Saturday, August 23
The total registration in Hamilton County will probably reach only 8,000. Four precinct books are not in yet. The total in the city is 4,259. Not quite 5,000 of the 10,000 voters in Chattanooga have qualified during the general registration.
Cashier J.P. Hoskins of First National Bank has been elected president of the Chattanooga Clearing House for the ensuing year. Herbert Bushnell, vice president of Citizens National Bank, was elected vice president of the Clearing House, W.A. Sadd, president of Chattanooga Savings Bank, was re-elected secretary, and F.A. Nelson was re-elected manager.
Sunday, August 24
During the G.A.R. reunion in September, a spectacular event will be staged in Warner Park. Two 60-ton locomotives going at a speed of 50 mph will come in collision within sight of thousands of spectators. This feature will be staged at the cost of $10,000. About 4,000 feet of trackage will be built directly in front of the grandstand, but several hundred feet away for safety. Hayes Brummett and Wallace Bathman are promoters of the big spectacular.
The Light House, formerly the Hamilton House and originally St. James Hotel, 533-539 Market Street at the corner of Sixth, has been sold conditionally for $100,000 by Howell Graham and Luther Williams to Mike A. Timothy of Timothy Dry Goods Co. Mr. Howell said he and Mr. Williams paid $51,000 for the property three years ago. The deal was handled by R.C. Sauls. Real estate men consider this sale as a good example of what may be expected of Market Street property.
Monday, August 25
The Rev. Robert B. Stansell, vice president of the University of Chattanooga, will be the head of that institution for the coming year, according to present indications. No successor to President John H. Race will be chosen until the next regular meeting of the Board of Trustees, which will be held at the end of the 1913-14 session. One of the leading members of the board said ex-president Race, although removed to Cincinnati, is ready to give the university and whomsoever might be temporarily at its head the benefit of his advice during the coming year.
Tuesday, August 26
Monday marked the second sale in two days of Market Street property north of Seventh Street. Two lots, Nos. 512-514, fronting 50-feet on Market Street, were sold by P.A. Smith to C.A. Brelsford and wife and Lewis Duncan for $41,000, which is a little more than $800 a front foot. Mr. Brelsford is manager of the Grand Hotel and Mr. Duncan is a well-known real estate agent who engineered the deal.
County authorities alive to the fact that Walnut Street Bridge is of insufficient capacity to care for the heavy traffic will get busy at once looking to the amendment of the bridge bond acts heretofore passed by the legislature so as to provide a rate of interest that will make bonds attractive and to divert as much of the total necessary to widen and strengthen the bridge, which is now over 31 years old.
Wednesday, August 27
W.F. Kalb, local representative of R.G. Dunn & Co., has been named representative of the government in applying the crop moving fund awarded to this city to facilitate the movement and marketing of crops. Mr. Kalb is a recognized authority on commercial paper as well as other securities. Tennessee so far has been allowed $1,950,000, with $300,000 in three Chattanooga banks: First National, Hamilton National and Citizens National.
Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Johnston of Cleveland, Tenn., announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Mary Ruth, to Dr. Carl Thomas Speck, popular young physician of Cleveland. The wedding will take place in late winter. Miss Johnston is a niece of James F. Johnston of Chattanooga and is a frequent visitor.
Members of the First Baptist Church and other special friends of Miss Byrd Stapp gathered in the parlors of the church Tuesday night to bid her farewell on the eve of her leaving for Dayton, Ohio to assume duties as pastor’s helper in the First Baptist Church of that city, where Dr. J.C. Masse is now pastor. Miss Stapp served in that capacity here when Dr. Masse was pastor of the First Church.
Thursday, August 28
Henry H. Souder, 80, one of Chattanooga’s oldest and most highly respected citizens, died Wednesday afternoon at his home on East Fifth Street after a long illness. He came to Chattanooga 40 years ago from Tiffin, Ohio, and has been a well-known merchant on Market Street for many years.
Friday, August 29
Chattanooga will wear gala attire for the forthcoming G.A.R. reunion. O.K. LeBron, chairman of the decorating committee, has awarded a contract to W.H. Dodd for decorating downtown streets and buildings. He will use United States flags exclusively. Mr. LeBron asks that all homes display flags for the occasion.
According to orders from headquarters of the Department of the East, the 11th Cavalry will not parade in Chattanooga during the reunion except the guard left at Fort Oglethorpe. The rest of the regiment is at Cavalry Rendezvous in Virginia.