Stories retold in 2026 from the newspapers that reported them, with quotations and links to the original pages.
Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
A five-dollar fine against Buist's postmistress in 1912 opens a look at the families who came to the south end of Arbon Valley from Brigham City, Garland and Spanish Fork as well as Mendon.
In the spring of 1912 the *Pocatello Tribune* followed Arbon rancher John C. Cairns from Dublin to Halifax and home again, where the valley met him with a supper and dance.
When G. S. Randall of Arbon went home to Somerset, Kentucky, in December 1911, he went as a man who had made good, and the papers then follow the Kentucky families who came to the valley, stayed and left.
In November 1911 four children whose father, known in Nevada as "Indian Mike," had once farmed on Bannock Creek as Jim Taggert were brought from a Nevada school to Fort Hall after the fight that killed most of their family.
In October 1911 the Fort Hall superintendent opened the Arbon–American Falls road down Bannock Creek to the public, with no camping or fires and escorts for driven stock.
A near miss by lightning at Summit in 1911 is the first the valley papers say of Charles and Jean Ann Orison, whose family they followed between Arbon Valley and Logan until 1990.
In September 1911 Mattie Nunnelley left American Falls on the morning train with Herman Noth, and over the next eight years the Press followed the couple to a ranch at Arbon and to her early death.
In September 1911 the *American Falls Press* awarded Arbon's dry-land alfalfa a blue ribbon in print, the high point of the valley's part in Farmers' Day, the farm show American Falls held each fall from 1908.
In 1911 the American Falls Press watched Arbon's wheat go from July guesses to steam threshers to wagon trains at the railroad, and an editor saw in six lines how far the valley had come.
In July 1911 Idaho's land selector looked over the Moonshine and Rattlesnake country for land for the state, and found that most of the good land on Rattlesnake Creek was ceded Fort Hall land.
On a Sunday in July 1911, four American Falls men put 127 miles on an automobile circling Bannock Peak, lunching off a well trough and calling on Arbon's pioneers as they came home through the valley.
In 1911 the county surveyed a road from American Falls over the Moonshine divide to Arbon, and in 1912 American Falls cash and Arbon labor built a short cut, probably on that line, that drew the valley's wheat away from Pocatello.
In June 1911 the lower Arbon valley voted on merging its school districts and building on Tom Evans' place, and by 1913 a Central school stood on Evans land as both schoolhouse and community hall.
In 1911 Arbon had no town, but its newspaper columns told of a hotel, a store, a dance hall, a village blacksmith and butcher, and talk of laying out a townsite.
A January rainstorm in 1911 drowned three Arbon children and took the bridges on Bannock Creek; that spring Oneida County put new bridges to a bond vote.
Arbon Valley voted three times between 1908 and 1911 to leave Oneida County for a new county around American Falls, and saw two bills fail before Power County was finally made in 1913.
In 1910 a homesteading woman from Arbon won the Republican primary for Oneida County treasurer, in a year when only women sought that office, and lost the fall race to Cora Dudley of Malad.
In September 1910 the American Falls Press found Arbon Valley's newcomers outnumbering its old settlers two to one and looked for a wheat crop twice the size of two years earlier.
In July 1910 an Arbon rancher came to Pocatello talking of a commercial club, an irrigation company and a Pioneer Day, and the *Tribune* put Arbon on its front page.
In May 1909 a banker, a miller, an editor and a county commissioner set out by automobile to look over a proposed road to Arbon, and when the car gave out at Rattlesnake gulch they walked back to American Falls through the night.
In November 1908 sixteen Arbon teamsters hauled a carload of sacked wheat to the railroad at Michaud switch, and the American Falls Press printed every driver's name.
In November 1908 Wilson Barnard's crew began a $300 wagon road from Bannock Creek over the foothills to American Falls, meant to cut ten miles or more from the haul of Arbon's wheat to market.
In the winter of 1908–09 Arbon's settlers and the American Falls Press advertised the valley's open land to homeseekers, and by spring newcomers were filing on it fast.
For a decade after 1908 the Logan town columns tracked Mendon and North Logan families north to Arbon and Buist homesteads every spring and back to Cache Valley every fall.
In November 1907 two Arbon men told the American Falls Press that thirty-two families had threshed 35,000 bushels of grain, and named the best wheat fields and varieties.
When the Pocatello Tribune reported an Idaho Falls druggist's suicide in September 1907, its closing line about his brother's store at Arbon became the oldest printed trace yet found of the Payne store.
In the summer of 1906 the church historian Andrew Jenson drove into Bannock Valley, heard how Arbon began and wrote home that its farms looked like a checker board from the top of Rocky Ridge.
A Rattlesnake Creek rancher graded a road up Mink Creek from Pocatello in 1906, and four years later settlers beyond the divide helped build the new road that won Arbon's praise.
In October 1904 a federal judge let the Fort Hall agent's suit over Bannock Creek water go forward against Dave Daniels and his neighbors, and the settlers asked to bring in every user.
From an Ogden man's 1903 bonanza to a coal company on Birch Creek and a Pocatello mayor's claims, the papers followed prospecting around Arbon for nearly twenty years, yet no report found says any of it paid.