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From the old papers.

The newspaper articles the From the Old Papers stories are retold from, as they were printed from 1898 to 1930, decade by decade. Each opens the story told from it and links to the whole page. 159 newspaper clippings.

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The 1890s

A new town called Arbon asks Malad for a mail route — February 23, 1898
A new town called Arbon asks Malad for a mail route
Early in 1898 a delegation from Arbon, a settlement of about 100 people in Bannock Valley, came to Malad City to press for a mail route, and the Malad Enterprise wrote it up.
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The 1900s

Judge lets the Bannock Creek water suit go forward against Dave Daniels — October 4, 1904
Judge lets the Bannock Creek water suit go forward against Dave Daniels
In October 1904 a federal judge let the Fort Hall agent's suit over Bannock Creek water go forward against Dave Daniels and his neighbors, and the settlers asked to bring in every user.
From: Judge lets the Bannock Creek water suit go forward against Dave Daniels ↗

Settlers help build a road over the Mink Creek divide — June 25, 1906
Settlers help build a road over the Mink Creek divide
A Rattlesnake Creek rancher graded a road up Mink Creek from Pocatello in 1906, and four years later settlers beyond the divide helped build the new road that won Arbon's praise.
From: Settlers help build a road over the Mink Creek divide ↗

Idaho Falls druggist's death sends word to a storekeeper at Arbon — September 11, 1907
Idaho Falls druggist's death sends word to a storekeeper at Arbon
When the Pocatello Tribune reported an Idaho Falls druggist's suicide in September 1907, its closing line about his brother's store at Arbon became the oldest printed trace yet found of the Payne store.
From: Idaho Falls druggist's death sends word to a storekeeper at Arbon ↗

Arbon's dry farms thresh 35,000 bushels in 1907 — November 30, 1907
Arbon's dry farms thresh 35,000 bushels in 1907
In November 1907 two Arbon men told the American Falls Press that thirty-two families had threshed 35,000 bushels of grain, and named the best wheat fields and varieties.
From: Arbon's dry farms thresh 35,000 bushels in 1907 ↗

Arbon Valley, a homeseekers' paradise, goes looking for neighbors — November 14, 1908
Arbon Valley, a homeseekers' paradise, goes looking for neighbors
In the winter of 1908–09 Arbon's settlers and the American Falls Press advertised the valley's open land to homeseekers, and by spring newcomers were filing on it fast.
From: Arbon Valley, a homeseekers' paradise, goes looking for neighbors ↗

Sixteen wagons carry Arbon wheat to the railroad at Michaud — November 21, 1908
Sixteen wagons carry Arbon wheat to the railroad at Michaud
In November 1908 sixteen Arbon teamsters hauled a carload of sacked wheat to the railroad at Michaud switch, and the American Falls Press printed every driver's name.
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County crew starts a $300 shortcut from Arbon to American Falls — November 21, 1908
County crew starts a $300 shortcut from Arbon to American Falls
In November 1908 Wilson Barnard's crew began a $300 wagon road from Bannock Creek over the foothills to American Falls, meant to cut ten miles or more from the haul of Arbon's wheat to market.
From: County crew starts a $300 shortcut from Arbon to American Falls ↗

Four men drive out to view the Arbon road and walk home by dawn — May 8, 1909
Four men drive out to view the Arbon road and walk home by dawn
In May 1909 a banker, a miller, an editor and a county commissioner set out by automobile to look over a proposed road to Arbon, and when the car gave out at Rattlesnake gulch they walked back to American Falls through the night.
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The 1910s

An Arbon rancher brings big plans to Pocatello — July 15, 1910
An Arbon rancher brings big plans to Pocatello
In July 1910 an Arbon rancher came to Pocatello talking of a commercial club, an irrigation company and a Pioneer Day, and the *Tribune* put Arbon on its front page.
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Newcomers outnumber the old settlers of Arbon Valley two to one — September 10, 1910
Newcomers outnumber the old settlers of Arbon Valley two to one
In September 1910 the American Falls Press found Arbon Valley's newcomers outnumbering its old settlers two to one and looked for a wheat crop twice the size of two years earlier.
From: Newcomers outnumber the old settlers of Arbon Valley two to one ↗

Mrs. Jennie Price of Arbon carries the Republican nomination for county treasurer — September 17, 1910
Mrs. Jennie Price of Arbon carries the Republican nomination for county treasurer
In 1910 a homesteading woman from Arbon won the Republican primary for Oneida County treasurer, in a year when only women sought that office, and lost the fall race to Cora Dudley of Malad.
From: Mrs. Jennie Price of Arbon carries the Republican nomination for county treasurer ↗

