CHESAPEAKE BAY JEFFERSON ISLAND

CHESAPEAKE BAY HISTORY

JEFFERSON ISLAND AT POPLR HARBOR.

President Roosevelt to visit the Jefferson Island Rod and Gun Club Sunday, July 14, 1935

aboard the yacht duPont, flagship of Maryland's Conservation Commission. Other guest

will be cabinet members, and members of the House of Representatives.

The party will board the duPont at Annapolis Sunday morning for the trip across the

Chesapeake Bay to Jefferson Island of the Poplar Harbor island group just off Tilghmans

Island on the Eastern Shore, at the mouth of Eastern Bay. This is the first time Roosevelt

has ever visited the Jefferson Club. The Jefferson Rod and Gun Club members are

prominent Democrats under Senator Joseph T. Robinson, it's president.

Maryland's Governor Nice was invited , however, he is attending the convention of the

American Bar Association in Los Angeles.

Abstract: Tuesday, July 9, 1935, Baltimore Sun newspapers.