Saturday, January 24
Leopold Chambliss was host of a dinner party Friday night at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Chambliss. His guests were Misses Mary Bertha Allison, Josephine Turner, Martha Davenport, and Dorothy Trotter, and Messrs. Leslie Rawlings, Robert Jones, Alex Steward, Arch Willingham, and Robert Purse.
Definite plans were announced by the Realty Trust Co. for the construction of a nine-story building next to the Elks Club on East Seventh Street. R.H. Hunt is the architect. The top floor will be a sun parlor for receptions and recreation. The building will be fire-proof reinforced by steel and concrete.
Sunday, January 25
Mrs. Edgar Williams entertained in honor of her daughter Mary Juliet’s birthday at their home in Fort Wood with a costume party. Among those attending in costume were Dorothy Patten as a German peasant girl; Maude Dyer as a ballet dancer; Jane Poindexter as a fairy; the Kruesi sisters as Dutch girls; Martha Spears as Pink Yama Yama; Lesley Wallace as a Quaker girl; Jack Poindexter as Yama Yama; James McCall as Polly; Howard McCall as a miniature gentleman; Cooper McCall as a white cat; Ed Newell, Jr., as an Army private; Nelson Barr as a cowboy; and Edgar Williams, Jr., as a Chinese Mandarin.
Mrs. L. W. Llewellyn, Misses Louise Llewellyn, and Elise Chapin will soon sail from Naples, Italy, for home. Miss Genevieve Montague will accompany them.
Monday, January 26
P.P Claxton, Commissioner of the United State Bureau of Education, today approved a plan for continuous school session and would keep city boys from idleness in the streets. The program would be vocational in scope, training the boys in the principles of horticulture.
Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Hulse, Sr. have been residents of Chattanooga for over 60 years. Mr. Hulse, a bridge builder, worked on the first bridge to span the Tennessee River at Market Street. He came to Chattanooga as a young man, 20 years old.
Tuesday, January 27
Mrs. Selden Fleet of Atlanta is visiting Mrs. Park McCallie.
Mr. Carl Smith and the Misses Mary Lee and Bessie Smith will move this week to 556 Oak Street.
Mrs. Edward Dailey of Knoxville will arrive soon to visit her sisters, Mrs. Lee Shelton and Mrs. A.C. Converse. Miss Martha Evans, who has been visiting Mrs. Dailey, will return home with her.
Wednesday, January 28
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Wilson are at home in Arcola, Miss., after an eastern wedding trip.
Miss Lettie Downs, who is visiting in Mounds, La., will leave soon for a European trip.
W.B. Schwartz of H. Schwartz & Sons shoe store, who has been in New York on a buying trip for two weeks, will return tonight.
Thursday, January 29
Pioneer settlers of St. Elmo, James Williamson and wife, are celebrating his 75th birthday. Mr. Williamson came to St. Elmo in 1861 from Wainesboro, Burke County, Ga. He married Miss Van Storey of Greensboro, N.C., in 1867, and they have lived in St. Elmo at the foot of Lookout Mountain since that time.
Miss Bessie Oehmig is in LaGrange, Ga., visiting Mrs. DeMoss. Miss Gertrude Warner and Mrs. DeMoss will entertain in her home.
Misses Frances and Julian Rice will leave Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Rice in Cedartown, Ga.
Friday, January 30
Dr. and Mrs. Charles R. Hyde celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary Thursday with a family dinner at the home of Mrs. Hyde’s father, Dr. J.W. Bachman. They were the recipients of many gifts of silver and good wishes.
General Xenophon Wheeler, who is critically ill from a stroke, is somewhat improved. His daughters, Mrs. F.J. Waddell is here. Mrs. Dickerson and Shell K. Wheeler, his only son, are on their way here from the west. Gen. Wheeler, a prominent attorney and capitalist, is a highly respected citizen.
Saturday, January 31
Harold Smartt is reported ill in Toledo, Ohio.
Sponsors for the local “Tigers,” coached by Leslie Stauffer, who will play the University of Tennessee tonight, will be Misses Josephine Whiteside, Elizabeth Lupton, Helen Kline, Helen Watkins, and Mary Bertha Allison. The game will be played at the Armory.
Catcher Will McAllester of Chattanooga has signed with the St. Louis Americans again. He’s one of the steadiest catchers in organized baseball. The report came through the Associated Press Friday night.