Book: Wintersville Citizen

              SYOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER


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   VOL ,WINOT. 9.                                   THURSDAY, JANUARYLLE31, 1963CTI

VOL.1, NO'.9.__________THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1963                                         ____          $5.00 per year lOc


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        By EveSeiter
  The "feature" of the week is
indisputable! Winter weather
has taken over the front page
scuttling any Feature this writ-
er may have planned for you.
Temperatures skidding to fan-
tastic minuses, clogged drives
and highways, inert cars, frozen
pipes and cancelled meetings
have become the unaccustomed
norm! Going to work is an'ad-
venture in hardihood, getting
the mail or milk in is a full
dress affair. Bloomers for wom-
en are not only on sale but in
demand in Great Bitain and I'll
wager PAULINE could count
on selling that anachronistic
item  of women's intimate ap-
parel right here in her shop in
Wintersville. What better time
to talk with you of this and
that, usually lost in the rush?
  My very first crocus, for in-
stance, dare me to grumble! It
is purple with a long golden
stamen and its delicato leaves
striped with white frame it at-
tractively. It blooms on my
breakfast table, answer to the
poet's query: "If Winter comes,
can Spring be far behind?" A
couple of months ago I potted
the bulbs in a pottery bowl
with holes in the sides like a
strawberry  jar. All through
January we have kept an ex-
pectant eye on the pips which
fist became leaves and now
flaunt flowers of promise'
  This seems a good time, too,
to thank you for your many
calls, notes and words of appre-
ciation of these weekly Fea-
tures. Your gracious and fre-
quent expression of interest is
of itself a feature of Winters-
ville. Our very   first story.
WERE YOU THERE?, elicited
attention and many of you who
were "there" have written of
your remembrance of Arbor
Day, 1925. The following ex-
cerpts are taken from two let-
ters typical of many of your
notes to me.
    79 N. 21 St., Newark, Ohio.
    December 26, 1962.
  "... I thought the saying very
true that a person's past does


eventually catch up to them.
Mine just caught up with me. I
was in the seventh grade at the
time and   vaguely remember
planting the tree. We planted it
for Arbor Day. I do not how-
ever, remember the scroll or
putting it at the roots of the
tree!
  The Feature story was doubly
interesting to me when I read
your name at the top because I
met and talked with you sev-
ral times in Newark at the Sec-
ond Presbyterian Church. You
will identify me as the "gal"
who made hooked rugs, My


present hobby is ceramics ...
I just, had to write you a note
to tell you that you were writ-
ing about me. I hope the news-
paper will be a success and that
you will enjoy writing for it. I
did enjoy reading your story .
              Sincerely,
     Edith (Wilson) Maurer
   Small world! Mrs. Maurer's
 brother sent her the story know-
 ing nothing of her acquaintance
 with the writer. The following
 letter is dated January 16, 1963,
 R.D. No. 1, West Salem, Ohio.
   "I recently received a copy .of
 the  Wintersville  Citizen in
 which you told of the finding
 of the scroll of names in a
 bottle. I was "Leilah Morton"
 on that list. I do not remember
 that particular planting, as we
 often planted trees on Arbor
 Day, but it really carried me
 back in memories. Some of the
 names I had completely for-
 gotten. I lived in Wintersville
 from 1917-1928, most of the time
 in the home where "Pop" Tay-
 lor now   lives. I have more
 pleasant memories   of  those
 school days than any    other
 years of my life and I can
 readily see how  the Talianis
 were drawn back. The pie so-
 cials, Farmer's Institutes and
 school functions of those day
 were fun./
 I now live on a farm eleven
 miles Northwest of Wooster
 and  have four sons, all of
 whom   hope  to  be  farmers.
 Maybe planting trees back in
 grade school gave ime a back-
 ground! I thoroughly enjoyed
 your little paper and wish you
 success in the future." Sincerely,
               SLeilah Payn.
  Thank you, Mrs. Maurer and
Mrs., Payn. We "thoroughly en-
joyed" your letters. Your good
wishes for the CITIZEN and us
warm out hearts here in WIN-
TERS-VILLE.
  I used to have a friend, a gay
but moody Irishwoman, who
loathed January. To her these
thirty one days of the calendar
year were something to be got-
ten through, nothing to antici-
pate or enjoy. If you are one
who also suffers from January
doldrums I have an antidote


to offer. Via book and arm-
chair, take off in spirit from
Winters-ville.
  I suggest the    provocative
title, THE NEXT FINE DAY.
I'm  not trying to be funny
either! The story is built around
an item  printed in the New
York Times of February 16,
19596 It carried the dateline:
Chilham, England, Feb. 14,1959.
(UPI) and it read as follows:
  "It is a happy St. Valentine's
Day for Chilham. The herons
came back on time to keep
their 1,000 year old date. Ac-


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cording to the local legend,
their arrival on or before St.
Valentine's Day means well and
good for the Village during the
year."
  With this item of news as a
  springboard Elizabeth  Yates
  has written a time out of mind
  tale "of a small boy, his widowed
  Mother and a newcomer to the
  Village, John Rivven, an artist.
  This is a story for snowed-in
  January which can   be read
  through in a couple of hours, a
  story to lift the heart and
  haunt the spirit. Nora Unwin
  has illustrated the book with
  charming line drawings con-
  veying a locale steeped in the
  mystery of the annual return of
  the graceful birds,
  One bitter afternoon recently
  I paid a call on a friend of mine
  who has several small children.
  The smallest, not yet five, im-
  mediately dragged   forth  a
  heavy tome to show me a pic-
  ture which fascinated and be-
  wildered him. It was a picture
of an ancient God of War that
delighted  and  frightened, a
little, my young friend. The
book was the History of the
Great Religions of the World!
The amusing little incident em-
phasized my belief that children
are interested in books IF they
are colorful, interesting and
around!
  CLIPPER SHIPS AND CAP-
TAINS is colorful, interesting
and should be around. It is the
latest book in the American


Heritage Junior Library series,
and will be available February
4th. Profusely   illustrated it
boasts 95 illustrations, 45 in color
There are also full color, full
page reproductions of clippers.
A map, based on old charts and
drawn especially for the book,
traces the\ major sailing routes
of the clipper ship era. Intrigu-
ing stories fall within chapter
headings of Prelude to Glory,
The Lure of the Orient, Clip-
pers for California and a Bully
Ship and a Bully Crew. Original
drawings from a seaman's per-
sonrial log have"- all the saucy
liveliness of a Bruegel painting
Your young people may have
to sneak Clipper 6hips and Cap-
tains from their elders but you
could take a voyage together!
  Donald Day, so far as I know,
  is no relative to the former
  Mayor of our Village but he
  has written a delightful biog-
  raphy of Will Rogers that is
  sure to find a welcome in Win-
  tersville. He has used much of
the beloved Will's own material
to tell his story. Tongue in
cheek, Will always declared
that he only knew what he read
in the newspapers,. His pungent
observations of the American
and the world scene have lost
none of their appeal and hold
singular appropriateness for our
own day.
  If you are still in the dol-
drums try the new seed cata-
logue! After all , , , ,can Spring"
be far behind?


Winters.* ville Indeed


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