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■ n 11 III llWll.MiWI Issues I^roiesl A-u.iin -I L'umor That liefl(‘lt;*t-• ••I I j am lt;If 11 is I a-i quor.Hu roan county bootleggers are getting rather touchy, and have risen in defense of the quality of theillicit liquor which they have beenmanufacturing.Our of tin* most indignant protests made to date has come from William Haltlikauski, of Location, Spring Valley, who was grossly insulted, i»e says, when certain newspapers intimated that he was making ;m inferior quality of moonshine.Haltikauski. whose place at the Location was raided recently by Sheriffw »Neill's sponge squad, was bailed into eourf to answer to the charge of opera tiin; a small still. Newspaper accounts of Mie raid, as presented in the LaSalle paper, represented that some comentrated 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 verv indignantJv Re * *. - #1L . t ’«7 ' • ■over the reflection which had been « a t upon his art as a distiller. Monday h»* i sued a - t a lenient. in defenseof his method of making liquor and vouching for its purity.lie declares that the statementsthat concentrated lye and potato*! %peels were used in the making of his w hi-key are untrue “This is genuine* whi key,” he states, “and furthermore it did not contain lye nor potato peelings.
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Princeton Bureau County Tribune
Princeton, Illinois, US
Thu, Dec 24, 1931
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