Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1914 — OLD-TIME PRINTER DEAD. [ARTICLE]

OLD-TIME PRINTER DEAD.

Former Publisher of Wheatfield Telephone Dies at Piper City, 111. F. H. Robertson, one of the, old school of newspaper men, died Feb. 14, at Piper City, 111., where he recently begun publishing a paper. He leaves a wife, who has been living at Goodland, and one son, W. H. Robertson, w'ho for several years has been employed as associate editor of the Benton Review. Mr. Robertson was a native of the state of Maine, and in early life ran away from home and joined a circus, following the profession of a performer He later fell Into the newspaper business, which he followed for many years. He had been located at many different points,

having established the Brook Reporter and in the past dozen years published papers at Wheatfield, Jasper county, Riddick, 111., Mt. Ayr, and Freeland Park, Ind.. Piper City, 111., etc. He was located at Wheatfield in 1889, but suspended publication of the Telephone and moved the plant to Riddick, 111., in 1900. Last fall he and his wife moved to Goodland and occupied a home on north Newton street. Last November he went to Piper City, 111., and started the Piper City Telephone and was making arrangements to move his household goods to that city. Funeral services were held at Piper City Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock, and interment was made in the cemetery at that place. Mrs. Robertson will make her future home with her son. Will, and family at Fowler. He was one of the shrvivors of the old-time printers and publishers who edited the paper, set the type and operated the press tn printing them. He was 70 years, 9 months and 16 days of age at the time of his death. He died of pneumonia, after a short illness. Peace be to his ashes.