Do you have items to donate to the Highland Home Museum?

My Edward Zobrist picture in my last week’s column, was not Ed. Zobrist, but his oldest son, Maynard “Bud” Zobrist, standing in front of Ed Zobrist Trucking’s truck, which he drove while attending Highland High School with the class of 1943. Maynard was a classmate of mine, so I want to apologize that my editor used Maynard’s picture instead of Ed’s, and that I’m just correcting a mistake. The other pictures from Earl Stocker are on the News Leader’s website, www.highlandnl.com.

I was also able to add the word, “late”’ to Aneda Lebegue Rutz’s name, as she had died, just after I had finished writing the column. Aneda’s mother was Edward Zobrist’s sister, Minnie E. Zobrist Lebeque, and Aneda was the unofficial genealogist for the Zobrist and Lebegue families and had given much family information to Roy Worstell, my genealogist, as well as many photos and information to me over the years for my columns.

Aneda Lebegue (Mrs. Wilferd) Rutz was born near Sebastopol on May 19, 1917 and would have been 100 years old in 2017 — a goal she almost made. Her four sons and families have our deepest sympathy and greatest respect. I also want them to know that I have named Aneda Lebegue (Mrs. Wilferd) Rutz my “Tip-of the Hat” for early 2016.

Now, on the lighter side, in moving more than 90 boxes of Highland-area items from our house for the new museum at Highland Home, I’ve rediscover items I haven’t seen in years. One was the Frey’s Grammar School Geography, Illinois edition, published in 1902. I had purchased it at a sale over 30 years ago. The first name on the book is Cyril Francis Abbott, Pierron, Sept. 4, 1916; then Clifford Ryan, Pierron, dated Jan. 30, 1919. Ryan wrote on the back that it was fly “Eighth grade Geography” and on the front fly that “Ryan and Frank Frey were good boys.” The only other name I find on the book is Harvey Jakel, Father Pat Jakel’s father. (Father Pat will find out when Floyd was in eighth grade.)

We are looking for more items for the museum, such as:

▪ Highland area advertising items, photos, drawings, write-ups, or other material;

▪ Items from area farmers, especially Centennial Farms;

▪ Old photos of homes and families;

▪ Land grants, abstracts, etc., that we can photocopy; and

▪ All types of art, paintings, drawings, sewing and needle craft, pottery, carving and other wood working, etc.

Please start looking now for these items, as we may not have enough room to add them at a later date. Call me at 654-5005 if you have items available as gifts to the Highland Home Museum and Art. They can be tax deductible. Thanks.

For Sale

I have a collection of advertising pencils, bullet pencils, Eversharp pencils, pens and ballpoint pens, some that date back to the 1930s, for sale. Almost 4,000 pieces in all. If you are interested, or know someone who is, please contact them, or call meat 654-5005. Also available is a post card collection of several hundred cards.

Anderson Cemetery Workday

The next workday at Anderson Cemetery will be Saturday, April 16 from 9:30 to about 2 or 3 p.m. If you can help, call 654-5005, so we can have sandwiches for you at noon. We can use your lawn mowers, weed-eaters, shovels, spades and a sledge hammer, as we have a few metal fence posts to replace and some to paint aluminum. We also have much grass and weeds to cut, a few more stones to put in place and gravel to put around stones already in place. We sure can use your help. Please call. Our rain date is the following Saturday, April 23.

This story was originally published April 7, 2016 at 3:32 AM with the headline "Do you have items to donate to the Highland Home Museum?."