A spring malady: Arbon Valley farmers buy cars, 1915
In 1915, a year after frost took most of the valley's wheat, Arbon farmers began buying cars; by June the South Arbon column counted about fifteen in the valley.
June 1915
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A seminary student's summer in Arbon Valley, 1915
In 1915 Robert W. Sturges, a New York seminary student, spent four months as pastor of the Congregational churches at Arbon and Highland, then wrote about the valley.
Homesteads on the mountain ranges: Arbon Valley in 1915
In 1915 the *American Falls Press* recorded Arbon Valley homesteaders filing in Knox Canyon and on the ranges, drilling wells, building houses and selling out.
Elmira and Delone Smith, two homestead daughters at Summit
Two daughters of the Summit homesteader E. G. Smith, as the 1915 South Arbon columns saw them and as their obituaries remembered them seventy years on.