The Mena weekly star., 1922-01-05

Young. were reared in the Potter VI cinity and their two story log house home has not been torn down but a very few years.
 We got back to the Lowthers home in time for dinner. And as we. took onr seats I readily understood why R. R. Holder, cashier of the Bank iof Hatfield, boarded here most of the several years while teaching school at Old Potter. The table was literally filled with all kinds of foods, coming from the farm. Meat, potatoes, but ter, syrup, pickles and all kinds or fruits adorned the table. And not withstanding the fact that all. seemed hungry, including big Johnnie Bain, an adopted Irish boy, who had been out cutting wood, the four of us made very little impression in diminishing the visible amount of food before us.
 After dinner the subject of potatoes came up. The chair 1 occupied wouldn't sit level. And MT. Lowthers pulled back a homespun carpet and lifted up two loose boards to show why it wouldn't.
 It was an interesting sight to look at. Right there before my eyes was cellar full of Nancy Hall potatoes that the floor wouldn't fit down good.
 Then MT. Lowthers told me why he took such good care of potatoes. While he was a boy ten years old he took bushel of potatoes to Bethesda Springs and sold them for one dollar. It was a silver dollar and the first money he ever owned and since that time he has been fool about sweet potatoes, and thinks Polk county is losing something by not devotlng more attention to them.
 Before left him Mir. Lowthers told me a good one on miller. It hap pened on Rock creek, where the Jeff ferson highway crosses it, and is only a few hundred yards from the Devils Eyebrow turn in the road, which name was given this place by Boyd Lafin, George Petty's son-in-law.
 The tale on the miller runs some thing like this: The mill was of the old type water power kind and red headed boy one Saturday, on becom- ing impatient to get back home to go fishing, remarked:
 "Mr. Miller, I can eat that meal faster than you are grinding il" he said fretfully as he tossed the long, red locks from over his eyes so he could see.
 "Yes son, but how long could you keep it up?" the miller queried in al self-satisfied manner.
 "Until I starved to death the youngster answered, and after that the miller always kept quiet when the red-head came to mill.
 New Potter.
 New Potter is about miles west of Odl Potter and split like sand wich with the Kansas City Southern. It only has a population Of some three or four hundred people but it is showing many signs of progress. The new highway especially gives the place a look of importance.
 New Potter has a good school. Prof. A. s. Daniels is principal and Miss Mabel Gam is assistant. And on Gen. Robert E. Lees birthday, January 19, this school is to have big rally. Old Potter, Rocky and Shady Grove schools have a special invitation. There will be field day sports in the forenoon and speaking in the afternoon. Prof. Morden of Mena and Dr. Grant of Little Rock are expected to be present.
 I inuuired in New Potter for old settlers and the only ones l could find was c. z. Potter, son of the founder of Old Potter, and Lewis Keener, son of the late Henry Keener. Both men live right in town and each are firm ly of the belief that times were better in their early days than they are now. Aunt Charity Potter, wife of Uncle Con, as he is called, stomped her foot on the floor and said: "I know they were better" and she enumerated several kinds of self-sacrifices people used to undergo for one another that we do not even think of today.
 Rev. s. A. Neighpors might be called an old timer He came here with his father in the 70's and set tied east of Dallas. He is now clerk ing in the store of Carl Gam, who is the grandson of another old set tier, Hiram Gam, now dead.
 The Rev. Mir. Neighbors would have been one of Roosevelt's favorites had he known him before he died, for he has II children and they are all living, and yet he does not look to be much more than middle-aged. He is erect, quick-witted and still breaches on Sundays.
 Walter Jones, who built that nice two story home north of town and once run the gin, is now running a general merchandise store.
 Big laughing Tom Harweli, once of Hatfield, owns two sawmills out of town. And last but not least, if a man could become 50 unfortunate as to get dissatisfied with New Potter Argus Rowe. the newlywed and sta tion agent, will sell him a ticket to some other place where he win be no better of.
 Note-Rocky will be in line for a visit by The Stars correspondent, and some interesting material is expected from some sf the best known of the old-time residents.
 Only Ranks and Pfstoffiee Closet.
 Nena's three banks and the post 4-nfsr srf~.. a li fine fneef ssf aefe fl hilef-