Pauline's beginnings and Bishop Kowallis's Meadow Ward, 1910–1918
How Pauline got its store, school and post office, and how its Meadow Ward fared under its first bishop, Wilhelm F. Kowallis, from 1911 to his farewell in 1918.
March 1917
News, observations, announcements, and remembrances from the original Arbon Valley community blog.
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Community blog · 2010–2020 · original publication order · stories from the old papers added since 2026
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Crystal, the hidden settlement up Rattlesnake Creek, 1911–1917
In 1911 Crystal was a new settlement wanting a school; by 1917 the American Falls Press found about 150 families in a basin so well hidden that strangers could not find the road in.
The squatters of 1892, in Mrs. Logan's words
Mrs. E. A. Logan's 1917 history tells how the first squatters took up Bannock Valley in the 1890s; in 1920 she retold it as a birthday tribute to George Arbon.