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THIQ PAPER ISSUER XMIQAY FRIDAYS, OIE DOLLAR A YEAR. Volume XI I ?" tenbliv fc! Cay. December 30 1913 No14 the iofyiii. A Great Occasion Fw Gen erations of One Fami ly Present (Hickory Times-Mercury.) One of the largest and happi est family reunions we ever had the pleasure to witness, was on Saturday, Dec. 6th, 1913, and by the way, our birthday, It was a reunion of the Houck family and was celebrated at the hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs Julius Poovey. There were 73 present, and they were all re lated, either, by blood or mar riage, except about five or six of us, and they seemed so nice and clever that we wanted to claim kin, too. There were live generations of one family represented, grandma Houck and down to the great, great, great grand child. And to see her and the child was a beautiful as well as a touching scene. A rare privi lege in this day and generation In fact, it was a beautiful groupe qf children and grand children, all so happy and pleasant. As One expressed it, "it was a healthy hearty arid happy fami ly." It was the family of Mr. Lean der Houck and wife, Mrs. An nie Catherine Houck and their cJjilfJOC1 grand children. 4j,-,.- the benefit of these grand ohildren, we will give the fol lowing dates of births, marri ages and deaths: Leander Houch was born June 18th, 1815, and died April 7th, 1876, aged 63 years, 9 months and 19 days. Annie Catherine Link was born July 6th, 1825, making her on the day of the celebration, 88 years and 5 months old. Leander Houck and Annie Catherine Link were married Nov. 8th, 1842, 71 years and 28 days to this celebration. They lived together as husband and wife 36 years, 4 months and 29 days. To this happy union were born 12 children, 7 sons and 5 daughters, all living, the young est being about 42 years old; and they were all present except three, two sons and one daugh ter. Iielow is the names of the children and the number of their children. Miss Martha E. Houck mar ried Julius Poovey. They have 8 children and 28 grand children. John M. Houck married Miss Caroline Puette and they have Children and 15 grand children and one great grand child. Robert C. Houck married Miss Belle Hood. They have 8 chil dren and 30 grand children. Henry L Houck married Miss Caroline Bowman. They have 2 children and 5 grand children. Frank C. Houck married Mlsa Martha Hoyle, They have 2 children. fiev, "W. Kelley Houck mar ried Miss Nina . Nelson. They have 8 children and 4 grand ohildren. It! a TT 1. : i I Vo. Enh'fc Powell. Thev hv & children and 9 grand chil dren. She lives in Colorado. , Miss Laura J, Houck married EU Kerlee. They . have 5 chil dren, i' v ;., .Kftltef Houck lives in Califor . nia. He married Miss Josephine Corear arid has 5 children. . Miss Annie Houck married A. L. Lefevers. They have 4 children and one -grand 'child. -U ; -Miss Ella Houck married ;W. ;42.' 'Lefevers. They have 6 -(Cofttloud oo4th pagfc) ; MAKES MONEY RAISING HIS OWN MEAT.'." . (Wadeboro Ansonian.) The Ansonian has always con tended that it doesn't pay far mers or many other people to depend VPOQ Western farmers to raise their corn and meat for them, not even if it could be ship ped here without any freight charges- Many farmers and cornclub boy's too, have shown that corn can be grown here for a cost of 50 cents per bushel or even less- Now here is an in stance of a town man buying all the feed, and made meat less than he could buy it in the market, Mr W. G. Covington bought two pigs last year, an Essex and a Red Jersey, both good blooded stock. He killed them a few days ago and, after being dress ed, the two weighed 736 pounds. The two pigs cost him $9 and he fed them exactly $51.70 worth of millfeed and corn meal mixed. His meat is worth at least $75, or ten cents a pound, while it has cost him less than 7 cents per pound. Now suppose he had fed them corn which he had raised at a cost of less than 50 cents per bushel, his meat then would have cost him less than 5 cents per pound. Depending on our Western friends makes our living come high too high for anything less than 20 cent cotton. A GOOD PROPOSITION. (Charlotte Observer.) The Wilmington Star makes the interesting announcement that a number of Chicago capi talists and business men have formed a strong company for the purpose of undertaking ex tensive developments in the Wilmington section. It grows out of the corn show held in Wilmington last Fall. The Western people were struck with the possibilities of this sec- tion overjtne Middle west as a corn producing country. The Chicago company has not yet staUxi what section it will select for its development work, but The Star says the probabilities are thatjit will o'xjrate in the Wilmingtou territory, that its o(erations will be strictly along agricultural lines and that it will develop a large area of tine farmingjlands which it will col onize with thrifty German far mers from the Middle West. This is moving along the right lines. The Chicago people are doing business under the name of the North Carolina Company and have an office in Wilming ton. They will find splendid op portunities in this State for land development and the coloniza tion of the class of people they propose to send here. It is the Americanized farmer from the West that North Carolina wants We have the land for him. - i)uring the holidays a white man, watchman at a furniture factory in High Point was shot and killed by a negro. The ne gro was fireman at the plant and was keeping lire during the holi day recess and the watchman came around and showed him considerable money. The negro hid behind a box car and shot the watchman and robbed him A mob formed and was about to ynch the negro when he