Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1916 — ENGAGEMENT BY MAIL FAILS [ARTICLE]

ENGAGEMENT BY MAIL FAILS

Each Had Sent Picture of Movie Btar to Other and Both are Disappoint Hagerstown, Md.- Meeting here as s convenient point in preparation for the marriagd that had been arranged Gaxougij correspondence inaugurated as* a result 'ffifttrlmonial newspaper method, - Miss Esther Gulbranson of Minneapolis, a stenographer, srfß W. Benjamin from a small town In the west, decided that it was a fiftyfifty disappointment, and retdVned to their respective homes. In their exchange of photographs each had had recourse to a picture of a good looking movie star. Benjamin told Miss Gulbranson that he was compelled to leave, in a hurry on a business trip to the east. Then ho paid her hotel bill along with his own ?.nd sent her a telegram expressing regret and promising to see her in the tall- To the hotel clerk Benjamin is said to have confided that Miss Guliranson and the pliotqgraph that had attracted him to Hagerstown "didnt lit" at all and that he wasn’t going t.i marry her. - A Miss Gulbranson did not feel obliged to him in the least for paying her hotel bill, as she had plenty of money fpi all her expenses “No wopder I did not recognize him,” she said, “for It was a picture of a ‘matinee idol’ he sent me. But It was a case of fiftyfifty." . she added with a smile.