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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1917
Page
16
Local items list visits and arrivals in Benson and nearby towns. Names include Jack Marks Mescal Mrs L Evy Weigand Grace Rogers Hi Wo and Rev T J Hedges. Activities span church services, school appointments, theater crowds, banking notes, and a sheriff training camp plan in San Francisco.
Prof. Seborn Johnson of California will lead Pomerene School next year with Grace Rogers as assistant teacher. One position remains to be filled. Wallace Curtis aims to finish the Benson canal siphon by week’s end while A H Scott returns from work with the telephone company. Farmers prepare harvest gear as Jack Proffitt visits. Parley Barney returns to Thatcher after a week here. A school teachers’ reception was held Friday evening. Mrs. Tompkinson’s young son has pneumonia with Dr Morrison tending him. Water in the canal remains strong.
A quirky list appears describing battered biscuits whipped cream deviled eggs and a variety of misused foods alongside smothered chicken panned oysters roasted beef and mashed potatoes. The piece reads like a humorous culinary catalog or verse.
A list of abrupt, possibly verbatim phrases depicts violent and disorderly conduct. The items reference killing time roasting a friend hanging a picture ripping out an oath jumping on to an offender choking off a phonograph knocking a public man smashing a record hitting the high places mashing a young woman breaking into a dance cutting an acquaintance.
The church invites all to Sunday services and Sunday school at 10 00 with evening preaching at 8 00 led by Pastor James E Ferris. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Benjamin Caballero on May 10. Mother and child are doing well.
Tomatoes early cabbage and sweet potato plants for sale at 75c per hundred. J A Gunn G C Woods Farm across tracks items offered to customers in a small farm advertising notice.
H. P. Merrill announces that free land and water under the Benson canal will be furnished to reliable farmers, with access to the entire crop. This offer aims to attract settlers and promote agricultural development in the region.
A wartime style home remedy describes using lavender oil diluted with water in a glass spray to deter flies, with scents such as geranium mignonette heliotrope and white clover noted as offensive to flies. It also suggests blue rooms and a brown sugar cream mix as further deterrents and mentions poison in a saucer and fume powders for rapid relief. A separate anecdote involves a Texas cattleman asking police to locate his wife, who bears a G tattoo on her left leg.
J. J. Ward and Buford Ward stay in Tucson after selling Whetstone ranch to L. H. Brooks. Ward notes many German families near San Antonio plan to settle in Arizona. The new minimum wage law for women begins June 8. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph pays women operators weekly from May 1, asserting no wage increases are needed to meet the law.
The Benson Lumber and Commercial Company offers a twenty dollar prize to the farmer who earns the second highest amount of money from the Benson Canning and Packing Company for tomatoes, raised on the contestant's own place, during the packing season.
Arizona Governor Thomas E Campbell and state officials announce a public auction June 22 1917 at the Cochise County courthouse Tombstone for 40 acres of state land plus fractional Benson block 42 with buildings water rights and improvements. Appraised at 500 the sale requires cash bids no lower. Bids may be rejected at the state’s discretion with description corrected in deed.
Notice states from May 1 through October 1 the yard and store will close at one o’clock on Saturdays. Benson Lumber & Co.
Notice to establish claim to a homestead in Benson Arizona. Herman Hildebrandt filed intent to prove final three year proof for land described as SW Sec 5 SEM Sec 6 Township 178 Range 19 East G and S R B Mer. Before U S Commissioner H G Brown on June 1 1917 witnesses B L Eperl John C Puth ick W J Marks J E Reed Mescal Arizona. J L Irvin Register.
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