Iron County register., 1922-08-10
At Arcadia Again.
Dexter statesman.)

Dexter Statesman.)
Last Sunday we were again the
guest of widow Basler and family at
Arcadia, where the wife is being en-
tertained, Thanks for unstinted hospi-
tality to US and ourn.
We arrived late, and found the folks
feeding their faces out in the kitchen
tent. We also ate, then while the
women cleared the table we took a
snooze upstairs. About one hour
afterwards we were blown out of bed
by mountain hurricane. We fell in
to pants and shoes, and Parson Judy
who saw us fall down stairs said our
lovely lamps looked like two saucers
for largeness and whiteness. We got
outside and to the dining tent before
we came to. Nope, don't want to toy
with any more Arcadia winds. They
are stronger than the editorials in the
Sikeston Standard, those winds are.
The clans began gathering Sunday
for the Epworth League Assembly.
A bevy of beautiful chickens from
Grand Avenue, Centenary and Mt.
Auburn churches, ST. Louis, were on
the grounds, and the wife and Mrs.
Pap were busy all day watching their
husbands.
The Arcadia Assembly is fixed
and growing institution. Rev. R. P
Basler is President, Rev. o. H. Dug
gins of Pennington, is Treasurer, and
Rev. P. A. Price of Poplar Bluff, is
Secretary Manager.
They have this year installed a 49,
600 gallon tank and it is filled with
water pumped from pure mountain
spring, and it not only furnishes the
Assembly but the town of Arcadia in
the valley below. They are also just
completing shower baths for both
sexes, and toilets that equal anything
in st. Louis.
Rev. Judy, as ground sup erintend-
ent, is there to see that all have every
attention, and that the property is
cared for. Duggins was playing squir-
rel all day Saturday. trimming trees.
There is also a radio machine being
installed and folks back in st. Louis
and elsewhere, Dexter included, may
tune in and get the full program when
they care to. sS
Miss Jess Basler deserves special
mention as entertainer extraordinary
of the grounds. She wanders into the
forests, hears the birds sing and
brings back their song, words and
music, and feeds it to the folk around
the camp.
1t can't always storm, and so the
afternoon gave the Arcadians a view
from sunset hill that beggars descrip'
tion. Just enough clouds to form an
enhancing sunset.
AS the god of day sank to rest in
his accidental couch, the voice of
maidens, chanting vesper hymns in
cadences soft and low, made one
think of the land beyond 'The Sum
sets Radiant Glow" where the
s.Choir Invieiblen chorus the anthems
of eternal praise, solacing the souls
who have pitched their tents on
celestial plains to await US, and the
rear guard of time,
Just as the fortunate trio who were
with Him on the Mount of Trans
fguration, had to descend to the level
of lower life, and come in contract
with the carping critics in the vale
below, and commingle with the minds
maudlin with greed for material
things, so will they who are there
now, leave those to soul and senti
ment, and rescences and sounds SO
uplifting turn to the prosaic pursuits
they left in city, hamlet and country
side. May they, as the trio named
above, go to life's duties with a new
er faith and zest, and endure as hav-
ing seen Him who is invisible.
A Small Man in Large Job.