Saturday, February 1
George M. Clark has been appointed auditor for the state of Tennessee by Governor Ben Hooper. Mr. Clark is a Republican and one of Chattanooga’s outstanding citizens.
Mrs. Warnie Hooper Dayton, popular member of Chattanooga’s U.D.C., has been designated a place of honor in the Army of Tennessee as chaperone for sponsors and maids for the Confederate reunion to be held in Chattanooga. General Hickman made the appointment.
Misses Frances and Mary Elizabeth Swaney and Master Burch Patty have gone to Scottsboro, Ala., to spend the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. J.H. McDermott.
Gov. W.H. Hooper has appointed the following Chattanoogans to serve on his staff: Col. Fred H. Phillips, Adjutant General; Col. Clarence S. Steward, Inspector General; and Charles R. Evans, with rank of Brigadier General, to serve as Judge Advocate General.
Sunday, February 2
Mr. and Mrs. M.V. Burchell announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Ellie, to Mr. George W. Worth of Newburgh, N.Y. The wedding will take place in early spring.
The Laymen’s Missionary Convention of Southern Baptists opens Tuesday at the Chattanooga Auditorium. The total membership of Southern Baptists is 2,500,000, and a good representation is expected. Dr. J. T. Henderson of Bristol, general secretary, will open the meeting. The Honorable Joshua Levering is president of the convention. One of the outstanding speakers will be D.E.M. Poteat, president of Furman University of Greenville, S.C.
Monday, February 3
Mrs. Lee Shelton has returned to her home after an illness at Woolford Sanitarium.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Addis have gone to Atlanta, where they will make their home.
Mrs. N.C. Steele and Mrs. Willard Steele entertained with a luncheon at their home on Missionary Ridge. Their guests were Mesdames W.R. Crabtree, D.E. Bushnell, Euclid Waterhouse, W.E. Love, R.E. Weedon, and J.H. Parham, and Miss Cora Stratton.
Miss Tillie Hartwig is in Knoxville for a visit to her sister, Maude, a student at the University of Tennessee. Later, Miss Hartwig will go to New York.
Tuesday, February 4
All plans are complete for the Brigade Post at Fort Oglethorpe, with an additional regiment of cavalry and the provision of adequate barracks, quarters, roads, walks, water system and sewers. Major General Leonard Wood, War Department Chief of Staff, informed Congressman John A. Moon that construction would start right away.
Through the quick work of Senator Newell Sanders, Chattanooga wins a war relic – a gun carriage from the ill-fated Maine, to be placed in Point Park on Lookout Mountain. The battleship Main was sunk in the Harbor at Havana during the Spanish-American War.
Miss Beatrice Seymour and V.D. L. Robinson were married in Knoxville today by the Rev. Whitaker. The young couple will live here.
Mr. and Mrs. Gaither L. Jones have gone to housekeeping in Beaumont, Texas. Mrs. Jones will come soon for a visit with her parents Col. and Mrs. J. M. Lanier on Missionary Ridge.
Wednesday, February 5
The Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce annual meeting was a dinner meeting at Hotel Patten. The election of officers was a great interest to the enthusiastic crowd. Frank E. Mahoney was elected president; Paul J. Kreusi, vice president; W.A. Sadd, treasurer. H.M. Evans will remain as secretary. Directors elected are: W. Scott Raulston; Z.C. Patten, Jr.; and Emil Wassman. A good year of business is expected.
Miss Rachel Cook returned home Tuesday from a visit in Charleston, S.C.
The first intercollegiate basketball game in years will take place in Chattanooga tonight when the University of Chattanooga plays the University of Tennessee at the Central YMCA. Paul Dexheimer, former City High School star, is captain of the UC team.
Thursday, February 6
Mrs. Raymond Wallace will return this week from a visit to relatives in Virginia.
Miss Wenonah Haymore was hostess to a “Pink Tea” at her home on McCallie Avenue in honor of her houseguest, Miss Mary Thurmond of Baltimore. Assisting the hostess were Misses Catherine Signiago, Evelyn Buchanan, Louise Hamilton and Mrs. Thomas Webster. Fifty guests called between 3:00 and 5:00 in the afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Cravens entertained with a dinner at the Commercial Club, followed by a theater party at the Bijou. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hampton, Mr. and Mrs. T.M. Stanfield, Miss Anne Hampton, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Gray and Dr. J.C. Brooks.
Friday, February 7
News reached Chattanooga that certain Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma had found an old grant given to them for services rendered of land which is now North Chattanooga, to be theirs by a law passed in North Carolina in 1783, according to John M. Taylor, part-Cherokee, living in Claremore, Okla. Gen. Sevier was also entitled to a claim.
The Rev. J.W. Bachman has again been honored by Gen. Bennett H. Young, Commander-in-Chief of United Confederate Veterans. He has been designated Chaplain General of the Veterans with the rank of Brigadier General. He will officiate as the chaplain of the coming reunion in Chattanooga.
Miss Ida Jones and Walter Gillespie were married Thursday by Dr. J.W. Bachman in the study of the First Presbyterian Church. They have gone to housekeeping in their new home near Missionary Ridge.
The great Baptist Laymen’s Convention was greatly shocked this morning when Secretary J. T. Henderson was found in an unconscious condition by an attaché of the hotel. He had fainted in the hall on the way to a meeting. Dr. Henderson had not been well recently, but his physician felt he was able to attend the meeting.