Iron County register., 1922-08-03
At Fair Arcadia.
Dexter statesman.)

hand, last Saturday, and hiked it for
Arcadia, where "She, Who Must Be
Obeyed" is spending a few weeks
learning how to do nothing-a thing
she has never yet shown that she knew
how to do.
(How do you like that for English
construction?)
The Quinine Central Branch of the
Missouri Pacific, due here at 5.45 was
about an hour late, so we had the ex-
qu;site pleasure of being guest of Mr.
and Mrs. w. A. Loeffier at dinner at
the Jefferson Hotel. Thanks to these
fine friends.
Over at Poplar Bluff we spent the
time till 2.18 A. M, Sunday (when our
train came) in visiting Fl. B. Newman
and the bath house. Not meaning the
second is necessary after the first is
done. Then we took Dwight Brown
down and put him to bed, land cuddled
up in our own downy couch till hus-
tied out for the train "Nawth."
At549, nearly an heur late, our choo-
choo pulled into Arcadia, and we
went up to Methodist Assembly
grounds, where we were very much
in the same fix the young bride was,
in cartoon in one of the st. Louis
late dailies. She was trying to find
her room in the hotel by calling Hub.
by's name, and from every room
where there was man she heard,
"Here, dear, in here, dearie, Hoo,
hoo!" We forgot the number of the
house our frau was in, and we went
from door to door knocking, and
found them empty till we reached the
one where our "Love Lay Dreaming" )"
A knock on the door shattered her
dreams, and she came sleepy eyed to
answer our "Call to Arms" We saw
her as she arose from the couch, and
she said, "What on earth" Mind
you, "What," not "Who." Guess we
looked like real "What," though, as
we had slept doubled up like jack
knife on car seat for three hours pre-
viously.
But to think of finding our corn fed,
country bred O'Clock rising wife in
bed at 6 q. M, Sunday! A thing new
er dreamed of here at home. The
air of Arcadia must surely be that
dreamy kind to produce langour and
laziness. Well, that's what we sent
her there for-to be lazy for once in
her hustling little life. And we will
say that atmosphere up there is lang
ourous, for we hit the hay ourselves
right after breakfast and as Baslca, ,Jr.
screeched at us with his seraphic
voice trying to sing, we sank into a
gentle snooze which lasted till noon.
Arcadia is place of indescribable
beau.y. Nesting between hills Sc
high they deserve dignified designa-
tlon of "mountains," it seems more
of "Dreamland" than something real
To the North towers Pilot Knob
where General Grant received his
Commission to head the Union forces
during the unpleasant pastime be-
tween the States in the Sixties.
Then like lesser brothers, standing
by their, many peaks OF lower
heights-how's that for an antlthesis!
standing like mute sentinels guard
ing the beauty of that fairylane
known as Arcadia Valley"
Off there three miles away, we see
the Baptist Assembly grounds on 9
hill still higher than the one which the
Methodist are situated on. Rather
strange, as our Baptist brethren gem
orally seeks the lower ranges where
the "Much water" may be found
while Methodists, less aquedps in de-
mand and desire, range higher in the
hill lands and iarthest from tn,
streams. But then Remembered tha
a Baptist will go a long way for waite
for some purposes. Well, Goo
bless them, they are great people
and Methodists like'em, because the.
/, were here and rolled logs with us whel
we were Founding a Nation Out of tn
Dreams of Our Forefathers. The.
are Pioneers of Civilization az well a
Christianity. Our Revolutionary an
csstry would not have known how t
do without gun, plow, hoe and par
son, and he generally depended o.
the Baptists and Methodists to furnis
the last-named necessity, as they wer
about the only kind Of preachers wh
were fools enough TO preach for tn
fun of it and board themselves. An
some congregations now -a-days kee
up their ancient practices on this line
as far as supporting the ministry
concerned, and we are not speakin
of Baptists altogether when we sa
this.
Arcadia is now "discovered," an
many Of the wealthy families of S