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Is and .moor
stepped about five steps from a certain tree on the bank and then dug down into the sand underneath the water and brought out two quarts of imported whiskey.
They used to claim that Kiln whiskey was so powerful or so bad that is had strange effects on those who drank it. Many years ago a good, hard working man who worked six days a week and who stayed at a boarding house here in Picayune would come in from work on a Saturday evening. He’d eat his supper and then proceed to absorb good doses of Kiln liquor. By Sunday morning he would be well polluted, as the saying goes.
He would come outside the rooming house and crawl up on a city trash can and squat there, every now and then flapping his arms like a rooster flaps his wings and then craw. A wag here in town would say, “That boy has got some more rooster moonshine” I saw this myself
-	it’s not hearsay. This man \
usually had a gallery'j watfoinfl him	—
Tne big sawmill at Kiln closed down after about 20 years of operation. Many men
-	in fact most of them - who worked there moved away. Counting the woods and all the other operations of the big mill, nearly 1,000 men lost their jobs. Kiln dwindled down to where it was once again a small village. Along about the same time President Franklin Roosevelt, through the help of Congress, repealed the prohibition act, killing a big part of the bootleg whiskey business. The once thriving, booming Kiln area was a victim of both these occurrences and to make it still worse, the great depression came on along about the same time.
Kiln, along with the general area, has come back from the depression days after the big saw mill shut down, and is today a thriving growing section. The area of which Kiln is part has many assets that make it one of the most desirable places in which to live in all America.
Balmy gulf breezes caress .< and cool the hot days of summer, and warms and enlivens the cold days of winter to make this an ideal , section in which to live. *
The lay of the land in this ^
general section; perfection, rolling enoughi for perfect . drainage, level enough to prevent erosion of thesoiL . ,	'■	•> § 'J^T'
The most beautiful streams it has' been my privilege to. ' see anywhere art found in „ this coastal. area%There are number ; of- dear'.. running';
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streams., but Jordan ■ River and Rotten Bayou are , beautiful beyond ^description, r as-well as most excellent' r fishing streams..	.	‘	~
- ..The original settlers in this back - from ' the coast area were mostly^Frenchl1 These friendly** cordial, sincere'
, people along ' with \ ,the
newcomers'5 now, coming in growing numbers make a population’" - that/S? is constructive, forward looking and on'their way to having one of the best sections in the whole world- V ^1 am a great admirer of the good people;’ jiisfc^east and south^kstof Eicay
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