was taken to Greensboro for safe keeping. The greatest conundrum is "la life worth living?" Weal have to give- it tip. Subscribe for the News. gouhty ''amps Items From Our Regular Corres pondents and Neighboring' County Papers. ROCK CREEK ITEMS. Our school has suspended onei and perhaps two weeks for the holidays in order for the patrons of the school to build another room to our present building for the accommodation of our arge attendance of pupils. Our teacher Miss Ella Day un derwent a very successful oper ation today at the home of Miss Margaret Williams. The oper ation was the removal of an ab normal growth from her left shoulder, performed by Drs. Corpening and Moore of Granite Falls. Mr. Will Porch has moved his family to Rhodhiss, where they expect to work in the cotton mill this winter. Mr. Cavanaugh Flowers has sold his farm and will sell his personal property Saturday. He expects to move to Virginia. Our Sunday School is pro gressing nicely at this place un der the management of our sup erintendent, Mr. N. W. Wil liams. i ne general neaith ot our community at present is very good, as their is scarcely any sickness at this writing - Our boys seem to have the Virginia fever at present. Mr. Julius Haas and family have re cently moved there. Rattle Head. HIDSON NEWS. Mrs. John Hickman visited relatives at Granite Falls during the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. J. F, Goodrich spent the holidays in Hickory Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sullivan have been spending the holidays with relatives here. I hristmas passed on very quietly. There were Christmas trees at the Methodist and Lutheran churches, which were largely attended and contained many pretty and appropriate gifts. Both Sunday School? rendered good programs. On Sunday, the 2th inst., the children and grandchildren of Mr. M, M. Throneburg gave bim a surprise dinner. After ounaay ocnooi two oi his sons went in with him and entertain ed him so well in the sitting room that he didn't know what was going on in the cooking de partment, where the ladies were busy preparing and arranging the many good things brought from their several homes. At 12:30 p. m. he was called to din ner. Entering the dining room he found a long table surround ed by children and grandchild ren who had gathered without his knowing it. When he had somewhat recovered from his surprise, all were seated, thanks were given and everybody got busy. Their were eighteen present, as follows: Mr. M. M. Throneburg, Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Throneburg and children Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Throneburg Mr. and Mrs. K. P. Throneburg and child, Mr. and Mrs. E. T, Hickman and children, Miss Es sie Justice and Master Ira Jus tice. T. A health magazine has a fine article on "What and When to Eat." The when never troubles us, its the what II Items of Interest to The People of Lenoir and Cald well County. . Mr. A. G. Foard and wife went to Statesville Friday. Miss Sadie Jones came home from Raleigh for the holidays. Prof. James R. Conley is home from Durham for the holi days. Miss Celeste Henkel is visit ing her sister Mrs. Wadsworth in Charlotte. Mr. Sam Hall of Charlotte came up to spend Christmas day with home folks going back Fri day. Mr. Jeff B Courtney, who is n business in Petersburg, Vir ginia, spent Christmas with his parents. Col. David Farthing Clarke came down from Boydton, Va to visit relatives and friends during the holidays. Christmas day was by long odds the most disagreeable day of the winter, as far as weather is concerned. Misses Eleanor and Louise Clarke went to Statesville Fri day to visit their father and are expected back to Lenoir today. Mr. J. S. Adams has recently returned from Valmead, near Lenoir, to his old home near Ready Branch Wilkes Patriot Mr. Ralph P. Conley of Char lotte came up Christmas day to visit his mother, Mrs. H. P. Con ley and to enjoy a few days hunting. Mr. Will Munday and wife of Valmead, visited relatives at Iron Station during the holi days, going down the day after Christmas. Mr. E. F. Reid and wife and Mr. R. L. Gwyn and wife at tended the Calvert Beall wed ding at Linwood Saturday going down Friday. Mr. B. M. Childress, of Pat terson, Laldwell county, is spending some time in Elkin with his brother, Mr. J. E Childress. - Elkin Tribune. Mr. C. J. Cottrell and wife of Ikone( who have been visiting their son, Mr. Hill Cottrell here for a few days, went to Granite Falls Friday to visit relatives. President Mingea, of the Vir ginia Carolina Railroad Co., has announced his intention building a through trunk telephone line along their new railroad from Abingdon to Todd and from the latter place to Blowing Rock. Wilkes Patriot. The business men of Lenoir all express themselves as wel pleased with the nice holiday trade all enjoyed. It was heav ier than ever before notwith standing the fact that much hoi iday stuff was shipped in by ex press and parcel post. Many people think that an op en bar room would be preferable to the present mode of getting liquor into towns like Lenoir The amount of the stuff shipped into the dry state of North Car olina is amazing and the smaller towns come in for their ful share of it. Miss Helen Cunningham, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who was so seriously injured in an automooue wrecit a lew years ago, is visiting Mrs. G. F. Har per during the holidays. She has been teaching in Rocky Mount as a substitute for her sister for several months. L DGttf EIGHTY PERSONS CRUSHED TO DEATH. Calumet, Mich., Dec. 26. Eighty persons, mostly children were killed tonight at a Christ mas celebration of copper mine strikers in an Italian hall be cause of a needless panic caused