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.
January 1914
News, observations, announcements, and remembrances from the original Arbon Valley community blog.
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Community blog · 2010–2020 · original publication order · stories from the old papers added since 2026
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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.