Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-03-07
Granite township.

Mr., EDITOR IF you will permit we
will ask few lines in your valuable col
umns. We appear in behalf Of the in
nOcent people of District 81 who, in an
article in the HERALD a few days ago,
has suffered a vicious onslaught Of NOR
al burglary, to what appears to US a
midnight assassin, we mean the article
by NeVerseen We have no fears in
saving that the article is very highly
cOIOreG with falsehOOds from beginning
to end. Judging from his article, the
logical conclusion is that the Butites
haven't got the itch, for he says they
are expert in treating the itch, to which
we say we think if that is so, they who
have it should apply to them at once for
a receipt and save themselves of many
hard scratches. But he has charged
his neighbOrs with robbery and heavy
charge, which, If not true, subjects
himself to q charge, and we emphati-
cally deny the charge and declare 1t
false. and we believe it an attempt to
do great personal injury. You see there
is a pointed contradiction in his state
ment. He intimates that pubic SEMI
ment here is against what he calls the
Butites, and yet he charges all except
a few (uf us) with perjury. Robbery, If
public sentiment here is as he says 1t
will sustain him, let him indite them,
for robbers should be treated as such
But we are not robbers, just look at the
specifications. They used some wool at
the meet ngs which no man with any
good taste for civil or moral society
would object to. But he has greatly
misrepresented even this, he says that
he don't know that the board was asked
to open the school house for religious
meetings. Does he suppose that his
neighbOrs are mere sycOyhants or Oblig-
ed TO pay hOmeage to a school board d.
The appointment of the Butites men
toned, was request by an old feeble
man to announce appointment and was
absolutely refused in writing with one
of the boards name TO It, and further
all the neighbOrs know that this man
has never been known to attempt to
make discOTd, as Mr.. NeVerseen says
ne has. Robbery what are they guilty
of, look at another specification. They
didn't help build the church yet they
preach in 1t. Of course we do that, out
of courtesy the United Brethren, neigh
Dor like, invited US, and we appreciate
their friendliness, we do the same TO
them as a people. But if you wish TO
know how far short of the truth he has
come In this ask them who own the
church, one of whom is a Jealous lady
and also a subject OF his vicious tyrOles
on civil and moral sOciey. Robbery, can
he have reference to the decision Of
honorable Judge P 81, who in the county
court decided a certain case so that
/ some one did not het q handsome little
fee that they expected of the poor dis
/ trIcs; if so we can't help that. Can be
mean that we robbed in the purchase
/ of the material for our school house, If
so let him say so. One of our mos
+ honorable men and a mechanic, made
/ out the bill and we bought and paid fOl
/ it even 20 tine paint and stove, and haC
/ SO left. If he can prove his charge LEI
/ him come to the front or else for eVel
/ be considered a notorious coward anC
I that he has Wilfuliy lied and don't cal
( this a sead of from Butte for he knows
nothing O8 this.
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