Evening star., 1935-11-17
Race Meet
Calls Many
To Leesburg
M i d d. e burg Hunt
One of Most Impor--
tant in East.


The interest of the society and sport
ing folk of this and nearby sections is
centered on Leesburg over the week
end and through Wednesday of next
week, when the annual Fall race meet
of the Middleburg Hunt will take place
today and Wednesday. The race meets
on the Glenwood course, on the D. G.
Sands estate. 1t is one of the most
important in the East and is one that
Is always looked forward to with the
keenest interest by steeplechase lovers
in this and other States. The visitors
who are ON hand for the affair will be
feted with teas. dinner parties, lunch
cons and dances. Mr.. and Mrs. Sands
and Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Iselin enter
tanned at luncheons before the races
this afternoon. Mrs. George Garret
will give tea following the races and
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney. Mr..
and Mrs. William Hubert, Mrs Silvie
Hazard and Mrs. Amory Perkins are
among those who had dinner parties.
The day is ending up with brilliant
hunt ball given at Covert by Miss
Charlotte holland. Mrs. William Hit
and Mrs. Thomas Davis.
A number of those who took part in
the festivities of today nave scarcely
had breathing spell since their par
ticipation in the events of the Madi-
son Square Garden Horse Show in
New York last week end Notable
among these is Mrs. John Hay Whit
ney, who had number of her famous
string of hunters on exhibition The
covered wagon, owned by Mrs. Nina
Carter Tabb and drawn by the white
oxen of Mrs Whitney was a feature
of the show Saturday night. A num-
Der of Loudoun County folk were
members of the troupe.
Mrs. Amory Perkins had as her
guest through the hunting season. at
her home here. Mrs Howard Lynn of
Chicago.
This week has witnessed the addi-
tion of another prominent family in
the Upperville and Middleburg neigh
borhoods, Admiral Cary T. Grayson
and his family, whose handsome new
residence has Just been completed.
The estate joins the estates of MIR.
Mrs. Isabel Sloane has recently
opened her Upperville home for sew
eral weeks
The Loudoun Hunt enjoyed a good
run Tuesday, with Miss Nancy Rust
and Mr.. William H. LipScomb as Joint
masters. Fox hunting by the various
hunts in the county has not been so
good lately because of the unseason-
able weather.
Miss Janet Harrison. daughter of
CommonWealth's Attorney and Mrs.
Charles F. Harrison of LeeSburg. took
part III the covered wagon exhibition
featured by Loudoun County folk at
the Madison Square Horse Show in
New York last week end
Mrs. John A. Gibson has returned to
her home following visit with her
son-in-laW and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Winthrop Sands, in Plainfield,
N. j.
Mrs. L. c. Rollins is spending some
weeks with her sister, Mrs. J. w. Bit
ger, in Tampa, Fla.
Miss Eleanor Brewer entertained at
q dinner party at her parents home
IN Purcellville Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. shiley Piggott of Pur-
cellville and Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Van
Devanter of Hamilton spent the week
end and Armistice day as guests of
Mrs. Piggott's sister and her husband
Prof. and Mrs. Kyle Westover. in
MorgantoWn. w. Va. Prof Westover is
member of the faculty of the Uni
versity of West Virginia at Morgan
town
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Boring and
their three children have returned to
their home at Lincoln from a two
weeks motor trip in Ohio and Ken
lucky, where they visited relatives
and where Mr.. Boring attended ses-
sion of the Friends Church n Rich
mond, Ind.
Mrs. Theodore Reid entertained at
an attractively arranged afternoon
bridge on Saturday afternoon at her
Hamilton home Her guests included
Mrs. Marian Singer, Mrs. Howard
Welsh, Mrs. J. H. Purcell, Mrs. j. S.
Patterson, Mrs. Fairy Sydnor,. Miss
Elizabeth Thomas, Mrs. o. L. Emer-
lex. Mrs. Fred Best, Mrs. Charles
Ford, Mrs. Samuel c. Graham, Mrs.
Jean Miller, Mrs. H. w. Beatty, Miss
Mary Simpson, Miss Mary Nichols,
Mrs. N. Guy Miller, Mrs. Herbert H.
Cooley, Mrs. R. Chamblain Steele,
Mrs. A. LIE Ribble, Mrs Derry Tribby,
Mrs. j. B. Hackley, Miss Lucille Best,
Miss Myrtle Baber, Mrs. Howard
James, Mrs. w. S. Frances and Mrs.
w. H. Turner, jr.
Miss Mary Hannah Kerrick enter
tained at a miscellaneous shower at
the Bluemont School auditorium Mon
day, in compliment to her brother
and her sister-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs
Marian Kerrick, whose marriage took
place in Cumberland Saturday. Mrs
Kerrick was before her marriage, Mrs
Roma Butler Marcus, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. David Butler of Bluemont.
Mr.. Kerrick is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Kerrick of Bluemont
Over hundred guests were invited to
meet Mr.. and Mrs. Kerrick.
A number of Loudoun County
sportsmen attended the National Cap
itol field trials near Rockville, Md,
last week. Included in the party
were Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Frances,
Mr.. and Mrs. r. j. McCray and
Contee L. Adams of Hamilton; Car
rol Hirst of Purcellville and Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Thomas of Round Hill.
Miss Sally Curtis, student of Miss
Maderia's School, near Washington,
was the week end guest of her
father, Mr.. w. B. Curtis, and her
grandmother, Mrs. w. S. T. Curtis, at
Round Hill
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