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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1915
Page
19
The notice urges housekeepers to seize the Parsons-Sanders Rebuilding Sale for real savings on china glass and home furnishings. It proclaims new goods, not job lots, and promises substantial dollars saved, especially for a dinner set of French china.
The sale features left over skirts and fashion skirts reduced from regular stocks. Products include Serge and Gabardine skirts in black and blue priced from 3.95 to 8.50 with belted styles and pockets. The event aims to attract ongoing business through mid-summer.
Social items include Mrs Benjamin J Powell hosting the Ladies Sewing Circle in Ademston with fancy needlework and refreshments. A July festival invitation by Lutheran church women is extended for a berry festival at Park and Meigs. June meeting of Stone Wall Jackson chapter UDC at Mrs George C Stone’s home on Carr Sreane with reports for the state convention. Willins Workers of Mt Clare to hold a festival on church lawn. WCTU met at Mrs SS Williamson with eighteen present. flower mission reports and aid to a poor local family planned. Luncheon trip to Fairmont for a bridge luncheon at the country club. notes of visitors from Charleston, Grant Town, Morgantown, Parkersburg.
An odd fragment notes a second floor mishap involving sweet cream and a one pint amount spilled or thrown. Details are unclear but the item centers on a kitchen mishap and a quantity of dairy product.
A woman urged to attend a White Store sale tomorrow to seek great value for money. Night gowns in cotton crepe, sizes 16 and 17, priced 50c to 1.00 in several white styles. Towels 18x36 inches, 90c per dozen, sold in dozens. Bath towels 5 for $1, Turkish cloth, ready Saturday morning.
Travel dusters priced at four to five dollars and belt under natural linen. New Palm Beach skirts arrive in steel grey for travel with a special price of four ninety five.
Style affects everything. The circular O Cedar mop outsold the round version after its launch. Saturday only, get an O Cedar floor mop for 75 cents from a sale offering 20 units left at 75 cents each from a $150 model.
A sale list offers sports and outing hats priced from 50 cents to 10 dollars. Palm Beach cloth hats with white stitching cost 75 cents to 1.75, stiff hats with white leather belts 5 dollars, garden hats of cretonne with shady brims 5 dollars, felt sports hats 1.76, linen hats 5 dollars. Also feghorns, Panamas and Kemps in many shapes up to 9.50.
Customers praise a wide variety of fabrics including Silk and Cotton Foulard 27 inches wide at 25¢ a yard and Silk and Cotton Shirtings 32 inches wide at 39c. Navy and Belgium blue patterns appear among dotted and striped options, with all silk shirtings offered at 1.00.
A fragmentary cooking note describes using warm milk with yeast added to flour and left to rise by the fire. It also details mashed potato loaves mixed with egg yolk, seasoned, shaped into small loaves, brushed with egg white and browned.
Local Bridgeport observations include visits by Mrs. F B Division to Mrs. Arthur Reed and Mrs. Mary Sandusky painting efforts on her home. The old Johnson property near the depot is being torn down. Dr. Robert rege and Alfred Bregg moved their studies to the Falk building. Mrs. Parr, a surgical patient at Johns Hopkins, shows signs of recovery. Government urges Bombay district farmers to plant wheat and other grains instead of cotton.
J E Winsboro of Grafton has been appointed superintendent of the Thornton Fire Brick Company at Thornton, succeeding James S McCann whose resignation is effective June 15. Winsboro, previously clerk at Loar and Hendrickson, moved to Thornton to learn operations. He arrived in Grafton from Piedmont about six months ago and is regarded as experienced in brick work. The report notes his rapid acceptance in the community.
Martinsburg undertakes a citywide White Way project along its main streets installing modern metal light poles at short intervals. A public demonstration marked the first lighting, witnessed by several thousand residents, signaling a landmark in the town's urban modernization.
Unable to determine full article details from fragment. Provides limited text about shopping items and lower prices. No clear persons, organizations, dates, or events to identify a concrete news item.
Advertises Kayser Silk Hose in fresh light shades suited to the low shoe season. Advises women to choose stockings carefully to match the shortened skirt and season’s fashion.
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