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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1916
Page
5
The Clarksburg store invites every man and woman to visit this evening. Stocks are at peak with a complete, new, fashionable assortment and the finest staples. Customers are assured of good service and moderate prices, with an appeal to test the store now.
A newspaper blurb touts Wirthmor waists priced at one dollar. It highlights superior style, fabric, trimming, and fit. Sixty new models went on sale this morning, urging early purchase to avoid disappointment.
Mothers choose corduroy or plaue coats for infants offered in several styles. Prices range from 5.00 to 3.50 and include embroidered touches. All garments described as plain, washable and suitable for babies and everyday wear.
A bustling display on the second floor offers a whirlwind of children’s hats and accessories. Little boys and girls can choose straw hats from 50 cents to 2.50 dollars, with white pique hats trimmed in blue edging and buttoned crowns on some styles.
A shipment of flags arrives in Calrkburg ahead of Decoration Day to satisfy patriotic demand. Silk flags in assorted sizes with prices per dozen or each. muslin mounted varieties also listed. sewn cotton flags offered without mounting at various prices.
Dozens of jewelry novelties of every description are in demand as they spread across aisle tables for convenient choosing. The display emphasizes accessibility and variety for shoppers seeking gift items and personal adornments.
Exquisite pumps offered at six dollars as sample stock. Descriptions note graceful lines by the master bhog maker with bench made craft. Styles include glazed kid with colonial tongue and leather Lewis heels, and plain patent kid with Cuban Lewis heels.
Women favor a wash skirt that will not shrink and last. Noor Shrink skirts are fully aponged and shrunk before sewing to hold shape through washing. The line offers comfort and style with four to five dollar price range in various plain and herringbone stripe patterns.
Sixty of the 9 inch cut glass vases in selected shapes for cut flowers go on sale today. They feature rich neat cuttings and should clear the stock by store closing tonight. Drop in elevator to Basement floor for viewing.
Six hundred pairs in black and colored, soles and toes guaranteed for satisfaction. Sizes 8 1/4 to 10 4/4. Special price 50 cents per pair. Replacement offered for unsatisfied purchases.
Freach from the boxes reveal three new white taffeta dresses. One at 21.60 features a pleated effect over a wide skirt, another at 21.60 is a short belted frock with a round collar and wide skirt, and a third at 25.00 offers a more frivolous design with puff sleeves, available in sizes 14 to 20.
Wallace May 27 report details Shakespeare essay contest at Wallace High School with Nell Mefinia winning first place, Roy D. Matz second, Francis Woobey third. A reception for suffrage speaker Mrs. Guilford Dudley featured fruit punch, floral tables, and discussion with both suffragists and anti-suffragists. Summer home occupancy noted for the Davis family near Bridgeport.
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN WILL Attend Services: the Grand Army of the Republic ladies chapter will join the morning service at the First Presbyterian church where Rev. J Turner will deliver the memorial sermon. Nathan Goff Camp Sons of Veterans and Custer Post G A R will march to the church. all sons of veterans are invited.
The Waldo hotel hosts an Sunday evening music program featuring overtures and selections including Gems from Techaikowsky La Saison Der Roses Here Comes Tootsie and To a Wild Rose. Nearby residents Mrs Olive Leonard Miss Julia Geptsch Mrs Robert Wamsley Mrs Marie Ernst and others visit or travel, with several locals listed as visiting or returning from trips and awaiting guests at Buckhannon and White Sulphur Springs.
Funeral services for Mrs Jennie Gill 42 who died in a local hospital Thursday night will be held at 2 oclock Saturday afternoon at Warne Undertaking Company mortuary chapel with burial in the Masonic cemetery. William G Sharp, American ambassador to France, made a fortune from chemical manufacture.
The text surveys objections to women's suffrage, noting high turnout in states with enfranchised women and contrasting fears about women voting with wartime realities. It cites Wyoming and Colorado experiences, argues women contribute to war effort, and urges equality of opportunity and pay.
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