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THE CLEVELAND COURIER
v r OL. XXII, No 34.1
CHEMIST DISCLOSES ANALYSIS
OF QUART OF CORN WHISKEY
The man who drinks corn iiker
(if there be such a man, nowadays)
takes into his human system the
following staggering array of
chemicals : Alchol, fusel oil, fixed
acids, volatile acids, esters, iron
oxide alumina, silica, lead, calcium
magnesia sulphate and chlorides.
The first authentic story of the
actual chemic il centent of the stuff
which makes a rabbit hug a hound
came Saturday from the offi.e of
Joe Acker, city ihemist.
Joe Acker is a Virginian, a
scholar, and, entirely, chemically
speaking, a judge of good whiskey.
The other day he decided to find
out what corn whiskey really is.
Now lie knows. And he says that
he is glad that he never formed a
habit for the stuff, because bis
analysis would have made futher
imbibations impossible. He even
made a wry face when he started to
list the chemical contents of just
one single quart of the licker.
On an order from the health de¬
partment, Joe procured a quart of
corn from the police station, pre¬
vious history of the quart entirely
unknown.
It took three days, miles of glass
tubing, thousands of teet of gas, a
dozen retorts, and two assistants
for Joe to finally reach a solution to
the problem : what is corn licker?
But the answer was found, and
here it is :
In t is one quart of corn whiskey
there was 44 95 per cent of pure
grain alcohol. In the olden days,
this would have meant that the
whiskey was 99 per cent proof.
There was .034 per cent of fusel
oil, chemically speaking means
“higher alcohols.” That is, it
means Amyl alcohol, and other rare
and seldom heard of kinds. Inter¬
esting to note, in fact that cognac
brandy is the only liquor which
contain less fusel oil than corn
whiskey contains. Gin contains
many times as much, and,Scotch
whiskey nearly five times as much.
Fixed acids represented .003 per
cent of the total quart. This is
tartaric acid produced from the re¬
action of the alcohol on the residue
from the mash suspended in the
distillation.
Voiatile acids registered .01 per
cent. Acetic acid, this is. It’s
made by some chemical flub-dub in
the mash.
Esters was .014 per cent of the
whole. Esters, Joe says, is a kind
of ether compound formed by the
action of the fixed and volatile
acids on the alcohol. That’s as far
as he could explain without getting
technical. It’s poisnous.
Of the entire qeart of whiskey,
.026 per cent was sesidue.
residue was left in the retort, after
all the the liquor had been drawn
off as vapor. It was solid brown
mass, very ugly and very evil¬
smelling. An analysis of this resi¬
due showed that it contained
following :
Organic matter, 33:34 per cent
That is, portions of the mash which
came over in the vapor when
liquor was distilled. It came over
as a solid, suspended in the body
of the liquor.
Iron oxide and alumina made up
31.77 per cent of the residue. Jnst
plain old iron and
though how it got there nobody
seems to know.
Silica, or just plain sand, repre¬
sents 32.80 per cent of the residue.
This silica, or sand got mixed up
in the mash some how.
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There were small amounts of
lead, calcium, magnesium, sul¬
phates and chlorides, down at the
bottom of the brown mass. Every¬
body knows that soluble lead is a
deadly poison, if taken in large
Devoted to the Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Interests of White County
OFFICERS BATTLE WITH
FLEEING OUTLAWS
County Policeman Rice Shot
Down While Attempting
to Apprehend Car.
Pursuing Car Badly Damaged
More Than Sixty Shota Fired
When Officers Overtook Flee¬
ing Car Three Miles From
Town On Ellijay Road
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On last Saturday evening near
sundown a pitched battle was
fought between Deputy Sheriff Joe
Davis’ posse and a crowd of men,
supposedly from Dawson county,
who were trying to make their get
a-way after shooting down City
Marshal Rice and then firing more
than twenty shots in the streets.
The men escaped after wounding
the marshal, and were overtaken by
the deputy sheriff and posse on the
Ellijay road about three miles from
town.
