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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1919
Page
16
Local notes report visitors like C E Davis from Elgin and Mrs H A Scherrer from Johnson town. townsfolk attend the K P Hall show and Greek Egyptian dances by Mlle Circe Bolina. Bad roads are noted for the Benson to Vail stretch while gypsies are denied entry.
Mrs. Clay Fry of Ferguson Station Missouri praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for coughs colds and lung issues and notes quick relief. For sale house and lot on Fifth Street four rooms and bath with chicken house fenced yard price five hundred dollars cash Box 42
Rev. Wm. Brown leads Sunday School at 10 with Chas. C. Cash as superintendent and morning worship at 11 on the theme Wanted Encouragers. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p.m. with Truths That Jesus Taught. Evening worship at 7:30 on Launching Out Into the Deep. Junior Endeavorers Wednesday 4 p.m. Bible Study Thursday 7:30 p.m. Hearty invitation to all services.
Agents sought for Beason and vicinity with free School of Instruction. Prior experience unnecessary. Contact Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Co Accident and Health Department Saginaw Michigan. Capital 1 500 000.
For sale a confectionery and variety store offering root beer barrels curios nations and military goods and flowers handling. Good business. Two and a half year lease. Best location in Douglas next to Owl Drug Co inquire Maier Bros Benson or write P O Box 366 Douglas Arizona.
Pomerene residents prepare fields for barley as Barney plows his place and Porter builds a new house. Watermaster Sherman oversees a dam project after floods, while rains spur plowing and planting. University extension staff Demo hot lunches at the public school. Deputy Cosby travels to Tombstone. Judd moves to Jos E Scott house, Fenn to Bisbee for months. Merrill contracts twenty acres grubbed by Alvah Fenn. Johnson & Sons lease Etz farm again for small grain. Mrs. Sabin returns from Mesa after Fair week.
Advice urges moderate meals and thorough chewing with a five hour gap between meals. Take Chamberlain's Tablets after supper to improve dining comfort and enjoyment.
Governor Thomas E Campbell urges Arizona to support tuberculosis prevention through Red Cross Christmas Seals on December 5 6 and 7. He cites national and state efforts, calls for school and church participation, and notes the 1919 date and state seal at Phoenix Capitol.
These tablets are intended especially for indigestion and constipation. They tone up the stomach and enable it to perform its function naturally. They act gently on the liver and bowels, thereby restoring the stomach and bowels to a healthy condition. When you feel dull, stupid and constipated give them a trial. You are certain to be pleased with their effect.
A notice from C L Rucker J P announces a hearing before the Arizona Corporation Commission on W J Bennetts license to operate a Ford 5 passenger car in Benson Arizona. The hearing is at 3 p m on December 9 1919 at the Justice of the Peace office in Benson. Dated December 6 1919. Also included is an unrelated 1886 Hall’s Catarrh Medicine testimonial from Frank J Cheney.
United States Land Office at Phoenix Arizona publishes notice that Frances Johnson widow of Quill Johnson of Pearsall Texas filed intent to make five year proof on land in sections 36 1 36 14 S 21 W G & S R B M. Proof to be taken December 27 1919 before U S Commissioner L V McCourt at Willcox Arizona. Witnesses Hiram L Johnson James B Cook Robert L Hayden George L Mee all residents of Willcox Arizona. J L Irvin Register. First pub November 22
Silas W. Kiper of Benson Arizona filed notice of intention to make three year proof on the land described in Homestead Entry No. 030922. The proceeding will be before Edward W. Lind U S Commissioner at Benson December 27 1919. Witnesses include Joseph K Young Marcus F Pacheco Francisco Bernal and Robert H Crump, all of Benson. First pub. Nov. 22.
Notice is given that William L Patterson of Benson Arizona who on February 10 1916 made Homestead Entry No 029415 for 8 5 8 NW SW NEM NWSW Section 29 Township 16 S Range 20 E G S R B Meridian has filed notice of intention to make three year proof to establish claim before Edward W Land US Commissioner at Benson Arizona on the 16th Claimant names as witnesses Claude L Rucker James Roberts Joseph Young and William F Harsh all of Benson Arizona John Irvin Register First pub November 15
Henry Caplan of Box 371 Bisbee Arizona files intention to prove up Homestead Entry No 033890 for Lots 3 and 4 and more in Sections 24 and 25 Township 178 Range 18 G S R B and Meridian before U S Commissioner Edward W Land in Benson on December 16 1919. Witnesses named Floyd L Dalton William E Williams Nathan Loughborough and John W Harmon all residents of Benson. La IRVIN Register.
Notice announces a special meeting of stockholders at the Benson Signal office in Benson Arizona on December 12 1919 at 8 o clock p m. I B Stone secretary.
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