Evening star., 1943-07-18
Befhesdn.L .Lou,er Montgomery County
Community Fireplace Subbers
And Swimming Parties Popular

Not having the vacation diver
sions Of other years, Bethesda resi-
dents are exercising great resource
fulness in finding new ways of en-
joying themselves during the warm
months.
Fireplace suppers came into
vogue here several years ago and
are increasingly popular this year.
One congenial group, the Francis
Hills and the jerome F. Barrarcs
of Kenwood, walk over to the Pres
ton C. King home in Glenbrook ire
quently for cook-out suppers and
linger on after supper for an nour
or two of pleasant conversation.
Out at the Glen the swimming
parties have begun again at the
Piney Branch pool. Among those
who frequent the pool on week ends
are Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton. Knox,
Mr.. and Mrs. MINER Hostetler, Mr..
and Mrs. F. Moran McConihe, Mr..
and Mrs. Francis B. Leech. and Mr..
and Mrs. Jennings Bailey and Capt.
and Mrs. Richard r. Quay some
times join them for an hour or two
in the evening.
Mrs. KnoX's niece. Miss Barbara
Ramey, has spent considerable time
in the Glen since she came nome
in June after her graduation from
Southern Seminary, Buena Vista,
Va. and she often joins the others
at the swimming parties.
Another popular swimming place
these hot days is the pool at Manns-
field, the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Page
Hufty on River road. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hufty occasionally invite friends to
be their weekend guests and enjoy
| the swimming.
Visitors still come and 60 in the
Bethesda neighborhood with just
about the same regularity as in the
old days. There is much less en-
tertaining for these guests from
out of town than in other years,
but there is, nevertheless, enough
social life to make their stay in the
community very pleasant.
A guest in the WeStmoreland Hills
section this week is Mrs. A. L. Jones
Of Brooklyn, who will be with Col.
and Mrs. Norman B. Ames until the
end of the month.
Mrs. William P. Wehan of Erie,
Pa, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Arthur
W. Motley, in Chevy Chase Gardens.
Mrs. F. NJ Seely of Ann Arbor,
Mich, is the guest of her son-in-law
and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. Norman
Garvin of Alta Vista
Maj. Carleton Zimmerman and
Mrs. Zimmerman have come from
Boston to spend the summer at the
home of DR.. and Mrs. Walter w.
Boyd on River road.
Mrs. Jerome C. Shear left yester-
day to spend month at Lake Jane,
Wis, with DR.. and Mrs. j. w. Sturm-
er Of Philadelphia. On her return
trip Mrs. Shear will stop at Eliza
beth, N. j., for a short visit with
Mrs. Charles Morris, whose husband.
the late Col. Morris. placed the
plindfold on the man who drew the
first number in the draft in the
Great War. Col. Morris was in
Washington again at the time of the
first drafs in the present war and he
placed the blindfold on Secretary of
War Henry L. Stimson, who selected
the first man to be called for service.
Mrs. Thomas Albert Fenton, who
has spent the winter and spring
with her son and daughter -in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Howard Evans, on
Wilson lane, has gone to Hamilton,
N. Y. to spend the month and at
the end of her visit there she will 60
to Brantford, Ontario Province,
Canada, to stay through the coming
winter.
Mrs. Curtis Dawes and her two
daughters, Betsey and Sue, are leav-
ing within few days for Evanston
ILL.,, to stay while Comdr. Dawes is
on duty with the Navy. For part of
the past week Comdr. and Mrs
Dawes have had the formers father
Mr.. Henry Dawes, a brother of
former Vice President Charles
Dawes, as their guest.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles C. Hubbard
of Bethesda are spending their va
cation at Lake Geneva, Wis.
Mrs Earle H. Kennard has gone to
Ithaca, N. Y, to stay unit, the first
week in August Mrs. Kennard lived
in Ithaca before her husband, pro-
fessor of physics at Cornell Univer-
sity, was called to Washington to
take position at the David Taylor
Model Basin.
While in Ithaca Mrs. Kennard is
renewing her interest in some Of
the organizations In which she took