When the officers approached
within about qne hundred yards of
the outlaws car the outlaws began
to open fire on the officer’s cur,
smashing the wind shield and six or
seven bullets penetrating the car
in different places. The officers
then brought into play a nine-shot
repeating pump-gun using it with
such telling effect that two of the
met jumped from the car to the
running board, firing on the
officer’s car trom this position, but
were soon forced to leave there and
take to the woods, leaving a hat an
a gun behind. The officers were
by this time out of ammunition and
concluded to stop their car and
chase the two men that filed to the
woods and returned to their car
without any game.
The trouble grew out of the fact
that Marshal Rice, who is also
county polioemrn, tried to stop the
car which bore a 1920 tag. The
driver ignored the marshal’s warn¬
ing to halt when lie jumped to the
running board of the moving car
when one of the parties in the car
opened fire on him from the back
seat, one shot taking effect in Mr.
Rice’s arm near the wrist. Toe
marshal fell to the ground, but was
soon on his feet firing at the flee¬
ing car, which took no effect so far
as we have been able to learn.
Up to this time no warrants
have been sworn out as only one
man in the fleeing car was recog¬
nized. It is thought that at least
three of the men in the persued car
were wounded. None of the posse
were hurt.—Dahlonega Echo.
MA LE HEL P W ANTED
Get busy; keep busy. Is your job un¬
safe! Is it permanent? You want a
life-long business. You can get into
such a business, selling more than 137
Watkins products direct to farmers if you
own auto or team or can get one, if you
can give bond or personal securities. We
back you with big selling helps; 52 years
in business; 20,000,000 users of our prod¬
ucts. Write for information where you
can get territory. J. R. WATKINS CO.,
Dept. Ill, Winona, Minn.
enough quantities. Even a trace
is dangerous. Tt.e ’shiner who
made this particular stuff must
have had some lead joints some¬
where in the still. The other
chemicals just mentioned sound
wicked enough, even if not fhtal.
All of the above, including the
alcohol, made up about 75 per cent
of the quart. The other 25 per
was water.
Ot course, nobody never drinks
corn licker nowadays, because it is
against the law. But even if it
were not against the law, wouldn’t
that analysis be enough to scare
you off?—Atlanta Journal.
CLEVELAND, GEORGIA, APRIL 1, 1921.
FIRE AT DAWSONYILLE
News was received here today
that the post office at Dawsonville,
the store of Egbert McClure and
the printing office of the Dawson¬
ville Advertiser were all totally de¬
stroyed by fire which was discover¬
ed at 5 o’clock this morning, the
orgin of which is unknown. The
total loss amounts to $40,000 or
$50,000, and whether same is
covered by insurance or not is un¬
known. The only telephone wire
out of Dawsonville wns destroyed,
lienee news of the fire was not ob¬
tained until persons coming from
Dawsonville reached here by auto¬
mobile.—Gainesville News.
PLEASANT RETREAT NEWS
We are having some fine farm
mg weather this week.
Misses Pearl and Oiiie — — vis¬
ited Mr. Charles Wilkins and
family Saturday night.
Mr. Henry Hunt’s school al
Pleasant Retreat will be out Satur¬
day.
Mrs. Jessie Hunt visited Blue
Creek Saturday and Sunday.
NEW BRIDGE NEWS
Rev. J. II. Powers, of Haber
sham, delivered' an excellent ser¬
mon at New Bridge Sunday after¬
noon.
We are sorry to hear of the death
of tne infant baby of Mr.Jand Mrs,.
Ollie Humphries.
LOUDSVILLE LINES.
Mrs. Gordon McAfee and child¬
ren spent Sunday here.
Miss Laura Ash spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Mrs. Led¬
ford.
A pound supper was given at
the home of Mr. II. II. Hunt Sat¬
urday night in honor of his daugh¬
ter’s birthday, Miss Bonnie Belle
Hunt. All present had a fine time.
Mr. W. C. Hood and your cor¬
respondent spent Saturday in
Cleveland.
Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Cox spent
Sunday with relatives.
