Henry Shandrew's clean wheat in a smutty year, 1915
In 1915 Power County's new agent found no smut in Henry Shandrew's Arbon wheat while smut spread through the valley, and a plant from a field near Arbon became a bunt-immune wheat.
October 1915
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Overland from Dayton and a fire at Knox Canyon, October 1915
A family from Dayton, Washington, reached Arbon by wagon with their stock after losing horses on the road; the same column told of a stubble fire stopped near 1,500 bushels of grain.