Evening journal., 1897-03-16
CHESTERTOWN ASTIR.
So Full of Preachers That
Visitors Seek Farmhouses.
THE CONFERENCE BEGINS TO-DAY.

BUSINESS SESSIONS OF THE WILL
MINGTON CONVENTION BEGIN
TOMORROW AFTER COMNUN-
ION SOME CHANGES AMONG
MINISTER'S.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal
CHESTERTOWN. Md. March lG.-
Kent county's capital town Is brisking
up to-day pending the arrival OF about
$50 ministers and an endless number Of
visitors to attend the annual confer
ence Of Methodist Episcopal ministers
Of the Peninsula of Delaware. Maryland
and Virginia
Nearly every private residence, and
all he available hotel rooms are filled
with company this week. and the
members of Wilmington Conference
are themselves so numerous that they
could not be entertained in Chester
town, and some will be cared for by the
royalty hospitable farmers of Rock
Hall, Warton or near town. 1t has been
, nineteen years since conference last
met at Chestertown.
EXAMINING BOARD AT WORK.
Amcng the ministers who have all
ready arrived are Revs. S. j. Morris, d..
IL. Corlzran f. G. McSOrley and Il. lrv-
ing Watkins of the examining board,
of which the remaining members. to-
gether with President Y. S. Collins, will
arrive at noon to-day
The first official preliminary of the
f session commenced last night with the
! examination of applicants for admis-
1 sion Of undergraduates to the confer
z ence The other members of the board
y are Rovs r. Il. Terry. George w
Townsend. w. =. Avery and w. l.. S.
I Murray.
- MEN TO BE EXAMINED.
: The candidates who will take the cx-
d aminations for admission and the un-
dergiaduates have nearly all arrived
They are as follows: j. A. Brewington
= William II. Berford William f. Taylor
" II. A. G. Westerneld. C. w. Strickland
a | william L. White, w. 5. II. Williams
u John p. Outten, Willard f. West. JOIN
II. Beauchamp, Frederick u. Mckin
= zey, Henry G.. Budd. Thomas h. Van
% dyke Edward II. Collins, Charles
= stengle. ID. j. Givan, G. p. Futcher, vii
y liam G.. Chance Luther Il. Poole
- George p. Smith c. E. Hastings, JONI
=, w. Prettyman, J. w. Talley, Harry
- Taylor, r. e. Bloxton, G.. T. Ercivald
>, W. o. Bennett, John l.. Sparklin ant
v Thomas S. Holt.
Is TWO PRESIDING ELDERS RETIRE
y Among the changes which the az
j. pointnents TO be made by Bishop J. N
+ Walden, the presiding officer, wi
~ show, are successors to two presidin
n elders whose terms of Office have eX
pired, they having been appointed /
ie 1890. They are Rev. Wilbur f. Cork
Di ran. D. d., of Salisbury district an
4 Rev. Alfred Smith, Of Easton district
u Both are strong preachers and Will b
sl sent to two of the best charges on th
~ Peninsula OF course good men mus
J. be taken from devoted congregations &
l. fiji their places and. as the presidin
li ! elder3hip Is a position oi rank ana dis
"a tinction among the Methodist clergy
~ the ministers so called will not regre
- this If the people do.
Of THE OPENING SERVICES.
D; The missionary sermon will b
as preached by Rev. Harvey w. Ewing, q
Port Deposit tonight Rev. b. +. Price
is Of ElktOn. viii preside at the annivei
of sary Of the Conference Historical Sc
ed ciety Rev r. b. Terry, of Harrington
re will preside at the anniversary of th
w Freadmen's Aid and Southern Educi
tional Society.
NOTES OF THE CONFERENCE.
he The business sessions will begin I'M
Ell mediately after communion service
he conducted by the bishop and the pr'
.le siding elders tomorrow morning at
ne o'clock.
le All the most important anniversari'
Die will he held i'm the Methodist Protestai
Use Church, which is the largest churC
building In Chestertown.
Ex-Governor Jackson, of Salisbur
T., Md who. together with his brothe
u William II. Jackson, are always prom
- nent among the conference visitor
y will be missed this session. He
-. travelling in the Bermudas.
~, Rev. r. f. Martindale. d. D., com
-5 to conference with unanimous Il
-u' vitation for his return to Avenue NJ.
Church. Milford
100 Rev. Edwin Gardner, Of Royal Ga
oft Nd, who is gaining q reputation as
composer of church music, will pro
of ably be assigned to a charge in q
~ Wilmington district
an, Rev +. Burgette Short. of Wimin
nd ton, is spoken CT as a possibility for
handsome new church at GeOfgetOW
.oa Mr.. Short is q Sussex boy. and a &c
u, eral favorite, but there is one objects
~. to him-he is all alone in the wor
"a The Georgetown people want partn6
g., ship in their parsonage.
GOING TO CONFERENCE.
ate The train over the Delaware railro
M leaving Wilmington at S.13 o'clock W
en- well filled this morning with Wilmin
SIS ton ministers and lay delegates to {
ere Wilmington NJ. Z. Conference at Ch,
tertcwn, Nd
ra- BAPTIZED IN a MILL FUND
wn SNOW HILL, Md, March 16.-M