Eff Bell Fined $50 for Making a Little Holiday Cheerup--Peach Brandy, Dec. 3, 1925

Made Brandy, Must Pay $50 and the Costs

Shelby, Dec. 3—“Jedge, Ah jes’ made hit for a leetle holiday cheerup, and Ah didn’t know hit wuz wrong ter make hit, cus hit don’t make yer drunk and only makes you feel a leetle better and then sorter sick.” That was the explanation Eff Bell, aged Kings Mountain negro, gave Recorder John Mull as he faced the court charged with manufacturing liquor from California peaches.

After some deliberation Judge Mull fined him $50 and the costs and left him a suspended sentence of six months on the roads if he tried his art again on California peaches.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Dec. 4, 1925

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