Saturday was primary election day, for the second time this year, also it was one of those hot, sizzling days that make a man want to seek a cool place and stay there, but it didn’t keep deputy sheriff William P. Grant from going out into New Hope township and locating a 50-gallon illicit distillery plant and several barrels of beer and destroying the whole outfit.
Primary or no primary, weather or no weather, Deputy Grant had a “tip” that a still could be found at such and such a place. If he arrived there pronto. He lost no time in taking himself New Hopeward and located the plant. This was about the sixth still and not less than 50 barrels of beer located and destroyed by raiders from Sheriff W.D. grant’s office during the week.
Editor's Note: Beer captured with the still wasn't the kind of beer that was drunk. It was a stage in the distilling process and was meant to be further processed into liquor.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, July 4, 1926
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