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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.
In the spring of 1924 Ren Evans signed up 23 Arbon Valley farmers and 213 cows for a cheese factory backed by Ernest Brog of Driggs, but whether it ever made cheese is unknown.
In 1924 Crystal's taxpayers complained of the highest road and school tax in Power County and poor mail service, while the valley's mail and wheat kept wearing down the mountain road to Pocatello.
Eleven years after Arbon Valley voted itself into Power County, a delegation came to Pocatello in March 1924 to talk of joining Bannock instead, and in 1939 the idea surfaced once more.
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.
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."
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.
Days before the 1922 Roundup, a lantern led two Power County officers to a copper still hidden at Sunbeam, where a young Kentuckian was caught at work and charged with his uncle, a Pauline farmer.
When the spring thaw of 1922 left Arbon's roads too rotten for a team, rural carrier Ed Snyder split his route with his stepson, part of more than twenty years the Snyders gave to the valley's mail.
In 1922 the Arbon post office left its building by the Central school for J. R. Bailey's home and came within weeks of closing, the latest turn for an office that had followed its keepers since 1898.
In 1921 Arbon Valley's own highway district lost its cash in a Pocatello bank failure, just as a big wheat crop had to be hauled to the railroad over bad roads.
In June 1921 some 2,000 visitors came to the Toyn ranch for barbecue, ball games and a look at Arbon Valley's first oil well, which the papers then followed through sixteen months of shows and promises.
Under a foot of snow in November 1920, Pauline voted the Nonpartisan League ticket that ran its own Jack McCool for county commissioner, Arbon held to the Republicans, and Crystal's returns tipped the county's Senate count by a single vote.
In 1919 Arbon Valley's new highway district started grading and graveling the Bannock Creek road, lost two contractors' trucks to fire, and by August was counting on the road work to carry farmers through a drought.
In July 1918 the Power County commissioners heard a petition from Arbon Valley residents for a herd district and, with no one standing against it, created the district on July 27.
In 1918 Arbon Valley expected nearly half a million bushels of wheat with the railroad 25 to 35 miles away, and its call for motor trucks reached the national trade press.
When the Fort Hall lands on lower Bannock Creek were divided into allotments, the valley's road to Michaud had to move, Pauline farmers leased allotted ground, and by 1922 the land of allottees who had died was up for sale.
In the fall of 1917, with coal scarce, an American Falls Press farm writer found Arbon Valley ranchers hauling fuel from the same canyons that had given them the logs for their cabins.
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.
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 David J. Bowen told the American Falls Press how he found water on Knox Creek in 1892, built a cabin of aspen logs the next year and became postmaster of the valley's first post office.
Crystal settlers set light poles toward Pocatello in the winter of 1917 with Commercial Club money, and by July the line was joined to Mountain States at a fifteen-cent toll.
In 1917 a deputy sheriff was stranded six hours in a June snowdrift, a mail carrier forded floodwater and a Portneuf bridge broke under a load of Crystal grain.
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.
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.
For eight years Arbon Valley farmers petitioned, met, signed notes at a dollar an acre and backed one railroad scheme after another, and in May 1916 the promoters carried the plan to American Falls, but no line was ever built.
In the spring of 1916 the Pauline schoolhouse became a polling place, and that fall two valley men, Gus Brahmstadt and John Noble, ran for the valley's seat on the Power County board.
Storms buried Arbon Valley in about three feet of snow in early 1916 and cut its new telephone line; in February the paper reported the first vehicle out since winter began.
Arbon Valley formed its own telephone company in 1913 and talked over barbed wire for two years until the long-distance line from American Falls finally reached it in December 1915.
In 1915 Power County hurried a road for Bannock Valley north across the Fort Hall Reservation before allotment could shut the way, then fell to quarreling over who should pay for it.