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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1917
Page
8
Mrs A E Edwards of San Simon and Mrs Reed Merrill of Safford visit town while E L Jones Jr of the U S Geological Survey arrives. Various locals attend to business, roads repaired, new teacher arrives, and a junior Red Cross unit in uniforms amid town chatter.
Governor Campbell issues a proclamation urging citizens to observe three mobilization days for the First Army draft under the Selective Service Act. The order calls for 30 percent mobilizations on September 5, 19, and October 3 at county seats or designated centers. The proclamation honors young men and prays for victory and safe return.
M Mejia operates a Fifth Street shop with a good stock of shoes and a seasonable line of goods offered at cheap prices. Call for deals.
W D Martinez announces a large consignment of crockery and delftware arriving at the store. Items include cups and saucers, dinner and tea plates, pitchers, bowls, and serving pieces plus graniteware such as pans and kettles. Prices are advertised at about half value.
Government seeks farmers and settlers as two million three hundred thousand acres of Oregon & California Railroad Co. Grant Lands are revested in the United States. The lands will be opened for homesteads and sale, with a large map and descriptions of soil climate rainfall elevations and temperature. Postpaid one dollar. Grant Lands Locating Co Portland Oregon.
M. P. Cosby, special correspondent, assists the Council of Defense in surveying the Pomerene district and aims to finish this week. Coons Brothers construct a large pit silo with capacity to feed twenty milk cows for 250 days.
The Pomerene School house is getting a fresh coat of paint. Families keep Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy at home for convenience and relief. Moss Pharmacy sells it. Miss Della Judd visits Douglas relatives. School starts in a week. M P Gosby finished a barn Monday. Perry Tryon, drafted from Pomerene, passed its exam and may be exempt. George Scott returns from Tombstone after service. Farmers prepare third alfalfa crop. Watermaster Luther Statler deploys crews to complete canal water. Mr. S J Johnson at Patagonia has seven family members with typhoid. mother helps nurse them.
J L Irvin, register, appears for first publication on August 25, 1017 as recorded by the office. This notice marks the initial filing in the public registry for the named individual.
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