Last October, more moonshine stills were confiscated in Ohio than in West Virginia which long has been a butt of jokes and cartoons on the bottling of “mountain dew.”
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Moonshine Stories 1953
Three Stills Found in Hills Near Ironton - Federal agents and Sheriff Carl Rose of Lawrence County, Ohio, raided three moonshine stills in the hills near the Ohio River Friday, the first such raid...
Moonshine Stories 1951
Clyde Adkins of Greasy Ridge, Ohio, had what federal alcohol tax agents described as a thriving moonshine, business. Agents said he made the brew in a 110-gallon still on his farm, trucked it to Huntington, and then sold
Moonshine Stories 1940
Moonshine Stories 1940 – On motion of Charles M. Love, Jr, Assistant United States District Attorney, the court released Clovis Adkins, Denver Harmon, and Granville Brammer, all of near Greasy Ridge, Lawrence County, Ohio.
Moonshine Stories 1938
Two Bound Over in Liquor Cases Pike Countian [Ohio] in Jail; Oakley Montgomery Out on $2,000 Bond Two men were held for Federal Grand Jury investigation Tuesday when arraigned before J. Julian...
Moonshine Stories 1937
Moonshine 1937 – Fourteen persons were nabbed in a raid on a Third street home in Ironton, Ohio, Saturday. Mae Davis Lewis is charged with having untaxed whisky in her possession.
Moonshine Stories 1936
Moonshine 1936 – Federal agents here, operating in Lawrence county, destroyed a 60-gallon still, which they uncovered in Boneyard Hollow near Ironton. No arrests were made
Moonshine Stories 1935
Moonshine Stories 1935 – Raiding the still, they found two men operating a 100-gallon kettle with copper coils, they said.
Moonshine Stories 1933
Newton Roth of Lawrence County, Ohio pleaded guilty to an “Information” and was given a suspended sentence of nine months in jail for violating the national prohibition act. Dayton Herald 2 June 1933
Moonshine Stories 1932
Moonshine 1932 – Proctorville, Ohio – The village of Proctorville was without its “police force” as a result of a raid by federal dry agents. Marshal Orville Carson, his deputy, Melvin Ness, and Ben Dunsee, township constable were in jail at Portsmouth in default of $10,000 bond each, awaiting hearing on liquor charges.
Moonshine Stories 1931
Shot during a moonshine raid in 1931, Jack Dalton, 45, elected marshal of Coal Grove, Ohio, was wounded in the left arm and side Friday afternoon. Dalton is in an Ironton, Ohio, hospital and will recover. Dalton was accompanied by E. L. Smith, federal agent, when the shooting occurred.
Moonshine Stories 1930
Conspiracy, manufacture, possession of liquor and a moonshine still and conduct of a nuisance at Greasy Ridge, Ohio, is charged against Dustin and Warren Goodall, Howell Neal, Herman Hawthorne and Russell Adkins, Greasy Ridge, Lawrence County, Ohio
Moonshine Stories 1929
Four alleged moonshiners were caught in the act of operating a huge still on the banks of the Ohio river near Haverhill Tuesday evening by county officers
Moonshine Stories 1928
With few exceptions, all persons arraigned yesterday to answer to Indictments returned against them by the recent Federal grand Jury were from Ironton and Lawrence County, Ohio.
Moonshine Stories 1927
Mat. C. Wilson federal dry agent, of lronton and formerly located here with federal and US prohibition agents, is in a serious condition. In the Kessler-Hatfield hospital at Huntington, as the result of burns sustained Thursday afternoon about two o’clock while destroying a still near Bradrick on Greasy Ridge road near Proctorville, Lawrence county.
Moonshine Stories 1926
An ingenious underground moonshine plant, almost impregnable against discovery, was unearthed early yesterday by Federal Prohibition Agents Homer Joy and Mack. B. Lilly,
Moonshine Stories 1925
With Grand Jury in session and composed of several women, it was indeed a bad time to be trifling with “Mountain Dew” but that didn’t seem to worry James Isom, 40
Moonshine Stories 1924
The outrages are said to be result of a crusade against Lawrence County, Ohio moonshiners and bootleggers. Mrs. Shultz alleges she was threatened Saturday when she reported that liquor runners were speeding their automobiles past her home.
Moonshine Stories 1923
In a moonshine raid on a shanty boat anchored in the Ohio river at the mouth of Turkey Creek Saturday night, county officers seized a seventy gallon capacity copper still destroyed twenty barrels containing fermentation and arrested John
Moonshine Stories 1922
Jan. 23, 1922 – Frances Smith wishes the Irontonian to state that there was no wine found in her place, which was raided by the police few days ago. She claims there were several gallons of berry juice found, some of it four years old, which she makes into jelly as she needs it.
Lowdenback Raid for Moonshine
Still Found; Owner Missing - December 1921 Armed with a search warrant, the police Friday evening raided the home of Vernon Lowdenback on Lincoln Street and uncovered a ten-gallon copper still of...
Wife Turns in Husband for Making Moonshine
Wife Gives Police Tip That Her Husband, Howard Hutchinson, Has Been Operating Still; Both Arrested - 23 May 1921 The police captured a complete and up-to-date whiskey-making outfit consisting of a...
Shanty Boat Has Moonshine Still
On his plea of guilty to a charge of unlawfully manufacturing intoxicating liquor, Ernest Park, was handed a fine of $1,000 and costs by Judge Sprague in Municipal court Saturday morning.
Moonshine Liquor Plant Seized
Two Make Getaway but Officers Say They Were Identified - Plant Is Seized - 1921 Four men giving their names as Thurman Thompson, Charles Odle, Charles Clifford, and Harry Beckman were arrested and...
Notorious WV Moonshiner Caught
Notorious West Virginia Moonshiner Caught at Louisa - 1920 R. A. Stone arrested a man her Wednesday evening said to be known as the “king bee” amongst moonshiners and bootleggers in Boone county,...
Moonshine Still Found in the Penitentiary
An embryo moonshine distillery has just been unearthed at the penitentiary it is reported. Guards, it is said, caught Charles Mims, Scioto county forger, stealing corn and molasses from the prison kitchen. Mims, who is said to be a former Kentucky moonshiner,
Murder of a Moonshiner
Huntington, W. Va., Nov. 1. – Peter Bowles, a moonshiner, and ex-convict, was murdered yesterday, and just before he died accused Thomas Trail and Albert Maynard.
Bowles throat was slashed, and his body riddled with bullets. The murder was committed at the home of Trail at Burnside. According to the statement made before he died, Bowles staled that Maynard and he were Infatuated with Trail’s daughter. The two met at the latter’s homes.
Stamper Moonshine Captured
U.S. Marshall Geo. W. Castle, of Grayson and a posse, captured a large moonshine plant last Thursday. It was being operated by French [Frank?-mm] Stamper.
Bootlegger Liquor and Moonshiners
Bootleggers, liquor, and the making of moonshine – Most of the following stories happened in Southern Ohio, Eastern Kentucky, and West Virginia, with the focus being on the area of Lawrence County, Ohio, and the surrounding counties.
Octobers to Remember
The tenth month was a busy one for important events in this city years ago…It was on the first of October 1879 that “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” showed at Union Hall,