Hum Runners In South Carolina
Tells Story Of Flowing Booze
S*;,s State Capital Is Liquor Center,
Some Buyers From
This Region.
Yorkvillr Enquirer.
Columbia.--“'Boozy' Berkley coun
ty” which Governor Richards Is said
to have some lime ago spoken of as
a “festering sore." is not the wettest
ipot in South Carolina; if informa
tion that has come to this reporter
is correct Anri there, is every reas
on to believe tijat.il is correct, be
cause it comes from one who is on
he inside of the liquor racket in
South Carolina According; to the
eerrorpordont's informant, and ad
mitted rum runner, an joint jostler
of many years-of experience, tire
wettest part of the state is Colum
bia and HRrehiand bounty. Even the
drinking ToTks in Charlotte, N. C.,
no long*'?''get their supply from the
famous South Mountains of North
Carolinii'fait dt comes from Rich
land County—the Pontiac section of
Richland, where right today no less
than halt a derail big “steamer
stills” rtm by expert distillers, are
manufacturing hundreds of gallons
of hootfeh a day. TWA ninf runner,
a chap about 29 years of age—an
intelligent fellow, the son of a good
citizen who makes a salary' of 15,
000 a year; gave the correspondent
of The YorkviHe Enquirer the ‘how
down" on quite a bit of the liquor
business in Columbia and Richland
county injllie course of a conversa
tion the other day. Ife told the
ntory voluntarily and there is no
reason in the .world why he should
not tell ,th« truth, the whole truth
.and nothing but, the iruth. This
reporter of course will not reveal his
name: becAuie he bids fair to be
good for much other information
about the liquor traffic, and then
again because the writer never has
and never will violate a confidence.
"This liquor made here in Rich
land county," said the informant
who will be called “Jack” because
that name will do as good as any
other, “is good liquor, if there is any
good. By that I mean the great
We
Never
Feel
The
Edge
faulteHpg business
conditions_ because
the superiority of
Sinclair gas and
Opaline ’ oil insures
constant demand
for these products.
Motorists every
w Ire r e recognize
Sinclair gas and
Opaline oil as pro
ducts of proven
merits, "whose ex-'
cellencyiias practic
ally revolutionized
motoring.
bulk of it is made by expert distill
ers and manufactured out of pure
corn mash on copper stills. It is not
made in such a terrible hurry. There
is no need to hurry. Why I could
show you here within the corpor
ate limits of Columbia house in
which more than 2,000 gallons Is
stored. At least it was a few days
ago and I haven't heard of Sheriff
j Alex Heise’s men or the federats or
i the rurals seizing any 2.000 gallons
Iof liquor in Richland lately, have
you?
"If. belongs to T. K.” Jack con
tinued. "He has a big steamer out
fit over in that Pontiac section and
if he has ever been cut up. I never
heard of it. Liquor cars come to his
still from Greenwood. Greenville,
Spartanburg, York, Gastonia, Char
lotte and even from Orangeburg and
Charleston, Aiken and Augusta. Why
just a short while ago I hauled 200
gallons in a Chrysler special built,
up to Rockingham, N. C. The 2.
000 gallons stored in the house here
in town I just told you about Is
stored there because it is surplus.
In other words, the supply is greater
than the demand, but the demand
will pick up now that Christmas is
almost here.
Several Of Them.
As I think I said before T. K.
is not the only man who has a
steamer outfit In the Pontiac sec
tion. I know others. The plants run
day and night. Operators have tents
to sleep in; plenty of blankets to
keep them warm; plenty of good
food to eat and, in fact everything
is jake. The distillers seem to have
almost as good a thing of it as the
owners of the steamers. Last time
I heard T. K.. was paying his head
distiller 17 cents for every gailcn
he turns out. 1 have known him
to pay that fellow over $500 for a
week's distilling. Helpers are paid
around $25 a week and board which
ain't so bad for common laborers,
you will doubtless agree. The li
quor after it is made is put in half
gallon fruit jars, neatly packed
twelve to a case. The prevailing
price of $2 a gallon in lots of sixi
gallons and more. Nearly every':
boot legger that comes here for a
load takes from twenty-five to one
hundred gallons.
“I don’t know but I have an idea •
that more liquor is drunk in Colum
bia than any other town in this
state. One cf my jobs for a good
while back with T. K.. has been
hauling liquor to pint bootleggers at
different points here in town. They
take from one to two cases at a
SECOND AND LAST
TAX ROUND FOR
192S
I am making this my second and last round for
the collection of 1928 taxes. As my term of office
expires soon I am very anxious to finish with the
taxes as early as possible. I will thank all tax payers
to see me and settle on this round.
