My Children Are More Precious Than Gold
“The girls walked along the narrow, rocky, clay cow path that trailed among the tall broomsede weeds bordering Little River.
Holding onto the handles of a bushel basket of cornmeal that Grandpa Bowers ground at his mill, the girls were taking the meal home for Nannie to use to bake bread.
When they were short of coffee or sugar, cornmeal could be used to trade at the store for what Nannie needed, because there was very little money to spend. The price of coffee at that time was fifteen cents, su...gar was four cents and the price of a dozen of eggs was fourteen cents.
Bess and Lillie liked to visit their grandparents so the day before they willingly shelled enough corn to fill the bushel basket and carried it the two miles to the grist mill. The children enjoyed going down to the grist mill with Grandpa Bower to watch the corn ground into meal under two large stones rolling together by power of a water mill. A big wooden box connected to a dammed up area in the river filled with water then flowed over a big wheel that turned the stones.MoreLess
Holding onto the handles of a bushel basket of cornmeal that Grandpa Bowers ground at his mill, the girls were taking the meal home for Nannie to use to bake bread.
When they were short of coffee or sugar, cornmeal could be used to trade at the store for what Nannie needed, because there was very little money to spend. The price of coffee at that time was fifteen cents, su...gar was four cents and the price of a dozen of eggs was fourteen cents.
Bess and Lillie liked to visit their grandparents so the day before they willingly shelled enough corn to fill the bushel basket and carried it the two miles to the grist mill. The children enjoyed going down to the grist mill with Grandpa Bower to watch the corn ground into meal under two large stones rolling together by power of a water mill. A big wooden box connected to a dammed up area in the river filled with water then flowed over a big wheel that turned the stones.MoreLess
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