Before the draft: Arbon Valley's volunteers of 1917
In 1917, before the draft reached them, young men of Arbon and Crystal enlisted at Pocatello, Salt Lake City and Portland, and the papers named them one by one.
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In 1917, before the draft reached them, young men of Arbon and Crystal enlisted at Pocatello, Salt Lake City and Portland, and the papers named them one by one.
Crystal settlers set light poles toward Pocatello in the winter of 1917 with Commercial Club money, and by July the line was joined to Mountain States at a fifteen-cent toll.