Book: Wintersville Citizen

              VOL. 1, NO. 1                                             THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1962                          $5.00 per year - lOc p


    Were You There?
                      By EVE SEATER
    A few years ago a shepherd boy throwing stones broke
an ancient urn in a murky cave along the West shore of
the Dead Sea. To his amazement a, tightly sealed scroll fell
from the urn iu lay at his feet., Poverty stricken, it occurred
to the boy's cunning mind that the scroll could turn a quick
pe'my or two for him. He peddled it to the Muslim Sheikh
in the Market town of Bethlehem., Thus, in 1947, the first
Dead Sea Scroll was discovered, bringing to fresh life an
era a thousand years earlier than the earliest Hebrew man-
uscriptsr The excitement of the discovery of the first and
many )more Dead Sea Scrolls still fascinates the world.


   The Village of Wintersville
 has long since filled any old
 caves. It was not a poverty
 stricken goat -herder who dis-
 covered buried scrolls at
 noon, July 24th, 1962, but a
 group of men many of you
 know! Construction of a con-
 crete retaining wall on the
 North side of the Winterville
 Elementary School was un-
der way. Harry      Hendricks
and ,Burke Sullivan, Jr., were
hard at work. Mayor Tom
Aibaugh and Rudy Taliani
were present, too, when the
workmen turned up the first
water stained bottle. These
men were no more immune
to the excitement of buried
scrolls than anyone el'e.
Curiously, the y drew  the
tightly rolled papers from
the bottle and found time
turned b a c k thirty - seven
years!
  Perhaps you were one of
the young girls whose sicgna-
tures followed a prayer for
the growth of a sapling tree
obviously planted with the
sealed bottle at its roots.
Written clearly and on i y
slightly faded as the air
struck the paper was the
following:
  "We, the sixth, seventh and
eihhth  grade girls of the
Wintersville School, ascribe
our names on this paper with
a silent prayer that God may
feed, protect and guide, this
little tree to be powerful
and useful in the future.."
      Elith Wilson
    Conic MacConnell
       Virginia Eft


        Isabella 16drtaw
        Luclle Porter
        Mary Daily
        Le'lah Morton
        Virginia Moores
        Catherine Henry
        Maud Starkey
        Mary Marker
        Mabei Thompson
        Alberta Hindman
      Lua M. Branniga
      Florence Whimnore
      Geo. P. MacFarlan, Prin.
   A few hours later a second
 bottle, completely   airtight,
 turned up with another cache
 of rolled papers. We've tried
 to reproduce these nostalgic
 papers for you. On one cray-
 oned signatures, probably of
 young children, have been
 traced in ink ... perhaps by
 their teacher.
   What happened       to the
 young tree so tenderly prayed
for by a group       of sixth,
seventh an d eighth  grade
girls back in April 17th, 1925?
What kind of a tree was it?
Did it fall in the path of pro-
gress as a new Church was
built nearby? What happened
to these young citizens who
are now approaching middle
life?
   If you were in the sixth,
 seventh or eighth grade in
 A pril, 1925, perhaps you
 know. You may still remem-
 ber the adventure of setting
 out a tree and burying with
 its roots a scroll of prayer to
 which you carefully signed
 your name in your finest
 handwriting. If you     were
 there this writer will enjoy
 hearing about it.,
    WERE YOU THERE?


     Warriors 1963
   Footbal Schedule
   Coach Bob Kettlewell. released
the 1963 football schedule of his
Golden Warriors this week. Win-
teraville will embark on a ten
game schedule in 1963 with the
new addition being North High
School ok West Virginia.
  North High School is a, new con-
solidated 'high school consisting of
Chester, Newell and New Cumber-
land, West Virginia.
  Early rumors have it that North
High will field a strong team in-
as much as the consilidatioa will


constitute an influx of thirty-
eight lettermen under one ,banner.
  The 1963 schedule presently has
five home games and five away
gamues with the remote possibility
that one of the away games will.
be reverted to Wintersville be-
cause of a schedule indifference.
Follansbee      Sept. 6" home
Jefferson Union Sept. 13 home
Bridgeport      Sept. 20 home
Uhridhsville    Sept. 27 away
Benwood Union    Oct. 4  home
Toronto          Oct. 11 away
Warwood    Oct. 18 or 19 away
Wellsburg        Oct. 25 away
Carrol'lton     Nov. 1   home
North           Nov. 8   away


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