Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1913 — Brother Crampton Don’t Consider Sex a Misfortune. [ARTICLE]

Brother Crampton Don’t Consider Sex a Misfortune.

Brother A. B. (Dell Champion, of Delphi, visited Monticello recently and Brother Bruce Van Buskirk, of the Herald, indulged in the following pleasantry: “A- B. Crampton, the Sagamore of the Citizen-Times sanctum at Delphi, came over here Wednesday with his wife and daughters, who were guests at the Rawlins-Price-Lbwe reception. The only thing that prevented Del from attending the reception himself was his unfortunate sex. He had to content himself with, the smell of the print shops and such society as he could find there.” To which Brother Crampton, with all the spirit and a man a third his age, replied: “Back up, Bruce, on that unfortunate sex proposition, for with his gendal disposition and inborn desire to be universally accommodating and yield cheerfully to seductive influences, if his sex had been different, he would have been ruined years ago.”

Secretary Garrison asked the congressional military committees to guarantee an additional appropriation to take care of the Union and Confederate veterans at the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg next month. Those in charge of the celebration notified the secretary that 50,000 veterans would be there instead of 40,000, as at first anticipated.

High school and secondary school sororities or Greek letter societies, are barred from membership in Alpha Delta Phi, national sorority, i Resolutions to this effect were unanimously adopted at an executive meeting of the sorority at the Auditorium hotel in Chicago Thursday afternoon. ,

Chief Justice White Thursday granted an appeal to the supreme court for Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison, labor leaders, convicted of contempt of court in the noted Bucks Stove and Range case. The appeal will be reard after October.

Denmark and Haiti have accepted )he peace proposal made by Secre,ary Bryan, which provided for an nternational commission to investigate disputes between nations. These make a total of seventeen foreign governments that have agreed to the proposal.

One hundred and fifty-eight automobiles have been stolen in Chicago sipce Jan. 1, and all except seventeen have been recovered by detectives detailed on that work, according to figures given out at the detective bureau.

More than 28,000 men were thrown out of work and Chicago’s building operations involving the ultimate expenditure of $30,000,000 were tied up as a result of a lockout ordered by the Building Construction Employers’ association.