Snow on the unthreshed grain: Arbon's winter of 1920–21
Early snow caught Arbon's 1920 harvest in the fields, and the Arbon column followed the stranded grain, the moves to town, the winter dances and a late spring.
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Early snow caught Arbon's 1920 harvest in the fields, and the Arbon column followed the stranded grain, the moves to town, the winter dances and a late spring.
Lucien McLarry of Dayton, Washington, moved onto the Parley Bailey place at Arbon in 1918; in 1920 his horses and combine went to auction, and by 1922 the Bailey land was in court.
In November 1920 Pauline voted the Nonpartisan League ticket, which ran Jack McCool for county commissioner, while Arbon voted Republican and Crystal's returns swung the Senate count.