Expecting one, a Buist couple welcomes three
On the last afternoon of 1977, Denver and Lucinda Sweeten of Buist, both 19, became the parents of triplets, and a year later the Journal came back to see how the three were growing.
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On horseback to the school bus, an Arbon Valley family remembers the winters
In 1976 Jessie Hubbard told a Utah food columnist how weather ruled her family's Arbon Valley dry farm, where in winter her husband David sometimes rode six miles on horseback to reach his school bus.
Arbon's Latter-day Saints, the branch the papers kept calling a ward
A 1976 missionary farewell at Arbon, and the obituaries of the farmers who led its Latter-day Saint branch, show Utah papers calling the valley's branch a ward long after it had stopped being one.
Arbon Valley land goes up for sale in the Utah want ads
For eight years the classified pages of Salt Lake City and Logan papers offered pieces of Arbon Valley, from canyon recreation ground and a cattle range to barnwood, big dry farms and, in 1983, a 320-acre farm the government wanted to sell.
Mormon crickets on the march in Arbon Valley
In the late summer of 1975 swarms of Mormon crickets were crawling through Arbon Valley's fields, two years after a grasshopper campaign and sixteen years before the insects came down from the hills again.
The last of George Arbon's children dies in Los Angeles at 90
Eva Arbon Andersen, youngest child of the man Arbon was named for, died in Los Angeles in 1973, twenty years after her sister Mayme Baker, homesteader, rancher and Pocatello hotelkeeper, died in Pocatello.
A weekend drive through Arbon Valley to the ruts at Twin Springs
In 1973 the *Idaho State Journal* sent weekend campers over Mink Creek, through Pauline and Arbon, to Twin Springs on the Hudspeth Cutoff, where gold-rush wagon tracks still crossed the hills.
Jack and Stella Price, wed at Arbon in 1913, mark sixty years
Jack and Stella Price, married at Arbon in 1913 in the earliest wedding yet found in the valley, marked sixty years in 1973 after three decades of ranching on the West Fork and the early loss of their eldest daughter.
Two men of 1875, a bishop and a lawmaker, die eight months apart
Joe Arbon, Arbon Valley's first bishop, and William Allard, the first valley man found in the Idaho Legislature, were born ten weeks apart in 1875 and died in Pocatello eight months apart in 1972 and 1973.
At 97, old West Fork homesteader George Daniels Sr. still weeds his own garden
At 97, George Daniels Sr., Oneida County's oldest man and once a homesteader on the West Fork of Bannock Creek, recalled a runaway horse herd, a river crossing, old injuries and the square dances he called in Arbon Valley.
Fort Hall tribes hold 300 head said to be Sod Williams's cattle
In March 1972 the Fort Hall tribes impounded more than 300 cattle on Bannock Creek range that they said belonged to the Arbon rancher Sod Williams, and vowed to keep them until the damage was paid for.
A Pauline sailor's war diary outlives him and his destroyer
Ralph G. Butler, a son of Pauline homesteaders, kept a diary of the Pacific war that his mother saved after he was lost with the USS Monaghan in a 1944 typhoon, and in 1971 two Idaho State historians readied it for print.
Arimo barber Sim Hatch looks back on the horse years at Pauline and Dairy Creek
Closing his Arimo barber shop in 1971, Sim Hatch recalled the years he and his brother Abe ran 130 horses in Bannock Valley and on Dairy Creek, until the slump after the First World War broke them both.
Joe Morse Evans, Arbon farmer and son of Ren Evans, dies at 72
Joe Morse Evans, the second son of the Arbon pioneers Ren and Anna Evans, spent years in Pocatello's mills, came home to farm at Arbon in 1947 and died on September 12, 1971, at 72.
David Siewert, who stayed on at Crystal, dies at Calgary at 83
David Siewert, born in Russia to German parents, proved up a homestead at Crystal, held on there while drought and debt emptied the basin, and died at Calgary, Canada, in June 1971 at 83.
Two Malad teachers retire, both once kept school at Buist
Retiring from the Malad schools in 1971, Hazel Lusk and Sarah Beard looked back on their early country schools at Buist, where the pay was $70 a month, the water came from home and one horse bit.
Arbon families ask the Oneida board about a bus that came twelve weeks a year
In the fall of 1970 Arbon-area parents went to the Oneida School Board at Malad hoping to change a system that brought a bus into their country only twelve weeks a year.
Lost sheepherder walks home while searchers comb the Bannock Peak country
In September 1970 an elderly Fort Hall sheepherder left a broken-down pickup near Bannock Peak and made his own way home while deputies, volunteers, a plane and two mounted parties hunted for him.
Letters from Switzerland put Arbon Valley's history in a Swiss paper
A letter from Arbon, Switzerland, set aside in 1966, led Nelda Williams to write a history of Arbon Valley that the Swiss town's newspaper had printed with pictures of her family by November 1969.
Nearing 84, Martha Thyberg remembers washday by the creek
As she neared 84 in 1970, Martha Thyberg recalled scrubbing clothes on a washboard by a creek as a young wife, in the years after her husband built their Arbon Valley cabin with his own hands.
Wildcat well on the Porter farm comes up dry
In the summer of 1969 Intermountain Gas Co. had a test well drilled on Donald Porter's farm near Arbon, but it went down 3,677 feet without a show of oil or gas.
Arbon Valley ranchers win back their freeway interchange
When the state moved a planned freeway interchange away from Bannock Creek in 1969, Arbon Valley ranchers and their neighbors packed a hearing to ask for it back, and by September they had it.
After 47 years, Lettie Allard leaves her first graders
As Pocatello first-grade teacher Lettie Allard faced retirement in 1969, a student reporter's profile also caught a rare glimpse of her husband, the Arbon homesteader William Allard, at 93.
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.
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.