Somewhere in a box I have newspaper clippings from the early 1900s reporting on an incident that happened in Shady Bend. As I recall, apparently, there was a rumour that a local female school teacher was involved in immoral sexual conduct. One day, when she was on her way home, some men jumped her and tarred and feathered her. The newsclippings were given to me by my father. In the Feb. 10, 2000 Chicago Tribune, there was short interview with Marlin Fitzwater, press spokesman for presidents Reagan and Bush. The following is a quote from the article. "Inc" is the name of the column that featured the interview: [Fitzwater]..."And I just finished a book.... "Inc.—What's it about? "A—When my father died in 1995, in the last days, he started babbling about someone named Jay that no one in my family had ever heard about before. We discovered he was a long-lost uncle, my great uncle, who, in 1911, was one of 15 city fathers in this small town in Kansas who had tarred and feathered the schoolteacher for allegedly immoral conduct. She brought charges, and they were all convicted. "Inc.—What happended to Uncle Jay? "A—His father ran him out of the family and swore that no one in the family would mention his name again, and they didnt'—until my dad on his deathbed. So I fictionalize the schoolteacher—who was siad to have slept with one of her students. I made her a heroine in the end." Can anyone confirm that Fitzwater's story and the incident in Lincoln Co. are the same? Scott Holl