John H. Meyers, Crystal rancher and stockman, dies at 63
John H. Meyers, a rancher and stockman who came to Arbon Valley in 1900 and raised his family on the Crystal side, died at his valley home on October 9, 1953, at 63.
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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Harvest hand charged with taking Joseph G. Arbon's pickup, rifle and camera
A man hired to help bring in the 1953 harvest on Joseph G. Arbon's ranch was caught trying to sell his employer's goods to a neighbor and pleaded guilty to grand larceny.
Malad couple who ranched at Pauline mark fifty years of marriage
Married at Malad in 1903, John and Beatrice Bolingbroke spent some forty years ranching at Pauline, wintering in Malad when school was in, and kept their golden wedding at their Pocatello home in 1953.
Cy Smith and Frank Turner, homestead partners for forty-three years
Two Oregon men who came to Arbon Valley together in 1910, Paul A. "Cy" Smith and Frank Turner, kept company through homesteads, war, flu and old age, and died three months apart in 1953.
Stake president Twayne Austin dies on the road home from Arbon Valley
Twayne Austin, Pocatello's Continental Oil agent and the stake president over Arbon's congregation, died in November 1952 when his tank truck rolled off Highway 37 as he drove home from the valley.
Arbon Valley votes, 54 to 18, to hand its roads to the county
In May 1952 Arbon Valley voted 54 to 18 to dissolve Highway District No. 3, the road district it had formed in 1918, and leave its roads to Power County.
On Arbon's slopes, dry farmers turn to contour strips
Ross Saxton laid nearly all his Arbon dry farm out in contour strips by 1952, and over the next dozen years the valley's hill ground brought a harvest gadget praised by two Arbon men and a fatal combine accident.
Carl Axel Johnson, Swedish hand on a Crystal ranch for 34 years, dies at 70
Carl Axel Johnson, a bachelor from Sweden who tended stock and land on the Wright ranch at Crystal from about 1914 until 1948, died in Pocatello in February 1952.
Power County asks Boise to make the Arbon Valley road a farm-to-market route
In December 1951 Power County delegates asked the state highway commission to put the Arbon Valley road on the federal secondary system, one step in an eight-year campaign for better roads out of the valley.
Four pupils at Mercer Creek, and a school too far from Arbon to close
In the fall of 1951 Mrs. G. W. Bradley taught four children at Mercer Creek, a school kept open because snow and missing phones cut the Crystal country off from Arbon; by 1955 it and the Crystal school stood empty.
Arbon Valley ranchers ride with a posse on Bannock Creek
In June 1951 Arbon Valley ranchers joined a Power County posse hunting a Michigan couple and their small daughter, who fled a theft on Bannock Creek and walked more than 30 miles over the mountains to Inkom.
LeRoy Lindley lays his Arbon Valley hillside out in strips
Two years after helping launch Power County's soil conservation district, LeRoy Lindley of Arbon striped his own hillside wheat farm with contour strips that his neighbors had never seen before.
Three Pocatello fliers die in a crash near Rattlesnake Creek
On a rainy night in November 1950 a light plane out of Pocatello went down near Rattlesnake Creek in upper Arbon Valley, killing a flight instructor and his two students.
Arbon Valley folk gather in Pocatello for a third winter reunion
For three winters starting in 1948, people who lived in Arbon Valley or once had met in Pocatello for a dinner, a program and a dance, and in 1950 about 175 of them filled the Grange hall.