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Front Page - Friday, February 7, 2014

100 Years Ago ...


What was going on in Chattanooga in 1914?



Saturday, February 7

At a meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the following standing committee for membership was named: Chariman, L.G. Gibson, F.W. Fritts, Hugh S. Thompson, Stanley Lachman, W.A. McClure, Ed E. Brown, Marcus Schwartz, F.M. Keys, C.A. Betts, Malone Everett, Corbin Woodward, and John P. Fort, Jr. President Earl M. Wester presided.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller have taken an apartment in the Robinson on Georgia Avenue.

Mr. and Mrs. D.M. Steward left for Jacksonville, Fla., where they will join Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Gahagan and go to St. Petersburg for a stay.

Sunday, February 8

Mrs. Sanborn Chamberlain and Miss Helen Wright will compliment their guest, Miss Rose Ivens of New Orleans, with a party this week. 

Monday, February 9

“Bull Moosers” from all over Tennessee will meet today at the Patten Hotel in a statewide conference. Harry G. Anderson of Memphis is chairman. There will be from 250 to 500 Progressives attending.

Miss Laurene Moore is in Nashville visiting her sister, Mrs. Humphrey Timothy. She will return home the last of the month.

Mrs. Bruce Crabtree has gone to Nashville to visit her parents.

Tuesday, February 10

Miss Margaret Exum, the guest of Miss Mamie Bright, will go to Atlanta for a visit before returning to her home in Lexington, Ky.

Miss Franklin Chauncey, who is visiting Mrs. Ailene Nance in Atlanta, is being much feted. A lovely picture of Miss Chauncey appeared in Sunday’s Atlanta Journal.

Mrs. F.F. Andrews and sons and Miss Hattie Grange are spending the winter in Oakland, Calif.

Wednesday, February 11

Ellis and Dewey Bass entertained with a hearty dice party last night at their home, with 40 young people invited.

Senator Lewis S. Pope of Jasper is in Chattanooga on business.

Thursday, February 12

Mrs. Lucy Mueller Morgan of Atlanta will take charge of the English Tea Room in the Flatiron Building. Mrs. W.B. Royster, who first opened the tea room, will leave for Griffin, Ga., to join her husband.

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Patten and Miss Edith Isabelle Patten will leave Friday for New York.

Col. W.E.F. Milburn, Quartermaster of the National Soldiers’ Home in Johnson City, will be the speaker for the Sons of Veterans banquet meeting tonight at the Hotel Patten honoring Lincoln’s birthday. S. Bartow Strang, A.L. Key, and J.H. Anderson are in charge.

Friday, February 13

Prof. Cadek held a reception in the Conservatory of Music in honor of Madame Nellie Melba, who appeared here in concert with Jan Kubelik. Mrs. Morris Temple assisted in receiving. Prof. Cadek’s pupils were invited to meet the distinguished guest.