Portland (OR) Oregonian, December 5, 1915, Section 5, p. 8. VACTIONLESS CLERK BUYS STORE Columbus, Indiana, December 1-The industrious, ambitious young man with high aims in life should take heart from this story: Louis Houeltke of this city, who has clerked in one grocery store for 24 years without being absent a single hour from his employment and who was always on time in the morning and never watched the clock, has just bought the store.