Arbon sergeant wins the Silver Star at Anzio
An Arbon farm boy who rushed an enemy gun position at Anzio came home wounded with the Silver Star and later made his home at American Falls.
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Arbon Valley sailor is Idaho's first choice for Annapolis
As 1944 opened, Congressman Henry Dworshak wrote Chester and Arvilla Smith of the valley that their son Frank Blair Smith, a Navy apprentice seaman, was his top pick among Idaho's candidates for the Naval Academy.
Two Arbon weddings, a Spanish reception and an air corps lieutenant
Within ten weeks of each other in 1942 and 1943, Hazel and Glenn Andersen of Arbon married in Utah temples, and the papers followed her Spanish-costume reception, his air corps years and his return to farm at Arbon.
Arbon man's son honored for a Guam rescue, then decorated on Corregidor
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.
Arbon Valley's young men go to war, a few at a time
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.
Jerry Baker, Arbon rancher turned Pocatello hotel keeper, dies at the Carlyle
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.
An Arbon Valley wheat farmer tells a federal jury of the Argonne
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.
Hannah Poppie, who followed her brothers to Arbon, dies in West Pocatello
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.
Pneumonia takes Joe Evans, Arbon farmer and son of the T. B. Evanses
Joe Evans, an Arbon farmer and the son of T. B. and Susannah Evans, died of pneumonia in Pocatello on March 19, 1931, and Bishop Joseph Arbon led his funeral two days later.
Two Power County old-timers name an orphan mountain range
In January 1928 two of Power County's oldest residents were asked to name the nameless mountains between Arbon and Rockland valleys, and they chose Rock Creek range.
A Horse Island girl takes the school beside the Arbon oil well
In the fall of 1925 Lila M. Wade of Horse Island had charge of District 12's school at Arbon Center, beside the oil well, and nearly seventy years later her obituary remembered her in Arbon's one-room schools.
Six women at the south end form the Sunshine Canyon club
In the last days before the 1924 election, six women at the south end of Arbon Valley formed the Sunshine Canyon club and met each week to talk over the vote, child welfare and the lives of great women.
Lusk steps aside, and an Arbon pioneer runs for the county board
Perry Lusk of Pauline took the Arbon Valley's seat on the Power County board in the Democratic sweep of 1922, then declined to run again in 1924, leaving the pioneer T. B. Evans to contest it.
Pauline City, the crossroads that hoped to be a town
A doctor's office, two stores and a grain warehouse gave Pauline hopes of becoming a town, and by 1923 its schoolchildren were cheering for "Pauline City."
Crystal's schoolchildren report a settlement packing up
Writing for the American Falls Press in the winter of 1923–24, Crystal's pupils predicted their settlement would be "almost deserted" and then reported, week by week, who left and who stayed.
Arbon Valley schoolchildren turn reporters for the Press, 1923–24
For one school year the American Falls Press ran weekly news written by the pupils of Arbon Valley's country schools, misspellings included, and the first of it came from Pauline.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Influenza sweeps Arbon Valley with no doctor within forty miles
In the fall of 1918 the Spanish influenza reached Arbon Valley a few weeks after its one doctor had gone back to Pocatello, and whole families fell ill together.
Smiling through the lean years, the Humphrey brothers thresh twenty bushels at Crystal
Brothers Horace and Roy Humphrey kept smiling through good years and bad on the dry farms of Arbon and Crystal, and two of Horace's Arbon-born sons later made their way to Barrow, Alaska, and Promontory, Utah.
Four sisters from Summit answer the call as nurses
One after another, four daughters of W. A. Nunnelley of Summit trained as nurses, and the papers traced them through a Navy enlistment, the influenza of 1918–19 and a Logan diploma in 1920.
Arbon Valley families winter away and the spring columns count them home
In the fall of 1917 many Arbon Valley families left their farms for the winter, a few stayed by choice, and in March 1918 the valley columns counted them home.