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.
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Stories retold in 2026 from the newspapers that reported them, with quotations and links to the original pages.
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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.
Twice in a month, Bannock Creek cuts the road to Arbon
In the winter of 1962 two floods a month apart broke the oiled road up Bannock Creek, stranding families and idling the Arbon school bus, and the creek had run over that road before and would again.
Fifty years after Crystal, the Whitings celebrate a golden wedding
Half a century after Jay and Marcena Whiting went to homestead at Crystal, their twelve children threw them a golden wedding party in Pocatello on the weekend the whole Whiting clan came together.
Utah pilot dies as plane falls near Bannock Peak
Minutes after leaving the Pocatello airport in a rainstorm on March 24, 1961, Gayle E. Waters of Utah was killed when his small plane came down near Bannock Peak, some five miles northwest of Pauline.
A Pauline homesteader who later planted the lawns of a new American Falls
William N. Jones came from Dayton, Washington, to a homestead near Pauline, farmed there about eleven years, then worked on the American Falls dam and the moving of the town.
Otto Andersen, early Arbon homesteader, dies at 85
Otto Andersen's death in 1960, between John's golden wedding in 1956 and Ezra's death in 1964, closed the story of the Mendon brothers who settled at the head of Bannock Creek.
An Arbon Valley farmer lends his Stradivarius to the soloist
In 1960 Arbon Valley farmer Clyde Jenson handed a violin called a 1704 Stradivarius to the guest soloist at a Pocatello symphony concert, and nine years later he was billed to play it himself.
Arbon teacher lies hurt two hours beside wrecked truck on Mink Creek
When Arbon teacher Neil S. Miller, 65, ran his truck off the Mink Creek road on May 23, 1960, more than two hours passed before anyone came upon him.