No. 1 Township, Tuesday, December 11th,
Brackett's Store, 8:30 to 10:30 A. M.
No. 1 Township, Tuesday, December 11th,
Jones Store, 11:00 A. M. to 1 P, M.
No. 2 Township, Tuesday, Dcember 11th, Jolleys
Store, 1 to 2:30 P. M.
No. 2 Township, Tuesday, December 11th, Boil
ing Springs, 2:30 to 4:30 P. M.
No, 7 Township, Wednesday, December 12th,
Mooresboro, 9 to 11 A. M.
No. 7 Township, Wednesday, December 12th,
Lattimore, 11 A. M. to 1 P. M. •
No. 8 Township, Wednesday, December 12th,
Polkville 1:30 to 4:30 P. M.
No. 8 Township, Thursday, December 13th, De
light, 9 to 11 A. M.
ISo. 11 lownship, Ihursday, December 13th,
Casar, 11 A. M. to 4 P. M.
No. 10 Township, Friday, December 14th, Car
penter’s Store, 9 to 11 A. M.
No. 10 Township, Friday, December 14th, John
T Warlick's Store 11 A. M. to-2 P, M.
No. 9 Township, Friday, December 14th, Dixon
& Lutz’s Store, 2:30 to 4:30 P.-M.
No. 9 Township, Monday, December 17th,
Lawndale, 9 A. M. to 12 Noon.
No. 9 Township, Monday, December 17th, Fall
ston. 1 to 4 P. M.
No. 5 Township, Tuesday, December 18th, Waco,
1 to 4 P. M.
No 3 Township, Wednesday, December 19th,
Earl, 9. A. M. to 12 Noon.
No. 4 Township, Wednesday, December 19th,
Grover, 1 to 4 P. M.
No. 4 Township, Thursday, December 20th,
Town Office, Kings Mountain, all day.
No. 4 Township. Friday, December 21st, East
Kings Mountain, all day.
HUGH A. LOGAN
SHERIFF
AND TAX COLLECTOR
Held In Rothstein Investigation
j«orge (Hump) McManus—"the man whose
»tory would clear up Rothstein mystery in
:hree minutes”—voluntarily gave himself up
o police for questioning. Here he is (arrow)
icing arraigned as a suspect in the gambler’s
rilling. Left, Mrs. Ruth Keyes, pretty Chi
cago blonde who drank with men in room 309
of Park Central Hotel shortly before tragedy
occurred. Inset, “Nigger Nate” Raymond,
one of four men held in $100,000 bail each as
material witnesses.
(Icier national Newsreel)
time—rarely ever more than two
cases at once. You see that is twelve
gallons. They pay $2 a gallon.
Usually two o/ us are engaged in
making deliveries, one of us to drive
the car and the other to hop out
and place the hootch on the leggers'
porch or whereever he wants it and
to collect the money. No easy Job
to tote a couple of cases of liquor at
one time. Look at these muscles.
And they were firm. hard, velvety
muscles on Jack's arms.
‘There's good money in the hootch
business for the pint 'fellows. They
get $1 a pint for the stuff and they
sell short pints—that is a twelve
ounce bottle fer a pint instead of a
sixteen. Consequently the gallon
of liquor for which they pay me
and T. K., $2 runs thirteen pints on
their hips- or store it in joints of
which there are scores here, a good
many: of them on Main street. The
fellow who runs a jcint rare’y ever
keeps any liquor in the place. He
always manages to secure a stand
/where there is a vacant house next
i door. His liquor is stored in the
other vacant house. He has a soft
.drink and lunch'stand making. :up
j the joint. The booze is hoisted from
the other house as the customers
i come When the law raids the joint
; there is rarely anything ever found
unless It should be some cii'.smer
who has bought a pint or a qua-t
is caught, by the law with the goods
on him. By the way, I don't know
whether you ever noticed it or net:
but it is a fact that most of the
liquor raids in the city are made on
either Friday or Saturday. If you
don't believe it study the daily pa
pers of Sunday for a few weeks.
Beer At 25 Cents.
‘"An extensive business is done
here in the. city in the mchUfac
ture and sale of home-brew or beer,”
Jack went on to tell1 the newspaper
man. "This home brew is a blamed
sight stronger than any Budweiser
or Schlitz ever was in the oid days.
