The trail of the Loup; being a history of the Loup River region . ade 1880-90 saw substantialadditions made to Arcadia, both in the business quarter and the residenceportion of the town. Then came that season of disaster^ 1890-91. In the fall df this year the very heart was burned out of the businessstreet. Some eight leading firms were put out of business, geveral of them never to reopen. Tp this day the scarsof the conflagration can plainly be now right on thfe heels of the firstcalamity came the first dry seagon andArcadia naturally ertough came to anabsolute standstill. Prom 1891
The trail of the Loup; being a history of the Loup River region . ade 1880-90 saw substantialadditions made to Arcadia, both in the business quarter and the residenceportion of the town. Then came that season of disaster^ 1890-91. In the fall df this year the very heart was burned out of the businessstreet. Some eight leading firms were put out of business, geveral of them never to reopen. Tp this day the scarsof the conflagration can plainly be now right on thfe heels of the firstcalamity came the first dry seagon andArcadia naturally ertough came to anabsolute standstill. Prom 1891 to 1896and even later the young town saw somedistressing times. Many of the popula-tion became absolutely disheattened andpulled stakes and left the country. Anumber of houses were actually movedfrom town and transformed into farm-dwellings. Arcadia was on the retro-grade. , But this is only telling overagain the story of every other town inthe Valley. By 1900 the rallying point had beenreached. The population was then has increased to nearly 700. Modern. Hon. A. E. Bartoo. In 1902;it reached,374, and in 1905 .dwelling houses ,springing up part of town. John Wall hag 152 THE TRAIL OF THE LOUP lately completed a fine brick business house to take tlie place of the one de-stroyed by fire some time ago, entailing a net loss of $25,000; an up-to-dateOdd Fellows Hall is under construction and ground has been broken forthe new Kinsey bank building. Substantial cement walks are rapidly sup-planting the old wooden structures; beautiful shade trees and well keptlawns begin to mark a prosperous, growing community. The Arcadia Champion sets forth the years growth in the followinglanguage: WHAT WE HAVE DONE. A summary of the improvements which have been built and are now inbuilding or for which contracts have been let might prove is the list: Mrs. Salisbury, cottage $ Mrs. Salisbury, residence O. D. Henyon, cottage A. Lane, house 50
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