Iowa
Old Press
The Lyon County Reporter
Rock Rapids, Lyon County
[unknown month] 1922
Federal agents from Sioux Falls, Sioux City and Minneapolis made
a raid at Granite a week before Christmas. There they found four
stills working in a small barn on the James DeZotell property. J.
F. Cronoble, DeZotell’s father-in- law acknowledged that he
was the operator. The agents found 150 gallons of raisin mash,
and a quantity of the finished product. There were 600 gallon
glass containers, 200 stone jugs, a gross of pint bottles - all
were seized. The revenuer said it was one of the largest liquor
plants in Iowa - and the Sioux Falls agent said it was the main
source of supply for Sioux Falls people who wanted a little
“hootch”
[transcribed by D.J., Nov. 2004]