Our Yesterdays

In the early 1900s, Rubio had a newspaper, The Rubio Independent. B. Cook was the editor. The following excerpts are from the first issue.

Locals: Dale Leppert and Carl Coffman recently completed the remodeling of the E.S. Wolcott house. It is one of the few very early houses left in this section of the county and was erected in a time when the artisan built sturdily regardless of the time employed.

James T. Millner, pumper for the C.M. and St. P. railroad informs us the company has recently installed a water softener at the pumping plant.

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rudolph have named their new daughter Lola Mae.

C.C. Hyser has been doing some repair work at the Steinbeck garage.

John Bender will move soon from his present location on the Horning place to the property across the road from the Clay church.

We only know of one serious effort being made to kill this paper before the first issue. That comes from North Main Street from an individual who has St. Vitus Dance of the tongue and who, likely, sincerely believes himself to be the logical and only competent person to produce such a sheet. Possibly right because he possesses at all times a wealth of misinformation that is calculated to impress the public with his superior intelligence.

Jim Steinbeck has been spending several days out at the club house on the river.

Several coon have been captured since the season opened. Glen Dickinson is becoming a first class coon hunter and can hold his own with the old heads when it comes to camping on their trail. We believe it worries Bill Morrow to think he can’t get out after the dogs like he could fifty or sixty years ago.

The gas pipe flagpole at the school house collapsed recently, but fortunately at a time when the children were inside. That type of mast, even with gang wires, is not considered safe in engineering circles because of their tendency to buckle.

“The Social Climber” To an observing bystander, who understands, nothing is more pathetic than a social climber in a small town. They knife their financial equals, their intellectual superiors or their best friends and fawn and crawl about anyone who has a little money regardless of their character or breeding. Just think of the mental agony some of them must go through and the poor things don’t stop to think they are not fooling anybody — except themselves.

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Centennial Local News: Mrs. Effie Skinner, who was operated on at the Jefferson County hospital is reported a little better.

W.E. and Lloyd McNurlen have torn out the bridge at the corner north of Centennial and are replacing it with a tube.

Faye Bond and Edythe McConnell visited at the Roy Halferty home over the weekend.

Final Word: If we should receive enough advertising and subscriptions so as to cover cost of publication and distribution the next issue will make its appearance two weeks from today and will also be in the form of sample copy mailed to our list of between 300 and 400 families in this vicinity.