Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-07-27
AN oPFN LETTER.


To the Good People of arcadia Valley:
The third session of the Mis-
souri, Baptist Assembly on Area
dia Heights is about to meet. 1t
is due to the people of the Arcadia
Valley to say that these Baptists
are coming back in increasing
numbers because you treated
them well the first year they we're
here. We were impressed with
your cordial greeting, your efforts
to make US comfortable when we
camped in a wilderness, and not
least of all by the reasonableness
of prices.
l am writing now to thank you
for this cordial welcome and to
invite you to join is again in
making the visitors of this year
glad they came. The people who
live in the Valley have many OPP
portunities to help the Assembly.
Most of our people have to econ
omize on the trip or else stay
away. We are not rich, but we
love these mountains. You can
encourage little economies with
out losing anything yourselves.
When our first Assembly closed,
word went out over the State OF
Missouri, "Ironton is one place
where they do not try to hold you
up" 1t was the best advertise
ment the Arcadia Valley ever got.
l. want to ask you to help to keep
prices down this year. The prices
of produce will naturally be a lit
tie higher on account of the dry
weather. But make them as low
as you can and.in the long run it
will pay.
Come up and tent with us on
Arcadia Heights. We have i'm
proved our grounds since last
year and have built a new and
better restaurant building. We
have made a large concrete swim
ming pool and increased our
athletic grounds.
Our program this year is the
best we have ever had. Some of
the ablest men in our denomina-
ton throughout the American con-
tinent are coming here to lecture,
conduct classes and preach.
If you want to tent, drop me a
card stating what size tent you
want. The following table will
show the prices:
Compartment Tent, 1Ox14, 6 it. walls,
noored I.oU
| foored.. 1900
Wall Tent. 10x12, 3 1-2 it. walls, floored, 400
Wall Tent, 12x14, 3 IL it. walls, tloored, SOC
Cot, plain wire. ~. ............... 80
Cot, wire, reinforced springs. ID
Blankets, double. ......... A.......,.. .35
FllloWS 20
UhalrS ~
Lunches and meals at restaurants. ...I5 to IS
Hack fare from station to the grounds, u
Hauling suit cases and trunks. ...... 10 to III
Board & lodging at Ozark Inn, per day 1,a
Board and lodging atiOzark Inn, to
members of the Assembly, per day .. 12s
Lodging in tents for tsansients, per day sc
All services at the Tabernacle
are free. Visitors who come up
simply to spend the DAY ana at
tend the services are welcome and
no charges are made. Please tell
everybody that this is so.
The Missouri Baptist Assembly
wishes to bring something good to
the Arcadia Valley. I do not mean
the money, though that amounts
to something worth while; last
summer six hundred people spent
while here an average of a little
less than ten dollars apiece. ]
mean that we want to leave an in
tellectual and spiritual blessing.
We get here a great deal in phys
ical health, increased intellectual
vigor and renewed spiritual life,
and we want to give where we re-
ceive. And if we car say a good
word for yuu in a hundred COM
munities in Missouri, we shall be
glad to do so.
~Fraternally Yours,
HOWARD G. COLwELL,
Corresponding Secretary.