Rain, weeds and 29,008 sacks: Arbon Valley's wheat harvest of 1922
Spotty fields, a rainy harvest, a new combine, town men with cold feet and a warehouse count corrected from bushels to sacks: Arbon Valley's wheat year of 1922.
1922 in the valley.
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A lantern in the pothole: the Saulsberry still at Sunbeam, 1922
In September 1922 Power County officers found a copper still at Sunbeam, caught a young Kentuckian running it, and charged him with his uncle, a Pauline farmer.
A Summit homestead that became an Idaho Century Farm
J. Parley Sorensen of Mendon received title to a Summit homestead in 1914; his descendants the Thompsons farm it still, and in 2024 it was recognized as an Idaho Century Farm.
Gwen and Lucille Hardman's Arbon ranch, 1913–1941
Gwen and Lucille Hardman of Mendon married in 1913 and homesteaded a dry farm at Arbon; after Gwen died in 1937, Lucille and their son Russell kept up the summers on the ranch.
Ed and Hannah Snyder and the Arbon rural mail route
Hannah Evans, a widowed Arbon homesteader, married Ed Snyder in 1915; by 1920 the Snyders were carrying the valley's rural mail, a route Ed's obituary says he held for 23 years.
Who kept the Arbon post office, 1898–1922
The papers follow the Arbon post office from D. J. Bowen's cabin through the Evans, Bailey, Leavitt and Keeler years to the summer of 1922, when it nearly closed.
Frank Kulock and the Pauline blizzard of February 1922
On February 11, 1922, Frank Kulock froze to death near his home west of Pauline, coming back with the mail in a blizzard that left Pauline nearly snow-bound.
Arbon's road money, a bank failure and the wheat haul of 1921
In 1921 Arbon Valley's own highway district lost its cash in a Pocatello bank failure, just as a big wheat crop had to be hauled to the railroad over bad roads.