In Lewis Fork township Saturday about 250 steps from the Boone Trail highway, Deputy Sheriff L.G. Woodie, J.M. Bumgarner, Sheriff Elledge, (and) Silas Reynolds destroyed a distillery near the Shepherd Mill including (a) 150-gallon boiler, 10 gallons (of) low wines, ten or twelve hundred gallons of very sweet beer (probably from 1,600 pounds of sugar, as this is the amount which would have been required, the officers say) and 14 five-gallon cans, empty, (which) were destroyed.
The officers went to the place at 7:30 in the morning. Fire coals were under the boiler but everybody (was) gone.
From the front page of The North Wilkesboro Hustler, Feb. 25, 1925
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