Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
OAR. of St. Mary's Has
Many Washingtonians
At Ball and Card Party
Bushwood for Hunting Club
Holds Two Hunts. With
One on Susquehanna
Plantation.

LEONARDTOWN, Md, April Ii
The annual ball and card party given
by the Maj. william Thomas Chapter,
d. A. r., of st. MaTys County, was
held Monday night In the Hotel St.
Marys and was well attended and quite
a gay affair. A number Of guests at
tended from all parts of Southern
Maryland, as well as Washington and
Baltimore
The Bushwood Fox Hunting Club this
week held two hunts in the lower part
of st. Marys County, on Susquehanna
Plantation, the estate Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel D. Young, and were entertain
ed there by Mr.. and Mrs. MCGUIRE
Mattingly The first hunt was held
Sunday afternoon, starting at 2:30
O'Clock, with some 40 riders taking part
The fox ran to Hogg Island, and the
brush was made by Mrs. MCGUIRE Mat
tingly. Monday the second hunt was
held on the estate of Mr.. w. c. Potter
of Great Mills at 6 O'Clock in the morn
ing. The fox was raised near Slabb-
town and ran to st. MaryS City, where
the brush was made by Mr. Cleveland
Potter, who entertained the field of 20
riders at breakfast in his home after
the chase.
Friday night another thrilling moon
light fox hunt was held, starting at IL
..
The fox was raised and ran to Indian
town on the Wicomico and then ran
back toward Chaptico where the brush
was made on the estate of Mrs. A. S.
Gardiner by the master of hounds, Mr.
Edmund j. Plowden, jr., who has been
conducting all these hunts with his
pack Of English thoroughbred fox
hounds. The club challenges any club
to hunt with it in southern Maryland
for running live foxes. Another large
hunt Is being planned for Cobb Island.
Mr.. and Mrs. jefferson Stone Combs
of Washington will open their Summer
estate, Foxs Point. on Bretton's Bay,
May /. Mrs. Combs makes her Winter
home in Washington and recently re-
turned from a trip to Arizona and
California.
Dana Hodgdon, jr.. and his brother,
Hyatt Hodgdon, sons of A. Dana Hodg-
don of the State Department and
grandchildren Of State Senator and
Mrs. J. Allen Coad Of Chestnut Hill and
DR.. and Mrs. Alexander L. Hodgdon of
Dana on the PatuXant River, were
guests on Easter Monday of Peggy Ann
arr Herbert Hoover, Sd, grandchildren
OF President and Mrs. Herbert Hoover,
at the White House.
Mrs. Frederick Godcharles of Milton,
Pa, is spending this month on her
estate, EellCIIy.
Miss Constance Thompson, daughter
of Mrs. Frederick A. Cook of Oakley,
was among the student nurses to grad
uate from the Episcopal Eye. Ear and
Throat Hospital. in Washington, April
l. Miss Thompson will spend a year
at the hospital before taking up general
nursing.
Miss Thelma Frazier and her sister,
Miss Evelyn Frazier, both Of Baltimore.
and Miss Christine Combs of Wash
ington were the house guests of Mr..
and Mrs. J. w. Dent in Drayden over
the week
Among those attending the Easter
hop Saturday evening at the United
States Naval Academy was Miss Eliza
beth Hutchins, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George T. Hutchins, of Leonard
town. She was accompanied to- An
napolis by her mother, who spent the
week end with Mrs. Elizabeth Dorsey in
her Annapolis home.
Mrs. S. Paul Long of Clements enter