Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1957-09-04
Carers
Column


have are just downright funny to
few days recalling this He had just
walked still operation old
Negro and old Negro Neither attempted to
and the agent put them under arrest
The old looked up agent said MI
it all right pray?" The agent said "Sure want
The old lady and looked the heav
and began oh Lord Use in peck of trouble Yes
a trouble your help
and help Come down Come down yourself and don't send
nobody"
WATCH DOG: another agent lying
the bushes watching STILL waiting for the to show
after and along by that night fellow
walking down path the still with load wood
The put down the wood and started under the
still walked yard
the quietest kind growled The
didn't word He right the fire. grabbed
began chopping his to pieces And
while coppng continually saying
to build stills on land I'll show EN- they can't get with
it." And he thoroughly destroyed every bit Of his still
The agent Their walked out OF his hiding place and arrested
He went to court and the booegeer just clear
whistle testify
his still And the District Attorney bootegger
why he built the fire under the still if he wasn't operating he
said i, as chilly night and he needed 70 before
It was all obviously fabrication he rap
one | erowI from midget Of dog was all the bootegger
night.
SOME REFORM: There was another instance IN which
known buotegger always branch that
mile long to woods along the
completely surrounded by the mans tenant houses
and IN agent couldn't slip operators
oeing seen entering the branch area
The continued to make whiskey years except
getting he
ao was not getting caught The agents finally decided that
there way catching branch but made
that they would walk every day week for
just DIS 'ts aS ne cared 10 set up s1IS on IT. And they did
For six months they walked every day during
days the one of the agents stopped at
service station nearby The bootegger place walk
ed up to the bought count
me I'm going home now and start SId comps. pe'eiy oroke
That was during World War go build the
Tobacco barn He started growing lot of tobacco
plenty of honest dollars"
few later the exbooegger up to the agent
on the streets and said Thanks putting OF the liquor
ousne You fellows broke me but it made messing
and m better off than I've been appre
ciate the favor you did
TACKLE On another occasion the agents slipped up to
still an" were watching working diligently making
the aooze they couldn't be seen veil but enough
10 Know that there We're two of them operation After
bit they dashed irto the still makers and
both the operators took off An agent gave
1ae ma pom the suspects stopped lying
That wouldn't except for the fact both NJ tho
boosseers They left their children AT home
in charge brothers and sisters and had b %
"nskey every night One of the BABY lust three
months old. 10y ' 'ee
FOOT RACE This story they tell too 1t seems tina. tbev
once nae an agent working with them best
IN the business when to catching operators He could
sip Up on them amazingly we'll ran one through the
woods he always caught
One night the him Slick v,v Iving IN tho
woods watching two of the operators looked
inc 0r ana sad Iha agent Slick could me in
Inc other had had some experience agent
and said "Oh, yes he too"
operator who could catch the bootleggor in ,
race aio why can catch myself" retorted
~ vel well see then I'll the path little piece and
en Cash INTO the still yard You can't catch Won
mats what they did and the bootlcgger took off With
Tie Setchu right on mis- heels and ne hin,
Ihcy back the the
can catch you too Let's try other vay around
80 the second bootegger path and came r,nn,
PACK eno gave chase and booegger caught his a
N'-7' Ills part
ey oon walked back to the still putting and sur. that
"ouu edtch nen IL he found them. meantime
Deer watching and hearing
81 e SUM- nc walked out of hiding still ward and
without any effort "''" 0ou |
ey had either worn themselves the fooraces or else
convinced each other that try 10 evade Slit
-, -, S age real TREND is who you know
ing all the while don't air-conditioning ~
o,ey IS the servant Of the people economist We
know-here today and tomorrow we |
ne thHgs certain We differ when We got ~
inc cemetery, well be on the level w S' " ]
IL oI~