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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1917
Page
8
Mescal resident Jack Marks visits town as Mrs L Evy Weigand recovers. Alii Primi Club meets with President Wilson at the White House. Benson officials hire Walter S Gray as principal amid staff changes. Local business, church services, and visits from Doug las and Tombstone are chronicled with plans for travel and transfers.
Prof Seborn Johnson from California will lead Pomerene school next year with Grace Rogers as an assistant teacher. A second assistant remains to be selected while local reception for teachers was held Friday. Wallace Curtis expects the Benson canal siphon to finish soon as harvest nears.
A fragmented list of dishes and rough mentions of food terms appears as a historic dining guide. The items include biscuits whipped cream deviled eggs pulled taffy berries paddled butter sliced tomatoes smothered chicken panned oysters roasted beef pounded steak and mashed potatoes.
Fragmentary OCR notes list violent actions and social slights against various targets. The phrases imply rough behavior, confrontations, and disruptive acts without coherent narrative or identified people or places. The text reads as garbled bulletin items from a past newspaper page.
The church holds services each Sunday with Sunday school at 10 00 and preaching service at 8 p m Pastor James E Ferris invites all. Mr and Mrs Benjamin Caballero welcomed a baby girl on May 10 mother and child are reported doing well.
For sale tomato plants cabbage and sweet potato plants priced at 75 cents per hundred. J A Gunn G C Woods Farm located across tracks.
Reliable farmers will receive free land and water under the Benson canal project with the promise of an entire crop for their labor, as stated by H. P. Merrill.
A list of homemade fly control tips using lavender oil spray and water in a glass atomizer, scented plants like geranium and honeysuckle noted as repellent, blue room decor said to deter flies, a sugar pepper cream poison mix, and smoke or powder methods for clearing homes of flies. A postscript mentions a Texas cattleman seeking police help to locate his wife by a distinctive initial mark on her leg.
J. J. Ward and Buford Ward travel from Benson to Tucson where they have stayed since selling the Whetstone ranch to L. H. Brooks a few months back. Ward just returned from a San Antonio trip where he discussed on farm land. He notes about thirty German families near San Antonio seek land in Arizona. The new wage law for women takes effect June 8 after the legislature adjourns, yet Mountain States Telephone pays its women operators weekly starting May first, claiming no raises are needed to meet the statute.
The Benson Lumber and Commercial Company offers a twenty dollar prize to the farmer who receives the second largest amount of money for tomatoes from the Benson Canning and Packing Company during the packing season. Tomatoes must be raised on the contestant's own place.
Arizona state lands including 40 acres and Benson block 42 with improvements and water rights will be sold at public auction in Tombstone on June 22, 1917 at 10 a.m. The appraised value is 500 dollars and bids below that are not considered. state officials reserve the right to reject all bids.
Notice states from May 1 through October 1 the yard and store close at 1 PM on Saturdays.
Notice is hereby given Herman Hildebrandt of Benson Arizona filed intent to make Final Three Year Proof to establish his homestead claim on land described as SW Sec 5 SEM Sec 6 Township 178 Range 19 E G and S R B Mer before H G Brown U S Commissioner Benson Arizona on June 1 1917 Witnesses include Mrs B L Eperl and John C Puthick W J Marks and J E Reed of Mescal Arizona First Publication April 7 1917
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