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How are you're New Year's Resolutions going? Still strong I hope,
but if you have already resolved to give them up the Summers
County Public Library has some exciting opportunities coming up
that can help you get back on track[
If you've decided that 2018 is your year to take on a new hobby,
finish, or start that book you've been thinking about writing then
join us this Thursday, January 25 at 6 p.m. for anall new Summers
County Writers Group.
This group is open to all writers in the area who would like to
share your writing efforts to receive critiques from fellow writers,
plus provide your own feedback on the work of others. Or if you
want te just come and listen for this first meeting that's fine too!
If you have questions contact Cheryl Kula via email at
creek2river@gmail.com or check out the event on our Facebook page.
If improving fitness in 2018 is your goal join us on Friday,
February 2 as we host the staff of Active Southern West Virginia.
We're going to meet with people so that we can address your needs
and try to provide some fun active programming in the Library
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really'use your input. : ~ ~. ~ ~, ~
If you have questions email info@activeswv.cbm or call thbm:at :~ :
304-254-8488 or call us at 304-466-4490 or find this event on our
Facebook page.
The last fun thing I get to mention today is that beginning
Monday, February 12 we're joining the National Lunch Walk
Challenge and we want you to be a part of our team! Interested
participants should meet up at 12 p.m. on February 12 and we'll
take a stroll around town. rm really excited for the opportunity to
walk around with our lovely town and I hope you21 come out and
join in the fun.
The National Lunch Walk Challenge runs from February 12 -
April 16. This is a fun and easy way to increase your physical
activity. Not only can walking help you become healthier, walking
with others can help increase your happiness - a real win win!
Again you can go to our Facebook page and find our post about
this for more information, or step by, or give us a call.
Next time I'll implore you all to call your legislators on behalf of
the Library, tell them how important this Library is to your
community, and ask them to maintain Grants in Aid at current
levels.
Please like and follow us on Facebook so you don't miss out on
any activities or awesome photos of the Library Lizard.
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KING COAL IN FAYETTE Oak Junction, Justis Collins opened
COUNTY, 1885-1905, Part 5. two large drift mines, the Collins
The construction of a branch line Colliery Company, in the year 1893.
up Loop Creek by the Chesapeake He constructed coke ovens at his
and Ohio Railway Company from mine site and over 100 Jenny Lind
Thurmond to Macdonald Duns and houses on Collins Hill for the
from Prince Hill Junction to Mount accommodation of his employees.
Hope through the rich coal fields At M. P. 8, Sun, W. VA James
drew coal operators to the area like Laing and his son John Laing
metal to a magnet. In the short opened the Sun Coal and Coke
distance of five and one-half miles Company mine. This was one of the
between Thurmond and Harvey largest individual mines in the field
there were soon six mines in with a uniform thickness offive and
operation. The first mine was Dun one-half feet of clean coal very low
Glen near the junction of Rend in volatile matter, sulphur, and ash.
Subdivision, followed by Cadle They also operated 125 coke ovens
Ridge, Meadow Fork, Dewitt, the yeararound.
Prudence and Harvey Coal and Coke In the next mile and one-half of
Company. the railroad, there were two mines
John McGuffin opened the Dun of note; Dunloup Coal and Coke
Glen, Prudence and Harvey Coal Company and, Turkey Knob Coal
Company mines. The Prudence Company. The post-office address,
mine was on property belonging to express and telegraph office for
C. T. Jones and George W. Jones, Turkey Knob Coal Co. was
brothers who leased the land to Macdonald, W. VA. The President of
McGuffin. The officers of Meadow the Company was J. R. Seal. The
Fork Coal and Coke Company were: directors were: J. R. Seal, George
Thomas Edwards, President; H.P. Lawton, Thomas Nichol, T. C. Beury
Thomas, Vice-President; and W.H. and C. C. Beury. The mine had a
Thomas Secretary-Treasurer. They capacity of 600 tons of coal daily and
proudly advertised their coal as they also manufactured coke in their
being black as jet with a beautiful coke ovens. They owned 100 homes
gloss, gives perfect satisfaction and which were rented to their miners
is in great demand, at a reasonable figure, usually $1.50
At M.P. 6, Red Star, W. VA C.T. per room per month.
