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The Benson signal., 1917-08-04
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section with an abundance of pre-
cipitation. The country is now at
its best, clad in its garb of green,
the prospects of a crop are good,
and every one is in happy mood,
and busy.
Mrs. G.. S. Bryant is again at
home after an extended visit with
her parents in Idaho.
Mrs. Herbert Turner entertained
the members of the Ladies Pioneer
Club at her home on Friday.
A combination birthday social
was held at the School House on
Saturday evening and was we'll at
tended by the local community.
Fourteen of the neighbors had
birthdays in their respective fami-
lies during the past week.
The regular entertainment of the
Country Club will be held at the
County Fair pavilion this month,
instead of at Fruit1and Hall, on
Saturday, the 4th. 1t will partake
of the nature of a dance, the pro
ceeds from which will be donated
to the Red Cross.
| Sam Knight, farmer, scholar and
cattleman, leaves for France the
coming week. Mr.. Knight is quite
a linguist and handles French and
German equally we'll, Though he
has enlisted in the medical corps,
| his services as interpreter are pri-
narily to be put to use.
DR.. Benjamin Banning, local vet
erinarian, having offered his SER
vices to the government, expects
assignment at an early date.
J. 7. Young and J. r. Thayer
both residents of this section for
sometime past, sought enlistment
in the infantry during the past
week. Unfortunately neither one
of the young men could pass the
physical examination at Tucson,
due to underweight in proportion
to their height.
During these uncertain days all
sorts of rumors are af1oat in regard
to the selective draft, and few OF
the local men concerned know foI
certain whether or not they are to
come within the first contingent.
Several have already made trip to
Nogales to present themselves for
examination, only to be informed
that the board was not ready as yet
to pass on their cases. Whereas
the intricacies confronting the coun-
ty board are not to be overlooked,
it is to be hoped that the outlying
sections of the county. especially
the agricultural sections, will be
given a little consideration by the
proper dissemination of rules and
regulations governing the method
of procedure. No valid reason ex-
lists for not posting copies of the
bulletins, exemption forms, etc. in
a public place tributary to the sec
ton affected. Nearly every man
in this part is a producer, and it is
to be remembered that this is the
farmers busiest season.of the year,
when he can i'll afford the time to
go to the county seat III quest OF
information, No desire exists for
shirking a duty, but it is to be
hoped that our local board will CO.
operate to the extent of lessening
the expense and inconvenience OF
those materially concerned, SO far
as they possibly can, by rendering
definite information available in
this end of the county.
That Arizona housewives are not
limited to wheat hours for the max
inr Of nood bread hnc heet1 nni11ted
The Benson signal., 1917-08-04
Amendment to the Articles of
Incorporation of the Bank of
= Benson

Incorporation OF the Bank OF
= Benson
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRES
ENTS: That at a special meeting of the
stockholders of the Bank of Benson. a cor
poration organized and existing under the
laws Of the Stale of Arizona, pursuant to
due and legal notice to each stockholder
of said Bank Of Benson. held at the Office
of the said Bank of Benson. in Benson.
Arizona. on the 23rd day of June. 1917.
and at which meeting more than three
fourths Of the then issued capital stock of
said bank of Benson was represented by
stockholders in person, the following
amendments to its Articles of lncorpora-
ton were adopted by an Affirmative vote
of the stockholders of said Bank of Ben
son:
Resolved: That the Articles of lncorpo-
ration Of the Bank Of Benson be and the
same are hereby amended and changed
to read as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
The name Of this corporation shall be
changed from the Bank of Benson to
COCHISE COUNTY STATE BANK and
its principal place Of business shall in the
future be at Tombstone. in the County Of
Cochise. state of Arizona. with branch
Office at Benson. Arizona. and in such
other places as a two-thirds majority Of
directors present at any meeting shall
elect
ARTICLE TWO
The general nature of the business pro-
posed to be transacted is that of buying
and selling and issuing drafts and bills ol
exchange. buying and selling gold dust.
gold. silver. matte. lead. and copper bull.
lion. gold and silver coin. United States,
State, County and other bonds or war
rants. real estate and personal property
Indebtedness and evidences of indebted
ness. both public and private. also ad-
vancing money ON gold. silver matte. lead
and copper bullion and on gold. silver.
copper and other ores. and on real estate
and other securities both real and per
sonal. making collections. discounting COM
mercial paper and other evidences Of in.
debtedness. both public and private. re.
ceiving deposits payable on demand Oh
otherwise. and transacting general bank.
ing business. and also acting as agent fo1
insurance companies or any other com.
pany. individual or corporation.
To accept and execute trusts of any and
every nature. kind and description thai
may be committed to it: to attend in lesa
manner to the management and settle.
ment of estates. guardianships. assign.
ments, receiverships. and other trusts
whether under appointment of courts Oh
otherwise. to act as executor. administra.
tor and guardian of estates; to act al
pledge-holder. attorney-in-fact. agent, as
signee. receiver. depository or trustee. to
do safe deposit business. to receive and
keep in safe deposit vaults. or in Other
places of safe keeping. bonds. stocks
notes, papers and valuables Of every kind
and to collect and receive compensation
for such keeping. to purchase. own. hold
sell. assign. and hypothecate personal prop.
The Benson signal., 1917-08-04

