 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
Rick Williams brought the message at the Burning Springs M. E. Church as Rev. Belt had to go to Cleveland to bring his mother back home.
A substantial amount of hay has been made locally although some had a little rain on it.
The Woodring family held their family reunion Saturday at the Creston Community Building and the Shimer family held theirs there on Sunday.
The Annamoriah Cowpoke was calling on Euell Russell and his brother Bob at the Miletree facility in Spencer. He was also visiting other family and friends. He noted that he had gone on a deep sea cruise earlier in the year and that when they were about to leave international waters and return to U. S. jurisdiction the captain came on the loudspeaker and advised those with contraband and illegal things to dispose of them. The old poke said he was out on the deck and he heard all sorts of things being thrown overboard and splashing in the water.
The Wirt road crew did a little patching on W. Va. 5 just before the Calhoun County line as well as working up the wildflower beds as one comes down the hill to Creston.
The peonies were at their prime so they could be taken to decorate graves for Decoration [Memorial] Day. However, most of the flowers put on graves were artificial. Locally and elsewhere graveyards were mowed and trimmed.
Lots of folks were in from Ohio and elsewhere for the weekend and several were riding four wheelers in the Creston area taking full advantage of the spectacular weather. Speaking of weather the Big Eared One told some of the military that the Moslem terrorists, Russian dictators & expansionist Chinese weren't the problem but that it was 'global warming' a/k/a 'climate change'. There was so much 'global warming' that it snowed In New England.
Charles Russell was attending to business in Spencer, as was Jesse Davis the senior bus driver for Creston, and was calling on Mr. & Mrs. Paris Parsons, Ray Gumm and brother Euell at Miletree.
The comely Jody Goff and another were calling on Charles Russell one day last week.
The WVU Extension had three meetings planned to talk about forced pooling but for some reason the service cancelled the meetings causing many theories to be tossed about as to why.
As noted by letters sent out by the Office of Oil & Gas, Stone Energy plans to drill some Utica wells in Wetzel County. It was reported that one of the big players in the Marcellus business may have made some bad business decisions, perhaps involving Colorado operations, and might be in a financial bind.
Farm & Dairy reports that now the bird flu pestilence is in at least 15 states impacting millions & millions of birds. As a result chicken and eggs will obviously go up in price and many states, including Pennsylvania are banning avian competition at agricultural fairs & festivals. It would appear that the appropriate government agencies are doing nothing, perhaps because they are too busy complying with federal guidelines for sexual diversity, racial set asides and harassment of honest citizens who are trying to work and make a living.
The elites keep trying to foist little Jebbie on the nation as the Republican nominee like they did with other winners like Bob Dole, Wendell Wilkie, Thomas Dewey, Mitt Romney and Sen. McVain. Now it has been learned that Jeb's education company paid Madame Hillary $225,000 for a speech in Dallas last year.
Damon Sampson & his mother attended graduation exercises at Davis & Elkins college to see a nephew graduate. Damon went fishing over the Decoration Day weekend.
There will be a maple syrup production workshop June 4 at Brandon Daniel's camp at Dawson, West Virginia. For details & directions call Cathy Hervey at 304-737-1889.
The status of the proposed ethane cracker at Washington Bottom remains unclear. While the existing plant is said to being demolished and the new company didn't let local farmers plant the fields the talk from the political folks who were all "gung ho" is now tepid with excuses such as the price of the ethane, the raw material is "too cheap". Meantimes a Bangkok Siam company is planning a $5 billion facility in Belmont County Ohio. They have a Japanese partner Marubeni and are looking for another financial partner. Because of bad economic policies it seems that American firms no longer have the cash to invest in major projects. The "income equality" folks have made a bad impact so that the new wealthy will be in foreign nations with poor Americans.
Columbia Gas has announced that they have 15 pipeline projects going in W. Va. Ohio & Pennsylvania and plan to spend $10 billion in the next five years. They have yet to tell local residents about the details of the big pipe that is scheduled for the local area.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude is $58.72/bbl. with condensate fetching $34.72, Marcellus & Utica light $52.72 and medium $58.72/bbl.
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