Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-05-17
THE LITTLE BIRDS TWITTER.
They Seem to Talk WiN OCoeIe OIL
GERS Every Now and Then.

Some more "chin music" from
those little sparrow birds. Hence
some more booze boys" are in trou-
BILE.
On Wednesday OF last week Reve-
nue. Officers King and Samuels, Spe-
cial Officer A. Il. Reid and Rural
Policemen Littleton and Thomas
raided up in the Jocassee section,
but were totally unsuccessful so far
as wet goods were concerned. How
ever, they located, hidden behind a
large stump some 800 yards from the
road, copper still, which was
promptly destroyed by being cut up
into shreds. Nothing doing in the
way Of arrests.
The officers, however, ran into q
live" plant on Thursday in the
whitewater section, near the B. T..
Coward place. The still was located
on small branch, and so far as the
implements for making whiskey
were concerned, the plant had been
dismantled. There was on hand
about 200 gallons Of mash and beer,
and this was destroyed. After a
long search through the woods the
officers finally found, hidden here
and there in the forest, the still, cap
and worm, each piece being hidden
In different locality from the other
IN the matter Of arrests the officers
here, too, drew blank.
Things picked up bit in Seneca,
however, when Town Marshal Cor
bett, Of Seneca, Rural Policeman
Thomas and Bud Land, the latter
deputiZed to assist them, took the
trail of an automobile that promised
something interesting. 1t was $50
O'Clock Sunday morning when the
whir Of an automobile was heard by
the officers and the rattle of n wagon
short distance in front of It was
heard by the automobile party. The
officers, realizing that they could not
catch the booze buggy, buzz wagon,
Joy cart or whatever one chooses to
! call 1t, borrowed q one-horse wagon
from blacksmith shop, and as the
! auto neared the narrow section of
the street at the post office this
wagon was run out in front of the
speeding car, and the driver thereof
found that he had to stop or smash
something. He preferred to stop.
There were ten occupants of the car,
as follows: r. Stephens, Claude
White, Pete White, -. -. Brown,
Bub Gilstrap, -. -. Vinson, o. G.
Bugjuice. o. G. Itotgut, o. G. Tangle-
foot and .. G. Dtghead. The latter
four parties, you will note, possess
| the same initials, and in each in.
stance they stand for lone Gallon"
Bub Gilstrap, said to be the owner
OF the four o. G.'s, made his escape
in the general rounding up.
| In the hearing before the Mayor
of Seneca Monday B. stephens, own
er and driver of the car, was fined
$25. with a 30-day alternative, for
transporting liquor in the night time
! Later he was taken before Magistrate
J. n. Hopkins, where preliminary
hearing was waived. Magistrate
! Hopkins, however, required a $40O
bond from Stephens for the appear.
ance at the Sessions Court of himself
and his automobile-$20O per each
The automobile was on its way
through the town Of Seneca, on its
way presumably to Newry. Stephens
lives near Newry, and all Of the other
parties, we are informed, have beer
in the Newry section for some time
back.
So far as whiskey is concerned in
these parts, 1t seems that "sentimen,
is agin it," And when sentiment Is
that way, half the battle against IL
quor is won. Violators can evadt
the law, they can evade the officer:
themselves, but they can't get around
sentiment Those nine letter!
spell doom for the liquor seller.
| Better quit, boys, "while the quit
tins SoOd.".
When man does anything he /.
the least bit ashamed Of, he attribute,