Sheriff Finds Whiskey Still Within Smelling Distance of School, Sept. 7, 1925

Whiskey Still Within a Few Yards of School House. . . County Officials Smell Beer from School Yard—Three Barrels of Beer Destroyed

In by-gone days it was illegal for a barroom or saloon to be kept open within a certain distance of a school building, but Sheriff B.F. McMillan and Deputy Melton Ivey found a whiskey manufacturing plant the other day so close to a school house in Saddletree township that the odor of the beer could be detected in the school yard. Scenting the still from the school yard, the officers soon found it about 100 yards away across a branch. It was of the gasoline drum type with capacity of about 60 gallons. Three barrels of fresh beer were found and destroyed.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Sept. 7, 1925

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