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.
In the first war year Arbon farmers organized against fire, a county plane spotted old iron on Arbon and Crystal farms, and an Arbon farmer took his neighborhood's scrap money to the soldiers' canteen in Pocatello.
In 1942 the papers twice named John R. Breeze, a Marine whose father lived at Arbon, first for pulling two youths from the water at Guam in 1940 and then for a Silver Star won on Corregidor shortly before he became a prisoner of the Japanese.
Enlistment lists, Logan society columns and one B-29 pilot's mission log trace some of the Arbon Valley men who put on uniforms in the Second World War, and where the war carried them.
At the close of 1940 farmers of Arbon Valley and Crystal gathered at the Pauline schoolhouse and put their names down for a rural electrification project, though the line that finally lit the valley came from Idaho Power in 1947.
When two apostles closed the Curlew Stake at Snowville in February 1940, the Arbon Ward was handed to Pocatello, where it lasted eleven more years before it was discontinued in 1951.
Jerry Baker came from Mendon to ranch at Arbon around 1900, married George Arbon's daughter Mayme in 1918, and died in January 1940 at the Pocatello hotel he and she ran, still holding his valley ranches.
In late 1938 Pocatello pilot Ralph Knapp scattered crested wheatgrass from a low-flying plane over 8,000 acres of rough range between Arbon and Rockland, on land Carl Rudeen leased, and range scientists watched to see whether it would take.
In the fall of 1938 a land salesman from Washington state told two Arbon farmers they had won a mattress, a tract of land and $35 a month for life, and each paid him $88.50 to collect.
Sixteen years after a blizzard took her husband within sight of their house west of Pauline, Augusta Kulock died at Pocatello in August 1938 and was buried after a requiem mass.
In 1938 Joe Arbon told a Pocatello committee that a well watered 100 acres of his Arbon Valley farm, as he and Roy Lindley joined a plan for a Michaud Flat test well that struck water in 1939.
Through 1937 and 1938 the Pocatello papers followed crews moving the Mink Creek road to Arbon Valley onto a new line and blasting rock cuts for the Garden Creek Gap road toward Robin.
In 1937 a Pocatello man, objecting to an elk hunt, recalled Indians digging camas at the head of Midnight Creek about 1904 and the sheep-worn meadow he found later.
In May 1937 two sheriffs hunting a red-haired man in a Downey disappearance drove out to Pauline to see a young drifter two farmers had found, and turned back when he proved too young.
When Idaho's new game warden called off the state's drive against the golden eagle in the spring of 1937, Roy Lindley of Arbon, a longtime hunter, wrote to say the birds were the worst enemy the state's mountain sheep and goats had.
In the hard February of 1937 a young Fort Hall road worker died after a snowplow pinned him on the Pauline road, while valley people fed starving ducks and the drifts froze too hard for the plows.
When a road tractor crushed Willis Bullock's leg in snowbound Arbon Valley in February 1936, a county commissioner got him to Pocatello by sleigh and borrowed mail truck, and two years later a jury heard his $50,000 suit.
In November 1935 a Pocatello paper reported that the United States had paid seven Arbon Valley owners for some 2,000 acres to add to the Fort Hall Reservation, and a day later it protested the lost taxes.
In the hot, dry summer of 1935, with grain dying on the reservation farms, the Fort Hall agency ordered settlers at the head of Bannock Creek to give back the Indians' share of its water.
In 1935 the church historian traced how Arbon's Latter-day Saints grew from ten families meeting house to house in 1900 into a ward of 203 with its own bishops and hall.
In January 1935 thieves emptied a garage Crystal farmers shared for bad-weather parking, three men were soon under arrest, and a jury at American Falls convicted one of them of burglary that March.
When Ren Evans of Arbon died in 1934 his obituary ran only a few paragraphs, but the papers had followed him for a quarter century through a road campaign, a judgeship he never took up, a snowbound mail route, oil stock and a cheese factory.
From 1934 to 1939 the papers followed the effort to rebuild Arbon Valley's worn-out wheat road across the Fort Hall reservation, from a governor's inspection in 1934 to a senator's request in 1939 for $240,000 for a highway through the valley.
William Eugene Allard, 17, an Arbon boy in his junior year at Pocatello High and a son of the valley's first legislator, died in a Pocatello hospital in November 1933.
Fifteen years after the Argonne, Park Lusk of Arbon Valley sued the United States over a war risk claim and walked a Pocatello jury through the advance of September 1918.
In 1933 Idaho drew 150 permits for old bull elk on the Pocatello game preserve, near the heads of Crystal and Midnight creeks, after years of farmers' complaints about elk in their fields.
Hannah Poppie came west from Kansas behind her Abter brothers, raised a farm family at Arbon and saw two sons off to the First World War before her death in West Pocatello in May 1933.
In February 1933 federal agents went by sled to a ranch on Rattlesnake Creek near Crystal, seized a 50-gallon still and charged five men under the prohibition law.
J. E. "Ed" Keeler, who homesteaded at Arbon in 1909 and grew some of the valley's best grain, took his own life at his farm in October 1932 after writing of money troubles.
In July 1932 prohibition officers arrested George N. Judkins, an Arbon farmer, for selling iced beer from his car at Saturday night dances near the Arbon school.
In May 1932, with families leaving Crystal for Salmon, District 14 decided to run one school instead of two and lowered the Central teacher's wage to $66.50 a month.