The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
JOYFUL REUNION,
PRETTY OCCASION.
MIR. and Mrs. Frank HaIbeck, sr., Of
kahoka Surrounded by Their
Children and GrandchiI-
dren Today.
A LONG Welded LIFE
Honored Clark County Residents will
Have Enjoyed Married Life
Fifty-Three Years in
July.

In the midst of the. group of their
children and their children's children,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Halbeck, ST., OF
kahoka are celebrating one of the
most happy occasions today that can
come to one amongst all great pleas
ures-their family's reunion. And the
pleasures of this occasion are entirely
complete, for seldom is it that a cor
pie that has enjoyed the fullness and
brightness of long happy life, can
at the end of more than a half cen
fury summon to them all of the chill
dren who have been born to them dur
ing life of wedlock that has been
blessed with health and success from
the beginning.
Today, however, Mr.. and Mrs. Hal
beck are enjoying the pleasure of t,eir
nine children's company on this coca
sion which will become a memorable
one for those who are participating.
from five states of the union, the chill
dren of this honored aad respected
aged couple have gathered to pay tri-
butte and respects to their father and
mother. who are among Clark county's
most distinguished citizens.
The OCCASIONS JOY.
This noon in one of Kahoka's best
hotels. a happy reunion of the children
and grandchildren of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Halbeck, ST., was held. Gath
cred about the tables, prettily adorned
and the other appointments complete
for this happy gathering, were twenty
six of the second and third genera
tions, occurring from the honored
father and mother, as the first. The
guests fingered long at the festal
board while "reminiscences of days
that are now fond memories Of the
past, were related and the merriment
of the day will continue well into this
evening, wien again the ones who
have gathered will depart once more
after having honored the happy couple
for whom this affair was delightfully."-
planned and carried out to it's fullest
extent.
A number of the children gathered
in keokuk this morning with the rel
atives here and together left for Ka-
hoka to spend the day. Mr.. and Mrs.
Halbeck as a fond souvenir of this
pretty event-their family reunion
received handsome Morris chair,
which was presented them during the
day, and which will be highly priced
as a constant remembrance of this &C.
casion
Were Married in keokuk.
Many of Keokuk's older citizens are
acquainted with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Halbeck of Kalhoka and join today in
wishing them many more years of
bright, happy welded life. Their mar
riage, which occurred in Keokuk July
2, 1857, is an event which is remem-
bered by some OF Keokuk's older resi-
dents.
Mrs. Halbeck, the happy mother of
the family, was formerly Miss Eliza
beth kimler. She became the bride of
Frank Halbeck in a residence near
the corner of Third and Exchange
streets, then owned by John B. knight
Afterwards this home was torn down
and the building material used in a
residence which now stands at the
corner of Fourth and Franklin.
Mr.. Halbeck was at that time a
wagon maker and followed this voca-
ton until about fifteen years ago. and
having accumulated comfortable
portion of this worlds goods, has
since lived quiet and retired life.
Fifty years Mr.. and Mrs Halbeck have
lived in Kaiaoka. There all of their
children We're born and growing to
young man and womanhood have
sought other fields, but all arranged
10 return on this date to reunite as
family.
The children of Mr.. and Mrs. Hal
beck, all of whom are living. are:
Mrs Chas. l.. Cribbs, of st. John.
Kan; Mrs. Sophia Hummel. OF Bould-
er, COL; Mrs. Chris Stopper, of Ka-
hoka. Mo-; George Halbeck, of Fred
ericRstown. Mo-; Charles Halbeck, of
keokuk; Mrs. Ed. S. Lotion, of Keo-
kuk; Frank Halbeck, Jr., OF Chicago.
III; Mrs. William Pinkley, of Keokuk.
Otto Halbeck, of ST. John. Kan.
Those who are participating in the
family reunion today in Kahoka are:
Mrs. Chas. L. Cribbs, st. John, Kan.
Mrs. Sophia Hummel, Boulder Col .
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Stopper, Elmer
Stopper, Misses Stella and Myrtle Stop-
per, Of Kahoka; George Halbeck.
Frederickstown, Mo-; Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Halbeck and sons, Leon and
Frank, of Keokuk; Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
5. Lotion and sons, Leroy and Edwin.
of Keokuk; Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hal
beck. Jr., Of Chicago; Mr.. and Mrs.
w. M. Pinkley and daughters, Maurine
and Mabel. of Keokuk; Mr.. and Mrs.
Otto Halbeck and son. Howard. of st.
John, Kan; Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Hum.
mel of Browning, Mo.