Lone Scouting, an organization that permits boys to join Scouting even if they cannot regularly make meetings, developed in 1915 as a brainchild of W.D. Boyce.  Perhaps because Scoutmaster recruitment was difficult, Lone Scouting sprouted in Chattanooga as early as July 1917.  Although Lone Scouting was not incorporated as an official program of the Boy Scouts of America until 1924, at least one Lone Scout in Chattanooga was helping with the war effort.  Lone Scout James Brockman, who lived at 710 Georgia Avenue in Chattanooga, authored a short column in Lone Scout magazine on July 14, 1917:

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Now is the time everybody can do his bit for his country.  I am doing by bit by having a garden. I made my garden so we might have plenty of food. Every Lone Scout should have a garden. Have plenty of food so as to put down high prices.  Some Lone Scouts are not old enough to help the country by joining the Navy or Army. But they can other ways. I am making a garden because I think it will help as I am not old enough to join the Army or Navy. But I am old enough to join the garden makers. In my garden I aim to help my country by tending to it, and having plenty to eat.

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Another Lone Scout, Cooper Dyer of 415 Chestnut Street, wrote to Lone Scout magazine with an accompanying picture:

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I am sending you a picture of the incline up Lookout Mountain. I took the picture myself. This railroad is the steepest in the world. It took about two and a half years to build it. This picture shows only half of the incline. The little house at the right is the half-way station, half-way from the top of the mountain. From the top of this mountain you can see seven States. There is a million-dollar museum there which is very interesting.

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Lone Scouts existed in Chattanooga until at least 1932.