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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1920
Page
13
Local notes report baby chicks arriving, hay marketing, a Bisbee visitor, and a creamery meeting. Entries mention cattle shipments, blooded cows, road work, and clothing needs. Sports recount Nogales visit with St David teams winning boys 25 12 and girls 33 4.
Specialty Candy Making Co. employee Ed Morrison and his wife and baby relocate from Philadelphia to Kingville Texas for a government post believed to benefit the child's health. Grandparents remain in Philadelphia, awaiting updates.
A meeting of all chautauqua signers and interested individuals will be held at the Signal office on Tuesday night March 16 to organize forces and form committees. Organizers urge swift action to push the amount over the top and remind attendees of the date.
A Benson meeting of business men and farmers will discuss available cows to broaden the creamery and consider a Pacific Coast firm’s plan to build a condensed milk plant here. Letters have invited Pomerene St David Elgin Sonoita and distant communities with farmers expected to attend. The company seeks a daily milk guarantee on which it would install the new plant. All local businessmen are urged to attend.
Rev William Brown pastor offers Sunday School at ten, morning worship at eleven on The Transforming Power of Ruth, Y Y ol SS at 6 30 on Patience and Its Reward. Evening worship at 7 30 on Does it Matter What We Believe. Junior endeavor Wednesday at four, hearty welcome to all young people.
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Notarized December 6, 1886 in Toledo Ohio. Medicine taken internally, affects blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists. includes mention of Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Last Friday Mrs. Heber Davis hosted a social at her home with games and singing followed by cake. Charles Martineau of old Mexico visited family here and planned to return with his father and cousin Leo. Vera Martineau returned from Phoenix to his ranch and will milk twenty four cows and ship cream this summer. R L McCall traveled to Tucson and brought back two Holstein heifers. C E Jefferson moved his house to the ranch north side near the windmill.
A Moss Pharmacy advertisement touts Chamberlains Tablets as improving appetite and digestion, strengthening the stomach without pepsin or other digestive ferments, and aiding natural function.
Andrew Kimball surveys the 1902 and 1917 laws shaping surface water storage and flood control in Arizona. He cites $133 million spent, 1 78 million acres irrigated, and rising land values as proof of irrigation progress while warning of erosion and flood damage.
A state analyst warns that steady decline continues year after year pushing the region toward desertification. Mr Maxwell questions the outcome in the ongoing contest between desert pressures and human resilience.
Voters in the Benson school district will elect a successor to Judge C. L. Rucker on March 27 to fill the unexpired term of A. E. Brown. The election concerns the school board position.
J B Jones a Cubrun Kentucky druggist says Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been used in his family for seven years and is the best cough medicine he has known. Sold at Moss Pharmacy.
In the Superior Court of Cochise County the estate of Joseph LeDoux deceased is administered by Claude L. Rucker the administrator. Creditors must present their claims with vouchers within four months after first publication to Edward W. Land Benson Arizona at the administrator's designated office. First publication February 28 1920. Jersey Boar service offered at the ranch of C L Sherman Pomerene Arizona.
The excerpt argues no harm in cough remedies for children and favors Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as safe and effective. It notes long experience proving its suitability and that many mothers prefer it for treating coughs and colds.
The authorized organization by Congress raises funds for hundreds of thousands of sufferers in Asia Minor, primarily women and children, to address widespread starvation and humanitarian needs.
The notice urges readers who have not contributed to donate any amount of conscience to the Near East Relief. It directs giving at local banks or sending gifts directly to the state headquarters, labeling this as a final opportunity.
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