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Front Page - Friday, November 2, 2012

100 Years Ago ...


What was going on in Chattanooga in 1912?



Friday, November 1

In the greatest political speech of his career, Gov. Benton McMillin scored Gov. Hooper in a meeting Friday night at the City Auditorium before a widely cheering crowd of 5,000. Hon. Thomas R. Preston introduced Gov. McMillin.

Saturday, November 2

Utica, N.Y. paid tribute to the memory of Vice President James S. Sherman today as he lay in state in a mahogany casket in the rotunda of the Oneida Courthouse. Flags, palms and flowers formed a background for the casket. He was buried from the First Presbyterian Church. President Howard Taft and his military aides attended the funeral.

Major General Leonard Wood, chief of staff of United States Army, will arrive in Chattanooga today to inspect the Brigade Post site. Col. D.M. Steward is chairman of the committee to meet and escort General Wood. Mayor T.C. Thompson, Senator Newell Sanders, Congressman John A. Moon and Commodore Albert Key will serve on the reception committee. General Wood will be honored with a dinner at the Hotel Patten tonight.

Miss Alma Travis is improving from an illness at her home on Oak Street.

Mrs. J.P. Wallace of Minnesota will arrive today to be the guest of her son, Dr. Raymond Wallace and Mrs. Wallace on Oak Street.

Today, the new four-room school at Walnut Grove will be dedicated. Judge S.D. McReynolds, Judge Lewis Shepherd and County Superintendent John B. Brown will make addresses. This is the first new building to be dedicated. It was erected at the cost of $5,111 and is thoroughly modern.

Sunday, November 3

An event of great local interest in sports circles was the return to Chattanooga of Clarence McCollum, a star athlete of University of Tennessee. A native Chattanoogan, he has long been active in baseball, basketball and football here.

He played on high school football teams in 1903 and 1904, and was captain of the McCallie team in 1905 and 1906. After graduating from high school in 1907, he entered UT.

Monday, November 4

Frank Davies has gone to Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Davies and baby will join him later to make their new home.

Mesdames Foster McFarland, J.D. Kelso, Ed Watkins, W.T. Tyler and W.G. Oehmig, and Misses Mary Thankful Everett and Ethel Tyler will go to Washington, D.C. to attend the U.D.C. Convention.

Miss Margaret Sadd will return tomorrow from Ansonia, Conn. Miss Cole of Ansonia and Miss Eddison of New York will accompany her home for a visit.

Tuesday, November 5

People vote today for the Chief of the Nation for the next four years. President Taft is making his final plea from his train in Ohio. Gov. Woodrow Wilson is addressing meetings in New Jersey. This has been a heated controversy, but the ballot boxes will tell. The women of the nation will influence this election in all the states more than any previous election.

Mrs. Milton B. Ochs of Philadelphia, Pa., arrived Monday night to visit her sisters, Misses Annie and Carey Van Dyke, on McCallie Avenue.

Wednesday, November 6

Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall are elected by an immense majority as president and vice-president of the United States. Wilson will have 365 electoral votes, according to the latest returns. It was a Democratic victory in nearly all the returns.

Hon. E.D. Bass wins by a great majority as the Senator of Hamilton County over his Republican opponent, David H. Barker.

Mrs. Theodore Le Bosquet and children of Haverhill, Mass., who are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Payne on Missionary Ridge, will leave Friday for their home.

At the Crescent Theatre today, “Custer’s Last Fight” will be shown. It is an historical picture consisting of three reels. One thousand brave soldiers, 1,000 Indians and 1,000 horses participated. Price: 10 cents.

Thursday, November 7

Prof. August Schmidt will present his voice pupils in a recital in his studio on McCallie Avenue tonight. The following will participate: Mrs. Ruth Howrie, Misses Amelia Milligan, Winifred Stivers, Leslie Dunning and Gretchen Scheidt, and Bryan Walter Heasty and Herbert Granger.

Mrs. George McGhee and Mrs. R.B. Cooke will be hostesses of a beautiful informal tea at the Cooke home in honor of Miss Mary Blacklidge of Kokomo, Ind. the guest of Misses Jessal and Sarah Holtzclaw. Misses Rachel and Adelaide Cooke will assist in serving. Guests numbering 125 have been invited to call between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Friday, November 8

A brilliant social event took place last night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R.T. Wright on the side of Missionary Ridge when their daughter, Emily, was married to Hiram Sanborn Chamberlain, Jr. The Rev. Loaring Clark of St. Paul’s Church officiated. Following the reception, the young couple left for an extensive Eastern trip.