It sells Tor twenty-five cents a bot
tle. I know a chan who manufac
tures the stuff here just off Main
street on a big scale, a complete
capping outfit, thousands of bott’es
and case after ease of home brew
stored The cellar is well lighted
There is plenty of room to work in
putting Up the stuff, which costs
him about a dime a bottle. A neatly
concealed trap door leads to the cel
lar. He never has been caught. If
there is a Columbia cop shrewd
enough to catch him I don’t know
WORRIED A LOT
Han-Down, Nervou*, Appetite
Gone, Lady Shows Great
Improvement After
Using Cardui.
Waterloo, S. C.—“I took Cardui
at Intervals for three, years* aru~
have been in good health since last
fall,” Bays Mrs. Noble «J. Hayes, who
lives near here. “My Improvement
after taking a course of this metu
•'ine was really remarkable.
“I am much stronger and can ac
complish so much more work now.
My weight increased twenty pounds
and my color is fresh and good.
"For a long time I had been feel
ing poorly. Some days I dragged
around the house -and had -not
enough energy to do my housework.
"1 worried a lot about myself. I
did not seem like myself, and" my
nerves were all on edge, l did not
sleep well, and my appetite left me.
“I found Cardui to be an excel
lent tonic. After I had taken it
a few weeks, I began to pick up
and to gain in weight and strength.
"Now I am in fine health. I have
recommended Cardui to many of my
friends, and shall continue to dc
so.”
For over 50 years. Cardui ha
been used with success and reeo:.-.
mended by thousands of women l'c
weakness and similar ailments.
Try it for your troubles!
At all drug stores. NC '
him and I knew 'em ail.
Bi; Business In B ttlr*.
‘ I am' thinking of a peculiar; an
"r'e to this booze bavin :ss here in
"the capital,'’ Jack w at on. "I
••how a guy here who never took a
rink in his life nor sell a drop cf
.liquor. But he is crewing rich out
of booze. He deals in bottles and
every day he makes the round of
the joints taking crder,s for bottles,
mostly pints and half pints. He
0 id ;• ’• you a gre w or a truck load,
.it Is all the same to him. Ho knows
ell the jokit pf&tlers and all the hio
pocket fellows. He also sells f-u t
ja-3. mostly half gallons, to the dis
tillers around Pontiac.
"How ail these fellrws get by I
! ain't saying, if I know." said Jack.
‘I never was a fellow to pry into
; the other fellow's business. But they
jdo. You recall that some t rue ago
| a big steamer outfit was cut up in
: the Ccugaree swamps.. Well, I know
i to my own certain klowledge that
the operator cf that steamer man
ufactured and sold 3.750 gailcns of
hootch before the place was cut up
by federal officers—not state! And
‘ that operator didn’t cake a cuss
I about their cutting up his place. He
1 ad already made his. .
“Oh I could tell you plenty more
COMMISSIONER'S SALE OF LAND
By virtue cf a judgment made in
special proceedings No. 1533 and by
the judge of superior, court in same
action entitled: In' Re: Amanda
War lick. Widow, et al. vs, Lula El
more. et cl., the undersigned com
missioner will offer for sale at pub
lic auction to the highest ladder a:
the court house dcor m Shelby. N
C. at 12 M.
December 21. 1528,
i ne loiiowiQg described lands, said
iands. betas all the lands'belonging
•to the estate of J. F. War.itk. de
ceased. except the dower, ar d lying
in No.. 10 township, Cleveland coun
ty, North Carolina.
: Tract No. 1:. Be sinning at a. pine
knot, corner of dower at . edge of
public road in John T. Warlick's
line, and runs N. b E. 14 Doles to a
pine; thence N. 26 h E. 125.9 poles
to a stone, dower corner; thence
with dower lme S. 82 it E. 86.2 poles
to a stone in John Pruett's line;
thence with Pruett's line S. 2 W. 106
poles to a stone, corner of Cleveland
Mill and Power company lands
thence S, 9 W. 32 poles to a red
oak; thence N. 76 W. lGd_• poles to
a hickory; thence N. 69'. W 30
poles to a cedar, effner' d* dower
traett thence N. 36 E 18.1 poles to
a poplar: thence N. 5i.- W. 17.9
poles to a stone; thence N 67 1-5
W. 15.9 poles, to an iron stake 20 feet
from the barn: thence N. 81 W.
72.81 poles to the place Of Beginning,
j containing 72 acres more v less.
