The Benson Signal from Benson, Arizona • 8

LOCAL ITEMS J. W. Harman the drilled who drilled the well at Miremonte for McCall, is now drilling for D. C. Neagle.

He is down 240 ft. and thinks he will strike water within the next 30 or 4o ft. E. J. Anderson, of Tucson District Manager of the Mountain State Telephone Co.

was here Wednesday on a tour of inspection accompanied by his wife and neice. G. C. Wood, the dairy man of Tucson formerly of Benson past through town Thursday enroute to St David to visit his parents Mr. and Mrs.

W. H. Wood. Mrs J. A.

Gumm has Just received 800 fruit trees which she is planting on her north of the R. R. tracks. She also has the finest in this part of the State. Deputy Sherriff Harry Raferty passed through Benson Wednesday with a number of prisoners for Elorence, among them was Joe Valencia convicted of the murder of Frank McCullough of this place.

A party of tourists passed through Benson Tuesday enroute from lowa to California, questioned regarding road conditions they said that the roads in Arizona were the best they had encounted on their entire trip. Mrs. Ray C. Blabon, of Patagonia, formerly Miss Hilda Trask, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. L.

Blacklidge, and grandmother, Mrs. L- F. Trask here. Her friends in her Old home town are glad to see her back if only for a short stay. On or about the 29th of this fiionth Cochise County will send thirty-two men to Camp Funston, who will make up the full quota of the original draft Benson has two representatives in the list, Vicente Manzo and Wm.

R. Ohnesorgen. J. A. Rockfellow has resigned as cashier of the First National Bank effective April 1, 1918, and will resume his civil engineering work.

He will be succeeded by Harry E. Almy who assisted Mr. Rockfellow during Dtcember and January. Mr.Rockfellow will remain on the board of Prospector. First Presbyterian Church Sunday School at 10 Morning worship at 11 Subject Hymns- 48, 556, 193, 568.

Evening Worship at 7. 30 Subject Armies of God and the Armies of Hymns- 392, 354, 692. Bible Study Hour Wednesday at The school mates of Victorio Wo, of the eight grade of the grammar school, gave her a very pleasant surprise party at her home Wednesday night. There were refreshments and every one had a good time Those present beside the family were: Elmerita Gumni Lena Jones Elizabeth Schwab Caroline Schwab Hortensea Diaz Anna Schmidt Former Governer Thos. E.

Campbell stopped over in town for a short time He came down from willcox and was enroute to Bisbee to attend a public meeting. First-class boot and shoe repairing promptly done at Benson Saddle and Harness Shop. Moderate prices. Despondency Due to Constipation Women often become nervous and despondent. When this is due to constipation it is easily corrected by taking an occasional dose of Tablets.

These tablets are easy to take and pleasant in effect. Batteries charged and repaired by an expert battery man. Leave your run-down batteries at the Short Line Motor Co- For 4o acres close to town, flowing well, half cash balance easy terms. Inquire ignal Office. Kodak films developed.

We take special care to get the best pictures obtainable from your films Leave orders at Signal office. Dragoon News (ay SDftcial Correspondent) Miss Margaret Reilly who has spent the winter with friends here, has returned to her home in Boulder, Colorado. Mrs. T. G.

Emmons and two daughters who have been visiting the parents of the former, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sherrer, have returned to their home at Pearce. Mrs.

A. F. Peake has gone to Santa Rita N. M. where she will spend some time with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr.

and Mrs. L. F. Walker. Mr.

and Mrs. W. J. Trousdale ane Mr. and Mrs.

Taylor of Lyons Kansas, also Mr W. W. Milller of Newton Kansas are spending a couple of weeks at Keystone mine, being the guests of Mr. and Mrs. U.

R. Miller. The Red Cross is meeting every Saturdav afternoon in the office of the copper Chief Mine at Johnson, and quite a lot of work is being accomplished for the Society. Mr. Harry Bronson accompanied by Mr.

and Mrs. J. P. Richardson spent last Tuesday in Tombstone where he passed a rigid examination for citizenship in U. S.

Mr. Bronson has now received his final papers and is a citizen of our country, whidh has been his home for a number of years. Rev. A. J.

Benedict of Tombstone was with us again last Sunday and conducted services in the school house in the afternoon. Mr. Benedict is now the owner of a Ford Automobile and axpects to fill his appointment here regularly on the third Sunday of each month. 1 The interest that fLas been expressed in the numerous high schools of the state in the contests to be held at Tucson during Un: iversitv week, April 15 to 20th makes this gala event promise to be the largest ever held in the state. From all over the state came report of the training of their baseball teams, tlieir orators, their sicians, as well as those who are to show their skill in algebra, chemistry, home economics, physics, livestock judging, and other educational subjects.

