The Mena weekly star., 1921-12-29

professor has been with the Cove school nine years.
 Later 1 met J. A Walker, manager for the truck growers, who furnished the money to build the potato curing house. He took me thru it and showed where already 1140 bushels of sweet potatoes, mostly Nancy Halls and Porto Ricans, are ready for the mar ket. MT. Walker likes the Porto Ric- ans better than any other variety. Uncle Nat Allen Goes Way Back.
 Then 1 met Uncle Nat Allen, de- scendant of Ethan Allen. My chance came on Christmas day, and I found him at the home of MT. and Mrs. w. l.. Nichols. He talked freely and kept me busy with pencil and paper. He has good memory and talks facts.
 Peter B. Allen, his father, came here from Indiana in the year of AT and the old home place southeast of Cove has been in the Allen family 80 years. At that time they got their mail at Ultamathule, west of De Queen The road that led to Ultama- thule was cut out by Uncle John Shultz, who came here in 1883, the year the stars fell, and settled on the place now known as the Hiram Gam place south of Potter on Rock creek, just west of the place whene the old county road crosses that high place on the railroad.
 A man by the name of Winter came 10 this country about the same time as Uncle John Shults and settled the place where Henry Miller now lives. 1t was these two men who named Two Mile creek and Six Mile creek. It happened this way: They called it two miles from Shults' to the creek ford where J. T. Williams now lives, hence the name Two Mile. From this ford to where Winter lived it was 1 miles. And as 2 and makes six, hence the name Six Mile.
 Old Cove was named by Uncle Mats father and the first mail service was just after the Civil war when a route was established between Dallas and Para Clifta, down in Sevier county. Many times, Uncle Nat said, he had seen the mail man come in with only two or three letters and not a single paper. An old settler named Hays, who lived on the top of Rich Mountain, walked to Cove once each month to get his mail, and often went back without receiving any. l Polk county was named after Pres | ident James K. Polk and Dallas, for merly Panther postoffice, was named after George M Dallas, who was vice | president under Polk.
 l Uncle Mats father, Peter B.. took the first census of Polk county in 1850. i Prior to this when a man or woman. i boy or girl wanted to marry they went before two respectable citizens and stated their intentions of living together as man and wife, and that was all there was to it. Then the tax on property was so little that | Uncle Nat does not remember of ever hearing 1t discussed. Uncle Nat claims people were happier than they {, arc now, and even had less sickness. l People lose too much sleep and have I too much stomachs nowadays, Uncle Nat insists, and from his clear blue 1 eyes, clear skin and youthful looks ! seems as tho he knows what he is talking about
 l attribute my longevity to cheer fulness and living close to nature.' he asserted. He is TT years old, but doesn't look to be over 30 or 50. He had been married 3 times, has l2 children living and 1 dead. Blake Barton of Fort Smith, Charley Golf of De Queen, Harvey Wright of Ida bel and J. w. Luttrel of Hatfield are some of his better known sons-in-law. Uncle Nat always keeps busy and SO sure is he that he is the oldest man born in Polk county he says he can throw any man down in a wrestling match who claims to be 0ldey. He is a natural mechanic Before he went to building chimneys and papering rooms he made wagons and hacks
 Just to pass the time profitablv he made 07 nut awls for his children and yrardchildren just before Christmas
 md neatly wrote the name of each on
 be awi handles They are to be
 ised to pick out hIckorynut and wal.
 nut kernels.
 Ike Jones was the first merchant
 in old Cove, Riley Perry was frss
 nati carrier in the county and uncle
 Nat is not certain. hut he believe
 samuel Nichols, grandfather of .esx.
 Nichols, was hrst county iudce
 Judge Nichols held the office fenr 2 feare and was snceeeaes hv n.s.. py the name Of Howell. After How