On a stormy night, Arbon votes to join Power County — January 7, 1911
On a stormy night, Arbon votes to join Power County
Arbon Valley voted three times between 1908 and 1911 to leave Oneida County for a new county around American Falls, and saw two bills fail before Power County was finally made in 1913.
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Winter flood drowns three Arbon children and takes the Bannock bridges — February 18, 1911
Winter flood drowns three Arbon children and takes the Bannock bridges
A January rainstorm in 1911 drowned three Arbon children and took the bridges on Bannock Creek; that spring Oneida County put new bridges to a bond vote.
From: Winter flood drowns three Arbon children and takes the Bannock bridges ↗

Arbon talks of a townsite, with the village already taking shape — March 11, 1911
Arbon talks of a townsite, with the village already taking shape
In 1911 Arbon had no town, but its newspaper columns told of a hotel, a store, a dance hall, a village blacksmith and butcher, and talk of laying out a townsite.
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Lower Arbon votes on one district and a school on Tom Evans' place — June 29, 1911
Lower Arbon votes on one district and a school on Tom Evans' place
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.
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Over the Moonshine divide, a shorter road for Arbon wheat — July 6, 1911
Over the Moonshine divide, a shorter road for Arbon wheat
In 1911 the county surveyed a road from American Falls over the Moonshine divide to Arbon, and in 1912 American Falls cash and Arbon labor built a short cut, probably on that line, that drew the valley's wheat away from Pocatello.
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Four men from American Falls drive around Bannock Peak in a day — July 20, 1911
Four men from American Falls drive around Bannock Peak in a day
On a Sunday in July 1911, four American Falls men put 127 miles on an automobile circling Bannock Peak, lunching off a well trough and calling on Arbon's pioneers as they came home through the valley.
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State land selector finds Rattlesnake Creek land already ceded — August 4, 1911
State land selector finds Rattlesnake Creek land already ceded
In July 1911 Idaho's land selector looked over the Moonshine and Rattlesnake country for land for the state, and found that most of the good land on Rattlesnake Creek was ceded Fort Hall land.
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Nine threshers follow forty headers through the Arbon wheat of 1911 — August 31, 1911
Nine threshers follow forty headers through the Arbon wheat of 1911
In 1911 the American Falls Press watched Arbon's wheat go from July guesses to steam threshers to wagon trains at the railroad, and an editor saw in six lines how far the valley had come.
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Arbon's dry-land alfalfa wins the paper's blue ribbon — September 7, 1911
Arbon's dry-land alfalfa wins the paper's blue ribbon
In September 1911 the *American Falls Press* awarded Arbon's dry-land alfalfa a blue ribbon in print, the high point of the valley's part in Farmers' Day, the farm show American Falls held each fall from 1908.
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Lightning misses Charles Orison, and the papers follow his family for eighty years — September 28, 1911
Lightning misses Charles Orison, and the papers follow his family for eighty years
A near miss by lightning at Summit in 1911 is the first the valley papers say of Charles and Jean Ann Orison, whose family they followed between Arbon Valley and Logan until 1990.
From: Lightning misses Charles Orison, and the papers follow his family for eighty years ↗

An Arbon homesteader's daughter and a doctor's brother slip away on No. 6 — September 28, 1911
An Arbon homesteader's daughter and a doctor's brother slip away on No. 6
In September 1911 Mattie Nunnelley left American Falls on the morning train with Herman Noth, and over the next eight years the Press followed the couple to a ranch at Arbon and to her early death.
From: An Arbon homesteader's daughter and a doctor's brother slip away on No. 6 ↗