Jones, President and George W. In 1893, Symington Mcdonald
Jones General Manager, opened and his friend and partner Samuel
Star Coal and Coke Company on Dixon opened the Macdonald
their own land consisting of one Colliery Company mining the coal
thousand acres in one block of the at Macdonald and also
thick Sewell seam. Their mine had manufacturing coke.
a capacity of 1,050 tons of coal daily. While the Chesapeake and Ohio
The company constructed a large Railway Company was busy
store and over 100 "Jenny Lind" constructing the Loup Creek
tenement houses for the Branch, Thomas Gaylord McKell
accommodation of their employees, was busy constructing a railroad of
The mine was equipped with electric his own. He named his line the
power and tail-rope haulage and was Kanawha, Glen Jean and Eastern
amply ventilated by a Clifford- and built it to take care of the needs
Capella fan. The Jones Brothers of his own mines plus the needs of
took great care for the safety of their many more in the vicinity that were
mines and were proud of the j intly served by the C" & O" and the
Tamroy, from Mill Creek Junction to
Garden Ground and from Sugar
Creek Junction to Pax where
interchange was made with the
Virginian Railroad. Each railroad
carrier supplying needed empties to
the KGJ&E for placing at the mines
and the KGJ&E delivering the
loaded cars to each carrier for
transportation over their lines to
market.
The McKell Coal and Coke
Company was operating on land
owned by Thomas Gaylord McKell
of Glen Jean, W. VA. After his death
in 1904, the entire tract of 22,000
acres continued in operation by his
heirs. The officers of the Company
were: His eldest son, John D.
McKell, President, his other son,
William KcKell, Vice-President and
Thomas Nichol, General Manager.
The company gave employment to
about 2,000 miners at the following
mines: Kilsyth with an output of
1,850 tons daily; Derryhale with an
output of 950 tons daily; Oswald and
Graham with an output of 550 tons
of coal daily each, and Sidney with
an output of 400 tons of coal daily
for a total of 4,300 tons daily. The
company owned over 300 tenement
houses they rented to their miners
at a reasonable figure.
Other joint mines (C&O - VGN) .
in the area were: Sugar Creek Coal
and Coke Company; Mount Hope;
Price Hill; Cepece; Packs Branch;
Siltex; North Siltex; Balwood; Lee;
Tamroy; and Fayral.
Most mine operators during this
period of time owned, for their own
use, lightweight four wheel track
bicycles to ride the railroad tracks
between their mines and places their
responsibility took them. Those were
very cheap means of transportation
but leg power was necessary and
would soon become very tiresome.
There was nothing cheap about the
McKells however. Their energy was
needed for other necessities and a
considerable favorable comments of Virginian railroads. His railroad gasoline powered street car was
,~i~irh~i~,J~T~ctors ext~nde~J~r~'Price'~H!i~:Jh~ction ~ purehased~for their railrda'd Tto
and others~who visited their mine. ?~:'~h%%r l~'tl'~J Jaild e~p"t~S ~were ::~p~ovide need~l~l~cal,tv ~aspor~ati~n
Just above Glen Jean near White interchangeZdt~vi~h the: ~:'~ (~.',: to,' Continued next week.
Dan Heyman corporations, steps: "The minimum tax, and then
Charleston, W.Va. - One reason He said the effect of that is not tax certain transactions between
for the big tax law signed last month yet clear. "At best, the profits earned U.S. multinationals and their
was to reduce the tax advantage to abroad will be taxed at a rate that's foreign affiliates," he said.
corporations for keeping jobs and half the rate," Rosenthal said. "That The $3 trillion in past profits held
profits in foreign affiliates. But will still leaves a sizable incentive to overseas would be taxed at a low
it work? President Donald Trump shift profits and operations abroad, rate to encourage companies to bring
said he wanted tax reform because, "Estimates are that companies that money home. The one-time
under the old system, multinational incorporated in the U.S. may be influx of revenue is to be used to
corporations could dodge U.S. taxes holding as much as $3 trillion under reduce the deficit impact of the cuts
by keeping the profits of overseas the names of their foreign in the new tax law. For the future,
subsidiaries on foreign affiliates' subsidiaries. Rosenthal described Rosenthal said the question is what
books, the offshore nature o~fthese profits companies will do, based on the
But will the new law change that as, at times, total fiction,incentive of the low rate for foreign
common practice? According to The foreign subsidiary may be
profits. "What we have now is
Steven Rosenthal, a senior fellow at little more than a P.O. box, and the exemption of profits abroad, with
the Tax Policy Center: "No one really money may even be invested in
some exceptions," he said. "That
knows. "Rosenthal said, along with American stocks and bonds, or in a perverse incentive might yet create
cutting the corporate tax rate by U.S. bank. He said to discourage the ability to shift operations and
more than a third - from 35 to 21 this, the new tax law puts the fact riesabr ad'"M reinf rmati n
percent - the new law intends to put minimum tax on the future profits from the Tax Policy Center is
a minimum 10.5 percent tax on of the overseas subsidiaries of the available at
foreign subsidiaries of U.S. U.S. corporations, along with other www.taxpolicycenter.org.
Letter to
According to the American
Society of Addiction Medicine, the
leading cause of accidental death in
2015 was drug overdose. The life toll
from the drug epidemic has been
consistently growing over the past
couple of years with opiate addiction
and overdose being one of the lead
causes.
