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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1916
Page
4
Public notice from Benson Arizona announcing second class matter status for the publication dated May 12 1906 and a yearly subscription price of two dollars.
Elder C E Gillett to preach at Methodist Church at 11 tomorrow. Nashville Students engagement cancelled. Grand Baile de Indiana calico dance set for April 29 at the Auditorium with Spanish dishes. tickets 1.50, ladies free. Various local updates include mining in Johnson district travel, clean-up and paint-up campaign, well drilled at Morrison place, and educational notes at the Grammar School.
A 1916 notice urges children under 18 to build fly traps and catch flies from May 22 to June 7 with a $5 prize for the top catcher. Adults are invited to join the campaign as well.
Notice says a Republican mass meeting will be held Tuesday evening April 25 at 8 o clock at Fairlee Jensen's old pool hall Benson to select delegates for the county convention in Douglas on April 29.
Notice urges cleaning premises and proper outhouse conditions to prevent disease under state health laws. Also advertises a second hand irrigation pumping plant for sale suitable for forty acres plus a wanted ad for saddles bridles spurs Dutch ovens and all size tents at Gem Second Hand Store.
Roy Harman son of Jas N Harman and Miss Eva Kelley of St David wed at the bride’s mother Mrs C O Christianson home at 2 o clock Thursday. Bishop William Goodman officiated and a dinner followed for the bridal party and friends. The groom works for a mining company in the Johuson district where they will live.
A column mixes an old car lament from Auto Bulletin with Tombstone optimism noting jobless relief and bustling business. It includes classified ad blurbs seeking energetic workers, baby buggies, and rags metals gems plus a secondhand store invitation and a gas oil ad from C. F. Moss.
A San Simon woman, Mrs. R B Cornett, announces the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Edgar Allen formerly Eula Cornett. Mrs Allen, 19, lives in Miami with a mining husband. Mrs Cornett becomes a grandmother at 38, a distinction noted by Benson residents familiar with local families. Wanted copper lead brass watches repaired and keys fitted gem second hand.
Public notice of a sale by auction on June 10, 1916 at 10 a m in Tombstone Arizona for all of section 16 township 16 south range 22 east totaling 640 acres with improvements claimed by David A Adams appraised at 758 19 and land 1920 rental arrears to be settled per the Public Land Code full information available from the State Land Department Phoenix Arizona first publication March 25 1916 last publication June 3 1916
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