Arbon Valley farms sold for the Fort Hall Reservation, 1935
In November 1935 the *Pocatello Tribune* reported that the United States had bought about 2,000 acres in Arbon Valley for the Fort Hall Reservation, and named the seven sellers.
1935 in the valley.
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Bannock Creek water: a warning to the upstream settlers, 1935
In the hot summer of 1935, with crops failing downstream, the Fort Hall agency told settlers at the head of Bannock Creek to leave the Indians' share of its water alone.
From branch to ward: the Arbon Ward's first thirty years
How Arbon's Latter-day Saints grew from a branch of the Samaria Ward in 1900 into a ward with its own bishops and hall, as the papers and the church historian recorded it.
Tires stolen from the Crystal community garage, 1935
In January 1935 thieves took the tires from a garage Crystal farmers kept for bad-weather parking; three men were arrested, and one was convicted of burglary that March.