Fort Hall opens the Bannock Creek road, with rules for drovers — October 18, 1911
Fort Hall opens the Bannock Creek road, with rules for drovers
In October 1911 the Fort Hall superintendent opened the Arbon–American Falls road down Bannock Creek to the public, with no camping or fires and escorts for driven stock.
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Four children of a Bannock Creek farmer come home to Fort Hall — November 25, 1911
Four children of a Bannock Creek farmer come home to Fort Hall
In November 1911 four children whose father, known in Nevada as "Indian Mike," had once farmed on Bannock Creek as Jim Taggert were brought from a Nevada school to Fort Hall after the fight that killed most of their family.
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Arbon settler heads home to Kentucky as an immigration agent — December 14, 1911
Arbon settler heads home to Kentucky as an immigration agent
When G. S. Randall of Arbon went home to Somerset, Kentucky, in December 1911, he went as a man who had made good, and the papers then follow the Kentucky families who came to the valley, stayed and left.
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An Arbon rancher writes home from his mission and comes back to a dance — March 7, 1912
An Arbon rancher writes home from his mission and comes back to a dance
In the spring of 1912 the *Pocatello Tribune* followed Arbon rancher John C. Cairns from Dublin to Halifax and home again, where the valley met him with a supper and dance.
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Valley women prove up claims of their own — September 19, 1912
Valley women prove up claims of their own
Between 1911 and 1919 the land notices and valley columns of the American Falls Press followed Arbon and Crystal women as they proved up land in their own names, from wives' desert claims to a mother and her daughters on Cherry Creek.
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A doubting father from Kansas comes around on Arbon vegetables — November 21, 1912
A doubting father from Kansas comes around on Arbon vegetables
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.
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Two Whiting brothers of Crystal wed the same morning, each unaware of the other — December 4, 1912
Two Whiting brothers of Crystal wed the same morning, each unaware of the other
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.
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Pocatello and American Falls vie for Arbon Valley's wheat — December 26, 1912
Pocatello and American Falls vie for Arbon Valley's wheat
When American Falls cut a new road into Arbon Valley in 1912 and drew off its grain, Pocatello's paper raised the alarm and an Arbon farmer came to town asking for a road over Trail Creek.
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Pocatello merchants press for a Trail Creek road to win Arbon's wheat — May 6, 1913
Pocatello merchants press for a Trail Creek road to win Arbon's wheat
In 1912 and 1913 Pocatello's businessmen and the Arbon farmers pledged money for a road over the Trail Creek divide, until a reservation right of way and a shortfall of cash stopped it.
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New county's commissioners spend four days on Arbon Valley roads — May 15, 1913
New county's commissioners spend four days on Arbon Valley roads
In May 1913 the commissioners of the new Power County spent four days looking over roads at Crystal and Arbon, opening a season of petitions, a rival offer from Pocatello and a change of road overseer.
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Arbon hears the Short Line is surveying a branch down Bannock Valley — June 26, 1913
Arbon hears the Short Line is surveying a branch down Bannock Valley
In June 1913 a man from Arbon brought word to Pocatello that Short Line engineers were surveying a branch railroad over the Malad divide and down Bannock Valley.
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Settlers over the Mink Creek divide want pasture, not elk — June 28, 1913
Settlers over the Mink Creek divide want pasture, not elk
In June 1913 homesteaders south of the Mink Creek divide fought sheep permits on the Pocatello forest reserve, and when someone proposed turning it into an elk refuge, T. B. Smith wrote to the paper that the settlers needed summer grass, not game.
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Bannock Creek ranch hand vanishes after selling hogs in Pocatello — July 2, 1913
Bannock Creek ranch hand vanishes after selling hogs in Pocatello
In June 1913 John Ryan, a hand on the Evans and Daniels ranch on Bannock Creek, sold a load of hogs in Pocatello, left his team in a shed and dropped out of sight.
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From Arbon, B. W. Rice counts the grain and the farmers who grow it — July 8, 1913
From Arbon, B. W. Rice counts the grain and the farmers who grow it
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.
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A minister sends a hill of wheat and a report from Bannock Valley — August 7, 1913
A minister sends a hill of wheat and a report from Bannock Valley
In the summer of 1913 a Congregational minister mailed a hill of dry-farmed wheat from Arbon with a report on the valley's crops, land and people, while he set about starting its first two Protestant churches.
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Santa comes to the Central school with gifts for 125 Arbon children — January 8, 1914
Santa comes to the Central school with gifts for 125 Arbon children
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.
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Arbon Valley wheat fills the road to the railroad in 1913 — January 15, 1914
Arbon Valley wheat fills the road to the railroad in 1913
In the valley's first harvest under Power County, the papers followed Arbon's wheat from the threshers to the railroad, through a farmers' co-operative, a call to Tulsa and three crop counts that never agreed.
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Arbon homesteaders prove up, and neighbours vouch for neighbours — January 22, 1914
Arbon homesteaders prove up, and neighbours vouch for neighbours
From 1909 to 1914 the land-office notices in the American Falls Press tracked Arbon Valley homesteaders turning claims into titles, with neighbours standing witness and contests over claims nobody lived on.
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Arbon votes down the county road bonds — February 26, 1914
Arbon votes down the county road bonds
In January 1914 the new Power County asked its voters for $125,000 in road bonds, with a trunk road promised from Arbon, and the valley turned them down.
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Skis, surprise parties and barbed-wire telephones in Arbon, 1914 — April 2, 1914
Skis, surprise parties and barbed-wire telephones in Arbon, 1914
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: Skis, surprise parties and barbed-wire telephones in Arbon, 1914 ↗

Arbon boosters vote a right of way for a railroad on posts — April 9, 1914
Arbon boosters vote a right of way for a railroad on posts
In the spring of 1914 Arbon farmers offered a right of way and $1,000 a mile in bonds to a promoter whose grain cars would hang from a single rail on posts, but no line was ever reported built.
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Power County goes dry, and the count waits on Arbon — May 28, 1914
Power County goes dry, and the count waits on Arbon
Power County voted to forbid the sale of liquor on May 20, 1914, 698 to 626, with Arbon going dry by three votes and Crystal by two, and the official count held up a week waiting for Arbon's returns.
From: Power County goes dry, and the count waits on Arbon ↗

