Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1914 — FORMER HIGH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT HERE [ARTICLE]

FORMER HIGH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT HERE

F. W. Reubelt and Wife and Other Members of Family Spent Sunday at His Old Home.

Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Reubelt and son, Claud, and son-in-law, James Lucas, came to Rensselaer by auto Sunday and spent the day, remaining over night, at the home of Mrs. Peter Rhoads, where Isaac Reubelt and wife and daughter, Miss Julia, are visiting. The Republican erred last week when it stated that they were coming from Pekin, 111., for they left there a number of years ago and now reside at Bourbon, Ind„ where Mr. Reubelt is engaged in the general merchandise business and near which place he owns a farm. Claud resides at Argos, 12 miles from Bourbon. Frank Reubelt, a younger son, is a blacksmith and lives at Etna Green. He had expected to accompany his parents here, but was unable at the last minute to get away. Mr. Reubelt was able to see quite a number of old friends during the day and to review with them many of the things that happened during the six and a haMyears thathe was superintendent of the Rensselaer schools. He came here in the fall of 1885 and resigned in the midwinter of 1891, to accept the superintendency of the Pekin, IH., schools, at an advance of SSOO a year tin salary. Although he is 60 years of age, Mr. Reubelt’s hair is as brown-black as 4t was .when he resided here, over 22 years ago, and he hasn’t a gray hair that would divulge the encroachment of age. In fact, he would easily pass for a man in the early forties. He paid a high compliment to Rensselaer when he said that he bad never known during his teaching experience of a town where the school board, the patrons and the public in general seemed so loyfl to the schools and extended to the head of the schools such loyalty.

It might be said in response to this compliment that Mr. Reubelt had a firm hold on the affections of his pupils and the community in general and those who attended the high school during the years he was here will attribute to him much of the encouragement that has influenced them throughout life. He is probablf the best remembered of the old time school superintendents and it will be interesting to many of his former pupils to know that he asked about many otf them and recalled their names with a memory as clear as though It was only a year or two ago that he had left, instead of almost a quarter of a century. Having found the way here, it is probable that Mr. Reubelt and family will come again at some future time, when more of his old friends can have (the opportunity to meet him.