Two solid townships of wheat: Arbon Valley's crop of 1915
Late spring rains, the valley's first combines, short-handed crews and dry-season fires: the American Falls Press followed Arbon Valley's wheat harvest of 1915.
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Late spring rains, the valley's first combines, short-handed crews and dry-season fires: the American Falls Press followed Arbon Valley's wheat harvest of 1915.
In 1915 the South Arbon news column followed hogs, grain, machinery and patients over the mountain road to Malad, the town the valley's south end relied on.
In 1915 Arbon Valley's sick and injured were carried to doctors at Malad, Pocatello and Ogden, or a doctor was sent for; in December the long-distance telephone arrived.
For decades the papers followed Peter M. Larsen, a Mendon schoolteacher, between his Cache Valley home and the family ranch at the Summit end of Arbon Valley.