Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1918 — WHISKEY STILL RAIDED NEAR DANVILLE, ILL. [ARTICLE]

WHISKEY STILL RAIDED NEAR DANVILLE, ILL.

Danville, 111., May B.—Federal officers raided the farm of Stephen Fermon, near Sidell, in this county, yesterday, and found a whiskey jrtill and several hundred gallons of sour mash ready to be distilled, in addition to a considerable quantity of distilled liquor. Fermon and Arthry Anderson, en employe, were arrested and brought to Danville, where they were released under $5,000 bond each. Their preliminary trial will be held next Monday. The arrests were made by J. E. Gard, of the internal revenue office of Springfield, and J. D. Taylor, of Louisville, Ky., and D. P. Madden, of St. Louis. The officers learned some time ago, they said, that whiskey was being manufactured in that part of the country, and that it was being sold. Fermon came from Kentucky twenty years gao, and worked in the neighborhood for many years, finally farming for himself. He controls more than 600 acres of land in the vicinity of Sidell. He is married and has four children. > The still was in a small house on the farm, and was kept under lock and key.