erty. bonds. chooses in action, bank stock.
capital stock of other corporrtions and all
classes of evidences of Indebtedness: to
transfer. register and countersign stocks.
bonds. or other evidences of indebtedness;
to issue and sell debentures and debenture
bonds, secured by mortgages on real prop
erty or otherwise secured; to receive on de-
post. or otherwise. trust funds OF moneys,
belonging to States. counties. cities. and
other municipal corporations. and to deal
Herewith according to law: to purchase.
hold. own. sell mortgage and convey such
real estate as may be necessary for carry
ing on the business of said corporation.
and such other real property AZ may be
taken in security for or in payment of
debts. owing to said corporation: to buy.
sell and guarantee bonds. loans. and evil
dences of indebtedness, whether of per-
sons. or corporations and make. execute
and perfect such by contracts. agreements.
policies. and other instruments. az may be
required therefor.
The Benson signal., 1917-08-04

Bank Of Benson. corporation.y
My commission az notary public expires
Aug. l9. 1920. B. CASTLEMAN.
Notary Public in and for Cochise County.
(Notarial SeaD State Of Arizona.
The Benson signal., 1917-08-04

That Arizona housewives are not
limited to wheat hours for the max
ing of good bread has been pointed
out by Mrs. Salisbury, of the Agri-
cultural extension service, in her
work with Arizona women,
A greater use of corn and gra-
ham -four is already noticeable. AT
the Agricultural Mobilization and
Conservation Conference at Tue
son, Mrs. r. H: Forbes and Mrs.
r. II. Williams served excellent
biscuits made of kafhr, feterita,
milo, with various combinations of
these fours, and with the addition
of wheat -four in varying quanti-
ties.
The Benson signal., 1917-08-04
Subscription Two Dollars per year

Cattlemen in the Benson
section are happier than any
kings.
The Benson signal., 1917-08-04

Oil and gasoline stoves and hard
ware. Gem Second Hand Store.
The Benson signal., 1917-08-04
ARTICLE FIVE

ARTICLE FIVE
The affairs of this corporation shall be
conducted by Board of Directors. con-
sisting of not less than FIVE (5) nor more
than fifteen U5) members who shall be
stockholders Of this corporation. and the
said Board of Directors shall elect from
their own number the following officers:
A President. and one or more Vice-Presi-
dents. other officers including Cashier.
and such other employees of this corpo-
ration shall be elected or appointed from
time to time as the Board Of Directors
see FIT. or as may be provided for in tho
bylaws of corporation; and such other
officers and employees other than the
President and Vice-President need not be
members of the Board of Directors nor
stockholders.
The Board of Directors shall adopt By
Laws which shall define the duties of such
officers and employees. the time of their
election by such directors, the time of the
stockholders meeting tor the election OF
the directors and such other matters az
the Board of Directors may see proper.
The directors shall be elected annually
and shall hold office for one year and un-
til their succ~ssors are elected and quali-
fed. The Board Of Directors in Office shall
define the number to constitute the board
for each succeeding year. and shall elect
or appoint from the stockholders the
members necessary to fiji any vacancies
on the board caused by death. resignation
OF otherwise.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF; we have
hereunto set our hands az President and
Cashier Of the said Bank of Benson, and
hereto aAax the corporate seal Of said cor
poration this 23rd day Of June. 1917.
BANK OF BENSON.
corporate SeaD BY A. c. SMITH.
President.
By M. w. SMITH. Cashier.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-10-25
SUFFRAGE SUNBFAMS.