Each year, more people use drugs
for the first time and wind up
addicted. Right now, the highest
number of opiate overdoses are in
the Northeast. The problem
originally started with heroin as the
main contributor however newer
drugs have begun to escalate the
problem. Fentanyl has begun to be
mixed into heroin with devastating
consequences. This combination is
so potent there have been fatal
overdoses of non-users who merely
got the substance on their skin.
Now more than ever, those in our
country who are struggling with
substance abuse need help getting
into a heroin addiction rehab.
According to the Center for Disease
Control or CDC, drug overdose
deaths have increased more than 2.5
times Compared to what they were
in 1999. In fact, according to a study
by experts at I0 universities, the
problem can get much worse. At this
point, the best-case scenario would
be overdose deaths peaking in 2020
before going down and that would
require government support.
Please write your local officials
and senators to begin taking action
to combat the opiate epidemic and
steer us away from the disaster
course we are on. There are many
different approaches to the
challenge of how to address the
opiate epidemic. For more
information visit: http://
www.narcononnewliferetreatorg/
blog/the-horrifying-future-of-the-
heroinepidemic html
Contact: Aaron Olson
Narconon New Life Retreat
35059 Bend Rd Denham Springs,
LA 70706
1- 800-431-1754
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Bertha- Bob Dameron, Allen &adult, 1 3rd year & 1 4th year)
Mindy Waldron. 4 BAEA, 1 eagle Barger Springs- Buck Price. No
species(1 15t year, 1 2nd year, 1 3rd eagles
year, 1 undetermined age and 1 Rt. 122- David & Gene
eagle of undetermined age & species Shrewsbery. 13 BAEA(ll immature
Mouth of the Bluestone River- of unknown age, 2 4th year birds)
Sharyn Ogden, Corey & Julie Pipestem State Park- Jim
McQuade, JeffHajenga, Aaron New Phillips(compiler). No eagles
& Jim Fregonara. 14 BAEA*(2 *BAEA = Bald Eagle **GOEA =
adults, 10 1st year & 2 2nd year) Golden Eagle
and 2 GOEA**( beth immatures) Twenty-three participants located
Bluestone State Park- Jerry 50 Bald Eagles(8 adult, 42
Gladwell. 1 BAEA(adult) immature) and 2 Golden
Rt. 20 Overlook(1 mile south of Eagles(both immature)
Bluestone Dam)- Kermit Stover, Conditions-4-20degrees, 10-75%
Brian&TammyHirt. 3 BAEA(1 1st cloud cover, 0-11mph NW wind
year, 2 2nd year) gusting to 15mph, visibility 220
Rt. 20 Overlook next to Bluestone miles, trace of old snow on the
Dam- Beverly & Jim Triplett. 4 ground.
BAEA(1 1st year, 1 2nd year, 1 3rd Ihear that Rick Steelhammer has
year & 1 4th year) a bald eagle article in the Charleston
Bellepoint Park- Charlie Kahle. Gazette, 1/7/2018 & there will be a
4 BAEA(2 adult, 1 1st year & 1 2nd bald eagle article in Wonderful West
year) Virginia magazine probably in
Brooks Overlook- Ron & WendyMarch, 2018.
Perrone. 5 BAEA(2 adult, 1 1st year, llth Spring Eagle Survey will be
1 2nd year & 1 4th year) Little Wolf March 3, 2018.
Creek- Rodney Davis. 3 BAEA(1
West Virginia
than
Percent Raise
By Ryan O uinn, Charleston Gazette-Mail
Ruffner Elementary School teachers Diana
Krystal McConihay attend the teachers rally
Rotunda.(Gazette-Mail photo by Kenny Kemp)
Daily, left, and
in the Capitol
CHARLESTON, W.Va.--Gov. Jim
Justice, in his State of the State
address last week, requested a "1
percent" across-the-board pay
increase for West Virginia teachers
in this year's legislative session,
with further 1 percent increases in
each of the next four years.
"That's it?" has essentially been
the response of teachers, at least as
indicated by a rally Monday in the
state Capitol. About 200 people
attended the West Virginia
Education Association union rally,
including teachers and lawmakers.
The audience, where the signs
included ones saying "1 percent is
not enough! We deserve competitive
pay[" and "We need more than a 1
percent raise. We deserve more!!,"
booed when WVEA President Dale
Lee mentioned Justice's proposal. "I
don't have to tell you that's
inadequate," Lee said.
Justice's press office didn't
respond to a call for comment
Monday. According to a state budget
briefing and WVEA Executive
Director David Haney, what Justice
meant by a 1 percent raise was
giving teachers $404 atop the
~nnua] increment increase many
receive for providing an additional
year of service.
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