Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07
Strawberry Festival
Il Benehting Hospital
~ Held in Leonardtowr
Miss Dorothy Grason Enter
tains for Southern Mary
land Colonial Danes.

1EONARDTOWN, Md, June g.
Thursday the annual strawberry fes-
tival for the benefit of the st. Mary S
Hospital was held in Leonardtown on
the court house lawn, and was splen-
didly attended. A card party was held
in the court house in connection with
the festival
were Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Williams Of
Washington and London, England, the
former, a well known painter, who is
spending the Summer at picturesque
old Summerseat, the estate of the Cos
tigan family. where he is working on
some landscape painting. Later he
will sail for Europe and attend the
British Royal Academy of Arts exhibit,
CT which he is president returning to
Washington in November to attend
some art exhibit there. Recently Mr..
williams has formed an art society
similar to that of the Royal Academy
of Arts of England. of which he is a
director. While abroad he will visit
Paris.
On June 5 Mrs. George P. Wiggin-
ton, with her family, George, Robert,
Richard Wigginton and Miss Margaret
WiggintCn, sailed from New York for
a month tour of Europe. They
will visit England and Wales, and then
places of interest there. Young Robert
Wigginton on their return in Septem-
Der, will continue his course at George
town University. Their new home be-
ing built on the old home site, on the
Belvidere plantation on the lower Po-
tomac. is expected to be completed the
latter part of August. 1t will be of a
moorish type of architecture, built on
a kncll which commands beautiful
&c HI,1 EAf0
Miss Dorothy Grason, daughter Of
former State Senator Charles Grason
Of Cross Manor, the oldest home in
MARYLAND, held reception Saturday
evening in honor of the Southern
MARYLAND Colonial Danes, who were
making a tour of many historical
places in Southern Maryland and st.
Marys County. The party was headed
by its president, Mrs. Frank j. Parran
of Baltimore. On Sunday the party
of 20 was Joined by so more members,
headed by Mrs Duncan K Brent
president of the Federated Garden
Clubs Of Maryland, at Rock P2lnt::
Charles County, and there the party of
more than 70 went aboard U. 5.
Government boat and cruised down
the Potomac River to BlacklstoneS
Island. the first site of the landing OF
the first settlers of Maryland in 1854,
where the Colonial DANES plan to
plant an Ancestral Garden. The plants
and shrubs will be contributed and
collected from all the old gardens in
MARYLAND and wherever possible will
be the original plants brought from
England. This garden is being pre-
pared for the tercentenary, to be held
here in 1884 in COmmemoratlon OF the
landing of the two ships. the Ark and
Dove. Mrs Parran is a llneal descend
ant of Thomas Gerard, to whom Ce-
celius Calvert gave the patent of st.
Clements, ST. Margarets and B!ackl-
stones Island and that of River
Springs, including some $4,000 acres,
IN the year 1884.
DR.. and Mrs. H. E. Rou of Washing
ton, who are spending some time at
their cottage at Brettons Beach on
Brettons Bay, had as their guests this
week end DR.. and Mrs. John Miller
of Washington. Mrs. Emma Deal OF St.
Louis and Miss B. Schlicher of Wash
ington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erskine Clements and
Mr.. and Mrs. Jewell Cheatham of Hen
derson, N c., visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel D. Young at their estate, Sus-
nuehanna Plantation. on the Chesapeake
Bay. at Pearson, Md, for few days
this week.
Capt and Mrs. Walter H. B. Wise,
with Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Love, jr., of
Ieonardtown on Saturday we're among
those who motored to Mt. Vernon.
An attractively arranged wedding of
interest was that of Miss Helen Celeste
Latham, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. c.
Latham of Clements, to Mr. Joseph
Aloysious Bowles. son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles w BoWles of Loveville near
here. which took place at st. Joseph's
Roman Catholic Church in Morganza.
May 27 at 7:30 am. with the nuptial