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.