The Stephenville Illuminator closed in 1898:”With this issue ends our work on said paper and also the above named sheet. This issue ends the second month of our life as editor of a newspaper, and likewise, annihilates the paper. In the past two months we have done our darndest to edit respectably this sheet, while we have made many friends, there have been a few sordid brained scabs who considered that we were tramping too much on their pseudo modesty. In some instances we deemed it necessary to tell the unvarnished truth, and the truth always stings more than a lie.”