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scared back into his hole. Pretty soon out he came again, this time walking on his hind feet and looking up at the men there as if to say, “Bring your biggest tom cat - I’m ready for him”. After that the man decided not to buy the liquor and that’s the way “Rat Bad Shinnie” got its name.
place I ever saw. As he got further away and the smell persisted the man said, “The whole county smells, drive faster so we can get out of here”.
Moonshine liquor was not the only kind sold along and back from the coast in the prohibition era.
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 watching him.
The big saw mill at Kiln closed down after about 20 years of operation. Many men
“...the most awful smelling place I ever saw.”
Because the “shinnie” business was highly profitable, more and more people got into the business of making it. In the course of time more was being made then could be sold. Big stocks began to accumulate. Where the shinnie had brought up to $6 or more per gallon, the producers began to cut prices to sell their overstocks. Finally the competition got so
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To show how big the liquor business was, a man living not far from Kiln built up a tremendous business. I went with a salesman to this man’s house along about 1920 or 1921 to try to sell him a tractor. He was extremely courteous and offered us seats on his shaded front porch. We had hardly gotten started talking to him when a woman’s voice from inside the house called and
-	in fact most of them - who worked there moved away. Counting the woods and all the other operations of the big mill, nearly 1000 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 Along about the same time President Franklin Roosevelt, through the help of Congress, repealed the prohibition act, killing a big part of the bootleg whiskey