Kansas was, of course, "dry" for many years, and when they finally made it legal to sell liquore the state imposed a "minimum price list" and the few legal sales outlets were NOT ALLOWED to sell anything below the "list price." (Although some sold at somewhat higher prices.)

Legal liquor was, of course, a "local option," allowing individual towns and/or whole counties to remain "dry."

This made it completely unnecessary to run a still, since both Oklahoma and Missouri sold "legal" liquore at prices far below the Kansas list.

At one point a "kid" who worked for my pappy asked to borrow the company truck for the weekend. This was not an unusual request since dad had let several others borrow the truck when they needed to "relocate." On asking what the need was, however, the kid described a "deal" he'd heard about.

All he had to do was drive the truck down to a warehouse in Oklahoma and park it overnight. The next morning the truck would be full of potatoes. He was supposed to leave the truck overnight at a warehouse in Wichita KS, and pick it up the next morning. He got $50 and got to keep the potatoes.

Daddy didn't much like the idea of having his truck full of bullet holes if the Revenoors happened to get involved, so the request was denied; but we're pretty sure "the kid" found another place to borrow one. For some reason though he found "other employment" rather soon after that, so maybe he was making a profit ... (?).

And for decades, several Missouri liquor stores just across the border offered a "free replacement policy" under which they posted notice that they would replace any liquor you bought from them in Missouri that got confiscated by the Kansas Liquor Control Board gendarmes, althought they did insist on seeing the tickets, at least more recently.

The "local option" is still in effect in Kansas, with some peculiar "dry patches." One little town a couple of weeks ago voted to allow legal sales for the first time since forever. We're wondering just how much effect it will have since the town is so small it doesn't even have a gas station, according to reports in the news. Even the small "variety store" that was reported to have sold a bit "illegally" while the town was dry has gone out of busines.

John