Arbon Valley and Crystal sign up for electric power, 1940
Late in 1940 Arbon Valley and Crystal farmers met at the Pauline schoolhouse and signed up for a rural electrification project; an Idaho Power line followed in 1947.
1940 in the valley.
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Between stakes: the Arbon Ward from Curlew to Pocatello, 1940–1951
When the Curlew Stake was dissolved in 1940, the Arbon Ward moved to the Pocatello stakes; church notices follow it to its discontinuance in 1951.
Jerry Baker, Arbon rancher and Pocatello hotel man, dies, 1940
Jerry Baker of Mendon ranched at Arbon from about 1900, married George Arbon's daughter Mayme in 1918, and died in 1940 at the Pocatello hotel he ran.