Tract No. 2: Begining at a pine
stump southwest comer of the 13
acre dower tract, and runs S. 22';
W 38'poles to aSiNroirstake- thehce
S. 37 U E. 24.7 poles to a rost oak
in. Decatur. vVariich’s, line; • thence
N.- 70 E. 4.T polev fo a* black gum;
thence S. 48 E. .47' _• poles, to a stake
and pointers: thence s. 6£ E 12
poles to a post oak; thence S. 45.1-,
E. 2.24 poles to a dogwood: thence
N. 67.4 E. 24V* poles to a stone;,
thence N, 43L* E. 44- poles to a
hickory; thence N. 62 h W. 30 poles
to a cedar: thence N. 64 2-3 W. 86.3
poles to the beginning, containing
32 8 acres, more or less.
The aforesaid described lands
will be resurveyed and sold in ac
cordance with said survey. The
terms of sale are one-half cash on
ay of sale, the balance with In 12
months.
This November 23. It28.
AMANDA WARLTCK, Com
mlssioner. '
New ton & Newton, At'tys. j
about booze as she is boomed in
Columbia and Richland." concluded
Jack. But what's the use'.1 Ta'.k
about prohibition and note the
scare heads in the:papers when same
little -fish gets caught! The big fel
lows never get caught around here.
And it is they who make the ma
zuma! ••
Birth Announcement.
Born. Nov. 30 1928 to Mr and
Mrs. H. C. Ponder a fine son,
| Bobbie Lee.
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EXECUTOR'S SALE
Pursuant to n order of ihe su
perior court, Cleveland .county.
North Carolina, made in special
proceedings entitled S. A. Ellis and
IT O. Randall, cxcctitots vs. W. O
Ellis, et a!, the undersigned will of
fer for sale . public auction at the
court house in Shelby. N. C. on the
8th day of December, 1928 at 12
O'clock noon, or within legal hours,
the following described real estate,
the same being the lands belong
ing to the estate o* John YV. Ellis,
deceased:
First Tract: Containing 19 acres, 3
reds, and 8 poles lying on the wa
ters of Main Broad river m No. 3
township and adjoining the lands of
Bud Hardin, ai d the late John W
Ellis, and others. Beginning on a
stake and pointers m the edge oi
the Ellis Ferry road and running
thence a new line south 66 poles to
a small pine in the old line; thence
along it west 62 poles to a rock cor
ner, Mrs. EUis corner in west edge
of said road; thence up the several
courses of the road northwest to the
beginning ■ less one acre sold on
west side to F. G. Ellis. >
Second Tract; Containing 36-.
acres lying on the waters of Main
Broad river in No. 3 township, and
adjoining the lands of E. H Put
nam, Bud Hardin, the late John W
Ellis and others. Beginning at a
black gum in Wiley's line, ai d runs
thence with said line south 83 poles
passing Wiley's ccrner and the
Ramseur line to a stone in said line; I
thence a new line north 30 west 55
poles to a stone; thence north 31
east 12 poles to a white oak; thence
north 31 west *5 pc es to a stone;
thence north 66>* west 32 poles to n
stone; thence north 72’j west 39 .
poles to a vhite oak; thence north
5 east 30 poles t-> a stone and pin' .
; thence east 111 pole., to the begin
' nine.
Third Tract: Containing 36 acres
lying on the waters of Main Broad
river in No. 3 township, and ad
joining the lands of Bud Hardin
Charles Reinhardt, DeWitt yuinn
and others, oeing that tract devised
by Mary Borders t< John W. Ellis,
said will oeing record ;ci in took 3 oi
Wills at page 4 in the clerk's office,
Cleveland county.
Fourth i ract ■ A one-seventh un
divided interest in a tract contain
ing 26'j acres, being the bed’of
Main Broau river situated in Nos 1
and 2 townships ana adjoining th>
, lands of Rochel Blamon, R. M
! Jolley, S. Hopper, C. J. Hamrick &
Sons, and others. Said tract being
described by metes and bounds in a
deed from S A ELlis and wile to J
W. Ellis, recorded in book AAA at
! page roe in the register's office,
i Cleveland county.
! Terms of said sale are cash upon
i delivery of deed and confirmation
I of sale,
i Date of sal : Saturday, December
; 8, 1928.
This the 10th day of November
! 1928.
S. A. ELLIS and B. O RAN
DAeL. Executors ol me will of
John W. Ellis, deceased.
S P. Clevelana Gardner and
Peyton McSwain, Attys.
6 6 6
Is a Prescription I or
Colds, Grippe, Flu. Dengue.
Bi’imts Fever and Malaria.
It is the most speedy remedy known
j Peyton McSwain
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