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Show W. D. FORBES RECEIVES PATENT HIS INVENTION MEETS WITH A READY SALE. Adjustable Skirt Marker Which Will Lessen the Worries of Dressmakers Dressmak-ers and Dry Goods People. W. D. Forbes of 27S5 Grant, has become be-come an inventor. On January 5 he was granted a patent on an "adjustable Rklrt marker." For six mouths the appllauce has been in practical use and since the granting of the patent many dressmakers and dry goods j "nouses have had the "marker" in their ' plat es of business. The article is a sipiple thing. It is a stool with the center cut out, an ad- Instable plaform moving up or down 1 to meet the requirements of any . skirt as it hangs from the hips of tho wpaicr, who stands on tho platform. Tn1 ring forming a part of the body of the stool accurately gauges the length of the skirt and is made the marking point Mr. Forbes has been much encour-ngpj encour-ngpj by the reception accorded his patent by Ogden and Salt Lake establishments. |