Mr. J. M. Glover gave a birth¬
day dinner in honor of his 64th
birthday. Those present were:
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Jarrard, Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Allen and grand¬
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Sims, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.McAfee,
Mrs. Martha Merjitt, Mr. Luther
Ash, Lambert, Hazel, Frank Bell,
Moody and Florence Meaders, D.
F. White, Nannie, Madaleen,
Ruth and Fred, Mrs. Lula Clark
and son, Ernest, Mr. and Mrs. C.
W. Sims, Mr. and Mrs. J. F.
Glover and children, Mr. and Mrs.
F. M. Glover and children, Mr.
and Mrs. T. V. Glover, and Mr.
M. L. Glover. All present had a
nice time and enjoyed the day fine.
Mr. JamesThomas has moved to
the Longstreet property where he
will farm this year.
Rev. Tatum preached at Louds
ville Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Harve Nation, of Haber¬
sham county, was visiting relatives
here Sund y.
Mr. R. Thomas has been doing
some good work on Mr. Barker’s
place.
A Rat That Didn’t Smell After
Being Dead for Three Months
"I swear it was dead three months," writes Mr. J.
Sykes (N. J.). "I saw this rat every day: put some
Rat-Snap behind a barrel. Months afterwards, my
wife looked behind the barrel. There it was—dead. 2
Kat-Saap tells in three sizes for 35c. 65c, Rjj,
Sold and guaranteed fry
Cleveland Drug Co.
Cleveland Hardware Co.
Millinery
SPRING AND SUMMSR ANNOUNCEMENT
The Latest Model Hats
Come and see an intensely
interesting stock of Millin¬
ery. You are cordially in¬
vited to see my hats before
buying.
MRS. C. C. JARRARD.
Better Than Traps Eor Rats
Writes Adams Drug Co., Texas
They say:" RAT-SNAP la doing the work
and the rat undertakers are as busy aapop
corn on a hot stove." Try it on your rats.
RAT-SNAP ia a "money back” guaranteed
sure killer. Cornea ready for use; no mix¬
ing with other foods. Cats and dogs won’t
touch it. Rats dry up and leave no smell.
Three sizes: S5c for one room; 65c for
house or chicken yard; $1.25 for barns and
outbuildings. Start killing rata today.
Sold and Guaranteed by wmmmi
Cleveland Drug Co.
Cleveland Hardware Co.
ANTIOCH DOTS
Mr. WarneyLackey was married
last Thursday to the youngest girl
we ever heard of marrying. She
was Miss Oran White. We wish
them a long and happy life.
Mr Claude Allen and wife, Mr.
Dillard Satterfield, Miss Esto Ash
and Mr. Chill Ash made a trip to
Porter Springs Sunday.
Sunday afternoon, on our way
home from Sunday School, we ob¬
served by the roadside within a
quarter of a mile of the church, a
party of boys and girls in whose
presence was a man, pitching horse
shoes. It not only would have
looked better but it would have
been better had that man took his
family of boys and girls tf Sunday
school, there to learn the Word of
God. It is because the older ones
are misleading so many of the
young that they are traveling
down to hell as fast us time can
take them. We all should attend
Sunday School and take all we can
with us to chinch, praying that
God would interest the hearts of
the people that we might have a
better world. May God bless the
people and save them from eternal
destruction.
LEAF NEWS
Rev. Cook delivered one of the
best sermons at Macedonia Sunday
that has been preached there in a
long t ime.jjj His subject was:
Will a man rob God.”
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The Banner Sunday School Con
-vention of the Fourth Division of
White county will meet with
Macedonia Sunday School next
Sunday evening. Prof. Crawford
Anderson, of Nacoochee Institute,
will deliver an address together
with several other good speakers.
Everybody is cordially invited to
attend.
Several from this part visited
Yonah Sunday.
The revenue officers captured an
illict distillery in this community
last week.
Mrs. Jane Palmer, of Habersham
county, is visiting relatives here at
present.
Mrs. Jennie Jenkins, of Nacoo¬
chee, is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
W. L. Barrett.
Mr. Vester Tomlin after having
spent several months at Piedmont
Cotton Mills is back at home.
