William Allard of Arbon and the 1914 race for the Legislature
In 1914 the Arbon homesteader William Allard won the Republican primary and the November election, becoming Power County's first member of the Idaho House.
1914 in the valley.
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By way of Brigham: the fight for a valley mail route, 1914–1916
In 1914 mail from American Falls to Crystal went 239 miles by rail through Brigham City and Malad; the valley petitioned until a Pocatello route came in 1916.
Ed Hooker dug through the snow to pitch his tent at Arbon
In 1914 Arbon homesteader M. E. Hooker told the Pocatello Tribune he had dug through several feet of snow and ice to find a place for his tent when he moved to the valley.
Fire on Elizabeth Jackson's homestead near Crystal, 1914
In July 1914 the Pocatello Tribune reported that a homesteader on Rattlesnake, Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, had lost her house and everything in it to fire and was living in a tent.
The frost year: Bannock Valley's wheat crop of 1914
After a hopeful spring, frost struck the Bannock Valley wheat in June 1914; the papers followed the loss, a plea for lower taxes and the harvest that still came.
The Farmers' Society of Equity and an elevator for Arbon
Arbon Valley dry farmers joined the Farmers' Society of Equity in 1913, and from 1914 to 1917 the cooperative planned a grain elevator for the valley that the papers never report as built.
Wet or dry: how Arbon and Crystal voted on liquor in 1914
Power County voted to forbid the sale of liquor on May 20, 1914, 698 to 626; Arbon went dry by three votes and Crystal by two, and the official count waited on Arbon's returns.
A railroad on posts: the Double-P monorail plan of 1914
In 1914 Arbon farmers pledged a right of way and $1,000 a mile in bonds for a single-rail grain line on posts, but the papers record nothing built.
Arbon in the Sheep Store News: late winter and spring, 1914
In 1914 an American Falls store's monthly paper carried Arbon news, probably all from Mrs. E. A. Logan: skis, surprise parties, barbed-wire telephones, a thaw and a new store.
130 to 18: Arbon votes down the county road bonds, 1914
In January 1914 Power County voted on $125,000 in road bonds that promised a trunk road from Arbon; Arbon voted 130 to 18 against, and the bonds failed.
Proving up at Arbon: the land-office notices, 1909–1914
How Arbon Valley homesteaders turned claims into titles from 1909 to 1914, from the land-office notices: the neighbours who stood witness, and the contests over empty claims.
Great Change at Arbon: the wheat harvest of 1913
The papers followed Arbon Valley's 1913 wheat from the threshers to the railroad, with a farmers' co-operative, delegates to Tulsa and three crop counts that disagree.
Christmas 1913 at Arbon's Central school: a tree for 125 children
On Christmas Eve 1913 Santa Claus brought presents, candy, nuts and oranges to 125 children at Arbon's Central school, and dances and sleighing parties filled the holiday week.