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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1914
Page
5
A Parsons Souders display notes spring arrivals with changing themes from coats and suits to carpets and silks. The shop, described as a person with shifting ideas, signals month end sales and rotating floor offerings across departments including millinery and fabrics.
On hot days the refrigerator is the vital home item. The article argues refrigerators curb food spoilage and reduce weather related deaths, praising odorless models with ornate golden oak cases and listing various capacities from 25 to 100 pounds.
New petticoats in soft messaline available in spring shades black and dark street colors. Fitted tops with Jersey gussets and glove fasteners, no fullness. Price five dollars. Extra size petticoats also five dollars for fuller figures.
A woman described May 10 as a date for outings and flannel wear with emphasis on current fashion. She notes low neck gowns with short kimono sleeves, lace trim, and pink blue ribbons describing a size 16 fit and style.
Advertisement notes a Keep-Clean Hair Brush that can be washed clean and remains sanitary. It features an aluminum back and securely fastened bristles in three shapes, with grey, red oak, and ebony finishes priced from 50c to 1.00. Keep-clean Clothes brushes offered in oak and ebony handles at 25c and 50c.
Washette presents gloves in white gray putty and chamois colors. The assortment covers multiple tones suitable for varied outfits and occasions.
Designers and manufacturers survey global fashions while American makers study and perfect techniques. Some outmaster the old masters and send to Parsons-Souders, resulting in more beautiful and elaborate summer styles than seen elsewhere. The exhibit demonstrates thought, study, and skill in arts and designs.
Rug prices listed for various sizes and types including Eastern SCOT, TAPESTRY RUGS, and multiple dimensions from 10 ft 6 in to 16 ft with prices ranging from 22.50 to 915.00. Several entries reference 9x12 and 12x9 foot rugs with wire ratings and dimensions.
Beautiful weddings mark a busy social week at Buckhannon and Leipsic with Bertha Stout marrying Charles Munson in a parlor ceremony read by Rev. C W Stephen. Amy Mae Hooper wed Benjamin Hoover at Mrs Browns home with a Canadian honeymoon planned.
William Harmison from Bridgeport and Albert Shinn from Reynoldsville visit Thursday. Charles A. Horner and his daughter Mrs. Davis return from Baltimore. A J Hoy from Spencer and Ernest Morrison of Sutton attend to city matters. J Shetter from Parkersburg and guests Walt Warder and J W Robinson from Grafton visit. W W Briceland of Fairmont, central district telephone chief, on business. R S Webster of Tioga and W L Warner of Buckhannon stop in. B Cunningham of Elkins, D A Beatty of Parkersburg, and A M Neyman of Parkersburg also are in town. George E Brand from Elkins on a business visit. Mrs Lucy Davisson and daughters plan a summer at Oak Hill near West Milford starting Thursday.
A Buckhannon cantata event drew a large audience, praised as the best yet. The Civic League has cleaned streets and improved municipal affairs, with new typhoid vaccinations for National Guard members and growing unit strength. Local youths prep for the Charleston state meet, LT Witten returns to college duties, and multiple residents move, travel, or visit. The Catholic church was repaired after a fire, and Ward-Young Candy delivers with new trucks.
STOUT PARKSBURG April 30 Arrangements for the burial of Mrs. Sarah J. Stout who died at her home No 1729 Spring Street at midnight Tuesday from rheumatism and old age will have the body removed from this city to West Union Friday morning then taken to Doddridge County near her old home for interment.
Mrs Stout widow of Hate Draper Stout died in West Union in her seventy second year. She was widely known and beloved there and the bereaved family seeks sympathy from the community in their loss. The death came unexpectedly to the bereaved family.
Jonepit jog, a foreigner, was ordered to work ten days on county roads after defaulting on fines and costs for defacing a Baltimore and Ohio passenger coach. Magistrate G. Nice Warner presided. J. A. Campbell, captain of the Baltimore and Ohio police, prosecuted. The report also notes that Chilean national forests cover about seven million acres.
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