Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 312, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1920 — The Lure of Pickhandle Wine. [ARTICLE]

The Lure of Pickhandle Wine.

Charleston, W. Va.—Although “dry" officers are active, moonshining apparently Is on the Increase. In the northern part of West Virginia many raids have been made. The net result of the hauls Is 31,000 gallons of quarts of other whisky and 3,000 galof pickhandle wine. All the raids\ were made during the month ending. Oct. 15. But prison sentences adon’t to scare off the “shiners,” though court has been unusually severe and out of forty-five cases trled' forty-three of the defendants weroCconvlcted.