The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-07
WAR MAKES MANY
PRICE CHANGES IN.
GOODS SOLD HERE
Merchants tell Stories Which
Indicate What the Ten
dency Is.
SOME PRICES OF 1854.
America Coming Strong in
Goods Formerly Made
in Europe.
some PRICES OF 1864
AZ THE SHOPPER.

Knitting bags are especially new and
beautiful at time when much knit
Ting is being done. Most Of them are
made OF cretonne and nowhere are
! they better value than right here In
the city. Ihave seen some very cnarm'
ing ones that were homemade.
e Shifting about the perfumes IN the
city found many new odors-new to
me at any rate. Perfumes are deceiv-
ing. Some demand a heavy cloying
perfume Others q delicate evanescent
quality found only in the more expen-
siye kinds. The French have always
excelled in blends. They have many
secret formulas but there is no reason
why America cannot make Just as good
perfumes because the same raw mate
rails are used. An agitation is on foot
i to have the fellow prosecuted who puts
Paris labels on American goods OF
this nature. Duties are paid to bring
the Paris perfumes here and the man
who says his article is Of Paris make
when It isn't, gets out OF the duty
which is unfair to the real Paris goods
+ besides tending to run down the Ameri-
can make.
More goods are being sold for ship
mefit out OF town than for delivery at
home Just now.
Mems gloves are being made heav-
Ter this year than last.
The following are few stories told
by merchants in town:
u saw wholesale list the other day
Of; goods sold in 1854 after the war
n6d percale sold wholesale for fifty
/ cents yard. Think Of that in com.
parison to our eighteen cents yard re-
tail. Ny next order Of percale will
have to sell for twenty-five cents.
Sheeting- cotton sheeting whole
sailed In 1864 for over a dollar yard.
So we haven't anything to complain of
wool goods-oh, that's Joke. l
have some but don't know where I'll
get any more like 1t. Even the gov
ernment Is making thirty per cent. cot
ton stun. There never was enough
wool to supply the demand and now of
course It is worse than ever. They
lad no business taking the tariff off Of
1t Farmers get seventy-five to eighty
cents q pound for wool. They don't
keep fences around their sheep and as
q consequence the burrs get into the
wool SO badly that with them and the
dirt, over half is waste. There isn't
much Australian wool and what there
Is is being mixed with other grades.
Different woods dye differently-that's
why we have shades that are not the
same"
IT have some wool goods fifty inches
wide which will sell for S1.O0 yard
because the color is not up to the min.
ute in style. It's good all wool stuff.
didn't buy It this year. The only way
you can tell the percentage Of wool in
goods is by the acid test. Very few
goods are all wool and now there is
It'll less wool In them"
zone of the main reasons for the
scarcity OF things lies in the fact that
the Wunftion factories pay a much
higher wage than can be earned in the
MIL. One big reason for goods not
icing so good and this will not be no.
ttced as much now as later-is that
with war work paying so high girls
can do unsatisfactory work and get
away with 1t. Before the war any girl
turning out seconds would have been
locked and probably fined. Now no
one dares complain to great extent for
she can walk out any time to higher
paid work. In all mills hundreds of
IDLE looms are to be found"
Spring purchasing has already been
done. There is nothing new under
me SUM-" says the travelling man. One
year we have one thing and the next
smother and when we run out of things
we start all over again. Styles are SET
year ahead. If man had as MANY
styles as a woman he'd never get any
BUSINESS done. A woman no sooner
GETS Q new outfit than 1t all goes out
Of style and she has to throw It away
q give 1t to the cook and buy another
For said a woman in town. "you
might as well be dead as out Of style!"