Pauline City: the crossroads that hoped to be a town, 1917–1924
In 1917 Pauline hoped a doctor's office and drug store would be "the beginning of the city of Pauline"; the papers follow that hope to a school yell of 1923.
1923 in the valley.
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Crystal will be almost deserted: the winter of 1923–24
In late 1923 Crystal's schoolchildren wrote in the American Falls Press that their settlement would be "almost deserted" that winter, then reported who moved away.
When Arbon Valley schoolchildren wrote the news, 1923–24
In 1923–24 the American Falls Press printed news written by pupils of Arbon Valley's country schools, spelling and all, and the Pauline pupils sent the first items.
By grain rack and on foot: the county superintendent's 1923 visit
In October 1923 Power County's school superintendent, Mrs. Cora Darling, spent two weeks among the valley's country schools, sometimes riding between them on a grain rack.
Where the wheat went: the 1923 buying war at Schiller
In October 1923 rival buyers bid up wheat at Schiller, the valley's railroad siding, and into the spring teams and trucks hauled the crop there, 26 miles from Pauline.
Mrs. T. B. Evans of Arbon, at the post office and switchboard
Susannah Smith Evans, Mrs. T. B. Evans in the papers, kept Arbon's post office and telephone central, led its Red Cross and registered its voters.