Saturday, June 17, 1916
H.D. Watts & Co. of Atlanta was awarded the contract for construction of Volunteer Life Insurance Company building. The bid was $380,000. The building will be erected at 9th Street and Georgia Ave., where the L.J. Sharp Funeral Home Co. is located.
Miss Wessie Bowen, who graduated at Randolph-Macon in Virginia, has returned home.
Prof. S.J. McCallie and party have returned from a camping trip to the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina. The party was composed of Fleming Meek, Henry Trotter, William Jenkins, Ward Reilly, John Andrews, and Bob Strauss.
Sunday, June 18
Major R.B. Stegall has received an interesting letter from his son, Caroll Stegall, a Presbyterian missionary in the heart of Africa. He tells of his journey through Africa. His wife and baby daughter are with him. Stegall is a graduate of Central High and Georgia Tech.
Misses Anne and Carey Van Dyke will go to Walden’s Ridge for a visit with Mrs. D.M. Key and Miss Margaret Key.
According to Army leaders, war with Mexico seems unavoidable. Gen. James Parker, commanding at Brownsville, says the cavalry is scouring the border for Mexican bandits. Gen. Parker is well-known here, as he was commander at Fort Oglethorpe.
Monday, June 19
President Wilson has called the militia of “all states” to the colors for service at the Mexican border. War vessels have been sent to the coast of Mexico. The Chattanooga Guard is ready. Its leaders are: Major C. Fred Brown, 1st Batallion; Capt. Ernest Bell, Company K; and Capt. D.M. McMillian, Troop B Company. In a wire from the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, Adolph and Van Dyke Ochs, members of Troop B, who were on their way to Japan, said “Trip to the Orient is off if you need us.”
Mrs. J. Roy Baylor, who is in Richmond, Va., will go to North Carolina to visit her sister, Miss Kate Howard. She will also visit Mrs. C.A. Benscoter in Knoxville before returning.
Tuesday, June 20
The first man to report for enlistment in Troop B was Clyde McCollum. He enlisted in the infantry, but was transferred to the cavalry last night. The young man’s weight appeared at first not to equal his patriotism, but he passed the medical test.
Mrs. Charles R. Hyde was unanimously elected president of the Chattanooga’s Writer’s Club. Miss Sarah Ruth Frazier is first vice president, Miss Hannah Boyle is secretary, Miss Katherine Vaughn is treasurer, Mrs. C.E. Buek is chairman of membership, and Mrs. M.B. Littleton is program chairman.
Wednesday, June 21
Members of Tyner Baptist Church will celebrate Homecoming Day next Sunday with special services and programs. Tyner Baptist is the oldest religious organization in Hamilton County. Dr. T.N. Eblen, a pillar of the church, is Homecoming chairman. Dr. J.D. Bethune is pastor. Judge Lewis Shepherd will give a history of the church. Will Shepherd will sing “One Sweetly Solemn Thought,” and Rev. W.F. Powell will preach.
Leslie Rawlings, member of the Atlanta Constitution staff, has returned to Atlanta after spending his vacation here with Robert Jones.
Miss Cora Stratton entertained with an afternoon tea at her home on Poplar Street for her niece, Miss Carol Stratton, a bride-elect.
Thursday, June 22
Two local nurses are subject to call and ready to respond in case of war. They are Miss Ethel Creekmore, superintendent of nurses at Erlanger Hospital, and Miss Margaret Penland, supervisor of the operating room at Erlanger.
Mrs. Sam E. Whitaker is with Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Chambliss while Mr. Whitaker is at military training camp.
Miss Katherine Bynum has returned from a visit in Corinth, Miss.
Friday, June 23
Misses Grace Dobbs and Lillian Blansett will leave soon for Washington, Philadelphia, and New York. They will attend summer school at Columbia University.
Miss Mamie Bright will leave for Greenwich, Conn., where she will give instruction for six weeks in Fairhope Summer School of Organic Education for Primary Students. The school is conducted by Miss Marietta Johnson. Miss Bright is head of Bright’s School for Children in Chattanooga.
Miss Susie Bell Frierson is the guest of Miss Eleanor Williams on Walden’s Ridge.