by a false alarm of fire. While several hundred miners and their wives looked on, the children pressed eagerly to wards the stage to receive Christmas presents. At this point a man put his head in at the door of the hail and yelled! "Fire!" The cry was taken up by those in the hall. Every orfe started for the doors. The weaker were thrown to the floor and those behind tried to climb over those ahead of them. The stairway and other ave nues of escapes were blocked so effectually that those inside could not get out and those without could not get in to aid the panic-stricken crowd in the lall. It was some time before the panic subsided. The alarm was spread outside the hall by a few persons who had been near the door and es. caped unhurt. A crowd soon assembled and the work of clearing the hall was begun. The principal exit was a nar row stairway at the back of the hall. When this had been cleared of the bodies that filled it Jo the top and a quick account ing had been made it was found that 74 corpses had been piled up beside the hall building. It is thought that a dozen others were carried away by friends. i ne dead tnat were piled up beside the hall included 37 girls boys, 13 women and 5 men. Excited men and women stood about the building, some dazed by the sudden change from holi day festivities to tragedy, oth ers calling hysterically for miss ing children, and a few even threatening violence to the res cuers for keeping them back from the long row of bodies. There was not much work for the many doctors who hurried to the scene as soon as the alarm .i i i was spread, for those who were not killed in the first rush were held upright and safe by the very force of the onrush to wards the exit. Only three of the uninjured persons were tak en to the hospitals and a few- went home, assisted by friends STOPPING A DRAIN. (Wilmington Star.) it was announced in beptein ber that the August product of the Catawba Creamery was 20, 000 pounds of butter. , Probably that was the high water mark for a hardest month, but the probability is that July should generally be the record month However, if the annual output should be only 100,000 pounds, we can conceive what an impor tant industry the creamery is to the farmers who supply it and probably get 50 per cent of the money brought to Hickory by the creamery. It really may handle a larger output for al we know, but if the industry an nually keeps only $25,000 in Ca tawba, its value to the farmers can be appreciated. However not only the farmers, but the community is benefited, for it stops the money drain that here tofore went out of Catawba for Western and Northern butter Yes the lamb is more lovable than the hog, but the hog is generally much, fatter than the iamo. NEWS DEUMF INTEREST- Interesting Reading Matter of Local and National Affairs in Condensed Form. Bishop Collins Denny, of Rich . mond took a jdose of poison by mistake in his home in that place last week, but prompt ac tion with a stomach pump gave relief before the poison had tak en effect and he suffered no in convenience from the mistake. Two policemen of Salisbury, used a good deal of force in quelling a disturbance in a can dy kitchen in that place during the holidays and abused a young man right much. They were tried by the mayor for exceed ing authority and fined $25. each. An old man under thte influ ence of liquor, at Mt. Airy tried. to put a young man visiting his, daughter out of the house when the young man used a knife. he doctor found it necessary to use seventeen stitches to sew up the wounds on the old man's face and neck. A cripple man who made his iving by selling shoe strings and pencils has been missing; v from Greensboro where he was( ast seen for some days and the . . police think he has been robbed' and perhaps killed. The effects of the missing man were found n a vacant lot some days ago. but he has not been located. Reports indicate that the crops of 1913 will exceed any thing of the kind in the history of the country. The estimated value of all kinds of farm crops for year is ten billion dollars. The quantity produced in some ines has fallen off but the high prices increased the walue so as to bring the grand total to the ligh water mark. The little three year old daughter of Mr. Lee Carter of; Iredell county was shot and in- staut)y killed by her five year -old brother last week. The ' children were left in the house at play while the parents went- about their work. The boy, found his fathers gun and some shells and literally shot the top of his little sisters head off. Two men were riding along' , the public road near Hickory last Friday in an automobile when two other men in a buggy deliberately turned their horses across the road- blocking the way. When the auto men came the others drew knives and cursed them. Later the drunk en men in the buggy were ar rested and fined $25 and $50 for their conduct. ,V,? The Roaring Gap Hotel and one cottage was burned last Sat urday night and ' the fire is thought to have been the work of incendiaries, as tracks were seen in the snow near the build ings. The prbperty was worth about $10,000 and was about half covered by insurance, Mr. Alex Chatham of Elkin was, the owner of the cottage burned and was principal owner of the ho-, tel. -'v;.';; The board of aldermen ofv; Asheville are sitting as a court of impeachment, investigating charged against police judge Adams of that city, who is charged of standing in with cer tain liquor interests of the town and not doing his duty as. a,, judge. Some damaging facts have been brought out by the News-Gazette one of the papers' of the city and much excitement j is caused over the developments.' ' V S
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