June 30, 1904 – The most serious accident of Isaac Thacker living over the river near Bradrick Chapel at the American Car and Foundry Company in Huntington
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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.
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...