-J. Fred McKale, director of ath, letics of the University is a busy man making plans for the proper care of the visitors. Harold Gribble has made the tour of the eastern centers and returnes after an absence of about two months, having visited New York, Washington, Baltimore anc other towns on the Atlantic seaboard He says the Weather in the east while he was there was ext tremely cold and disagreeable, snow, blizzards and zero weathy predominating. He can now thor- oughly appreciate superb winter climate. BENSON THEATER A Mixed Play UNIVERSAL FEATURE TUESDAY Red A SERIAL NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR United States Land Office at Phoenix, Arizona, March 16, 1918, Notice is hereby given that KtsDDerly C.

Me Cutchaa of Benson, Arizona, who, on Jan. 22, 1914, made Homestead Entry 0.024211 for SEK, and on Nay 9, 1916 made additional Home stead Entry No. 030185, for WHSEJ4, Lots 1 and 2, Section 31, Township 14S. Range 19 Gila and Salt River has tiled notice of intention to make Three Year Proof, to establish claim to the land above described, bel fore H. G.Brown, U.

S. Commissioner, at Hen! son, Arizona, on the 23, day of April 1918. Claimant names as witnesses: J. K. Barney, I O.

O. Barney. B. F. Barney and J.

It, liieber all of Benson, Arizona. J. L. IRVIN, Register First pub. March 23rd 1918 A school election for trustees of district no 9 will be held the last Saturday of this month.

Any one having clean, old white! cotton or linen cloth, please leave at store. It is wanted bady for wrapping surgical dressings. NOTICE OF CONTEST i DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR United States Land Office at Phoenix, Arizona February 21, 1918. To Simon Benson Arizona, Contestee: You are hereby notified that William Hunt, who gives Benson, Arizona, as his postoffice address, did gn January 9, 1918, file in this office his duly corroborated application to contest and secure the cancellation of your Homestead Entry, Serial No. 020948, made January 27,1913.

for of Section 10, Township 17,5. Range 19 G. S. R. Meridian, and as grounds for his contest he alleges that you have deserted said land never having complied with the law as to residence or cultivation.

That you are not now and never have been in the military or naval service of the U. S. That you are not now a member of any state malitia. You are, therefore, further notified that the said allegations will be taken as confessed, and your said entry will be cancelled without further right to be heard, either before this office or on appeal, if. you to file in this office within twenty days after the FOURTH publication of this notice, as shown below, your swer, under oath, specifically responding to these allegations of contest, together with due proof that you have served a copy of your answer on the said contestant either in person or by registered mail.

You should state in your answer name of the postofflee to which you desire future notices to be sent to you. J. L. IRVIN, Register. JOHN J.

BIRDNO, Receiver. Date of first pub. March 2, 1918. Date of second pub. March, 9, 1918.

Date of third pub. March, 16, 1918. Date of fourth pub. March 23.1918 NOTICE OF CONTEST Serial 0.024170. Contest No, 4197.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, United States Land Office Phoenix, Arizona, Eebruary 19, 1918. To George Wilson, of St David Contestee: ou are hereby notified that Henry Valenzuela, who gives Benson Arizona, as his postoffice address, did on February loth, i9lB, tile in this office his duly corroborated application to contest and secure the concellation of your Homestead Entry, Serial No. 024170 made January 30,1914, for the Northeast Quarter of Section 23, Township 17 Range 19 A R. Meridian, and as ground for his contest he alleges that you have wholly abandoned the above described land for more than six months last past, and that such abandonment is not due to employment in the military or naval organizations of the United States or the national guard of any of the several states. You are, therefore, further notified that the said allegations will be taken as confessed, and your said entry will be cancelled without further right to be beard, either before this office or on appeal, if you fail to file in this office within twenty days after the FOURTH publication of this notice, as shown below, your answer, under oath, specifically responding tb i these allegations of contest, together with" due proof that you have served a copy of your an' swer on the said contestant either in person or by registered mail.

You should state in your answer tfie nami of the postofflee to which you desire future notices to be sent to you. J. IRVIN, Register. JOHN J. BIRDNO, Receiver.

Date of first pub. March 2, 1918. 1 Date of second pub. March, 9,1918. Date of third pub.

March, 16, 1918. Date of foui th pub. 1918. NOTICE OF CONTEST Contest 0.4198. Serial No.

021202. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR United States Land Office at Phoenix, Arizona February 19, 1918. i To William L. Sims, of Phoenix Arizona, Contestee: you are hereby notified that Hemry zuela who Gives Benson, Arizona, as his postoffice address, did on February 15th, 1918, file in this office his duly corroborated application to contest and secure the cancellation of your Homestead Serial No. 021202 made Feb.

10th, 1913, for Sec. 26; NW 4 Sec, 25, Township 17 Range 19 G. R. Meridian, and as grounds for his contest he alleges that you have wholly abandoned the above described land for more than six months last and that you have failed to offer final proof within the time allowed by the homestead law, and that your absence is not due tojservice in an military or naval organ' ization of the United States or the national guard of any of the several states. You are, therefore, further notified that the said allegations will be taken as confessed, and your said entry will be canceled without further rigt to be heard, either before this office or on appeal, if you fail to file in this office within twenty days after the FOURTH publication of this notice, as shown below, your answer, under oath, specifically responding to these allegations of contest, together with due proof that you have served a copy of your answer on the said contestant either in person or by registered mail.

