Rival buyers bid up the valley's wheat at Schiller
In October 1923 rival buyers bid up wheat at Schiller, the valley's railroad siding, and into the spring teams and trucks hauled the crop there, 26 miles from Pauline.
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Arbon surprises Mrs. T. B. Evans, its telephone central since the start
In 1923 Arbon's telephone patrons threw a surprise party for Susannah Smith Evans, who had kept the valley's post office, store and switchboard, led its Red Cross and registered its voters.
Sacks, not bushels: Arbon Valley's wet, weedy wheat harvest of 1922
After a season of spotty fields, daily rains, weeds above the grain and town men who lost their nerve, Arbon Valley's warehouse took in 29,008 sacks of wheat, a figure the paper first printed as bushels.
A lantern in a pothole gives away a still at Sunbeam
Days before the 1922 Roundup, a lantern led two Power County officers to a copper still hidden at Sunbeam, where a young Kentuckian was caught at work and charged with his uncle, a Pauline farmer.
A Summit homestead harvest, and a farm that lasted a century
In 1922 J. Parley Sorensen ran two headers on the Summit homestead he had proved up in 1914, land his descendants the Thompsons still farm and that Idaho named a Century Farm in 2024.
A Mendon couple's dry farm at Arbon, and the long road between
For nearly three decades Gwen and Lucille Hardman and their children went back and forth between a homestead on the Summit above Arbon and their hometown of Mendon, Utah, and the family kept the ranch going after Gwen died in 1937.
In the 1922 thaw, Ed Snyder splits the Arbon mail route
When the spring thaw of 1922 left Arbon's roads too rotten for a team, rural carrier Ed Snyder split his route with his stepson, part of more than twenty years the Snyders gave to the valley's mail.
Arbon post office moves to the Bailey farm, and nearly closes
In 1922 the Arbon post office left its building by the Central school for J. R. Bailey's home and came within weeks of closing, the latest turn for an office that had followed its keepers since 1898.
Lost in a blizzard, Frank Kulock dies within sight of home
Coming home from Pauline with the mail on February 11, 1922, Frank Kulock lost his way in a blizzard and froze to death in his own field, where his wife found him three days later.
Arbon road district loses its cash in a bank failure as the big wheat crop rolls
In 1921 Arbon Valley's own highway district lost its cash in a Pocatello bank failure, just as a big wheat crop had to be hauled to the railroad over bad roads.
Eight pupils from three families fill a one-room school near Crystal
In December 1921 the Press printed a picture of District No. 6, a one-teacher school between Pauline and Crystal whose eight pupils came from three families and soon wrote their own news.
A bumper wheat crop for nothing: the Arbon valley's hard years, 1920–1925
Between 1920 and 1925 the Arbon valley's dry farmers raised good wheat and still lost ground to falling prices, high freight, scarce credit, failed banks and tax deeds, until two-dollar wheat came back.
Arbon Valley throws a two-day party for its first oil well
In June 1921 some 2,000 visitors came to the Toyn ranch for barbecue, ball games and a look at Arbon Valley's first oil well, which the papers then followed through sixteen months of shows and promises.
In six inches of dust, American Falls beats the Arbon Bears
For a few summers in the early 1920s Pauline, the Arbon Bears and the South Arbon Cubs played ball against each other and against American Falls, most memorably on a dust-deep diamond at the 1921 oil celebration.
Grandpa Arbon, the man the valley was named for, dies at Malad at 81
George Arbon, oldest of the valley's first settlers and the man Arbon was named for, died at his son's Malad home in March 1921, after decades of lost crops elsewhere.
A shooting on the Pauline road, a deputy killed and two acquittals
On St. Patrick's Day 1921 W. H. Ball shot a neighbor on the road near Pauline and a deputy sheriff at his cabin, and before the year was out two Power County juries had let him go.
Snow buries Arbon's harvest, and the valley waits out a long winter
Snow fell on Arbon Valley before the 1920 threshing was done, and through a long winter the Arbon column of the American Falls Press kept track of the stranded grain, the families who left for town, the dances of those who stayed and a spring that kept turning back to snow.
Arbon crowd braves a wet November day for the McLarry auction
In November 1920 the horses, combine and hay of Lucien McLarry, who had bought the Parley Bailey place at Arbon two years before, sold at auction, and by 1922 the Bailey land was tied up in court.
Pauline votes the League ticket as Arbon stays Republican
Under a foot of snow in November 1920, Pauline voted the Nonpartisan League ticket that ran its own Jack McCool for county commissioner, Arbon held to the Republicans, and Crystal's returns tipped the county's Senate count by a single vote.
Arbon Valley pledges four-fifths of its wheat to the pool
In the wet spring of 1920 Arbon Valley farmers signed about 80 per cent of a promising crop over to the new Wheat Growers Association, then watched wheat prices slide through a long, hard winter.
Arbon Valley says goodbye to the Ripleys, bound for Oregon
In May 1920 the whole valley crowded into Central Hall to send off David B. Ripley and his wife, who had sold their east-side ranch and were moving to Oregon.
Newlywed Elmer and Susan Ward move out to their Arbon farm
Two months after their Malad wedding, Elmer and Susan Ward moved out to their Arbon farm in May 1920, starting a life split between town and valley that the papers followed until all three of their surviving children called Arbon home.
Miss Wall closes a good year at the Central school
Through the 1919–20 school year the Arbon columns followed a lone teacher and her Central school pupils from basketry and thrift verses to debates, a smoking stove and four eighth-grade graduates.
Arbon farmers organize to keep the sheep out of their canyons
In the spring of 1920 Arbon's farmers incorporated a range association to keep the migrating sheep bands off their canyons and hills, and by midsummer a deputy was riding the ranges and sheepmen were standing trial at Pauline.
Arbon Valley sets a day to poison its squirrels
In the spring of 1920 Arbon Valley's farmers chose a day to spread strychnine bait against the ground squirrels eating their wheat, part of a Power County campaign that ran for years and cost Ed Davis four of his best horses.
Charles Bailey filed first on the Arbon floor, and stayed four years
Charles A. Bailey of Wellsville made the first homestead entry on the Arbon floor in 1901, proved up three years later and died in 1905, and his widow Grace took their children home to Cache Valley.
Valley women knit, sew and dance for the Red Cross, then welcome the soldiers home
Through two years of war the Red Cross women of Arbon, Crystal and Pauline sewed, knitted and held suppers for the soldiers, and in October 1919 they gave the returning men a ball at the Crystal hall.
Crystal sits its returned soldiers down to dinner
With the last of Crystal's soldiers home from the war, W. C. and Cora Snyder gave the men, their families and their friends a Sunday dinner at their home in September 1919.
Arbon Valley builds its new road in a summer without rain
In 1919 Arbon Valley's new highway district started grading and graveling the Bannock Creek road, lost two contractors' trucks to fire, and by August was counting on the road work to carry farmers through a drought.
Wheat hauler B. O. Kelley killed in the dark at the Pauline bridge
Before daylight on December 23, 1918, B. O. Kelley, hauling Pauline wheat for the Zaring Grain Company, drove his truck off the Bannock Creek bridge at Pauline and was killed, two days before Christmas.