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
In December 1959 Lamond J. Bailey of Arbon, signing himself a surplus farmer, wrote to a Pocatello column to argue that the government should stop subsidizing farms and get out of business.
In October 1959 three-year-old David Earl Stohl was killed by a power grain auger as his father loaded grain from a granary on the family farm at Arbon.
Between 1957 and 1961 the papers followed the oiling of the Pauline road, a farm-to-market road to Hawkins and the completion of 43 miles of State Highway 38 from the Mink Creek summit through the valley.
John C. Andersen, who came to the head of Bannock Creek as a boy in the 1890s and later served his ward, a school board and a highway board, died at Clifton on August 1, 1959.
In July 1959 the Bannock Creek district lost two older men within days: Frank Bell, found dead in the creek near his home, and William Lipps, 88, a past president of its cattlemen's association.