Mrs. Culp Revisited: April 13, 1937

Downtown fire costs a ruffle

A huge fire at the W.T. Grant’s dry goods store on Franklin Street  may have cost Mrs. Culp the ruffle on the taffeta slip to go with her lace dress. (Not sure why...perhaps she had taken the cloth there because she didn't have a ruffling attachment on her sewing machine?) Every fire company in town had been called to fight the blaze, which also damaged…