Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1931, Page 46

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, GCTOBER 11, 1931—PART THREE. Edelen-Owens Weddindl Will Unite Prominent Families in Maryland Ceremony Will Take Place Saturday Afternoon in Bry- antown. & LEONARDTOWN, Md, Oct. 10.—An engagement of unusual interest an- nounced in Southern Maryland, which unites two prominent old families, is that of Miss Frances Forbes Edelen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Edelen of Bryantown, Charles County, to Mr. G. French Owens, son of Mrs. Owens and the late Dr. G. French Owens of Chaptico in St. Marys County. | | The wedding will take place at the home of the bride's parents in Bryan- town Saturday afternoon: at- 4 o'clock, October 24 of honor her sist-r, Miss Betty Gill Ede- len. The bridegroom will have as his best man his younger brother, Mackubin T. Owens, county. She will have as her mald]. Mr. ! a cadet of the, Charlotte Hell Military School, this' Mrs. Roy Guyther and Miss Maude Jarbde of Mechanicsville, Mrs. Fred- erick Godcharles, Mr. and Mrs. Sprigg Reeves of Chaptico, Mr. John Reeder and his two daughters Miss Harriet Reeder of Morganza and Mrs. Cecilia xu&m of Washington, and Miss Lettie Marshall Dent, Miss Kate Dent and Miss Louise Dent -of Oakley, Md. Mrs. Raymond Slagle of Leonard- ) Mrs. A. D. Burr Priday afternoon gave a six-table bridge luncheon in her home, Charlotte Hall. Those get- ting high scores were Mrs. Roy Guy- ther, Mrs. William G. Gardiner of | Chaptico, Mrs. George C. Peverly and { Mrs. Theodore Harrison. | _Legislator Philip H. Dorsey and Mrs, Dorsey and young son left early Sun- day morning by motor for St. Louis, town left Sunday to spend two weeks | Mo., to be the guests of Mrs. Dorsey's with relatives in Johnstown, Pa. A miscellaneous shower and supper of Mechanicsville, for her niece, Miss Catherine Trice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Trice | to visit his brother, Mr. Albert Kram- Thirty guests at- | mer, there. her former home at | parents, Dr. and Mrs. John Rule, Mrs. Rule is a prominent soclety leader in | 8t. Louis and very active in the Red ross chapters of that eity. Mr. Louis Nathanson of Leonard- | town left Mcnday for Winchester, Va., Young C. Whitney Abell, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Ethelbert Abell of Pla- centia, in Medley's Neck, entertained at dinner and celebrated his tenth birthday anniversary Sunday. Twelve of his classmates were guests. Mrs, Joseph H. Key of Washington will be the house guest of Mrs. George W. Joy in her home, Town's End, on the Washington Boulevard, through this month. Mrs. Roger Richardson and Mrs. Nettie Morgan of Leonardtown enter- tained in their home Saturday evening at a 16-table card party for the benefit of the Leonaidtown Volunteer Fire De- partment. Mr. and Mrs, S. Charles Wilson of Washington were the house guests Sat- urday and Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Knight in their home, the Car- roll Cottage, in Leonardtown. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Abell of Bay- side entertained at a shore dinner Sun- day in honor of Miss Helen Miller, Mr. Richard Jones and Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Voght and their son Canton Voght, jr., all of Washington. Mr. Harry Fenwick of Colonial Beach, Va. paid his annual visit to his old home town Saturday and Sun- day and went on a fishing trip with Mr. Bascon Brown of Washington and Eg;;nmnmu A. McKay of Leonard- My, and Mrs. P. Wiseman of Balti- more and Miss Corrine Peverly of Washington and Mrs, Stephen V. King of Leonardtown were the guests over G. | Saturday and Sunday of former State Senator George Peverly and Mrs. Pev- erly in their home in Mechanicsville, Mr. Henry Hebb of Pleasant Hill, in Valley Lee, has returned after spending a few days with relatives in Wash- ington, and will probably remain in St. Mary's for the Winter season. Miss Agnes Hurry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Hurry of Hurry, Md., was the guest of Miss Emma Metct in her home in Mechanicsville this week end. Miss Price, Bride-Elect, Given Dinner and Shower Miss Mary Price, whose marriage to Mr. Charles Ross is to taks place in f | Leah Schoflof November, was guest of honor at a din- ner and shower at the Dodge Hotel last night, when guests were Mrs. Sally Rose, Mrs. Loretta Hurley, Mrs. Florence Kunza, Mrs. Loraine "Ballenger, Mrs. Daisy Miller, Mrs, Mildred George, Mrs, Madiyn Barclay, Mrs. Florence Di Jo- seph, Miss Nora Heim, Mrs. Charlotte Manley, Mrs. Christine Hunter, Miss . Miss Catherine Cannon and Miss Price, CONTRACT BRIDGE Mrs, John McCain, Associate 1‘,\Ichfl‘ of the Culbertson Studios, 2325 20th St. N.W., Decatur 5806. Al our work guaranteed. Eest La France Uphohte;;';“C;:. 