Roy Lindley, Arbon settler of 1911, dies in a hunting accident, 1954
Roy D. Lindley, who came to Arbon Valley in 1911 and long sat on the Power County board, was killed hunting bobcats on Bannock Creek in December 1954.
1954 in the valley.
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A Stolen Pickup, a Death and the Valley Vigilantes, 1954
In 1954 a pickup stolen at Lava Hot Springs and a Pocatello man's body were found in Arbon Valley; that fall twenty ranchers formed a winter patrol.
The search for Gene Bailey, Arbon Valley, 1954–1955
Gene Bailey, 17, a grandson of Arbon's Lorenzo Bailey, left the family ranch in May 1954 and was seen walking toward the mountains; a valley rancher found his body sixteen months later.
Liza Iversen Infanger, an Arbon Valley bride of 1914
Liza Iversen came with her family to her brothers' Arbon Valley homesteads, married the homesteader John J. Infanger in 1914, and died in Pocatello on her 56th birthday.
D. J. Bowen's later years, from Arbon bishop to ward teacher at 92
From a 1912 marriage to Maggie Young of Perry to a 1954 photograph at 92, the papers follow D. J. Bowen of Arbon through his later years as bishop, widower and ward teacher.
Frozen fog on the Arbon Valley power lines, February 1954
In February 1954, after about two weeks of freezing fog, frost and ice weighed down the power lines around Arbon until 12,500-volt wires sagged nearly to the ground and poles broke.