Grain, hay and seed, harvest and threshing, crop prices, farm machinery, and the pests that came for the crops.
Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
Through the summer and fall of 1915 the South Arbon news column followed hogs, grain, machinery and patients over the mountain road to Malad, the town the valley's south end relied on.
For more than thirty years the papers followed Peter M. Larsen, a Mendon schoolteacher, as he went back and forth between his Cache Valley home and his ranch at the Summit end of Arbon Valley.
Pierce Hardman of Mendon took up a dry farm in Arbon Valley before he was twenty-one, and he and his wife Ella worked it for half a century, wintering in North Logan in later years.
A June frost in 1914 cut down the Bannock Valley wheat after the best spring anyone remembered, yet by winter the valley had still shipped its grain by the carload.
Arbon Valley dry farmers joined the Farmers' Society of Equity in 1913, and for four years the cooperative talked of a grain elevator for the valley that the papers never show being built.
In the spring of 1914 Arbon farmers offered a right of way and $1,000 a mile in bonds to a promoter whose grain cars would hang from a single rail on posts, but no line was ever reported built.
In the valley's first harvest under Power County, the papers followed Arbon's wheat from the threshers to the railroad, through a farmers' co-operative, a call to Tulsa and three crop counts that never agreed.
In the summer of 1913 a Congregational minister mailed a hill of dry-farmed wheat from Arbon with a report on the valley's crops, land and people, while he set about starting its first two Protestant churches.
Writing from Arbon the day after a divided Fourth of July in 1913, B. W. Rice sized up the valley's grain and named its farmers one by one, and within days two Congregational churches were organized there.
For nearly twenty years the Logan papers followed Jack King of North Logan to his Arbon dry farm and home again, through a dry 1931, a hopeful 1932 and the death of his wife Ruby that August.
In May 1913 the commissioners of the new Power County spent four days looking over roads at Crystal and Arbon, opening a season of petitions, a rival offer from Pocatello and a change of road overseer.
In 1912 and 1913 Pocatello's businessmen and the Arbon farmers pledged money for a road over the Trail Creek divide, until a reservation right of way and a shortfall of cash stopped it.
When American Falls cut a new road into Arbon Valley in 1912 and drew off its grain, Pocatello's paper raised the alarm and an Arbon farmer came to town asking for a road over Trail Creek.
Told by the old-timers that nothing would ripen at his altitude, Arbon homesteader G. S. Butler ended up supplying them with potatoes and won over the Kansas father who had predicted his failure.
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 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 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 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 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.