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.
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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.
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.