. History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships. ^^AriiZ-. If • -\,, HISTORY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY. • The people in those days maile hand-mills with stones afoot over to grind com with. To turn them was hard wifes father once took a peck of corn to grind on one ofthem; a boy came with a tin cup to toll the grist. The manground and ground, till he got so tired that he called out to theboy, Come here, sonny, with your tin, and get some more toll,or I neve
. History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships. ^^AriiZ-. If • -\,, HISTORY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY. • The people in those days maile hand-mills with stones afoot over to grind com with. To turn them was hard wifes father once took a peck of corn to grind on one ofthem; a boy came with a tin cup to toll the grist. The manground and ground, till he got so tired that he called out to theboy, Come here, sonny, with your tin, and get some more toll,or I never get done. People went on horseback, or ratherwalked and led the horse, with a sack of corn or meal on hisback, thirty miles to mill. A man or a boy would go with ahorse and three bushels of corn in a four-bushel sack allthat distance. Johnny Banks made a great improvement; heloaded one horse and attached a rein, leading one and ridinganother, thus not exactly killing two birds with one stone, butwhat was still better, getting two grists of corn to mill with oneboy. Great labor-saving invention, to make on • boy to accom-plish the work of two, and more than that, for the led
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