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By Alvin Engelke
Robert Lynch who had been in the intensive care unit at the Camden Clark Hospital is now home and on the mend.
Aunt Belle Wright had a pacemaker installed while a patient in an Ohio hospital.
Euell and Charles Russell were consulting with their podiatrist in Parkersburg.
Mr. & Mrs. Bobby Ray Starcher & daughter were calling on Paul Cunningham who brought the Starchers up to date on such things as "Tee Vee Stars". Everyone knows that Paul wouldn't embellish things any.
There are now some new flowers blooming where one drives into the Creston Community Building. It was reported that "the Nutter women" were responsible for this good work. A new batch of photographs are on the bulletin board at the community building including some from the big ATV poker run. Several were on hand for the auction. The next auction will be of items donated to the building and the sale will be on June 7 starting at 6 P. M.
Jim Bush has been working up corn ground in the Creston area.
While there are lots of wild turkeys out and about the hunters haven't been having too much success.
Jerry Crank was doing some work at his trailer on the West Fork over the weekend.
Several local residents watched the president land on the aircraft carrier and talk with the troops and later address the nation. One retired military man noted that he was proud to have been a member of such a professional team. He noted that one could see that the individual troops could relate to their Commander in Chief.
Joe Manchin, who is campaigning for W. Va. governor gave a big speech at the high school in Elizabeth and talked about the local heroine, Jessica Lynch. His uncle was impeached while state treasurer when it was discovered that someone had cleaned out the vault. That was after the book was published telling what a wonderful job had been done. It would seem that our state can look forward to "more of the same."
The Green Hornet went out Egypt Ridge the other day, went down the hill, crossed the bridge and went down the West Fork [and got lost]. After backtracking he realized he was almost at Creston. Some days later he and Murf the Smurf were attending to business in Creston.
Sanoma resident Bruce Bell has been having major mechanical problems with his chariot.
Orrison and Jim Schrader were calling on the Richardsonville road.
Donna Sue Ferrell was attending to business in Spencer and Grantsville.
The thought police have come out with some new guidelines for children's textbooks. Some examples include the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution can no longer be called the Founding Fathers. (Are the "founding mothers" offended?)
Pictures of butter and cake cannot be shown.
Mt. Rushmore cannot be mentioned because "it appears to offend" some American Indians [now called native Americans].
American Indians cannot be portrayed in rural settings or in long braids
Snowmen are not allowed.
Yachts cannot be mentioned because they are "elitist."
The terms jungle and swamp have been changed to "rain forest" and "wet land."
While the local area, because of latitude restrictions, has no jungle, with the fine rains that the local area has received there is more than the usual amount of swamp land. Swamps breed mosquitoes which, now, among other things, transmit the West Nile virus, malaria, yellow fever, etc. Of course, now it is illegal to drain the swamps although George Washington, who was formerly known as one of the founding fathers, spent a lot of effort trying to figure out how to drain The Great Dismal Swamp [now perhaps renamed the Donna Shalala and Hillary Clinton wetland].
Ralph Blair who is president of the Wood County Farm Bureau stressed at the Wirt County FB meeting that, because of the damage that the West Nile disease causes to horses, all equine owners should have the proper vaccinations given their critters.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ferrell & sons and Mr. and Mrs. A. "Stymie" Plummer and family were among those calling on Mr. & Mrs. Carl Ferrell & daughter.
Jerry Snyder (Hallie's son) has been working at family place on Creston hill.
It was reported that Baghdad Bob was still trying to negotiate a surrender so he could go to Egypt where it is said he has money stashed away. Also it was noted that he liked Egyptian women. Nevertheless, the W. Va. Workmen's Compensation folks should make a sincere effort to hire him as a PR man as he would really fit in with that situation.
It was reported that Kentucky oil promoter Martin Twist is permitting Devonian shale wells on 600' spacing. Drilling continues in Roane, Calhoun, Ritchie and other area counties. A shortage of natural gas is anticipated this winter because the long cold snap caused reserves in storage fields to be used up. It was reported that Eastern American's offset to the Dink well near Big Otter was only drilled to the Newburg
Robert Lee recently had some tests done on his brain. He got good news and bad news as one would say. The CAT scans and all found nothing wrong, no tumors or anything bad. The bad news was, of course, that the scans found nothing at all.
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