Evening star., 1943-01-17
Bethesda.L Lo0er Montgomery County
Neighborhood Party Invitation
Reminds Guests Still Have Feet
Francis Hills Ease Transportation
Curb by Novel Bid to Reception

MFR. and Mrs. Francis w. Hill, jr
Of Kenwood solved the problem o
wartime entertaining the other da,
when they sent this message to somt
Of their neighbors:
II your friends you ,Uatt to meet,
Though car lacks gdS-you still
haze feet.
So come, my dedrS, and drink
right hearty
At the Francis Hills neighbor-
hood party.
Sunday, 5 to 7.
The reverse side of the invitation
shows the Hill home on Highland
avenue with penciled sketches of the
guests arriving on foot.
The Hill tea this afternoon, as
the invitation implies, is strictly q
neighborhood party and is to be 8
get-to-gether of the Hills and theil
Kenwood friends. Guests will be OF
course, only those within walking OF
bicycling distance of the Hill home
At another party this afternoon
Miss Joan Spencer will entertain in
honor of Miss Ruth Raymond whose
marriage to Mr.. Ulrich Geller will
take place next Thursday. Like the
party at the Hills, Miss Spencer's tea
will also be a neighborhood party
with the guest list limited to the
school friends of the hostess and the
guest of honor and few additional
guests from Edgemoor where both
girls live.
Mrs. Richard A. Spencer will assist
her daughter in receiving the guests
and in charge of the tea table will
be the hostess sister, Miss Peggy
Spencer, a first year student at Dun
barton College, and Miss Margaret
West.
Miss Raymond's mother, Mrs
Walter F. Raymond will also be a
guest at the tea.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren w. Bailey of
Chevy Chase Gardens had guests
last evening for a late supper and
three tables of bridge.
Mrs. Joseph Orr of Brookdale en-
tertained at luncheon Friday with
Mrs. Davis Weir, Mrs. Paul Williams,
Mrs. Dwight E. Avis, Mrs. Marvin
Johnston, Mrs. Stanley O'Connor,
Mrs. Don Smith, Mrs. Sibley Everitt,
Mrs. Joseph G. Cooper and Mrs.
Virgil Good as her guests.
Col. and Mrs. J. L. Gilbreth of
Battery Park have received word of
the approaching marriage of their
niece, Miss Betty Jane Howard of
Chicago, to Mr.. John Hill, now in
the u. S. Army, which will take
place some time in February. Miss
Howard has visited Col. and Mrs.
Gilbreth several times and has met
many of their friends. She was in
Battery Park last summer with two
of her school friends with whom
she had taken bicycle trip through
New England.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert L. Saunders
are back at their home in Bethesda
after months absence, during
which they visited Mrs. Saunders
rother-in-law and sister, DR.. and
Mrs. H. L. Richardson, in st. Peters,
burg, Fla. MIR. and Mrs. Saunders
also spent a few days in Miami
with DR.. and Mrs. G. o. Grubb and
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Wenner, who
formerly lived In Rockville.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. Buzzerd of
Berkeley Springs, w. Va, went to
Florida with MIR. and Mrs. Saunders
and are remaining In Bradenton
until early In the spring.
Mrs. Thomas p. Bones, IT,, of
Bethesda has gone to Texas to join
Mr.. Bones, who is in defense work
In Houston.
Visitors in Bethesda this week are
DR.. Ludwig Hechtoen of Chicago,
who is here for a short time and is
the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. r. r.
Spencer at the National Institute
of Health; Miss Jane Pearson,
public health nurse at Ellis Island,
who is the guest of her sisters, Mrs.
Clair Barnes and Miss Mary Pear