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But Mr. Steel never got off in time; he lost his life at the rear of the Company store. The Hand-car belong to the railroad working men section crew that had a on horse motor on it so they would not have to operate it manually. 
Mr. George H. Woodson was the top and most colorful Lawyer in Buxton. He was most conscious about his "stock in trade" and about people and clients approaching him on the street on in public on a matter of business rather than in his office. Bad Charley violated one of his most important rules by stopping him on the street by the Y M C A and the question must have been said in away that insulted Woodson's intelligence; his wrath in an epithetical way could back a person up or sit them down. "Why you black; burheaded; good for nothing; low down; stupid ignorant coal mining; S-n of a B???H, and if I hear another word from you I will knock your dam mouth around there where your ear is now located! You be in my office at the appointed time and don't be late. George H. Woodson was my father's lawyer for many years and they would discuss business in our home or at Woodson's office but I remembered the last three years he was paid $10,000.00 dollars a year to keep my father out of trouble from the saloons and gambling placesbut on one occassion he was negligent and caused my fathers name to be recorded in the Court House in Mahaska County which eventually [[insertion]] caused him to [[/insertion]] pay the largest fine that was recorded in the Law Books. It would necessitate a multitude of words to explain how the law was administered at that time. The Federal Government sold you a stamp which gave you the right to sell liquor and the state would not allowe it in an unincorporated Town. There were no more saloons after 1914 when the Volstead Law was effective. Also the bargain between Woodson and Gaines had come to an end. After 1914 nobody had any knowledge of distillery work but it did not take long for people to start bringing in Bonded Whiskey from St. Louis; Kansas City and Chicago. It was brought through in suite cases; trunks and  many other ways and naturally some of it was confiscated. I loaded a Steamer Trunk of Bonded Whiskey at Kansas City and sent it to the stati for shipment and the station returned it after breaking several bottles. presume by elevating it and then dropping it on purpose and this happened twice so the train men told the drayman to place it in its original boxes and bring it back s I did but I believed it was some kind of trick to confiscate it at Kansas City o at the other end of its destination which would be Hamilton, Iowa but to my surprise I accepted and loaded the boxes from the freight depot without anything going wrong at Hamilton, Iowa. We are not in the war officially in 1917 but we already have a few fighting men in Europe. By Nov. 11, 1918 we had been in the war and it was over; then in 1920 the Bootlegers had learned something about distilling to make alchol. They did not have the knowledge of sacrementation; (The art of turning starch into sugar) but they had equipment enough to start in the middle by buying sugar and fermenting it into alchol.

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PAGE 17. Buxton But Mr. Steel never got off in time; he lost his life at the rear of the Company store. The Hand-car belong to the railroad working men section crew that had a on horse motor on it so they would not have to operate it manually. Mr. George H. Woodson was the top and most colorful Lawyer in Buxton. He was most conscious about his "stock in trade" and about people and clients approaching him on the street on in public on a matter of business rather than in his office. Bad Charley violated one of his most important rules by stopping him on the street by the Y M C A and the question must have been said in away that insulted Woodson's intelligence; his wrath in an epithetical way could back a person up or sit them down. "Why you black; burheaded; good for nothing; low down; stupid ignorant coal mining; S-n of a B???H, and if I hear another word from you I will knock your dam mouth around there where your ear is now located! You be in my office at the appointed time and don't be late. George H. Woodson was my father's lawyer for many years and they would discuss business in our home or at Woodson's office but I remembered the last three years he was paid $10,000.00 dollars a year to keep my father out of trouble from the saloons and gambling placesbut on one occassion he was negligent and caused my fathers name to be recorded in the Court House in Mahaska County which eventually [[insertion]] caused him to [[/insertion]] pay the largest fine that was recorded in the Law Books. It would necessitate a multitude of words to explain how the law was administered at that time. The Federal Government sold you a stamp which gave you the right to sell liquor and the state would not allowe it in an unincorporated Town. There were no more saloons after 1914 when the Volstead Law was effective. Also the bargain between Woodson and Gaines had come to an end. After 1914 nobody had any knowledge of distillery work but it did not take long for people to start bringing in Bonded Whiskey from St. Louis; Kansas City and Chicago. It was brought through in suite cases; trunks and many other ways and naturally some of it was confiscated. I loaded a Steamer Trunk of Bonded Whiskey at Kansas City and sent it to the stati for shipment and the station returned it after breaking several bottles. presume by elevating it and then dropping it on purpose and this happened twice so the train men told the drayman to place it in its original boxes and bring it back s I did but I believed it was some kind of trick to confiscate it at Kansas City o at the other end of its destination which would be Hamilton, Iowa but to my surprise I accepted and loaded the boxes from the freight depot without anything going wrong at Hamilton, Iowa. We are not in the war officially in 1917 but we already have a few fighting men in Europe. By Nov. 11, 1918 we had been in the war and it was over; then in 1920 the Bootlegers had learned something about distilling to make alchol. They did not have the knowledge of sacrementation; (The art of turning starch into sugar) but they had equipment enough to start in the middle by buying sugar and fermenting it into alchol.