Weddings, births and anniversaries, visits and moves, and profiles of valley people and families.
Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
John C. Andersen, who came to the head of Bannock Creek as a boy in the 1890s and later served his ward, a school board and a highway board, died at Clifton on August 1, 1959, three months after his wife.
From Sod Williams's prize quarter horse in 1958 to his great-grandson's rodeo title in 2025, the papers followed an Arbon ranch family through the show ring and the arena.
For ten years Utah papers followed Sod Williams of Arbon and his quarter horses, from Poco Star's placings at Ogden to the clinics where he was billed to teach reining.
In November 1955 Clyde Jenson, a Summit dry farmer, lent a violin said to be a Guarneri del Gesù to the Utah Symphony's concertmaster for a campus recital and a Tabernacle concert.
In the mid-1950s Arbon kept a Ground Observer Corps post under Mrs. Lee Newport, and a Pocatello recruiter held the valley up as a town where half the people had trained as plane spotters.
In May 1954 Gene Bailey, 17, a grandson of Arbon's Lorenzo Bailey, left the family ranch on foot toward the mountains, and sixteen months passed before a valley rancher on horseback found his body in the hills.
Liza Iversen followed her brothers to their Arbon Valley homesteads, married the neighboring homesteader John J. Infanger at sixteen in 1914, and died in Pocatello on her 56th birthday.
In 1954 the papers caught up with D. J. Bowen, 92, who had led Arbon's first congregation, buried a second wife and was still visiting families for his Pocatello ward 75 years after his first calls.
Married at Malad in 1903, John and Beatrice Bolingbroke spent some forty years ranching at Pauline, wintering in Malad when school was in, and kept their golden wedding at their Pocatello home in 1953.
Two Oregon men who came to Arbon Valley together in 1910, Paul A. "Cy" Smith and Frank Turner, kept company through homesteads, war, flu and old age, and died three months apart in 1953.
In November 1947 a University of Idaho journalism student wrote up Arbon Valley for the Pocatello Tribune, catching power on the way, a new road staked out and a 1912 homesteader who had outlasted the Depression.
In the summer of 1947 two women visited the Wrensteds at Crystal, admired the valley's wheat and told stories of their people, among them that Mink Creek was named for Jeanette's grandfather.