De you know
That in l776 Thomas J efferson declar-
ed that taxation without representa-
ton was tyranny" He so firmly be-
lieved it that he declared in 1904 it was
uncomfortable that any State should
bestow the suffrage upon the most ig-
norant and besotted man and deny it
to the most intelligent and virtuous
woman.
That still farther back in 1886 Abra-
ham Lincoln was so strongly in favor
Of Woman Suffrage that in his canvas
tor the legislature he announced as his
platform the grant OF Suffrage Ito all
OF sufficient intelligence and character
not excluding the women.
That coming down to more modern
times in 1915 Colorado declared after %
years experience that Woman Suffrage
had proven in all respects materially
helpful to good government among the
people and to noticeable degree had
inculcated a higher respect for the ma
jesty and supremacy Of the law
That women own probably one half Of
the property in every state. In New
York of the largest taxpayers are
women. In New Orleans over half the
property is owned by women. In
Maryland where many of the largest
tax payers are widows and unmarried
women they are not even allowed a
vote OF bond issues.
That the Ants declare women do rot
want the vote. Answer: They have
brought forward the demand for it be-
fore every State in the Union.
That it is the women who raise the
men who fill cur armies and carry on
the work of the country. Should they
not have voice in the laws which pro-
tect the morals and well being of the
home and of the women and children.
of the men whom they have brought up
for their country's service?
Let US not only remember that it is a
war for democracy that is being waged,
but that the cornerstone upon which all
democracies is founded is the ballot
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-10-25
ANNEXATION BILL EXTREMELY UNFAIR

THE PREsToELD
of
Maryland declares uchca
neH in efe that the Corsiut is
In 1888 pasedta and
Mos them
I
Next iions o the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-10-25
HINDENBURG'S PLAN
Evacuation of Belgium With
View to MesOpOtamin Offensive.

The Germans went into Belgium
mainly for military reasons; they will
evacuate Belgium, now definitely in op-
position to the policy of the government,
is addressing meetings of German
patriots on the folly of Germany's dis
interesting herself in Belgium, but the
very violence of his language shows
that he feels himself to be fighting a
cause which is losing, If it is NOT already
lost. 1t would appear from Won Kuhl-
mann's statement that the German
Foreign Office is prepared to evacuate
Belgium under certain conditions. but
the German Foreign Office has made so
many bad blunders, and it's prestige is
so impaired, that it would never VEN
ture to express view of its own on
such question as this unless it had
the military heads of the army behind
it. One may go further, says a STU
dent of War; in the Manchester Eng
landl Guardian. The Foreign Office
has long since ceased to originate
aJlicy; it follows the army chiefs. That
10 say. the policy outlined by Won
huhimann is not in accord with mill
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-10-25
FAIRVIEW

Digging potatoes seems to be the
order of the day.
Miss Hazel Custer Is the guest of
her.s grandmother, Mrs. Blacker, at
present
Mr.. Clarence Stevens bought several
car loads of lambs in this vicinity
Wednesday.
Miss Pearl Broadwater is visiting
home folks now.
Floyd Round made business trip to
Homecoming Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs Harvey Broadwater at
tended the funeral of his sister, Mrs.
Fannie Groves, Friday.
Mr.. Donald Simpson had his foot
badly injured in the mines at Hubbard,
W. Va. He spent a few days at home.
The school of this place is progress
ing very nicely under the careful man.
agement of Miss Mary Hotschneider,
of Deer Park.
There is a bountIful crop of chest
nuts in this section.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-10-25

music is faint or distant. or of sooth-
ing lullaby strain, makes sleep impos-
sib)e. For sleep is in itself rvthm
and it cannot he adjusted to rag-time.
You can sing child to sleep with
slow song in minor key. but to sing
Dixie or Waiting for Robert E.
Lee" in load voice to a sleepy child
would be to torture it. The same is
true of sleepy adult.
The statistics of the musical industry
show that the number Of instruments,
mechanical and otherwise, IN use in
this country has multiplied enormously
in recent years. This is in many ways
desirable. The expansion Of Jov and
rythm should not be checked, but it
must be regulated.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-10-25
A MILITARY NECESSITY
Is the Raising of More and Better
Livestock.

