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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1915
Page
15
A wartime sale offers 150 Hartz Mountain canaries at an unheard of price of 1.7. The dealer highlights vacation comfort apparel and shop items including suits dresses hats shoes coats and blouses. The Hartz birds are imported directly from mountain haunts and will be explained by a representative.
Big full-bleached cotton towels marketed as best bath towels with sizes 2448 inches and 18x36 inches. Five for 1.00 or two for 25 cents. Claims soft spongey absorbent quality and superior value.
A batch of one hundred skirts offered at a special price of 4.95 each promises quality fabrics including gabardine serge Palm Beach cloth and Chuddah silk. The collection features a dozen styles showcasing varied materials and finishes aimed at value conscious shoppers.
Foldwarde Wardrobe creates a closet in every room holding up to ten suits and dresses. It serves as a fabric container, keeps garments dust free and mothproof, crafted in plait linen and cretories, washable. Priced at $3.00 and $4.00, folds to 22 inches and folds into a suitcase or trunk.
A special sale features luggage including Indestructo and Henry Likely trunks and suitcases for men and women. Prices start at 4.50 for trunks and 1.00 for bags, with many items discounted about twenty percent offering substantial savings on two piece sets.
Porch valance protects eyes from strong sunlight and adds summer dignity to porches. Advertises 27Anch drop at 25c and 36-inch drop at 45c. Available in blue and white, brown and white, tan and white stripe patterns.
A sale offering lovely blouses in georgette crepe priced at 3.85 in white or flesh pink. Styles include plains tucked or trimed with low openings. Another sale highlights 125 sets for Wednesday with 150 blouses in eleven organ dyed styles.
Vacation readers are urged to select craft designs from the Royal Society package offered by Porch Pillows. Choose finished pillow tops in linen or cretonne at 25c, with embroidered patterns, or bundles at 50c, claiming a pleasant profitable summer pastime during rest periods.
Footwear advertises white canvas ankle strap shoes for infants and misses with wedge and low heels. Infants sizes 4 to 8 12 to 2 priced at 1.25 1.50 and 2.00, misses sizes 2 1 2 to 11 priced at 2.50.
Heavy white drill middy uniforms feature silk embroidered emblems on pocket. Special price one dollar with six other new middy styles also at one dollar each. One style has a three inch painted band, red and blue Stars on collar. Another is all white with pleated band bottom. A red collar version carries a Panama emblem.
Social and personal notices include teas guests and entertainments at Miss Belen Frisch’s Rowland Park Baltimore home and Miss Grace Haymaker’s 4 to 6 pm tea on East Main Swartz. Mrs Jarvis hosts with Mrs Wilson for a Thursday Bridge Club, and a farewell reception honors Miss Lulu Kennedy, city visiting nurse, leaving for Kansas City. The wedding of Roberdean Wheat and Isabel Turpit is reported with at home plans for the newlyweds in Clarkshoro after a short East trip. Three marriages were performed by Rev W M Long, including Samuel B Henshaw Blanche Ferrer, and John P Conwar Lillian B Fortney, at multiple local locations.
The Parson s Louders Company reports Ernest R Neptune and Ada K Hymen wed at 7 p m Sunday evening the Central Christian par sonage in Fairmont. Tonight Dante concert at Traction Park promises a lively evening with dancing and crowds from Shinnston Lumberport Enterprise Morgan town and Weston joining locals for a grand social weekender featuring a near full night of festivities.
Mr and Mrs John Gandy and their son from Preston are spending the week at Deer Park. Mr and Mrs Phillip Dutford and their daughter drove to Buckhannon in the McCarty car to visit Mr and Mrs Thomas W Sarno arthe.
Mrs Robert Fleming and daughter Miss May of Fairmont were weekend guests of Mrs Richard T Lowndes and returned home Sunday. Mrs Nathan Goff and Mrs James McClintock also hosted, sharing recipes for cornmeal griddle cakes and a yeast bread. Major Milton D Reed, 76, father of Stuart F Reed, state secretary, died at his Buckhannon home Sunday. Mrs Robert L Brown, 5 Locust Street, recovering from appendectomy in local hospital and expects to return home soon.
Benny McDonald stood trial in criminal court on a prohibition violation charge. The jury in the case was discharged for the term, the last trial scheduled for the term.
Members of the Masonic fraternity attending the corner stone laying on a Wednesday afternoon are requested to meet at the lodge room in the Masonic temple at Shinnstones soon after 2 o'clock as possible.
An old-time ad lists garments for vacation wear and shore attire. It promotes golf skirts in six styles, including envelope pockets, in white pink watermelon and Belgium Blue, with prices around $5 to $90. Coats, blouses, sweaters, and felt hats are offered in varied colors and styles, with cheap sale prices noted.
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