In addition to the sheriff’s statement we are printing a letter from one of our rural correspondents residing in Greens Creek.
Dear Editor:
In reading last week’s Polk County News we were gratified to note the statement that prohibition agents were making a determined effort to stamp out the liquor traffic on land and sea. With all our hearts we say “Let the good work go on. May it go on until there shall not be a drop of liquor left in all our great Southland, nor in any other part of our great country.”
And if there should be a still in the Greens Creek section, which is not impossible, to be sure, we certainly should like to have it raided and the operators placed where they could not perform this kind of mischief for a time at least. But certain citizens of our community have complained to your correspondent that the statement in regard to the 125-gallon capacity still captured by Major Hutcherson and C.A. Hudgens is incorrect. It was not so near what is commonly known as Greens Creek we are sure, and some think and claim that it was at least 1 ½ miles beyond the line in South Carolina. Surely, Greens Creek township even does not reach as far as we understand this still to have been located. Many of our people believe the statement to be erroneous, and if so we feel that our Editor will surely correct it.
Respectfully Yours,
Mrs. Solon L. Hines
From the front page of The Polk County News, Tryon, N.C., May 28, 1925
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