Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-05-05
THE OTHER SIDE.
One Of the Collyer School Board
Has His Say.


In your issue of April q, we find the
following, under the head of "Banner
Buglings:' "Rev. j. @. Elliott filed his
regular appointment at Banner,
Sunday. He tells your scribe that
the school board at Collyer have
closed the school house against him, be-
cause he did not ask them what he
should say when they asked him to talk
at the old settlers meeting. Gentlemen,
can you afford to treat the Methodists in
this manner? The Methodist church is
at Least respectable, and I think you may
yet be sorry for this move.
Signed, J. CANTREL b.
And in your issue of April %, we also
find the following: "The stewards and
leaders of the Collyer circuit of the NJ. E.
church had their regular business meet
ing at Banner last Saturday. After
transacting the regular business of the
church, the pastor in charge stated that
he had been refused the use of the school
house at Collyer by the school board to
preach in or to hold the quarterly meet
ings in, and asked for advice about what
to do in the case. He was advised to
shake the dust from his his feet and ap-
point the quarterly meeting for Banner.
Signed, J. CANTRE1 B."
The two articles above, We have no
doubt that a great many people in
Trego county have read, and such we
would kindly TASK to suspend judgment
until you hear the defense in the case. It
will appear to many that J. Cantrel B.
has set himself up as Judge in the case,
and in so doing he has heard the prose-
cution only: for in the last sentence of the
first article he says: II think you may
yet be sorry for this move" And in the
last sentence and last article, she was adj
vised to shake the dust from his feet"
Thus the World readers will see that he
has made himself judge, found the school
board guilty, and pronounced the SEN
tence. This has all been done by evil
dence brought in on the part of the pros
ecution. And now his honor, we pre-
sumo, wishes the good people of Banner
and the readers of the World to believe
that the school board of Collyer are bad
set of fellows.
We would like to ask his honor if he
thinks he has acted the part of a Christ
ian? yes, q gentlemen, to take what one
man says and condemn three, to the pub
lie, as the Judge has tried to do. We
also know that you handle the quill as an
expert, but we advise you in the future
not to be SO premature in codemning
school boards. The Collyer school board
do not claim infallibility as their fort. But
come toward like men, after this arrogant
Judge from Banner has sent out his edict,
and will say to the public that the above
articles not only misrepresent the Collyer
school board, as regards closing the
doors of the Collyer school house against
j. G. Elliott, but that they are false and
must have been but in circulation by the
electric scribe of Banner or his ally, for
some selfish motive. The school house
has never been refused to any religious
And had those who de-
light in rushing into newspaper notoriety,
called on the board prior to the publish
ing of the above two articles, we do not
hesitate to say that they never would
have been published
We are willing as school board, TO
give true statement of the facts in the
above case before any competent tribu-
nal or before any disinterested parties,
and let them decide who shall have the
honors Of shaking the dust
rrom their feet, and thus end the case.
Respectfully,
Mx,rnxR OF COLLIER SCHOOL BoARn
Our fans are elegant.
MARSHALL & UTToRD.