Rev. Craig Blankenship did not fill his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church as he was at the annual Methodist Conference at Buckhannon. Thus there was only Sunday School.
This week will be the Folk Festival at Glenville where one can go to hear traditional fiddle and banjo playing as well as other things from the past.
Teddy Parsons has been on the sick list.
The local area continues to have rain. Haymaking has come to a halt.
Donald Eugene Pepper, age 90, passed away. He was a descendant of Abner Pepper and his parents were Fred & Jeanetta dePue Pepper with Laura Katherine dePue being his grandmother.
Someone took a ‘dozer up the Richardsonville Road.
A number of area residents were consulting with their physicians or undergoing tests.
The district bridge crew did quite a bit of work on the Creston bridge including pouring new concrete in some of the holes [plywood is wired to the rebar to hold the new material]. The span was cleaned of dirt & debris and a new blacktop surface to part of the span was applied, apparently to help keep water from doing more damage to the decayed concrete.
Several people were spending time at “the camp” on Lemuel’s Run.
A tree fell down in the curve at the end of the dePue straight at Creston.
As has been noted elsewhere, one of the places one reads the Creston News will soon be no more, another victim of the current inflation and ever rising fuel prices, all of which, obviously, is being done on purpose by the ruling elite. The Creston News can now be read on line [for as long at the disinformation /truth police allow] at Ridgeview News and the Calhoun Chronicle.
Kevin Boak was checking out some more lawn mowing jobs in & around Creston.
Locally, the price of gasolene varies from $5 to $5.10/gallon with diesel fetching $6/gallon. Some local folks had occasion to motor to Moundsville the other day and gas there was $4.56.9/gallon & diesel was just $5.55.9/gallon. $5 gas means $210/bbl. [42gal.bbl. x $5/gallon] & $6 diesel is $252/bbl. Pennsylvania grade crude presently fetches just $119.67/bbl. and fuel is not the valuable component in the oil. It not being anything reflecting a fair world, it is the equivalent of selling one’s cherry, maple & walnut veneer logs for the pulpwood price. If there were real leaders down at the Mouth of the Elk, at Columbus & in Harrisburg this outrageous situation would be quickly resolved and three states and their citizens would “get well”. It should be noted that several American refineries have been shut down & more are on the “chopping block” because they cannot comply with ever changing rules from the lower Potomac swamp. As a historical note Parkersburg once had 12 (twelve) oil refineries. The Rockefeller family “fixed that”.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude fell to $119.67/bbl. with condensate fetching $105.67/bbl. and Marcellus & Utica light bringing $110.67 & medium $119.67/bbl. July natural gas at the Henry Hub [Louisiana] is $9.368/mmbtu.
Presently demand for domestic natural gas has held steady but the demand increase is for LNG (liquified natural gas) for export. Recently Toby Rice the head honcho at EQT took officials from Slovakia, Slovenia, Holland, Sri Landa (Ceylon), Portugal, Latvia & Sian (Thailand) to a 15 well Marcellus pad in Pennsylvania that produces 200 million cubic feet of gas/day.. W. Va. should be doing the same rather than promoting tattoo parlours, drug emporiums, gambling joints, etc. Is anyone down at the Mouth of the Elk working on getting fertilizer plants & ethane crackers in W. Va?
Some Creston folks were at Marietta the other day to see the paddle wheeler American Countess that was tied up there while on a scenic river tour. Back when paddle wheelers arrived and departed Creston daily bringing passengers and freight up and down the river. Those who are prospering in the present economy [we are told all is wonderful] can rent a stateroom and travel the inland waterways in style.
The Wall Street Journal, one of the nation’s leading newspapers had a reporter drive an EV [electric car] from New Orleans to Chicago and back not so long back. The charging fees were $175 as compared to $275 for gasolene. However, the driver had to spend more time charging his chariot than he did sleeping & thus lost hours of time on the trip.
It was reported that there is currently a Utica shale leasing boom over in Ohio. Per acre bonus is $5,500 and the royalty is 20%. Someone needs to bring this to the attention of the president of the West Virginia State Senate — remind him that we have world class oil & gas fields and that West Virginia should have royalties that reflect such.
