Arbon School and the valley's other schools: teachers, graduations, programs, sports, and the school board.
Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
In 1924 the Gem State Petroleum Co. set what was billed as Idaho's biggest oil rig beside Arbon's Central school, and for five years the valley watched it bore toward oil that never came.
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.
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.
In October 1923 Power County's school superintendent, Mrs. Cora Darling, lived for two weeks among the country schools of Arbon Valley and Hawkins Basin, getting from one to the next by stage, grain rack, borrowed car and her own two feet.
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.
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.
How Pauline got its store, school and post office, and how its Meadow Ward fared under its first bishop, Wilhelm F. Kowallis, from 1911 to his farewell in 1918.
Through the stormy winter of 1915–16, neighbors at the north end of Arbon Valley crowded into the Central school on Tuesday nights to recite, read, play music and debate everything from mules to a high school for Arbon.
In 1915 Lola Skartvedt began cooking hot noon lunches with her pupils in a bare shack school on Clifton Creek near Crystal, and the county paper said the idea should spread statewide.
In the stormy late fall of 1915 the pupils of Arbon's Central school gave a Thanksgiving program and a Christmas Eve cantata, and the *Press* printed every part and nearly every child's name.
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.
On Christmas Eve 1913 Santa Claus brought presents, candy, nuts and oranges to 125 children at Arbon's Central school, and dances and sleighing parties filled the holiday week.
In June 1911 the lower Arbon valley voted on merging its school districts and building on Tom Evans' place, and by 1913 a Central school stood on Evans land as both schoolhouse and community hall.