Hot lunches at the Clifton Creek school, 1915–1916
In 1915 Lola Skartvedt began cooking hot noon lunches with her pupils in a bare shack school on Clifton Creek near Crystal, and the county paper said the idea should spread statewide.
December 1915
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Thanksgiving and Christmas at Arbon's Central school, 1915
In the stormy late fall of 1915 the *Press* printed the Central school's Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve programs, naming the Arbon children who recited, sang and acted in them.
The long wait for Arbon's telephone line, 1913–1915
Arbon Valley organized its own telephone company in 1913 and talked over barbed wire while it waited for the long-distance line from American Falls, which arrived in December 1915.