With year of good crops, an album
dance of forage, and prices higher than
at any other time in the country's his
tory. Maryland should not take TOO
lightly the plea now being heard from
coast to coast, Raise more lives
stock. "
To heed this plea is necessary; it is
profitable as well. Perhaps no clearer
summary ofthe situation has been given
than that recently by Assistant Secre-
tary Vrooman who declared, The keep
ing Of more livestock was highly desira-
bic before the war. 1t is now a ma
tional necessity, first, because of the
terrible dearth of meat animals not
only in this country but throughout the
world; second, because no waste Of
feeds should be permitted, and the
thing that will prevent waste of feeds
upon the farm is the production Of
more livestock. The fact of keeping
more livestock as a military necessity
does not mean that it is any the less a
good business. The farmer should not
lose this golden opportunity to cash in
his waste forage at war prices"
While certain sections of Maryland
have brought their livestock industry to
success and profit, it can hardly be said
that the State as whole has reached
the point in the development of the
livestock industry that awaits it,-but
awaits it only on the condition that bet
ter feeding, care and sanitation are
comprehended as essentials to success
in this hne. Such is the opinion Of DR..
S. S. Buckley of the State Extension
Service.
Perhaps disease has been the greatest
factor tending to depress the industry.
TINS is true at least as regards the hog.
as farmers in many sections of the
State we'll know. But with cholera in
hogs, and various diseases affecting
cattle and sheep, proper methods of
care will eliminate losses sufficiently to
enable the farmer again to put his
farm on livestock basis.
At the present time changes to fall
feed and quarters for most livestock
are taking place. Houses for the win
ter are being prepared, farm-lots clean
ed up and disinfection practiced. Atno
season of the year is there better op-
portunity offered to make the entire
farm healthy place for all farm ami
mails. The white-wash brush and disin-
fectant spray should be welded with
lavish hand. All trash should be raked
into pile and burned; the manure
should be spread on the held, good
troughs and watering places should be
provided, and drainage around all build
ings should be perfected. Make the
barns and sheds light and we'll ventilat-
ed. The good stockman wants his ami
mails well sheltered and comfortably
provided for. He is doubtless the
most humane being the world, and the
reward is satisfaction through profit
and the fact that his livestock is going
to feed hungry and meat impoverish-
ed world.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-10-25
Estray Notice.

Strayed, some time ago, from the
Burt Wilson Farm. near Wilson, W.
Va, FIVE head of heifers-one two year
old and four yearlings. Three are
black; t red. Two have Sits in end
of right ear; three with underbits in
left ears. Please notify Carl A. Martin
or Owen U. Martin, Oakland. Nd.
Adv. 34-3t
LOsT-Yesterday a gold chased O. ~
Iink set w briIIia &, A reward coz
$500 will be paid for its return to Thu
office ADVERTISEMENT.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-10-25

tarY policy but was in fact dictated by
it. The Foreign Office Is the first to
speak publicly, but Won Kuhlmann af
ter all is only the shadow on the tlinds
that conceals German military counsels.
Tirpltz, by talking as he does, shows
that he is completely out Of touch with
the facts of the military situation. The
leading fact is that the occupation of
Belgium, always mistake, is now be-
come such an ENHANCEMENT that Hin
denburg wants to cut himself loose
from it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-10-25
Estray Notice.

