contagious diseases. One might say something akin to biological warfare took place.
Nancy Engelke & Joan Schenerlein returned after spending a week visiting Rea and W. Harrison Schenerlein IV in Florida.
J. P. & A. C. Marks, Mary & Greg Newton, Cap'n & Mrs. Spock were calling on Mr. & Mrs. Cooter Marks at Millstone.
November has now come and there has not been a killing frost in Creston. On Saturday one fellow was even picking green beans over on the Hughes River.
Charles Russell was calling on Mr. & Mrs. Parris Parsons, Ray Gumm and brother Euell at Miletree. Edith Kittle's roommate, Gladys. Cain, was scheduled for a "Cat Scan" but one local Crestonite volunteered to have Calico come over and do a once over.
A lawsuit in Pittsburgh brought to light that some while back Triad Hunter had drilled Marcellus wells in Ohio across the river from the Axiall brine processing facility at Natrium. Apparently the frac in the Marcellus got into the brine formation and at least one brine well became a gas well creating problems for the company's operations. Speaking of brine from oil & gas wells many wonder why it isn't used to treat highways and/or boiled down as a source of salt and other chemicals. Salt brine was the basis for the chemical business in the Kanawha valley. Recently the State of Ohio was obliged to import road salt from the Kingdom of Morocco as there is a shortage in the nation.
Mabel Justice, age 102, of Reedy passed away. She was the daughter of Lanty & Maude Mollohan and was preceded in death by three husbands, Ray Postalwait, Herman Courtney & Linzy Justice. She lived for some years in Creston.
It was learned that one fellow received a bonus of $8,000/acre for a Marcellus lease in Tyler County. The biggest well in the nation is the Utica well near Middlebourne and the best Marcellus well in the field is in Ritchie County. West Virginia is in the middle of the largest oil & gas field on the planet and there are those down at the Mouth of the Elk who want to shaft state citizens with substandard leases and royalties in the guise of "forced or fair pooling". One fellow running this time in a nearby county used to brag about how much he got each session in the plain white envelopes.
The purchase by Southwest of certain Chesapeake assets only covered counties north and east of Ritchie County but including Lewis & Upshur Counties. The $5.375 billion deal did not include acreage in Gilmer, Calhoun, Roane, etc. counties. It was noted in Southwest's press release that the average working interest in the wells they acquired was 67.5% which likely means that while most royalties would only be 12.5% someone is getting some substantial overrides. Southwest noted that the September production was 336 million cubic feet of gas equivalent/day being 55% gas, 36% NGLs [natural gas liquids] & 9% oil.
The average price for Pennsylvania grade crude for October was $83.4658/bbl. with the average for drip (Appalachian light sweet) $61.24 and Marcellus & Utica light $77.4658 and medium $83.4658/bbl.
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