Arbon farmers join the Equity and hope for an elevator of their own — June 25, 1914
Arbon farmers join the Equity and hope for an elevator of their own
Arbon Valley dry farmers joined the Farmers' Society of Equity in 1913, and for four years the cooperative talked of a grain elevator for the valley that the papers never show being built.
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Frost takes the Bannock Valley wheat after a spring of high hopes — July 2, 1914
Frost takes the Bannock Valley wheat after a spring of high hopes
A June frost in 1914 cut down the Bannock Valley wheat after the best spring anyone remembered, yet by winter the valley had still shipped its grain by the carload.
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Kitchen fire leaves a Rattlesnake Creek homesteader living in a tent — July 21, 1914
Kitchen fire leaves a Rattlesnake Creek homesteader living in a tent
In July 1914 the Pocatello Tribune asked readers to help Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, homesteading on Rattlesnake Creek, whose house had burned with everything in it.
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Arbon homesteader recalls digging through the snow to pitch his tent — July 24, 1914
Arbon homesteader recalls digging through the snow to pitch his tent
In 1914 Ed Hooker told the Pocatello Tribune how he had shoveled down through several feet of snow and ice for a tent site when he came to Arbon Valley, where he homesteaded until 1917.
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By way of Brigham, the valley's mail took weeks to reach Crystal — October 15, 1914
By way of Brigham, the valley's mail took weeks to reach Crystal
In 1914 a letter from American Falls to Crystal rode 239 miles of rail through Brigham City and Malad, and the valley kept petitioning until a Pocatello route came in 1916.
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An Arbon homesteader becomes Power County's first legislator — October 29, 1914
An Arbon homesteader becomes Power County's first legislator
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.
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The winter the herds died, and the years Bannock Valley was cattle range — February 4, 1915
The winter the herds died, and the years Bannock Valley was cattle range
An old settler's 1915 memory of the winter that froze the Oregon herds opens three decades of glimpses of Bannock Valley as range for cattle and sheep, before wheat took it over.
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Logs piled at the mill promise a building year in Arbon — April 29, 1915
Logs piled at the mill promise a building year in Arbon
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.
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Pauline takes the field in red, and Sunday baseball comes to Arbon Valley — May 20, 1915
Pauline takes the field in red, and Sunday baseball comes to Arbon Valley
In the spring of 1915 the Pauline nine wore new red suits, bought with help from a dance, as the valley's neighborhood teams met each other on Sunday afternoons.
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A New York seminary student spends a summer preaching in Arbon Valley — June 3, 1915
A New York seminary student spends a summer preaching in Arbon Valley
In 1915 Robert W. Sturges, a New York seminary student, spent four months as pastor of the Congregational churches at Arbon and Highland, then wrote about the valley.
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Even the mountain ranges are being homesteaded — June 3, 1915
Even the mountain ranges are being homesteaded
Through 1915 the *American Falls Press* followed Arbon Valley homesteaders as they filed in Knox Canyon and on the ranges, drilled for water, built houses and sold out.
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Two Smith sisters pass through the South Arbon news of 1915 — June 3, 1915
Two Smith sisters pass through the South Arbon news of 1915
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.
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Arbon Valley farmers catch a spring malady and buy cars — June 17, 1915
Arbon Valley farmers catch a spring malady and buy cars
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.
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A windy Fourth at the Central school and a crowded 24th at Pauline — July 15, 1915
A windy Fourth at the Central school and a crowded 24th at Pauline
In the summer of 1915 Arbon Valley decorated its graves, held a big Fourth of July picnic at the Central school on July 3 and crowded the Pauline L.D.S. grounds for Pioneer Day.
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South Arbon man held at Malad is cleared of a West Virginia murder — July 15, 1915
South Arbon man held at Malad is cleared of a West Virginia murder
Jailed at Malad in 1915 on a forgery charge, L. E. Howell of South Arbon was suspected of an old West Virginia killing until two officers from that state came west and said he looked nothing like their man.
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For Arbon Valley's sick in 1915, the doctor was a long ride away — September 2, 1915
For Arbon Valley's sick in 1915, the doctor was a long ride away
Through 1915 Arbon Valley carried its sick and hurt over the mountain to Malad, across the reservation to Pocatello or down to Ogden, until a long-distance telephone line reached the valley in December.
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For the south end in 1915, the road to market ran over the mountain to Malad — September 9, 1915
For the south end in 1915, the road to market ran over the mountain to Malad
Through the summer and fall of 1915 the South Arbon news column followed hogs, grain, machinery and patients over the mountain road to Malad, the town the valley's south end relied on.
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Arbon Valley's biggest wheat year brings its first combines — September 16, 1915
Arbon Valley's biggest wheat year brings its first combines
In 1915 Arbon Valley sowed more wheat than ever, cut some of it with its first combines and threshed the rest with short-handed crews through a dry, fire-prone fall.
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Dayton family reaches Arbon by wagon, and neighbors stop a fire at Knox Canyon — October 8, 1915
Dayton family reaches Arbon by wagon, and neighbors stop a fire at Knox Canyon
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.
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An Arbon farmer's wheat comes in clean in a smutty year — October 28, 1915