2509 14th &t N.! “Furniture of Merit” Miss Edelen is a graduats nurse of | the Mercy Hospital in Baltimore and & | prominent member of the social set in | Southern Maryland Mr. Owens is a graduate of the Char- lotte Hall Military oently been trans: ed in his work to Boston, Mass., where the young couple will make their home. Col. W. Garland Fay, U. S. A, re- tired, and Mrs. Fay have as their guests in their historic old home, Mulberry || Fields, South of Leonardtown, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Jaekel of Doylestown, Pa., who remained through this week. Mrs. James F. Coad of Charlotte Hall recently has returned from a visit with her sister, Mrs. J. J. Forbes Shaw of Baltimore. in her home in this county. Mrs. Coad is a prominent member of the local Maj. William Thomas Chapter of the Daughters of the American Rev- olution. Announcement is made of the mar- riage of Mr. Luke Philman Siye, son o the Jate Mr. and Mrs. George R. Slye of Maddox, Md., to Miss Pearl L. Maltly of Bluemont, Va., which took place Sep- tember 28 at noon, in historic old Christ P. E. Church, the rector, Rev. J. P. Glb. son of Chaptico. performing the cere- mony. The young couple are spending their honeymoon at the bridegroom's old home in St. Marys and are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Davis at Chap- tico, Md. They will make their future home in Washington. Mrs. Richard H. Sears returned yes- terday to her lovely old home, Society Hill, cn_Bretton Bay, after spending the greater part of this weck in Wash- ington. Col. B. F. Crowson, principal of the Charlotte Hall Military School, and Mrs. Crowson of Charlotte Hall enter- tained Thursday evening in honcr of Rev. J. Letcher Showell. rector of Trinity P. E. Parish, and Mrs. Letcher of Hughesville, Charles County, and Rev. Franklin Lee Metcalf, rector of the All Saints P. E. Parish, and Mrs. Metcslf of Mechanicsville, St. Marys County. Miss Serah Gwynn Bryan and her brott Mr. Brooke Bryan of Poto- mac View, who spent the last three weeks with relatives in Washington, returned Sunday to their home on the lower Potomac. Miss Bryan will return to the St. Mary’s Female Seminary from which she was graduated last June and will take a business ccurse. Mr. Robert Wigginton, who spent two months of the Summer traveling in Europe with his family, and much of last month in St. Marys, is a sopho- more at Georgetown University in Washington and spends many of his week ends with his older brother, Mr. George Wigginton, at his interesting hunting lodge on Belvedere Plantation on the Lower Potomac. Miss Helen Noble and Miss Margaret Foote, students of the St. Mary's Female Seminary, St. Marys City, were the guests of honor Sunday at a dinner of their classmate, Miss Ruth Marie Cooper, ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd Ccoper, at Bretton Bay Farms, near Leonardtcwn. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Chapin of Phila- delphia were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Grif Alexander at their estate Green Holley on the Patuxent River. Mrs. Russell Talbott snd Mrs. F. Brooke Matthews of Calvert County and Mrs. Clarence Plummer of La Plata, Charles County, were guests at dinner Tuesday in whose honor Mr. and Mrs. George H. Harris of Belve- dere Plantation_entertained. Capt. Abell Norrls of Pearson, Md., visited in Baltimore the first of this week and later was in Washington. Capt. Norris is one of the mcet dis- tinguished residents of St. Marys County, having been knighted by King George of England and given the Vic toria Cross for rescuing a British For- eign Legion from a band of bedouins in the Sahara Desert. For 15 years he was foreign correspondent for the Associated Press in China, Japan and Africa, covering the Boxer uprising, the Boer War and the hunt for Chinese Jord-n. Announcement is made of the mar- riage of Miss Pearl L. Hayden, daugh-||||l| ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins Hayden of Hurry, Md., to Mr. Henry L. Mor- gan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Morgan of Clements, Md., which took place September 23 in the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, the rector, Rev. Bernard H. Pohlman, §. J., per- forming the ceremony. Miss Emma Metcalf of Mechanics- ville entertained Friday afternoon at a supper party on the shores of St. Clements Bay in honor of Mr. A. B. Holmes of Washington and Miss Phyliss Graves of Laurel Grove, Md Mrs. S. Paul Hayden of Mount Os- borne, near Leonardtown, acocompanied by Mrs. John L. Abell of Bayside, spent mgst of this week in Washington and weére the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Voght. Mrs. Harry Scott Wheritt of Pitts- burgh is expected to return and spend the Fall season on her estate, Sunset Villa on St. Marys River at St. Marys City. Mrs. Wheritt's place is among the show places of St. Marys. Prominent among those Marys attending the pageant at the fair held in Charles County Saturday afternoon were Mrs. J. Fenner Lee of Lees Crest and her brother and sisters, County Agent G. Frank Wathen, Miss Mammie Wathen. Miss Alma Wathen and Miss Rosa Wathen of Loveville; Mr. and Mrs’ George T. Hutchins, Miss Hope Greenwell, Miss Helene Green- woll, Miss Adz Ramsay Bartol and Miss ‘Violet E. hool and has re- | ! 56.50 Covered in pertly finished. 1 from St. | Young, all of Leonardtown; | || tistic overlays. Hart & Hutchinson' HUMIDIFYING RADIATOR Automatically restores moisture to the air in your home. Scientificall designed; approved by heal * authorities, Vitally necessary to health and comfort. Only one fequired in home. Complete in- formation promptly furnished. H.S. 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