Evening star., 1930-12-07
Old-Time Homes Near
Leonardtown Closed
For the Winter Period
Owners to Reside in Wash
insson Until Spring-So-
ciety Events Listed as
Featuring Thanksgiving
Week.

LEoNARDTowN, Nd, December g.
Many of the picturesque and colonial
homes in st. Marys and Southern Mary
land were closed after the Thanksgiv-
ing holidays, and the owners now are
spending the Winter months In Wash
ington at the many hotels and apart
ment hotels until Spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. James s. Carr Of Pine
Shadows, st. Marys City, who have
spent the Spring, Summer and late Fall
at their estate on the historic st. Marys
River, closed their home for the VIM
ter the first OF the week, and have taken
an apartment at the Cairo Hotel in
Washington. They will reopen their
home the first of April.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Williams OF Lon
don and washington were the week end
guests of Mrs. r. 8. Sutton and Miss
Di Costigan at their charming old Sum-
merseat plantation at Laurel Grove,
which Is one of the oldest estates in st.
MaryS, dating back to Revolutionary
times Mr. Williams is a noted portrait
painter, and has produced portraits OF
Pope Plus TX and the Prince of Wales.
He also has been asked by President
Hoover to make a portrait of the First
author Of delightful novel, THE Spirit
Of the House.
Miss Catherine Robert of Frederick,
Md; Miss Alberta Kuhns Of Wander
grift, Pa; Miss Bertha Shafer and Mr..
Ray Shafer of Chevy Chase, Md, were
house guests of Misses Virginia and
Mary Blair Lane on their parents es-
tate, Lanedon, on the Potomac at
Valley Lee, Thanksgiving week. The
Misses Lane are students at Hood Col
leee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Wilcox of Park
Hall moved Monday into historic Tudor
Hall Mansion overlooking Brettons Bay,
on the Key estate at Leonardtown.
When the mansion has been renovated
and redecorated slightly Mrs. Wilcox ex-
pects to open an inn at Tudor Hall. She
numbers among her friends many of
the diplomatic set and those closely re-
lated to the Nations affairs in Wash
angton and Baltimore society.
The MechanicSville Fox Hunting Club,
after a lapse Of 80 years, is being re-
vived, and Saturday held its first hunt,
with Mr.. zack Graves acting as master
of 35 walker, KY, bluegrass hounds
that trailed the fox. The runs started at
Prices and continued to The Plains,
home OF Col. r. H. Sothoron on the
Patuxent River, where the brush was
taken by Miss Edith Graves, who rode
her mount, Titanic. 1t is being arranged
to hold hunt, if possible, every Satur-
day morning. The Saturday chase was
attended by some IS hunters.
Rev. and Mrs. NJ. A. Baker Of Tay-
lorsvtlle, Md, formerly of Leonardtown,
were week end guests of Mrs. Bakers
sister, Mrs. Claude Jarboe of Hermans-
vile. The Rev. Mr.. Baker for the past
six years was pastor of st. Paul's M. E.
Church in Leonardtown, ending his
term In June.
Canon and Mrs Joseph Fletcher OF
Washington were dinner guests Monday
of the Rev. and Mrs, Frederick A. Cook
Of Oakley. Mr.. Fletcher is on the staff
Of the National Cathedral in Washing
ton.
Thanksgiving night the annual dance
and card party of st. Mary's Academy
alunnae was held at Hotel st. Mary's,
and was well attended. Some II tables
Of bridge were occupied. Many Of the
younger set of the county and Leonard
town attended the dance.
Saturday morning the annual ban
quet Of st. Mary's Academy alumnae
was held at the academy in Leonard
town, business meeting preceding the
banquet. Mrs. William Meveren Loker,
wife Of Judge Loker Of LeonardtoWn,
was elected president for 1891: vice
president, Mrs. william II. Gardiner of
Chaptico; treasurer, Mrs B. 3. Love,
tr.; corresponding secretary, Miss Mir
lam Drury. and recording secretary,
Mrs. Thomas A. Mckay, all of Leonard
town. At pm. the banquet was
served to 81 alumnae attending, and
bridge followed. Mrs. B. B. Love, IT,,
Of Leonardtown and Mrs. Roy Guyther
OF Mechanicsville won the bridge
prizes.
Thursday Mr.. and Mrs. B. B. Love,
S., In their old home, Meadow Brook,
as Morgann. were hosts at large home
coming for their children and relatives
Mrs. John Rule, wife of DR.. Rule OF
st. Louis, Mo-, and prominent in So
ciety circles there, accompanied by her
friend, Mrs. c. D. Grove, also of that
city, spent several days as guests OF