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
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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.
History of Memorial Day
Memorial Day started with a service conducted at Proctorville on the Sunday morning just preceding May 30th and the service conducted at Rome on the latter date. It was customary to decorate graves in Rome cemetery during the
John Miller Charged for Selling Liquor
When the case of John Miller, colored, 44 years old, charged with selling intoxicating liquor, was called for trial in Municipal court Tuesday, the accused changed his plea from not guilty to guilty and Judge McCall ordered him to pay a fine of $100 and costs after hearing the circumstances which brought about Miller’s arrest.
Valentine Home Raided for Making Liquor
Armed with a search warrant issued from Probate court on a complaint made by A. Z. Blair, Deputy Sheriffs Frank Bennett and Wanzer? Rickey raided the home of Frank Valentine on the Powellsville road,
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...
Whitman Accused of Copper Still
Whitman Accused of Having Still - 2 Nov. 1921 Holly Whitman, proprietor of a soft drink establishment on Chillicothe street, near Eleventh, was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon on a charge of...
Bootleggers Wounded After Gun Duel
Five men wounded in gun battle following a whisky trial at Proctorville, Ohio. Wounded were:
- Alta Pine, farmer, shot five times and probably fatally wounded
- John Smith, shot through the leg
- Harry Pine, shot through the leg
- Dillie Edwards shot through the leg; and another man unknown shot through the body.
Seventy-Five Gallons of Mash Found
Seventy-Five gallons of mash was found when seeing a copper worm hanging up on the kitchen wall, a copper still peeking from behind the cookstove, 75 gallons of mash “working” in a large receptacle in a corner,
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.
N&W Train Demolishes Copper Still
“Still” Run Down by N & W Train; Owners are in Jail - 16 May 1921 Two alleged bootleggers, John Webb, aged 26? years and H. O. Adams, 49? years old, claiming to live in Adams county, six miles...
Minnie Copper Still Tossed
Owner Tosses Still Out of Car and Makes His Getaway - 12 March 1921 Marshall Frank Hall, of New Boston, “captured” a still Friday afternoon, but the owner made his getaway. Marshall Hall was at the...
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,...