Y'ou should state in your answer the name of the post office to which you desire future notices to be sent you. J. L. IRVIN Register. JOHNJ.

BIRDNO Receiver Date of first pub. March 2, 1918. Date of second pub. March 9,1918. Date of third pub.

March 16, 1918. Date so fourth pub. March 23,1918. Newspapers Trom Distant Oddities of the Foreign Press The Chamberlain Medicine Company, Des Moines, lowa, manufacturers of Cough Remedy, advertise not only in this country but in foreign lands. A copy of each issue of every newspaper containing their advertisements is sent to the office of the Chamberlain Medicine Company as a proof of the insertion of the advertisement.

Some of the papers bear names of places, which require one to recall forgotten geography or refer to the atlas to locate. Some of them are particularly curious as they are published in the vernacular or native languages which might be likened to the carefully written notes of ashorthand writer. Here are the well known Chinese characters arranged in vertical lines reading from top to bottom, the Ikies arranged from right to left. The Burmese language, as printed is composed principally of a combination of circles. Some one wittily suggested that for this reason circulars would be properly printed in this language.

Cingalese, the language of Ceylon, is also curvilinear. Japanese and Siamese are composed largely of vertical lines connected by loops at either top or bottom but rarely at both. The four hundred million people of India have nearly fifty different dialects or vernaculars. The Chamberlain Medicine Company advertises in ten of the principal ones as follows: Bengali, Gujurathi, Hindi, Kanarese, Malayailam, Marathi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telegu and Urdu. The Sindhi and Urdu are written from right to left in the Hebrew fashion.

The Urdu is a sort of script and is so chaotic in shape that It is impossible to reduce it to the movable type form. Papers printed in the Urdu language are therefore first written out by hand and a plate made by the lithograph process. The a sixteen page daily published at Lucknow in this language, claims a circulation of about 5,000. It is said that in order to handle this circulation it requires an office force Os about 200. Fortunately for the managers, the wages paid to natives are only a few cents a day.

The Chamberlain Medicine Company advertises in newspapers print ed in thirty-two languages. Besides the vernaculars and the well known European languages, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, German, the list embraces a number of languages which until comparatively recent times possessed no alphabet but for which the Roman alphabet has been adopted. There is also a modern I form of the Malay language using Roman characters, known as Romanized Malay. This As used in Java and the East Indies. It is difficult to coceive how the readers of some of the papers manage to handle them.

Imagine a man on a crowded street car trying to read a paper whose pages are thirty-eight inches long and twenty-nine inches wide. This is the size of the a Bengali weekly published in Calcutta, India. To an American newspaper man it is interesting to note the manner in which the colonial English newspapers are made up. They still cling to the methods which were I practiced in this country fifty years ago, the advertisements being upon the first few pages, followed gener-1 ally by the heavy editorial, then a few meager cable and telegraphic items, afterward the local news. The local news consisted principally of the proceedings of the legislative bodies, town council, school board, etc.

Contributions by the readers are numerous and lengthy. The editorials are generally of a more dignified and serious nature than American productions. The daily papers devote more space to book reviews and detailed reports of scientific progress than American newspapers do. Humor is not so noticeable and cartoons are used more rarely than with us. Very few, if any, of the colonial papers issue a but they supply this omission by devoting a large proportion of every issue to the sporting news.

Wiith few exceptions the advertising pages would give our writers the nightmare. They seem to have little conception of the value of space or of attractive methods of presenting either the text or the illustrations. A pleasing relief to this monotony is afforded by the of American advertisers which are rather numerous on their pages. For information regarding the 640 acre homestead law write to HAMPTON ARNOLD, Land Attorneys, Phoenix, Arizona. T.

H. DENNEY Gem Second-Hand Furniture Store GOODS BOUGHT AND SOLD WHAT HAVE YOU TO SELL? WHAT DO YOU WISH TO BUY? SEE DENNEY FIRST NEXT DOOR TO MOS GARAGE ARIZONA H.N. ETZ 6 CO. Cold Storage Meat Market Fresh and Salted Meats, Wholesale and Retail Fresh Fish and Oysters in Season PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ORDERS Benson Theater Two Shows a week First Class Pictures Tuesday and Saturday Show Starts at 8 00 m. Admission 15c-25c MANUEL MEJIA i Retailer I FIFTH ARIZ.

(ONE BLOCK EAST OF CATAOLIC CHURCH) I guarantee that your dollars are worth more here than at any other place in town. Benson Drug Store H. WALKER, Proprietor I it PATENT MEDICINES AND TOILET ARTICLES Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Jtii HI WO 00. Dealers In General Merchandise Quick Sales and Small Profits BENSON ARIZONA seasonable goods Staple and fancy Groceries, Canned Goods, Notions, Etc. FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES W.

D. MARTINEZ.