Black Taffeta Waist Priced At Three Fifty
An advertisement offers a black taffeta waist priced at 3.50 with a neat plaited front and high collar. It lists other silk waists in new fall styles and colors at 4.20 5 6 and 7.40.
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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1909
Page
4
An advertisement offers a black taffeta waist priced at 3.50 with a neat plaited front and high collar. It lists other silk waists in new fall styles and colors at 4.20 5 6 and 7.40.
Store highlights large, varied lines of heavy cotton and wool underwear for women and children. Women’s ribbed fleece garments available from 25 cents each. Children’s undergarments start at 12 1/4 cents and rise to higher grade lines shown by the store.
Silk petticoats described as soft unbreakable taffeta with full cut and under ruffle to catch dust. Available in nearly all colors. Priced at 4.69, advertised as worth more than asked.
Various brief items report illnesses and visitors including Mrs J W Gravenosland ill with fever and W W Rodman of Seattle as pharmacist at McPhee s Drug Store. Residents return from Walla Walla Seattle Spokane and Toppenish with work and house-keeping updates. Agricultural notices cover wheat hauling and onion crops plus a 35 acre Finley parcel for sale and May flower potato exhibit. A Ladies Aid meeting at the M E church lists officers. The Columbia Steamboat Co. and Open River Transportation Co. move wheat downriver as Morain s store advertises a mill sale. Dr Harsha visits Kennewick with R E Pratt after a Chicago medical role and fairs attendance.
A circulating library membership at McPhee's Drug Store costs $100 per year, granting access to library services through the shop's program.
The Woman's Relief Corps changes meeting to Friday afternoons at 2 30 p m on the second and fourth Fridays. Next Friday will be the first meeting under the new arrangement and members are urged to attend.
Mrs. Stanley Doncaster, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. William Dirckson for most of the summer, returned to her home at Victoria B C on Wednesday.
Notice requests debtors to pay rent arrears within two weeks due to owner needing funds. Ominously warns that overdue accounts will be pursued. Names or specific parties not clearly provided.
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