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.
Eddie Davis and May Mathews of Arbon traveled to Cache Valley in December 1917 to marry in the Logan Temple, arrived the day it caught fire, and took the train to Salt Lake City to marry there.
Sophia Andersen never lived in Arbon Valley, yet from 1917 to her death in 1939 the papers show her Arbon sons, daughters and grandchildren making their way back to her house in Mendon, Utah.
J. R. and Annie Bailey reached Arbon with ten cents, two cows and some debts, and by 1917 a farm writer found them on 560 acres, with a greased pig still part of the family lore at their golden wedding in 1940.
Esther Davis kept house, kept chickens and kept the counter of the general store she and Ed Davis ran at Arbon, a valley landmark until 1931.
Six weeks after he was drafted in 1917, Park Lusk of Pauline had been promoted twice, and the papers went on to follow him, his brother Dave and the Bailey sisters they married through war, a young wife's death and the obituaries of the 1950s.
Isabelle Noble, 12, who helped behind the counter of her father's store at Pauline, died of a burst appendix in 1917, one of four children John and Fanny Noble buried between 1915 and 1921.
In the fall of 1917 the American Falls Press sent a farm writer who signed himself the Pilgrim over the roads of Crystal, Pauline and Arbon, mostly on foot, and he wrote down what he met along the way.
In the first week of September 1917 the Arbon correspondent of the American Falls Press told of an aeroplane that neighbors saw or heard crossing the valley after dark, a dozen years before any flight over Arbon was put on record.
Through 1917, while the new draft was still being drawn, young men of Arbon and Crystal walked into recruiting offices at Pocatello, Salt Lake City and Portland, and the papers set down their names a few at a time.
When the Blackfoot paper found Wallace Jenks leasing reservation land in May 1917, his family had already spent several years at Pauline, and some of them would stay on until the mortgages came due.
Six years after it was a new settlement wanting a school, Crystal had about 150 families in a basin so well hidden that the American Falls Press said strangers could not find the road in.
In 1917 Mrs. E. A. Logan wrote down how a handful of squatters settled Bannock Valley in the 1890s, and in 1920 she told it again as a birthday tribute to George Arbon.
Married at Pocatello in the spring of 1915, Ida Featherston likely played the organ for a new Arbon Sunday school, died at her valley home in May 1916 and was sent home to Kansas for burial, and that fall her husband sold out at the valley's first farm auction.
Walt Andersen and Wealthy Gibbons of Arbon were married at the Andersen reunion in Mendon in June 1916, and by Christmas her father had taken out a licence to marry Walt's sister Catherine.
Seven years after one newspaper mailed to Dayton drew the first Washington homesteaders to Arbon Valley, their settlement held a three-day picnic in Bull Canyon in June 1916 and invited everyone.
An American Falls paper made pioneer John Payne the mayor of Arbon in fun, and over the next two years its columns showed a retired Short Line engineer at work as dry farmer, sawmill owner, justice and would-be county commissioner.
A family from Dayton, Washington, came into Arbon by wagon after losing horses to poison on the road, in the same week that neighbors plowed fire guards to save 1,500 bushels of sacked grain near Knox Canyon.
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.
Frank Phelps, a South Arbon farmer who first turns up in the papers in 1915, froze to death in 1934, and his only son, Bud, quit school at 14 to run the farm.
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 year after frost took most of its wheat, Arbon Valley came down with what one correspondent called a spring malady, and by June 1915 about fifteen cars were running in the valley.
Elmira and Delone Smith, daughters of the Summit homesteader E. G. Smith, turn up again and again in the South Arbon column of 1915, and their obituaries carry the story on for seventy years.
A pile of logs at John Payne's sawmill in the spring of 1915 told Arbon's correspondent a building year was coming, and the paper's columns followed the canyon mills and the new houses through the season.
In 1914 William Allard, a homesteader from Arbon, won the Republican primary and the November election to become the first man Power County sent to the Idaho House.
At the end of a snowy winter in 1914, an American Falls store's monthly paper carried the Arbon news, almost certainly from Mrs. E. A. Logan, and the American Falls Press reprinted it.
From 1913 to 1928 children of Arbon, Pauline and Buist wrote stories for the Sunday School's magazine, while Cora Sorensen of the Summit end spent thirty-three years teaching the youngest class.
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.
On a December morning in 1912 two Whiting brothers from Crystal took out marriage licenses in Pocatello minutes apart, neither knowing the other was marrying.
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.