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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1916
Page
5
A Parsons-Souders store advertises a closing sale from 5:30 p.m. with 276 untrimmed hats across 12 groups. Hats are described as fresh, new, and varied for summer wear, priced from $1.00 to $5.00, including sports, travel, and dress options for afternoons and seaside outings.
OCIAL AND PERSONAL items continue with details of the May Festival at the Masonic Temple. The program lists Ethel Holtzclaw Gawler, Genevieve Elliott, B. Glyde Backatt, Dr. Charles Moore, W. Lee Williams, and the Cadena Orchestra. Also covered are Knights of Pythias travel to Jane Lew for a Dawson Lodge session, a Broadus Institute calendar of recitals and events, a Woman's Missionary Society meeting, and notices of church officials and local visitors and residents.
The article notes new sport shoes with simulated tps and rubber soles offering a smart look without drawing attention. It mentions heels from spring to regulation, evening slippers in various finishes, and ornament choices like buckles and rhinestones. War shortages may affect French and German kid imports, possibly raising prices and shaping future colors and materials.
Lucian Walker Lloyd Blackshire and Page Bush jailed Sunday on charges of assaulting Audie Davis and Charley Fruit in a free-for-all at Tin Plate. They were released from county jail on bonds of 190 each. trial date not yet set.
Workmen rung the old bell of the Gof Methodist Episcopal church for the last time on Tuesday morning before the structure is razed to make way for a new multi story college building for West Virginia Bast News College. The bell will likely be moved to the tower of the First Methodist Episcopal church.
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