Arbon Valley's Sunday school children and Cora Sorensen, 1913–1946
Valley children wrote for the Sunday School's magazine from 1913 to 1928, while Cora Sorensen of the Summit end taught the youngest Sunday school class for thirty-three years.
1913 in the valley.
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A minister's portrait of Bannock Valley in 1913
In 1913 a Congregational minister sent a hill of wheat and a report from Arbon on the valley's crops, land and people while starting its first two Protestant churches.
B. W. Rice's letter from Arbon and two new churches, 1913–1914
In July 1913 B. W. Rice wrote from Arbon about the valley's grain and its farmers, one by one; that month two Congregational churches were organized there.
John Ryan vanishes after selling hogs in Pocatello, 1913
In June 1913 John Ryan, a hand on the Evans and Daniels ranch on Bannock Creek, sold a load of hogs in Pocatello, left his team in a shed and dropped out of sight.
Elk Preserve or Summer Pasture? The Mink Creek Divide, 1913
In June 1913 settlers over the Mink Creek divide protested sheep on the Pocatello forest, and a letter writer answered a plan to make it a game preserve: the settlers needed pasture, not elk.
Surveyors for a Bannock Valley branch line, 1913
In June 1913 a man from Arbon brought word to Pocatello that Short Line engineers were surveying a branch railroad over the Malad divide and down Bannock Valley.
The Kings of North Logan and their Arbon dry farm, 1913–1932
For nearly twenty years the Logan papers followed Jack King of North Logan to his Arbon dry farm and home again, through a dry 1931, a hopeful 1932 and the death of his wife Ruby that August.
Four days in the valley: Power County's first road season, 1913
In May 1913 the new Power County's commissioners spent four days viewing roads at Crystal and Arbon, the start of a season of petitions, a Pocatello road offer and a new overseer.
Pocatello's campaign for a Trail Creek road to Arbon, 1912–1913
In 1912 and 1913 Pocatello merchants pressed for a road over the Trail Creek divide to win Arbon Valley's wheat; pledges came in, but cash and a reservation right of way stalled it.