Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-08-21
BLACKSBURG BUDGET.

The Weather and Crops-Death of Mrs. l..
r. Roberts-Thrilling Experience at
Doolittle Ford-Believes In the Old
Burr Mill.
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
BLAcKsBURG, August 20.-After a
week of clouds and rain, the sun
came out bright and warm Sunday
morning, cheering our hearts and dis
missing, for the time at least, all fears
of freshet and consequent injury to
the corn on the lowlands. The sea-
sons have so far been most propitious
in our section this year, the crops
were never more promising, and fruit
of everykind so abundant and so per-
feet.
The meeting at Buffalo church clos
ed last week. There were thirteen
additions to the church, and the new
converts will be baptized in a short
time with those who will join at Mount
Paran.
On Wednesday morning at l o'clock,
Mrs. L. R. Roberts died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. j. c. Plonk, at
Cherokee Falls, aged 70 years. She
was afflicted for several months pre-
ceding her death with heart disease,
and bore her sickness with becoming
Christian fortitude. The loving and
tender ministrations of her devoted
children, among whom was Mr.. R. P.
Roberts, secretary and treasurer of
Cherokee Falls Cotton mill, was a
great solace to her in her last illness,
and when all was over, they bore her
body to the old Long Creek burying
ground, in CASTOR county, N. c., near
which she had lived, and where she
had worshipped so long, and laid it to
rest beside that of her husband, Mr..
John Roberts. Mrs. Roberts was a
woman of fine mind and character,
and impressed upon those about her
the earnestness and force of a true
Christian life, ever ready, by good
deeds, to adorn the faith which she
professed.
Mr.. J. G. Plonk and his brother
Mike, had an experience in water on
Wednesday morning before day, which
they will never forget, and which came
near costing Them their lives. There
was very little rain at Cherokee Falls
during the night, and they started to
Blacksburg, intending to cross the
small creek-Doolittle- the ford
near the factory. AS they approach
ed the stream, they noticed, to their
surprise, that it was somewhat swol.
len; but in the darkness could form
no idea of its condition and drove in.
Before reaching the middle of the
stream, the buggy was overturned and
the men had to swim for their lives.
They both succeeded in getting out
safely, and the horse, swept down with
the buggy about a hundred feet,
brought it and himself safely out. Of
course the gentlemen were drenched,
and by the time they returned home
and donned dry clothing, they had
only SO minutes to reach Blacksburg
for the northbound passenger train,
which passes here at $40; but, by TAX
ing another road, they accomplished
the distance in good time. A very
heavy rain had fallen here and along
the headwaters of Doolittle, hence its
sudden and dangerous rise.
was glad to see in THE ENQUIRER
of the 10th instant, the complimentary
notice of Mr.. Riddles burr mill flour.
After making a thorough test of the
roller mill -four, I have used, when
l could get it, and advocated the use
of flour ground by the old fashioned
burr mill. While in some instances it
is not quite so white, yet it is sweeter
to the taste and more nutritious.
There is no reason either why it
should not be as white and light as
the roller flour. Our farmers only
need to be more careful in selecting
and cleaning their wheat from all i'm
purities, and the miller in having his
rocks in good condition, to produce a
very fine quality OF good white, sweet,
nutritious -four. The flour we are
using now was ground at the old Moore
burr mill, on Buffalo, by Messrs. james
Martin and Joseph Moss, of wheat
raised by myself, and I am sure that
the bread and rolls made from it, will
compare most favorably in appearance
with any made from roller flour, and
is decidedly sweeter, and has more nu-
triment in it. I hope our people, for
their own and their children's good,
will never think of giving up the old
burr mill, unless they can get a better
substitute for it than the present roller
patent process for making their bread.
W. A.