Introduction To Our Work
I hope to bring to life our community as
it was in the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's & early 70's ... through my grandfather’s, H.
J. Wible’s newspapers.
The people, the events, the happy times and the saddest.
This weekly Mount Pulaski Times-News
small-town newspaper was the community's window not only to everything
happening in our own little part of the world, but also as you will see,
a window to the outside world.
Generations of many of our families are depicted, here, either through
words and/or pictures. Those stories set the stage for where our lives
have led us ... to where we and our children,
grandchildren & great grandchildren find themselves, today.
As you see the pictures, read the
articles and absorb how life was in those times, I think you will
realize as we have that while much has changed, there is much that is the
same.
Even today, as you read the stories from
90 years ago, you will feel the happiness of a birth or the sadness of
death or accident ... the
thrill of a basketball victory or the agony of a death notice of a
hometown boy on the battlefields in a far away place ... all on the same
page.
We both hope you enjoy what we are about
to present and, like us, find it hard to quit reading and exploring
those who came before us and the lives they led.
We hope that you also will particularly
enjoy H. J.‘s weekly editorials, which he called "Reflections”.
These small-town editorials were a looking glass into the heart
and soul of our community ... to make them reflect on where they had
been and where they were going. While you may not always agree
with his perspective, it always made you think.
I want to thank Phil Bertoni for his
willingness to work with me on this project, for his computer expertise, and for his patience.
Also, my sincerest gratitude to the Mt Pulaski Township
Historical Society for providing me with most of the documents you will
see here, and for their unwavering devotion to preserving our history.