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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1916
Page
9
Last Monday night residents met at the High School for a community Christmas tree. Prof. H Q Robertson was elected chairman, Miss Myrtle Snyder secretary, and a seven member executive committee was created. Committees include Donation, Decoration, Investigating, and Program with named local leaders.
From Medford Massachusetts a family of six led by Mrs. M Johnson arrives to meet husband and father Mr Johnson a government truck driver in Nogales who will later homestead near Sonoita. The group departs by afternoon train. A charity sale follows next Thursday at the Gerwein building with aprons fancy work home cooked foods and a tea.
The Benson High Jitney Carnival on December 16 promises laughs and street parade at 1 30 followed by doors opening at 2 30 on Fifth and Huachuca. Ethel Gribble and Baudilio Martinez earned Underwood Typewriter certificates for forty words per minute for ten minutes.
A party of twenty eight Eastern capitalists arrived in two special cars after taking control of the Magnate copper mine in the Twin Buttes district near Tucson. E I Chapman and Arthur S Noble will represent the group in major Arizona mining deals. They anticipate acquisitions at New Cornelia Extension Ajo and plan heavy financing and churn drilling to expand operations amid rising copper prospects in Pima and Pinall counties.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Presbyterian church met at Mrs. Clifton Egerton's home on Friday afternoon December 1. Semi annual election results: Doane Merrill elected president H W Etz vice president H P Merrill re elected secretary H G Brown re elected treasurer. One new member welcomed. The moving picture show will soon be ready to begin operation.
S P railroad officials urge heavier loading to relieve car shortages as traffic soars. W Mr J W Mc Clyonds of the Pacific Fruit Express Co says maximizing car capacity can make four cars do the work of five. A huge demand on all lines worsens the shortage. Big load mesquite pole wood $5.00. Apply at Signal office.
A circulating library with 150 popular fiction volumes is established in Benson by F W Crew representing a Los Angeles library association. Murry's Variety Store houses the books. memberships near the 40 cap are filling fast at the pharmacy. Governor Hunt proclaims the new prohibition law in effect.
Campbell leads Hunt by thirty votes in the official tally. Hunt files a protest in maricopa county superior court and may leave Arizona without a governor or with an acting one if unresolved by the January first deadline. Several amendments pass and fail with detailed counts.
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