Mr. W. I. Humphries was very
sick last weej(.
Mr. Basel Brewer got snake bit
last Satuaday by a ground rattle
snake.
Blue Ridgo Dots.
The pound supper at Mr Sher¬
man West’s Saturday night was
enjoyed by all present.
The party at Mrs. A. Richard¬
son’s last Saturday night was in¬
deed an enjoyable occasion.
Mrs. B. P. Pharris went back to
the Downey Hospital last week for
treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Satterfield,
Marvin and Miss Zona joiued re¬
latives in an egg hunt last Sunday
in Lumpkin county.
Mrs. W. J. Allen and Miss Sarah
Reid were viewing the “city of the
dead” at Mt. Pleasant last Sund ty
Mr. C. W. Allen has been keep¬
ing fire in his orchard for the past
few nights.
Mr. B. B. Pharos will farm this
summer, but occasionally he will
assist his partner in the blacksmith
shop at the Saine crosstie yard at
Cleveland.
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Don’t Start Too Late!
A MAN WAS RUNNING hard to catch a car.
He was almost ready to swing aboard when the
car started forward and the conducsor closed the door.
A friend who was near him said: “John, you didn’t
run fast enough.”
Yes I din run fast enough.” he replied, “but I didn’t
start soon enough.”
And that is the story of those folks who put off ’SSVtr
money until they are well along in life. They may
save as fast as they can, but they will find that they
did not start soon enough.
Start an account for your children in our Savings De¬
partment. Get a savings bank.
FARMERS S MERCHANTS BANK
“The Bank of Individual ^Service”
Cleveland, Georgia
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\ Two For the Price of One
Padgett's Great Indian
Herb Juice and
Herb Juice Liniment
With every $ 1,00 bottle of Padgett's Indian Herb Juice
we give you a bottle of Herb Juice Liniment FREE
Cleveland Drug Company
1 Save the Dollar Now i
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Has it ever occurred to you that the dollars you save 4
now will go twice as far in purchasing a home or any other 4
necessity when normal conditions return? The record high ♦
wages and salaries of today make this the most logical time ♦
to Save
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Every dollar deposited today in savings will be worth *
considerable more in buying power when prices drop, in f
addition to drawing interest. Appreciating the import¬ I
ance of this opportunity, we urge you to add as much as *
possible to your savings regularly. 4
Our officers appreciate your patronage and want your 4
connection with this bank to be of distinct benefit to you. 4
We hope you will feel free to make full use of our facilities. 4
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THE WHITE COUNTY BANK 4
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[PRICE $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
Georgia, White County.
Pursuant to an order from the Court of
Ordinary of White County, rendered on
the 24th day of March, 1921, there will
he Bold in the town of Helen, Ga., on the
4th day of April, i921, to the highest bid¬
der for cash, certain property to-wit:
The entire line of merchandise of John
Taylor, consisting of a general line of
groceries, confectioneries, fixtures, etc.
Said property levied upon to satisfy a
mortgage fi ta issued from the Superior
Court of said county in favor of G. A.
Vandiver et al against John Taylor.
This the 24th day of March, 1921.
W. A. Jackson, Sheriff.
WE START YOU in the candy business
at home, small room or anywhere; ev¬
erything furnished; earn $30.00 weekly
up; men—women; experience unneces¬
sary; advertise candy. Send self-ad¬
dressed stamped envelope for free par¬
ticulars. Bon-Ton Cnndymakers Co.,
Desk A, Broad St., Philadelphia. Pa.
“Do Rats Talk to Each Other?”
Asks Mr. M. Batty, R. (.
"1 got five cakes of Rat-Snap and threw pieces
(iioumi nd feed iccu store. siuic, Got vjvfi about auuui. nan half a a dozen dozen ue dead rats
a Now day for two solid weeks. Suddenly, they got fewer. Rati
we haven’t any. Who told them about Hit ]
Snap." Rats dry up and leave do smell Three
sizes: 35c, 65c, *1.25.
Sold and guaranteed by -J
Cleveland Drug Co.
Cleveland Hardware Co.
