Ida Featherston, a Kansas bride at Arbon, 1915–1916
Married at Pocatello in 1915, Ida Featherston died at Arbon in May 1916 and was sent home to Kansas for burial; that fall her husband sold out at the valley's first farm auction.
1916 in the valley.
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Pioneer Day in Arbon Valley, 1916–1929
From the 1916 parade to the Central school to Arbon's new hall in 1929, the papers followed the valley's Pioneer Day: programs, races, bucking contests and dances.
Two weddings join the Andersen and Gibbons families, 1916
In June 1916 Walt Andersen married Wealthy Gibbons at the Andersen reunion in Mendon, and that December her father, John Gibbons, married Walt's sister Catherine.
The Washington people's three-day picnic in Bull Canyon, 1916
Settlers from Dayton and other Washington towns came to Arbon Valley from 1909; in June 1916 they held a three-day picnic in Bull Canyon and invited everyone.
John Payne, Arbon's unofficial mayor, 1915–1917
In 1915 the American Falls Press jokingly called pioneer John Payne the mayor of Arbon; its notes show an old railroad engineer turned dry farmer, justice and county candidate.
The railroad that never came to Arbon Valley, 1914–1922
From 1914 to 1922 Arbon Valley farmers petitioned the Short Line, pledged a dollar an acre and backed one railroad plan after another, but no line was ever built.
Arbon's first community fair, and William Allard's letter, 1916
Arbon's first community fair, at the Central school on May 10, 1916, brought exhibits, speeches and a car wreck, and then William Allard's letter defending it.
Pauline gets a polling place: the valley votes in 1916
In 1916 Pauline became a voting precinct of its own, and two valley men, Gus Brahmstadt and John Noble, ran for the valley's seat on the Power County board.
Three feet of snow at Arbon: the winter of 1915–16
Storms buried Arbon Valley in about three feet of snow in early 1916 and cut its new telephone line; in February the paper reported the first vehicle out since winter began.
Debates and a suffrage tableau: Arbon's literary society, 1915–16
Through the stormy winter of 1915–16 Arbon's Central School Literary Society met on Tuesday nights for recitations, a literary paper and debates, one of them on a high school for Arbon.