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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1920
Page
5
Local items report baby chicks arriving in St David and a surge in creamery activity. Mentions include M P Cosby marketing hay, new blooded cows, road work overseen by E H Tiller, and a Nogales trip where St David teams triumphed 25 12 for boys and 33 4 for girls.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Morrison and their baby left Philadelphia to settle in Kingville Texas where Ed will hold a government job. The move is advised for the child's health and leaves the grandparents lonely.
A meeting of all chautauqua signers and interested parties is set at the Signal office next Tuesday night March 16. The goal is to organize forces and form committees to push the campaign over the top. Time is short and organizers urge attendance.
A Benson meeting of businessmen and farmers discusses securing more cows to broaden the creamery and considers a Pacific Coast firm’s plan to build a condensed milk plant. Letters reach Pomerene St David Elgin Sonoita and surrounding areas as farmers from all seek attendance and a daily milk guarantee.
Rev William Brown pastor Sunday School at ten o'clock classes for all ages Chas C Cash Superintendent Morning worship at eleven o'clock subject The Transforming Power of Ruth SS at six thirty topic Patience and Its Reward Hearty welcome to all young people Evening worship at seven thirty subject Does it Matter What We Believe Junior endeavor on Wednesday at four o'clock
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. pledges to pay one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. The firm says the medicine is taken internally and works through the blood to mucous surfaces. Notices testimonials and Toledo sales details.
Last Friday Mrs. Heber Davis hosted a gathering of young people with games, singing, cake, and concon. Charles Martineau from old Mexico visited with family and plans to return with his father and cousin Leo. Vera Martineau has returned to the ranch after time in Phoenix and plans to milk 24 cows and ship cream. R L McCall traveled to Tucson and back with two Holstein heifers. C E Jefferson moved his house to the north side of his ranch near his windmill.
Advertisement notes that Chamberlain’s Tablets aid digestion and appetite, move the bowel, strengthen the stomach, and improve natural function, without pepsin or other digestive ferments, at Moss Pharmacy.
Andrew Kimball surveys 1902 1917 laws and Arizona gains in surface storage gravity irrigation and forest conservation. He notes government spending 133 million and irrigation on 1 780 000 acres with Crops valued at 66 821 396 in 1918 and outlines proposed federal funds 250 million to advance reservoirs and projects including Roosevelt and other ventures boosting acreages and land values.
A speaker argues the state steadily loses ground year by year, sliding toward a desert future. Mr Maxwell frames the issue as a stark choice in the great contest: the Desert or Man.
There will be an election in the Benson school district on March 27 to elect a successor to Judge C. L. Rucker who was appointed to fill the unexpired term of A. E. Brown.
A Kentucky druggist J B Jones from Cubrun says he and his family have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for seven years and consider it the best cough medicine. The Moss Pharmacy sells it.
In the Superior Court of Cochise County the estate of Joseph LeDoux deceased is administered by Claude L. Rucker. Creditors must present claims with vouchers within four months after first publication to the administrator at Edward W. Land's office Fourth Street Benson Arizona. First published February 28 1920. Jersey Boar service at ranch of C L Sherman Pomerene Arizona contact Dallas Sherman Pomerene Arizona.
Parents are urged to choose a safe effective cough remedy for kids. The text extols Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as pleasant to take and free of harmful drugs, citing long experience and wide favor among mothers.
A Congress authorized group mobilizes funds for hundreds of thousands of famine victims in Asia Minor, focusing on women and children. The appeal emphasizes urgent relief efforts and coordinated fundraising across regional chapters.
Appeal urges readers to donate to the Near East Relief, directing funds to local banks or sent directly to the state headquarters as a final opportunity to support the effort.
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