Regulator Gazette

July 27th, 1897

 

Headline:  Cowboy shootout and cookout is best ever......

 

The July posse featured a chicken cookout as well as plenty of shoot'n...The blessing was handled by the Reverend Dick Holliday.  Doc Clock commented that from the length of the blessing "Short and sweet" that the Reverend Holliday was obviously not a Baptist.  After some discussion no one could recall the last time that Reverend Holliday had been seen in church but since everyone was hungry the food was considered blessed....The cook'n was handled by Don"Emirel" Pelling and the table decorations ect were handled by Mrs.Dick Holliday....The food must have been good because when the smoke cleared all 48 pieces of chicken were history.   We had approximately 25 folks eat'n and of those 20 shot in the match......The award for the most chicken eaten was given to Slic Vic of the Flatwoods gang. We're still not sure if he ate it or just took it with him for supper but anyway he went back for  more than anyone else......  Thanks to all who attended

 

Headline: Spitoon Spitt'n is highlight of stage one.....

 

The Better Times Saloon was the sight of stage one which required the shooter to start at the card table with five jelli beans in their hand...At the buzzer the shooter had to put a jelli bean in their mouth and to try to spit it into the Official State Farm Insurance Spitoon.  (Since Richard Crouch gave us the spitoon, i had to put that in here)  When a bean was put into the spitton the shooter then had to flip over the card table and shoot ten pistol shots and 4 shotgun rounds.  My recollection is sort of hazey but i think the previous owner of the spitoon (Mr. Crouch) was the best spitter.....Sounds like he'd been practicing to me.......

 

Headline:  Assay office robbed at gunpoint

 

Slow Poke Sal must have seen the cookie jar funds getting low so she decided to rob the assay office which was just preparing a big shipment of gold dust....She stuck her 45 through the bars of the window and took care of the five guards......She then ran inside and plundered the safe of the gold dust and ran outside and mounted her horse Lightning....Just as she got to the edge of town she encountered deputies which required more pistol, rifle and shotgun shooting.......Slow Poke Sal was the high lady for this stage.......

 

Scores for the match went as follows.....

Cowgirls---Notorious Nora followed by Slow Poke.....the cowgirls scores were only three points apart in their scores so both shot very well....

 

Senior Cowboys:  Roberdale was the winner followed by Idaho Spud, Slick Vic, Doc Clock, Tom Two Feathers, Black Smith,  Tom Two Times.....

 

Cowboys....Flight one: Dick Holliday, Little Mix, Deacon Dave, Prosper Kid.

                 Flight two:  Slowhand, Lonesome Larry, Duplin Kid, Heck No.

 

The next match is schedules for August 10th at 9:00am......thanks to all who helped make our shoot'n and eat'n match a success.......Oh by the way i just remember that we found a straw cowboy hat at the range after the match....there were no bullet holes in it so we assumed the owner just forgot it.....it will be in the clubhouse. Don't forget.......Take a kid shooting........Ned Bluntline