An Arbon farmer's wheat comes in clean in a smutty year
In the fall of 1915, while smut ran through Arbon Valley wheat, Power County's new agent found none in Henry Shandrew's grain, and that same year a plant taken from a field near Arbon became a wheat immune to bunt.
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A new road across the reservation, and a county quarrel over the bill — November 18, 1915
A new road across the reservation, and a county quarrel over the bill
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.
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Storm or no storm, Central school children take the stage for Thanksgiving and Christmas — December 9, 1915
Storm or no storm, Central school children take the stage for Thanksgiving and Christmas
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.
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After years of waiting, Arbon Valley is connected to the world — December 9, 1915
After years of waiting, Arbon Valley is connected to the world
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.
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A Crystal teacher starts something with a hot lunch on Clifton Creek — December 30, 1915
A Crystal teacher starts something with a hot lunch on Clifton Creek
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.
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A washboard, a mule and a high school: Arbon's literary society takes the stage — January 27, 1916
A washboard, a mule and a high school: Arbon's literary society takes the stage
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.
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First vehicle out of Arbon after a winter of three-foot snow — February 10, 1916
First vehicle out of Arbon after a winter of three-foot snow
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.
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Pauline gets its own polling place, and a valley man goes to the county board — April 20, 1916
Pauline gets its own polling place, and a valley man goes to the county board
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.
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A wreck mars Arbon's first fair, and Allard answers a critic — May 11, 1916
A wreck mars Arbon's first fair, and Allard answers a critic
Arbon's first community fair, held at the Central school on May 10, 1916, had a band, exhibits and speeches until a borrowed car overturned, and a few weeks later William Allard answered an unsigned critic of the day.
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Arbon Valley farmers pledge a dollar an acre for a railroad that never came — May 25, 1916
Arbon Valley farmers pledge a dollar an acre for a railroad that never came
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.
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John Payne, the mayor of Arbon that no one elected — June 1, 1916
John Payne, the mayor of Arbon that no one elected
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.
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Washington settlers throw open their Bull Canyon picnic to the whole county — June 22, 1916
Washington settlers throw open their Bull Canyon picnic to the whole county
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.
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Walt Andersen and Wealthy Gibbons marry at the family reunion in Mendon — July 20, 1916
Walt Andersen and Wealthy Gibbons marry at the family reunion in Mendon
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.
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Arbon Valley keeps Pioneer Day with parades, races and dances — August 3, 1916
Arbon Valley keeps Pioneer Day with parades, races and dances
From a 1916 parade to the Central school to the opening of Arbon's new hall in 1929, the valley kept every July 24 with programs, races, bucking contests and dances that ran late.
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A Kansas bride at Arbon, and the sale that took her husband home — November 2, 1916
A Kansas bride at Arbon, and the sale that took her husband home
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.
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Pauline grows up around a store, a log-cabin school and the Meadow Ward — March 29, 1917
Pauline grows up around a store, a log-cabin school and the Meadow Ward
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.
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Crystal, hidden up Rattlesnake Creek, is a valley strangers cannot find — March 29, 1917
Crystal, hidden up Rattlesnake Creek, is a valley strangers cannot find
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.
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Mrs. Logan tells how the squatters took up Bannock Valley — March 29, 1917
Mrs. Logan tells how the squatters took up Bannock Valley
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.
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A June snowdrift and a broken bridge: the roads to town in 1917 — June 5, 1917
A June snowdrift and a broken bridge: the roads to town in 1917
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.
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Crystal settlers finish their own telephone line to Pocatello — July 9, 1917
Crystal settlers finish their own telephone line to Pocatello
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.
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Before the draft called them, valley men were already enlisting — July 27, 1917
Before the draft called them, valley men were already enlisting
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.
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Arbon neighbors hear a car at the gate, and it turns out to be an aeroplane — September 7, 1917
Arbon neighbors hear a car at the gate, and it turns out to be an aeroplane
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.
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A roving farm writer called the Pilgrim walks the Arbon Valley roads — September 18, 1917
A roving farm writer called the Pilgrim walks the Arbon Valley roads
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.
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Bugle calls at midnight as the valley sends off its draft men — October 5, 1917
Bugle calls at midnight as the valley sends off its draft men
