The Sunshine Canyon club: six women at the south end, 1924
By late October 1924 six women at the south end of Arbon Valley had formed the Sunshine Canyon club, meeting weekly to talk over the election, child welfare and great women.
1924 in the valley.
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Smut explosion burns the Hatfield threshing outfit, 1924
In August 1924 a smut explosion on the Ray Hatfield place in Arbon Valley burned Clive Hatfield's threshing outfit, 75 sacks of wheat, a wagon, a derrick and a stack.
Perry Lusk and T. B. Evans on the Power County board, 1922–1925
How the Arbon Valley's seat on the Power County board passed from Ed England to Perry Lusk of Pauline in the 1922 Democratic sweep, and then to T. B. Evans.
Signing up the cows: Arbon Valley's cheese factory plan, 1924
In 1924 Ren Evans signed up 23 Arbon Valley farmers and 213 cows for a cheese factory backed by Ernest Brog of Driggs, but whether it ever made cheese is unknown.
Mail, grain and the Mink Creek road to Pocatello, 1924–1929
In the mid-1920s the valley's mail road to Pocatello ran by Crystal and Mink Creek, and the papers followed its tax complaints, a stage wreck and a county's plea for road money.
Arbon Valley talks of joining Bannock County, 1924 and 1939
In March 1924 an Arbon Valley delegation went to Pocatello to talk about joining Bannock County, and in 1939 some valley residents raised the idea again.
The Gem State oil well beside the Arbon school, 1923–1929
For five years the Gem State Petroleum Co. drilled for oil beside Arbon's Central school, drawing crowds of visitors in 1924 and reaching about 3,000 feet by 1928.