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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1915
Page
5
The article extols Parsons Souders as a thrifty shopper’s choice, claiming growing business due to superior merchandise and dependable service at the lowest prices for good quality items. It emphasizes policies and supremacy in supplying value to careful customers.
Fashion notes highlight organza and silk blouse collars in the Brouse store. Descriptions include gay silk shirting stripes and delicate Quaker collars on white ground, praised as dainty and cool for warm weather with a moderate price of 1.40 dollars.
Excerpt advertises Justine dresses with needlework and tasteful design. It highlights three price groups at 4.90, 6.90, and 9.90 featuring cotton dresses, voiles, organdies, and face-lifting colors. 67 dresses in all offered in various styles and fabrics.
A Vogue style note highlights glove silk coats in dark rose Belgium blue and gold with pure thread silk. Prices range from 15 to 21.50 dollars with options in belted Yama cloth and fibre silk sweaters priced at five dollars.
Prices so low and styles so many that nearly every woman will want to take two or three. 3000 Summer Skirts priced from $1 to $5. White Pique Cotton skirts belted with pockets at $1. White Rep Pique and Linen finished skirts at $2. Six cycles noted among the white textiles.
A regional ad notes high demand for silk fabrics in white with black and black with white. It highlights several silk styles and prices from Queen Elizabeth clasps to 16 button silks, with side fastening, pleated and clasp options priced from $1.75 to $2.00, indicating scarce stock and shifting colors.
Unusually strong demand for belts and bags at low prices. Belts fetch 25 to 50 cents while bags sell for about 1 dollar. The counter also features new hair pins in shell amber and rock crystal priced from 25 cents to 150 dollars with barrettes at 25 and 50 cents.
A new sil muslin with irregular striped ground and large flower over print costs 50c a yard. Also featured is a pastel tinted silk organdie with large flowers priced at 50c.
Social notes from Fairmont and surrounding areas include club meetings at Shovellock and various churches, a June gathering for Christ Episcopal auxiliaries, the Monongahela Valley Campfire Girls heading to the West Fork river camp, and a Woman’s Christian Temperance Union session at St Pauls. Marriage news reports Dr. Robert McOlvin and Miss Emma Horne wed in Barnmouth, with guests from Clarksburg and Shinnston. the couple to reside in Clarksburg.
Miss Isabel Turpin of Centervill e visits Miss Doreny BOB Scholing Page travels to Parkershoro Tuesday guest of Mrs Frederick Fowler. Mr and Mrs Bryan Tempiemal visiting relatives on Long Green Rd. Miss Helen Feisch from Roland Park Baltimore arrives Sunday to guest of Miss Asnes Hope. Rev Charles B Mitchell of Christ Episcopal travels to Parkersburg for the Protestant Episcopal annual council June 9 to 13. staying with Mr and Mrs Gilbert Watson on Julian street. Dr Mitchell attends with party. Mr and Mrs Dudley Britt occupy their Gof farm bungalow for summer and fall. Misses Elise and Clara Gibson of Parkersburg spend summer with sister Mrs Joseph Wetherell. Miss Grace and Edna Haymaker, Miss Margaret Robinson and Miss Virginia Snider return from Baltimore Tuesday. Miss Alice Watson of Pittson PA arrives Tuesday to guest Miss Agnes Hood. Frances Robinson returns from Baltimore after Goucher College graduation. Joseph Johnson from Bridgeport on business. Attorney Aaron Weiner and Harry Freidberg from Uniontown visit family. she is seriously ill. Jesse M Hagerty visits from Sardis, S. L. Denham from West, T J Hartman of Parkersburg a business visitor. D Hagan from Grafton on brief business. George B Sayre, former resident, in town from Parkersburg on business. Miss Edna Paugh of Philippi visiting Miss. J D Warfield from Shinnston. W W Briceland of Central District Telephone Co. in town from Wheeling on business. Miss Alice Williams of Hepzibah visiting Mrs Charles Long at 447 Horner Avenue for ten weeks. Mrs John S Stone has gone to nated Sunday.
John Cichocki described as a spectacle burglar is under arrest in Chicago after identification by Reed Wal Kits. The case connects to Reed Wal Kits who has been missing for months, with ties to Grafton and Ray Helmick. Preston B. Gandy travels to Columbus to visit friends.
Tapioca dessert recipe soaks tapioca overnight then combines with strawberry jam and sugar baked in a pie dish for about three hours in a moderate oven served cold with cream. Rice flour custard uses boiling water and milk with rice flour, salt, nutmeg, and is served with cold milk and sugar. A card of thanks from W. S. Kidd and daughters expresses gratitude for sympathy during illness and death.
One thousand six hundred eighty towels brand men for sale. Timely purchase from an old Southern rails stock. Includes White Cotton Huck towels full sizes 18x36 inches. Season's supply right now.
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