The Russellville Democrat., 1885-05-21
Letters from the People
Some Things about Appleton.

of F. recently, we wish to present a few thoughts which we think will be beneficial to all concerned.
 We are moving of like charm in this part of Gods immortal heritage. We have had some confusion in our ranks, caused by two of our most prominent Brothers, Burris & Hen kle, standing picket for the negroes during the late excitement in Con way county. Blu. they, Burris & Henkle have since denied part with which they were charged, and have made all necessary apologies for things which they could not deny. That having been satisfactorily set tied, we are now coming down to business.
 We held meeting in our new mammoth store house yesterday, { May 9th,) and having sent out to our sister lodges for assistance we had quorum. It having been some time since we had met, part of the members were exceedingly hungry. They first proceeded to devonr the remainder of oysters and crackers on hand, after which we introduced Bro. Chris Bates. He Bates being of pure blue, and having always sup ported our ticket, there is no ques- tion about his being entitled to the crackers of this grand order. We then took up the regular order of business, which is to abuse, traduce and execrate Kuhn, Hlllis and oth- CTS who oppose us politically or otherwise. Next come the question Tn regard to the school election which we have been discussing for some time. The majority of our members here think that tue present instruct ors are not fit to teach from the sIm- pie fact that they inculcate morality, and especially do they teach their pupils not to lie. As honesty and intelligence are incompatible with our designs, it is obvious that for us to survive, we must of necessity ex- terminate such teachers. To prove that these are facts, we will, without fear of contradiction, assert inst there is not one young man who has attended this school that will under any circumstances participate with us. Oh detestabIe education and democracy Bro. Burris in his cele- brated speech yesterday said that he (Burrls) had worked hard for three long years to stop Kuhn from teaching school and fighting gnats. And now thanks God that the time is at hand. Bro Burris also stated that his Bro. Frank would teach at thirty dollars per month. We here know Bro. Jno. Burris to be a man of great mental calibre, and suppos- ing his Bro. Frank to be man of no less talent and of the same mettle. We think that if we could secure him as our teacher that those placed under his supervision would ere long gravitate down to level with us. With this in view, we are determined to elect B. of F. school directors on next Saturday. Some of the weak brothers seemed to think that the attempt would be useless, but Bro. Henkle in his usual eloquent manner encouraged us by saying that we would catch the fine halrs mapping. He { Henkle) also asserted positive ly that he would be here on the day of election and throw himself across the table, and if there was any stuff ing the ballot box that he would do It. With this assurance from our Bro., we have decided to meet one night this week for the purpose of nominating two men of our order for school directors.
 Oak Grove lodge IS in a prosper. ing condition. They met few days since and had some excellent speech es from J. NJ. Hollabaugh and oth CTS. TheIr text was, Kuhn, Hills and Lemley. These eminent speak CTS talked to the edifying of all that were present. Now we wish to say to the Oak Grove Brethren: if you want to hear your text fully expound ed by men who can play with lan- guage in its boldest forms, and strongest illustrations, come to Ap- pleton, and hear Henkle. Burns and Jackson handle the subject.
 Look out brethren, for reply to that communication in the Russell vile DEMOCRAT of April 9th, expos ing our designs in and about Apple ton. The said reply was gotten up by the most talented men of our lodge, and has been endorsed by quite number of our members and some very prominent ones too, such as Bros. Russell of butcher knife fame ard CIV Jackson who will curse fine haIred man in minute or less time, especially if the man is not there. Now we want to say with refer ence that communication which de. nounced and exposed us that we notwithstanding the things which it contained have been talked through out the community became greatly enraged when we knew that the same had been published. Some of our gritty Brethren affirmed that they would whip the man who wrote | it, but this menace failed to have the desired effect for immediately after it was known these indomitable democrats here began to talk like the article was an enviable one and