News, observations, announcements, and remembrances from the original Arbon Valley community blog.
Community blog · 2010–2020 · original publication order · stories from the old papers added since 2026
Just before Christmas 1948, 104 guests from the Fort Hall reservation came to Arbon's Bannock Creek school, where the West Pocatello Stake's Mutual put on a Nativity program, handed out gifts and brought Santa Claus.
The Fort Hall agency told Bannock Creek residents in August 1948 that the American Falls school district would run their Indian day school, and called them to a meeting to hear the plan.
In July 1948 Arbon Valley wheat growers meeting at the Pauline schoolhouse formed a unit of an Ogden grain cooperative, about 50 strong, to market their wheat through the Michaud elevator.
On July 24, 1948, sheepherder Dick Staker died beneath an overturned truck on the Arbon road while hauling camp supplies; Dave Lusk Jr. found him.
In April 1948 Harold Grant Moss, working with an Oneida County road crew in Arbon Valley, was killed when the raised bed of a dump truck came down on him.