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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1916
Page
5
Parsons-Souders on Main Street reflects spring fashion bustle as women browse untrimmed shapes in the millinery section and seek affordable frocks coats and shoes. The store stays busy on the second floor salons with value buys and ready-to-wear comfort for the season.
A display and sale of white graduation dresses priced at 15 and 25 dollars attracts many buyers. Mothers find the frocks charming with varied fabrics like net, organdy, taffeta, georgette, crepe, and new full ruffles. Styles are unique, with delicate touches, kept in dust proof cases for immediate purchase.
Paris fashion flow proves silk frocks for young women now priced at 15 dollars each. Despite large markdowns of up to three quarters or more off regular prices, the dresses retain beauty and good taste. See them on display to judge the fashion.
The Tuesday Literary Club will end its winter meetings with a social session at 3 oclock Tuesday afternoon in Mrs. Harry B Curtins Mulberry street home. Members may bring a visitor. Mrs. Billy Templeman and Miss Scollay Page will lead the entertaining program. There is also a meeting of the Marento Choral Club at eight oclock Tuesday evening in the club room of First Baptist church. Members are urged to attend and new names for the next year will be welcomed.
Sunday visitors and guests are listed including Mr. and Mrs. Wehard T. Lowndes in Atlantic City. Mrs. Klabert F. Wamsley of Brooklyn visits Mrs. Howell Cooper. Mrs. Samuel J. Stiles from Parkersburg visits aunt Mrs Thomas Moore Jackson. Mrs. Frances Paul Lewis of Pittsburgh returns home after guesting with Mrs. Morey Jackson. Doak from Parkersburg and Moses Shaver from Brown attend on business. Local residents, including H. F. Crane of West Union and Guy C. Nengle of Huntington, are noted visitors and city business guests. G. C. McCarty of Shinnston and H. Miller of Welch are seen at the Hotel Gate. Houston G. Yoling of Charleston is a society visitor and Republican nomination hopeful. The Woman's Missionary Society of Central Presbyterian met at Mrs. George M. Weston’s home on Meehante Street. An informal dance is planned in the St Mary’s High School auditorium at 8:30 p.m., with committee members listed. The Young Women’s Christian Association sewing class will meet in the West Main Street rooms, with Mrs Marie Ernst in charge. A mass meeting of YWCA members is scheduled at First Presbyterian Church at 8 p.m., inviting all members.
Practical tips for homemaking including brightening carpets after dust, mixing salt with meal for stains, beating carpets first on the wrong side, using ox gall for spots, cleaning stovepipes with zinc on live coals, removing paint with vinegar, protecting glass with rubber bands, and cleaning iron sinks with kerosene.
EF Hood announces candidacy for Democratic committeeman from the Third Ward of the city. The declaration sets up a local party contest amid a crowded ward slate.
A local shop announces a small selection of light wind apparel with limited runs of Sumter and English club checks. The store touts a few new models in the window at prices around 25 and 36 dollars, urging customers to view the est window for available stock.
A fashion feature notes custom made waists for stout women. It highlights new options in silk and cotton voiles and organdies, available in sizes 41 to 61. Prices range from 2.00 to 7.50 depending on material, with selections in silk, cotton voile, and organdle fabrics.
Cotton fabrics offered in multiple lightweight styles for summer wear. 40 inch nainsook in flesh and pink priced at 2c per yard three? varieties. cotton crepe flesh color 40 inches wide at 25c. plain color poplins at 26c. striped poplins on white ground 80 inches wide at 25c. serpentine kimono crepe in many designs 27 inches wide at 18c.
Reports from American consuls abroad reveal widespread underpaid postage on letters and parcels. Bermuda's 1914 postal surplus exceeded 2,350 dollars due to underpayment, with recipients paying six cents per foreign letter instead of the five cent rate, prompting calls for action by American authorities.
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