K.K.K. Masons, Who Rent Masonic Lodge to Other Kluckers, Draw Ire of Fellow Masons, Jan. 3, 1923

K.K.K. Issue Breaks into Masonic Lodge

Clinton, Dec. 31—There is a stir in the Masonic camp at Clinton. It looks like a hot time for the Kluckers.

At the last regular meeting, Friday night before Christmas, when the majority of Masons were not thinking of attending the regularly scheduled session, seven or eight Masons, the most of whom are said to be Kluckers, got together and held a lodge meeting and rented to the Kluckers, alias, the Fidelity club, the use of the Masonic hall for meetings.

When the news reached the ears of the other Masons, heat lightning began to play. There were some angry Masons in this burg and there is hardly a question that the action of the Klucker contingent in renting the hall to themselves will be repudiated with vim.

From the front page of The Lincoln County News, Lincolnton, N.C., Jan. 3, 1924