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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1917
Page
8
Town this week hosts a steady stream of visitors from Willcox Tombstone Tucson Mescal Dragoon and California. Red Cross material is exhausted and more is being sent. Local officials and merchants plan meetings and trips to El Paso Tucson and Deming as mining shipments impress.
Agricultural tips list mustard Chinese and other vegetables with planting times, onion and pea varieties, potato care, and radish depths. Local residents and town news follow, including travel, job moves, theater changes, Red Cross fundraisers, a pioneers day in St David, and a request for sewing shears in the Red Cross workroom.
At a June 23 1917 special stockholders meeting in Benson Arizona more than three quarters of issued capital stock represented approved amendments to the Bank of Benson Articles of Incorporation. The bank will be renamed Cochise County State Bank with principal business in Tombstone Arizona and a Benson branch. The charter broadens activities to banking trusts real estate and securities offerings and related financial services.
A 1917 amendment filed in Arizona notes the Bank of Benson changing its name to Cochise County State Bank. Notary J B Castleman certified both officers, A G Smith and M W Smith, on June 26 1917. The Arizona Corporation Commission recorded the amendment July 5 1917 with Ray Krebs County Recorder noting the filing in Book 7. First publication July 14 1917.
Notable notices list Notary Public services and houses for rent. Mrs. Mary F. Titus appears in the public directory line among local names and real estate references.
Two million three hundred thousand acres of Oregon and California Railroad Co grant lands revested in United States to be opened for homesteads and sale. Contains some of the best land left in the United States with a large copyrighted map showing land by sections and soil, climate, rainfall, elevations, and temperature. Grant Lands Locating Co., Portland, Oregon.
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