American Falls and Pocatello court the Arbon wheat trade, 1912
In 1912 a new road brought American Falls businessmen into Arbon Valley, Pocatello's paper sounded the alarm, and an Arbon farmer asked Pocatello for a Trail Creek road.
1912 in the valley.
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Two Whiting brothers of Crystal marry on the same day, 1912
On a December morning in 1912 two Whiting brothers from Crystal took out marriage licenses in Pocatello minutes apart, neither knowing the other was marrying.
Arbon potatoes and the Kansas father who changed his mind
Dry-land potatoes from Arbon in 1909, and a homesteader whose garden proved the old-timers wrong and won over his doubting father from Kansas, as the American Falls Press told it.
Women who proved up: Arbon and Crystal land claims, 1908–1919
Land notices in the American Falls Press name valley women proving up claims of their own, from Arbon wives' desert land to a mother and her daughters on Cherry Creek near Crystal.
Not only Mendon: Buist settlers from Box Elder and Spanish Fork
Buist's first homesteaders came from Mendon, but the papers show families coming from Brigham City, Garland and Spanish Fork too, probably among them a postmistress fined in 1912.
Letters from a mission: J. C. Cairns of Arbon comes home, 1912
In 1912 the *Pocatello Tribune* printed letters from Arbon rancher John C. Cairns, written from Dublin and Halifax as his mission ended, and Arbon welcomed him home with a supper and dance.