In the fall of 1917 Arbon and Crystal danced, built bonfires and stood for a cornetist's bugle calls to send the valley's first draft men off to Camp Lewis.
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Isabelle Noble, little clerk of the Pauline store, dies at 12 — October 26, 1917
Isabelle Noble, little clerk of the Pauline store, dies at 12
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.
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Two Lusk brothers of Pauline marry two Bailey sisters of Arbon — October 30, 1917
Two Lusk brothers of Pauline marry two Bailey sisters of Arbon
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.
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At the Davis store, the housework takes a back seat — November 6, 1917
At the Davis store, the housework takes a back seat
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.
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A deputy behind a telephone pole catches the Pauline wheat thieves — November 13, 1917
A deputy behind a telephone pole catches the Pauline wheat thieves
In November 1917 a Pauline wheat buyer followed a stolen load by lantern, and Deputy Sheriff Hy Secrist waited for the thieves behind a telephone pole.
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With the coal bins empty, Arbon Valley goes back to the canyons for wood — November 20, 1917
With the coal bins empty, Arbon Valley goes back to the canyons for wood
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.
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Ten cents, two cows and a greased pig built the Bailey ranch at Arbon — November 20, 1917
Ten cents, two cows and a greased pig built the Bailey ranch at Arbon
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.
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Hatfield's tractor plows 350 acres in a valley of horse teams — November 23, 1917
Hatfield's tractor plows 350 acres in a valley of horse teams
From a 10-20 tractor plowing 350 acres in 1916 to a Fordson on a 1921 sale bill, the papers show the first tractors at work beside Arbon Valley's big horse teams.
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In Mendon, the Arbon Andersens kept coming home to their mother — November 30, 1917
In Mendon, the Arbon Andersens kept coming home to their mother
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.
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Through hail and mustard, Arbon Valley's 1917 wheat brings wartime prices — January 8, 1918
Through hail and mustard, Arbon Valley's 1917 wheat brings wartime prices
In the first year of America's war, Arbon Valley's dry-farm wheat came through hail, heat and Jim Hill mustard to a thin harvest that sold for as much as $1.95 a bushel.
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Arbon Valley goes to war on Old Jim Hill, and the weed talks back — January 22, 1918
Arbon Valley goes to war on Old Jim Hill, and the weed talks back
In 1917 and 1918 Arbon Valley's wheat farmers fought Jim Hill mustard, a weed that rolled across the country as a tumbleweed, and the Press's roving farm writer gave the weed a chance to boast.
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Arbon Valley families winter away and the spring columns count them home — March 26, 1918
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.
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Arbon bids up a cake as the valley opens the Red Cross drive — May 21, 1918
Arbon bids up a cake as the valley opens the Red Cross drive
On one May night in 1918, Arbon outbid the speakers from American Falls for a Red Cross cake while Pauline heard four speakers and Crystal raised its whole quota before going home.
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The road to Michaud must follow the allotment lines — May 24, 1918
The road to Michaud must follow the allotment lines
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.
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Pocatello paper calls the spoiled Pauline wheat "rank fiction" — June 3, 1918
Pocatello paper calls the spoiled Pauline wheat "rank fiction"
In June 1918 the Pocatello Tribune called the Nonpartisan League's charge that Pauline wheat had rotted "rank fiction," a month after its own report that some of it had spoiled.
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Four sisters from Summit answer the call as nurses — June 11, 1918
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.
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Half a million bushels of wheat and no railroad to haul it — July 30, 1918
Half a million bushels of wheat and no railroad to haul it
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.
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Arbon Valley gets its herd district, and no one objects — September 10, 1918
Arbon Valley gets its herd district, and no one objects
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.
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Smiling through the lean years, the Humphrey brothers thresh twenty bushels at Crystal — September 13, 1918
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.
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Influenza sweeps Arbon Valley with no doctor within forty miles — November 1, 1918
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.
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Wheat hauler B. O. Kelley killed in the dark at the Pauline bridge — December 24, 1918
Wheat hauler B. O. Kelley killed in the dark at the Pauline bridge
Before daylight on December 23, 1918, B. O. Kelley, hauling Pauline wheat for the Zaring Grain Company, drove his truck off the Bannock Creek bridge at Pauline and was killed, two days before Christmas.
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Arbon Valley builds its new road in a summer without rain — June 20, 1919
Arbon Valley builds its new road in a summer without rain
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.
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Crystal sits its returned soldiers down to dinner — September 24, 1919
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.
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Valley women knit, sew and dance for the Red Cross, then welcome the soldiers home — October 17, 1919
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.
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Charles Bailey filed first on the Arbon floor, and stayed four years — December 12, 1919
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.
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The 1920s

