Lieutenant Reese Andersen of Arimo and Arbon Valley dies in Vietnam
Marine Lt. Reese Andersen, twenty-five, of Arimo and Arbon Valley, was killed by an accidental gunshot near Quang Tri in April 1969 and buried at Arimo two weeks later.
Postwar years, 1950–1979.
News, remembrances, and stories of Arbon Valley from two sources: the newspapers that reported the valley from the 1890s on, and the ArbonValley.com community blog of 2010–2020.
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Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
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A string to follow home, and other memories of the Crystal snows
As he neared 89 in 1969, Charles Connelly told a Pocatello paper about thirteen years on a Crystal homestead, where snow buried the cabin, wheat went to Arimo by sled and a blizzard once hid the way home.
Arbon throws an old-time housewarming for two Orison families burned out in 1967
Months after a fire took everything the Mac Orison and Charles Orison Jr. families owned, Arbon Valley invited all comers to a potluck supper and fiddle music at the Arbon church on their behalf.
Don Jenson, who farmed Arbon Valley from boyhood, dies at 65
Don Jenson came to Arbon Valley as a boy, farmed there until his death in 1968 though he lived in Pocatello from 1940, and served in two Arbon ward bishoprics.
Snowbound in Arbon Valley, a Snowville mother and her boys wait out the night
When a drift closed the Arbon Valley road in December 1967, a Snowville mother and her two sons walked to a distant house, got through the night on an old mattress and two blankets, and caught a ride home while the Highway Patrol hunted for them.
Arbon singer Kay Bailey wins the Farm Bureau talent find
In November 1967 Kay Bailey of Arbon sang a Broadway medley to win the Idaho Farm Bureau's state senior talent find and a trip to the national convention in Chicago.
Arbon Valley boy, 2, killed by car west of Pocatello
Early on October 3, 1967, two-year-old LaGrande Shay of an Arbon Valley family was struck and killed by a car on Highway 30 about three miles west of Pocatello.
Arbon Valley calls its scattered families home for a 1967 reunion
In 1967 Arbon Valley invited everyone who had ever lived there back for a reunion, and the old papers show where five of its homestead families had gone.
Twenty pupils share the stage as Arbon's school graduates three
In May 1967 every one of the twenty children at Arbon's two-room school had a part in a graduation that handed diplomas to three eighth-grade boys, and the pupils set out to write a history of their valley.
At 100, Pocatello's Minnie Green looks back to a ranch on Cherry Creek
When Emma "Minnie" Green, the Pocatello medium said to have advised Ben Ross, turned 100 in 1967, her profile went back to her ranch at Crystal and the bad road over Gumbo Hill.
A three-day typing job turned into 33 years for an Arbon ranch girl
In 1967 a Pocatello paper honored Mary Bailey Renberg, who grew up on the Bailey ranch at Arbon, for 33 years as secretary of the Bannock County extension office, a job meant to last three days.
After fifty years at one switchboard, Arbon Valley learns to dial
In December 1965 Arbon Valley gave up the hand-worked switchboard that had carried every call for fifty years, first in the Evans home and then the Newports', and went over to dial telephones the ranchers paid for themselves.
Maurice Poppie, who came to Arbon Valley as a boy in 1909, dies at 71
Maurice Poppie, who followed his mother's brothers from Kansas to Arbon Valley in 1909 and farmed there for most of his life, died in Pocatello in November 1965.
Luther M. Estep, a Kentucky farmer who stayed fifty years, dies at 72
Luther M. Estep came from Kentucky to Pauline in 1915, buried a baby son that first autumn, lost another son in the war, and farmed in Arbon Valley until his sudden death in 1965.
Brigham City farmer killed as his combine rolls on an Arbon Valley hill
Richard S. Christensen, 47, a Brigham City dry farmer cutting grain in Arbon Valley, died on September 24, 1965, when his combine went over on a hillside and rolled onto him.
At 90, Joe Arbon remembers the first furrow in Arbon Valley
Days before Joe Arbon turned 90, a Pocatello paper printed his memories of the valley named for his father, from a dirt-floored cabin and a saddle fund to the first church and the dances he played for.
Lorenzo M. Evans, eldest son of an Arbon pioneer, dies at 67
Lorenzo M. Evans, the eldest child of the Arbon pioneer Ren Evans, farmed the valley for most of his 67 years, also ran a potato warehouse, and died after a long illness on June 24, 1965.
Pocatello businessmen tour Arbon Valley, and a reader says the paper missed it
In June 1965 more than a hundred Pocatello businessmen and Arbon Valley farmers shared breakfast up Mink Creek and toured the valley from Sod Williams's ranch to a proposed dam on Bannock Creek, and a week later a guest scolded the Journal for reporting a tour it never joined.
Two families hurt in a head-on crash in the snow north of Arbon
On Thanksgiving Day 1964 an Arbon family and a Pocatello family met head-on in a snowstorm north of Arbon, eight went to the hospital, and the lawsuits that followed were settled on the day of trial.
The day a hundred farmers laughed at Mel Bailey's spray plane
Just after the war, Arbon farmer Mel Bailey had Pocatello pilot Curley Wilson spray his weedy wheat from a homemade rig on a light plane, the first job of a crop-spraying business that kept 22 men busy by 1964.
Newell Lishman, who carried Arbon's first rural mail, dies at 73
Newell Lishman, who homesteaded under Bowen's Peak and carried the mail on Arbon's first rural route, died in 1964, and his obituary said a canyon near Arbon had been named Newell Canyon for him.
A Rockland teacher's long career began in a tiny Crystal schoolroom
When retired teacher Agnes Hartley of Rockland told a 1963 luncheon that her teaching had begun at Crystal, she meant the little Thacker-neighborhood school she taught as Agnes Burns in 1915–16.
Girl of 11, visiting from Sacramento, killed by farm wagon near Arbon
Lynne Wisecarver, 11, of Sacramento, died on July 4, 1963, after a spooked team threw her from an iron-wheeled wagon on her grandparents' farm in Arbon Valley.
At the Pauline crossroads, Jean Daniels Evans keeps her father's old store
In 1963 a Journal correspondent found Jean Daniels Evans minding the store at the Pauline crossroads, while her father, T. C. Daniels, remembered the same counter in the lean years of the early 1930s.
Two Pocatello charter planes go down in a storm, one on the Hayden ranch
Two Pocatello charter planes were lost on a stormy night in March 1963; one crashed on the Ben Hayden ranch north of Crystal, killing its pilot and passenger.
Bannock Creek hunters bring down a big lion near Bannock Peak
In January 1963 Merle Meyers, his sons Jerry and Jay, and Kenneth Pevoe ended the career of a big female mountain lion blamed for lost sheep near Bannock Peak.
Arbon girl wins a 4-H forestry trip to Chicago
In 1962 a 16-year-old Arbon girl called Bunnie took a sectional 4-H forestry award and a trip to Chicago, a year after her valley's forestry club had caught the state leader's eye at the fair.
Arbon Valley ranchers post a $250 reward and a winter watch
After years of break-ins at ranch homes left empty over the winter, Arbon Valley ranchers in 1962 formed a protective association under Sod Williams, offered a $250 reward and planned to log every car that came in.
Farmer pulls crop-duster pilot from wreck near Midnight summit
When a crop-dusting plane went down and exploded in Arbon Valley early on July 21, 1962, a farmer named Joseph Roberts got the pilot out just in time, and the wreck set the range on fire.
Spring floods leave Arbon Valley cut off on every side
When melting snow sent the creeks over their banks in late March 1962, Arbon Valley lost its roads, its power and its telephone, and the mail came in over planks laid across a broken highway.