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Front Page - Friday, June 12, 2015

100 YEARS AGO


What was going on in Chattanooga in 1915?



Saturday, June 12, 1915

 

W. Scott Raulston, former Postmaster of Chattanooga, is the new Republican member of the Hamilton county Election board. The announcement came from Gen. J.H. Penland of Nashville, of the State Board.

Mrs. E. A. Abbott is home from a seven-week visit in the West with her sister, Mrs. W.P. Silva, at Carmen-By-The-Sea, California.

William Crutchfield and Edward Chapin have returned from the University of Pennsylvania for summer vacation.

Sunday, June 13

Miss Marjory Newell will return Wednesday from Atlanta where she has been the guest of Miss Irene Haggood.

Laura Voight is visiting Katherine Newell on Walden’s Ridge.

Thomas Carothers, Jr., will leave the first of July for Meridian, Miss., where he has accepted a position.

Monday, June 14

Dr. Kirby Smith has returned to the U.S. from Serbia where he has done valiant service in eradicating typhus. His home is in Sewanee, Tann.

“Nero” the eagle from the East lake zoo had been taken to Signal Mountain to be released. A country boy saw the eagle flying for a landing at “Hornet’s Nest” and killed Nero with a stone.

Tuesday, June 15

Mrs. E.P. Crawford announces the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter, Mary Frances, to Mr. Clyde Schlesinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Schlesinger of Hill City. The wedding will take place June 22.

Grady Varnell and Ralph Wardlaw of Chattanooga returned from an automobile trip to New York. They made a record in motoring, making the trip in five days in a new two-passenger car without any trouble with the exception of a few punctures.

Wednesday, June 16

Miss Mary Steward entertained with an afternoon bridge party at her home on Battery Place in honor of Miss Helen Kline, a June bride. Miss Katherine Kaufman and Miss Katherine Signiago assisted the hostess.

Two Chattanooga girls will graduate from colleges in Cambridge, Mass., this month. Miss Margaret Read from Smith College and Miss Margaret Ferger from Wellesley.

Mrs. C.M. Willingham entertained with a spend-the-day party Tuesday at her Lookout Mountain home. Her guests were Mrs. Corbett of Kentucky, Mrs. Coleman of Texas, Miss Sarah Atlee and Mrs. Nave of Chattanooga.

Thursday, June 17

By official orders from Washington, all the militia cavalry in the Southern States have been ordered to Fort Oglethorpe for a period beginning July 20 for 10 days training. The 12 troops form a regiment. They will bring their own equipment. The 11th Cavalry will furnish the horses and the training will be under regular Army officers.

Miss Margaret Dunlap, librarian of Carnegie Library, reported 200 new books have just been purchased and are catalogued. Many books by well-known authors are biographies, history, nature books, fiction and war literature.

Two Chattanooga golfers, D.S. Henderson and Garner Watkins, will play in the Championship Flight in Atlanta Friday.

Friday, June 18

Dr. J.A. Chambliss, who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Chambliss, has gone to Brownsville to visit. Later, he will visit his daughter, Mrs. Henry Caperton in Charleston, W. Va.

Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Frierson entertained their house party guests from Columbia, Nashville and Shelbyville, Tenn., with a party at the Casino at Signal Mountain Inn. Misses Susie Bell Frierson, Laura Voight, and Gertrude Llewellyn, dressed in white dresses and pink ribbons, served punch. An ice course was also served. A hundred guests were invited.

Mrs. W. C. Stephens and daughter, Anita, left Thursday for an extended trip through the Middle West and West.

100 years for 6.12.15

Saturday, June 12, 1915

W. Scott Raulston, former Postmaster of Chattanooga, is the new Republican member of the Hamilton county Election board. The announcement came from Gen. J.H. Penland of Nashville, of the State Board.

Mrs. E. A. Abbott is home from a seven-week visit in the West with her sister, Mrs. W.P. Silva, at Carmen-By-The-Sea, California.

William Crutchfield and Edward Chapin have returned from the University of Pennsylvania for summer vacation.

Sunday, June 13

Miss Marjory Newell will return Wednesday from Atlanta where she has been the guest of Miss Irene Haggood.

Laura Voight is visiting Katherine Newell on Walden’s Ridge.

Thomas Carothers, Jr., will leave the first of July for Meridian, Miss., where he has accepted a position.

Monday, June 14

Dr. Kirby Smith has returned to the U.S. from Serbia where he has done valiant service in eradicating typhus. His home is in Sewanee, Tann.

“Nero” the eagle from the East lake zoo had been taken to Signal Mountain to be released. A country boy saw the eagle flying for a landing at “Hornet’s Nest” and killed Nero with a stone.

Tuesday, June 15

Mrs. E.P. Crawford announces the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter, Mary Frances, to Mr. Clyde Schlesinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Schlesinger of Hill City. The wedding will take place June 22.

Grady Varnell and Ralph Wardlaw of Chattanooga returned from an automobile trip to New York. They made a record in motoring, making the trip in five days in a new two-passenger car without any trouble with the exception of a few punctures.

Wednesday, June 16

Miss Mary Steward entertained with an afternoon bridge party at her home on Battery Place in honor of Miss Helen Kline, a June bride. Miss Katherine Kaufman and Miss Katherine Signiago assisted the hostess.

Two Chattanooga girls will graduate from colleges in Cambridge, Mass., this month. Miss Margaret Read from Smith College and Miss Margaret Ferger from Wellesley.

Mrs. C.M. Willingham entertained with a spend-the-day party Tuesday at her Lookout Mountain home. Her guests were Mrs. Corbett of Kentucky, Mrs. Coleman of Texas, Miss Sarah Atlee and Mrs. Nave of Chattanooga.

Thursday, June 17

By official orders from Washington, all the militia cavalry in the Southern States have been ordered to Fort Oglethorpe for a period beginning July 20 for 10 days training. The 12 troops form a regiment. They will bring their own equipment. The 11th Cavalry will furnish the horses and the training will be under regular Army officers.

Miss Margaret Dunlap, librarian of Carnegie Library, reported 200 new books have just been purchased and are catalogued. Many books by well-known authors are biographies, history, nature books, fiction and war literature.

Two Chattanooga golfers, D.S. Henderson and Garner Watkins, will play in the Championship Flight in Atlanta Friday.

Friday, June 18

Dr. J.A. Chambliss, who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Chambliss, has gone to Brownsville to visit. Later, he will visit his daughter, Mrs. Henry Caperton in Charleston, W. Va.

Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Frierson entertained their house party guests from Columbia, Nashville and Shelbyville, Tenn., with a party at the Casino at Signal Mountain Inn. Misses Susie Bell Frierson, Laura Voight, and Gertrude Llewellyn, dressed in white dresses and pink ribbons, served punch. An ice course was also served. A hundred guests were invited.

Mrs. W. C. Stephens and daughter, Anita, left Thursday for an extended trip through the Middle West and West.