The Lusk brothers and the Bailey sisters of Pauline
Brothers Dave and Park Lusk of Pauline married sisters Anna and Erma Bailey of Arbon; the papers followed them through the First World War, Erma's death in 1922 and the obituaries of 1952–1960.
October 1917
News, observations, announcements, and remembrances from the original Arbon Valley community blog.
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Isabelle Noble and the Noble children of Pauline, 1915–1921
Between 1915 and 1921 John and Fanny Noble, who kept the store at Pauline, lost four children, among them Isabelle, 12, who had clerked in her father's store.
D. J. Bowen tells the Pilgrim how Arbon began, 1917
In October 1917 the American Falls Press printed D. J. Bowen's account of the 1892 search for water, his 1893 aspen-log cabin and Arbon's first post office.
Bugle calls at midnight: the valley sends off its draft men, 1917
In the fall of 1917 Arbon and Crystal held farewell dances for the first valley men called in the draft, and the American Falls Press followed them to Camp Lewis.