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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1916
Page
5
The Parsons-Souders store promotes direct-from-maker goods with no middlemen. It pledges fair prices, fresh stock, and equal opportunity for customers to access quality articles, noting no seasonal price loading and authentic original items.
Announcement notes a fine and busy dress sale Thursday afternoon featuring Tasteful Summer Fashions. The event emphasizes stylish summer dresses and invites shoppers to attend the sale as announced.
Demand drives early fall footwear for middle aged and elderly women seeking conservative style. New stocks include black French kid boots with rose top facing and flexible soles priced at 95.00, plus a soft comfortable model from Red Grass Shoes at 4.00.
Twenty five hand embroidered Japanese cotton crepe kimonos from Yokohama via Nippon Company New York offer exotic appeal. Descriptions note butterfly dragon and dragon motifs with pastel colorways including light blue rose pink lavender and Belgium.
Bargain trunk sale advertises steamer trunks from 98.80 to 18.00 dollars, dress trunks 5.60 to 18.00, wardrobe trunks at 22.60, and a noose wardrobe priced 86.00. Henry Likly’s famed steamer trunks come with a five year guarantee from 8.50 to 18.00 each.
A busy remnant department features constantly recycled cotton summer fabrics. Shoppers find cuttings of every type and many for women and children, including dresses and undergarments. Prices are often half or less, with fresh supplies arriving regularly.
Continued notices report a Friday evening concert by the Reginmn Male Quartet at Wilret Presbyterian Church with soloists Mrs Propper of Philadelphia and Mrs Melvin Rockwell of Wilsonburg. It also notes a marriage announcement for Lewrie N Kyle to Joseph A Seaman in Clarksburg and details a misspelled birthday party for Mrs Coffman with many attendees.
Morning events list receptions at Mrs C W Jacobs home on West Main Street and Watson reception hosted by Mrs James Edwin Watson in honor of Mrs James Bulwin Watson Jr. Attendees included Mrs Benjamin R Blackford and Miss Katherine Campbell of Parkersburg. Also notes bridge dinner at a residence, garden flowers, and hour silver-let service.
Mrs J Horner Davis and Mies Louise Davis attended the Mrs J By Watson reception in Fairmont Tuesday afternoon and returned home this evening. Several visitors named include Mr and Mrs Walter Pleming of Parkersburg and others from Morgantown Wheeling and Alma as local residents mingle with business and family events.
Readers are told smocks are popular for outdoor exercise and camping this summer. The notice advertises two types, “Smocked- middies” and regular smocks, in White, Rose, Belgium blue, with nailor collars and cuffs, smocked in contrasting shades. Priced at $1.00 and $1.50.
Twenty coats on sale with prices cut sharply. White Golline with blue rose collars now 7.60, gay colored corduroy 5.00, many half to twice as high before. Finer corduroy and lined pieces in gay colors and whites now 10.00. A few fine imported stripes, two styles, also reduced to 10.00.
New shipment of voile fabrics offers twenty five patterns in voiles and marquigotte at 25 cents per yard. Includes plain striped floral designs with white and tinted grounds, widths from 80 to 40 inches. Also new season's Silverbloon fabric with sport stripes gold blue and black, 64 inches wide, priced at 1.00 per yard.
A window display draws unusual attention as women buy green themed bags. The leather surfaces show natural color with Oriental inspired trimmings and fastenings. Prices range from two to six dollars and twenty five cents.
Grafton reports displeasure over poor birth and death records across Taylor and other counties. Dr. G K Welrich warns physicians to file complete reports with correct names and dates, or face penalties under state vital statistics laws and related workers compensation provisions.
Mrs. A. Parsons and her niece Miss Gladys Parsons of Ripley are staying with C. P. Oldham and J. R. Lentor for a few days. Mrs. Cora L. Brabham and her daughter Elizabeth of 633 West Tike r street went to Pittsburgh Wednesday for an extended visit and will be away for several weeks.
A fragmented set of home guidance includes a simple chocolate cake recipe with sugar butter milk and egg yolk plus instructions to thicken the batter. It also offers a quirky stain removal method for a faded white shirt by dipping in pink tinted water colored with red crepe paper and reheating slightly to set the hue.
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