Strayed, from my farm south Of Oak
land. about four weeks ago, 10 head of
with carpenters square in left ear
Please notify John H. Sanders. ADV.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-10-25
CITY Seeking POWER
Plea For Room to Grew" Ternla
ed Su5terf &c
Opponents Claim Suburbs Are Enjoying
Cheap County Form OF Government,
a Which Should Not BE Taken From
Them Without Their Consent.

prepared by the baltimore County Nom
Partisan Citizens Protective Committed
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-10-25

The farmers in the part of Baltimore
city known as the Annex of 1888 com
plain that there are many barren stalk,
in their cornhelds this year, which con
sideraly reduces the yield Experi
agriculturists say this comes from
failure to properly test the seed plant
ed last spring.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-10-25

Baltimore county people claim that
If the city would put a winning base
ball team in the field it would do much
more to boost" the town than acquir
ing 10000 people By annexation
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-10-25

(Prepared by the Baltimore County Non
Partisan Citizens Protective Committed
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-03-12

hibitions when two equal forces, from
different directions, meet in our vicin-
ity.
Storms Are From Rockies.
''The great majority of our storms
are from the Rocky Mountains, and in
cline toward the Alleghanies, but are
slightly thwarted by the Indiana water
shed and part at or near Bridgeport,
again uniting at West Alexandria,
thence taking their course to the noun
tains. We may also have miniature ex
hibitions of the much dreaded cyclone,
Vertical gyres, or whirlwinds, with an
occasional more startling demonstra-
ton, but never upon the gigantic scale
so often seen over the vase prairies
of the West We live in a most singu-
lar position surrounded on all sides by
an eXhaustless amount of coal, salt and
iron, and with nearly all of the most
useful metals and yet cannot boast Of
possessing the least trace of either.
A perfect negation of ever useful me-
tallic base. This is therefore neutral
ground A friend of all, but a favorite
with none, is our geographical position
without, therefore, any regularity of
climate, but upon the contrary pos
SCISSOR of every possible variety Of
change"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-03-12
RICHMOND IS EXEMPT FROM DISASTROUS CYCLONES,
ACCORDING TO OPINION OF LATE Dr. 0. P. BAER

Now, why is this?. It presents
at least an apparent contradiction in
the prolification of the surface-no
fruits, but an abundance of grain. The
reasons are plain to my mind, at least.
While the fruit trees are furnished
with abundance Of the best of nutri-
ton, they are most seriously interfer-
ed with by destructive insects, and
sudden atmospheric changes, chilling
the young twigs which made such
rapid growth and thus impeding, once
for all, the liberal circulation, causing
negatively. an impaired development
of the fruit germ.
Live Amidst Conflicting Forces
1--WE live in the midst of the most
conflicting forces, northwest, west and
southwest Each claim a hearing up
on this troubled ridge Of ours; each
claiming preference, and neither hold
ing undivided control. Warm, cool
and icy breezes may each govern for
the hour, sometimes gently acting in
concert, while at other times in most
rapid alienation, as the different
strata may be more or less dominant.
Hence our changes, both thermome-
trically and Theoretically, are often
sudden and severe, doing much DAM
age The aerial elements being thus
subject to great vicissitudes. We often
greatly profit thereby, from the fact
that frequently in the turbulence of,
and the variableness in the atmos-
phere forces, we are the receivers of
more rain, and also more snow than
IF limo
BY steady inquiry for more than 20
years from railroad men, passing rap
idly north and south, as well as east
and west of our locality, they all bear
uniform testimony in the premises,
that by some means or other, there
is greater fall of both rain and snow
on this ridge than anywhere surround
ing us.
This arises from our elevated posi-
ton, attracting the most heavily
freighted clouds from their direct east
ern route; for other than attractive
force, we have none; as this whole re-
gion spoken of, is utterly destitute of
any metallic base whatever. neither
salt, coal or iron exist in any quantities
appreciate. It is clearly non-metalic,
hence, locally speaking non-electric.
But being almost equidistant from the
exhaustless metallic reservoirs, both
east and west, north and south of us
here, these terrestrial forces meet, as
they necessarily must, equalize and
neutralize each other leaving us in an
electrical eddy, or calm. This is an
other important reason why we cannot
have destructive tornadoes. -
Terrestrial electricity belongs to
the earth, only SO far as it possesses