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I)lt;*flt;,inlaiil Issues Protest A-ir.iiii-f liinnnr That liVI‘llt;*e(-elt;I I pun (Quality nr 11 ilt; Liquor.Hurrau county bootleggers are getting rather touchy, and have ris-in in defense of tie* quality of the illicit liquor wliich they have beenma nqlMtmiiii'One of the most indignant protests made to date has come from William Haltikauski. of Location,Spring Valley, who was grossly insulted. he says, when certain newspapers intimated that he was making an inferior quality of moonshine.Haltikauski. whose place at the Location was raided recently by Sheriff Neill's ponge squad, was hailed into court to answer to the charge of operating a small still. Newspaper accounts of fli»* raid, as presented in the LaSalle paper, represented that some concent rated lye which was found apparently was used to expedite the fermentation from potatoes.When William appeared at Princeton to plead guilty to the charge against him. he was very indignantover the reflection which had beenea t upon his art as a distiller. Monday he i sued lt statement in defense of his method of making liquor and vouching for its purity.He declares that the statements i hat concentrated lye and potato peel were used in the making of hi • whi ke.v are mil rue*. “This is gen-uine whiskey.” ho states, “and fur-theimori it did not contain lye norpotato poolings.
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Princeton Bureau County Tribune
Princeton, Illinois, US
Thu, Dec 24, 1931
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