Female Regulator

Started by W. Gray, May 09, 2008, 01:07:34 PM

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W. Gray

May 09, 2008, 01:07:34 PM
I came across this a couple years ago in an old newspaper.

Like so many reports in old newspapers, there was no follow up.


In September 1873, the wife of Boston, Kansas, Dr. F.S. Olney shot and wounded a man trying to defend a woman of questionable repute.

A Howard County newspaper described Mrs. Olney as a virtuous female regulator.

She and some of her female friends were trying to rid Boston of the obnoxious female when the shooting took place.
"If one of the many corrupt...county-seat contests must be taken by way of illustration, the choice of Howard County, Kansas, is ideal." Dr. Everett Dick, The Sod-House Frontier, 1854-1890.
"One of the most expensive county-seat wars in terms of time and money lost..." Dr. Homer E Socolofsky, KSU

twirldoggy

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May 09, 2008, 03:51:32 PM





The "virtuos" Mrs. Olney was better off home reading her Bible than out trying to kill someone.

W. Gray

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May 10, 2008, 08:56:53 AM
Boston had five churches so there could have been a lot of bible reading.

There was also a Boston Literary Society that met on Thursday nights at 7:30.
"If one of the many corrupt...county-seat contests must be taken by way of illustration, the choice of Howard County, Kansas, is ideal." Dr. Everett Dick, The Sod-House Frontier, 1854-1890.
"One of the most expensive county-seat wars in terms of time and money lost..." Dr. Homer E Socolofsky, KSU

twirldoggy

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May 10, 2008, 10:16:08 AM
Interesting details from so long ago.
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