Somerset to Arbon: the valley's Kentucky settlers, 1908–1922
In December 1911 G. S. Randall of Arbon planned a visit to his old home at Somerset, Kentucky; the papers follow the Kentucky families who came to the valley, stayed and left.
1911 in the valley.
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Jim Taggert of Bannock Creek and his children, 1911
In 1911 the *Tribune* reported that "Indian Mike," killed in a Nevada fight, had once farmed on Bannock Creek as Jim Taggert, and that his four surviving children were brought to Fort Hall.
Rules for stockmen on the Bannock Creek road, 1911
In October 1911 the Fort Hall superintendent opened the Arbon–American Falls road down Bannock Creek to the public, with no camping or fires and escorts for driven stock.
The Orisons of Summit: a family between Arbon and Logan
Charles and Jean Ann Orison came from Cache Valley to a homestead at Summit, and for eighty years the papers followed their family between Arbon Valley and Logan.
Mattie Nunnelley and Herman Noth elope on train No. 6
In 1911 an Arbon homesteader's daughter slipped away on train No. 6 with the brother of an American Falls doctor; the Press later followed the couple to a ranch at Arbon.
Showing the dry farm: Arbon at Farmers' Day, 1908–1912
Arbon people were named judges and officers of Farmers' Day, the yearly American Falls farm show begun in 1908, and their dry-land alfalfa won the paper's praise.
Nine threshers behind forty headers: Arbon's harvest of 1911
The American Falls Press followed Arbon Valley's 1911 grain harvest from the July estimates and the steam threshers to the wagon trains hauling wheat to the railroad.
The state land selector on Rattlesnake Creek, 1911
In July 1911 Idaho's land selector looked over the Moonshine and Rattlesnake country for land for the state, and found that most of the good land on Rattlesnake Creek was ceded Fort Hall land.
Around Bannock Peak in a day: an auto trip through Arbon, 1911
On July 16, 1911, four American Falls men drove 127 miles around Bannock Peak in a day, calling on Arbon's pioneers and taking pictures along the way.
A road over Moonshine: the short cut to American Falls, 1911–1912
In 1911 the county surveyed a road from American Falls over the Moonshine divide to Arbon; in 1912 town cash and valley labor built a short cut, probably on that line, for the wheat wagons.
District 46 and the building of Arbon's Central school, 1911–1913
In 1911 the lower Arbon valley was to vote on joining its school districts and building on Tom Evans' place; by 1913 the Central school stood on Evans land as school and meeting hall.
Talk of a townsite: the makings of a village at Arbon, 1911
In 1911 the Arbon columns reported a hotel, a store, a dance hall, a village blacksmith and butcher, and talk of opening a townsite in the valley.
The Flood of January 1911 and the Bannock Creek Bridges
A January rainstorm in 1911 drowned three Arbon children and took the bridges on Bannock Creek; that spring Oneida County put new bridges to a bond vote.
How Arbon voted to join Power County, 1908–1913
Between 1908 and 1911 Arbon voted three times to leave Oneida County for a new county around American Falls; bills failed in the 1909 and 1911 legislatures before Power County was created in 1913.