Arbon Valley sets a day to poison its squirrels — April 9, 1920
Arbon Valley sets a day to poison its squirrels
In the spring of 1920 Arbon Valley's farmers chose a day to spread strychnine bait against the ground squirrels eating their wheat, part of a Power County campaign that ran for years and cost Ed Davis four of his best horses.
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Arbon farmers organize to keep the sheep out of their canyons — May 7, 1920
Arbon farmers organize to keep the sheep out of their canyons
In the spring of 1920 Arbon's farmers incorporated a range association to keep the migrating sheep bands off their canyons and hills, and by midsummer a deputy was riding the ranges and sheepmen were standing trial at Pauline.
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Miss Wall closes a good year at the Central school — May 14, 1920
Miss Wall closes a good year at the Central school
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.
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Newlywed Elmer and Susan Ward move out to their Arbon farm — May 21, 1920
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.
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Arbon Valley says goodbye to the Ripleys, bound for Oregon — May 28, 1920
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.
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Arbon Valley pledges four-fifths of its wheat to the pool — June 18, 1920
Arbon Valley pledges four-fifths of its wheat to the pool
In the wet spring of 1920 Arbon Valley farmers signed about 80 per cent of a promising crop over to the new Wheat Growers Association, then watched wheat prices slide through a long, hard winter.
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Pauline votes the League ticket as Arbon stays Republican — November 5, 1920
Pauline votes the League ticket as Arbon stays Republican
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.
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Snow buries Arbon's harvest, and the valley waits out a long winter — November 12, 1920
Snow buries Arbon's harvest, and the valley waits out a long winter
Snow fell on Arbon Valley before the 1920 threshing was done, and through a long winter the Arbon column of the American Falls Press kept track of the stranded grain, the families who left for town, the dances of those who stayed and a spring that kept turning back to snow.
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A shooting on the Pauline road, a deputy killed and two acquittals — March 18, 1921
A shooting on the Pauline road, a deputy killed and two acquittals
On St. Patrick's Day 1921 W. H. Ball shot a neighbor on the road near Pauline and a deputy sheriff at his cabin, and before the year was out two Power County juries had let him go.
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Grandpa Arbon, the man the valley was named for, dies at Malad at 81 — April 1, 1921
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.
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Arbon Valley throws a two-day party for its first oil well — July 1, 1921
Arbon Valley throws a two-day party for its first oil well
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.
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In six inches of dust, American Falls beats the Arbon Bears — July 1, 1921
In six inches of dust, American Falls beats the Arbon Bears
For a few summers in the early 1920s Pauline, the Arbon Bears and the South Arbon Cubs played ball against each other and against American Falls, most memorably on a dust-deep diamond at the 1921 oil celebration.
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A bumper wheat crop for nothing: the Arbon valley's hard years, 1920–1925 — July 15, 1921
A bumper wheat crop for nothing: the Arbon valley's hard years, 1920–1925
Between 1920 and 1925 the Arbon valley's dry farmers raised good wheat and still lost ground to falling prices, high freight, scarce credit, failed banks and tax deeds, until two-dollar wheat came back.
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Eight pupils from three families fill a one-room school near Crystal — December 23, 1921
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.
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Arbon road district loses its cash in a bank failure as the big wheat crop rolls — February 3, 1922
Arbon road district loses its cash in a bank failure as the big wheat crop rolls
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.
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Lost in a blizzard, Frank Kulock dies within sight of home — February 17, 1922
Lost in a blizzard, Frank Kulock dies within sight of home
Coming home from Pauline with the mail on February 11, 1922, Frank Kulock lost his way in a blizzard and froze to death in his own field, where his wife found him three days later.
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Arbon post office moves to the Bailey farm, and nearly closes — March 17, 1922
Arbon post office moves to the Bailey farm, and nearly closes
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.
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In the 1922 thaw, Ed Snyder splits the Arbon mail route — March 31, 1922
In the 1922 thaw, Ed Snyder splits the Arbon mail route
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.
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A Summit homestead harvest, and a farm that lasted a century — August 24, 1922
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.
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A lantern in a pothole gives away a still at Sunbeam — September 14, 1922
A lantern in a pothole gives away a still at Sunbeam
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.
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Sacks, not bushels: Arbon Valley's wet, weedy wheat harvest of 1922 — November 30, 1922
Sacks, not bushels: Arbon Valley's wet, weedy wheat harvest of 1922
After a season of spotty fields, daily rains, weeds above the grain and town men who lost their nerve, Arbon Valley's warehouse took in 29,008 sacks of wheat, a figure the paper first printed as bushels.
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Arbon surprises Mrs. T. B. Evans, its telephone central since the start — January 11, 1923
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.
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Rival buyers bid up the valley's wheat at Schiller — October 18, 1923
Rival buyers bid up the valley's wheat at Schiller
In October 1923 rival buyers bid up wheat at Schiller, the valley's railroad siding, and into the spring teams and trucks hauled the crop there, 26 miles from Pauline.
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The county superintendent comes to the valley's schools by grain rack and on foot — November 1, 1923
The county superintendent comes to the valley's schools by grain rack and on foot
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.
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Arbon Valley schoolchildren turn reporters for the Press, 1923–24 — November 15, 1923
