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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1917
Page
8
Local items cover Red Cross meeting on Wednesday at the Auditorium and a dance planned for the following Saturday May 26. Cattleman Carlos Soza visits from the river town. Elisha Summers serves as a juror in Tucson court. C E Shepherd becomes Benson night watchman starting May 16.
A rifle shoot for the National Rifle Association medal is planned tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock on the range near the High School grounds. Thirty shots will be fired in three stages at 200 300 and 500 yards. ten participants are required. ammunition is provided by the club.
The eight month term of Tres Alamos School District No. 82 ended Friday May 11. Under teacher Wm Hunter a program including songs recitations and a play delighted trustees patrons and visitors. A post program meeting discussed building a new schoolhouse and funding.
Services every Sunday with Sunday school at 10 00 and preaching at 8 p m Pastor James E Ferris invites all. For sale tomatoes early cabbage and sweet potato plants at 75c per hundred J A Gumm G C Woods Farm across tracks Free land and water under Benson canal will be furnished to reliable farmers and give them entire crop H P Merrill
Public notice states the state will auction 40 acres of land near Benson including Block 42 and improvements, water rights, and the former State Industrial School site. Bids must meet minimum $500, bids may be rejected, and sale occurs June 22, 1917 at Cochise County Courthouse Tombstone. State officials Campbell Jones Moucher oversee the sale.
The senior class invites the public to a baccalaureate sermon Sunday at eight by Rev. J. E. Ferris. Commencement exercises will be on the High School lawn Friday the 25th, with Dr. Blome of Flagstaff Normal giving the address. Final exams follow next week Monday to Wednesday.
List of unclaimed letters on hand for the week ending May 14 1917 including Buenill Wm Gustos Euebio Cabral Maximamo Hatfield Ella Estes G W Peeler Leonard Williams Leon Persons. A one cent charge for each unclaimed piece applies as required by Section 630 Postal Laws and Regulations. Postmaster L R Redfield signs the notice.
Washington experts at the government bureau of standards announce a new process for making optical glass used in field glasses range-finders and periscopes. Secretary Redfield calls the discovery essential to the military service and notes two and a half years of research.
The Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company through Land Commissioner Howel Jones filed in this office an application Serial No 034400 to select lands under the 1904 Act. Lands described are portions of Sections 21 22 23 and 24 in Township 17 South Range 22 East Gila and Salt River Meridian Arizona. Adverse claimants or those objecting to the mineral character must file affidavits of protest by June 28 1917.
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