September 6
The largest social affair of the summer season will be the Kappa Alpha fraternity dance at the Country Club. The college set and their friends will be the guests. A midnight supper will be served.
Lyle West, Sam Connelly, William Anderson and James Cash have returned to the University of Virginia.
Sunday, September 7
A gay whirl in the social season this winter is anticipated. There will be 30 debutantes presented, and much interest is aroused.
The home of Lawrence Roberson, Clerk and Master of Marion County, in Jasper was burned to the ground at the noon hour. Friends and neighbors formed a bucket brigade and helped to save some of the household effects. It was a new home and valued at $5,000.
Monday, September 8
This is the final week for arrangements for the G.A.R. Encampment. The battle of Missionary Ridge will be enacted. The military committee is under the guidance of Cap’t J.F. Shipp, Quartermaster General of the United Confederate Veterans. The parade will be directed by Major W.J. Bass. The 17th Infantry, stationed at Fort McPherson, will be stationed in Jackson Park for the week, leaving for Camp Perry Ohio Rifle Range from here. Col. J.T. Van Arsdale is in command.
Miss Fanie Wassman will leave this week for a visit in Albany, Ga.
Miss Harriet Grange leaves Monday to visit friends in Tulsa, Okla. From there, she will go to Oakland, Calif., to spend the winter with relatives.
Tuesday, September 10
Miss Tommy Duffy and Miss Eula Jarnigan are enjoying a trip on the Great Lakes. They are expected home Sunday.
Silas Williams of South Carolina is the guest of Phil Whitaker. He is a graduate of Sewanee and Harvard.
Miss Zillah Johnson of Gainesville, Ga., will be the guest of Miss Whitlow Betterton for the reunion. She will go to Rome, Ga., from Chattanooga to attend Shorter College.
Wednesday, September 10
Frank M. Thompson has been endorsed by the local Bar Association for election as State Attorney General. Gen. C.T. Cates, Jr., of Knoxville is planning to resign from that post to give his full time to his law firm. He is a member of the firm of Shields and Mountcastle.
The Baylor-Couts School has opened its first term under the new name. Prof. J. Roy Baylor of Baylor School has Prof. Couts as his partner. Prof. Alex Guerry and Prof. Huff have joined the faculty.
Mrs. Frank Carden and children have returned from Lebanon, Tenn., where they spent the summer with Mrs. Carden’s mother, Mrs. Campbell.
Thursday, September 11
Mrs. James Gager entertained Wednesday with an informal party at her home in Battery Place in honor of Mrs. Julius Young Talmadge of Athens, Ga. Her guests were members of the M.A.C. Club and other close friends. The club was formed when they were school girls.
Miss Ruth Dayton and Miss Edith Isabel Patten are guests of Mrs. Shackleford on Walden’s Ridge.
Friday, September 12
Harry Loaring Clark and Lawrence Faucette have returned from a hiking trip to Sewanee.
Miss Myra Herron is down from Walden’s Ridge for a few days’ visit with Miss Ernie Nixon.
Miss Alice Huffaker has gone to Murfreesboro, Tenn., to attend school.
Miss Eleanor Salmon is ill at home on Mission Ridge.
Col. Fred Phillips and staff officers of Nashville will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. F.H. Phillips during the G.A.R. Encampment.
Chattanooga’s immense new motordrome will open tonight with myriads of lights and flashes of fire for the opening. The racing cyclists will use the new saucer track located on Rossville Boulevard. Morton Graves, champion “Speed King” from the Pacific coast, and Race Renel from France, will be among the championship riders.
The “Old General” has had a bath and is oiled and tightened up for the G.A.R. Reunion. Survivors of the Andrew’s Raiders will probably join in the repeat trip through North Georgia. Although The General has been standing in the Union Station for 50 years, it is ready to run again.
Col. and Mrs. W.R Crabtree, Misses Virginia Isbester and Martha Davenport, left for a trip to New York and Maine. Miss Isbester will enter Castle-on-the-Hudson School this fall.