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.
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Crystal's schoolchildren report a settlement packing up — December 6, 1923
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.
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Pauline City, the crossroads that hoped to be a town — December 20, 1923
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."
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Oil rig beside the Arbon school draws crowds, then drills on for five years — February 28, 1924
Oil rig beside the Arbon school draws crowds, then drills on for five years
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.
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Arbon Valley men come to Pocatello to talk of joining Bannock County — March 12, 1924
Arbon Valley men come to Pocatello to talk of joining Bannock County
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.
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Arbon Valley signs up 213 cows for a cheese factory — April 3, 1924
Arbon Valley signs up 213 cows for a cheese factory
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.
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Crystal taxpayers fault their road district as mail and grain wear down the Mink Creek road — April 3, 1924
Crystal taxpayers fault their road district as mail and grain wear down the Mink Creek road
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.
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Lusk steps aside, and an Arbon pioneer runs for the county board — July 10, 1924
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.
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Smut blast burns the Hatfield threshing outfit in Arbon Valley — August 10, 1924
Smut blast burns the Hatfield threshing outfit in Arbon Valley
In August 1924 a smut explosion on the Ray Hatfield place in Arbon Valley burned Clive Hatfield's threshing outfit, 75 sacks of wheat, a wagon, a derrick and a stack.
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Six women at the south end form the Sunshine Canyon club — October 30, 1924
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.
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Arbon Navy man Jesse Keeler buried at Pocatello with Legion honors — September 14, 1925
Arbon Navy man Jesse Keeler buried at Pocatello with Legion honors
Four years after he went into a veterans' hospital in Washington, Arbon homesteader and Navy volunteer Jesse Keeler came home to Pocatello for a funeral with taps and a Legion salute.
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Arbon's former postmistress and mail carrier answer in federal court — October 17, 1925
Arbon's former postmistress and mail carrier answer in federal court
In October 1925 the woman who had kept the Arbon post office was arraigned at Pocatello over $419.06 in missing funds, and the man who had carried the valley's mail was fined $100 for turning mail sacks into grain bags and saddle blankets.
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A Horse Island girl takes the school beside the Arbon oil well — October 29, 1925
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.
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Derrick falls at the Arbon well, and five men walk away — June 27, 1926
Derrick falls at the Arbon well, and five men walk away
In 1926 the Gem State well at Arbon drew crowds, blew gas through its plug, was said to carry helium and lost its derrick; by autumn the company was in receivership.
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Arbon Valley farmers bring in a big wheat crop and haul it out in giant trucks — August 31, 1926
Arbon Valley farmers bring in a big wheat crop and haul it out in giant trucks
In the dry summer of 1926 Arbon Valley harvested one of the biggest wheat crops in its memory, early, and its farmers bought big new trucks to haul it to the railroad at Schiller.
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A power line up Arbon Valley worries the telephone company — April 13, 1927
A power line up Arbon Valley worries the telephone company
In spring 1927 crews hauled poles through Arbon Valley mud for a power line from American Falls to Utah, and the telephone men braced for what it would do to their wires.
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Pauline boy, 12, dies weeks after a ruptured appendix — January 19, 1928
Pauline boy, 12, dies weeks after a ruptured appendix
Brought into Pocatello at 3:30 on New Year's morning 1928 with a ruptured appendix, twelve-year-old Earl Lewis of Pauline lived eighteen more days.
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An old cattleman remembers Tom Sparks's herds and a sheepman shot near Sunbeam — February 12, 1928
An old cattleman remembers Tom Sparks's herds and a sheepman shot near Sunbeam
In 1928 J. R. Munn recalled Tom Sparks's cattle on the Arbon and Crystal range, the Fleming sheep that crowded them, and the sheepman found shot near Sunbeam creek, a killing other papers place in 1894.
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Rosa Bishoff, who came from Switzerland to Pauline, dies at 59 — December 6, 1928
Rosa Bishoff, who came from Switzerland to Pauline, dies at 59
Rosa Bishoff, a Swiss immigrant of 1893 who raised her family at Pauline, died in Pocatello on December 6, 1928, at 59.
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Jerry Hatch packs the Arbon mail through the winter of 1928–29 — February 22, 1929
Jerry Hatch packs the Arbon mail through the winter of 1928–29
When snow closed the reservation road in the winter of 1928–29, carrier Jerry B. Hatch carried the Arbon mail on his back, and a Crystal woman rode the last miles home beside it on a mail horse.
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Survey crew runs down a sheep-killing bear at the head of Rattlesnake Creek — June 23, 1929
Survey crew runs down a sheep-killing bear at the head of Rattlesnake Creek
In June 1899 men from Surveyor Sonnenkalb's camp cornered a silver-tip blamed for hundreds of dead sheep in an aspen thicket at the head of Rattlesnake Creek and killed it with a borrowed gun and a six-shooter.
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A Pocatello man finds the Sphinx of Idaho in Arbon Valley — August 30, 1929
A Pocatello man finds the Sphinx of Idaho in Arbon Valley
From 1929 to 1934 Hyrum Kay of Pocatello kept writing the Tribune about a lone rock in Arbon Valley that showed the face of the Sphinx at sunset, a landmark he said valley settlers knew as the Old Man of the Valley.
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The 1930s

Elk in the haystacks, and a herd cut in half by poachers — October 6, 1930
Elk in the haystacks, and a herd cut in half by poachers
When Arbon Valley farmers complained that elk from the Pocatello game preserve were raiding their haystacks, two committees went to count the herd, found it shrinking rather than swelling, and advised against a hunt both times.
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